"People assume that I was annoyed but when Yankovic does a parody of you, you know you’ve made it.” --Brad Roberts

Weird Al should be recognized for: 1.) His Musical playing skills 2.) His vocal performances 3.) His lyrical writing skills 4.) Sense of humor 5.) Skill to parody several genres 6.) Music Video ideas and creation 7.) Ability to deliver on a timely schedule as it relates to the song and topic he is covering/parodying

The funniest part of this song is the fact that all these were in the actual news at the time.

One of the few songs where the parody is less weird and the lyrics make more sense than the original.

"He couldn't quite explain it, it had always just been there". Best part of the whole song Weird Al is a one in a million genius. I like how the kid signed the book with spray paint lol

"He couldn't quite explain it, it had always just been there". Best part of the whole song

The look of horror on the male audience when Al says "Little Mr. Happy was missing" is the best.

“...He found that Mr Happy was missing.” “It happens all the time, it’s detachable.”

Always like seeing a Dr. Demento cameo. Props to Al for remembering the people who helped launch his career.

The pinnacle of Weird Al's genius is when he's able to almost seamlessly throw in a verse from the original song into his own corrupted version. "He couldn't quite explain it, it'd always just beeeeen there" lmao

Came back to this today. After a year or so you should be able to give it another thumbs up

Some TLDR context & interesting info about each of the three stories: 1. The kid in Singapore = Michael Peter Fay. American (St. Louis, MO) who lived in Singapore with his mom & stepdad. Was arrested for theft of road signs & vandalizing several cars with hot tar, paint remover, hatchets, eggs, & (of course) spray paint. Was initially sentenced to six strokes of a rattan cane, but (thanks to pressure from President Bill Clinton) had sentence reduced to four strokes instead. His case caused fiery international debates & discussions over cultural norms. As of the time this comment was written, he is now 47 years old, & works as a casino manager. 2. The two skaters = Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan. Both ladies had dedicated their lives to figure skating from a young age. In January of '94, Nancy was about to partake in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship; her main rival in that tournament was Tonya. Tonya, of course, was EXTREMELY jealous of Nancy, & did NOT want her to win! And, so, she got together with her ex-husband & bodyguard, & schemed with them to take Nancy out of the competition, & they hired them to break Nancy's leg, potentially ending her figure-skating career forever!!! Luckily, that did not happen; Nancy was only clubbed in the kneecap, & while she hence wasn't able to compete in the U.S. Championship (which Tonya ended up winning, as she had planned!), Nancy WAS able to compete with Tonya in the 1994 Winter Olympics -- & she won the silver medal for 2nd place! :-) Tonya only got 8th place. Then Tonya & her co-conspirators were eventually found out as the culprits behind the assault on Nancy Kerrigan, & they were all punished, with Tonya being banned from figure-skating for life. To this day, Nancy has (understandably) not forgiven Tonya for what happened...but on the bright side, the two skaters had a movie made about their scandal, plus Tonya got to show off her comedic talent in the truTV show "World's Dumbest"! 3. The wife & her husband = Lorena Bobbitt & John W. Bobbitt. In 1993, Lorena cut off John's weenis while he was asleep; John had been raping & physically/emotionally/sexually abusing Lorena for years. In fact, John was charged with rape later that year, but was acquitted, & went on to star in several adult films (& I'm NOT talking the R-rated kind!). The next year, Lorena was acquitted of assault by reason of insanity. The couple divorced in 1995. John Bobbitt has since accumulated a record of serious abuse allegations & some criminal convictions. As for Lorena, she has found happiness in a long-term relationship with a man named Dave Bellinger, their two-&-a-half-year-old (in 2008) daughter, & her own charity Lorena's Red Wagon (which helps prevent domestic violence through family-oriented activities). John & Lorena both appeared on TV together for an interview, & John has since apologized to Lorena for his mistreatment of her.

Al finally wrote a serious song and it was parodied by some group called the "Crash Test Dummies"

Props to him I wouldnt be able to sing "Mr.Happy was missing" without cracking up

This honestly could be in his top 5 best parodies imo. It's underated

This straight-up feels like a time capsule of 1994 and I absolutely love it! XD

Weird Al humming with tape over his mouth gets me everytime.

If you weren't born prior to the 90s, this is the 90s in summary.

RIP Judy Tenuta. She plays Lorena Bobbitt in this vid and she nails it 😂 🌭 🔪

I love when the guy opens his fridge and looks at the hotdogs

Moving his lips around and then finally taping them is so subtle and so genius.

This kid = Michael Fay This girl = Tonya Harding Some other girl = Nancy Kerrigan This guy = John Bobbitt His wife = Lorena Bobbitt

Why has the western world forgotten how awesome of an accordion player Al is?

He who is tired of Weird Al, is tired of life. --Homer Simpson

"Every time I come out with a new album it's a comeback album!" -Al :)

John Bobbitt looks disapprovingly at the hot dogs in the fridge....cracks me up every time.

I'd give so much for an extended version of the ending, where it has so many fun layers and that great accordion. It's like he teases you with this great wild expansion on the music, but quickly fades out just when it really gets going.

This seems less like a parody, more like a sequel.

Hard to believe this was 20 years ago now.

One of Al's most underrated songs and performances.

This is the most underrated Weird Al parody imo - love it

Weird Al is a one in a million genius.

This song has aged like a fine wine since the media is even dumber with their stories than back in the 1990s

One of the best examples of Weird Al coming up with a parody that's honestly better than the original.

Every character expressions are pure gold

I always loved Weird Al as a kid, but this was the only video that truly made me laugh until I cried. The lyrics, the actors and all those silly musical sounds at the end were absolutely brilliant. When it first aired on MTV, I remember recording it so that I could make sure my friends saw it.

IM SOOO GLAD THAT WEIRD AL *FINALLY* GOT HIS STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME. IT WAS LOOONG OVER DUE!

I laughed so hard at this video... I had TEARS running down my face!

For the first time ever, weird al's version is less weird than the original song

I just about died when he said "Mr. Happy". XD

This parody is priceless, including John Bobbitt and with Tanya Harding paying to have Nancy Kerrigan injured (sad, but still apropos). But Al's facial imitations of Brad Roberts are SO funny, I keep playing it over & over so I can roll in hysterics!

This is probably Weird Al’s funniest spoof. I’m dying

Love the cameo by Dr. Demento.

I like how the kid signed the book with spray paint lol

I remember being 10 years old and not getting any of these jokes...not getting any of these references... light bulb goes off 20 years later

Al should consider a followup parody to UHF, and make fun of all the streaming networks and their ridiculous shows.

Weird Al needs to be the next Super Bowl Half Time show.

One of the best parts of this video is the absolutely bizarre assortment of audience members.

If you missed the 90's, all of this actually happened.

I love how they just get bored with it by the end so they were like “fuck it, add a bunch of farts and belches and finish it all up with a chorus of kazoo’s”

The "this song is profoundly deep" stares into the camera are so accurate.

"He couldn't quite explain it, it always had just been there"

I think that once WEIRD AL spoofs your SONG then you can call yourself a SUCCESS!

Hahahaha! The look on his face at 2:42 When he picks up the hotdogs in the fridge! Those won't make a good replacement Ill tell ya that! Hahaha!

I grew up in this era where this news wouldn't stop.Watching this video brought me back to those days and it was hilarious.

a man who plays on his hands has a great sense of rhythm. He's a genius

lets all take a moment to give Weird Al, amazing props not just for the awesome song but keeping a straight face while saying "Mr. Happy was missing" *round of applause*

thumbs up for the fucking musical hand fart master

I love the little looks the businessman and the sumo wrestler give each other. Adorable!

OMG - I just realized that was Doug Llewelyn from People's Court at the end there. Fantastic!

Respect to Weird Al for being himself all these years and being one of a kind.

LOL at the book being called "Ouch, my butt"

Listening to Weird Al as an adult I appreciate things I didn't really see as a kid. He is good not only at goofing and gagging on specific pieces of music and broader styles of music (his original songs are usually stylistic parodies)---but he is really good at doing so in a way that really highlights the silliness and absurdity of the source material. This isn't ALWAYS the case, and maybe he himself isn't always aware of the extent to which he is doing it, but I definitely think this song is an instance of him being fully aware of what he's doing. This song points very starkly to how ridiculous the original song is. I should look into it to confirm, but I think the line about the guy getting his willy cut off, "he couldn't quite explain it, it'd always just been there" is actually taken more or less directly from the original song, which tells a story about a girl ashamed of birthmarks covering her body. I think another one I never realized as a kid was how the song When I Was Your Age on Off the Deep End sort of builds on the parody of grunge and sad alternative music running through that album (most notably Nirvana, of course) by poking fun at the growing boomer cultural sentiments about the unfounded whininess and ungratefulness of the younger gen-x kids who were the marketing demographic for grunge music.

“Ouch My Butt”. Hahaha. That SHOULD be Michael Fay’s title for an autobiography. :)))

I love his voice in here!! besides, he's got such a wide vocal range!!

I remember when I first saw this video back in 1994, I was in tears laughing when he looks at that pack of hotdogs at 2:41. It still gets me every time

I'd forgot this song and seeing it as an adult gotta give AL and his band props for the fact he lumped headlines at the time and a parody of a fd up song into one......perfectly!

