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Off the Deep End (Music)
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Off the Deep End is the seventh studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1992 through Scotti Bros. Records, and his first to be self-produced after Rick Derringer produced all of his previous ones.At the start of The '90s, Weird Al's career was in a rut. His 1989 film UHF bombed due to its poor choice of release date, the associated soundtrack & studio album was mostly ignored, Michael Jackson declined permission for Al to parody his recent hit "Black or White" as "Snack All Night" (due to Jackson feeling that the song's message of race relations in America would be trivialized by the parody), and the public was generally starting to move away from Al, who was seeming more and more like a relic of The '80s. It seemed more than likely that Al was over as an artist, but the man was determined to prove he could keep his head above water in the new decade.Enter an obscure Seattle-based band called Nirvana, who decided to release their second album in 1991. The album's lead single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", rapidly shot up the charts, catapulted the band and the general grunge scene into mainstream popularity, and rapidly instigated the cultural genesis of the new decade. Having wanted to parody Nirvana for a while but being concerned about their initial obscurity, Al saw "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as his chance. Al managed to obtain permission from Kurt Cobain to parody the song as "Smells Like Nirvana"* Cobain's sole request was that it not be about food and was otherwise overjoyed at the idea of having Al parody his music, having seen it as evidence that Nirvana had officially "made it" as a band, and with that, found his career rapidly careening back on track.Off the Deep End spawned three singles: "Smells Like Nirvana", "You Don't Love Me Anymore", and "Taco Grande". The album was a commercial success, peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard charts; its release just a few months after Nevermind's displacing of Jackson's Dangerous as the No. 1 album certainly helped. | |
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Subliminal Seduction | |
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Subliminal Seduction: "Bite Me", which is probably the weirdest example ever. If you slow it down 800% (300% in Sound Recorder), it has a segment of a different song in it. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Robert Goulet plays piano in the video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore". | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: "Weird Al" in the swimming pool, parodying the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind. Amusingly, Al stated in the biography Weird Al: The Book that he intended the cover to show him wearing brightly colored swim trunks (you can see a sliver of them on his right leg), but the photo was taken at an angle that made him appear naked. He decided to just roll with it. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: "You Don't Love Me Anymore" is a ballad about all the ways his girlfriend has tried to kill him. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: The basketball players and the Man on Fire while Al gargles the solo in the video for "Smells like Nirvana." | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Cheech Marin in "Taco Grande". Tom Kenny as one of the announcers on "I Can't Watch This." | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: "Taco Grande", much like the song it parodies, is filled with Gratuitous Spanish. While Al's simple phrases are mostly things about foods he wants and paying for them, Cheech Marin's cameo in the bridge is a lengthy recommendation and description of a particularly hot dish and the side effects of eating it, ending by asking if the stupid customer can understand what he's saying.note Ironically, the Mexican-American Marin doesn't speak fluent Spanish, and Al wrote his part out phonetically after translating it with a secretary who spoke Spanish. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: The Hidden Track, "Bite Me," is only 6 seconds long. | |
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Food Songs Are Funny | |
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Food Songs Are Funny: "The White Stuff" (talking about Oreo cookies) and "Taco Grande". | |
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Poe's Law | |
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Poe's Law: At least one faction of gun nuts takes "Trigger Happy" literally. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "Polka Your Eyes Out."note If you don't get it, it's supposed to sound like "poke your eyes out." | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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"Just Joking" Justification: "I Was Only Kidding". | |
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Stock Footage | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: The "Smells Like Nirvana" video uses a brief stock clip of a building being imploded after Al pushes a plunge-detonator. | |
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Lobotomy | |
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Lobotomy: What Al says would improve the appeal of HBO, the Playboy Network, Showtime, and MTV in "I Can't Watch This". | |
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Record Producer | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_6053dc28 | comment |
Record Producer: The first album Al self-produced. | |
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Parody Assistance | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_60c53080 | comment |
Parody Assistance: The "Smells Like Nirvana" video actually had some of the actors from the original "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, including the janitor. | |
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Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_69cc2a27 | comment |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: "When I Was Your Age" has the singer outlining really ridiculous things that happened to him in his childhood. | |
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When I Was Your Age... | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_6d722dcd | comment |
When I Was Your Age...: "When I Was Your Age", obviously. The song's narrator tells young children how his childhood was much harder than theirs: | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "I Was Only Kidding". | |
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Reckless Gun Usage | |
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Reckless Gun Usage: The singer in "Trigger Happy" accidentally shoots both his father and his cat. | |
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NOT! | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_834452ce | comment |
NOT!: Done in "I Was Only Kidding" as a Shout-Out to Wayne's World: | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: On "I Can't Watch This," Al says he want to lynch the doughnut-eating freaks on Twin Peaks. | |
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Greens Precede Sweets | |
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Greens Precede Sweets: Inverted in "When I Was Your Age": | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: "I Can't Watch This" contains samples of various TV commercial taglines in the breakdowns. | |
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Exaggerated Trope | |
