r/weirdal • u/travischickencoop • Jan 15 '25

Announcement MOD POST: New rule updates as of January 14th 2025

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We have added a rule banning low effort content, this primarily affects screenshots and bare bones references (don’t worry we aren’t going 1984 and removing any and all posts that have screenshots or references)

Here’s what you should know:

Q: What qualifies as a low effort post?

Simply asking the community to sing a song in the comments, making easily replicable song references, and any sort of “Wrong answers only” posts

Q: What do you mean “easily replicable song references”?

If anyone could make the exact same reference you’re about to make, I guarantee they’ve done it before, sending a screenshot of Jerry’s Bait Shop and saying “You know the place” is easily replicable, sending an image of you at Jerry’s Bait Shop and saying “You know the place” is not

Q: Are all screenshots banned?

No! However you must have something to actually say about said screenshot, you cannot simply post a screenshot with the caption like “We all know it..”, it must be more creative than that, this is the Weird Al subreddit, we’ve all seen the Albuquerque animation and the Weird Al Show intro

Speaking of Albuquerque: You may notice we updated the “Unrelated to weird al” rule to address Miracle Machine stuff: From here on if it’s not directly related to either the Albuquerque animation, the Everything You Know Is Wrong animation, or the Uptown Funk segment of Polkamania, you are not allowed to post anything Miracle Machine related, and all Miracle Machine posts must fit the other rules of the sub

You are a wonderful community, and it’s great to hear your feedback, it’s not always fun to come in and have to be the mods, but sometimes enough is enough

Elise, on behalf of the Weird Al mod team

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r/weirdal • u/Adventurous_Author56 • 5h ago

Video If You Know These Songs…

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r/weirdal • u/narrow_octopus • 18h ago

Picture Wierd Al Shrine

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Just wanted to show it off! Hope everyone's having a great weekend

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r/weirdal • u/Abject_Put5246 • 10h ago

Picture Just recently picked this record up!

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r/weirdal • u/Past_Description1813 • 1d ago

Joke/Meme Weird Al meme

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Top 10 saddest anime moments

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r/weirdal • u/GoldenAgeLeather • 14h ago

Picture Close Personal Friends of Al - Merchandise Order Form c1996

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Dig that Star Trek font! I recall all three shirts available on the Bad Hair Tour. I got the AL TV shirt and it was eventually ruined by some mystery stains. I think it was rust. Did anyone buy the baseball hats? It seems like a hat that has “bad hair day” printed on it is a no-brainer. Bring these back, Al!

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r/weirdal • u/Dense-Diamond-7926 • 15h ago

Picture My favorite song is cut between every song on the album

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Besides Here’s Johnny, I don’t like that one

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r/weirdal • u/blobfish-arent-ugly • 1d ago

Question Who was the person behind al in white and nerdy ever since I first watched this song I’ve been confused

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Arrow for just because

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r/weirdal • u/Little_Flounder8851 • 23h ago

Joke/Meme Ah yes The three Little piggies Is outdated and wrong but i fix it. is my favorite

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r/weirdal • u/GoldenAgeLeather • 23h ago

Picture CPFOA - Merch Order Form c1994

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By demand, another scan of a Close Personal Friends of Al merchandise order form. In typical Al fashion, even the fine print has a sense of humor - “Other stuff that we used to sell that’s not listed here is out of stock, unavailable, gonesky. DO NOT mail us old older forms for old merchandise - it won’t work.” Also, who knows what the “Ultimate Al Tee” looks like? It’s not pictured on the order form. Did anyone buy it and if so could you share a picture? Thanks and enjoy!

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r/weirdal • u/GeorgeRedditAccount • 1d ago

Picture they is a music video called ♪ Story of Undertale, But Every Scene Has a Different Character and at 0:36 the guy from trapped in the drive thru appeared

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r/weirdal • u/Style-Future • 1d ago

Question Does Al do meet and greets? I’m going to my first weird Al concert in August. Was supposed to see him a few years ago but I had a bad incident. If he does do meet and greets how much is old it cost to do it or does he just be in the crowd like a normal person attending a concert.

