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In spite of the executive's attempts, they couldn't constrain Weird Al's hilarity.

  • All of The Adventures of Fatman segments, for starters. Especially with Billy West as the snarking Hypercompetent Sidekick Harvey.
  • 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.
    • The medicine commercial that shows a man suffering from various ailments, and then escalates into all sorts of random stuff in the guy's house; the channel is switched before we learn what medicine it was actually advertising.
    • 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!"
    • The same anchor explains news anchors don't actually have anchors weighing them down — those went out of fashion in the 70s, and he promptly shows what they use now (a giant concrete block).
  • 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 Yoko Ono Alarm, which means it's commercial time!
  • A lot of the nonsensical and bizarre educational short films Al shows Bobby the Inquisitive Boy, like when the safety film in the first episode mentions that you should tell your father to sleep in a bed because that's what they're made for if he starts to fall asleep behind the wheel and that you should never let the dog drive the car.
  • "Al Gets Robbed"
    • A priceless Bait-and-Switch gag is used when "Macho Man" Randy Savage shows up and wrestles Harvey. Weird Al begins to look concerned and pleads for the fight to stop... and it then turns out that it was Harvey who was overpowering Savage.
    • Bobby the Inquisitive Boy shows up to ask Weird Al where he came from. Words can't describe how uncomfortable Al looks when he tries to avoid having to explain the facts of life to Bobby.
    • Gilbert Gottfried's cameo as Al's "imaginary friend".

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