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* Also, in "It's All About the Pentiums", Al describes his personal computer as having a 40-inch-wide flatscreen monitor, 100 gigabytes of RAM, and a 32-bit operating system which is connected to the internet via a T1 line. While 40 inch monitors did exist and in fact became common a few years later as Platform/HighDefinition became standard, 32-bit x86 processors (Pentiums) cannot address more than 64 gigabytes of RAM, and no commercial 32-bit operating system as of 1999 permitted addressing more than 4. However, some versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 (and now Windows 8) can address 192 gigabytes of RAM thus making the lyrics of his song a possibility. As of now, most commercial motherboards can only support between 32-64 gigabytes of RAM. A dedicated RAM disk, on the other hand...
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* Also, in "It's All About the Pentiums", Al describes his personal computer as having a 40-inch-wide flatscreen monitor, 100 gigabytes of RAM, and a 32-bit operating system which is connected to the internet via a T1 line. While 40 inch monitors did exist and in fact became common a few years later as Platform/HighDefinition MediaNotes/HighDefinition became standard, 32-bit x86 processors (Pentiums) cannot address more than 64 gigabytes of RAM, and no commercial 32-bit operating system as of 1999 permitted addressing more than 4. However, some versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 (and now Windows 8) can address 192 gigabytes of RAM thus making the lyrics of his song a possibility. As of now, most commercial motherboards can only support between 32-64 gigabytes of RAM. A dedicated RAM disk, on the other hand...
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* Also, in "It's All About the Pentiums", Al describes his personal computer as having a 40-inch-wide flatscreen monitor, 100 gigabytes of RAM, and a 32-bit operating system which is connected to the internet via a T1 line. While 40 inch monitors did exist and in fact became common a few years later as UsefulNotes/HighDefinition became standard, 32-bit x86 processors (Pentiums) cannot address more than 64 gigabytes of RAM, and no commercial 32-bit operating system as of 1999 permitted addressing more than 4. However, some versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 (and now Windows 8) can address 192 gigabytes of RAM thus making the lyrics of his song a possibility. As of now, most commercial motherboards can only support between 32-64 gigabytes of RAM. A dedicated RAM disk, on the other hand...
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* Also, in "It's All About the Pentiums", Al describes his personal computer as having a 40-inch-wide flatscreen monitor, 100 gigabytes of RAM, and a 32-bit operating system which is connected to the internet via a T1 line. While 40 inch monitors did exist and in fact became common a few years later as UsefulNotes/HighDefinition Platform/HighDefinition became standard, 32-bit x86 processors (Pentiums) cannot address more than 64 gigabytes of RAM, and no commercial 32-bit operating system as of 1999 permitted addressing more than 4. However, some versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 (and now Windows 8) can address 192 gigabytes of RAM thus making the lyrics of his song a possibility. As of now, most commercial motherboards can only support between 32-64 gigabytes of RAM. A dedicated RAM disk, on the other hand...
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* In the video to the ''Film/{{UHF}}'' theme, Al is seen dressed as David Byrne from the Music/TalkingHeads' video for "Once in a Lifetime", clean-shaven with horn-rimmed glasses. A decade later, Al would shave his mustache and get laser eye surgery, thereby not needing glasses anymore.
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* Al's parody of "Achy Breaky Heart," "Achy Breaky Song" has Yankovic listing several infamous musicians and bands whose music he'd still rather hear than Billy Ray Cyrus' trademark hit. Since it appeared on his 1994 album ''Alapalooza'' some of the acts he insults, including the Bee Gees and ABBA, have become much more favorably viewed by critics and the general public.
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* Al's parody of "Achy Breaky Heart," Heart", "Achy Breaky Song" has Yankovic listing several infamous musicians and bands whose music he'd still rather hear than Billy Ray Cyrus' Music/BillyRayCyrus' trademark hit. Since it appeared on his 1994 album ''Alapalooza'' some of the acts he insults, including the Bee Gees Music/TheBeeGees and ABBA, Music/{{ABBA}}, have become much more favorably viewed by critics and the general public.
