History YMMV / Weezer

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The "Pork and Beans" video was lauded upon premiere for bringing several cult internet celebrities, many of whom were the earliest Website/YouTube stars, into the mainstream shortly before the internet became such a ubiquitous part of day-to-day life. Ten years later, mainstream web content isn't all that unique and there are far more "internet famous" people than the handful of [[FifteenMinutesOfFame flash-in-the-pan novelties]] who appeared. That said, nostalgia for early web entertainment in the late 2010s, largely due to the opinion that web content has become too heavily regulated to be as interesting as it was in the 2000s, has renewed it's kinder reputation

** GODDAMN, YOU HALF-JAPANESE GIRLS [[note]]The memorable opening lyrics to “El Scorcho”[[/note]]

** "Why is there an Audible ad in the middle of my Weezer album?" [[note]]The ''OK Human'' song "Grapes of Wrath" is about listening to audio books and name drops the aforementioned audio book and podcast service in the chorus. As it turned out, this wasn't paid ProductPlacement, though it got Audible's attention and they published a short interview with Rivers on their official website[[/note]]

** In 2023, "Buddy Holly" became a common InterruptingMeme, the famous guitar lick leading into the chorus playing over any image or scene one can imagine (usually ones that might resemble ''The Blue Album's'' cover), prompting viewers to say that they've just been "[[PersonAsVerb Weezered]]". And nobody knows why.

* FaceOfTheBand: Rivers Cuomo. The only other member that gets the ''slightest'' bit of recognition is drummer Pat Wilson.

* ArchivePanic: The band has started releasing new albums very frequently, releasing six albums between 2001 and 2010 and then five between 2014 and 2019 (with two being released in 2019 alone). Two more albums were release in 2021, and '''four''' more are scheduled to be released in 2022, bringing a total of ''six'' albums in just ''two'' years. It's safe to say it's getting harder and harder to keep up with the band's recording output.

-->''Back in Wilson High''\\

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The cover of ''Raditude''
** The music video for "Hash Pipe".
** Any of the Spike Jonze-directed videos. And anything Matt Sharp and Pat Wilson do during performance segments of even the more straight-ahead videos like "The Good Life".
*** "The Good Life" video is equal parts PerformanceVideo shots of the band in a studio and ConceptVideo segments about a hapless pizza delivery driver: At one point, Matt and Pat start doing a slow motion AirplaneArms run around the studio, and it then fittingly cuts to the delivery driver getting distracted by a skywriting airplane.
** The cover of ''Hurley'' is nothing but a photo of [[Series/{{Lost}} Jorge Garcia]].
** The matter-of-fact, SpitTake-inducing way Rivers talks about [[StalkerWithACrush going into his crush's room and reading her diary]] in "El Scorcho":
-->I asked you to go to the Music/GreenDay concert
-->You said you'd never heard of them, how cool is that?
-->So I went to your room and read your diary!
** "Keep Fishin'": Weezer performs with Franchise/TheMuppets... And Animal has to sit in on drums because Pat Wilson is being held captive by Miss Piggy. Even Rivers, who tends to look serious even in their silliest of music videos, can't help but have a huge grin on his face most of the time.
** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8RFTB5vgV_4 Matt Sharp]] in this performance of "Say It Ain't So". Especially in contrast to Rivers, who appears stiff and uncomfortable due to having to wear a leg brace - Matt may have been hamming things up so much because the performance might have been boring to watch otherwise.
** The album cover for ''Make Believe'', it perfectly encapsulates the 2000s Emo trend with the band wearing all-black outfits over what looks like the background of a Myspace page.
*** The [[Music/WeezerTheRedAlbum "Red Album"]] cover is also silly looking: They put a twist on the usual "four guys in front of a solid color background" concept by having everyone dress as alter-egos, making them look like [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits a bunch of people you could never imagine being in a band together]] - from left to right there's bearded, fedora-wearing {{hipster}} Brian, clean cut and overly-serious DorkInASweater Pat, PornStache cowboy Rivers, and tattooed, skater-clothes-wearing, lost ''{{Series/Jackass}}'' cast member Scott.
** The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U "Africa"]] is a re-creation of the video for "Undone", but with Music/WeirdAlYankovic playing Rivers. Weird Al's 90's-era Rivers costume is pretty accurate, yet also sort of looks like how he dressed in the "White And Nerdy" video. Also, he eventually pulls an accordion out of HammerSpace and mimes the synth solo with it.

** "American Girls" has been misattributed to Weezer, but is in fact by Rivers' side-project Homie. It does technically feature the rest of Weezer, however - the percussion is mainly a loop of Patrick Wilson playing drums, while Matt Sharp and Brian Bell sing backing vocals.

