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** "One for the Record Books" is supposedly about how you shouldn't worry about being THE best as long as you do YOUR best, which but could be understood for children as encouraging them to pursue what they love regardless of whether they're already an expert or to not let pursuit of perfection overtake their ability to be happy. Instead, the episode portrays people who *are* the best at something as losers who sacrificed their entire lives to do stupid things and they have no friends. The moral the episode unintentionally teaches is "Don't try anything because it's too hard."
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** "One for the Record Books" is supposedly about how you shouldn't worry about being THE best as long as you do YOUR best, which but could be understood for children as encouraging them to pursue what they love regardless of whether they're already an expert or to not let pursuit of perfection overtake their ability to be happy. Instead, the episode portrays people who *are* the best at something as losers who sacrificed their entire lives to do stupid things and they have no friends. The moral the episode unintentionally teaches is "Don't try anything because it's too hard."
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** "One for the Record Books" is supposedly about how you shouldn't worry about being THE best as long as you do YOUR best, which itself still isn't a great moral but could be understood for children as encouraging them to pursue what they love regardless of whether they're already an expert or to not let pursuit of perfection overtake their ability to be happy. Instead, the episode portrays people who *are* the best at something as losers who sacrificed their entire lives to do stupid things and they have no friends. The moral the episode unintentionally teaches is "Don't try anything because it's too hard."
* "Talent Show" in theory is "When faced with a challenge, try your best and don't be afraid to seek good advice." But the "challenge" in question is Al running a talent show and forcing Cousin Corky to participate against her will, causing her to first humiliate herself because she has nothing prepared and then only discover her actual talent literally by accident. So nothing in the lesson actually takes place and also Al isn't really interested in helping Corky much but instead making her be in his show. Strangely this episode portrays Al as being right but Corky as wrong.
* "Talent Show" in theory is "When faced with a challenge, try your best and don't be afraid to seek good advice." But the "challenge" in question is Al running a talent show and forcing Cousin Corky to participate against her will, causing her to first humiliate herself because she has nothing prepared and then only discover her actual talent literally by accident. So nothing in the lesson actually takes place and also Al isn't really interested in helping Corky much but instead making her be in his show. Strangely this episode portrays Al as being right but Corky as wrong.
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** "One for the Record Books" is supposedly about how you shouldn't worry about being THE best as long as you do YOUR best, which itself still isn't a great moral but could be understood for children as encouraging them to pursue what they love regardless of whether they're already an expert or to not let pursuit of perfection overtake their ability to be happy. Instead, the episode portrays people who *are* the best at something as losers who sacrificed their entire lives to do stupid things and they have no friends. The moral the episode unintentionally teaches is "Don't try anything because it's too hard."
* ** "Talent Show" in theory is "When faced with a challenge, try your best and don't be afraid to seek good advice." But the "challenge" in question is Al running a talent show and forcing Cousin Corky to participate against her will, causing her to first humiliate herself because she has nothing prepared and then only discover her actual talent literally by accident. So nothing in the lesson actually takes place and also Al isn't really interested in helping Corky much but instead making her be in his show. Strangely this episode portrays Al as being right but Corky as wrong.
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->''And he really makes a mighty fine jellybean and pickle sandwich''\\
''For what it's worth.''
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->''Ohhh, this is a story 'bout a guy named Al\\
And he lived in a sewer with his hamster pal\\
But the sanitation workers really didn't approve\\
So he packed up his accordion and had to move\\
To a city in Ohio where he lived in a tree\\
And he worked in a nasal decongestant factory\\
And he played on the company bowling team\\
And every single night he had a strange recurring dream\\
Where he was wearing lederhosen in a vat of sour cream\\
But that's really not important to the story...''
-->- '''"''The Weird Al Show'' Theme"'''
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* LessonOfTheDaySpeech: The start of every episode will declare "Today's lesson" in clear terms. Then through the episode the narrator will ''constantly'' repeat the moral while basically yelling at Al for not even trying to learn it. Furthermore, in many of the episodes The Hooded Avenger will show up and serve no other role in the plot but to repeat the moral directly to Al.
