Albums: "Weird Al" Yankovic (1983) | "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D | Dare to Be Stupid | Polka Party! | Even Worse | UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff | Off the Deep End | Alapalooza | Bad Hair Day | Running with Scissors | Poodle Hat | Straight Outta Lynwood | Alpocalypse | Mandatory Fun
Films: UHF | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- Alternative Character Interpretation: Dan's smile as he poses with a family at the end of the "Skipper Dan" video; is it a heartwarming sign that he's accepted his life for what it is, or the most depressing example of a Stepford Smiler ever?
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- By a day. Al released "TMZ" on Alpocalypse on June 21, 2011, which contains the lyrics "... it's getting to the point where a famous person can't/Even get a DUI or go on a racist rant" and "Seems that every single time a star decides to/Shave their head or ram their car into a tree/They're on TMZ." The day before, Ryan Dunn of Jackass had killed himself by getting drunk and plowing into a tree at high speed. The story was, naturally, on TMZ.
- The video for "TMZ" depicts a celebrity being plagued by photos of her own behind getting spread everywhere. Scarlett Johansson would go through this for real.
- "Ringtone" has a line about "folks with Ebola" hating Al's ringtone. This became much less funny after the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
- Spiritual Adaptation: "Party in the CIA" is often referred to as the unofficial theme song for Stan Smith.
- Squick: From "Perform This Way": "I'll wrap my small intestines round my neck and set fire to myself onstage." Him (or, rather, the female body double with Al's face plastered on) doing so in the video, complete with small intestines hanging out of a hole in the abdomen, makes this worse.
- Sweetness Aversion: "If That Isn't Love". Yes, it's supposed to be a spoof of these types of love songs, but one could argue that he spoofed them a little too well, and that the attempts at "twisted" humor (as well as the chorus implying that the narrator has absolutely no idea what love actually is) fail to offset the cheesiness of the chorus.
- Unintentional Period Piece: Like many Weird Al albums, this one can be dated to a particular point in time based on the trends it riffs on. For starters, the album title and cover reference widespread interest in the Mayan Doomsday trope during the leadup to 2012. "Ringtone" is about the then-popular practice of downloading ringtones, which declined in the 2010s due to consumers being able to make their own ringtones and due to it becoming a dated fad. "Whatever You Like" is narrated by a guy who got hit hard by the Great Recession and is living as cheaply as possible as a result.
