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2[[caption-width-right:350: ''"[[Music/{{NWA}} Straight outta Lynwood!]] Crazy polka player named 'Weird Al'!"'']]
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4''Straight Outta Lynwood'' is the twelfth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 2006 through Volcano Entertainment and Way Moby Records. It's widely seen as his "comeback" album after ''Music/RunningWithScissors'' and ''Music/PoodleHat'' received only mediocre reviews and the latter received only minimal promotion, and includes his biggest hit to date, "White and Nerdy.", which debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #28 and peaked at #9.
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6The album was one of a number in the 2000s to be released exclusively on [=DualDisc=], an experimental double-sided optical disc format that combined a CD on one side and a DVD on the other, in the United States. Thanks to a patent dispute with the similar [=DVDplus=] format in Europe, releases in other regions simply combined a standard CD and DVD in one package. In both configurations, the DVD portion included videos for "Pancreas", "I'll Sue Ya", "Virus Alert", "Close but no Cigar", "Weasel Stomping Day", and "Don't Download this Song" along with a mini-documentary (filmed by Al's wife Suzanne) about recording the original songs. Thanks to the eventual market failures of both [=DualDisc=] and [=DVDplus=], the album would eventually be released on a standard CD in the US as part of the 2017 BoxedSet ''Squeeze Box''.
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8!!Tracklist:
9# "White & Nerdy"[[note]]Parody of Music/{{Chamillionaire}} featuring [[Music/BoneThugsNHarmony Krayzie Bone]]'s "Ridin' (Dirty)"[[/note]]
10# "Pancreas"
11# "Canadian Idiot"[[note]]Parody of Music/GreenDay's "Music/AmericanIdiot"[[/note]]
12# "I'll Sue Ya"
13# "Polkarama!"
14# "Virus Alert"
15# "Confessions Part III"[[note]]Parody of Music/{{Usher}}'s "Confessions Part II"[[/note]]
16# "Weasel Stomping Day"
17# "Close But No Cigar"
18# "Do I Creep You Out"[[note]]Parody of Taylor Hicks' "Do I Make You Proud"[[/note]]
19# "Trapped In The Drive-Thru"[[note]]Parody of Music/RKelly's "Music/TrappedInTheCloset"[[/note]]
20# "Don't Download This Song"
21
22----
23!!''Do I trope you out?''
24
25* AffectionateParody:
26** "White & Nerdy" is a {{nerdcore}} parody of "Ridin' (Dirty)" by Music/{{Chamillionaire}} and [[Music/BoneThugsNHarmony Krayzie Bone]]. Chamillionaire was reportedly absolutely delighted to know Al was interested in parodying his song, considering it a mark of high honor among musicians.
27--->"It's one thing to go platinum. Where do you go from there? Then Weird Al calls."
28** "Canadian Idiot" is a parody of "American Idiot" by Music/GreenDay, keeping the spirit of the original by satirizing American nationalism (albeit through the lens of a guy who ''really'' hates Canada).
29** "Confessions Part III" is a parody of "Confessions Part II" by Music/{{Usher}}, this time having the narrator admit to many other uncomfortable secrets to his significant other.
30** "Do I Creep You Out?" is a parody of "Do I Make You Proud?" by Taylor Hicks, this time about a StalkerWithACrush.
31** "Trapped in the Drive Thru" is a parody of "Music/TrappedInTheCloset" by Music/RKelly, using the original's surreal and meandering tone to tell a hilariously banal story about a married couple going out to dinner.
32* AgonyOfTheFeet: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" drops a hammer on his toes, and then sues Home Depot for selling him that hammer in the first place.
33* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: The narrator of "Confessions Part III" admits that he vomited on his girlfriend's dog the last time he had too much to drink.
34* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In the music video for "Don't Download This Song", the various authority figures which persecuted the child protagonist react to his horrible death by performing a triumphant and elaborately choreographed dance routine.
