The Weird Al Show
The Weird Al Show is a television show hosted by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Produced in association with Dick Clark Productions and taped at NBC Studios, it aired on Saturday mornings on the CBS TV network. New episodes ran from September to December 1997; after that, the episodes were repeated until September 1998. The show was released on DVD on August 15, 2006. The show is similar to Pee-Wee's Playhouse which also premiered on CBS.
Al's television set is called "Al TV", the name of a number of Yankovic's television specials.
CBS's reaction
Major creative conflicts occurred between CBS, which considered the show an educational children's series, and Yankovic, whose humor style was more adult-oriented. The show was canceled after one season, along with several other series in the CBS Saturday morning lineup.
CBS sent various notes to the writers of the show after reviewing the scripts, asking the writers to "Yankocize" (i.e. make funny) the commercial-break bumper announcements that the network wrote to reinforce each episode's lesson (or as Al put it, make them suck a little less), as well as remove any "imitable behavior" from the scripts that children might want to mimic after seeing on TV.
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by TV Theme Songs
The Weird Al Show
by: TV Theme SongsOh, this is a story 'bout a guy named Al
and he lived in the sewer with his hamster pal.
But the sanitation workers really didn't approve,
So he packed up his accordion and had to move
To a city in Ohio where he lived in a tree
And he worked in a nasal decongestant factory
And he played on the company bowling team
And every single night he had a strange recurring dream
Where he was wearing lederhosen in a vat of sour cream,
But that's really not important to the story.
Well the very next year he met a dental hygenist
With a sptula tatooed on her arm.
But he didn't keep in touch, and he lost her number,
Then he got himself a job on a tater tot farm.
And he spent his life savings on a split-level cave
Twenty miles below the surface of the earth,
And he really makes a mighty fine jelly bean and pickle sandwich,
For what it's worth.
Then, one day Al was in the forest, trying to get a tan,
When he heard the tortured screaming of a funny little man.
He was caught in a bear trap, and Al set him free.
And the guy that he rescued was grateful as could be.
And it turns out that he's a big shot producer on TV
So he gives Al a contract, and what do you know...
Now he's got his very own "Weird Al" Show!