YMMV / Dr. Demento

• Covered Up: "The Scotsman" was first written and recorded by Mike Cross in 1976, but it's the a capella version that Bryan Bowers did a few years later that became one of the show's biggest hits. Dr. Demento has played a few other songs by Cross from time to time, though.
• Genius Bonus: Those strange "Number 3" and "Number 2" intros he uses in his countdowns are actually excerpts from Barstow by Harry Partch
• Signature Scene: "Weird Al" Yankovic debuting "Another One Rides the Bus" in a live performance on the September 14, 1980 local Los Angeles edition of the show. Not only was that particular performance issued as Yankovic's breakthrough single, the attention also gave a Colbert Bump to Dr. Demento himself, and it was the first time that Al worked with his longtime collaborator Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz (who'd also had some of his homemade recordings played on the show and was also invited on as a guest that evening).
• Song Association: Would anybody know "Pico and Sepulveda" if it weren't the theme song to his show? Even its appearance in Forbidden Zone is presumably the result of the filmmakers knowing it from this show.
• Values Dissonance: Some of the material based on stereotypical humor that he played in the past hasn't aged all that well, and in some cases he's quietly stopped playing it. An interesting case is "Big Bruce" by Steve Greenberg (a minor 1969 novelty hit), a spoof of Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" about a Camp Gay hairdresser, which was hugely popular on the show in The '70s (getting to #4 on the Funny 25 for 1976), but after appearing on the Funny 5 for November 18, 1979, he didn't play it again for almost three decades. It only resurfaced in 2006 (and has only gotten a handful of spins since).

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