35* AnimatedMusicVideo: Eight of the tracks had music videos directed by different animators, each in their own unique style.
36** "Pancreas" - dir. Jim Blashfield.
37** "I'll Sue Ya" - dir. Thomas Lee.
38** "Virus Alert" - dir. [[WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies David Lovelace]].
39** "Weasel Stomping Day" - produced as a segment for the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' episode "The Munnery."
40** "Close But No Cigar" - dir. Creator/JohnKricfalusi and starring Cigarettes the Cat from ''WebAnimation/WeekendPussyHunt''.
41** "Do I Creep You Out" - created by Website/{{JibJab}}.
42** "Trapped In The Drive-Thru" - dir. Doug Bresler.
43** "Don't Download This Song" - dir. Creator/BillPlympton.
44* AntiLoveSong:
45** "Pancreas", which is a love song about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the singer's pancreas]].
46** "Confessions Part III", which is about the singer being painfully too honest with his significant other.
47** "Do I Creep You Out", which is a StalkerWithACrush song.
48* AppealToTradition: Parodied in "Weasel Stomping Day". Partway through a cheery song describing a cherished local holiday centered around violently stomping small animals to death, the narrator states that "it's tradition, that makes it okay!"
49* ArcNumber: 27 appears on the album artwork, and is also mentioned in "Confessions Part III".
50* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
51** "Confessions, Part 3" is all about this. Apparently having a babymama on the side was forgivable, but admitting that her dress makes her look fat was too much!
52** Plentiful in "Virus Alert".
53--->''Then cause a major rift in time and space,\
54And leave a bunch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place!''
55* AssholeVictim: In the video for "I'll Sue Ya," Weird Al plays a litigation-happy person who sues anyone and everyone for frivolous reasons. In the end, while he's driving off with all the money he won from the lawsuits, he gets distracted by a Burger Queen billboard and crashes into a truck carrying kitty litter.
56* BadassBoast: "White and Nerdy" combines this with equal amounts of SelfDeprecation.
57* BestialityIsDepraved: "Virus Alert" lists, among the other consequences of the virus, making you physically attracted to sheep.
58* BigEater: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" gets into frequent trouble for eating things he shouldn't.
59-->''I sued Taco Bell, 'cause I ate half a million chalupas and I got fat!\
60I sued Toys R Us, 'cause I swallowed a nerf ball and nearly choked to death!\
61I sued [=PetCo=], 'cause I ate a bag of kitty litter and [[YouNeedABreathMint now I have bad breath!]]''
62* BigOlEyebrows: The stalker in the video for "Do I Creep You Out?" has them.
63* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty:
64** "Weasel Stomping Day" is about a holiday dedicated to stomping weasels to death.
65** The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" puts his cat in the microwave and, when the inevitable happens, decides to sue Panasonic [[NeverMyFault because they never told him not to use their product on live animals]].
66* BlandNameProduct: Every brand name mentioned in "I'll Sue Ya" appears in the music video misspelled (Taco Belle, Starbux, Toysaurus and Homey Depot among others) presumably for [[WritingAroundTrademarks legal reasons]].
67* {{Bowdlerize}}: In "Polkarama!", Al's version of "Gold Digger" goes "I ain't saying she's a gold digger/but she ain't messing with no broke... ''[[NWordPrivileges broke]]''".
68* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Virus Alert" has many examples.
69* BreakupSong: "Close But No Cigar" exaggerates this, being about a man who dumps his girlfriends for ridiculous reasons.
70* BrickJoke: Al orders onions on his cheeseburger in "Trapped in the Drive Thru". The very last line has him lamenting that they forgot the onions.
71* CallBack: In the video for "White & Nerdy," a Trivial Pursuit card asks the question, "In what city is the largest ball of twine built by one man?"[[note]] It's in Darwin, UsefulNotes/{{Minnesota}}.[[/note]] -- a reference to Weird Al's 1989 song, "[[Music/UHFOriginalMotionPictureSoundtrackAndOtherStuff The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota]]".