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** Even better, Al later parodied Billy Ray's daughter Music/MileyCyrus's song "Party in the USA" as "Party in the CIA".
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* 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/TheRoom''.
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* In the music video for “Amish Paradise,” Al is sent sprawling when “a "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/TheRoom''.''Film/{{The Room|2003}}''.
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* "Theme from Rocky XIII" depicted the Champ taking ownership of the neighborhood deli... this was before ''Film/RockyBalboa'', wherein he purchased a restaurant.
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* In 1985's "Yoda", we have "I'll be playin' [[Franchise/StarWars this part]] till I'm old and gray, Because the long-term contract I had to sign, Says I'll be makin' these movies till the end of time With my Yoda!" [[Film/TheForceAwakens Thirty years]] [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/04/16/33D5695700000578-3573233-The_man_of_mystery_Mark_Hamill_told_The_Sun_he_was_thrilled_to_d-m-45_1462374225068.jpg later...]] (With the bonus that [[spoiler: Hamill actually has a scene with Yoda's force-ghost.]])
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* In 1985's "Yoda", we have "I'll be playin' [[Franchise/StarWars this part]] till I'm old and gray, Because the long-term contract I had to sign, Says I'll be makin' these movies till the end of time With my Yoda!" [[Film/TheForceAwakens Thirty years]] [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/04/16/33D5695700000578-3573233-The_man_of_mystery_Mark_Hamill_told_The_Sun_he_was_thrilled_to_d-m-45_1462374225068.jpg later...]] (With the bonus that [[spoiler: Hamill [[spoiler:Hamill actually has a scene with Yoda's force-ghost.]])
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* "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead", off his first album, contains the lyrics "I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack than all the bean sprouts in Japan!" and "Don't want no part of that vegetarian scene." Al has since become a vegetarian.
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* "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead", off his first album, contains the lyrics "I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack than all the bean sprouts in Japan!" and "Don't want no part of that vegetarian scene." Al has since become ended up becoming a vegetarian.vegetarian himself in 1992.
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* "Theme from Rocky XIII" depicted the Champ taking ownership of the neighborhood deli...this was before ''Film/RockyBalboa'', wherein he purchased a restaurant.
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* In 1985's "Yoda", we have "I'll be playin' [[Franchise/StarWars this part]] till I'm old and gray, Because the long-term contract I had to sign, Says I'll be makin' these movies till the end of time With my Yoda!" [[Film/TheForceAwakens Thirty years]] [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/04/16/33D5695700000578-3573233-The_man_of_mystery_Mark_Hamill_told_The_Sun_he_was_thrilled_to_d-m-45_1462374225068.jpg later....later...]] (With the bonus that [[spoiler: Hamill actually has a scene with Yoda's force-ghost.]])
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--->And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandary, full of loathing and self-doubt, and wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence; at least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this crazy old mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place... [[Series/BreakingBad Called Albuquerque!]].
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--->And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandary, full of loathing and self-doubt, and wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence; at least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this crazy old mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place... [[Series/BreakingBad Called called Albuquerque!]].
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* His song "Dog Eat Dog," a style parody of Talking Heads about the absolute joy of working in an office, ''could'' be seen as a riff on ''Film/OfficeSpace'' (it even includes the lyrics "Sometimes I tell myself/This is not my beautiful stapler!")....if it weren't for the fact that the song was part of his 1986 album ''Polka Party!''—five years before Creator/MikeJudge even created the character of Milton Waddams in his animated short films.
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* His song "Dog Eat Dog," a style parody of Talking Heads about the absolute joy of working in an office, ''could'' be seen as a riff on ''Film/OfficeSpace'' (it even includes the lyrics "Sometimes I tell myself/This is not my beautiful stapler!")....stapler!")... if it weren't for the fact that the song was part of his 1986 album ''Polka Party!''—five years before Creator/MikeJudge even created the character of Milton Waddams in his animated short films.
