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 )

" Weird Al " Yankovic parodied The Beatles Anthology in an Al TV special.

* " Germs " ( song ), a song by " Weird Al " Yankovic

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In the 1989 Weird Al Yankovic film UHF, the line occurs in a spoof of Raul's Wild Kingdom, during the scene where Raul ( Trinidad Silva ) receives his animal delivery.

* " Weird Al " Yankovic released a parody version of " Lump " known as " Gump ", a joking tribute to Forrest Gump.

Weird Al Yankovic made a style parody of this genre with his song " My Baby's in Love with Eddie Vedder ".

* This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful ( 1912 ) and illustrated by Vernon Hill ( sculptor ).

They included the episodes: Shake, Rattle and Goof, Close Encounters of the Weird Mime, Slightly Dinghy, Wrecks, Lies and Videotape, Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp and Tub Be or Not Tub Be.

These included six issues of The Vault of Horror ( August 1990-June 1991 ), six issues of Tales from the Crypt ( July 1990-May 1991 ), four issues of Weird Science ( September 1990-March 1991 ), and two issues of The Haunt of Fear ( May / July 1991 ).

Past projects have included the experimental performance troupe Gaga, several ECC performances at the Columbus Avant Garage film festival, and a release with the Weird Love Makers.

Their best-known song, " Weird Science ", was written for the John Hughes film of the same name, and was later included on their 1985 album Dead Man's Party.

The new WWN included a weekly " Weird Picture Search " by Mad cartoonist Sergio Aragones.

They included The River Roses, Pollo Elastico, The Phantom Limbs ( not the hardcore band ), Al Perry, The Deadbolts, The Lonely Trojans, Mondo Guano, Machines of Loving Grace, The Fells, The Knockout Pills, Chick Cashman, The Weird Lovemakers, Rainer Ptacek, Doo Rag, Bob Log III, and The Sidewinders ( later the Sand Rubies ).

Other allies have included the Sentinels of Justice and the so-called " Vault of Heroes ", a group of costumed crimefighters placed in suspended animation in the 1940s by the mystic, Dr. Weird ( the Vault was AC Comics ' method of reviving a number of public domain superheroes from now-defunct publishing companies of the Golden Age of Comic Books ).

" Polkas on 45 " was included in Weird Al's second album, and with the exception of Even Worse and Alapalooza ( the latter of which has a polka version of Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody " rather than a medley ), a similar polka compilation has been included in each of his albums since.

The original self-released cassette included " Drunk Again ", which later appeared on the Nervous & Weird EP and lacked " Nervous & Weird ".

Other projects for DC included writing The Weird drawn by Wrightson and Cosmic Odyssey drawn by Mike Mignola.

These included Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special for Marvel Comics in 2000, The Savage Dragon # 100 and The Amazing Spider-Man # 46 in 2002, Hellboy: Weird Tales # 6 in 2003 and Invincible # 14 in 2004. he then began doing full interior work on other Spider-Man books for Marvel, including issues # 5 and 8 of Marvel Knights Spider-Man in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and The Astonishing Spider-Man # 123, also in 2005.

The festival included events and activities spanning: lectures, panel discussions, pub talks, cultural activities, a PI documentary premiere ( The Quantum Tamers: Revealing Our Weird and Wired Future ), sci-fi film festival, an art exhibit and the hugely popular Physica Phantastica exhibit centre, a 5, 000-square-foot ( 460 m2 ) space filled with demonstrations, hands-on activities, experiments and an immersive 3D tour of the universe narrated by Stephen Hawking.

Celebrities interviewed by Space Ghost included Beck, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Magicians Penn and Teller, Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Joel Hodgson, Carrot Top, Jim Carrey, Jon Benjamin, Conan O ' Brien, Thurston Moore, Pavement, Thom Yorke, Björk, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Timothy Leary, and Mark Hamill.

* A comic-book account of Glanton's story, also based on Chamberlain's memoir, is included in The Big Book of the Weird Wild West published by Paradox Press.

This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful ( 1912 ) and illustrated by Vernon Hill.

* The peryton is included in the " Monsters of the Mind " subsection in the trading card game Weird and Wild Creatures.

In 1986, the lyric " You better squeeze all the Charmin you can when Mr. Whipple's not around " was included in the " Weird Al " Yankovic song " Dare to Be Stupid ".

This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful ( 1912 ) and illustrated by Vernon Hill ( sculptor ).

The video is included on " Weird Al "' s DVD " Weird Al " Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection.