# Recommend 8-year-old friendly Weird Al Yankovic songs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004 "2019-04-03T21:26:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/41 "2019-04-05T17:31:28Z")
Bedrock Anthem - love the lyrics!
[https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+al+flintsones&rlz=1C1GCEA\_enUS798US799&oq=weird+al+flintsones&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.6078j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=weird+al+flintsones&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS798US799&oq=weird+al+flintsones&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.6078j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
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### Author:  [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/42 "2019-04-06T00:56:35Z")
Am I missing something that we’ve gotten this far in the thread with no mention of “Dare to be Stupid”?
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/43 "2019-04-08T05:21:46Z")
“Star Wars Cantina” song parody by Mark Jonathan Davis? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMlad4e3Q4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMlad4e3Q4)
> [@dzeiger](#):
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> Am I missing something that we’ve gotten this far in the thread with no mention of “Dare to be Stupid”?
I was thinking the same thing.
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/44 "2019-04-08T18:07:40Z")
No mention of “[Hardware Store](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chc9DwDkWn0)” yet? That song was _made_ for smart, quirky kids! Pretty energetic for waking up, too!
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/45 "2019-04-08T18:09:48Z")
How about the [white stuff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbseBW-AWn4) in the middle of an Oreo?
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/46 "2019-04-09T01:41:48Z")
Once you run out of Weird Al, you may want to try the music of [Parry Gripp](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNfsUeQm6zU2eBlQbEy4tw). He has upbeat kid-friendly music like “It’s Raining Tacos” and “Pancake Robot” that are big hits for the kids in my house.
It’s boppy and annoying, but not as dreadful as some alternatives, when the kids say “Alexa, shuffle Parry Gripp.”
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/47 "2019-04-09T02:07:48Z")
More on past Weird Al, how about some classic Ray Stevens? _Mississippi Squirrel Revival_ especially comes to mind.
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/48 "2019-04-09T04:19:55Z")
I can still remember that song by heart …grandma taped it for us ……
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/49 "2019-04-09T04:23:33Z")
> [@Billdo](#):
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> Once you run out of Weird Al, you may want to try the music of [Parry Gripp](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNfsUeQm6zU2eBlQbEy4tw). He has upbeat kid-friendly music like “It’s Raining Tacos” and “Pancake Robot” that are big hits for the kids in my house.
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> It’s boppy and annoying, but not as dreadful as some alternatives, when the kids say “Alexa, shuffle Parry Gripp.”
my nephew found out a 10 hour loop of raining tacos …… there’s this Minecraft style do it your self game maker/player site called ROBLOX and the game my nephew played had it running and someone posted the link…
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### Author:  [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/50 "2019-04-09T22:23:08Z")
Has Weird Al ever produced anything that \*wasn’\*t 8-year-old friendly?
ISTR a recent song having an oblique reference to sex that an 8yo isn’t going to get.\* That and an oblique pot reference in one song or another.
\*ETA: Remembered it! It was in “Word Crimes,” he references a “cunning linguist.”
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/51 "2019-04-09T22:44:22Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> Has Weird Al ever produced anything that \*wasn’\*t 8-year-old friendly?
The aforementioned _Melanie_ (stalking, suicide, suggestion that someone else commit suicide) and _Those Were the Good Old Days_ (serial killer.) Also, _I’d Rather Stick My Hand in a Blender_.
(ETA\* Christmas at Ground Zero\* isn’t especially cheerful, either.)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/52 "2019-04-09T22:55:51Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Also, _I’d Rather Stick My Hand in a Blender_.
(And the title of that is actually, I see, [_One More Minute_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhpk-8QLFQ).)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/53 "2019-04-09T23:04:03Z")
And now I’m seeing that that line is nowhere in the song. Now I’m wondering where I heard the phrase “I’d rather stick my hand in a blender” to the tune of _The Great Pretender_.
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### Author:  [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/54 "2019-04-10T00:04:01Z")
Any thoughts to exposing him to Tom Lehrer?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/55 "2019-04-10T00:50:50Z")
Here’s a pleasant one by Michael “Bluer Than Blue” Johnson. [Gee, I’m Glad I Worried About That.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_IIjFrZ9U)
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### Author:  [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/56 "2019-04-10T04:22:26Z")
Did anyone mention [Lasagna](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BgKuKgpau2Y)? It’s pretty good.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-8-year-old-friendly-weird-al-yankovic-songs/832004/57 "2019-04-11T19:33:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> (ETA\* Christmas at Ground Zero\* isn’t especially cheerful, either.)
It’s far cheerier than The Night Santa Went Crazy (Extra Gory Version)
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