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* ScriptWank: The start of every episode will declare "Today's lesson" in clear terms. Then through the episode the narrator will ''constantly'' repeat the moral while basically yelling at Al for not even trying to learn it. Furthermore, in many of the episodes The Hooded Avenger will show up and serve no other role in the plot but to repeat the moral directly to Al.
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* RealPersonCameo: Mary Yankovic, Al's real life mother, plays Al's mother in the show as well, continuing a trend from his earlier projects up to this point where his real-life parents always portray his parents.
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* NoLongerWithUs: The Hooded Avenger shares the sad tale of his former friend, Mr. Molasses, the slowest superhero ever.
-->'''The Hooded Avenger''': Every time we'd go out crime fighting, he'd want to tag along, so I'd have to drive the hood cycle at 2mph. We ended up getting into a big fight over this. We stopped talking to one another. Then five years, he was in a freak road paving accident and I've missed him ever since! '''*breaks down into sobs*'''
-->'''Al''': You mean he...?
-->'''The Hooded Avenger''': Yea! HE MOVED TO BOISE IDAHO! WHYYYYY?!
-->'''The Hooded Avenger''': Every time we'd go out crime fighting, he'd want to tag along, so I'd have to drive the hood cycle at 2mph. We ended up getting into a big fight over this. We stopped talking to one another. Then five years, he was in a freak road paving accident and I've missed him ever since! '''*breaks down into sobs*'''
-->'''Al''': You mean he...?
-->'''The Hooded Avenger''': Yea! HE MOVED TO BOISE IDAHO! WHYYYYY?!
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Val Brentwood: Gal Spy doesn't actually perform any espionage or anything spy-like in any of the episodes we see her in except for one: "The Competition." Given the number of episodes where actual spy work would be useful to Al or his friends, it's surprising that she pretty much doesn't do anything but hang around at Al's house.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Val Brentwood: Gal Spy doesn't actually perform any espionage or anything spy-like in any of the episodes we see her in except for one: "The Competition." Given the number of episodes where actual spy work would be useful to Al or his friends, it's surprising that she pretty much doesn't do anything but hang around at Al's house. However, at least once she makes an off-handed remark about not being able to divulge information on a mission, so presumably she's doing her work off-camera.
** The Hooded Avenger comes close, as the only time he's seen doing anything related to crime fighting is when he catches the guy who robbed Al's cave in "Al Gets Robbed". Beyond that there's a flashback of his doomed sidekick Mr. Molasses, but the flashback
** The Hooded Avenger comes close, as the only time he's seen doing anything related to crime fighting is when he catches the guy who robbed Al's cave in "Al Gets Robbed". Beyond that there's a flashback of his doomed sidekick Mr. Molasses, but the flashback
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* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Fatman's power of flight is slower than cars, thanks to his heft. Also, the Hooded Avenger has the power to craft a tiny horse out of an ice cube with his tongue.
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* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Fatman's power of flight is slower than cars, thanks to his heft. Also, the heft (a frequent visual gag is showing him flying while slow things such as snails outpace him.)
** The Hooded Avenger has the power to craft a tiny horse out of an ice cube with histongue.tongue.
** Mr. Molasses, the slowest super hero ever. He's, well, a giant pile of molasses.
** The Hooded Avenger has the power to craft a tiny horse out of an ice cube with his
** Mr. Molasses, the slowest super hero ever. He's, well, a giant pile of molasses.
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** PrejudiceAesop/SuspicionAesop: "Mining Accident", in which Al learns to be accepting of... miners. Not a race of miners, just... people who work as miners. Specifically, this pair of miners. Who start out as rude jerks and Al meets them because they ''collapsed a wall into his house.''
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** PrejudiceAesop/SuspicionAesop: PrejudiceAesop[=/=]SuspicionAesop: "Mining Accident", in which Al learns to be accepting of... miners. Not a race of miners, just... people who work as miners. Specifically, this pair of miners. Who start out as rude jerks and Al meets them because they ''collapsed a wall into his house.''
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* AesopAmnesia: Both the first and last episode of the series have essentially the same moral about being a true friend that listens and encourages others. And in both episodes, Al learns this by being ''the worst friend ever.'' During the show's original broadcast, these two episodes aired very close together (being the 10th and 12th episodes aired) essentially making this very similar pair of morals take place almost back to back.
* {{Aesoptinum}}: The Mood Pie in "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" exists to show how well Al's party is going, shifting forms based on how the guests are feeling and thus serves as a reminder to Al to be a good listener. As the party keeps getting worse, Al will check on the pie and find it in increasingly uglier states until it finally is so hideous it's unable to be shown on camera. Al tries to fix the pie by making everyone who feels bad leave, causing the entire party to empty out. When everyone comes back after Al promises to be a better listener and he fixes all their problems, the mood pie turns silver and shiny.
* {{Aesoptinum}}: The Mood Pie in "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" exists to show how well Al's party is going, shifting forms based on how the guests are feeling and thus serves as a reminder to Al to be a good listener. As the party keeps getting worse, Al will check on the pie and find it in increasingly uglier states until it finally is so hideous it's unable to be shown on camera. Al tries to fix the pie by making everyone who feels bad leave, causing the entire party to empty out. When everyone comes back after Al promises to be a better listener and he fixes all their problems, the mood pie turns silver and shiny.
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* AnAesop: Every episode would start and end with one.
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* AnAesop: Every episode would start and end with one. A few specific Aesops appear in the series:
** BeYourself: While never actually stated openly, "Al Gets Robbed" and "Talent Show" seem to be versions of this, with the latter being taught to Corky when she's afraid of appearing in a talent show and the former being taught to Al when his house gets robbed and he has to perform the show with just whatever creativity he can manage.
** FightingBackIsWrong: Not actually the stated moral of "The Competition" but in practice this is what the episode teaches. It declares that the moral is to play fair in competitions but Al doesn't actually do anything to his rival Uncle Ralphie until Ralphie begins to actively harass him and sabotage his show.
** PrejudiceAesop/SuspicionAesop: "Mining Accident", in which Al learns to be accepting of... miners. Not a race of miners, just... people who work as miners. Specifically, this pair of miners. Who start out as rude jerks and Al meets them because they ''collapsed a wall into his house.''
** TrendAesop: "Bad Influence" involves Al trying to join a club with a guy named Spike who he thinks is the height of cool, causing him to make a fool of himself and chase of his real friends before Spike is exposed.
** BeYourself: While never actually stated openly, "Al Gets Robbed" and "Talent Show" seem to be versions of this, with the latter being taught to Corky when she's afraid of appearing in a talent show and the former being taught to Al when his house gets robbed and he has to perform the show with just whatever creativity he can manage.
** FightingBackIsWrong: Not actually the stated moral of "The Competition" but in practice this is what the episode teaches. It declares that the moral is to play fair in competitions but Al doesn't actually do anything to his rival Uncle Ralphie until Ralphie begins to actively harass him and sabotage his show.
** PrejudiceAesop/SuspicionAesop: "Mining Accident", in which Al learns to be accepting of... miners. Not a race of miners, just... people who work as miners. Specifically, this pair of miners. Who start out as rude jerks and Al meets them because they ''collapsed a wall into his house.''
** TrendAesop: "Bad Influence" involves Al trying to join a club with a guy named Spike who he thinks is the height of cool, causing him to make a fool of himself and chase of his real friends before Spike is exposed.
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* BigStupidDoodooHead: "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" features a sketch where Siskel and Ebert argue about a movie and end up resorting to calling each other things like "doodyhead" and "snotface".
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* BigStupidDoodooHead: "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" features a sketch where Siskel and Ebert argue about a movie and end up resorting to calling each other things like "doodyhead" and "snotface"."snotface", ending when one of them calls the other [[Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish a hootiefish]], leaving the other so confused by the insult to continue.
** The entire concept of The Guy Boarded Up in The Wall, who is very open about not being happy in there but everyone else treats as perfectly normal and even amusing. The talent show episode pushed it even further in which he performs an entire stand-up comedy routine where the punchline of every joke is that he's trapped inside the wall.
