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 ".

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity who first appeared in the short story " The Call of Cthulhu ", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.

In The Weird of the White Wolf, Elric returns to Imrryr after a long journey and confronts Yyrkoon, who usurped the throne in his absence.

The 1966 comedy They're a Weird Mob, starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Clare Dunne was a rare hit of the period which also documented something of the changing face of Australian society: telling the story of a newly arrived Italian immigrant who, working as a labourer in Sydney, becomes mates with his co-workers, despite some difficulties with Australian slang and culture.

* Mad editor Al Feldstein, who was stationed in Blytheville during World War II, later wrote a science fiction story set in Blytheville, " Chewed Out ," Weird Science 12 ( March 1952 ).

Other prominent Nigerian hip-hop musicians include Ruggedman, former member of The Remedies Eedris Abdulkareem ( who had a well-publicised spat with the American star 50 Cent ), Weird MC, Naeto C, Twin-X, Young Paperboyz and P-Square.

He is also a sucker for the local game-shop owner, " Weird Pete " Ashton ( see " The Black Hands Gaming Society ", below ), who constantly finds ways to sell him new or over-stocked product, on the basis that it's just what B. A.

He tends to do very well, because Weird Pete keeps his cage in the room he lets gamers hire for sessions, so Squirrely ( who games as " Squire Lee ", a name Pete had also used to apply for a credit card ) has seen most of the commercial modules played already, and knows where the treasure, monsters and traps are.

* The Lord Weird Slough Feg-Ancient, rotting leader of the Drunes and the original Horned God who refused to die when his seven year reign was over.

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* Kuni, a character played by Gedde Watanabe in UHF, who also appeared in an episode of The Weird Al Show

In 1992, Goulet made an uncredited appearance as the piano player who suffers agonizing injuries in the " Weird Al " Yankovic video for " You Don't Love Me Anymore ".

" The volumes not written by McFarlane or his wife were penned by John Button, who wrote the series from 1938 to 1942 ; this period is sometimes referred to as the " Weird Period " as the writing is full of inconsistencies and the Hardy Boys ' adventures involve futuristic gadgetry and exotic locations.

Much later, Pete gets a letter that says he was inspired to write two books from visiting the Monroes: one called Quoth the Raven about his relationship with Edgar, and another called The Excellently Weird Adventures of Charlie the Cat from Galaxy Nine, inspired by Chester, who is less than thrilled to discover he is one of the, as he puts it, " psycho creatures from M. T.

Historical figures and events on Earth-C also parallel those of the real world, including the " Second Weird War " ( World War II ; Earth-C's version featured the U. S. and the Allies fighting the " Ratzis " ( Nazis )) and President Abraham Linkidd ( a goat, Earth-C's version of Abraham Lincoln ), who was immortalized in the nation's capital in the " Linkidd Memorial.

Reportedly, " Weird Al " Yankovic, who has himself frequently edited interviews with celebrities to take responses out of context on AL-TV, walked into his Coast to Coast interview with answers he prepared ahead of time, but opted not to use them.

In the So Weird episode " PK ( or Tulpa )", Fi meets a little boy who has created a tulpa he believes to be an imaginary friend.

Campbell wanted to publish a fantasy magazine with more finesse and humor than Weird Tales, and put his plans into action when Eric Frank Russell sent him the manuscript of his novel Sinister Barrier, about aliens who own the human race.

Due to disagreements with MuchMusic ( who didn't want Yankovic to do fake interviews or music video narrations without the artists ' written consent ), Al was not able to produce an Al Music special for Running with Scissors ; a music video compilation called The " Weird Al " Yankovic Video Collection aired instead.

Jirel of Joiry is a fictional character created by American writer C. L. Moore, who appeared in a series of sword and sorcery stories published first in the pulp horror / fantasy magazine Weird Tales.

He married Frances Obrist " Garfield " ( her pen name ), who was a horror writer in her own right ; she sold her first yarn to Weird Tales in 1939.

Jean Lorrah's Visit to a Weird Planet, published in Spockanalia 3 ( 1968 ), was a lighthearted two-parter about what would happen if a transporter malfunction caused the Star Trek characters to be swapped with the 20th-century actors who played them.