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Mandatory Fun (Music)
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Mandatory Fun is the fourteenth and final studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 2014 through RCA Records and Way Moby Records. It's the first comedy album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts since Allan Sherman's My Son, the Nut in 1963.With this album, Al fulfilled his contract to his record label and announced that he would no longer be releasing studio albums. Feeling that the landscape of satire had changed so drastically with the internet, he realized that waiting to have a whole album's worth of songs wasn't practical when his material relied so much on relevance. He has since said that he will release all his future recordings through digital EPs and singles.This was also Al's first album to utilize the Internet for promotion. A week before the album's official release, eight of the album's twelve tracks had music videos released, each on a different website.Track list: "Handy"note Parody of "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, featuring Charli XCX. "Lame Claim to Fame" "Foil"note Parody of "Royals" by Lorde. "Sports Song" "Word Crimes"note Parody of "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams. "My Own Eyes" "Now That's What I Call Polka!" "Mission Statement" "Inactive"note Parody of "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons. "First World Problems" "Tacky"note Parody of "Happy" by Pharrell Williams. "Jackson Park Express" | |
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Fat Slob | |
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Fat Slob: "Inactive" is about a lazy slob who's completely given up on exercising and keeping himself healthy. | |
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Subliminal Seduction | |
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Subliminal Seduction: The video for "Foil" intercuts the line "Be aware" with single frame shots of Al covered in blood. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: The narrator in "Tacky" regularly likes to get drunk at the bank and take off his shirt, at least. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: The video for "Foil" has Al hosting a cooking show which is directed by Patton Oswalt (who is also secretly one of The Reptilians). And then he's later sedated and taken away by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. The video for "Tacky" brings together Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal, and Jack Black! | |
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Non-Verbal Miscommunication | |
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Nonverbal Miscommunication: "Jackson Park Express" is built on this trope, as the entire song is about a man on the bus who continuously misinterprets the nonverbal gestures of a woman passenger. Somehow he turns her unconscious twitches into an epic tale of Love at First Sight. | |
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Self-Parody | |
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Self-Parody: Not Al himself, but his music video for "Mission Statement", which combines every meaningless business platitude under the sun into a Crosby, Stills & Nash pastiche, features whiteboard art from TruScribe, a company famous for laboriously illustrating similar lectures and advertisements on behalf of economic firms and the like. His parody "Foil" sounds like a return to Al's old food-themed parodies. At first. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: "Weird Al" in military dictator garb, parodying Soviet-era propaganda posters. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: "Handy" is this to "Hardware Store", and more directly to the unreleased "I'll Repair for You." | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: One of the images in the album's booklet has Al triumphantly holding a wrench in the style of old Chinese Communist posters. The Chinese text beneath him says, "I'm not wearing underwear". | |
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Facial Dialogue | |
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Facial Dialogue: "Jackson Park Express" is about the narrator seeing a woman on a bus. The song is nine minutes long, but describes the "conversations" taking place between a man and a woman discussing the hypothetical process of forming a romantic relationship, engaging in sexual activity, breaking up, and moving on with their lives. All this is implied to all take place over the course of a few minutes. ...and that it's all one-sided and all in the narrator's head (and the woman in question probably sees him as a creepy guy staring at her). Mixed in the middle of the absurd ones is staring at her chest to imply "I like your boobs". | |
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Impossibly Tacky Clothes | |
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Impossibly Tacky Clothes: In "Tacky", both described in the lyrics and worn in the video. | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: The album ends with "Jackson Park Express" (9:05). | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: "Sports Song" is a reimagining of the classic college fight song, except with lyrics that directly insult the opposing team. After giving a number of different wordy explanations of how much better the home team is than the visitors, it sums up the argument by repeating "We're great, and you suck!" Several times. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: A meta example; shortly after Al had finished recording "Mission Statement," Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills & Nash reached out to Al and requested that he do a parody of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." Al responded by playing a snippet of "Mission Statement" on the spot, and Nash seemed satisfied with the result. | |
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Rummage Sale Reject | |
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Rummage Sale Reject: Appropriately enough, everyone appearing in the video for "Tacky," including two different awful outfits worn by Al. | |
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Everyone Hates Mimes | |
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Everyone Hates Mimes: One of the lines in "My Own Eyes": | |
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Poe's Law | |
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Poe's Law: "Foil", if the YouTube comments are anything to go by. | |
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Conspiracy Theorist | |
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Conspiracy Theorists in "Foil". | |
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Your Mime Makes It Real | |
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Your Mime Makes It Real: "My Own Eyes" gives us mimes being hacked to death by imaginary cleavers. | |
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Dressed to Oppress | |
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Dressed to Oppress: The cover depicts Al as a comically serious dictator wearing a uniform including a Chest of Medals, a Badass Longcoat, and a baldric. Another image for the album shows him wearing a Commissar Cap as well. | |
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Commissar Cap | |