72* CanadaEh: Canadian stereotypes are parodied in "Canadian Idiot", which is a satire on American nationalism.
73* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan: In "Canadian Idiot", he sings, "Don't wanna be a Canadian idiot! Don't wanna be some beer swillin' hockey nut."
74* ChristmasCreep: In "I'll Sue Ya", Al sues Neiman Marcus because "they put up their Christmas decorations way out of season".
75* ClutchingHandTrap: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" gets his finger stuck in a Coke bottle and sues the Coca-Cola company because of it.
76* CourteousCanadian: "Canadian Idiot" plays with the trope. The song is from the perspective of an [[{{Eagleland}} ignorant American]] making disparaging remarks about [[CanadaEh stereotypical Canadians]], such as referring to them as "beer-swilling hockey nuts" and stating that Canadians "all live on donuts and moose meat". Towards the end of the song, the narrator suggests that [[BitchInSheepsClothing Canadians' politeness must mean that they're actually just up to something]] and that it's time for a pre-emptive strike.
77* DigitalAbomination: PlayedForLaughs in "Virus Alert", which describes a computer virus that will not only affect all of your electronic devices (erasing your hard drive, translating your documents into Swahili, erasing the {{Easter egg}}s off your [=DVD=]s, stealing your identity and credit card info, and emailing all your porn to your grandmother) but also has a degree of sentience and physical tangibility (hogging the shower, keeping you awake at night with nonstop {{knock knock joke}}s, and tying up your phone with long-distance {{prank call}}s) and can even [[RealityWarper warp reality to its will]] (making the paint peel off your walls, messing up the PH balance in your pool, melting the flesh off your skull, opening major rifts in time and space, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking leaving Twinkie wrappers everywhere]].) Even the recommended way to get rid of the virus sounds like some kind of ritual.
78* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: "Don't Download This Song" declares that people who download songs are "evil, hard-bitten criminal scum" who lead irredeemable lives of crime and deserve everything the RIAA does to them.
79* DisproportionateRetribution: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" will look for any excuse he can find to sue someone, from [=EarthLink=] operators putting him on hold to a pizzeria delivering his pizza half a minute late. By the time he gets to Creator/BenAffleck, he stops bothering with excuses at all ([[TakeThat or at least for him]]).
80* DoesNotLikeSpam: Played straight in "Trapped in the Drive-Thru":
81-->''I hopped up and I said: "I don't know, do you want to get something delivered?"\
82She's like "Why would I want to eat liver? I don't even like liver!"\
83I'm like "No, I said 'delivered'."\
84She's like "I heard you say liver!"\
85I'm like "I should know what I said..."\
86She's like "WHATEVER! I JUST DON'T WANT ANY LIVER!"''
87* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: The last confession in "Confessions Part III" and the last straw for their relationship ends up being:
88-->''And I lied; yes, that dress makes you look fat!''
89* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the "White & Nerdy" video, Al makes a shady back-alley purchase of... ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' on VHS.
90* DramaticSpineInjury: In "Weasel Stomping Day", a song about [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty a holiday in which people stomp weasels to death]], one lyric [[InvokedTrope encourages the participants]] to "snap their weaselly spines in half".
91* DriveThruAntics: "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", a [[EpicRocking very long song]] about a man who tries to take his wife to a fast food restaurant and goes through [[ButtMonkey all sorts of mishaps]] in the drive-thru. First, they can't just go inside because he's wearing bunny slippers, then the guy gets into a weird conversation about someone named Paul and finally forgets that he didn't find his wallet, forcing him and his wife to dig for change.
92* EpicRocking: "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" has a running time of 10:51.
93* FaceOnTheCover: "Weird Al" standing by the back of his car, holding a dog on a leash.
94* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: The narrator of "Canadian Idiot" bases his hatred of Canadians on overblown stereotypes, and admits he feels "kinda nervous" that they're "hovering right over us" ([[TwoDSpace misinterpreting Canada's northern position on a map as said country being literally above the United States]].) At the end, the protagonist calls for a preemptive strike after concluding that Canadians are secretly plotting something sinister [[EvilCannotComprehendGood because nobody could possibly be that polite without having a hidden agenda]].
95* FictionalHoliday: "Weasel Stomping Day" is a holiday dedicated to stomping weasels to death.
96* FirstWorldProblems: The singer of "Don't Download This Song" complains that music piracy will make it so he can no longer afford to [[ConspicuousConsumption buy expensive crap he doesn't need]].
97* FlamingEmblem: Done in the "White and Nerdy" video, in which a group of road flares on a blacktop are arranged into the shape of VideoGame/PacMan.
98* FlippingTheBird: A couple of gangsters give the nerdy protagonist the middle finger in the video for "White And Nerdy", though the fingers have been blurred out.
99* {{Foreshadowing}}: The drive thru worker in "Trapped in the Drive Thru" doesn't mention onions when she reads Al's order back to him. Presumably, he gets distracted by her offering him a larger drink at no cost, and is dismayed to learn of the onions' omission in the final line of the song.
100* FrivolousLawsuit: The subject of "I'll Sue Ya" is a guy who sues people and companies for the pettiest of reasons (or just because he feels like it.)
101* GrammarNazi: In "Close But No Cigar".
102-->''She was gorgeous, she was charming\
103Yeah, she was perfect in every way\
104Except she was always using the word "infer"\
105When she obviously meant "imply"\
106And I know some guys would put up with that kind of thing\
107But frankly, I can't imagine why''
108* GunNut: The narrator of "Canadian Idiot" is implied to be a gun fanatic, as one of the many things he openly disdains about Canada is the fact that firearms are less ubiquitous there than in the USA.
109-->''They leave the house without packin' heat\
110Never even bring their guns to the mall''
111* HollywoodCuisine: In "Canadian Idiot," most of the stereotypical Canadian foodstuffs -- beer, donuts, moose meat, maple syrup, and Kraft macaroni -- are all name-dropped.
112* HypocriticalHumor: "Don't Download This Song," a song scolding the listener for downloading songs rather than buying [=CDs=], was first made available as a free download.
113* ImagineSpot: Most of the music video for "Don’t Download This Song" consists of the child protagonist imagining the outlandish consequences of downloading songs off the internet.
114* InsaneTrollLogic: The protagonist of "I'll Sue Ya" sues the state of UsefulNotes/{{Colorado}} for looking too much like UsefulNotes/{{Wyoming}}.
115* TheInternetIsForPorn: The virus from "Virus Alert" will email all of your porn to your grandmother.
116* InTheStyleOf:
117** "Pancreas" - Music/BrianWilson, especially Music/TheBeachBoys' albums ''Music/PetSounds'' and ''Music/SMiLE''.
118** "I'll Sue Ya" - Music/RageAgainstTheMachine, specifically "Bombtrack" and "Killing In the Name".
119** "Virus Alert" - Music/{{Sparks}}
120** "Weasel Stomping Day" - Animated musical specials of the 1960s.
121** "Close But No Cigar" - Music/{{Cake}}, specifically "Short Skirt/Long Jacket."
122** "Don't Download This Song" - 1980s charity songs, such as "We Are The World" and "Hands Across America".
123* InvulnerableKnuckles: Defied; the narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" implies he'll sue you if he hurts his knuckles when he punches you in the face.
124* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: "Don't Download This Song" describes in great detail how your whole life will be ruined if the RIAA catches you pirating music.
125* {{Joisey}}: It turns out that [[TakeThat not liking]] UsefulNotes/NewJersey is grounds to sue Delta Airlines for selling you a ticket to said state.
126* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: "Don't Download This Song" claims that pirating music will lead you to commit more serious crimes like armed robbery and vehicular homicide.
