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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Real or Cake? [37s, CW]
What is "CW?"
posted by ElKevbo at 8:21 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
posted by ElKevbo at 8:21 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
Cake Warning?
posted by Schmucko at 8:24 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
posted by Schmucko at 8:24 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
Did he start doing drugs after all these years? Is this Daniel Radcliffe’s doing?
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:33 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:33 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
The bandage on his arm for the final scene is perfect, hahaha. Although him chopping his own arm off was a little bit disturbing.
posted by Literaryhero at 8:34 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
posted by Literaryhero at 8:34 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
hmm, wonder which he'd call one of those steak and mashed potato cakes
posted by Clowder of bats at 9:13 PM on April 17
posted by Clowder of bats at 9:13 PM on April 17
Did he start doing drugs after all these years? Is this Daniel Radcliffe’s doing?Never seen UHF, eh?
posted by Horkus at 9:27 PM on April 17 [24 favorites]
This is just a test to see who's seen UHF and who hasn't.
posted by chrominance at 9:41 PM on April 17 [20 favorites]
posted by chrominance at 9:41 PM on April 17 [20 favorites]
So... the cake was a lie?
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:41 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:41 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
The cake was a fish.
posted by Ignorantsavage at 9:57 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
posted by Ignorantsavage at 9:57 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
More choice: Cake or Death 1m50s [CW: cake, death, Lego, Izzard, CoE]
Seen UHF? = fail.
posted by BobTheScientist at 10:52 PM on April 17
Seen UHF? = fail.
posted by BobTheScientist at 10:52 PM on April 17
as a person who does VFX, I have 2 comments: 1 - yeeeeeesssss this is what we do this for, I love it. And; 2 -weird Al call me I'll make any crazy images you can dream up xoxoxo
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 12:03 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 12:03 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
What is "CW?"
It's short for "content warning". In the video, Weird Al makes it look like he cuts through his left arm with a kitchen knife. (It's not real, though.)
posted by WalkingAround at 2:14 AM on April 18
It's short for "content warning". In the video, Weird Al makes it look like he cuts through his left arm with a kitchen knife. (It's not real, though.)
posted by WalkingAround at 2:14 AM on April 18
It's not real, though
I refuse to believe that Weird Al is cake, so we're going to have to agree to disagree.
posted by flabdablet at 2:31 AM on April 18 [19 favorites]
I refuse to believe that Weird Al is cake, so we're going to have to agree to disagree.
posted by flabdablet at 2:31 AM on April 18 [19 favorites]
Cake news!
posted by chavenet at 2:45 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
posted by chavenet at 2:45 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
Just call me "Mr. Butterfingers!"
posted by gc at 4:45 AM on April 18 [8 favorites]
posted by gc at 4:45 AM on April 18 [8 favorites]
In the video, Weird Al makes it look like he cuts through his left arm with a kitchen knife. (It's not real, though.)
Well, he said it was real. And he's Weird Al, but you're just someone on the Internet that I don't really know.
posted by Naberius at 5:01 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
Well, he said it was real. And he's Weird Al, but you're just someone on the Internet that I don't really know.
posted by Naberius at 5:01 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
The thing with Al’s non-song humor is that he has to fire off a ton of them to get one or two zingers. With this musical content, we only hear the finished version.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 5:30 AM on April 18
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 5:30 AM on April 18
The cake is still real even though it's cake.
posted by Catblack at 5:47 AM on April 18 [5 favorites]
posted by Catblack at 5:47 AM on April 18 [5 favorites]
As someone who is in the "should be a huge Weird Al fan" demographic, but isn't... I thought this was really great!
I never hated Weird Al, but the spoof song thing never really spoke to me.
posted by SoberHighland at 5:54 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
I never hated Weird Al, but the spoof song thing never really spoke to me.
posted by SoberHighland at 5:54 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
I blame Weird Al for my tendency to raise one eyebrow in photos.