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* Al's debut album has a song called "Buckingham Blues" that "laments" the lives of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, mentioning that "Chuckie's still trying to figure out what his job's supposed to be". Prince Charles finally ascended to the British throne after his mother's death in 2022... over four decades after "Buckingham Blues", and over eight years after Al's last commercially released album. Al's album-recording career spanned over 30 years and it was still shorter than Chuckie's wait.
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* The fact that Al released the song and music video, which accurately replicated the original Art Fleming-hosted version, ''14 weeks'' before the Alex Trebek version debuted in syndication.
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* More than a few comparisons have been made between his 1988 parody "I think I'm a Clone Now" and the plot of the Franchise/SpiderMan [[Comicbook/TheCloneSaga Clone Saga]] that ran from 1994 to 1996. Specifically, the protagonist is "part of some geneticist's plan" and wonders whether he is the clone, with the latter plot point being a huge chunk of Clone Saga story arc.
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* More than a few comparisons have been made between his 1988 parody "I think I'm a Clone Now" and the plot of the Franchise/SpiderMan ComicBook/SpiderMan [[Comicbook/TheCloneSaga Clone Saga]] that ran from 1994 to 1996. Specifically, the protagonist is "part of some geneticist's plan" and wonders whether he is the clone, with the latter plot point being a huge chunk of Clone Saga story arc.
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* In "Ode to a Superhero," Al pokes fun at the "''Power Rangers'' mask" worn by the Green Goblin in the first ''Film/SpiderMan'', claiming Creator/WillemDafoe is "scarier without it on." In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Norman Osborn destroys the mask, and Dafoe gives a terrifying performance as Green Goblin without it.
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* In "Ode to a Superhero," Al pokes fun at the "''Power Rangers'' mask" worn by the Green Goblin in the first ''Film/SpiderMan'', ''Film/SpiderMan1'', claiming Creator/WillemDafoe is "scarier without it on." In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Norman Osborn destroys the mask, and Dafoe gives a terrifying performance as Green Goblin without it.
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* 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 Osborn destroys the mask, and Dafoe gives a terrifying performance as Green Goblin without it.
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* In "Ode to a Superhero," Al pokes fun at the "''Power Rangers'' mask" warn worn by the Green Goblin in the first ''Film/SpiderMan'', claiming Creator/WillemDafoe is "scarier without it on." In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Norman Osborn destroys the mask, and Dafoe gives a terrifying performance as Green Goblin without it.
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** Same goes for "Couch Potato": Al claims three times that his cable (refering to his cable TV at the time) "has C-SPAN, TV Land and HBO, [The Travel Channel, Discovery/The Disney Channel and A&E/[[Creator/{{Syfy}} The Sci-Fi Channel]] and AMC/[every two channels, etc.]] and Lifetime". Of course, cable and satellite wouldn't fly by in the face of their rising costs and their subscriptions being dropped by cord-cutters in favor of Internet streaming channel services today.
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** Same goes for "Couch Potato": Al claims three times that his cable (refering to his cable TV at the time) "has C-SPAN, TV Land and HBO, [The Travel Channel, Discovery/The Disney Channel and A&E/[[Creator/{{Syfy}} The Sci-Fi Channel]] and AMC/[every two channels, etc.]] and Lifetime". Of course, cable and satellite those lyrics wouldn't fly by in the face of their the rising costs of cable and satellite and their subscriptions being dropped by cord-cutters in favor of Internet streaming channel services today.
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* "Cable TV" is a song about a guy getting a visit from the cable company and offering him cable TV with "eighty-three channels of ecstasy". Come the TurnOfTheMillennium up to TheNewTwenties, however, and basic cable was replaced with digital cable (with cable converter boxes), before it became a la carte pay TV, with cable TV subscription getting dropped in favor of streaming channel services, and over 1,000 channels to choose from.