127* KarmicDeath: In the video for "I'll Sue Ya", while Al and his band are driving with all of the money they won in their lawsuits, they're distracted by a billboard and crash into a large truck. The billboard and truck are for two brands that Al had earlier sued.
128* KnightTemplar: The RIAA doesn't get a very flattering description in "Don't Download This Song":
129-->''Oh, you don't wanna mess with the R-I-double-A\
130They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R\
131It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a 7-year-old girl\
132They'll treat you like the evil, hard-bitten criminal scum you are!''
133* ListSong: "Virus Alert" lists all the ways this virus will ruin your life, and "I'll Sue Ya" has a litigious JerkAss list all the people he's sued and why.
134* LyricalDissonance:
135** "Weasel Stomping Day" is a saccharine, sickly-sweet holiday carol that just so happens to be about a holiday that promotes animal cruelty.
136** The "[[Music/FiftyCent Candy Shop]]" segment of "Polkarama" makes the song sound like a jingle for a literal candy shop and not... [[IntercourseWithYou that other thing]]... From the same medley, the louder and more uptempo version of "[[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Feel Good Inc]]" somehow manages to make the already creepy song even creepier.
137** "Do I Creep You Out?" is a gentle romantic ballad... sung from the point of view of a creepy stalker.
138* {{Medley}}: "Polkarama!" Songs featured, in order:
139** "The Chicken Dance" by Werner Thomas
140** "Let's Get It Started" by Music/TheBlackEyedPeas
141** "[[Music/FranzFerdinand2004 Take Me Out]]" by Music/FranzFerdinand
142** "[[Music/MakeBelieve Beverly Hills]]" by Music/{{Weezer}}
143** "[[Music/XAndY Speed of Sound]]" by Music/{{Coldplay}}
144** "Float On" by Music/ModestMouse
145** "[[Music/DemonDaysAlbum Feel Good Inc.]]" by Music/{{Gorillaz}} (featuring Music/DeLaSoul)
146** "Don't Cha" by Music/PussycatDolls (featuring Music/BustaRhymes)
147** "[[Music/HotFuss Somebody Told Me]]" by Music/TheKillers
148** "Slither" by Velvet Revolver
149** "Candy Shop" by Music/FiftyCent (featuring Olivia)
150** "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Music/SnoopDogg (featuring Pharrell Williams)
151** "Pon de Replay" by Music/{{Rihanna}}
152** "Gold Digger" by Music/KanyeWest (featuring Creator/JamieFoxx)
153** [[CouchGag "The Nina Bobina Polka" by Al Yankovic]]
154* TheMetricSystemIsHereToStay: One of the narrator's many grievances against Canada in "Canadian Idiot" is that they measure temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.
155* MickeyMousing: In the video for "I'll Sue Ya", the lawsuits print out to the beat of the bass.
156* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: The protagonist of "Close But No Cigar" is very, very picky, up to and including leaving a woman over [[spoiler: a slightly-too-big earlobe]].
157* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Al's response to his wife ordering a chicken sandwich instead of a burger is to scream "I don't know who you are anymore!"
158* MondegreenGag: Done in the song "Trapped In The Drive-Thru". See DoesNotLikeSpam example above.
159* MoodWhiplash: A perfect example is on this album, after his Rage Against the Machine imitation "I'll Sue Ya." After an angry song like that one, there's an abrupt guitar chord, which is directly followed by a one-second pause going into "Polkarama," which has the "Chicken Dance" as an intro. Of course, THAT goes into a polka cover of "Let's Get it Started" by The Black-Eyed Peas.
160* MouthfulOfPi: In "White And Nerdy" the title character claims to know Pi to a thousand places.
161* {{Nerdcore}}: "White and Nerdy," full stop.
162* NerdHoard: The "White and Nerdy" music video features a brief appearance of Creator/SethGreen displaying his own personal, massive ''Franchise/StarWars'' collection.
163* NerdsAreVirgins: The singer of "White and Nerdy" spends his nights with a roll of bubble wrap.
164* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork: The singer of "White and Nerdy" does vector calculus for fun, and also likes to study the teachings of Stephen Hawking and Blaise Pascal.
165* NerdsSpeakKlingon: In "White and Nerdy", the protagonist claims to be fluent in both [=JavaScript=] and Klingon.
166* NeverMyFault: The VillainProtagonist of "I'll Sue Ya" sues various companies that he blames for accidents caused by his [[TooDumbToLive self-destructive lack of common sense]].
167-->''I sued Dell Computers, 'cause I took a bath with my laptop, and now it doesn't work!\
168I sued Fruit of the Loom, 'cause when I wear the tighty-whiteys on my head, I look like a jerk!''
169* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In "Close but No Cigar," the narrator's third girlfriend, Julie, is described as "a world famous billionaire/bikini supermodel/astrophysicist."
170* NoseShove: One of the many lawsuits filed in "I'll Sue Ya" is against Duracell, because "they never told me not to shove that Double-A right up my nose!"
171* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" doesn't even try to come up with a good reason to sue Creator/BenAffleck.
172* ObsessionSong: "Do I Creep You Out" parodies this.
173* OneSteveLimit: Averted in "Trapped In the Drive-Thru" — both the song's protagonist and the girl at the drive-thru speaker know different guys named Paul.
174* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: The vehemently Canada-phobic narrator of "Canadian Idiot" does mention some of the things he likes about the country before going back to deriding them over broad cultural stereotypes.
175-->''Sure they got their national healthcare\
176Cheaper meds, low crime rates, and clean air\
177Then again, well, they got Music/CelineDion''
178* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The singer off "Don't Download This Song" makes his motivation for opposing digital piracy very clear:
179-->''Don't take away money from artists just like me\
180How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?\
181And diamond-studded swimming pools? These things don't grow on trees!''
182* OverlyLongGag: "Trapped in a Drive-Thru" has the narrator repeat a variation of "heading to" or "at the" drive-thru over half a dozen times.
183--> "[[LampshadeHanging Did I mention the drive-thru?]]"
184** The awkward silence between Al and Eugene is heightened by a couple of increasingly emotional repetitions of "And I look at him! And he looks at me!"
185* PervertedSniffing: One of the many, many skeevy things mentioned in "Do I Creep You Out?" is sniffing the pit stains on the stalking victim's blouse.
186* PlayingSick: The narrator of "Confessions Part III" admits that he wasn't really sick last week. He was just pretending so he wouldn't have to attend his girlfriend's office picnic.
187* PoesLaw: Some people believed that "Don't Download This Song" was actually trying to spread the message that DigitalPiracyIsEvil.
188* PrecisionFStrike: Yankovic himself finally gets one in with the comparatively mild "You cheap bastard!" during the outro of "Don't Download This Song".
189* PrisonRape: Implied at the end of the music video for "Do I Creep You Out?" After the protagonist goes to prison, a muscular man comes up to him and puts a hand on his shoulder. The screen fades to black as they look lovingly into each other's eyes, and a moment later, the main character looks at the viewer in shock.
190* PrisonerPerformance: In the video for the song "Do I Creep You Out", it's revealed that the narrator is performing this song as part of a talent show in prison, having been incarcerated for his stalker behavior.
191* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The last line of "Virus Alert":
192-->''HIT! SEND! RIGHT! NOW!!!''
193* RapRock: "I'll Sue Ya," which is done {{in the style of}} Music/RageAgainstTheMachine.
194* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: "Trapped in the Drive Thru" solidly averts this, being an exaggerated parody of R. Kelly's infamous rambling and interruption-filled hip-hopera. The narrator's wife mishears "delivered" as "liver" and they argue about it for several lines, a drive-thru employee zones out while the narrator asks for ketchup, and a mention of the name Paul sends the narrator off on a bizarre tangent about an unrelated guy with the same name.