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:12 AM on April 18 [9 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 6:12 AM on April 18 [9 favorites]
pulling out my soapbox to note that content warnings, by their nature, are much more useful when they are warnings about the specific nature of the content, rather than just “warning: contains content”
posted by DoctorFedora at 6:14 AM on April 18 [17 favorites]
posted by DoctorFedora at 6:14 AM on April 18 [17 favorites]
Yes but in this case describing the content ruins the joke.
If i hadn't put that there, this entire thread would be people bitching that there wasn't a content warning.
posted by hippybear at 6:22 AM on April 18 [13 favorites]
If i hadn't put that there, this entire thread would be people bitching that there wasn't a content warning.
posted by hippybear at 6:22 AM on April 18 [13 favorites]
Clowder of bats: hmm, wonder which he'd call one of those steak and mashed potato cakes
This MEANS something!
posted by dr_dank at 7:57 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
This MEANS something!
posted by dr_dank at 7:57 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
If i hadn't put that there, this entire thread would be people bitching that there wasn't a content warning.
You didn't put in a content warning though. Perhaps you don't know what a content warning is?
A content warning says something specific like "police brutality" or "eating disorder" so that people who are affected by those things aren't cut off from accessing the Internet.
Just saying "CW" is not a content warning, because it could mean literally anything. A real example: Weird Al Yankovic literally has a song and music video called "Fat" where the entire song is just fatphobia (that's it, there's no other joke). But the people affected by that might not be affected by gore.
posted by splitpeasoup at 8:29 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
You didn't put in a content warning though. Perhaps you don't know what a content warning is?
A content warning says something specific like "police brutality" or "eating disorder" so that people who are affected by those things aren't cut off from accessing the Internet.
Just saying "CW" is not a content warning, because it could mean literally anything. A real example: Weird Al Yankovic literally has a song and music video called "Fat" where the entire song is just fatphobia (that's it, there's no other joke). But the people affected by that might not be affected by gore.
posted by splitpeasoup at 8:29 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
The cake is still real even though it's cake
I'm sorry but this is just philosophically incoherent.
posted by flabdablet at 8:47 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
I'm sorry but this is just philosophically incoherent.
posted by flabdablet at 8:47 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
That's just the sort of thing that a cake masquerading as a person on the internet would say.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:09 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:09 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
Weird Al Yankovic literally has a song and music video called "Fat" where the entire song is just fatphobia (that's it, there's no other joke).
I think you are forgetting the hoe.
posted by The Manwich Horror at 9:32 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
I think you are forgetting the hoe.
posted by The Manwich Horror at 9:32 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
You ain’t fat! You ain’t NOTHIN’!
posted by dr_dank at 9:41 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
posted by dr_dank at 9:41 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
While I do understand that the song "Fat" is widely deprecated today, I do want to point out that the real joke of the song isn't really so much about being fat as much as it is taking Michael Jackson's braggadocio in his song "Bad" and lampooning his insistence that his being "Bad" was something to be lauded. The parody song echoes the themes and rhyme schemes and vowel usage of the original song so accurately that if you aren't listening closely you could easily mistake the parody for the original.
It's perhaps an unfortunate shift of subject matter for the parody to have chosen, but as a parody it is truly one of his stronger efforts.
posted by hippybear at 1:55 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
It's perhaps an unfortunate shift of subject matter for the parody to have chosen, but as a parody it is truly one of his stronger efforts.
posted by hippybear at 1:55 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
I do want to point out that the real joke of the song isn't really so much about being fat as much as it is taking Michael Jackson's braggadocio in his song "Bad" and lampooning his insistence that his being "Bad" was something to be lauded.
