- What other virus could be so destructive? It translates your documents into "Swahili", but would an American know the difference between Swahili and Babylonian? Not to mention that it obviously messes with both your computer and you.("Make you physically attracted sheep" for example.)
- More specifically, Albuquerque, Hardware Store and Everything You Know is Wrong all follow the same character from his childhood locked in a basement and forcefed sourcroute by his insane mother, and then his escape and slow degradation of his sanity, which then continues into his crazed obsession about the Hardware Store (while living in Albuquerque) before finally going completely insane and hallucinating crazed events described in the song, before dying in Everything You Know Is Wrong (him going to heaven from dying of a paper cut infection)
- Piecing this together, it seems that this character is an overweight Italian-American who can speak passable Spanish, he's a parent, and he has suffered from addictions to bologna, rocky road ice cream, potatoes, spam, and Oreo cookie filling. He may have also become a waffle industry giant. Yipe.
- Now I want to make Fat a Rock Opera with the Waffle King as a villain. (Somehow I see Waffle King as a Villain Song of the series.) And his addiction is really more to whatever is on his plate at the moment.
- In that case, "Eat It" should probably be a flashback song about his childhood, explaining how his parents forced him into his gluttonous lifestyle. The problem is that this postdates two significant food songs, so either the songs need to be presented out of album order or the flashback needs to be three songs in.
- Considering Trapped in a Drive-Thru could be a food song, could he be relapsing? Or could it be placed before Grapefruit Diet? Oh and congrats on the marriage, food guy.
- It could be that his new wife has become a moderating influence in his life, so that he can now occasionally have some fast food without becoming obese again.
- Would Living In The Fridge be in here? If so, where?
- That's silly. We're listing songs about food.
- It is about food. Namely food that's been left in the fridge for so long it may have started to develop rudimentary thought processes.
- Presumably that's what became of any non-grapefruit food the fat guy has left in the fridge when he starts his grapefruit diet.
- No, that sludge is from his room mate.
- Theme From Rocky XIII is likely discussing his friend. Maybe he met his wife there because Girls Just Want To Have Lunch.
- Now I want to make Fat a Rock Opera with the Waffle King as a villain. (Somehow I see Waffle King as a Villain Song of the series.) And his addiction is really more to whatever is on his plate at the moment.
- Another thing that should be noted is that Grapefruit Diet is basically the anti-Fat. Both songs are largely a string of various fat jokes, but while he is proud of his size in Fat, in Grapefruit Diet he realizes that it is a problem that needs to be solved.
- Here is an idea: Trapped in the Drive Thru is a nightmare abut losing his respect if he becomes lean. Living in the Fridge is him making excuses. I can't go on a diet now, my food will go bad! Of course, he will overcome this.
Also, the piano he's pulling contains Robert Goulet's body, and he's trying to get rid of the evidence.
- Or someone will parody one of Al's original songs.
- That second one's been done, complete with Al's permission. Steve Goodie did a Harry Potter-themed parody of "Hardware Store" called "Dumbledore", which got significant Demento airplay. He also parodied "Albuquerque" as "My Pal the Murray (The Really Long Lawn Mower Song, which is a parody of Weird Al's 'Albuquerque')".
- World of Warcraft fans are familiar with "That's the World of Warcraft That You Play", a parody of Al's "Your Horoscope For Today".
- The great Luke Ski parodied "My Baby's in Love with Eddie Vedder" as "My Baby's in Love with Jon Bermuda".
- Brian Zane of Wrestling With Wregret parodied "The Night Santa Went Crazy" as "The Night Daniel Went Crazy".
- Another guess is that someone will parody Al's songs as a fairly straight, non-comedic song.
- Something sort of like that happened in 30 Rock. Jenna is horrified at the prospect of Al parodying one of her songs, so she intentionally writes the dumbest, silliest one she can think of. Al himself does a completely straight, heartwarming "parody" of it, and is critically acclaimed.
- That's because his eating disorder is/was bulimia.
- You have successfully made Michael Jackson's death even more tragic.
- But "Eat It" won't be sung by Michael Jackson for... obvious reasons. It will be instead sung by the Far East Movement.
- Neither will Kurt Cobain be able to sing "Smells Like Nirvana", but perhaps Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic will...
- Or The Muppets Barbershop Quartet...
- Neither will Kurt Cobain be able to sing "Smells Like Nirvana", but perhaps Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic will...
- He's said before that one of his main drives to get an education was so that he would have something to fall back on if his music career didn't pan out.
- He's also said that he went with a degree in architecture because other people told him he'd be good at it, and he's rather heavily implied he wouldn't have liked doing it for a living.
- Well, we've got Cheese Sandwich, a pony based on and voiced by Al now. Maybe he's her real father...
- Apparently Jossed. Cheese Sandwich, in his colthood, encountered Pinkie Pie, who was just as young at that time.
- Half-siblings, then. Or distant cousins.
- As of the series finale, Pinkie and Cheese are married.
- Or the narrator was tormenting Mr. Frump for years.
- My take is that Mr. Frump was wanting to die, but the narrator's annoyingly sunny disposition and inability to understand his request was driving him more and more crazy.
- If Al was playing that accordion during the visits, I can hardly blame Mr. Frump.
- My take is that Mr. Frump was wanting to die, but the narrator's annoyingly sunny disposition and inability to understand his request was driving him more and more crazy.
- It worked with Ozzy Osbourne and his daughter...for a given value of "worked."
- The main counterpoint is that this song is meant to be an American parallel to the Lumberjack Song that Monty Python did.
- The arguments sound like an average married couple's mild tiffs than anything serious, perhaps excepting the part about Paul.
