# Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy” **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354 "2006-09-20T00:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/1 "2006-09-20T00:41:56Z")
Here is the [video.](http://www.break.com/index/weird_al_white_and_nerdy.html) Should I feel like a geek because I understand all the nerdy references? Also, notice the Pacman symbol when Weird Al raps solo. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/2 "2006-09-20T01:43:24Z")
Thanks, I really enjoyed that. Boyo Jim, White Nerd. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/3 "2006-09-20T01:50:01Z")
Brilliant! Did I see the lightsaber kid (or a facsimile thereof) in there? ---
**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:** [September 20, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/4 "2006-09-20T02:01:09Z")
Somebody mentioned on another site that the dancer in the video is Donny Osmond. More brilliance! ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/5 "2006-09-20T02:03:26Z")
That cracked me up! Hey, Weird Al has got some pretty good rap flow going there. The video is funny as hell. Yeah. I recognized the references in there. _Sigh_. **Silver1** , also white and nerdy… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/6 "2006-09-20T02:32:16Z")
Was that Seth Green showing off the action figures? ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/7 "2006-09-20T02:41:09Z")
Help a wother out (that’s a white nerdy brother, yo.) What is the equation behind him. I feel like I should recognize it, but too many years have passed. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/8 "2006-09-20T02:44:46Z")
The Star Wars Holiday Special cracked me right up! ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/9 "2006-09-20T02:45:03Z")
[All About the Pentiums](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-98377375624850470) was pretty good too. Who are the various “gangstas” in the White and Nerdy video? Actors or are they famous within a different section of the culture? ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/10 "2006-09-20T02:50:40Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Help a wother out (that’s a white nerdy brother, yo.) What is the equation behind him. I feel like I should recognize it, but too many years have passed. Thanks [/QUOTE] It looks to be the [Schrödinger Equation](http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SchroedingerEquation.html). ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/11 "2006-09-20T02:53:23Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Help a wother out (that’s a white nerdy brother, yo.) What is the equation behind him. I feel like I should recognize it, but too many years have passed. [/QUOTE] Same here. I paused and from what I could make out it’s: ```auto [(-h[sup]2[/sup]/2μ)Δ[sup]2[/sup]-(*e*[sup]2[/sup]/r)]Ψ(r)-EΨ(r) ``` Only the Delta is upside-down in the video, and I couldn’t find an unside-down delta in the character map. But damn if I have no idea what it is. And I’m engineer, I really should know! (But not a very _good_ engineer.) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/12 "2006-09-20T03:01:55Z")
It’s the three-dimensional time-independent Schrodinger equation, as seen [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation). ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/13 "2006-09-20T03:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] It’s the three-dimensional time-independent Schrodinger equation, as seen [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation). [/QUOTE] I guess you win the “White and Nerdy Award.” ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/14 "2006-09-20T03:09:24Z")
I’ve had a rotten day, and this video made me so happy I started to cry. It’s so nice that at least one thing hasn’t changed since I was six years old. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/15 "2006-09-20T03:15:04Z")
The video is streaming and so are my tears of laughter. I haven’t laughed this hard since…“Amish Paradise.” Viva Weird Al! E. Thorp Weird Al Fan since “The Brady Bunch” (to the tune of “Safety Dance”) ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/16 "2006-09-20T03:40:02Z")
Sorry, I’m back. Was just youtubing Al. I’d never seen [Bob](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg) . Absolutely brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/17 "2006-09-20T03:52:28Z")
That was a thing of beauty… ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/18 "2006-09-20T04:01:01Z")
Hilarious, AND I had a moment of shame because it made me realize how pathetic it was that I _really did_ get my Star Wars Holiday Special in a kind of shady back room deal situation, and that I thought I was cool and edgy while doing it. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/19 "2006-09-20T05:02:36Z")
Like (I’d guess) many Dopers, I saw the Star Wars Holiday Special in its first (only?) TV broadcast. If ever a “hangs head in shame” smiley was needed, it’s now. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354/20 "2006-09-20T05:33:33Z")
I’m pretty sure Al’s a Doper. Yup. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-al-s-white-and-nerdy/373354.md?page=2)