Music / Straight Outta Lynwood

"Straight outta Lynwood! Crazy polka player named 'Weird Al'!"

Straight Outta Lynwood is the twelfth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 2006 through Volcano Entertainment and Way Moby Records. It's widely seen as his "comeback" album after Running with Scissors and Poodle Hat received only mediocre reviews and the latter received only minimal promotion, and includes his biggest hit to date, "White and Nerdy.", which debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #28 and peaked at #9.

The album was one of a number in the 2000s to be released exclusively on DualDisc, an experimental double-sided optical disc format that combined a CD on one side and a DVD on the other, in the United States. Thanks to a patent dispute with the similar DVDplus format in Europe, releases in other regions simply combined a standard CD and DVD in one package. In both configurations, the DVD portion included videos for "Pancreas", "I'll Sue Ya", "Virus Alert", "Close but no Cigar", "Weasel Stomping Day", and "Don't Download this Song" along with a mini-documentary (filmed by Al's wife Suzanne) about recording the original songs. Thanks to the eventual market failures of both DualDisc and DVDplus, the album would eventually be released on a standard CD in the US as part of the 2017 Boxed Set Squeeze Box.

Tracklist:

1. "White & Nerdy"^note Parody of Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone's "Ridin' (Dirty)"
2. "Pancreas"
3. "Canadian Idiot"^note Parody of Green Day's "American Idiot"
4. "I'll Sue Ya"
5. "Polkarama!"
6. "Virus Alert"
7. "Confessions Part III"^note Parody of Usher's "Confessions Part II"
8. "Weasel Stomping Day"
9. "Close But No Cigar"
10. "Do I Creep You Out"^note Parody of Taylor Hicks' "Do I Make You Proud"
11. "Trapped In The Drive-Thru"^note Parody of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet"
12. "Don't Download This Song"

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• Affectionate Parody:
  • "White & Nerdy" is a nerdcore parody of "Ridin' (Dirty)" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. Chamillionaire was reportedly absolutely delighted to know Al was interested in parodying his song, considering it a mark of high honor among musicians.
    "It's one thing to go platinum. Where do you go from there? Then Weird Al calls."
  • "Canadian Idiot" is a parody of "American Idiot" by Green Day, keeping the spirit of the original by satirizing American nationalism (albeit through the lens of a guy who really hates Canada).
  • "Confessions Part III" is a parody of "Confessions Part II" by Usher, this time having the narrator admit to many other uncomfortable secrets to his significant other.
  • "Do I Creep You Out?" is a parody of "Do I Make You Proud?" by Taylor Hicks, this time about a Stalker with a Crush.
  • "Trapped in the Drive Thru" is a parody of "Trapped in the Closet" by R. Kelly, using the original's surreal and meandering tone to tell a hilariously banal story about a married couple going out to dinner.
• Agony of the Feet: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" drops a hammer on his toes, and then sues Home Depot for selling him that hammer in the first place.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: The narrator of "Confessions Part III" admits that he vomited on his girlfriend's dog the last time he had too much to drink.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: In the music video for "Don't Download This Song", the various authority figures which persecuted the child protagonist react to his horrible death by performing a triumphant and elaborately choreographed dance routine.
• Animated Music Video: Eight of the tracks had music videos directed by different animators, each in their own unique style.
  • "Pancreas" - dir. Jim Blashfield.
  • "I'll Sue Ya" - dir. Thomas Lee.
  • "Virus Alert" - dir. David Lovelace.
  • "Weasel Stomping Day" - produced as a segment for the Robot Chicken episode "The Munnery."
  • "Close But No Cigar" - dir. John Kricfalusi and starring Cigarettes the Cat from Weekend Pussy Hunt.
  • "Do I Creep You Out" - created by JibJab.
  • "Trapped In The Drive-Thru" - dir. Doug Bresler.
  • "Don't Download This Song" - dir. Bill Plympton.
• Anti-Love Song:
  • "Pancreas", which is a love song about the singer's pancreas.
  • "Confessions Part III", which is about the singer being painfully too honest with his significant other.
  • "Do I Creep You Out", which is a Stalker with a Crush song.
• Appeal to Tradition: Parodied in "Weasel Stomping Day". Partway through a cheery song describing a cherished local holiday centered around violently stomping small animals to death, the narrator states that "it's tradition, that makes it okay!"
• Arc Number: 27 appears on the album artwork, and is also mentioned in "Confessions Part III".
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
  • "Confessions, Part 3" is all about this. Apparently having a babymama on the side was forgivable, but admitting that her dress makes her look fat was too much!
  • Plentiful in "Virus Alert".
    Then cause a major rift in time and space,
    And leave a bunch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place!
• Asshole Victim: In the video for "I'll Sue Ya," Weird Al plays a litigation-happy person who sues anyone and everyone for frivolous reasons. In the end, while he's driving off with all the money he won from the lawsuits, he gets distracted by a Burger Queen billboard and crashes into a truck carrying kitty litter.
• Badass Boast: "White and Nerdy" combines this with equal amounts of Self-Deprecation.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: "Virus Alert" lists, among the other consequences of the virus, making you physically attracted to sheep.
• Big Eater: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" gets into frequent trouble for eating things he shouldn't.
  I sued Taco Bell, 'cause I ate half a million chalupas and I got fat!
  I sued Toys R Us, 'cause I swallowed a nerf ball and nearly choked to death!
  I sued PetCo, 'cause I ate a bag of kitty litter and now I have bad breath!
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: The stalker in the video for "Do I Creep You Out?" has them.
• Black Comedy Animal Cruelty:
  • "Weasel Stomping Day" is about a holiday dedicated to stomping weasels to death.
  • The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" puts his cat in the microwave and, when the inevitable happens, decides to sue Panasonic because they never told him not to use their product on live animals.
• Bland-Name Product: Every brand name mentioned in "I'll Sue Ya" appears in the music video misspelled (Taco Belle, Starbux, Toysaurus and Homey Depot among others) presumably for legal reasons.
• Bowdlerize: In "Polkarama!", Al's version of "Gold Digger" goes "I ain't saying she's a gold digger/but she ain't messing with no broke... broke".
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "Virus Alert" has many examples.
• Break-Up Song: "Close But No Cigar" exaggerates this, being about a man who dumps his girlfriends for ridiculous reasons.
• Brick Joke: Al orders onions on his cheeseburger in "Trapped in the Drive Thru". The very last line has him lamenting that they forgot the onions.
• Call-Back: In the video for "White & Nerdy," a Trivial Pursuit card asks the question, "In what city is the largest ball of twine built by one man?"^note  It's in Darwin, Minnesota. — a reference to Weird Al's 1989 song, "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota".
• Canadian Equals Hockey Fan: In "Canadian Idiot", he sings, "Don't wanna be a Canadian idiot! Don't wanna be some beer swillin' hockey nut."
• Christmas Creep: In "I'll Sue Ya", Al sues Neiman Marcus because "they put up their Christmas decorations way out of season".
• Clutching Hand Trap: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" gets his finger stuck in a Coke bottle and sues the Coca-Cola company because of it.
• Courteous Canadian: "Canadian Idiot" plays with the trope. The song is from the perspective of an ignorant American making disparaging remarks about stereotypical Canadians, such as referring to them as "beer-swilling hockey nuts" and stating that Canadians "all live on donuts and moose meat". Towards the end of the song, the narrator suggests that Canadians' politeness must mean that they're actually just up to something and that it's time for a pre-emptive strike.
• Digital Abomination: Played for Laughs in "Virus Alert", which describes a computer virus that will not only affect all of your electronic devices (erasing your hard drive, translating your documents into Swahili, erasing the Easter eggs off your DVDs, stealing your identity and credit card info, and emailing all your porn to your grandmother) but also has a degree of sentience and physical tangibility (hogging the shower, keeping you awake at night with nonstop knock knock jokes, and tying up your phone with long-distance prank calls) and can even warp reality to its will (making the paint peel off your walls, messing up the PH balance in your pool, melting the flesh off your skull, opening major rifts in time and space, and leaving Twinkie wrappers everywhere.) Even the recommended way to get rid of the virus sounds like some kind of ritual.
