Today is not only National Grilled Cheese Day but on this day in 1988 (35 years ago… I know wtf?). Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic released his 5th album “Even Worse”. 

This album featured parody hits including Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ as ‘Fat’, Tiffany’s ‘I think we’re alone now’ as ‘I think I’m a Clone Now’ and LaBamba as ‘Lasagna’. 

Let’s jump in the time machine and go back to around 1997, my cousins and I (shoutout out Brett and Cody) decided to pop in a cd “Bad Hair Day” released March 12th 1996… as it began to spin in our boom box we had no idea what door we just opened into parody city. We already had a childlike sense of humor but this really took us to the next level. 

To my surprise I heard a familiar sound… Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ but what are these lyrics? ‘Amish Paradise’..... Ironically there are plenty of Amish families nearby so it was even funnier. 

Weird Al released 14 albums between 1983-2014. Among them include some memorable parodies. 

His self titled debut album released in 1983 included ‘I love Rocky Road’

1984 ‘“Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D’ featured ‘Eat It’ 

1985 ‘Dare to be Supid’ with ‘Like a Surgeon’ 

Previously mentioned 1988 ‘Even Worse’ and 1996 ‘Bad Hair Day’ 

2006 ‘Straight Outta Lynwood’ and ‘White & Nerdy’ 

I know there are so many more that I don’t have the time to go over but I hope this was a nice little funny skip down a weird memory lane. 

I’m off the next two days, my blogs resume again on Monday! 

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