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* "Cable TV" is a song about a guy getting a visit from the cable company and offering him cable TV with "eighty-three channels of ecstasy". Come the TurnOfTheMillennium up to TheNewTwenties, however, and basic cable was replaced with digital cable (with cable converter boxes), before it became a la carte pay TV, with cable TV subscription getting dropped in favor of Internet streaming channel services, and over 1,000 channels to choose from.from.
** Same goes for "Couch Potato": Al claims three times that his cable (refering to his cable TV at the time) "has C-SPAN, TV Land and HBO, [The Travel Channel, Discovery/The Disney Channel and A&E/[[Creator/{{Syfy}} The Sci-Fi Channel]] and AMC/[every two channels, etc.]] and Lifetime". Of course, cable and satellite wouldn't fly by in the face of their rising costs and their subscriptions being dropped by cord-cutters in favor of Internet streaming channel services today.
** Same goes for "Couch Potato": Al claims three times that his cable (refering to his cable TV at the time) "has C-SPAN, TV Land and HBO, [The Travel Channel, Discovery/The Disney Channel and A&E/[[Creator/{{Syfy}} The Sci-Fi Channel]] and AMC/[every two channels, etc.]] and Lifetime". Of course, cable and satellite wouldn't fly by in the face of their rising costs and their subscriptions being dropped by cord-cutters in favor of Internet streaming channel services today.
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* From "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Polkamon]]". [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Oh, if only he knew...]]
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* The line "Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan," from ''Eat It'' became this when the song was referenced in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders.''
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** Not only that, but the ''very first act'' he mentions is Donny and Marie Osmond. Come 2006, and Donny Osmond makes a scene-stealing cameo in Al's "White and Nerdy" video!
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* Al's parody of "Achy Breaky Heart," "Achy Breaky Song" has Yankovic listing several infamous musicians and bands whose music he'd still rather hear than Billy Ray Cyrus' trademark hit. Since it appeared on his 1994 album ''Alapalooza'' some of the acts he insults, including the Bee Gees and ABBA, have become much more favorably viewed by critics and the general public.
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* In an "Ask Al" article originally printed in April 1994 and available for reading on his website, Al admits that his pet peeves are "war, plague, famine & pestilence." Judging by the cover of his 2011 album "Alpocalypse", he's mended some broken bridges since then.
* Writing a rap song about the Milton Bradley board game Twister? Weird Al did it in 1988. Then Hasbro did it for real in 2011, complete with a website where you can download the single.
* Writing a rap song about the Milton Bradley board game Twister? Weird Al did it in 1988. Then Hasbro did it for real in 2011, complete with a website where you can download the single.
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* His early, only-performed-live track "Orgy on My Own," is more or less the same idea (albeit only slightly less graphic) as Music/NinjaSexParty's "Orgy for One."
* "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead", off his first album, contains the lyrics "I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack than all the bean sprouts in Japan!" and "Don't want no part of that vegetarian scene." Al has since become a vegetarian.
* The line "Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan," from ''Eat It'' became this when the song was referenced in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders.''
* He once wrote a song called "I Lost on Jeopardy". Later, he went on ''Rock & Roll Series/{{Jeopardy}}''...[[SelfFulfillingProphecy and lost]].
* The fact that Al released the song and music video, which accurately replicated the original Art Fleming-hosted version, ''14 weeks'' before the Alex Trebek version debuted in syndication.
* "Theme from Rocky XIII" depicted the Champ taking ownership of the neighborhood deli...this was before ''Film/RockyBalboa'', wherein he purchased a restaurant.
* Also, in "It's All About the Pentiums", Al describes his personal computer as having a 40-inch-wide flatscreen monitor, 100 gigabytes of RAM, and a 32-bit operating system which is connected to the internet via a T1 line. While 40 inch monitors did exist and in fact became common a few years later as UsefulNotes/HighDefinition became standard, 32-bit x86 processors (Pentiums) cannot address more than 64 gigabytes of RAM, and no commercial 32-bit operating system as of 1999 permitted addressing more than 4. However, some versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 (and now Windows 8) can address 192 gigabytes of RAM thus making the lyrics of his song a possibility. As of now, most commercial motherboards can only support between 32-64 gigabytes of RAM. A dedicated RAM disk, on the other hand...