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r/weirdal • u/4sliced • 2d ago

Picture 1997

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r/weirdal • u/GoldenAgeLeather • 1d ago

Picture Close Personal Friends of Al - Merchandise Order Form

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Posting for those who remember, and for those who have never seen this before. Wouldn’t it be great if they reprinted these old t’s? Surely Al must have made a mint on those blue In 3-D shirt reprints, so how about some more limited print run reproductions? Also, I have these CPFOA order forms from the next three album cycles. Please let me know if the sub is interested in seeing those as well. Enjoy reminiscing!

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r/weirdal • u/AutographedSnorkel • 2d ago

Question So, has anybody actually tried to make a guitar out of a toaster before?

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r/weirdal • u/Mr-Bob-222 • 2d ago

Picture How AL looks at me while listening to his music

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WHY IS HE LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?!?!😭

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r/weirdal • u/FarRange7460 • 3d ago

Picture You must prepare thyself for the collection!

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r/weirdal • u/minnick27 • 2d ago

Video Dr. Demento MTV Top Twenty Video Countdown from 1988 (Al appears twice)

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r/weirdal • u/Yotsuya_san • 3d ago

Other Thrift Store Find of the Century

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I may or may not have long had an illicet download of this one... Never thought I would actually see a physical copy in person! This is going home with me. Don't even know what they're asking for it yet, haha...

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r/weirdal • u/glassisfrozenair • 3d ago

Other Totally thought this was AL in the Naked Gun trailer for a second

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...say your prayers!

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r/weirdal • u/ManateeGag • 2d ago

Discussion Road Trip Music

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I'm on a Road Trip listening to Road Trip Radio on XM and back to back are Living on the Edge and Beat It. I wonder if whoever arranged to song list did that on purpose.

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r/weirdal • u/weird_al_Ryan • 3d ago

Poll What weird Al album is the best pt3

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11 votes, 3h ago

3 Alpocalypse

6 Mandatory fun

2 Weird the Al yankovic story

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r/weirdal • u/Dismal_Painting_4058 • 3d ago

Picture Like a surgeon

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r/weirdal • u/weird_al_Ryan • 3d ago

Poll What weird Al album is the the best part 2

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12 votes, 3h ago

1 Off to the deep end

1 Alplooza

3 Bad hair day

6 Running with scissors

1 Poodle hat

0 Straight outa Lynwood

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r/weirdal • u/weird_al_Ryan • 3d ago

Poll What’s the best weird Al album

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Bwt there is going to be another one

14 votes, 3h ago

3 Weird Al yankovic

5 In 3d

4 Dare to be stupid

0 Polka party

2 Even worse

0 UHF

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r/weirdal • u/The_happyguy • 3d ago

Picture If Al Were On the Yankees

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1987 Topps. I always thought this guy looked like Al. In fact if im ever lucky enough to meet him i’ll have him sign my 1987 Topps Wayne Tolleson.

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Al related Links

2022 Tour

The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour has officially been announced! APRIL 26 - OCTOBER 29, 2022 Opening act by Emo Philips

More info can be found on the announcement post here. This section will up updated in a few days.

Tournaments

To be pedantic...

Technically, most of Al's work doesn't actually count as parody. By legal definition, to be a parody, a song (or other work) but directly mock the source. That means songs like "Smells Like Nirvana" and "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" are parodies, but "White and Nerdy", "Fat", "Can't Watch This", and so on don't count. Instead, most "parodies" actually fall under the categories of pastiche or satire.

A pastiche is similar in concept to a parody but celebrates, rather than mocks, the source, like an homage. It is included with parody as fair use in UK copyright law,^[1] but I could not find specific details for the US.

In satire, a work is used to mock something else, unrelated to the original. For example, Al using "American Pie" to mock Star Wars in "The Saga Begins" is satire because the subject of mockery isn't related to the original song. Satire isn't covered under the US fair use doctrine.^[2]

References

[1]: Parody & Pastiche - Copyright User

[2]: Fair use or not? Parody vs. satire in copyright law - David Lizerbram & Associates