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On August 27, 2018, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the ceremony, he requested that [[Donald Trump|no one smash it with a pickaxe, unless he does "something unfathomably monstrous and evil".]]
[[Captain Obvious|Responsible for]] the [["Weird Al" Effect]], where a parody remains popular long after the original, and his habit of using pop cultural metaphors (AKA [[Person as Verb|"Pulling a Weird Al"]]) led to his being the former trope namer for that.
Since there are a ''lot'' of songs floating around LimeWire and other peer-to-peer networks [[Misattributed Song|falsely attributed]] to Al, [http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/notbyal.html The Not Al List] was created to catalog these. A lot of these songs are raunchy, offensive, and the lead vocal vaguely sounds like Al, so since [[Small Reference Pools|Al is the most-visible parody musician]], his name gets attached to them, despite having subject matter and lyrics he would never touch. Even with the occasional subtext, he still aims to be a family friendly performer.
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* [[Poke the Poodle]]: "Young, Dumb & Ugly" is a song about this.
* [[Posthumous Narration]]: In "Melanie".
* [[Prank Call]]: His 1996 parody of [[TLC (band)|TLC]]'s "Waterfalls", [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwHYenKngQs "Phony Calls"], is not only all about this trope, it incorporates a snippet of one of Bart's phone calls from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In "Jerry Springer"; appropriately, Yankovic himself doesn't use the word, but guest vocalist [[Tress MacNeille]] does during a portion of the song parodying a typical episode of the show:
{{quote|'''Tress MacNeille''': Woofie, you ''bitch!''}}
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