# Your Favorite Weird Al Song **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207 "2000-10-17T01:39:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/41 "2000-10-18T02:07:52Z")
bibliophage wrote: > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > > \*\*Another one rides the bus… > > Another one rides the bus. > > And another one’s on, and another one’s on, > > Another one rides the bus. > > Hey! I’m gonna sit with you. > > Another one rides the bus. \*\* > > Ditto! I love that song. ([Full lyrics here](http://members.home.net/starfox/ridebus.html)). It’s the only Weird Al song I know the lyrics to. Every time I see a bus or hear Queen’s “Another one Bites the Dust,” this song goes through my head. I was a listener to the Doctor Demento Show in the late 1970s, back when it was only broacast locally on KMET in Los Angeles. I was there, listening to Doctor Demento, **the** night that Weird Al Yankovic played “Another One Rides the Bus” live on the air. The recording of that live performance was the one used on the Weird Al album where “Another One Rides the Bus” first appeared. It was also, without question, Al’s first hit song. You may worship me now. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/42 "2000-10-18T02:30:17Z")
How about “Mr. Polpeil” “you can even cut a tin can with it, but you wouldn’t want to!” WeirdAl is God. And _I_ love that name! ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/43 "2000-10-18T03:06:50Z")
…Before you know it, all the kinfolk are a-sayin’, Yeah, Buddy, move away from there. That litle Clampett got his own cee-ment pond. That little Clampett, he’s a millionaire. Now everyone said Californy Is the place that you oughta be. We got to load up this here truck now. We got to move to Beverly. Hills, that is. Swimmin’ pools, Move-a-move-a-movie stars! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/44 "2000-10-18T03:06:53Z")
Twice, Weird Al has done something on his albums that was rather … weird. He just does a remake, a “cover version” if you will, of a short song he heard on television. And it lasts about 30 seconds. Like I said, he’s done this twice, once with a straigh cover version of the jingle from the “Twister” commercial (right hand blue!), and once with the theme from “George of the Jungle” (before that awful live-action Disney movie came out). I absolutely cannot figure out what Al was up to with these two songs. And, no, this does not automatically make Al a “genius.” ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/45 "2000-10-18T03:16:50Z")
“Taco Grande” always gives me the jones for a sizzlin’ fajita skillet. But if anyone here knows me at all, then I’d vote for “Trigger Happy” :D. And I can swear that when he wrote “You Don’t Love Me Anymore” he was talking about me and my ex SO. _ **ExTank** “Mostly Harmless :wally”_ ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/46 "2000-10-18T04:02:28Z")
I first heard “The Night Santa Went Crazy” on the radio while negotiating narrow backroads one snowy Christmas Eve. It made me laugh so hard I had to pull off the road to avoid killing myself. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/47 "2000-10-18T08:01:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mojo57 \* > \*\*Slightly off the track, do you think Al is as funny since he had that LASIK surgery and got rid of his glasses? \*\* Yes, he certainly is! I finally saw him live this summer, and it was hilarious. One of the songs I liked best seems to be a “concert-only” song (maybe he can’t get the proper permission to release it on CD?), and it was a parody of the Titanic song called “The Toppings Will Go On and On”. Of course, he wore a pizza-delivery uniform and carried a pizza box. It seems that food will always make a good parody topic. The LASIK surgery/longer, less fluffy hair seem to have made him more attractive to certain friends of mine who saw the show with me. But it certainly did not make him any less funny. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/48 "2000-10-18T11:52:09Z")
tracer said: > [@](#): > > Like I said, he’s done this twice, once with a straigh cover version of the jingle from the “Twister” commercial (right hand blue!), Actually, the Twister one is not a straight cover version. It’s more of a fake-rap version. “All the girls and homeboys playin’ twister…” He also throws “illin’” and “chillin’” in there somewhere. Tamex: When I saw Al a few weeks ago, he didn’t play the song you mention. Alas… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/49 "2000-10-18T14:18:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tamex \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by mojo57 \* > > Slightly off the track, do you think Al is as funny since he had that LASIK surgery and got rid of his glasses? \*\* > > Yes, he certainly is! I finally saw him live this summer, and it was hilarious. One of the songs I liked best seems to be a “concert-only” song (maybe he can’t get the proper permission to release it on CD?), and it was a parody of the Titanic song called “The Toppings Will Go On and On”. You don’t need permission to cover or parody a song; Weird Al always does, though, I guess out of politeness. He may also get out of paying the standard royalty, which he’d have to cough up if he released “The Toppings Will Go On” without whatshisname’s permission. Or, he may simply have more material than he can get around to getting released. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/50 "2000-10-18T14:39:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*Lessee, nobody yet has mentioned: > > “King of Suede” > > \*\* Several years they played part of that as a “Name that Tune” radio q - with no word…the people were going nuts, repeatedly guessing “King of Pain” until someone got smart…LMAO… ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/51 "2000-10-18T15:02:25Z")
My favorite changes almost daily, but lately it has been “Albuquerque”. Absolutely hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/52 "2000-10-18T16:45:21Z")
I had said to tracer: > [@](#): > > Actually, the Twister one is not a straight cover version. It’s more of a fake-rap version. “All the girls and homeboys playin’ twister…” He also throws “illin’” and “chillin’” in there somewhere. I should note that, the more I thought about it, the more it seems like a parody of the way the Beastie Boys sang at the time, with New York accents and all. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/53 "2000-10-18T20:19:59Z")
Theme Song to Rocky XVIII You Don’t Love me Anymore Brady Bunch ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/54 "2000-10-18T22:47:58Z")
I think that _Albuquerque_ is the funniest song since _Existential Blues_ by Tom “T-Bone” Stankis. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/55 "2000-10-19T00:37:48Z")
It’s the _Wizard_ ‘I’d rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.’ Damn your eyes slythe. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/56 "2000-10-19T00:41:55Z")
Poppies, poppies, poppies… ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/57 "2000-10-19T01:00:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > I was a listener to the Doctor Demento Show in the late 1970s, back when it was only broacast locally on KMET in Los Angeles. > > You may worship me now. \*\* Sorry, dude, no worshipping from me I was listening to Dr D in Kentucky in 1977. June 30, 1980 As for my fave: ‘One More Minute’ and ‘Albuquerque’ (God, I hate that word) ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/58 "2000-10-19T01:03:12Z")
Where the hell did THAT date come in (June 30, 1980) must have been from something my roommate pasted in earlier… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/59 "2000-10-19T01:11:53Z")
I can’t believe that no one has mentioned THE best Weird Al song yet. “Frank’s 2000 Inch TV!” C’mon! I mean, it combines my two loves, Weird Al, and The Simpsons! “And I’m mighty proud to say, (yes I’m mighty proud to say) Now I can watch The Simpons from thirty blocks away!” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/60 "2000-10-19T05:51:09Z")
Nature Trail To Hell One More Minute I’ll be mellow when I’m dead. [That’s me. :rolleyes:] Christmas at Ground Zero (The **ONLY** Christmas Carol) Can’t Watch This (I agree!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207.md?page=4)