History YMMV / WeirdAlYankovic

** The video for "TMZ" depicts a celebrity being plagued by photos of her own behind getting spread everywhere. ScarlettJohanssen would go through this for real.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: By a day. Al released "TMZ" on ''Alpocalypse'' on June 21, 2011, which contains the lyrics "... it's getting to the point where a famous person can't / '''Even get a DUI''' or go on a racist rant" and "Seems that every single time a star decides to / Shave their head or '''ram their car into a tree''' / They're on TMZ." The day before, Ryan Dunn of {{Jackass}} had killed himself by getting drunk and plowing into a tree at high speed. The story was, naturally, on TMZ.

* TearJerker: a rather more-than-usual subjective example is ''Skipper Dan''. [[LyricalDissonance Once you focus on the lyrics]], the song [[{{Understatement}} isn't exactly one of the happiest you can listen to.]] Lyrics aside however, the tune reminds of other, summer-ish, hopeful-sounding songs often heard in the late [[TheNineties nineties]].

* HateDumb: Any of his videos (be it parodies or interviews) will attract angry comments from fans of the original artist, who are probably missing the fact that it's parodic...and that Al gets permission from the parody's target in the first place.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwqFgnl4rMs TMZ.]] Like many of his other songs, it's a brilliant (if somewhat awkward, see above) parody with strong attention paid on the original. But when you really listen in on the lyrics, you'll realize that it's actually a serious commentary of our culture and how accepting we are of how shameful the paparazzi has become. It's really a TakeThat at what our popular culture has become and how little we've learned from the Princess Diana catastrophy. This is reinforced in the music video where the celebrity in question is running in the streets. [[TheWoobie Humiliated beyond words. Beyond comprehension.]] THAT alone says something.

* HateDumb: Any of his videos (be it parodies or interviews) will attract angry comments from fans of the original artist, who are probably missing the fact that it's parodic.

* UncannyValley: Weird Al's most recent video, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M Perform This Way]]'', as his face is digitally subbed over a female dancer. The effect is seriously creepy, which is almost certainly intentional.
** Duh. Weird Al himself said the video would be "beyond awesome, [[{{Understatement}} and disturbing on many levels".]] However, the YMMV part of the trope kicks in as in most cases you can't help but [[CrowningMomentOfFunny laugh]] at the video itself - ''especially'' at the facial expression Weird Al does during the last five-seconds-or-so of the song.

* UncannyValley: Weird Al's most recent video, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M Perform This Way]]'', as his face is digitally subbed over a female dancer. The effect is seriously creepy, which is almost certainly intentional.

* UncannyValley: Weird Al's most recent video, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M Perform This Way]]'', almost certainly intentionally as his face is digitally subbed over a female dancer in most shots. The effect is seriously creepy.

* UncannyValley: Weird Al's most recent video, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M Perform This Way]]''.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Weird Al's most recent video, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M Perform This Way]]''.

* NightmareFuel: "Christmas at Ground Zero". The last lines say it all:
--> ''What a crazy fluke''
--> ''We're gonna get nuked''
--> ''On this jolly holiday''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Done deliberately in several videos (for example, during the second chorus in "Jurassic Park").

** "Party at the Leper Colony"

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Done deliberately in several videos (for example, during the second chorus in "Jurassic Park").
* WeirdAlEffect: The TropeNamer. He surpassed many of his parodied subjects, be {{One Hit Wonder}}s or just infamous songs.

** He once wrote a song called "I Lost on Jeopardy". Later, he was on WheelOfFortune during a round of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and won. He lost the following week, though. He also lost on ''Rock & Roll {{Jeopardy}}!''
*** Bebay!! Oooooooo-ooo-ooo ooooooooo...
**** And guess what song played over the credits?
***** What is "I Lost on Jeopardy" by Weird Al Yankovic?
****** That's right! You get...[[{{Squick}} an envelope full of strawberry flavored Jell-o.]]

* AcceptableTargets: "Amish Paradise" does this with, well, [[CaptainObvious you know.]] There's also "She Never Told Me She Was A Mime".

* BetterThanItSounds: All of Weird Al's songs. ALL OF THEM!!!!

** Al wrote the lyrics to "The Saga Begins" with 99% accuracy... ''without having seen ThePhantomMenace''. He got all of his information from fan sites and went to see a pre-screening only to check his work.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Most of his songs have at least one, but special mention is diserved for the "Smells Like Nirvana" music video. ''ALL OF IT.''
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Al's parent's died of carbon monoxide poisoning while he was touring. He learned about this right before performing. What did he do? [[DoingItForTheArt He went and performed]], and said to his fans "since my music had helped many of my fans through tough times, maybe it would work for me as well" and that it would "at least ... give me a break from sobbing all the time."
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: While all his songs count, specifics go to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzERBgijZ0c end]] of Hardware Store, all of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw White & Nerdy]], and ''without a doubt'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cCRRFi1aA Skipper Dan]]!!

* DudeNotFunny: Coolio was not particularly fond of "Amish Paradise."
** This had more to do with a mix-up with getting permission. As a rule, Al likes to ask permission before doing parodies, and he ''thought'' he had gotten Coolio's, through an intermediary. It turned out he was mistaken, and he and Coolio have since worked things out.

* WeirdAlEffect: The TropeNamer. He surpassed many of his parodied subjects, be {{One Hit Wonder}}s or just infamous songs.

***** What is "What is "I Lost on Jeopardy" by Weird Al.

* BetterThanItSounds: All of Weird Al's songs. ALL OF THEM!!!!