The Weird Al Show: An Unnecessarily Deep Dive into a Forgotten Cult Classic - Video Essay

Hey folks, and welcome to my first-ever video! I appreciate you stopping by!
It seemed only fitting that my first video be the best representation of what you'll be seeing from me: retro media history, pop culture analysis, and a whole lot of Weird. Come along as we learn a whole lot of useless facts about a show no one remembers, while I try my best to focus on the camera.

A CORRECTION:
20:47 - Al did NOT direct UHF-- that was his longtime manager, the wonderful Jay Levey. My words got a little twisted here, I meant say to say he wrote it (co-wrote, also with Levey!) and did not catch this in editing! Thank you so much to the folks who pointed it out! I also used whatever clips I had sitting on my computer for this bit, and they're also inaccurate--our man didn't direct either of those videos, either!

Chapters:
1. Weird Al: The Man, The Myth, The Legend 1:33
2. Kid's TV: A Brief History 6:13
3. Peewee Herman 8:31
4. No Fun Allowed: The FCC in the 80's and 90's 14:00
5. The Weird Al Show: A Comprehensive History 20:00
6. The End 45:16

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The Weird Al Show can be seen in its entirety on the Internet Archive. Here's a link to the first episode! https://archive.org/details/Weird_Al_...

I have also uploaded all the episodes with commentary tracks to the Internet Archive, and they can be found here: https://archive.org/details/@abby_e_e...

Sources:
The vast majority of my information for this one came either from the commentary tracks or my own ridiculous knowledge of Al lore. I did however find a sparkling relic of internet history with the fansite http://www.ritachu.com/altv.php. Also thanks to the wonderful History of American Pop Culture, a fantastic free resource for anyone interested in the basics of pop culture studies (https://www.explorepopculture.com/). Thanks to the fine contributors of Wikipedia for helping us disappoint our teachers one Google search at a time. Donate to Wikipedia. It's the right thing to do!

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