• Digital Piracy Is Evil: "Don't Download This Song" declares that people who download songs are "evil, hard-bitten criminal scum" who lead irredeemable lives of crime and deserve everything the RIAA does to them.
• Disproportionate Retribution: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" will look for any excuse he can find to sue someone, from EarthLink operators putting him on hold to a pizzeria delivering his pizza half a minute late. By the time he gets to Ben Affleck, he stops bothering with excuses at all (or at least for him).
• Does Not Like Spam: Played straight in "Trapped in the Drive-Thru":
  I hopped up and I said: "I don't know, do you want to get something delivered?"
  She's like "Why would I want to eat liver? I don't even like liver!"
  I'm like "No, I said 'delivered'."
  She's like "I heard you say liver!"
  I'm like "I should know what I said..."
  She's like "WHATEVER! I JUST DON'T WANT ANY LIVER!"
• Does This Make Me Look Fat?: The last confession in "Confessions Part III" and the last straw for their relationship ends up being:
  And I lied; yes, that dress makes you look fat!
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the "White & Nerdy" video, Al makes a shady back-alley purchase of... The Star Wars Holiday Special on VHS.
• Dramatic Spine Injury: In "Weasel Stomping Day", a song about a holiday in which people stomp weasels to death, one lyric encourages the participants to "snap their weaselly spines in half".
• Drive-Thru Antics: "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", a very long song about a man who tries to take his wife to a fast food restaurant and goes through all sorts of mishaps in the drive-thru. First, they can't just go inside because he's wearing bunny slippers, gets into a weird conversation with the person taking their order about someone named Paul and realizing that he didn't bring his wallet, forcing him and his wife to dig for change.
• Epic Rocking: "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" has a running time of 10:51.
• Face on the Cover: "Weird Al" standing by the back of his car, holding a dog on a leash.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: The narrator of "Canadian Idiot" bases his hatred of Canadians on overblown stereotypes, and admits he feels "kinda nervous" that they're "hovering right over us" (misinterpreting Canada's northern position on a map as said country being literally above the United States.) At the end, the protagonist calls for a preemptive strike after concluding that Canadians are secretly plotting something sinister because nobody could possibly be that polite without having a hidden agenda.
• Fictional Holiday: "Weasel Stomping Day" is a holiday dedicated to stomping weasels to death.
• First-World Problems: The singer of "Don't Download This Song" complains that music piracy will make it so he can no longer afford to buy expensive crap he doesn't need.
• Flaming Emblem: Done in the "White and Nerdy" video, in which a group of road flares on a blacktop are arranged into the shape of Pac-Man.
• Flipping the Bird: A couple of gangsters give the nerdy protagonist the middle finger in the video for "White And Nerdy", though the fingers have been blurred out.
• Foreshadowing: The drive thru worker in "Trapped in the Drive Thru" doesn't mention onions when she reads Al's order back to him. Presumably, he gets distracted by her offering him a larger drink at no cost, and is dismayed to learn of the onions' omission in the final line of the song.
• Frivolous Lawsuit: The subject of "I'll Sue Ya" is a guy who sues people and companies for the pettiest of reasons (or just because he feels like it.)
• Grammar Nazi: In "Close But No Cigar".
  She was gorgeous, she was charming
  Yeah, she was perfect in every way
  Except she was always using the word "infer"
  When she obviously meant "imply"
  And I know some guys would put up with that kind of thing
  But frankly, I can't imagine why
• Gun Nut: The narrator of "Canadian Idiot" is implied to be a gun fanatic, as one of the many things he openly disdains about Canada is the fact that firearms are less ubiquitous there than in the USA.
  They leave the house without packin' heat
  Never even bring their guns to the mall
• Hollywood Cuisine: In "Canadian Idiot," most of the stereotypical Canadian foodstuffs — beer, donuts, moose meat, maple syrup, and Kraft macaroni — are all name-dropped.
