Line #46 Music/Alapalooza


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Film/JurassicPark is frightening in the dark.]]
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4	''Alapalooza'' is the eighth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, which was released in 1993 through Scotti Bros. Records.
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6	!!Tracklist:
7	# "Jurassic Park"[[note]]Parody of Creator/RichardHarris' "[=MacArthur=] Park"[[/note]]
8	# "Young, Dumb & Ugly"
9	# "Bedrock Anthem"[[note]]Parody of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' "Under The Bridge" and "Give It Away"; also featured on ''Film/TheFlintstones'' movie soundtrack.[[/note]]
10	# "Frank's 2000[=''=] TV"
11	# "Achy Breaky Song"[[note]]Parody of Music/BillyRayCyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart", originally performed by the Marcy Brothers as "Don't Tell My Heart"[[/note]]
12	# "Traffic Jam"
13	# "Talk Soup"
14	# "Livin' In The Fridge"[[note]]Parody of Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Livin' On The Edge"[[/note]]
15	# "She Never Told Me She Was A Mime"
16	# "Harvey The Wonder Hamster"
17	# "Waffle King"
18	# "Bohemian Polka"[[note]]CoverVersion of [[Music/ANightAtTheOpera "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] by Music/{{Queen\|Band}}[[/note]]
19	----
20	!!''Tropin' in the fridge.''
21	* AnimatedMusicVideo: The famous claymation video for "Jurassic Park." It went on to be a huge hit at various film festivals.
22	* AnythingButThat: The narrator of "Achy Breaky Song" lists a number of schlocky music acts he'll gladly accept as a substitute for "Achy Breaky Heart."
23	-->''You can torture me with Donnie and Marie\
24	You can play some Music/BarryManilow\
25	Or you can play some schlock like Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock\
26	Or any Music/VillagePeople song you know\
27	Or play Music/VanillaIce -- hey, you can play him twice\
28	And you can play Music/TheBeeGees any day\
29	But Mr. DJ, please, I'm begging on my knees\
30	I just can't take no more of Billy Ray!''
31	* AudienceParticipationSong: When doing "Bedrock Anthem" live, Al will turn the mic to the audience for the second "Yabba Dabba Yabba Dabba Dabba Doo now" of each chorus.
32	* BarbieDollAnatomy: The singer of "Talk Soup" says that he has no genitalia.
33	* BestialityIsDepraved: One of the secrets the viewpoint character of "Talk Soup" wishes to reveal on national television is having a thing for poodles and rubber underwear.
34	* TheCameo: Heather [=DeLoach=] reprises her role as "Bee Girl" (from Music/BlindMelon's "No Rain" video) for the opening of the "Bedrock Anthem" video.
35	* CarSong: "Traffic Jam".
36	* CoverSong: "Bohemian Polka" is Music/{{Queen\|Band}}'s [[Music/ANightAtTheOpera "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] done InTheStyleOf polka.
37	* DisneyAcidSequence: During the instrumental in the middle of the video for "Jurassic Park." This may be a parody of the music videos from the 60's (the era that "[=MacArthur=] Park," the song being parodied, was released).
38	* DontEatAndSwim: One of the misdemeanors the gang in "Young, Dumb & Ugly" brag about is that they go swimming after a big, heavy meal.
39	* DudeNotFunny: Al himself later felt this way about "Achy Breaky Song", and apologized to Billy Ray Cyrus by donating money to his favorite charity.
40	* EveryoneHatesMimes: "She Never Told Me She Was a Mime".
41	* EvilLawyerJoke: From "Jurassic Park" ([[AlternativeJokeInterpretation though the syntax deliberately makes it unclear whether it's the dinosaurs or lawyers that aren't all bad]]): [[invoked]]
42	-->''A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer\
43	Well, I suppose that proves they're really not all bad''
44	* FaceOnTheCover: "Weird Al" as a dinosaur in a logo based on that of ''Film/JurassicPark''.
45	* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Livin' in the Fridge" and "Waffle King".
46	* Franks2000InchTV: TropeNamer.
47	* IncessantMusicMadness: The narrator of "Achy Breaky Song" absolutely ''despises'' "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus and is so fed up with hearing it all the time that it's making him unhinged, to the point that he'd rather die than listen to it.
48	-->''Don't play that song, that achy breaky song\
49	I think it's driving me insane\
50	Please don't play that song, that irritating song\
51	I'd rather have a pitchfork in my brain!''
52	* InTheStyleOf:
53	** "Young, Dumb & Ugly" - Music/{{ACDC}}
54	** "Frank's 2000[=''=] TV" - Music/{{REM}}
55	** "Traffic Jam" - Music/{{Prince}}, specifically "Let's Go Crazy."
56	** "Talk Soup" - Music/PeterGabriel and Music/StevieWonder
57	** "She Never Told Me She Was a Mime" - Music/{{KISS}} and Music/{{Aerosmith}}
58	** "Waffle King" - Peter Gabriel (specifically "Sledgehammer") and Don Henley
59	* ItCameFromTheFridge: "Livin' in the Fridge".
