The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

Weird Al Yankovic made a song parody of the virus titled " Virus Alert ".

" Weird Al " Yankovic's song " The Saga Begins ", a parody of " American Pie ".

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

Weird Al Yankovic's song " White and Nerdy " states many other stereotypical nerd interests, including the Segway, ten-pin bowling, A. V.

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In 1996, " Weird Al " Yankovic created a parody of the Presidents ' " Lump ", titled " Gump ".

" The music video for the song was directed by " Weird Al " Yankovic.

Popeil has been referenced in the music of Alice Cooper, the Beastie Boys, and " Weird Al " Yankovic, who wrote a parody song entitled " Mr. Popeil " which was a tribute to Ron Popeil's father, Samuel Popeil.

* " Spam ", a song about the meat by " Weird Al " Yankovic on the album UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff

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Among some of the better known polka ( and waltzes ) artists and composers include Happy Louie and Julie, Frankie Yankovic, Walter Ostanek ( Canada ), Verne Meisner, Mike Schneider, Tom Brusky, Walt Groller, Joey Miskulin, Jimmy Sturr, Kyle Redman Polka Band, and ( in combination with more modern styles ) " Weird Al " Yankovic ( no known relation to Frankie Yankovic ) and The Our Gang Orchestra.

Many popular songs make reference to Captain Kangaroo, including the Statler Brothers ' 1965 hit song " Flowers on the Wall ", the " Weird Al " Yankovic song " The Brady Bunch ", the Bloodhound Gang's " Your Only Friends Are Make Believe ", and the VeggieTales song, " The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything ".

" Weird Al " Yankovic edits the Atlantic Records ' Wikipedia page to read " YOU SUCK!

In 2006, the label denied " Weird Al " Yankovic permission to release " You're Pitiful ", a parody of James Blunt's " You're Beautiful ", despite Blunt's own approval of the song.

Many of " Weird Al " Yankovic's original songs are pastiches: for example, " Dare to Be Stupid " is a Devo pastiche, and " Bob " from the album Poodle Hat is a pastiche of Bob Dylan.

* The same sequence was also parodied in the video for Weird Al Yankovic's song " Bob "; that video also includes specific allusions to the INXS video.

This odd contradiction was played up in " Weird Al " Yankovic's parody song, Isle Thing.

" Weird Al " Yankovic recorded a song called Isle Thing, a parody of Tone Lōc's " Wild Thing ", about a rapper whose girlfriend introduces him to the show.

* Musician " Weird Al " Yankovic has a song " Twister " on his Even Worse album about the board game, done in a style parody of early Beastie Boys.

Lander has also appeared in numerous other TV shows and movies including The Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Happy Days, Married ... with Children, Twin Peaks, On the Air, The Weird Al Show, Mad About You, and The Drew Carey Show.

" Weird Al " Yankovic has a cameo appearance as the tambourine player.

* The Weird Al Show-S01E06 ( October 18, 1997 )

There is a wide range of ' Weird ' books about many states.

That led to a series of Weird guides for other states and areas, including Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, California and New England, and a TV series, Weird U. S., on the History Channel.

Staff members Jean, Selman, Kirkland, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Carolyn Omine, Matt Warburton, and David Silverman, as well as cast member Yeardley Smith and former Simpsons guest star " Weird Al " Yankovic, participated in the audio commentary for the episode .< ref name = Jacobson >

The South Korean western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird ( 2008 ) is inspired by the film, with much of its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film.

In the movie The Weird Man by the Shaw Brothers Sun Quan is shown at the end of film and Sun Ce names him successor before he died from his injuries sustained by Xu Gong and Yu Ji's spirit.

In an episode of " Archie's Weird Mysteries ", Midge revealed that she wants to be a stuntwoman ; in the TV movie Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again, she became a chiropractor, and shares a practice with Moose.

Hansen has appeared in a number of Weird Al's music videos, as well as Weird Al's movie UHF.

He performed with the band Dive Dive in March 2005 and appeared in the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as a member of the band " The Weird Sisters " along with Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.

Though modeled after the G1 version, Wreck Gar's design was influenced by his voice actor " Weird Al " Yankovic, whose 1986 Transformers movie soundtrack song " Dare to Be Stupid " was among the many movie references used in Wreck-Gar's debut.

In 1985, the producers of the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation were looking to make a sequel, but Anthony Michael Hall declined to reprise his role as son Rusty Griswold, choosing instead to do the film Weird Science.

Notable 20th century feature films are My Fair Lady ( 1964, based on the Broadway musical ); Trading Places, Ruby Sparks, Mighty Aphrodite by director Woody Allen ; Weird Science directed by John Hughes ; and the 1987 film Mannequin, a remake of the 1948 classic One Touch of Venus, the Julia Roberts hit movie Pretty Woman, She's All That with Freddie Prinze Jr., as well as S1m0ne ( featuring a computer-generated artificial intelligence as the love object ).

in the movie Airplane II and in " Weird Al " Yankovic's music video " I Lost on Jeopardy ".

* 2009: Tyrese Gibson, actor ; Peter Cullen, David Kaye, Michael McConnohie and Gregg Berger, voice actors ; " Weird Al " Yankovic, Vince DiCola and Stan Bush, musicians, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, movie writers ; Flint Dille, David Wise and Bryce Malek, Generation 1 writers ; Paul Davids, Generation 1 production coordinator ; Hasbro representatives.

The introduction to the movie is sung by comedy artist " Weird Al " Yankovic.

The theme song " This Is the Life " was written for the movie by " Weird Al " Yankovic, though for legal reasons, " This Is the Life " was not featured on home video releases of the film, until the DVD was released in 2002.

* The film is referenced by " Weird Al " Yankovic in his song " Albuquerque " as an in-flight movie.

Weird Science was a 1985 movie produced by Joel Silver, who acquired film rights to EC Comics in the early 1980s.

He is perhaps best known for his performance as Gary on the USA Networks ' series spinoff of the movie Weird Science.

The name " Scared Weird Little Guys " comes from a line in the Al Pacino movie Cruising.