History YMMV / WeirdAlYankovic

* TastesLikeDiabetes: "If That Isn't Love". Yes, it's supposed to be a spoof of these types of love songs, but one could argue that he spoofed them a little too well, and that the attempts at "twisted" humor (as well as the chorus implying that the narrator has absolutely no idea what love actually is) fail to offset the cheesiness of the chorus. Not to mention that it's a style parody of Music/{{Hanson}}, who are arguably an example of this trope.

* UnfortunateImplications: "Word Crimes" caused a [[http://nationalpost.com/entertainment/music/weird-al-apologizes-for-offending-with-spastic-lyric-in-word-crimes-parody minor controversy]] due to Al's usage of the term "spastic". Once informed that it's a derogatory term [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage in the United Kingdom]] for people with cerebral palsy, considered the British equivalent of the r-word, he apologized on his Twitter.

** All of his parodies hark back to some (possibly forgotten) hit or the era it came from. "Headline News", however, is not only a parody but recounts a few of the big news stories of the early 1990's. The song never appeared on a regular studio album possible because of how quickly Al knew it would feel dated. To wit:

** Dan's smile as he poses with a family at the end of the "Skipper Dan" is either [[WhenHeSmiles a heartwarming sign that he's accepted his life for what it is]] or the most depressing exampled of StepfordSmiler ever.

** Incredibly douchey males in general as in "Close But No Cigar", "Confessions Part III", "I Was Only Kidding", "Do I Creep You Out", etc.

*** The song itself is against weird greedy people who start FrivolousLawsuits.

'''Al:''' Uh huh. (''{{beat}}'') Why? I mean, after 9/11 and Katrina, hasn't this country suffered enough?\\

-->'''Al:''' I hear you're touring now.
-->'''Kevin Federline:''' I am touring, yes.
-->'''Al:''' Uh huh. (''{{beat}}'') Why? I mean, after 9/11 and Katrina, hasn't this country suffered enough?
-->''[...]''
-->'''Al:''' I understand that you're trying to get custody of your kids. I mean the kids you had with Britney, not the "practice" ones. So if you get custody, how will you be raising them? Will you be teaching them to inseminate and freeload the Federline way?
-->'''Kevin Federline:''' I don't think I'll allow my kids to do it until after they're adults.
-->'''Al:''' That's probably a good idea.
-->''[...]''
-->'''Al:''' For the record, exactly how much do you suck?
-->'''Kevin Federline:''' Um, a lot, you know.
-->'''Al:''' Would it be accurate to say that you're the biggest douchebag ever? And that your album is a crime against humanity?
-->'''Kevin Federline:''' Um, yeah, pretty much.

** In "Ode to a Superhero," Al pokes fun at the "''Power Rangers'' mask" warn by the Green Goblin in the first ''Film/SpiderMan'', claiming Creator/WillemDafoe is "scarier without it on." In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Norman Osbourne destroys the mask, and Dafoe gives a terrifying performance as Green Goblin without it.

%%* NauseaFuel: "Trash Day" full-stop.

** "[[OverlyLongGag Well he looks at me...And I'm looking at him...And he looks at me...And I'm looking at him...]]" used commonly in scenes with two characters staring at eachother.

* WeirdAlEffect: TropeNamer and arguably the TropeCodifier; many of Weird Al's parody songs are popular enough on their own that most people are likely to be unfamiliar with the original songs. It doesn't help that a lot of the songs he parodies are either obscure or were merely OneHitWonder[=s=].

** Al's page on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has an entire ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_al_yankovic#Misattribution_and_imitators section]]'' devoted to the various parodies that he didn't do but are attributed to him, complete with a screen shot of Limewire.

** The joke he made in "White and Nerdy" vandalizing Wikipedia's entry about Atlantic Records [[LifeImitatesArt made people do exactly the same thing he did in real life]]. Due to this, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Records&action=history as people still do that vandalism to that page nowadays]] even 15 years after the song's release, now that page will be forever locked so only registered users can edit it. Wikipedia even has a comment about that phenomenon on Atlantic's page.

* UnconventionalLearningExperience: "Pancreas" contains a lot of information about human biology, as well as a (slightly wrong) recitation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation Newton's law of universal gravitation]].