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Exaggerated and Parodied at the end of the "Smells like Nirvana" video. Al smashes his guitar, the audience smashes plates on a guy's head and then Al pushes a plunge-detonator to demolish a building. | |
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D.I.Y. Disaster | |
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D.I.Y. Disaster: "The Plumbing Song". | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
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Lyrical Cold Open: "I Can't Watch This". | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: "Bite Me" is eight seconds of Al screaming bloody murder following 10 minutes of silence. | |
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Camera Abuse | |
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Camera Abuse: Al licks the camera in the video for "Smells Like Nirvana". | |
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Gun Nut | |
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Gun Nut: "Trigger Happy". | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: "You Don't Love Me Anymore" is a humorous breakup song but it has this pair of lines, equivalent to a punch in the gut: | |
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Medley | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_a998aaf9 | comment |
Medley: "Polka Your Eyes Out". Songs featured, in order: "Cradle Of Love" by Billy Idol "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega "Love Shack" by The B-52s "Clarinet Polka", a public domain song "Pump Up the Jam" by Technotronic "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M. "Unbelievable" by EMF "Do Me!" by Bell Biv DeVoe "Enter Sandman" by Metallica "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground "Cherry Pie" by Warrant "Miss You Much" by Janet Jackson "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls "Dr. Feelgood" by Mötley Crüe "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice "Ear Booker Polka" by Al Yankovic | |
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Even the Subtitler Is Stumped | |
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Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: The music video for "Smells Like Nirvana," in one hilarious moment: And according to the insert for the CD, those are the actual lyrics. | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_aebae11c | comment |
Viewers Are Morons: "I Can't Watch This" seems to suggest this with the then-current state of TV programming at the time of the song's release. | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: Mercilessly parodied in "You Don't Love Me Anymore". | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Discussing "The Plumbing Song" which parodies Milli Vanilli's "Blame It on the Rain" and "Baby Don't Forget My Number", Al called his joking on the infamous duo "redundant" in the wake of their 1990 Grammy Awards lip-syncing scandal. He went on to confirm that he did, in fact, sing his song himself. "I Can't Watch This" is a full list of these about TV shows and personalities, including: America's Funniest Home Videos (the only show to get a whole verse dedicated to it) The Cosby Show Roseanne The People's Court Twin Peaks Siskel & Ebert Late Night with David Letterman The Arsenio Hall Show | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics | |
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"Smells Like Nirvana" is a parody of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and makes fun of the latter song's Indecipherable Lyrics. | |
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Jump Scare | |
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Jump Scare: Al has stated that "Bite Me" was made specifically for this effect on the poor people that forgot to turn off their CD players. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Airline Amy". | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Actually wearing swim trunks or not, Weird Al is arguably the last person anyone would want to see naked on an album cover. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Trigger Happy" has the lines "Now why'd ya havta get so mad?/It was just a lousy flesh wound, dad." and "I always keep a Magnum in my trunk/You better ask yourself, do you feel lucky, punk?" "Smells Like Nirvana" has one line where the singer mentions they have marbles in their mouth. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore", which in itself parodies the one for Extreme's "More Than Words". | |
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Rockers Smash Guitars | |
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Rockers Smash Guitars: Exaggerated and Parodied at the end of the "Smells like Nirvana" video. Al smashes his guitar, the audience smashes plates on a guy's head and then Al pushes a plunge-detonator to demolish a building. The video for "You Don't Love Me Anymore" — which is a sad, acoustic ballad — ends with Al (who is not holding an instrument) being suddenly overcome by the dejection expressed in the song, at which point he violently wrests the acoustic guitar from his guitarist's grasp, demolishes it thoroughly against the floor, shoots a disgusted look at the camera as if to say, "what are you looking at?", and finally drags his feet off the set. | |
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Sexy Stewardess | |
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Sexy Stewardess: "Airline Amy". | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: "Trigger Happy" is a cheery Beach Boys-type song about gun accidents. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: "Smells Like Nirvana" is all about how the singer doesn't even know what the words are, but that's OK since it's a Nirvana song. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The gibberish end lyrics of "Smells Like Nirvana", which segues from sounding like Japanese to Yiddish: | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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Only a Flesh Wound: Referenced in Trigger Happy": | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: "Trigger Happy" - The Beach Boys "I Was Only Kidding" - Tonio K. "When I Was Your Age" - early Alice Cooper "Airline Amy" - Nick Lowe and Jonathan Richman "You Don't Love Me Anymore" - Extreme | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: "You Don't Love Me Anymore" takes this trope to extremes. | |
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Hidden Track | |
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Hidden Track: Done as a prank on absent-minded listeners who'd forget to turn their CD players off after the last song. After "You Don't Love Me Any More," there's about ten minutes of silence followed by eleven seconds of cacophonous noise and screaming entitled "Bite Me." | |
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Dead Sparks | |
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Dead Sparks: "You Don't Love Me Anymore" hilariously takes it up to eleven when the girl in the song gets with everyone on the local hockey team, tells her friends that the protagonist in the song is the Antichrist, and then she starts trying to kill him on multiple occasions. | |
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Something Something Leonard Bernstein | |
| Off the Deep End (Music) / int_f3faf1d4 | comment |
Something Something Leonard Bernstein: "Smells Like Nirvana" is all about how hard the lyrics of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" are to decipher. The only lyrics that match the original's are "never mind" in the final verse. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: The end of "I Was Only Kidding". | |
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