** In the same song, Al says, "You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette." Floppy disks were actually superseded through the years up from 1999 by data storage methods such as USB flash drives, which could now contain up to a terabyte; these drives were in their stages of infancy in 1999 at the time that the song was released, and did not go into the first commercial product until over a year later.
** Also, not withstanding, that with the advance of this technology, it has since become common practice for one to back up their entire hard drive so they don't lose any of their files in the event of their computer becoming unusable.
* "The Saga Begins" includes the line "He's a ghost" to describe Qui-Gon Jinn's death in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', a fair assumption to make even though Qui-Gon was never shown as a Force Ghost in the film, but one that becomes especially prescient after ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' revealed that Qui-Gon was the first to discover how to become a force ghost and posthumously taught the technique to Obi-Wan and Yoda while they were in exile.
** "The Saga Begins" also speculates that Anakin is "probably gonna marry [Padme] some day." Guess what happens in [[Film/AttackOfTheClones the next film]]?
** When Radio Disney objected to "The Saga Begins" [[{{Bowdlerise}} and its lyric "hitting on the queen"]], Al had to rerecord the song and change it to "Do you see [Anakin] ''talking to'' the queen?" to fit Radio Disney's desires. With Disney buying out the [=LucasArts=] ''Star Wars'' franchise in 2013, ''The Phantom Menace'' is now becoming a part of Disney.
* At one time in the music video for "White & Nerdy", one fictional ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' game asks a question on what page in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the next (actually last) book]] Literature/HarryPotter [[TheHeroDies would die]] ([[spoiler:Harry gets better, though]]).
* The AnimatedMusicVideo for "Close But No Cigar" depicts the cat sucking bathwater from Jillian's bathtub. 13 years later, this would become a real (and notable) thing with Belle Delphine's "Gamer Girl Bath Water" and cases of some people drinking it.
* The video for "Ringtone", produced by the minds behind ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernews}}'', was released in August 2009. During the list of people who hate the ringtone, once the lyrics get to "all the Pakistanis", Osama bin Laden can be seen hiding behind them. The existence of the Abbottabad compound wouldn't be revealed to the American public until almost two years later.
* In 1985's "Yoda", we have "I'll be playin' [[Franchise/StarWars this part]] till I'm old and gray, Because the long-term contract I had to sign, Says I'll be makin' these movies till the end of time With my Yoda!" [[Film/TheForceAwakens Thirty years]] [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/04/16/33D5695700000578-3573233-The_man_of_mystery_Mark_Hamill_told_The_Sun_he_was_thrilled_to_d-m-45_1462374225068.jpg later....]] (With the bonus that [[spoiler: Hamill actually has a scene with Yoda's force-ghost.]])
* Doubling as [[HeartwarmingInHindsight heartwarming]], during his 1999 ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' episode there was a moment where he jokes about his loneliness and that some relatives of his are questioning why he was still single at his age (he turned 40 that year) and due to him being in the music business, that he had to be gay. Less than two years after the episode aired, Al married his wife [[HappilyMarried (and remains so to this day)]] and became a father.
* "UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}":
--->And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandary, full of loathing and self-doubt, and wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence; at least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this crazy old mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place... [[Series/BreakingBad Called Albuquerque!]].
* "White and Nerdy" has a line that mentions social networking site Website/MySpace, which was overtaken by Facebook in terms of popularity just a few short years later. This works, however, as it makes the protagonist's pride in his [=MySpace=] page come off as even nerdier.