The only way to believe this is to have never read the lyrics to Michael Jackson's song, having no understanding of what it's about, and having the absolute 'whitest' understanding of what the word 'bad' in the song means. It's ok to admit that Weird Al went for a lazy parody, and thankfully criticism of that song, along with Kurt Cobain's shade-throwing question "‘Is it going to be a song about food?" forced/convinced Weird Al to up his game, which he did.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:39 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
The only way to believe this is to have never read the lyrics to Michael Jackson's song, having no understanding of what it's about, and having the absolute 'whitest' understanding of what the word 'bad' in the song means. It's ok to admit that Weird Al went for a lazy parody, and thankfully criticism of that song, along with Kurt Cobain's shade-throwing question "‘Is it going to be a song about food?" forced/convinced Weird Al to up his game, which he did.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:39 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
Just saying "CW" is not a content warning, because it could mean literally anything.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Also, I thought "CW" as in the TV network.
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:51 PM on April 18 [7 favorites]
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Also, I thought "CW" as in the TV network.
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:51 PM on April 18 [7 favorites]
It's both kinds of music: Country and Western!
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:54 PM on April 18 [7 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:54 PM on April 18 [7 favorites]
I never hated Weird Al, but the spoof song thing never really spoke to me.I saw a recent live concert of his and none of the songs he performed were parodies, it was all original songs. That content might suit you better.
posted by WaylandSmith at 3:30 PM on April 18 [2 favorites]
Does anyone here actually like each other?
posted by Jarcat at 4:52 PM on April 18 [21 favorites]
posted by Jarcat at 4:52 PM on April 18 [21 favorites]
I like everybody because they might be made of cake.
posted by mittens at 5:23 PM on April 18 [5 favorites]
posted by mittens at 5:23 PM on April 18 [5 favorites]
*Insert Soylent Cake movie reference here
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:28 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:28 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
I like everybody because they might be made of cake.
Icing the body electric,
The pastries that I so love engirth me as I engulf them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
Ingurgitate them until crammed full with the crumbs of the whole.
posted by flabdablet at 6:08 PM on April 18 [7 favorites]
Icing the body electric,
The pastries that I so love engirth me as I engulf them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
Ingurgitate them until crammed full with the crumbs of the whole.
posted by flabdablet at 6:08 PM on April 18 [7 favorites]
Does anyone here actually like each other?
The longer I'm here, the more I realize it is an Oz built entirely out of straw men and imagined slights with a strong helping of "let me tell you what you said that you actually did say". It's tiresome. It was more fun when the place was more strident but also more lenient and tolerant.
posted by hippybear at 6:32 PM on April 18 [4 favorites]
The longer I'm here, the more I realize it is an Oz built entirely out of straw men and imagined slights with a strong helping of "let me tell you what you said that you actually did say". It's tiresome. It was more fun when the place was more strident but also more lenient and tolerant.
posted by hippybear at 6:32 PM on April 18 [4 favorites]
I don't know what you're accusing me of, but I resent it.
posted by flabdablet at 7:16 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
posted by flabdablet at 7:16 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
I was just charmed by the fact that he used appropriate knives for whatever he was cutting.
posted by Quonab at 8:14 PM on April 18 [4 favorites]
posted by Quonab at 8:14 PM on April 18 [4 favorites]
Cw: contains metafilter
posted by Sebmojo at 9:17 PM on April 18 [2 favorites]
posted by Sebmojo at 9:17 PM on April 18 [2 favorites]
he used appropriate knives for whatever he was cutting
It would take a completely implausible degree of wilful ignorance not to understand that in 2024 the appropriate implement for domestic cake processing is not any kind of knife but eight spoons, so I can only assume that this comment was posted deliberately to offend. I'm neither impressed nor amused by it. Metafilter needs to hold itself to a higher standard than this.
posted by flabdablet at 11:23 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
It would take a completely implausible degree of wilful ignorance not to understand that in 2024 the appropriate implement for domestic cake processing is not any kind of knife but eight spoons, so I can only assume that this comment was posted deliberately to offend. I'm neither impressed nor amused by it. Metafilter needs to hold itself to a higher standard than this.
posted by flabdablet at 11:23 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]
eight spoons
This better not awaken anything in me.
posted by mittens at 6:35 AM on April 19 [2 favorites]
This better not awaken anything in me.
posted by mittens at 6:35 AM on April 19 [2 favorites]
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