RIP Judy Tenuta (as Lorena Bobbitt here).

I'd forgotten about the Singapore kid. That was big news back in the day, but was never immortalized like Tonya and Nancy. Lorenna Bobbitt will live in infamy of course. Al picked his history pretty good.

Wish I had a girl look at me like that sumo wrestler looked at that guy during the end.

One of his best ones weird al is so talented very underrated as an entertainer

Holy crap. This is my first time seeing this video. A masterpiece! And a cameo by "the Love Goddess" Miss Judy Tenuta to top it off!

Love the casting for the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding segment. Good resemblances to all the main players

He should really do another version of this song for 2016...because God knows we had some interesting headlines this past year lol

Only Al can take a perfectly good song and make it historically accurate!!

I started watching cat videos and ended up here...

Al, we need a new one of these every 5 years. "Ooonce there was a gooorillaaa, living in his enclosure not bothering anyone...until, some kid jumped the fence."

It's pretty nice that Al gave Doctor Demento a cameo in this video, and that the doctor took it. When I was younger, I used to have an old Demento tape, but never had any idea what he looked like. To think, I had seen him and not known it... MIND MELTING.

RIP to Lorena Bobbitt in this video, Love Goddess Judy Tenuta.

I never realized that Dr. Demento was in so many of these videos. Props to Al for showing love to those who were there for him before all the fame.

I've always admired how Al can look amazingly cool even when he's just messing around, like at 2:43 when he falls off his seat.

Somebody told me there was gonna be a "Tanya & Nancy" TV special tonight. I decided to just watch this video again instead of that.

3:10 Dr. Demento on the right, Weird Al's main influence for his music and comedy!

A blast from the past on so many levels. Weird Al is the gift that keeps on giving.

Wow...just wow...I was only 10 then...this has aged so well lol This particular song is almost like a time capsule to me. The faces Al makes, and him trying to keep track with the camera and eventually falling over always made me laugh so hard ^O^

Weird Al is a one in a million genius. I like how the kid signed the book with spray paint lol

the guy in the front row yelling at his puppet always gets me lol

the tonya harding thing had me dying!!! lmao

That's the best response I've seen when someone says "little Mr. Happy was missing"

Weird Al is referencing actual massive controversies from around 1994. That is, actual headline news from the time period. Michael P. Fay, a U.S. citizen with ADHD, was sentenced to six strokes of the cane in Singapore at the age of 18 for theft and vandalism. This was later reduced to four at the request of then-President Bill Clinton, who Singapore liked. Fay later developed drug addiction due to his attempts to cope with the trauma through butane and marijuana. Nancy Kerrigan, innocent & beloved ice princess of the skating world, was clubbed in her landing leg by a strange man with a collapsible police baton between practice sessions on January 6, 1994. The intention was to break her leg, but she fortunately suffered only bruising and recovered very quickly. It was soon found the assailant had been hired by the ex-husband of Kerrigan's top rival, Tonya Harding, who was subsequently exiled from the skating world. Harding later became a professional boxer (no, really. Not joking.) John Bobbitt and Lorena Gallo married in 1989. In 1993 Lorena cut off his entire penis at the base with a knife while he slept, driving off and discarding the member in a field. She then called 9-1-1, who found and reattached John's penis. Lorena was arrested but found not guilty by insanity, while John's statements were constantly at odds with established facts - the prosecution and defense agreed that John was a highly abusive husband as both sides' witnesses consistently said so. They divorced. To cover legal fees, John created a (failing) band named The Severed Parts as well as pornographic films titled _John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut_ and _Frankenpenis_ . He had later brushes with the law for battery of women.

Used to cover the crash test dummies version of this back in the day… Just now saw this video and heard this weird Al Yankovic version for the first time. Hilarious! and - what a time capsule…

Those who weren't alive in late 1993 and early 1994, lets just say these things were damn crazy because these events really did happen. And I remember all of them.

LOVE that Dr.Demento had a cameo at the end!!!! AWWWWSOME!!!!

Weird Al is a one in a million genius. I still remember when these three stories were extensively covered by the media "I used to be a figure skater like you, then I took a club to the knee"

All the dislikes are from ppl who got spanked by their Warden

Is it just me, or was that a Dr. Demento cameo at the end. Can't believe after all these years, I just noticed it.

I actually thought that Al made up all those stories for the song until I read on Wikipedia that it's actually about real life events.

It took me about 3 views to notice that the kid was spray-painting his autograph at 1:47. I cracked up.

I used to look forward to whatever weird Al would come up with, this is definitely nostalgia for me.😊😊 I'm still laughing!!❣️

"Weird" Al's musical genesis is wasted by those that are completely clueless. Plus just an all around great guy from everything I have read/seen about him.