Weird Al-gorithm

We finally enter our Bad Hair Day era of Weird Al's career with Amish Paradise. For Matt & Matt this is the first Al song they were ever exposed to so it holds a special place in both their hearts. We are joined by die-hard Al fan and comedic podcaster Robert Bacon to break down this massive song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've reached the final Al Music appearance on MuchMusic and we had to bring rapper Sean "Wordburglar" Jordan who unexpectedly appeared in the previous Al Music special! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In possibly the most obscure thing we've ever discussed on this podcast we dive into Al's appearances on the short lived educational kids series The Eddie Files Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back with another MAL-Bag episode and boy did y'all send some amazing letters for us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we check out Al's appearance on the first season of Space Ghost Coast to Coast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we dive into the first non-album single from Weird Al ... the Crash Test Dummies parody Headline News! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are back at the Great White North to discuss the 2nd of Al's 3 AL Music Appearances! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have officially hit the end of Alapalooza with the first (and only) Weird Al Polka-Cover song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are joined again by UHJeff to discuss Al's Peter Gabriel homage Waffle King. Is this an unfairly ignored Al original? We dive in and try to decide! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we celebrate Al with easily his most popular short song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the Matts tackle one of the more divisive tracks in Al's recording history. One of the Matt's at one time actively said this was the worst Al original ... does that still stand? Listen and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are joined by Kevin Shinick. Kevin's love of Al and Mad Magazine as child helped him find a career working on Robot Chicken and co-creating the Mad TV series. Kevin and us dive into the Aerosmith parody Livin' in the Fridge and discuss how it's possible one of the Matt's had little knowledge of the Aerosmith original. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we discuss the forgotten early years of E!'s daily show celebrating trash TV and the rejected theme song Al wrote for them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are talking about legally not Prince's Let's go Crazy (but basically Prince's Let's Go Crazy) ... Traffic Jam by Weird Al! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are joined by Taylor Morden who's horror film Bampire is currently running an IndieGoGo Campaign to hit it's funding! We discuss one of the most mean spirited songs Al's ever written ... Achy Breaky Song! Donate to Taylor's Film at Bampiremovie.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are joined by Josh Forbes. Josh recently wrote and directed Destroy All Neighbors for Shudder but is also a die-hard Weird Al-coholic. Beyond making one of the more unique horror comedies in recent memory, he also directed a music video for Jonah Ray's cover of Frank's 2000" TV which you have to track down and watch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Kelly never slows down on producing podcasting and he has yet another one! Enjoy this little preview of the newest episode of Matt's new podcast YA-OK. Subscribe to the show if you like what you hear! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yabba Dabba Do Now Listeners! We are joined by Matt "Team Goldie" DiStefano this week to discuss Al's attempt at capturing the sound of Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as trying to get a song on the Flintstones Soundtrack! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we dive into Al's attempt to do an AC/DC style parody. We're torn on how successful the attempt ultimately ended up being but how do we like it as an Al original in general? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are finally kicking off our Alapalooza coverage with Al's bizarre tribute to Jurassic Park via one of the strangest hit songs of all time MacArthur Park! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have hit 100 episodes and it's perfectly timed with the release of The Food Album! Instead of a regular episodes we are doing a draft episode with regular guest Jim Logrando! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for another MAL-Bag episode! Besides answering listener mail we dive into Al's appearances on Square TV and his song Patterns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we visit the an episode of Wheel of Fortune where Al Yankovic plays against Little Richard and James Brown (as a team) and Lee Greenwood. This was a hard one to find a quality version of but we're glad we watched it for the bizarre relationship between Little Richard and James Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back with yet another Al-TV episode this time covering the 6th episode that aired to promote Off the Deep End in 1992. We are joined by 91 Donkey Lane host Nate Lopez this week as well. This is a CRAZY episode we watched. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are joined by Bowling For Soup vocalist Jaret Reddick to discuss Al's folk-y tribute to heartbreak with You Don't Love Me Anymore! For years people say it's a style parody of Extreme but we think that's strictly because of the iconic music video, stylistically it appears Al dug into a much more obscure and personal reference point! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...