• Hypocritical Humor: "Don't Download This Song," a song scolding the listener for downloading songs rather than buying CDs, was first made available as a free download.
• Imagine Spot: Most of the music video for "Don’t Download This Song" consists of the child protagonist imagining the outlandish consequences of downloading songs off the internet.
• Insane Troll Logic: The protagonist of "I'll Sue Ya" sues the state of Colorado for looking too much like Wyoming.
• The Internet Is for Porn: The virus from "Virus Alert" will email all of your porn to your grandmother.
• In the Style of:
  • "Pancreas" - Brian Wilson, especially The Beach Boys' albums Pet Sounds and Smile.
  • "I'll Sue Ya" - Rage Against the Machine, specifically "Bombtrack" and "Killing In the Name".
  • "Virus Alert" - Sparks
  • "Weasel Stomping Day" - Animated musical specials of the 1960s.
  • "Close But No Cigar" - Cake, specifically "Short Skirt/Long Jacket."
  • "Don't Download This Song" - 1980s charity songs, such as "We Are The World" and "Hands Across America".
• Invulnerable Knuckles: Defied; the narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" implies he'll sue you if he hurts his knuckles when he punches you in the face.
• Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: "Don't Download This Song" describes in great detail how your whole life will be ruined if the RIAA catches you pirating music.
• Joisey: It turns out that not liking New Jersey is grounds to sue Delta Airlines for selling you a ticket to said state.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: "Don't Download This Song" claims that pirating music will lead you to commit more serious crimes like armed robbery and vehicular homicide.
• Karmic Death: In the video for "I'll Sue Ya", while Al and his band are driving with all of the money they won in their lawsuits, they're distracted by a billboard and crash into a large truck. The billboard and truck are for two brands that Al had earlier sued.
• Knight Templar: The RIAA doesn't get a very flattering description in "Don't Download This Song":
  Oh, you don't wanna mess with the R-I-double-A
  They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R
  It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a 7-year-old girl
  They'll treat you like the evil, hard-bitten criminal scum you are!
• List Song: "Virus Alert" lists all the ways this virus will ruin your life, and "I'll Sue Ya" has a litigious Jerkass list all the people he's sued and why.
• Lyrical Dissonance:
  • "Weasel Stomping Day" is a saccharine, sickly-sweet holiday carol that just so happens to be about a holiday that promotes animal cruelty.
  • The "Candy Shop" segment of "Polkarama" makes the song sound like a jingle for a literal candy shop and not... that other thing... From the same medley, the louder and more uptempo version of "Feel Good Inc" somehow manages to make the already creepy song even creepier.
  • "Do I Creep You Out?" is a gentle romantic ballad... sung from the point of view of a creepy stalker.
• Medley: "Polkarama!" Songs featured, in order:
  • "The Chicken Dance" by Werner Thomas
  • "Let's Get It Started" by The Black Eyed Peas
  • "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand
  • "Beverly Hills" by Weezer
  • "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay
  • "Float On" by Modest Mouse
  • "Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz (featuring De La Soul)
  • "Don't Cha" by Pussycat Dolls (featuring Busta Rhymes)
  • "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers
  • "Slither" by Velvet Revolver
  • "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent (featuring Olivia)
  • "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop Dogg (featuring Pharrell Williams)
  • "Pon de Replay" by Rihanna
  • "Gold Digger" by Kanye West (featuring Jamie Foxx)
  • "The Nina Bobina Polka" by Al Yankovic
• The Metric System Is Here to Stay: One of the narrator's many grievances against Canada in "Canadian Idiot" is that they measure temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.
• Mickey Mousing: In the video for "I'll Sue Ya", the lawsuits print out to the beat of the bass.
• Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: The protagonist of "Close But No Cigar" is very, very picky, up to and including leaving a woman over a slightly-too-big earlobe.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Al's response to his wife ordering a chicken sandwich instead of a burger is to scream "I don't know who you are anymore!"
• Mondegreen Gag: Done in the song "Trapped In The Drive-Thru". See Does Not Like Spam example above.