* MisattributedSong: They've had a lot of songs misattributed to them, but one particularly interesting case is "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus, since they would later perform a CoverVersion live. And the band themselves are guilty of associating a song with the wrong artist in a lyric from [[SongOfSongTitles "Heart Songs"]]: "Debbie Gibson, tell me that you think we're all alone" (Tiffany was the eighties teen idol who famously covered "I Think We're Alone Now", not Debbie Gibson).

* BlackSheepHit: The biggest hits from ''[[Music/WeezerTheGreenAlbum The Green Album]]'', "Hash Pipe" & "Island In The Sun", can be considered this: "Hash Pipe" is much heavier and hard-hitting than the straight-forward power pop featured on the record, while "Island In The Sun" is much LighterAndSofter in comparison to the rest of it as well (it's also the only song from ''Green'' to utilize acoustic guitars).

** The B-Side "Mykel & Carli" is about two early Weezer fans who ran the band's fan club. The second verse becomes depressing when you realize that Mykel and Carli both died in a car crash in 1997, right in the middle of what was already a low point in Rivers' life as he dealt with self-loathing brought about by the failure of ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}''. Their deaths caused Rivers to sink even further, and led to Weezer's hiatus for the rest of the 90s, while Rivers shut himself away in his home, painted his bedroom walls black, covered his windows with fiberglass insulation, and cut contact with the outside world for years.

** ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' is notable for being their only album since the first one that ''hasn't'' split the base in some way. ''The White Album'' continued that trend. ''Pacific Daydream'', however, leaves fans divided once again, as do ''The Teal Album'' and ''The Black Album''. Then came ''OK Human,'' which many consider their best work since at least ''The White Album''. However, even with ''OK Human'', there's a slight divide between those who like the album's softer, BaroquePop style and those who like the songs but would prefer to hear electric versions - some have taken to adding their own electric guitar parts to ''OK Human'' songs. ''Van Weezer'' has also been generally well received, though a few have criticized the album's derivative nature. ''SZNZ: Spring'', meanwhile, has gotten a more mixed response, with some enjoying the influence of myth and folklore that helps put them in the springtime mood, while others criticize the songwriting, saying the lyrics come off as too cheesy. ''SZNZ: Summer'' has gotten a similar mixed response, but ''SZNZ: Autumn'' seems to have a more positive reaction.

** "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived," which is essentially a PowerPop [[Music/{{Queen}} "Bohemian Rhapsody"]][=/=][[Music/{{Radiohead}} "Paranoid Android"]] that explores the styles of different musicians and bands. Special note goes to the "Music/{{Aerosmith}}" and "Music/JeffBuckley" sections.

** ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' is notable for being their only album since the first one that ''hasn't'' split the base in some way. ''The White Album'' continued that trend. ''Pacific Daydream'', however, leaves fans divided once again, as do ''The Teal Album'' and ''The Black Album''. Then came ''OK Human,'' which many consider their best work since at least ''The White Album''. However, even with ''OK Human'', there's a slight divide between those who like the album's softer, BaroquePop style and those who like the songs but would prefer to hear electric versions - some have taken to adding their own electric guitar parts to ''OK Human'' songs. ''Van Weezer'' has also been generally well received, though a few have criticized the album's derivative nature. ''SZNZ: Spring'', meanwhile, has gotten a more mixed response, with some enjoying the influence of myth and folklore that helps put them in the springtime mood, while others criticize the songwriting, saying the lyrics come off as too cheesy.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: ''Raditude'' was the epitome of Weezer's AudienceAlienatingEra in the late 2000's, and "Can't Stop Partying" is an obvious attempt to make one of the dance-pop songs that ruled mainstream radio at the time.

** This also applies to their first two albums of the 2000's (''The Green Album'' and ''Maladroit''). They are generally seen as superior to the next three albums that came out during that decade. ''Maladroit'', in particular, has became a CultClassic in recent years, and some fans rank it as their third-best album. ''The Green Album'' also contains two of their biggest hits ("Hash Pipe" and "Island in the Sun").

** This naming scheme eventually became an AscendedFanon of sorts on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in 2019 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Weezer_(Teal_Album) thanks to "Teal" and "Black"'s releases within that same year.]] Normally, Wikipedia would use "''[Artist Name]'' ([year] album)" for article titles for [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled albums]] released by music artists who released multiples of such. But because of the uniqueness of Weezer's self-titled albums and the aforementioned two-self-titled-albums-in-the-same-year dilemma, they made an exception for the group, now using "''Weezer'' ([Color] Album)" (as capitalized) for their self-titled albums.[[note]]Had they firmly decided not to do so, then "Teal" and "Black"'s article titles would be respectively disambiguated as "''Weezer'' (January 2019 album)" and "''Weezer'' (March 2019 album)".[[/note]]

* HarsherInHindsight: The song "In the Garage" is about the band sticking to their roots and never abandoning their fans becomes depressing during the implied DorkAge that fans felt was when the band had abandoned what made them fun. Of course it's considered moot following the release of ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End''.

** The B-Side "Mykel & Carli". The second verse becomes depressing when you realize that Mykel and Carli both died in a car crash in 1997, right in the middle of what was already a low point in Rivers' life as he dealt with self-loathing brought about by the failure of ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}''. Their deaths caused Rivers to sink even further, and led to Weezer's hiatus for the rest of the 90s, while Rivers shut himself away in his home, painted his bedroom walls black, covered his windows with fiberglass insulation, and cut contact with the outside world for years.

** The B-side "Mykel and Carli" is named after two girls who befriended the band and ran Weezer's fan club. The once bittersweet song became a pure TearJerker after they died in a car crash, as the song includes the lines ''Then the school bus came/Took my friends away''. It's also notable that the song's A-side, "Undone – (The Sweater Song)", featured Mykel's speaking voice.

* CriticalDissonance: ''Make Believe'' was not well-liked by critics, currently standing as their lowest-rated record on Metacritic with a 52/100. However, it remains one of the band's best-selling albums[[note]]going platinum within a year[[/note]] and produced two of their biggest hits (Beverly Hills and Perfect Situation).

** ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' is notable for being their only album since the first one that ''hasn't'' split the base in some way. ''The White Album'' continued that trend. ''Pacific Daydream'', however, leaves fans divided once again, as do ''The Teal Album'' and ''The Black Album''. Then came ''OK Human,'' which many consider their best work since at least ''The White Album''. However, even with ''OK Human'', there's a slight divide between those who like the album's softer, BaroquePop style and those who like the songs but would prefer to hear electric versions - some have taken to adding their own electric guitar parts to ''OK Human'' songs. ''Van Weezer'' has also been generally well received, though a few have criticized the album's derivative nature. ''SZNZ: Spring", meanwhile, has gotten a more mixed response, with some enjoying the influence of myth and folklore that helps put them in the springtime mood, while others criticize the songwriting, saying the lyrics come off as too cheesy.

** ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' is notable for being their only album since the first one that ''hasn't'' split the base in some way. ''The White Album'' continued that trend. ''Pacific Daydream'', however, leaves fans divided once again, as do ''The Teal Album'' and ''The Black Album''. Then came ''OK Human,'' which many consider their best work since at least ''The White Album''. However, even with ''OK Human'', there's a slight divide between those who like the album's softer, BaroquePop style and those who like the songs but would prefer to hear electric versions - some have taken to adding their own electric guitar parts to ''OK Human'' songs. ''Van Weezer'' has also been generally well received, though a few have criticized the album's derivative nature.

* DorkAge: While it's debatable as to where exactly their Dork Age started, it's widely agreed upon that ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' [[WinBackTheCrowd finally ended it.]] While it briefly might've started again with the straight-up pop album ''Pacific Daydream'', the generally positive reception ''OK Human'' & ''Van Weezer'' have received seems to have put it on pause. [[note]][[TemptingFate For now, anyway.]][[/note]]

* WereStillRelevantDammit: ''Raditude'' was the epitome of Weezer's DorkAge in the late 2000's, and "Can't Stop Partying" is an obvious attempt to make one of the dance-pop songs that ruled mainstream radio at the time.

* ArchivePanic: The band has started releasing new albums very frequently, releasing six albums between 2001 and 2010 and then five between 2014 and 2019 (with two being released in 2019 alone). Yet ''another'' album was set to be released in 2020, barely a year after the ''Black Album'' until it was delayed to 2021. It's safe to say it's getting harder and harder to keep up with the band's recording output.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** The B-side "Mykel and Carli" is named after two girls who befriended the band and ran Weezer's fan club. The once bittersweet song became a pure TearJerker after they died in a car crash, as the song includes the lines ''Then the school bus came/Took my friends away''. It's also notable that the song's A-side, "Undone – (The Sweater Song)", featured Mykel's speaking voice.
** Two weeks before he died of a heart attack in a Chicago hotel, Mikey Welsh posted a Tweet about a dream he'd had...where he died of a heart attack in Chicago two weekends from the current date.