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Commissar Cap: One of the images for this album shows Al wearing a commissar cap.... while exposing his Goofy Print Underwear with his pants around his ankles. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Foil" sounds like one of Al's usual food parody songs until the second verse, when Al reveals it is a Self-Parody. | |
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That's What I Call | |
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That's What I Call "X"!: "That’s What I Call Polka". | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: "Weird Al" Yankovic. | |
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Parody Assistance | |
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Parody Assistance: Imagine Dragons assisted with the creation of "Inactive", a parody of their own song "Radioactive", to help reproduce as authentic a sound of the original as possible. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: At the beginning of "Word Crimes", a dictionary's pages are turning through the A's. The definition of "Accordion" has a picture of Al next to it. On a shot of a piece of homework paper, the homeroom teacher is listed as "Mrs. Krabappel". The Reddit user goes by the handle George Newman. On the graphic for the lyric "lost cause", which uses a promo graphic from Lost, the print next to the ABC logo reads "learn your ABCs, doofus" instead of the network slogan. After Al starts singing about The Illuminati in "Foil", there are a few red frames of Al's face looking the worse for wear. | |
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Football Fight Song | |
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Football Fight Song: "Sports Song" is done in the style of one. | |
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Tinfoil Hat | |
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Tinfoil Hat: The second verse of "Foil" focuses around fashioning an aluminum foil hat to protect himself against thought control rays and psychotronic scanning. | |
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Eating the Eye Candy | |
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Eating the Eye Candy: In "Jackson Park Express": | |
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Grammar Nazi | |
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Grammar Nazi: The entirety of "Word Crimes" focuses specifically on this trope. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Jackson Park Express". | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: In "Word Crimes", after Al sings "what's a contraction?", we hear a time-compressed clip of Al rapidly saying "Well, it's the shortening of a word, or a group of words by the omission of a sound or letter". | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: At the end of the "Word Crimes" video, we see "'Weird Al' Yankovic has a big dictionary." Meanwhile, "Handy" is just one long boast about the protagonist's Handyman skills. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: "Foil" sounds like one of Al's standard food-related parody songs until the Wham Line. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: The jerk that Al plays in the video for "First World Problems" gets hit by a car by its end when he doesn't look where he's going, being so engrossed with his smartphone. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: "Jackson Park Express" has a few examples of this: | |
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Stealth Parody | |
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Stealth Parody: "Foil" is not just a parody of "Royals," it's also a Self-Parody of Al's food-themed parodies. | |
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Genuine Human Hide | |
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Genuine Human Hide: The protagonist of "Jackson Park Express" voices a desire to wear the object of his affection's skin like a costume... | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: "Foil" starts out as a typical Lorde parody about food before suddenly taking a left turn into Conspiracy Theorist territory. The video emphasizes this, with a television director played by Patton Oswalt who reacts negatively to the new topic. He's in on the conspiracy. | |
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First World Problems | |
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First World Problems: The title of the song on this album, in which the singer complains about the most insignificant of such problems. Things like his apartment being so big he can't get Wi-Fi in the kitchen, or buying too much food to fit in his fridge. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: The narrator in "Jackson Park Express" instantly falls in love with the woman who sits across from him on the bus. | |
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Medley | |
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Medley: "Now That's What I Call Polka!" Songs featured, in order: "Too Fat Polka" by Arthur Godfrey "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People "Best Song Ever" by One Direction "Gangnam Style" by PSY "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen "Scream & Shout" by will.i.am featuring Britney Spears "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra "Timber" by Pitbull featuring Kesha "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams "Mandatory Polka" by Al Yankovic | |
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419 Scam | |
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419 Scam: In "Lame Claim to Fame", he claims that the email he got from the Nigerian prince certainly sounded legit. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In "Word Crimes", Al calls you a "mouth breather" for committing all the horrible word crimes he points out in the song. Conspiracy Theorists in "Foil". "Sports Song" pokes fun at the intense rivalries often displayed between sports teams. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: In the video for "Word Crimes", a song about proper grammar, one of the degrees on the wall is a "Bachelor of Writing Good".note Proper grammar would make it a "Bachelor of Writing Well". Two segments of the same song (the rap verse and the final chorus) contain split infinitives, left in by Al to deliberately annoy grammar wonks. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: An implied one appears in the liner notes to this album, which says "AFP appears courtesy of herself". Anyone familiar enough with Amanda Palmer should know what the F stands for. | |
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Tomato Surprise | |
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Tomato Surprise: A minor one in "Jackson Park Express". The woman on the bus is assumed to have no anomalous features, and more than halfway into the (nine-minute) song: | |
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Zombie Infectee | |