• Mood Whiplash: A perfect example is on this album, after his Rage Against the Machine imitation "I'll Sue Ya." After an angry song like that one, there's an abrupt guitar chord, which is directly followed by a one-second pause going into "Polkarama," which has the "Chicken Dance" as an intro. Of course, THAT goes into a polka cover of "Let's Get it Started" by The Black-Eyed Peas.
• Moose and Maple Syrup: Canadian stereotypes are parodied in "Canadian Idiot", which is a satire on American nationalism.
• Mouthful of Pi: In "White And Nerdy" the title character claims to know Pi to a thousand places.
• Nerdcore: "White and Nerdy," full stop.
• Nerd Hoard: The "White and Nerdy" music video features a brief appearance of Seth Green displaying his own personal, massive Star Wars collection.
• Nerds Are Virgins: The singer of "White and Nerdy" spends his nights with a roll of bubble wrap.
• Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork: The singer of "White and Nerdy" does vector calculus for fun, and also likes to study the teachings of Stephen Hawking and Blaise Pascal.
• Nerds Speak Klingon: In "White and Nerdy", the protagonist claims to be fluent in both JavaScript and Klingon.
• Never My Fault: The Villain Protagonist of "I'll Sue Ya" sues various companies that he blames for accidents caused by his self-destructive lack of common sense.
  I sued Dell Computers, 'cause I took a bath with my laptop, and now it doesn't work!
  I sued Fruit of the Loom, 'cause when I wear the tighty-whiteys on my head, I look like a jerk!
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In "Close but No Cigar," the narrator's third girlfriend, Julie, is described as "a world famous billionaire/bikini supermodel/astrophysicist."
• Nose Shove: One of the many lawsuits filed in "I'll Sue Ya" is against Duracell, because "they never told me not to shove that Double-A right up my nose!"
• Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" doesn't even try to come up with a good reason to sue Ben Affleck.
• Obsession Song: "Do I Creep You Out" parodies this.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted in "Trapped In the Drive-Thru" — both the song's protagonist and the girl at the drive-thru speaker know different guys named Paul.
• The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: The vehemently Canada-phobic narrator of "Canadian Idiot" does mention some of the things he likes about the country before going back to deriding them over broad cultural stereotypes.
  Sure they got their national healthcare
  Cheaper meds, low crime rates, and clean air
  Then again, well, they got Céline Dion
• Only in It for the Money: The singer off "Don't Download This Song" makes his motivation for opposing digital piracy very clear:
  Don't take away money from artists just like me
  How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?
  And diamond-studded swimming pools? These things don't grow on trees!
• Overly Long Gag: "Trapped in a Drive-Thru" has the narrator repeat a variation of "heading to" or "at the" drive-thru over half a dozen times.
  "Did I mention the drive-thru?"
  • The awkward silence between Al and Eugene is heightened by a couple of increasingly emotional repetitions of "And I look at him! And he looks at me!"
• Perverted Sniffing: One of the many, many skeevy things mentioned in "Do I Creep You Out?" is sniffing the pit stains on the stalking victim's blouse.
• Playing Sick: The narrator of "Confessions Part III" admits that he wasn't really sick last week. He was just pretending so he wouldn't have to attend his girlfriend's office picnic.
• Poe's Law: Some people believed that "Don't Download This Song" was actually trying to spread the message that Digital Piracy Is Evil.
• Precision F-Strike: Yankovic himself finally gets one in with the comparatively mild "You cheap bastard!" during the outro of "Don't Download This Song".
• Prison Rape: Implied at the end of the music video for "Do I Creep You Out?" After the protagonist goes to prison, a muscular man comes up to him and puts a hand on his shoulder. The screen fades to black as they look lovingly into each other's eyes, and a moment later, the main character looks at the viewer in shock.
• Prisoner Performance: In the video for the song "Do I Creep You Out", it's revealed that the narrator is performing this song as part of a talent show in prison, having been incarcerated for his stalker behavior.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "What are! You wai! Ting for!" and the closing "HIT! SEND! RIGHT! Nooooow..." in "Virus Alert".