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** "The Competition" has as its moral simply “Play fair”, given to Al as he tries to win a Best TV Show host competition against rival Uncle Ralphie. The moral itself is never defined beyond that - does it mean following the rules? The contest’s rules are never given so it’s hard to know how they were broken. Does it mean to be the bigger man when you’re being harassed? Because Al actually does try to “play fair” and just focus on running a good show and only cracks after suffering repeated sabotage by Uncle Ralphie. The episode ends with both of them losing to Fred Huggins, “the only one who played fair” but Fred Huggins wasn’t the victim of any sabotage and had been completely ignored. The actual moral just seems to be “Be so lame that nobody would ever bother you and watch your enemies destroy each other.”
** “Mining Accident” is supposed to teach a lesson about respecting and learning from people who are different from you, but the entire reason Al encounters the miners is because they cause a cave in and invade his home, plus they make fun of Harvey. The plot clearly puts the entire onus on Al to learn to respect people who are different when it *should* have been a lesson where both groups learn to respect *each other.*
** “Mining Accident” is supposed to teach a lesson about respecting and learning from people who are different from you, but the entire reason Al encounters the miners is because they cause a cave in and invade his home, plus they make fun of Harvey. The plot clearly puts the entire onus on Al to learn to respect people who are different when it *should* have been a lesson where both groups learn to respect *each other.*
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** "The Competition" has as its moral simply “Play fair”, given to Al as he tries to win a Best TV Show host competition against rival Uncle Ralphie. The moral itself is never defined beyond that - does it mean following the rules? The contest’s rules are never given so it’s hard to know how they were broken. Does it mean to be the bigger man when you’re being harassed? Because Al actually does try to “play fair” "play fair" and just focus on running a good show and only cracks after suffering repeated sabotage by Uncle Ralphie. The episode ends with both of them losing to Fred Huggins, “the only one who played fair” but Fred Huggins wasn’t the victim of any sabotage and had been completely ignored. The actual moral just seems to be “Be so lame that nobody would ever bother you and watch your enemies destroy each other.”
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**“Mining Accident” "Mining Accident" is supposed to teach a lesson PrejudiceAesop about respecting and learning from people who are different from you, but the entire reason Al encounters the miners is because they cause a cave in and invade his home, plus they make fun of Harvey. Harvey and almost kill him. The plot clearly puts the entire onus on Al to learn to respect people who are different when it *should* have been a lesson where both groups learn to respect about respecting *each other.** That's before we even touch the fact that the episode is trying to teach about racism without saying it, which causes a ''different'' problem when Al has a good reason to not like the miners (because they're jerks and miners are just people that work in a job and not a race.)
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* CaptainObviousAesop: "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" seems to be making fun of this trope, as when The Hooded Avenger tells Al the incredibly obvious advice of "When one person shares and the other person listens, those two get to be better friends," the music swells into a heavenly choir as Al declares "That's so darn sappy it's just gotta be true!"
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* ClassyCatBurglar: Valory Brentwood: Gal Spy -- in appearance anyway.
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* ClassyCatBurglar: Valory Brentwood: Gal Spy -- in appearance anyway.has the classic look with a black catsuit and a hair color and matching cape that changes color every episode.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In one episode, the sadistic host of a rival kids' show threatens his sidekick with a "Pauly Shore marathon."
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In one episode, the sadistic host of a rival kids' show threatens his sidekick with a "Pauly Shore marathon."" In the same episode, Al threatens the kidnapped band Radish with a tape of Pauly Shore films to convince them to play for him.
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* GrayAndGreyMorality: In "The Competition", Al and Uncle Ralphie both sabotage each other shows after they are nominated for best children's show host, [[spoiler: and both end up losing to the one nominee who played fair.]] However, Uncle Ralphie starts the sabotaging (though it starts after he accuses Al of trying to sabotage when he finds out that Al is the one on the phone calling to correct him that he might not win after gloating on the air that he'll win), while Al initially tries to ignore the sabotage and run his show in spite of it, only fighting back when Uncle Ralphie insults Harvey. And even after that, when he finds out that Ralphie's musical guests haven't shown up because Val kidnapped them, Al is initially against what she did before he decides to make them perform on his show. [[spoiler:And while Al acknowledges that he should have played fair, Ralphie takes out his loss on his sidekick by forcing him to watch a bad movie.]]
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* GrayAndGreyMorality: In "The Competition", Al and Uncle Ralphie both sabotage each other other's shows after they are nominated for best children's show host, [[spoiler: and both end up losing to the one nominee who played fair.]] However, Uncle Ralphie starts the sabotaging (though it starts after he accuses Al of trying to sabotage when he finds out that Al is the one on the phone calling to correct him that he might not win after gloating on the air that he'll win), while Al initially tries to ignore the sabotage and run his show in spite of it, only fighting back when Uncle Ralphie insults Harvey. And even after that, when he finds out that Ralphie's musical guests haven't shown up because Val kidnapped them, Al is initially against what she did before he decides to make them perform on his show. [[spoiler:And [[spoiler: And while Al acknowledges that he should have played fair, Ralphie takes out his loss on his sidekick by forcing him to watch a bad movie.]]
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* KarmicTwistEnding: "The Competition" ends with both Al and Uncle Ralphie losing the tv show contest because they refused to play fair, causing Fred Huggins to win by default.
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* ScriptWank: The start of every episode will declare "Today's lesson" in clear terms. Then through the episode the narrator will ''constantly'' repeat the moral while basically yelling at Al for not even trying to learn it. Furthermore, in many of the episodes The Hooded Avenger will show up and serve no other role in the plot but to repeat the moral directly to Al.
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** Huey in “Because I Say So” because the episode literally is about forgiving your bully. He’s not at the holiday party though so presumably Al’s restraining order went through in time![[note]]the Holiday Episode was actually filmed at night and this past legal working hours for minor actors. Bobby is also missing from the episode, presumably because of the same reason. But because of the joke about the restraining order at the end of Huey’s sole appearance, he actually has an in-universe excuse to be missing.[[/note]]
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I assume this was commented out as a ZCE? Anyway since there’s no editor’s note I’m going to put it back but add the context needed.
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%%* BrokenAesop: Several episodes seem to be giving either the opposite message they were trying to convey, or a message that isn't exactly worthy of emulating (i.e. "Don't try to be the best at anything -- it's too hard.")
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**"The Competition" has as its moral simply “Play fair”, given to Al as he tries to win a Best TV Show host competition against rival Uncle Ralphie. The moral itself is never defined beyond that - does it mean following the rules? The contest’s rules are never given so it’s hard to know how they were broken. Does it mean to be the bigger man when you’re being harassed? Because Al actually does try to “play fair” and just focus on running a good show and only cracks after suffering repeated sabotage by Uncle Ralphie. The episode ends with both of them losing to Fred Huggins, “the only one who played fair” but Fred Huggins wasn’t the victim of any sabotage and had been completely ignored. The actual moral just seems to be “Be so lame that nobody would ever bother you and watch your enemies destroy each other.”
** “Mining Accident” is supposed to teach a lesson about respecting and learning from people who are different from you, but the entire reason Al encounters the miners is because they cause a cave in and invade his home, plus they make fun of Harvey. The plot clearly puts the entire onus on Al to learn to respect people who are different when it *should* have been a lesson where both groups learn to respect *each other.*
** “Because I Say So” is a particularly toxic lesson that teaches kids that bullies are just sad and lonely people and it’s their victim’s responsibility to peacefully reach out to them and improve their lives. Even the show seems to acknowledge the problem when Al admits to getting a restraining order against Huey after he finally leaves. The DVD commentary has them take this lesson to task as being comically false.
