History YMMV / TheWeirdAlShow

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Al simply an unintentionally insensitive CloudCuckoolander, or is he something much worse? With that in consideration, are his disgusting Nutrition Break segments just a testament to his weirdness, or is he deliberately trying to make the audience poison themselves?

** Series director Peyton Reed would later go on to helm ''Film/AntMan1''.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Al admitted on the commentary he hadn't cleared the rights for [[Music/TheProdigy "Firestarter"]] for his "Lousy Haircut" parody,[[note]]He technically never has to as copyright law doesn't apply to parodies, but is such a NiceGuy that he still always does, and if the artist refuses he doesn't do the song.[[/note]] hence the song is intentionally written as a sound alike.

** DNA Productions- later one of the producers of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' (and the [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius spinoff series]]) made the CGI-animated part of the intro and the ''Fatman'' cartoons. Creator/BillyWest would use his "Evil Uncle Frank" voice from one of said segments for Sam, the owner of [[LocalHangout the Candy Bar]] in ''Jimmy Neutron'', complete with the same VerbalTic of constantly going "Yeah!" at the end of sentences.

* {{Narm}}: Mary Yankovic's (Al's mom) atrocious acting in the talent show episode. Al himself makes a crack about this on the commentary, but also mentioned that he deliberately cast her (and his father in other projects) as his parents because their lack of acting skills or training meant the audience immediately realized they were real people. He'd done this before in his mockumentary ''There's No Going Home'' which came out around the same time as this show and liked to involve his parents in his projects while they were still alive.

* {{Narm}}: Mary Yankovic's (Al's mom) atrocious acting in the talent show episode. Al himself makes a crack about this on the commentary.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Al is a bit of a jerk, but one particular episode has him force guest star Tahj Mowry to play guinea pig to his new invention, [[BodyHorror giving him a dinosaur foot.]] At the end of the episode, he's still around, yelling to the audience that Al must be stopped. Al isn't a jerk, he's a supervillain!
** The time Val Brentwood kidnapped the band Radish to sabotage Al's competitor. Al was at first upset, but quickly decided to force them to play for him.

* OneSceneWonder: The show was filmed at Creator/{{NBC}} Studios in Burbank- just down the way from ''Series/TheTonightShow'', and Al would often troll the halls trying to get Leno's guests to do a scene. A remarkable number of them agreed, like Drew Carey and Bill Mumy.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In "The Competition", there's no stated rules for the contest, so it's hard to say what criteria would count for not playing fair. Further more, Al for once did try to be the bigger person and ''did'' choose to just run his show properly...until Uncle Ralphie actively began to harass him on the set of his show with no immediate repercussions. We're supposed to see Al and Ralphie as equally culpable of breaking the imaginary rules and Fred Huggins as morally superior simply because he didn't cheat...but Fred Huggins also wasn't the victim of any sabotage. He was ''literally'' ignored and basically seems to have won by default simply because he's such a loser nobody would ever bother him. Dovetails nicely with BrokenAesop in that the ''real'' lesson seems to be less "Play fair" and more "It's easy to avoid being bullied if you're so pathetic nobody will try."

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: "Al Gets Robbed" ends with Al getting a telegram from the Cave Dwellers' Convention saying that they enjoyed his show and will be watching it every week from now on. This was ''the last episode.''
* HarsherInHindsight: At the end of "The Competiton", after learning the episodes lesson, Al decides that next time, he'll play fair. Unfortunately, the show was canceled after one season, so he wouldn't be able to apply the lesson he learned.

* WhatAnIdiot: "Time Machine" has Weird Al travel back in time with his newly-created time machine to try and get a birthday present for Harvey, in the process re-experiencing the events of the day he'd already gone through before.
'''You'd Expect:''' Al to realize that since he is time-traveling to earlier points in time, he shouldn't be that surprised that he's re-experiencing what he's already done.\\
'''Instead:''' Al forgets that he's gone back in time when re-experiencing the events and gets confrontational towards everyone he's interacted with, resulting in such consequences as the electric company cutting his power when he responded to receiving a final notice by calling them on the phone just to insult them as well as Bobby the Inquisitive Boy [[BrokenPedestal becoming disillusioned towards Al when he claimed to have already answered his question and shows him an educational video that had nothing to do with what he asked]].

** The time Val Brentwood kidnapped a boy band to sabotage Al's competitor. Al was at first upset, but quickly decided to force them to play for him.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Al admitted on the commentary he hadn't cleared the rights for [[Music/TheProdigy "Firestarter"]] for his "Bad Haircut" parody,[[note]]He technically never has to as copyright law doesn't apply to parodies, but is such a NiceGuy that he still always does, and if the artist refuses he doesn't do the song.[[/note]] hence the song is intentionally written as a sound alike.