** In the music video for “Amish Paradise,” Al is sent sprawling when “a local boy kicked (him) in the butt.” The close-up shot of Al lying on the ground is strikingly similar to the shot of Peter on the ground in his final scene in ''Film/{{The Room}}''.

** In the music video for “Amish Paradise,” Al is sent sprawling when “a local boy kicked (him) in the butt.” The close-up shot of Al lying on the ground is strikingly similar to the shot of Peter on the ground in his final scene in ‘’Film/{{The Room}}’’.

** In the music video for “Amish Paradise,” Al is sent sprawling when “a local boy kicked (him) in the butt.” The close-up shot of Al lying on the ground is strikingly similar to the shot of Peter on the ground in his final scene in Film/{{‘’The Room’’}}.

** In the music video for “Amish Paradise,” Al is sent sprawling when “a local boy kicked (him) in the butt.” The close-up shot of Al lying on the ground is strikingly similar to the shot of Peter on the ground in his final scene in Film/{{The Room}}.

*** Al also won a game of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' during a charity week, but lost on the "Friday Finals" tournament at the end of the week.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** While "TMZ" mostly parodies how paparazzi news desperately tries to make scandals out of famous people doing banal or merely slightly embarrassing like eating lunch, picking their nose walking their dogs, it also calls out the more shameless journalists who are willing to outright bully people through stalking, body-shaming or worse just for a gossip column. This is perfectly illustrated in the BreakTheCutie moment from the music video. On the other hand, the bridge and final verse also call out the entitled celebrities who think their status means they can escape all consequences for destructive behavior, giving a more even-handed argument that, for every famous or semi-famous person who gets unfairly judged by gossip news, there's one who does it to themselves.
** ''Phony Calls'' (which parodies TLC's Waterfalls). Remember, don't go making them...
** On his MTV specials in the series ''AL TV'', Al did several fake celebrity interviews, produced by [[ManipulativeEditing mixing his (silly) questions with real footage from actual celebrities' interviews]]. Most of them simply poke fun at the artist's work, but his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQd9jWYZky0 Kevin Federline interview]] notably directly attacks the star's arrogance and lack of talent and intelligence, as well as the fact that he left a wife and two kids for Music/BritneySpears, only to divorce her two years later.
** "Your Horoscope For Today"-- You shouldn't take horoscopes too seriously.
** "Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me"-- No one really cares about all the stuff you find cool on the internet.
** "I'll Sue Ya"-- [[ComesGreatInsanity Legal power is not to be abused.]]
** "Don't Download This Song"-- The bridge has a jab at the hypocrisy of the entertainment industry's lavish lifestyles and how they use it to justify crackdowns on illegal downloading.

** Apart from parodying songs that are famous for Epic Riffs themselves ("Smells Like Nirvana," "Beverly Hillbillies/ Money for Nothing*"), a few of Al's originals fit this trope as well. "I'll Sue Ya," "Dare to be Stupid," and Music/TheWhiteStripes flavored "CNR" all come to mind.

* SignatureSong: "Eat It".

** He became so known for singing about food in his early career (even releasing a compilation album of food songs) that many artists approached for parody automatically assume it's about food (most notably Kurt Cobain of Music/{{Nirvana}}, who specifically asked Al to not make "Smells Like Nirvana" be a song about food).
*** Actually (as confirmed by Al in a Howard Stern interview) Cobain was already on board with having the song parodied; as an afterthought he asked if it was going to be about food. Al said, "No, it's going to be about how nobody can understand the lyrics," and Cobain agreed that the idea sounded funny.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: "If That Isn't Love". Yes, it's supposed to be a spoof of these types of love songs, but one could argue that he spoofed them a little too well, and that the attempts at "twisted" humor fail to offset the cheesiness of the chorus. Not to mention that it's a style parody of Music/{{Hanson}}, who are arguably an example of this trope.
** For what it's worth, the chorus implies that the narrator has absolutely no idea what love actually is.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Al's friend and college [[note]]California Polytechnic State University, or "Cal Poly" for short. [[/note]] classmate Joel Miller said in Al's Behind The Music episode that he thinks drugs would make Al ''normal''. In spite of this, we have the mindfuck of "Everything You Know is Wrong" and the sheer garbled insanity of "Albuquerque."