When Weird Al hits, he hits hard... We should do a Weird Al appreciation thread.

purplethunder3121 said:

We should do a Weird Al appreciation thread.

MickyDolenz said:

purplethunder3121 said:

We should do a Weird Al appreciation thread.

purplethunder3121 said:

MickyDolenz said:

I remember when my family first got cable around '83 or so and I was watching MTV around the clock, Weird Al was hosting all the time. I loved his nerd-craziness back then...

purplethunder3121 said:

I remember when my family first got cable around '83 or so and I was watching MTV around the clock, Weird Al was hosting all the time. I loved his nerd-craziness back then...

We didn't have cable at first, but I saw Weird Al on Friday Night Videos and an episode of Dance Fever.

It's amazing he has stayed around so long & had success longer then some of the people he used to parody

I remember cable T.V. back then was $13.00 per month for EVERYTHING and my family thought that was too damned expensive...

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Gunsnhalen said:

It's amazing he has stayed around so long & had success longer then some of the people he used to parody

purplethunder3121 said:

I remember cable T.V. back then was $13.00 per month for EVERYTHING and my family thought that was too damned expensive...

My grandmother lived in the country and there was no cable there. There's still no cable today, but there is satellite.

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MickyDolenz said:

purplethunder3121 said:

I remember cable T.V. back then was $13.00 per month for EVERYTHING and my family thought that was too damned expensive...

My grandmother lived in the country and there was no cable there. There's still no cable today, but there is satellite.

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I lived with my grandparents, too. But, it was in a city, although they owned a farm in the country, also. No cable there--just the old black and white console TV. Everyone on our block, in the city, at that time had cable and us kids talked them into getting it. Then, after we got it, my grandparents got hooked on it, too. Just not MTV!

I'm surprised the Dance Fever performance is online. I only saw it when it originally ran, but I recorded the song on a cassette from the TV. I used to have one of those what I called a "church tape recorder". That's because I would see the ladies at church taping the choir or preacher with them. It's not the whole thing and not good video quality though. Somebody should show reruns of Dance Fever. I used to watch it every week.

MickyDolenz said:

I'm surprised the Dance Fever performance is online. I only saw it when it originally ran, but I recorded the song on a cassette from the TV. I used to have one of those what I called a "church tape recorder". That's because I would see the ladies at church taping the choir or preacher with them. It's not the whole thing and not good video quality though. Somebody should show reruns of Dance Fever. I used to watch it every week.

That must have been after church...

purplethunder3121 said:

That must have been after church...

They look like this: