Line #2 YMMV/TheWeirdAlShow


1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Al simply an unintentionally insensitive CloudCuckoolander, or is he [[DepravedKidsShowHost 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?
2	* {{Anvilicious}}: Every episode would also spend the next half hour pounding the moral into your head from all directions.
3	* 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 and realize that he'll likely end up dying of suffocation and starvation.
4	** His entire comedy routine in the talent show is about being trapped there.
5	* HarsherInHindsight:
6	** "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.''
7	** At the end of "The Competiton", after learning the episode's 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.
8	* HilariousInHindsight: Since Creator/ShoutFactory has the rights to the show now, they put it on their ''Shout! Factory TV'' service, including a 24/7 channel on Creator/PlutoTV. In 2020, Creator/{{Viacom}}, which bought Pluto TV the year before, re-merged with Creator/{{CBS}}, meaning the show is in close proximity to the network that screwed them.
9	* InformedWrongness:
10	** 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".
11	** "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.
12	* JustHereForGodzilla: Even the dedicated Weird Al fan who remembered this show in its 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.
13	* {{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 [[RealPersonCameo done this before]] in his mockumentaries ''The Compleat Al'' (1985) and ''There's No Going Home'' (1996), the latter of which came out around the same time as this show. He liked to involve his parents in his projects while they were still alive.
14	* 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 ''Music/OffTheDeepEnd.''
15	* 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 Creator/JayLeno's guests to do a scene. A remarkable number of them agreed, like Creator/DrewCarey and Creator/BillMumy.
16	* RetroactiveRecognition:
17	** Series director Creator/PeytonReed would later go on to helm ''Film/AntMan1''.
18	** Indie rock star Ben Kweller plays with his original band Radish in "The Competition."
19	** Creator/DNAProductions- 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.
20	* 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."
21	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Al admitted on the commentary he hadn't cleared the rights for [[Music/TheProdigy "Firestarter"]] for his "Lousy Haircut" parody (later stating that CBS didn't want to pay royalties),[[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.
22	* TheWoobie: Cousin Corky gets the worst of Al's jerkassery. He tricks her into doing all his chores then abandons her to go on vacation, he aggressively forces her to take part in his talent show, and is just flat out insensitive to her. Plus it's clear she has some kind of self esteem issues.
23	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's hard to root for Al, described in the commentaries as "like Pee Wee Herman without the charm."

Context YMMV / TheWeirdAlShow