**”One for the Record Books” is supposedly about how you shouldn’t worry about being THE best as long as you do YOUR best, which itself still isn’t a great moral but could be understood for children as encouraging them to pursue what they love regardless of whether they’re already an expert or to not let pursuit of perfection overtake their ability to be happy. Instead, the episode portrays people who *are* the best at something as losers who sacrificed their entire lives to do stupid things and they have no friends. The moral the episode unintentionally teaches is “Don’t try anything
*”Talent Show” in theory is “When faced with a challenge, try your best and don't be afraid to seek good advice.” But the “challenge” in question is Al running a talent show and forcing Cousin Corky to participate against her will, causing her to first humiliate herself because she has nothing prepared and then only discover her actual talent literally by accident. So nothing in the lesson actually takes place and also Al isn’t really interested in helping Corky much but instead making her be in his show. Strangely this episode portrays Al as being right but Corky as wrong.
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* AlmightyJanitor: A delivery man played by [[Series/LostInSpace Bill Mumy]] appears in one episode hauling tons of books and stuff to Al's cave; he turns out to have several [=PHDs=] and a Nobel Prize, among other things uncovered while looking for a pen (and he gives Al his Master's thesis on subatomic particles to use in place of a clipboard).
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* AlmightyJanitor: A delivery man played by [[Series/LostInSpace Bill Mumy]] appears in one episode hauling tons of books and stuff to Al's cave; he turns out to have [[GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs several [=PHDs=] PhDs]] and a [[RealAwardFictionalCharacter Nobel Prize, Prize]], among other things uncovered while looking for a pen (and he gives Al his Master's thesis on subatomic particles to use in place of a clipboard).
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* NuclearMutant: In "One for the Record Books," Harvey stood in front of a microwave while Al microwaves a burrito. But the microwave has a radiation leak, which makes Harvey grow 4x in size and gets into the Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords for world's largest hamster. He returns back to normal after Music/{{Hanson}} takes pictures of him, resulting in their camera flashes wearing off the radiation.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In one episode, the sadistic host of a kid's show threatens his sidekick with a "Pauly Shore marathon."
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In one episode, the sadistic host of a kid's rival kids' show threatens his sidekick with a "Pauly Shore marathon."
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** Also, the other announcer for the Al TV segments ([[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour Beau Weaver]]) would sometimes lean into this.
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** Also, the other announcer for the Al TV segments ([[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour ([[WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries Beau Weaver]]) would sometimes lean into this.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The ExpositoryThemeTune is an example, including details that are not relevant to how Al got his TV show (such as the fact that he had a reoccurring dream where he fell into a pit of sour cream).
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* ShaggyDogStory: The ExpositoryThemeTune is an example, including details that are not relevant to how Al got his TV show (such as the fact that he had a reoccurring dream where he fell into a pit vat of sour cream).
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** Also, the other announcer for the Al TV segments ([[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour Beau Weaver]] would sometimes lean into this.
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** Also, the other announcer for the Al TV segments ([[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour Beau Weaver]] Weaver]]) would sometimes lean into this.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The ExpositoryThemeTune is an example, including details that are not relevant to how Al got his TV show (such as the fact that he had a reoccurring dream where he fell into a pit of sour cream).
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Weird Al was not forced to refer to Barenaked Ladies as BNL (although this nearly ended up being the case). He shot two takes (one with the full name, one with the acronym), and the show was eventually allowed to use the full name.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Thanks to ExecutiveMeddling, Al was not allowed to call Music/BarenakedLadies by their actual name, instead forced to introduce the band as "BNL." Note that plenty of other kids networks at the time had no problems with using their actual name -- just Al's. In the end, he called them by their full name anyway, then tweaked the censors' noses by announcing the band with "[[DoubleEntendre Hey look! It's Barenaked Ladies!!]]"
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* EasilyForgiven: Among the guests Al invited in "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" include Uncle Ralphie, whom Al competed against in "The Competition" (though Al was quick to realize he should have played fair, Ralphie didn't seem to lose that attitude), and the chef from "Al Plays Hookie" who previously tried to cook Harvey.
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* EasilyForgiven: Among the guests Al invited in "The Obligatory Holiday Episode" include Uncle Ralphie, whom Al competed against in "The Competition" (though Al was quick to realize he should have played fair, Ralphie didn't seem to lose that attitude), and the chef from "Al Plays Hookie" Hooky" who previously tried to cook Harvey.Harvey.
