History Trivia / WeirdAlYankovic

** Kinda averted with RedHotChiliPepper ("disapproval of god?"). While they did give Al permission to do "Bedrock Anthem," and are fans of Al's work, RHCP bassist Flea later stated that the band members weren't impressed with the parody.

** Chamillionaire told the Houston Chronicle: "It's one thing to go platinum. Where do you go from there? Then Weird Al calls."

* MoneyDearBoy: His stated reason for recording "Like a Surgeon." It's still his biggest chart-topper to date.

** And then there's "All About The Pentiums", which came out earlier and is labeled as one of the earliest nerdcore songs ever.

*** Which would be HilariousInHindsight for those who heard "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me", in which one of the lyrics implies that he doesn't care about unicorns. Doubly funny when you consider that he actually tweeted a fanmade music video that joins Friendship Is Magic and Polkarama - thereby making HIM the one "forwarding unicorns".

** A parody of Paul [=McCartney's=] ''Live and Let Die'', entitled ''[[http://www.al-oholicsanonymous.com/interviews/alicon.html Chicken Pot Pie]]'', was denied since it was about eating meat, as [=McCartney=] is a vegetarian.

** As mentioned above, Al got accordion lessons for his seventh birthday. However, he could've gone with guitar lessons instead. Imagine ''that''...

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While many of Weird Al's songs are still widely available, two are hard to find to own, outside of YouTube music videos - "Spy Hard", the theme to [[Film/SpyHard the movie of the same name]] and Polkamon, from the soundtrack to ''Anime/PokemonTheMovie2000''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Or, rather, ThoseTwoGuys. KeyAndPeele were the "gangstas" that mocked Weird Al.

** He also did a polka song about Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, for the soundtrack to [[Anime/Pokemon2000 the second movie]]. "[[EarWorm EEEEVERYBODY]] [[IncrediblyLamePun POLKAMON!]]"

*** There are fans who insist the show cast him as Pinkie's father. That would be awesome if it weren't for that little detail of her father ''actually being seen'' in a flashback as ''a stern, conservative Amish farmer.'' But hey, he seemed to let loose a bit at the end of said flashback, so anything can happen at this point.
**** They've just been spending all their lives living in an Amish paradise.
** He also did a polka song about Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.

* OneOfUs: The ''White And Nerdy'' music video alone proves this as only a real nerd would have known some of these things. Knowing about the StarWarsHolidaySpecial and why you would need to bootleg it is some serious nerd cred.

** Actually zig-zagged in White & Nerdy. While he does reference the StarWarsHolidaySpecial, he also claims in the song that he's a "champion at [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]]." While [[{{Munchkin}} some may disagree]], Dungeons & Dragons isn't supposed to be a competitive sport.

* Very juvenile and outdated joke from the 1980's:
->Q: What's the difference between MichaelJackson, Weird Al, and Lionel Richie?
->A: Michael Jackson beats it, Weird Al eats it, and Lionel Richie plays with it all night long.

** As mentioned above, Al got accordion lessons for his seventh birthday. However, he could've gone with guitar lessons instead. Imagine ''that''...

*** Which would be HilariousInHindsight for those who heard "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me", in which one of the lyrics implies that he doesn't care about unicorns.

*** There are fans who insist the show cast him as Pinkie's father. That would be awesome if it weren't for that little detail her father actually being seen in a flashback as a stern, conservative Amish farmer. But hey, he seemed to let loose a bit at the end of said flashback, so anything can happen at this point.

** He's a [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Bro]][[PeripheryDemographic ny]], if rumours are true.

* DevelopmentHell: A minor example with Off The Deep End: Al had the problems with Michael Jackson and Paul Mcartney detailed below (Though they were very respectful about it) and after his hiatus at the time wanted to come back strong with a parody of a major hit. Cue Smells Like Teen Sprit becoming huge and thus Smells Like Nirvana was born and the album got on the release track.
* MichaelJackson: The only artist to have more than one song parodied on a studio album, and one of very few whose songs have been so high that Al had to change the key for the parody.
** Also he actually delayed his album(which would later be "Off the Deep End") just so he could do a parody of a song off Micheal's new album(Dangerous).. only for Micheal to offer Al any song but Black or White(Which Al wanted to parody), because Micheal didin't want to lower the songs message.

** While "Buckingham Blues" sounds like a typical blues song, the opening lines and insistent references to the prince and princess as Chuck and Diane make it clear that it was originally conceived as a parody of John Cougar Mellencamp's "Jack and Diane". Al later used a parody of that song in his ''[[TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' cameo.