195* RealityWarper: The titular computer virus from the song "Virus Alert" has the ability to alter the very fabric of reality on a whim. It can peel the paint off your walls, mess up the PH balance in your pool, give you a permanent wedgie, and melt the flesh off your skull -- and that's just the start!
196* RecordProducer: "Weird Al" Yankovic.
197* ReplacementGoldfish: Part of the numerous minor confessions in "Confessions Part III" listed killing his girlfriend's goldfish and replacing it.
198* RetconningTheWiki: The music video for "White And Nerdy", in which he replaces the entire text for Creator/AtlanticRecords' wiki page with huge type reading '''YOU SUCK!!!!!''' This was a personal TakeThat from Al for refusing to let him parody Music/JamesBlunt's "You're Beautiful" as "You're Pitiful", despite Blunt personally approving the parody. His fans thought it was so funny, they started doing it for real, resulting in Website/ThatOtherWiki having to lock the Atlantic Records page.
199* RummageFail: In "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", when the husband accidentally left his wallet at home and the cashier tells them their order is cash only, they frantically look for some change to make up the difference and come up a dollar short of $5.82, and have to leave the chicken sandwich off their order.
200* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At the end of "Confessions Part III," the narrator's girlfriend walks out on him because of all the things he just told her and plans to tell her more.
201-->''I mean, I'm just getting started here! I'm not even halfway down the list! This thing could go on for... Hey, hey, where are you goin'? ''[Woman is heard walking away]'' Honey? ''[She slams the door behind her]'' [[DefensiveWhat What?]] [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Was it something I said?]]''
202* SequelHook: Subverted in "Confessions Part III." At the end of the song, Al states that he still has enough confessions to make another whole song, but his lady friend walks out on him before he can say anything more.
203* ShaggyDogStory: "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", about a married couple going out to dinner at a fast food restaurant, experiencing such hassles as ordering a cheeseburger with onions vs. a chicken sandwich, the drive-thru employee offering them a large root beer when they only wanted a medium one with no refill upgrade, [[RummageFail scraping together a dollar's worth of change from the car]] when the cashier tells them it's cash only and coming up a dollar short, having to give up the chicken sandwich for the cheeseburger... only to find they forgot to put the onions on the burger.
204* ShoutOut:
205** The album title is one to ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton'' by Music/{{NWA}}, as well as paying homage to Al’s hometown, the UsefulNotes/LosAngeles suburb of Lynwood, California (which, coincidentally, neighbors Compton).
206** "White & Nerdy" is [[ReferenceOverdosed overdosed on geek culture references]], with Al making references to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Website/MySpace, ''VideoGame/MineSweeper'', ''Series/HappyDays'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''ComicBook/XMen'', Website/{{Wikipedia}}, and ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', and the video even has him playing Trivial Pursuit and buying a bootleg of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''.
207** In the last few bars of "Close But No Cigar," Al shouts "[[Series/GetSmart Missed it by that much]]!"
208* StalkerWithACrush: "Do I Creep You Out" portrays the singer as one. The animated video for this song has Taylor Hicks getting arrested and put in jail for his stalker antics, only to be hit on by a fellow prisoner by the video's end.
209* STDImmunity: Averted in "Confessions Part III." The narrator informs his significant other that "FYI it was not a cold sore."
210* TheStoner: It's implied that Eugene from "Trapped in the Drive Thru" is on some kind of substance. He responds to Al's request for ketchup by staring blankly at him for several seconds before asking him to repeat himself, and then explains that he's "kinda burned tonight."
211* TakeThat:
212** "I'll Sue Ya" is about Al's string of frivolous lawsuits. "I sued Delta Airlines, 'cause they sold me a ticket to New Jersey. I went there, and it SUCKED!"
213*** When he comes to Creator/BenAffleck, there's silence in the spot where normally he gives the reason for the lawsuit. Finally he just asks "do I even need a reason?"
214** The virus described in "Virus Alert" will have a myriad of negative things happen to you if you get infected, three such things being that it will "make your TV record ''Film/{{Gigli}}''", "invest your cash in stock in Euro Disney", and "make your iPod only play Music/JethroTull".
