Weird Al gets some love from TV Guide
Nov. 7th, 2006 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatcrazycajunThis week's dead-tree edition of TV Guide (the website apparently doesn't have it) gives a shout-out to my all-time fave musical artist, the one and only Weird Al Yankovic, in its weekly "Cheers & Jeers" section. The Weird One gets Cheered for the music video of "White & Nerdy," which most of you have seen somewhere or other by now. (If not, waddaya waiting for? Go directly to YouTube. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. ADDENDUM: The video is now finally available through Apple Computer's iTunes Store. Considering that they had the music from the new CD practically the day the hard copy came out, one wonders what took them so long.)
Aside from some long-overdue recognition for the leading exponent of demented music in our time, the article finally cleared up a mystery for me: who the heck that strangely familiar-looking guy was dancing in such a whacked-out fashion behind Al in certain shots. (Turns out it was Donny Osmond, of all people. Not that I'm complaining, but just curious—why him? Sure, his own music is archetypically white and nerdy, but I didn't know Al even knew him.) I do have one quibble: in the shot where Al sings the line "all of my action figures are cherry," we see Seth Green (of Buffy/Austin Powers/Robot Chicken fame) doing a Vanna White on a shelf full of unboxed, posed action figures. Maybe I'm wrong — I'm by no stretch a collectibles expert — but wouldn't they all have to be still in their boxes with the shrink-wrap on to be considered "cherry"? (I assume the word is used to mean what eBay collectors call "New in Box Unopened" or "virgin.")
Aside from some long-overdue recognition for the leading exponent of demented music in our time, the article finally cleared up a mystery for me: who the heck that strangely familiar-looking guy was dancing in such a whacked-out fashion behind Al in certain shots. (Turns out it was Donny Osmond, of all people. Not that I'm complaining, but just curious—why him? Sure, his own music is archetypically white and nerdy, but I didn't know Al even knew him.) I do have one quibble: in the shot where Al sings the line "all of my action figures are cherry," we see Seth Green (of Buffy/Austin Powers/Robot Chicken fame) doing a Vanna White on a shelf full of unboxed, posed action figures. Maybe I'm wrong — I'm by no stretch a collectibles expert — but wouldn't they all have to be still in their boxes with the shrink-wrap on to be considered "cherry"? (I assume the word is used to mean what eBay collectors call "New in Box Unopened" or "virgin.")
