# "Weird Al" gives Pharrell the "Tacky" treatment **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107 "2014-07-14T21:40:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/61 "2014-07-16T17:49:08Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Started out pretty weak, but a funny twist in the middle. Probably the weakest video of the three so far, IMO, but still fun. I enjoyed it. Starts off an old-school somewhat predictable Weird Al food parody, and then, the twist! ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/62 "2014-07-16T17:52:36Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > The next video is out now on Weird Al’s site. > > [http://www.weirdal.com/](http://www.weirdal.com/) > > Based on Lorde’s “Royals,” it’s called “Foil.” It takes an amusing turn in the middle of the song. Cameo by Patton Oswalt. That’s awesome, I’ll have to throw that in as a response the next time we get a WTC/Moon Landing/Chemtrail/Freeman On The Land/other lunacy believer thread. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/63 "2014-07-16T18:24:40Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > The next video is out now on Weird Al’s site. > > [http://www.weirdal.com/](http://www.weirdal.com/) > > Based on Lorde’s “Royals,” it’s called “Foil.” It takes an amusing turn in the middle of the song. Cameo by Patton Oswalt. The FBI agents were Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant from _Reno 911!_. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/64 "2014-07-16T18:29:53Z")
I thought the video was ok, but then when it took the turn in the middle of the song, it just became brilliant, LOL! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/65 "2014-07-16T19:21:06Z")
I like the camerman guy is the guy from Agents of Shield. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/66 "2014-07-16T19:28:46Z")
The video was just ok for Foil, but I actually listened to the song before seeing the video, and I agree the video makes the song 100% funnier. It was just mildly amusing hearing the song go from talking about using aluminum foil to keep food fresh to conspiracy theories, but imagining it in the context of a cooking show host going off the deep end on live TV made it really funny. And his facial expressions are truly scary, ha! Loved it. The song is just ok, the video is just ok, but they go together to make something much better than either on their own. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/67 "2014-07-16T19:32:02Z")
> [@simster](#): > > I like the camerman guy is the guy from Agents of Shield. Uh, do you mean Patton Oswalt? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/68 "2014-07-16T20:08:44Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > The FBI agents were Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant from _Reno 911!_. I missed that. I like this video even more now. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/69 "2014-07-16T20:38:14Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > Uh, do you mean Patton Oswalt? No - I mean [Eric or Bill Koenig](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0429202/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6). ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/70 "2014-07-16T21:59:22Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > As long as we’re being sticklers, that DNA diagram is wrong. What about it? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/71 "2014-07-17T01:23:31Z")
It occurs to me that _Tacky_ would have reached the sublime if there’d been a bit about how it’s tacky to deliberately mispronounce people’s names, with a cameo by George Takei. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/72 "2014-07-17T01:33:57Z")
> [@simster](#): > > I like the camerman guy is the guy from Agents of Shield. Now I am confused. Is the camera man a cameo as well, or just Patton Oswalt? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/73 "2014-07-17T02:16:20Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Now I am confused. > > Is the camera man a cameo as well, or just Patton Oswalt? yes. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/74 "2014-07-17T02:39:26Z")
> [@simster](#): > > yes. Yes??? Now, I am officially confused. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/75 "2014-07-17T03:32:29Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes??? > > Now, I am officially confused. Patton Oswalt plays [Eric and Bill Koenig](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0429202/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6) on Agents of Shield - so it is both - even moreso given the characters ‘trait’ on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/76 "2014-07-17T04:17:49Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > And now video #2: [Word Crimes](http://weirdal.com/), a parody of Blurred Lines. > > Absolutely great again. Very well done with the lyrics! That is _literally_ the best thing I have ever seen. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > The album is _Mandatory Fun_. If you know the songs being parodied, it’s great. May be his best album of the last ten years. One of the best things about Al is that his parodies are still hilarious even if you don’t know the original (as is happening more and more often as I get older). > [@leftfield6](#): > > Just embrace it, brother, she does something for me too. Can’t really figure it out either, but what the hey. She _is_ awfully cute, in an odd way. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > On an unrelated note, Weird Al officially joins the ranks of “Does this guy never age or what?” > > He looks essentially the same (just without the 80’s 'stache) as when he first started his career. I think this is a combination of the fact that he looked older than he was when he was younger, and looks younger than he is now at 54 years old. Maybe it’s that crazy hair! Clean living, man, clean living. Like Donny Osmond. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/77 "2014-07-17T05:33:17Z")
Look for the “Behind the scenes” pictures from _Tacky_ to get a picture of Schaal’s boots. “Ugg” is an insufficient descriptor. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/78 "2014-07-17T10:47:39Z")
I don’t know if he’ll do a video, but I just heard his new song “Mission Statement” > [@](#): > > Monetize our assets > … > Networking, soon will bring, seamless integration > … > If you can’t think outside the box > You’ll be downsized > It’s a paradigm shift! (Hey, Hey! Look out!) And it’s done in the style of Crosby, Stills and Nash, even riffing on some songs like “Carry on” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” It’s on youtube here (for now) https://www.youtube.com/embed/-7HRXnOCnwA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/79 "2014-07-17T12:04:00Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Word Crimes should be this board’s answer to all the new posters who come here writing in l337 or text speak. It can be our version of Rick Rolling, or Obligatory [XKCD][Simpsons][Whatever]. I second the motion and call for a vote by the membership. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107/80 "2014-07-17T12:16:33Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > On an unrelated note, Weird Al officially joins the ranks of “Does this guy never age or what?” > > He looks essentially the same (just without the 80’s 'stache) as when he first started his career. I think this is a combination of the fact that he looked older than he was when he was younger, and looks younger than he is now at 54 years old. Maybe it’s that crazy hair! You can see a little bit of grey at his roots, but I’m a bit miffed that he looks younger than me, and he’s older by 10 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-gives-pharrell-the-tacky-treatment/693107.md?page=5)