- On the other hand, mild tiffs are also often used as proxy arguments among couples who do have relationship issues, because the actual problem is too painful to bring out into the open (hence the cliche: "we fought about nothing").
- This isn't his first attempt. Sadly, "I'll Repair For You" was insufficient to launch his career.
- Alternatively, "I'll Repair for You" and "Handy" are musical ads for rival handymen.
- "The Plumbing Song would be in-between Hardware Store and Handy
- "We Should Never Ever Work In Rainy Weather"- Basically a song about disgruntled theme park employees complaining to management about the company's alledged "rainout" policy.
- "Bake It Off"- Something involving a bakery or an Iron Chef-style baking competition, that's all I've got.
- "TMZ" - A parody of "You Belong With Me" about paparazzi tactics and... oh, right.
- "Dark Space" - A parody of "Blank Space" that covers the plot of the Mass Effect trilogy.
- The chorus just seems like it would be something that would lend itself to being played at polka tempo.
- At the end of "Stop Draggin' My Car Around" the protagonist considers selling his crappy '64 Plymouth for 20 bucks so he can buy a used bike (...a second-hand Schwin...)....except his car gets repossessed so even that is no longer an option....now he's the poor sap stuck in the overcrowded bus full of smelly weirdos in "Another One Rides the Bus".
- His whole point was to say that he hated sauerkraut. He just got sidetracked after the part where he said why he did and went off on a tangent as he kept remembering other things vaguely related to it.
- The first part of the song is a mundane ode to the multiple uses of aluminum foil for food storage... then the narrator drinks the tea and becomes a deranged Conspiracy Theorist.
- Though "Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White" may not be entirely positive, the idea had to come from somewhere, the word "nightmare" is notably absent, he refers to Vanna and him as "we" in one line, "buying a vowel" sounds like some kind of euphemism, and he even appeared on Wheel of Fortune! Wheel is also mentioned in "Syndicated Inc." which is very positive about all the shows in it. It's more likely that "stuck in a closet" was the bad part than the "with Vanna White".
- But, Virus Alert is an alert about a virus, and Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me is about e-mail spam.
- Why else would he be dating someone who....from his own description....sounds closer to an Eldritch Abomination than a young woman?
- Let's be honest, here: if anyone would be able to single-handedly kill every devil in Hell, it would be her.
- The plotline goes like this: Dude with the Poodle Hat (the person that the album's about) is a Couch Potato, because life in his hometown is boring. People scold him for this, and he has to go outside. He gains friends, but still watches television a lot. Later, one of his friends tells him about the new Hardware Store that's opening up where the gas station was. Excited by this, he forgets to basic things, like brush his teeth and comb his hair. After the hardware store opens, he realizes that his house is disgusting, because: a) he forgot to take out the trash, and b) him being a slob. Dude with the Poodle Hat decides that this day is Trash Day. After making the house clean, he decides to go to a party for his good work. However, the only party in his local area is a Party at the Leper Colony. After that, he decides that he could make an album about his life. It fails. Dude with the Poodle Hat is angry about this, and decides to marry a lady. He uses cheesy pick-up line, and fails to inform the lady why he Wanna B Ur Lovr. Failing this, he writes a letter to his mom about the frustration he has about his album not selling, and him not getting a girlfriend. He lies about his encounter with girls. His mother writes him telling him to stop being so furious, like the songs found in the Medley Angry White Boy Polka. At the same time, Joe, one of his friends, decides to host a pizza party, but no one arrives, due to work. (Yes, the Dude with the Poodle Hat got a job.) Joe eats all 19 extra larges, and gets constipated. Due to the fact that no one came to his pizza party, and that he is all alone, he made up his mind that he needs a girlfriend. He finds one, but, although he likes his "girlfriend", he doesn't want her as a girlfriend, so he tosses her out into the dating pool again. After that, he asks his friends if they would like to go to an amusement park. They say yes, and go there. He stands up on the ride, and dies. Dude with the Poodle Hat makes an eulogy about Joe, and makes A Complicated Song. He becomes a couch potato again, and is watching The Simpsons, when suddenly, an earthquake in Peru interrupts his program. Later, he goes to work, but a twelve car pile-up creates a traffic jam. Finally, he gets to work, and is out of toner. These events that took place leave him asking, "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?". Some time later, he becomes a Spider-Man fan, and watches the Spider-Man movie. It becomes his #1 favorite movie, and it gets him out of his funk. He makes an Ode to a Superhero (Spider-Man) to thank him. Later, he befriends a man named Bob. Bob is an expert on eBay, and teaches Dude with the Poodle Hat. His first purchase was a poodle hat, explaining the album's title. Dude with the Poodle Hat becomes a master at eBay, and buys everything mentioned in the song, and more. While all the events are happening, his album that he recorded becomes famous. The Americans don't like the album, while the French love it. The dude's album is considered a Genius in France, and so is Dude with the Poodle Hat. The French want him to make another album, and he does, calling it Poodle Hat.
- "Captain America", a Filk Song sung to the tune of Kim Wilde's "Kids In America"
- "Look at me, I'm 33", a Grease spoof that makes fun of the rampant Dawson Casting.
The unnamed town from "Weasel Stomping Day" has weasels imported and let loose once a year specifically to celebrate the title holiday by stomping on them. Twelve of one year's Weasel Stomping Day weasels got misdirected and somehow ended up being shipped to a donut shop in Albuquerque instead: The donut shop staff are apathetic enough that they just left the box in the back of the store and let the weasels become starving and crazed through neglect. The guy behind the counter was relatively new, knew nothing about this, and had somehow assumed that the box of starved, crazed weasels were supposed to be part of the inventory, so he sold them to Al. Or it's the other way around: Al was so angry about having been mauled by weasels that he insulated himself into a town's government just to declare a new holiday revolving around killing them.