* The cover of ''Alpocalypse'' (released in 2011) features the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, of which one is Al riding a horse that has his signature hairstyle for a mane. Cue February 2014, when Al ''voices'' a horse that has his signature hairstyle for a mane in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** One of the songs from that album, "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me", had Al ranting about unwanted things being sent to his email address. In the same vein, one of those happened to be unicorns, one of the pony races in [=FiM=].
** Also, his "Whatever You Like" music video has a parody of Uncle Ben's Rice with "Win a pony" on the box. It's even funnier after his appearance on the show.
* Speaking of "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me", one of the lyrics states "[[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]] never fought the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietcong.]]" On what would have been Mr. Rogers's 90th birthday, Adi Shankar posted [[https://youtu.be/ab0D0gKlsdA this video]] to Website/YouTube.
* From "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Polkamon]]". [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Oh, if only he knew...]]
-->"Hold on a minute, there's still at least one hundred twenty-seven more!"
* "Tacky" mentions about live-tweeting a funeral and taking selfies with the deceased. Cue ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', with one character Cassie Cage having a [[FinishingMove fatality]] involving taking a selfie with her dead opponent and uploading the pic on social media (and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Sideshow Bob]] would do the same thing with Bart's corpse in the [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXVI Treehouse of Horror XXVI]] segment "Wanted: Dead, then Alive").
* The ''Alapalooza'' album predates the series ''{{Series/Grimm}}'' by eighteen years and the character Teresa "Trubel" Rubel by twenty-one, although you might think the character was referenced in the song "Young, Dumb, and Ugly" due to the following lines:
-->''We got two-day stubble. Our name spells "Trouble".''\\
''T-R-U-B-E-L.''
* His song "Dog Eat Dog," a style parody of Talking Heads about the absolute joy of working in an office, ''could'' be seen as a riff on ''Film/OfficeSpace'' (it even includes the lyrics "Sometimes I tell myself/This is not my beautiful stapler!")....if it weren't for the fact that the song was part of his 1986 album ''Polka Party!''—five years before Creator/MikeJudge even created the character of Milton Waddams in his animated short films.
* One of the songs from his ''Even Worse'' album was ''Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White''. In 1994, he'd make a cameo with Vanna in the third ''Naked Gun'' film.
* Coolio threw a fit when a miscommunication led to Al going through with his parody of "Gangsta's Paradise". He then allowed it to be used in the trailer for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', resulting in a lot of jokes about how he apparently somehow thinks this is a more dignified use of the song than letting Weird Al have it.
* More than a few comparisons have been made between his 1988 parody "I think I'm a Clone Now" and the plot of the Franchise/SpiderMan [[Comicbook/TheCloneSaga Clone Saga]] that ran from 1994 to 1996. Specifically, the protagonist is "part of some geneticist's plan" and wonders whether he is the clone, with the latter plot point being a huge chunk of Clone Saga story arc.
* At the very end of "Don't Download This Song," Al gently breaks his usual aversion to profanity with a barely audible "Ya cheap bastard!" Twelve years later is "The Theatre/{{Hamilton}} Polka," which, due to the circumstances of the original songs, opens with him ''shouting'' the word "bastard" (though in that case, it's the literal meaning).
* 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/TheRoom''.
* In "One More Minute," Al's detailed descriptions of how much he WouldRatherSuffer than stay with his ex bring to mind [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the tirades of a certain nerd]].
* 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 Osborn destroys the mask, and Dafoe gives a terrifying performance as Green Goblin without it.
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* "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead", off his first album, contains the lyrics "I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack than all the bean sprouts in Japan!" and "Don't want no part of that vegetarian scene." Al has since become a vegetarian.
* The line "Don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan," from ''Eat It'' became this when the song was referenced in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders.''
* He once wrote a song called "I Lost on Jeopardy". Later, he went on ''Rock & Roll Series/{{Jeopardy}}''...[[SelfFulfillingProphecy and lost]].
* The fact that Al released the song and music video, which accurately replicated the original Art Fleming-hosted version, ''14 weeks'' before the Alex Trebek version debuted in syndication.