215** "Don't Download This Song" mocks DigitalPiracyIsEvil hysteria. Lars Ulrich of Music/{{Metallica}} -- who is often mocked for his hardline anti-piracy stance -- is mentioned by name in the song, and the narration warns that you could "wind up in jail like [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong]] (who was jailed for possession of drug paraphernalia, ''not'' for digital piracy)."
216** One of the breakups in "Close But No Cigar" is for owning a copy of ''Film/JoeDirt''.
217** "Trapped in the Drive Thru" has this in the beginning:
218--->'''Narrator:''' 7'o'clock in the evening, watching something stupid on TV...\
219'''The Wife:''' Is this ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' with Music/LynyrdSkynyrd?
220* TalksLikeASimile: The narrator of "Close but No Cigar" uses quite a few crude yet descriptive similes when talking about his exes.
221-->"I loved her even more than Creator/MarlonBrando loved soufflé\
222(...)\
223"I was crazy like [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson Manson]] about her; she got me all choked up like [[Music/TheMamasAndThePapas Mama Cass]]\
224(...)\
225"I was sweating like [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] every time she was near; my heart was beating like a Buddy Rich solo."
226* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The recommended measures to rid yourself of the computer virus in "Virus Alert" seem extreme, but apparently ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure:
227-->''Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down\
228Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground\
229Bury it completely; rocks and boulders should be fine\
230Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online''
231* TooDumbToLive: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya" repeatedly hurts and inconveniences himself through sheer idiocy and lack of common sense, and at no point does he ever realize this, instead suing companies for not telling him things that should go without saying.
232* TooMuchInformation:
233** The major component of the humor in "Confessions Pt. III" is the narrator being ''too'' honest about all the weird, unpleasant, and stupid things he's done without his girlfriend knowing.
234--->''I haven't changed my underwear in 27 days!''
235** The narrator of "Trapped In The Drive Thru" is similarly cut off from his ramblings about his plumber Paul when he starts talking about Paul's bladder problems and really bad case of toe fungus.
236* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The singer of "White & Nerdy" puts mayonnaise on all of his sandwiches.
237* {{Trekkie}}: The protagonist of "White and Nerdy" is a nerd, so of course he loves ''Star Trek.'' He speaks Klingon, gives the Vulcan salute, and agonizes over whether he prefers [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]] or [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]].
238* TruckDriversGearChange: "Don't Download This Song" modulates from G to A in the last chorus.
239* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Weird Al sings "Virus Alert" with an accent that can't seem to decide if it's American, French, or German.
240* WhenSheSmiles: In "Close but No Cigar," one of the narrator's ex-girlfriends, Janet, is described as having "a smile so incredibly radiant, you have to watch it through a piece of smoked glass."
241* WikiVandal: He pretends to replace the entire Creator/AtlanticRecords Website/{{Wikipedia}} entry with the phrase "YOU SUCK!" in 72-point letters during the video of "White And Nerdy" (due to them refusing to allow Al to parody "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt). As mentioned above, the real Wikipedia entry for Atlantic Records had to be locked because of legions of ticked-off Al fans doing the same thing.
242* WomanScorned: GenderInverted; if you stand him up on a date, he'll sue ya!
243* WouldHurtAChild: The cops featured in the music video for "Don't Download This Song" are perfectly willing to gun down a child for the crime of pirating music.
244* WriterOnBoard: Zig-zagged with "Don't Download This Song." The song's message is unclear and self-contradictory no matter how it's taken (it was even only officially available as a free download at first) because Weird Al is himself of two minds about the topic.
245* YawnAndReach: A farmer tries to put his arm around a sheep’s shoulder while watching a movie by pretending to yawn in the video for "Virus Alert".
246* YouNeedABreathMint: The narrator of "I'll Sue Ya!" gets halitosis after eating a bag of kitty litter, and then sues the pet store that sold it to him.

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