• Rap Rock: "I'll Sue Ya," which is done In the Style of Rage Against the Machine.
• Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: "Trapped in the Drive Thru" solidly averts this, being an exaggerated parody of R. Kelly's infamous rambling and interruption-filled hip-hopera. The narrator's wife mishears "delivered" as "liver" and they argue about it for several lines, a drive-thru employee zones out while the narrator asks for ketchup, and a mention of the name Paul sends the narrator off on a bizarre tangent about an unrelated guy with the same name.
• Reality Warper: The titular computer virus from the song "Virus Alert" has the ability to alter the very fabric of reality on a whim. It can peel the paint off your walls, mess up the PH balance in your pool, give you a permanent wedgie, and melt the flesh off your skull — and that's just the start!
• Record Producer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
• Replacement Goldfish: Part of the numerous minor confessions in "Confessions Part III" listed killing his girlfriend's goldfish and replacing it.
• Retconning the Wiki: The music video for "White And Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Atlantic Records' wiki page with huge type reading YOU SUCK!!!!! This was a personal Take That! from Al for refusing to let him parody James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" as "You're Pitiful", despite Blunt personally approving the parody. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, resulting in That Other Wiki having to lock the Atlantic Records page.
• Rummage Fail: In "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", when the husband accidentally left his wallet at home and the cashier tells them their order is cash only, they frantically look for some change to make up the difference and come up a dollar short of $5.82, and have to leave the chicken sandwich off their order.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the end of "Confessions Part III," the narrator's girlfriend walks out on him because of all the things he just told her and plans to tell her more.
  I mean, I'm just getting started here! I'm not even halfway down the list! This thing could go on for... hey, hey, where you goin'? [Woman is heard walking away] Honey? [She opens the front door] What? Was it something I said? [She slams the door behind her; he sighs] ...women.
• Sequel Hook: Subverted in "Confessions Part III." At the end of the song, Al states that he still has enough confessions to make another whole song, but his lady friend walks out on him before he can say anything more.
• Sequel Song: "Confessions Part III" is, naturally, styled as one to Parts I and II of Usher's original "Confessions".
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", about a married couple going out to dinner at a fast food restaurant, experiencing such hassles as ordering a cheeseburger with onions vs. a chicken sandwich, the drive-thru employee offering them a large root beer when they only wanted a medium one with no refill upgrade, scraping together a dollar's worth of change from the car when the cashier tells them it's cash only and coming up a dollar short, having to give up the chicken sandwich for the cheeseburger... only to find they forgot to put the onions on the burger.
• Shout-Out:
  • The album title is one to Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A, as well as paying homage to Al’s hometown, the Los Angeles suburb of Lynwood, California (which, coincidentally, neighbors Compton).
  • "White & Nerdy" is overdosed on geek culture references, with Al making references to Dungeons & Dragons, MySpace, Mine Sweeper, Happy Days, Star Trek, X-Men, Wikipedia, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the video even has him playing Trivial Pursuit and buying a bootleg of The Star Wars Holiday Special.
  • In the last few bars of "Close But No Cigar," Al shouts "Missed it by that much!"
• Spoken Word in Music: Both the bridge and outro of "Confessions Part III" feature Al speaking; the former having him list off various confessions and the latter seeing him proclaim that he's got way more that he intends to mention in "Part IV" (and his lady friend walking out on him).
• Stalker with a Crush: "Do I Creep You Out" portrays the singer as one. The animated video for this song has Taylor Hicks getting arrested and put in jail for his stalker antics, only to be hit on by a fellow prisoner by the video's end.
• STD Immunity: Averted in "Confessions Part III." The narrator informs his significant other that "FYI it was not a cold sore."
• The Stoner: It's implied that Eugene from "Trapped in the Drive Thru" is on some kind of substance. He responds to Al's request for ketchup by staring blankly at him for several seconds before asking him to repeat himself, and then explains that he's "kinda burned tonight."
