What Are Words For? (7/2)

[Railyn]

Well it's Wednesday again, and the mid-week blahs are just modified by the fact that I'm having major ISP problems at home, and the fact that this is a short week. So since last weeks mid-week comedy break was a hit, I figured we'd do it again.

Of course, I'm sticking with my main man, and am getting pumped because the concert is 10 days away!!!

This time I decided to go with a parody, and my favorite one at that. I love game shows, and am pretty good at them, but I know that if I ever tried to go on one, I'd bomb miserably. It's just my luck.

With that thought in mind.....

I LOST ON JEOPARDY
By Weird Al Yankovic
(parody of (Our Love's In) Jeopardy by The Greg Kihn Band)
Album: Weird Al in 3D
Author: A. Yankovic


Ohhhhhh...
I was there, to match my intellect, on national TV,
Against a plumber, and an architect, both with a Ph.D.
I was tense, I was nervous,
I guess it just wasn't my night.
Art Fleming gave the answers,
Oh, but I couldn't get the questions right-ight-ight
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)

Well I knew I was in trouble now,
My hope of winning sank,
'Cause I got the Daily Double now,
And then my mind went blank.
I took Potpourri for one hundred,
And then my head started to spin.
Well, I'm givin' up. Don Pardo,
Just tell me now what I didn't win,
Yeah, yeah.

I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)


(spoken by Don Pardo)
That's right Al--you lost! And let me tell what you didn't win: a twenty-
volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a
year's supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat. But that's not all!
You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people! And
you brought shame and disgrace on your family name for generations to come!
You don't get to come back tomorrow! You don't even get a lousy copy of our
home game! You're a complete loser!!

Don't know what I was thinkin' of,
I guess I just wasn't too bright.
Well, I sure hope I do better
Next weekend on The Price Is Right-ight-ight

I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby,
(Oooh.)
I lost on Jeopardy,
Baby...


My Opinion In A Nutshell: My tie for favorite Al song (along with last weeks song), it's one of his early classics. When he includes this with his live show, he has a clip of Don Pardo reading his part that comes up on the video screen. The video for this is hilarious, and Greg Kihn makes an appearance at the very end as does Dr. Demento (who appears in most Al videos).

Favorite Line: The whole Don Pardo bit.

[m c dornan]

Having a guest speaker in a song so often seems to be the high point of the song! This, and the baseball announcer in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", and Vincent Price in "Thriller".

[H2IZCOOL]

You could do Weird Al Wednesday for over a year and not run out of songs.

This is one of his best parodies. Of course he's talking about the old Jeopardy show that was on daytime and was hosted by Art Flemming. I don't recall if they gave away gifts other than money on the old show, so I'm not sure of the accuracy of the Pardo bit.

Favorite line:Well, I sure hope I do better, next weekend on The Price Is Right

[SAT-I need more room!!]

m said:

Having a guest speaker in a song so often seems to be the high point of the song! This, and the baseball announcer in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", and Vincent Price in "Thriller".

How about in the middle of Van Halen's Unchained where Eddie Van Halen says "Come on Dave, give me a break."? LOL!!

[Dawn]

I like H2's idea for "Weird Al Wednesday"!

This is a great one by Al, one of my favorites. I love the Dan Pardo section, especially the part about winning the year's supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat! It seems like it was one of the parting gifts in just about EVERY game show back then! LOL!

[Railyn]

m said:

Having a guest speaker in a song so often seems to be the high point of the song! This, and the baseball announcer in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", and Vincent Price in "Thriller".

You're right, I don't think the song would be as good without that bit. I love when he does this live, and all of a sudden Don Pardo pops up on the video wall.

[Railyn]

H2IZCOOL said:

You could do Weird Al Wednesday for over a year and not run out of songs.

This is one of his best parodies. Of course he's talking about the old Jeopardy show that was on daytime and was hosted by Art Flemming. I don't recall if they gave away gifts other than money on the old show, so I'm not sure of the accuracy of the Pardo bit.

Favorite line:Well, I sure hope I do better, next weekend on The Price Is Right

You're right. With 11 albums, I wouldn't run out of songs for awhile, so maybe I'll do that for the near future (or until I run out of good songs - I don't like every single thing he's done).

I have only seen one or two episodes of the old show, and they were on Game Show Channel while visiting my mother-in-law a few years back. I don't remember if everyone got money, or if it was like now, and 2nd and 3rd place got prizes. I do know EVERYONE gets a copy of the home game on every game show, and that's what makes that part so funny to me.

[Railyn]

Dawn said:

I like H2's idea for "Weird Al Wednesday"!

This is a great one by Al, one of my favorites. I love the Dan Pardo section, especially the part about winning the year's supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat! It seems like it was one of the parting gifts in just about EVERY game show back then! LOL!

Well, I can do Al for awhile before I run out of stuff, so I'll keep on doing it for now.

You are right. Rice-A-Roni and Turtle Wax are game show staples. I keep mentioning it, but this one had such a great video (one of Al's best) and when that part comes up, the hostesses are walking by with the product in their hands shaking their heads "no" at him, as if to say "You're such a loser! You don't even get any of the crappy obligatory sponsor stuff!". Then his real mom and dad make an appearance as...his parents watching at home, and a little girl (probably a relative of some sort - Al's an only child like me) picks up his picture and drops it in the trash. As I mentioned above, I absolutely love his being dened the lousy home game! ;D