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Zombie Infectee: The narrator of "Tacky" informs us that, if he gets bitten by a zombie, he probably won't tell anyone. | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: The narrator of "My Own Eyes" saw a stripper kiss a duck behind a dumpster in Aruba. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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"Mandatory Polka" by Al Yankovic | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: At one point, the video for "Word Crimes" shows some doodles including Pac-Man and Trogdor. There are also visual references to Doge and the "Get a brain, morans!" memes. There's also a grammar exam for Mrs. Krabappel's class. At the point of the song for "literacy's your mission", there's a visual reference to Mission: Impossible. Plus the visual reference for Lost at the section "you're a lost cause". The "Write words using numbers" is in the style◊ of NUMB3RS. The song "Tacky" includes the line "If I'm bitten by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you." In the video, Al accompanies this line with a dance move taken from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. One of the two handymen dancing in the backgrounds of the "Handy" music video wears Mario's red-overall-blue-dungarees combo. "Handy" has the line "I got ninety-nine problems but a switch ain't one!" | |
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Happiness Is Mandatory | |
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Happiness Is Mandatory: The album is titled "Mandatory Fun" and the cover art and affiliated artwork depict Al as a Comically Serious, Affably Evil dictator. | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Used for a different purpose in "Word Crimes": | |
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Everybody Hates Mathematics | |
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Everybody Hates Mathematics: The narrator of "Jackson Park Express" considers trigonometry and prime numbers to be the greatest evils of the world. | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
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Title-Only Chorus: "First World Problems." | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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Toilet Humor: Al's version of "Scream and Shout" | |
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Anal Probing | |
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Anal Probing: Mentioned in "Foil" as one of the things aliens can do, which can be avoided by wearing a foil hat. | |
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Handy Man | |
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Handyman: "Handy" is all about being one, though louder and less laid-back. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Common on all Al's albums, this one included, but he's drawn special attention in interviews to "Mission Statement" — particularly how he's always wanted to do a song about corporate jargon, and he made it a Crosby, Stills & Nash parody because their expansive, folk-rock aesthetic is stylistically the complete opposite of big-business gobbledygook. | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research: "Word Crimes" caused a minor controversy due to the use of the line "You write like a spastic" (While the word "spastic" is considered a harmless insult in the United States, "spastic" is considered an offensive slur against people with cerebral palsy in other English-speaking countries, particularly the United Kingdom). Weird Al apologised on Twitter, saying he didn't know it was a slur. Since then, he and the band do not include the line when performing the song in Europe or Australia. | |
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Unsportsmanlike Gloating | |
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Unsportsmanlike Gloating: "Sports Song" is essentially one long, preemptive parade of this, put into song. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: Being a Foo Fighters parody, "My Own Eyes" employs this in the increasingly absurd events that the narrator claims to have witnessed. | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": Mentioned in "Tacky". | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: The "Tacky" music video. Which is an Homage to the song it's parodying, Pharrell's "Happy", as most of the segments of his "24 Hours of Happy" are Oners. | |
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Brain Bleach | |
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Brain Bleach: "My Own Eyes" is all about this, talking about things the singer wishes he could unsee. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: "Lame Claim to Fame" — Southern Culture on the Skids "My Own Eyes" — Foo Fighters "Mission Statement" — Crosby, Stills & Nash, particularly "Carry On" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" "First World Problems" — The Pixies, particularly "Debaser" and "No. 13 Baby" "Jackson Park Express" — Cat Stevens | |
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The Illuminati | |
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After Al starts singing about The Illuminati in "Foil", there are a few red frames of Al's face looking the worse for wear. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "Tacky" goes on at length about stereotypically tacky clothing and behavior, but towards the end we hear "If I'm bitten by a zombie, I'm probably not telling you". | |
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Letters 2 Numbers | |
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Letters 2 Numbers: The narrator tells the student in "Word Crimes" never to write words using numbers (in the style◊ of NUMB3RS). "unless you're seven... or your name is Prince". | |
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Bad Review Threat | |
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Bad Review Threat: The narrator of "Tacky" likes to threaten waiters with a bad Yelp review just for fun. | |
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Last-Second Word Swap | |
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Last-Second Word Swap: At the end of the "Word Crimes" video: | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The lyrics of "Mission Statement" are strung together from all sorts of overly sophisticated corporate buzzwords which roughly translate to "We need to make more money." | |
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Expospeak Gag | |
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Expospeak Gag: "Mission Statement" is a series of buzzwords and vaguely positive-sounding metaphors that all roughly translate to "we need to make more money". | |
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Kitschy Local Commercial | |
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Kitschy Local Commercial: The "Handy" video is done in this style, mainly by way of hammy acting and deliberately bad special effects. | |
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Intimate Marks | |
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Intimate Marks: The video for "Tacky" has Kristen Schaal living up to the title by wearing a black top with hot pink handprints over the breasts. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: In "Sports Song", among the Sophisticated as Hell trash talk, Al twice explains he isn't being literal: | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: "Sports Song" can basically be summed up by saying we're great, you suck, you really suck, and in case you missed it, YOU SUCK. In "Jackson Park Express": | |
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MacGyvering | |
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MacGyvering: "Handy" is about a Mr. Fixit who mentions this particular skill by name. | |
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