* NightmareFuel: The seizure-inducing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax4zF4ychoU Ear Booker Productions vanity plate]] at the end of each episode seems to invoke this trope. The soundtrack is an edited version of "Bite Me," the hidden track from Al's 1992 album ''Off The Deep End.''

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Al admitted on the commentary he hadn't cleared the rights for "Firestarter" for his "Bad Haircut" parody,[[note]]He technically never has to as copyright law doesn't apply to parodies, but is such a NiceGuy that he still always does, and if the artist refuses he doesn't do the song.[[/note]] hence the song is intentionally written as a sound alike.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Even the dedicated Weird Al who remembered this show in it's original airing only watched it for Al. Others can only stand to watch the show on DVD with the commentary on, finding [[{{MST}} Al and company's riffing]] far more entertaining that the show itself.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In The Competition, there's no stated rules for the contest, so it's hard to say what criteria would count for not playing fair. Further more, Al for once did try to be the bigger person and ''did'' choose to just run his show properly...until Uncle Ralphie actively began to harass him on the set of his show with no immediate repercussions. We're supposed to see Al and Ralphie as equally culpable of breaking the imaginary rules and Fred Huggins as morally superior simply because he didn't cheat...but Fred Huggins also wasn't the victim of any sabotage. He was ''literally'' ignored and basically seems to have won by default simply because he's such a loser nobody would ever bother him. Dovetails nicely with BrokenAesop in that the ''real'' lesson seems to be less "Play fair" and more "It's easy to avoid being bullied if you're so pathetic nobody will try."

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's hard to root for Al, described in the commentaries as "like Pee Wee Herman without the charm."

* "Mining Accident" has the Hooded Avenger tell Al that he shouldn't judge the miners and that he'll like them better after getting to know them. While Al eventually does reconcile with the miners, it's hard to say that Al's dislike of the miners is unwarranted, since they were very disrespectful towards Al's property and mocked him over having a hamster as a pet.

* InformedWrongness: In "The Competition", both Al and Uncle Ralphie [[spoiler: lose the "best kids show host" award because [[AnAesop they didn't play fair]],]] but there were no known rules given, so it's hard to determine what constitutes as "playing fair".

* FridgeHorror: The Guy Boarded Up In The Wall becomes very disturbing when you think too hard about ''why'' he's boarded up in the wall in the first place.

* FridgeHorror: The Guy Boarded Up In The Wall.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: In spite of the executive's attempts, they couldn't constrain Weird Al's hilarity.
** All of ''The Adventures of Fatman'' segments, for starters. Same with the "Al TV" segments, including most of the fake commercials and stuff. Like the parody of the "Got Milk" ads, where the announcer sends people after the kids in the ad to spill all their milk for some reason, and belts out an evil laugh.
** Not to mention Al as a newscaster reporting bizarre stories- including his total freakout when he reported that Babe Ruth had come back from the dead to play in the MLB again- "BABE RUTH IS ALIVE?! HE WALKS THE EARTH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! AAAHHH, AAAHHH!"
** Al opening his fanmail in episode 10, which included an envelope full of beef stew, and a bunch of cash from Ed [=MacMahon=] (who used to be the sweepstakes guy). Then suddenly a weird goat-bleating noise goes off- it's the [[YokoOhNo Yoko Ono Alarm]], which means it's commercial time!

* InformedWrongness: In "The Competition", both Al and Uncle Raphie [[spoiler: lose the "best kids show host" award because [[AnAesop they didn't play fair]],]] but there were no known rules given, so it's hard to determine what constitutes as "playing fair".

** Series director Peyton Reed would later go on to helm ''Film/AntMan''.

* EarWorm: ''"Ooooohhhhhh this is a story 'bout a guy named Al..."''

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Al admitted on the commentary he hadn't cleared the rights for "Firestarter" for his "Bad Haircut" parody, hence the song is intentionally written as a sound alike.

** Indie rock legend Ben Kweller plays with his original band Radish in "The Competition."
** DNA Productions- later one of the producers of ''Film/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' (and the [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius spinoff series]]) made the CGI-animated part of the intro and the ''Fatman'' cartoons (and Creator/BillyWest would use his "Evil Uncle Frank" voice from one of said segments for Sam, the owner of [[LocalHangout the Candy Bar]] in ''Jimmy Neutron'', complete with the same VerbalTic of constantly going "Yeah!" at the end of sentences).