History YMMV / MandatoryFun

* ValuesDissonance: "Word Crimes" features the line "'cause you write like a spastic" in reference to the subject's poor grammar. While "spastic" was seen as an innocuous way of calling someone erratic and/or unintelligent in the US, [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch the word is considered an ableist slur in the UK]]. Al issued an apology once he was informed about this by British audiences, later voicing his regret over the line's inclusion. Subsequently on the Mandatory World Tour, Al dropped the line when performing the song in Europe and Australia.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The gag about not having bills small enough to use in a vending machine in "First World Problems" dates the song to the era before they started accepting debit and credit cards.

* ValuesDissonance: "Word Crimes" features the line "'cause you write like a spastic" in reference to the subject's poor grammar. While "spastic" was seen as an innocuous way of calling someone erratic and/or unintelligent in the US, [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch it's considered an ableist slur in the UK]]; Al issued an apology once he was informed about this by British audiences, later voicing his regret over the line's inclusion. Subsequently on the Mandatory World Tour, Al dropped the line when performing the song in Europe and Australia.

* ValuesDissonance: "Word Crimes" features the line "'cause you write like a spastic" in reference to the subject's poor grammar. While "spastic" was seen as an innocuous way of calling someone erratic and/or unintelligent in the US, [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch it's considered an ableist slur in the UK]]; Al issued an apology once he was informed about this by British audiences, later voicing his regret over the line's inclusion. Subsequently on the Mandatory World Tour, Al dropped the line when performing the song in Europe and Australia. Also, correcting someone's grammar is increasingly seen as pedantic and pretentious outside of school or work.

* ValuesDissonance: "Word Crimes" features the line "'cause you write like a spastic" in reference to the subject's poor grammar. While "spastic" was seen as an innocuous way of calling someone erratic and/or unintelligent in the US, [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch it's considered an ableist slur in the UK]]; Al issued an apology once he was informed about this by British audiences, later voicing his regret over the line's inclusion. Subsequently on the Mandatory World Tour, Al dropped the line when performing the song in Europe and Australia. Also, correcting someone's grammar is increasingly seen as pedantic and pretentious.

* ValuesDissonance: "Word Crimes" features the line "'cause you write like a spastic" in reference to the subject's poor grammar. While "spastic" was seen as an innocuous way of calling someone erratic and/or unintelligent in the US, [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch it's considered an ableist slur in the UK]]; Al issued an apology once he was informed about this by British audiences, later voicing his regret over the line's inclusion. Subsequently on the Mandatory World Tour, Al dropped the line when performing the song in Europe and Australia.

* ValuesDissonance: "Word Crimes" features the line "'cause you write like a spastic" in reference to the subject's poor grammar. While "spastic" was seen as an innocuous way of calling someone erratic and/or unintelligent in the US, it's considered an ableist slur in the UK; Al issued an apology once he was informed about this by British audiences, later voicing his regret over the line's inclusion.

* AcceptableHardLuckTargets: In "Word Crimes", Al calls you a "mouth breather" for committing all the horrible word crimes he points out in the song.
* AcceptableTargets: [[ConspiracyTheorist Conspiracy theorists]] in "Foil".

Albums: ''[[YMMV/WeirdAlYankovicAlbum "Weird Al" Yankovic (1983)]]'' | ''YMMV/WeirdAlYankovicIn3D'' | ''YMMV/DareToBeStupid'' | ''YMMV/PolkaParty'' | ''YMMV/EvenWorse'' | ''YMMV/UHFOriginalMotionPictureSoundtrackAndOtherStuff'' | ''YMMV/OffTheDeepEnd'' | ''YMMV/{{Alapalooza}}'' | '''''YMMV/BadHairDay''''' | ''YMMV/RunningWithScissors'' | ''YMMV/PoodleHat'' | ''YMMV/StraightOuttaLynwood'' | ''YMMV/{{Alpocalypse}}'' | '''''Mandatory Fun'''''\\

* UnfortunateImplications:
** "Word Crimes" [[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13521 has]] [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/23/the-problem-with-weird-al-s-word-crimes-video.html been]] [[http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/weird-als-word-crimes-video criticized]] by linguists and educators for promoting prescriptivism and making fun of people with learning disabilities.
** "Word Crimes" also caused a [[http://nationalpost.com/entertainment/music/weird-al-apologizes-for-offending-with-spastic-lyric-in-word-crimes-parody minor controversy]] due to Al's usage of the term "spastic". Once informed that it's a derogatory term [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage in the United Kingdom]] for people with cerebral palsy, considered the British equivalent of the r-word, he apologized on his Twitter.

* UnfortunateImplications: "Word Crimes" caused a [[http://nationalpost.com/entertainment/music/weird-al-apologizes-for-offending-with-spastic-lyric-in-word-crimes-parody minor controversy]] due to Al's usage of the term "spastic". Once informed that it's a derogatory term [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage in the United Kingdom]] for people with cerebral palsy, considered the British equivalent of the r-word, he apologized on his Twitter.