60	* ItCanThink: In "Jurassic Park", parodying the "Unless it can open doors" scene in ''Film/JurassicPark'', one of the velociraptors stuck behind a closed door sorts through keys on a keyring.
61	* ItsAllAboutMe: "Waffle King".
62	* KazoosMeanSilliness: "Achy Breaky Song" features a chorus of kazoos playing the instrumental line at the end of the song.
63	* LyricalDissonance: "Bohemian Polka", which takes Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" about a man facing execution and turns it into, well, a polka.
64	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In "Jurassic Park", the narrator only admits to being "kinda mad" about getting his guts torn out.
65	* MinisculeRocking: "Harvey the Wonder Hamster" is 26 seconds long.
66	* MisspellingOutLoud: The narrator in "Young, Dumb, and Ugly" does not know how to correctly spell the word "trouble".
67	--> ''We got three-day stubble. Our name spells "trouble".''
68	-->''T-R-U-B-E-L.''
69	* MouthScreen: The video for "Bedrock Anthem" features Al's mouth.
70	* MundaneMadeAwesome: The subject of "Waffle King" presents his waffle recipe as this.
71	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Three self-descriptions in the song "Talk Soup" can qualify as this:
72	** "An anorexic codependent bingo addict stripper born without a chin."
73	** "A cross-dressin' alcoholic neo-Nazi porno star."
74	** "Your average schizophrenic nymphomaniac albino go-go dancer."
75	* PokeThePoodle: "Young, Dumb & Ugly" is about a gang who boast about various misdemeanors and pranks they've committed as if their actions are serious crimes that help their intimidating cred, such as threatening to [[ToiletPaperPrank TP the listener's lawn]] if they piss them off.
76	* RapRock: "Bedrock Anthem," as befitting a Music/RedHotChiliPeppers parody.
77	* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
78	* ScaryTeeth: In the video for "Bedrock Anthem".
79	* SmallNameBigEgo: "Waffle King" is actually a downplayed example since the Waffle King does seem to be a truly successful chef/businessman. But his ego is '''way''' out of control.
80	-->''"Don't you know who I am? '''You've gotta be kidding me!''' I'm the Waffle King!"''
81	* StockScream: There's a portion of "Jurassic Park" that involves a lot of screaming, mainly stock screams.
82	* SuckinessIsPainful: The narrator of "Achy Breaky Song" hates "Achy Breaky Heart" so much that listening to it makes him physically ill.
83	-->''Don't play that song, that achy breaky song\
84	You know I hate that song a bunch\
85	And if you play that song, that nauseating song\
86	It might just make me lose my lunch!''
87	* TakeThat:
88	** The video for "Jurassic Park" has the line, "I'm afraid those things'll harm me/'Cause they sure don't act like [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]]", accompanied by Barney's head getting bitten off by a real T. Rex. When shown at his concerts, the crowd regularly responds with thunderous applause.
89	** "Achy Breaky Song" is all about one man's hatred of "Achy Breaky Heart" by Music/BillyRayCyrus. Al even lists other widely hated music acts which he claims [[DamnedByFaintPraise wouldn't be as bad as "Achy Breaky Heart"]] but are still bad enough to be compared to nails on a chalkboard.
90	*** Ironically, some of the artists he lists, like Music/{{ABBA}} and Music/TheBeeGees, are fairly well regarded today.
91	* ToyotaTripwire: This line from "Traffic Jam" provides the page quote:
92	-->''There's a motorcycle zoomin' past me\
93	Watch what happens when I open the door!''
94	* TruckDriversGearChange: "Frank's 2000[=''=] TV" changes key from E-flat to F major for the last chorus.
95	* {{Understatement}}: The narrator of "Jurassic Park" drily soft-sells his harrowing experience on the island, describing nearly becoming dinosaur chow as "a crummy weekend" that left him "kinda mad."
96	-->''Now I'm being chased by some irate velociraptors\
97	Well, believe me, this has been one lousy day''
98	* VocalRangeExceeded: Invoked on "Young, Dumb, And Ugly"; the whole song is sung in a high register similar to Bon Scott or Brian Johnson of Music/{{ACDC}} that is too high for Al's natural singing voice. According to Al, his manager convinced him to release it cause he thought it made the performance funnier.
99	* WouldRatherSuffer: The narrator of "Achy Breaky Song" lists all of the lame music acts he'd rather listen to than Billy Ray Cyrus, and when he runs out of musicians to name, he decides actual torture would be just as fine.
100	-->''Tie me to a chair and kick me down the stairs\
101	Just please don't play that stupid song no more!''
102	* WrestlerInAllOfUs: In the video for "Jurassic Park", one of the T. rexes jumps off of a turnbuckle with the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] logo on it.

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