* EiffelTowerEffect: Lampshaded in "Al Plays Hooky". When Al calls Corky the second time, he's sitting in a cafe in Paris with the Eiffel Tower behind him. When Corky asks Al where he is, Al says "Gee, I thought this Eiffel Tower thing back here would be a dead giveaway".
* EiffelTowerEffect: Lampshaded in "Al Plays Hooky". When Al calls Corky the second time, he's sitting in a cafe in Paris with the Eiffel Tower behind him. When Corky asks Al where he is, Al says "Gee, I thought this Eiffel Tower thing back here would be a dead giveaway".
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* BlackComedy: The theme song starts with Al living in a sewer, which he is promptly kicked out of by the sanitation workers.
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* RealityEnsues: The theme song starts with Al living in a sewer, which he is promptly kicked out of by the sanitation workers.
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* AlmightyJanitor: A delivery man played by [[Series/LostInSpace Bill Mumy]] appears in one episode hauling tons of books and stuff to Al's cave; he turns out to have several PHDs and a Nobel Prize, among other things uncovered while looking for a pen (and he gives Al his Master's thesis on subatomic particles to use in place of a clipboard).
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* AlmightyJanitor: A delivery man played by [[Series/LostInSpace Bill Mumy]] appears in one episode hauling tons of books and stuff to Al's cave; he turns out to have several PHDs [=PHDs=] and a Nobel Prize, among other things uncovered while looking for a pen (and he gives Al his Master's thesis on subatomic particles to use in place of a clipboard).
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Corky isn’t anywhere close to this trope in anything but the “girl” part.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Cousin Corky.
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** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: How Al is likely supposed to be seen. This does shine through now and then, such as when Al uses his time machine to try and get Harvey a birthday present, but the character's Jerk streak is just a bit too long for its own good.
*** Harvey from the ''Adventures of Fatman'' series is an [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] HypercompetentSidekick version of this, this is better shown in the "Al Gets Robbed" episode.
*** Harvey from the ''Adventures of Fatman'' series is an [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] HypercompetentSidekick version of this, this is better shown in the "Al Gets Robbed" episode.
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** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: How Al is likely supposed to be seen. This does shine through now and then, such as when Al uses his time machine to try and get Harvey a birthday present, but the character's Jerk streak is just a bit too long for its own good.
***good. Also, Harvey from the ''Adventures of Fatman'' series is an [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] HypercompetentSidekick version of this, this is better shown in the "Al Gets Robbed" episode.
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* MediumBlending: The intro shifts animation styles from 2D animation, CGI, and claymation. Then, at the very end, it switches to live action.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Once an episode, Al shows us how to make food hybrids similar to the Twinkie wiener sandwiches he's fond of. These are intended as a joke however, as most if not all contain an inedible ingredient (which is ironic considering the many scenes containing "imitatable behavior" that were removed thanks to ExecutiveMeddling). An example would be the potato-gummy worm-ink snack mentioned above.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Once an episode, Al shows us how to make food hybrids similar to the Twinkie wiener sandwiches he's fond of. These are intended as a joke however, as most if not all contain an inedible ingredient (which is ironic considering the many scenes containing "imitatable behavior" that were removed thanks to ExecutiveMeddling). An example would be the potato-gummy worm-ink snack mentioned above.
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* MediumBlending: The intro shifts animation styles from 2D animation, CGI, and claymation. Then, at the very end, it switches to live action.
live-action.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Once an episode, Al shows us how to make food hybrids similar to the Twinkie wiener sandwiches he's fond of. These are intended as ajoke joke, however, as most if not all contain an inedible ingredient (which is ironic considering the many scenes containing "imitatable behavior" that were removed thanks to ExecutiveMeddling). An example would be the potato-gummy worm-ink snack mentioned above.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Once an episode, Al shows us how to make food hybrids similar to the Twinkie wiener sandwiches he's fond of. These are intended as a
