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** "Party in the CIA"
* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: In "A Complicated Song", he is merely frustrated about being beheaded.
* [[M. C. Escher]]: In "White and Nerdy", Al explains he is Al's favorite [[Punny Name|MC]].
* [[Manipulative Editing]]: ''Al TV'''s fake interviews, where Al adds weird questions to a famous person's answers ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIaO7sRjyxw original]/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPwBdnknGIs edited]). And sometimes, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepM8VCGN7c the interviewee acts weird enough to help!].
* [[Memetic Badass]]: [[In-Universe|In-song]] example -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnapb-30hA Charles Nelson Reilly].
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* [[Shave and a Haircut]]: Often appears near the end of the polka medleys.
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: When performing "Dog Eat Dog", a style parody of [[Talking Heads (band)|Talking Heads]], Al wears a suit with ''massive'' shoulder pads as a spoof of David Byrne's [[Memetic Outfit]]. He also wears it briefly in the "UHF" video.
* [[Shout-Out]]: These lines from "Amish Paradise":
{{quote|''[[Gilligan's Island|There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar,]]''
''[[Gilligan's Island|Not a single luxury!]]''
''[[Gilligan's Island|Like]] [[Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Ca-rusoe,]]''
''[[Gilligan's Island|It's as primitive as can be!]]'' }}
** According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20141006123424/http://www.weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm#0400 Word of] [[Word of God|Al]], "Slime Creatures from Outer Space" includes a line from an ''[[SCTV]]'' sketch, and the vinyl of ''Dare to Be Stupid'' had "[[Talking Heads (band)|More Songs About TV and Food]]" etched into the inner groove.
** "Alpocalypse" has a song called "CNR" which contains a shout-out to Jim Croce.
** There is even a [[Shout-Out]] '''TO''' Al out there. [[Chamillionaire]]'s remix of "Ridin'" called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JfHXU0yv-0 Ridin' Overseas]" mentions "White And Nerdy". (1:59 in the linked video)
{{quote|''A year later, after "White And Nerdy",''
''On the grind, still tryin', still flyin' birdies.'' }}
** "Running With Scissors" has two shout-outs to Monty Python. "The Truck Drivin' Song" to "The Lumberjack Song" (both about a man in a masculine occupation who likes to dress in ladies' clothing) and in "Albuquerque" a donut shop that has no donuts (referencing the "Cheese Shop" sketch).
** "White and Nerdy" also mentions ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: About the songs and artists he parodies.
** "Trigger Happy" and "Pancreas", his [[The Beach Boys|Beach Boys]] homages; the former song has elements of "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Catch A Wave", "No-Go Showboat", "Surfin USA", and "Little Deuce Coupe" in it; the latter has elements of "Our Prayer", "Do You Like Worms", "God Only Knows", "I Know There's An Answer", "Wind Chimes", "Heroes and Villains", and "Good Vibrations", all in one song.
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