* "Theme from Rocky XIII" depicted the Champ taking ownership of the neighborhood deli...this was before ''Film/RockyBalboa'', wherein he purchased a restaurant.
* Also, in "It's All About the Pentiums", Al describes his personal computer as having a 40-inch-wide flatscreen monitor, 100 gigabytes of RAM, and a 32-bit operating system which is connected to the internet via a T1 line. While 40 inch monitors did exist and in fact became common a few years later as UsefulNotes/HighDefinition became standard, 32-bit x86 processors (Pentiums) cannot address more than 64 gigabytes of RAM, and no commercial 32-bit operating system as of 1999 permitted addressing more than 4. However, some versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 (and now Windows 8) can address 192 gigabytes of RAM thus making the lyrics of his song a possibility. As of now, most commercial motherboards can only support between 32-64 gigabytes of RAM. A dedicated RAM disk, on the other hand...
** In the same song, Al says, "You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette." Floppy disks were actually superseded through the years up from 1999 by data storage methods such as USB flash drives, which could now contain up to a terabyte; these drives were in their stages of infancy in 1999 at the time that the song was released, and did not go into the first commercial product until over a year later.
** Also, not withstanding, that with the advance of this technology, it has since become common practice for one to back up their entire hard drive so they don't lose any of their files in the event of their computer becoming unusable.
* "The Saga Begins" includes the line "He's a ghost" to describe Qui-Gon Jinn's death in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', a fair assumption to make even though Qui-Gon was never shown as a Force Ghost in the film, but one that becomes especially prescient after ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' revealed that Qui-Gon was the first to discover how to become a force ghost and posthumously taught the technique to Obi-Wan and Yoda while they were in exile.
** "The Saga Begins" also speculates that Anakin is "probably gonna marry [Padme] some day." Guess what happens in [[Film/AttackOfTheClones the next film]]?
** When Radio Disney objected to "The Saga Begins" [[{{Bowdlerise}} and its lyric "hitting on the queen"]], Al had to rerecord the song and change it to "Do you see [Anakin] ''talking to'' the queen?" to fit Radio Disney's desires. With Disney buying out the [=LucasArts=] ''Star Wars'' franchise in 2013, ''The Phantom Menace'' is now becoming a part of Disney.
* At one time in the music video for "White & Nerdy", one fictional ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' game asks a question on what page in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the next (actually last) book]] Literature/HarryPotter [[TheHeroDies would die]] ([[spoiler:Harry gets better, though]]).
* The AnimatedMusicVideo for "Close But No Cigar" depicts the cat sucking bathwater from Jillian's bathtub. 13 years later, this would become a real (and notable) thing with Belle Delphine's "Gamer Girl Bath Water" and cases of some people drinking it.
* The video for "Ringtone", produced by the minds behind ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernews}}'', was released in August 2009. During the list of people who hate the ringtone, once the lyrics get to "all the Pakistanis", Osama bin Laden can be seen hiding behind them. The existence of the Abbottabad compound wouldn't be revealed to the American public until almost two years later.
* In 1985's "Yoda", we have "I'll be playin' [[Franchise/StarWars this part]] till I'm old and gray, Because the long-term contract I had to sign, Says I'll be makin' these movies till the end of time With my Yoda!" [[Film/TheForceAwakens Thirty years]] [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/04/16/33D5695700000578-3573233-The_man_of_mystery_Mark_Hamill_told_The_Sun_he_was_thrilled_to_d-m-45_1462374225068.jpg later....]] (With the bonus that [[spoiler: Hamill actually has a scene with Yoda's force-ghost.]])
* Doubling as [[HeartwarmingInHindsight heartwarming]], during his 1999 ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' episode there was a moment where he jokes about his loneliness and that some relatives of his are questioning why he was still single at his age (he turned 40 that year) and due to him being in the music business, that he had to be gay. Less than two years after the episode aired, Al married his wife [[HappilyMarried (and remains so to this day)]] and became a father.
* "UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}":
--->And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandary, full of loathing and self-doubt, and wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence; at least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this crazy old mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place... [[Series/BreakingBad Called Albuquerque!]].
* "White and Nerdy" has a line that mentions social networking site Website/MySpace, which was overtaken by Facebook in terms of popularity just a few short years later. This works, however, as it makes the protagonist's pride in his [=MySpace=] page come off as even nerdier.
* The cover of ''Alpocalypse'' (released in 2011) features the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, of which one is Al riding a horse that has his signature hairstyle for a mane. Cue February 2014, when Al ''voices'' a horse that has his signature hairstyle for a mane in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** One of the songs from that album, "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me", had Al ranting about unwanted things being sent to his email address. In the same vein, one of those happened to be unicorns, one of the pony races in [=FiM=].
** Also, his "Whatever You Like" music video has a parody of Uncle Ben's Rice with "Win a pony" on the box. It's even funnier after his appearance on the show.
* Speaking of "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me", one of the lyrics states "[[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]] never fought the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietcong.]]" On what would have been Mr. Rogers's 90th birthday, Adi Shankar posted [[https://youtu.be/ab0D0gKlsdA this video]] to Website/YouTube.
* From "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Polkamon]]". [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Oh, if only he knew...]]
-->"Hold on a minute, there's still at least one hundred twenty-seven more!"
* "Tacky" mentions about live-tweeting a funeral and taking selfies with the deceased. Cue ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', with one character Cassie Cage having a [[FinishingMove fatality]] involving taking a selfie with her dead opponent and uploading the pic on social media (and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Sideshow Bob]] would do the same thing with Bart's corpse in the [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXVI Treehouse of Horror XXVI]] segment "Wanted: Dead, then Alive").
* The ''Alapalooza'' album predates the series ''{{Series/Grimm}}'' by eighteen years and the character Teresa "Trubel" Rubel by twenty-one, although you might think the character was referenced in the song "Young, Dumb, and Ugly" due to the following lines:
-->''We got two-day stubble. Our name spells "Trouble".''\\
''T-R-U-B-E-L.''
* His song "Dog Eat Dog," a style parody of Talking Heads about the absolute joy of working in an office, ''could'' be seen as a riff on ''Film/OfficeSpace'' (it even includes the lyrics "Sometimes I tell myself/This is not my beautiful stapler!")....if it weren't for the fact that the song was part of his 1986 album ''Polka Party!''—five years before Creator/MikeJudge even created the character of Milton Waddams in his animated short films.
* One of the songs from his ''Even Worse'' album was ''Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White''. In 1994, he'd make a cameo with Vanna in the third ''Naked Gun'' film.
* Coolio threw a fit when a miscommunication led to Al going through with his parody of "Gangsta's Paradise". He then allowed it to be used in the trailer for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', resulting in a lot of jokes about how he apparently somehow thinks this is a more dignified use of the song than letting Weird Al have it.
* More than a few comparisons have been made between his 1988 parody "I think I'm a Clone Now" and the plot of the Franchise/SpiderMan [[Comicbook/TheCloneSaga Clone Saga]] that ran from 1994 to 1996. Specifically, the protagonist is "part of some geneticist's plan" and wonders whether he is the clone, with the latter plot point being a huge chunk of Clone Saga story arc.
* At the very end of "Don't Download This Song," Al gently breaks his usual aversion to profanity with a barely audible "Ya cheap bastard!" Twelve years later is "The Theatre/{{Hamilton}} Polka," which, due to the circumstances of the original songs, opens with him ''shouting'' the word "bastard" (though in that case, it's the literal meaning).
* 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/TheRoom''.
* In "One More Minute," Al's detailed descriptions of how much he WouldRatherSuffer than stay with his ex bring to mind [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the tirades of a certain nerd]].
* 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 Osborn destroys the mask, and Dafoe gives a terrifying performance as Green Goblin without it.
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