• Take That!:
  • "I'll Sue Ya" is about Al's string of frivolous lawsuits. "I sued Delta Airlines, 'cause they sold me a ticket to New Jersey. I went there, and it SUCKED!"
    • When he comes to Ben Affleck, there's silence in the spot where normally he gives the reason for the lawsuit. Finally he just asks "do I even need a reason?"
  • The virus described in "Virus Alert" will have a myriad of negative things happen to you if you get infected, three such things being that it will "make your TV record Gigli", "invest your cash in stock in Euro Disney", and "make your iPod only play Jethro Tull".
  • "Don't Download This Song" mocks Digital Piracy Is Evil hysteria. Lars Ulrich of Metallica — who is often mocked for his hardline anti-piracy stance — is mentioned by name in the song, and the narration warns that you could "wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (who was jailed for possession of drug paraphernalia, not for digital piracy)."
  • One of the breakups in "Close But No Cigar" is for owning a copy of Joe Dirt.
  • "Trapped in the Drive Thru" has this in the beginning:
    Narrator: 7'o'clock in the evening, watching something stupid on TV...
    The Wife: Is this Behind the Music with Lynyrd Skynyrd?
• Talks Like a Simile: The narrator of "Close but No Cigar" uses quite a few crude yet descriptive similes when talking about his exes.
  "I loved her even more than Marlon Brando loved soufflé
  (...)
  "I was crazy like Manson about her; she got me all choked up like Mama Cass
  (...)
  "I was sweating like Nixon every time she was near; my heart was beating like a Buddy Rich solo."
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The recommended measures to rid yourself of the computer virus in "Virus Alert" seem extreme, but apparently It's the Only Way to Be Sure:
  Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down
  Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground
  Bury it completely; rocks and boulders should be fine
  Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online
• Too Dumb to Live: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" repeatedly hurts and inconveniences himself through sheer idiocy and lack of common sense, and at no point does he ever realize this, instead suing companies for not telling him things that should go without saying.
• Too Much Information:
  • The major component of the humor in "Confessions Pt. III" is the narrator being too honest about all the weird, unpleasant, and stupid things he's done without his girlfriend knowing.
    I haven't changed my underwear in 27 days!
  • The narrator of "Trapped In The Drive Thru" is similarly cut off from his ramblings about his plumber Paul when he starts talking about Paul's bladder problems and really bad case of toe fungus.
• Trademark Favorite Food: The singer of "White & Nerdy" puts mayonnaise on all of his sandwiches.
• Trekkie: The protagonist of "White and Nerdy" is a nerd, so of course he loves Star Trek. He speaks Klingon, gives the Vulcan salute, and agonizes over whether he prefers Kirk or Picard.
• Truck Driver's Gear Change: "Don't Download This Song" modulates from G to A in the last chorus.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Weird Al sings "Virus Alert" with an accent that can't seem to decide if it's American, French, or German.
• When She Smiles: In "Close but No Cigar," one of the narrator's ex-girlfriends, Janet, is described as having "a smile so incredibly radiant, you have to watch it through a piece of smoked glass."
• Wiki Vandal: He pretends to replace the entire Atlantic Records Wikipedia entry with the phrase "YOU SUCK!" in 72-point letters during the video of "White And Nerdy" (due to them refusing to allow Al to parody "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt). As mentioned above, the real Wikipedia entry for Atlantic Records had to be locked because of legions of ticked-off Al fans doing the same thing.
• Woman Scorned: Gender-Inverted; if you stand him up on a date, he'll sue ya!
• Would Hurt a Child: The cops featured in the music video for "Don't Download This Song" are perfectly willing to gun down a child for the crime of pirating music.
• Writer on Board: Zig-zagged with "Don't Download This Song." The song's message is unclear and self-contradictory no matter how it's taken (it was even only officially available as a free download at first) because Weird Al is himself of two minds about the topic.
• Yawn and Reach: A farmer tries to put his arm around a sheep’s shoulder while watching a movie by pretending to yawn in the video for "Virus Alert".
• You Need a Breath Mint: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" gets halitosis after eating a bag of kitty litter, and then sues the pet store that sold it to him.

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