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• Broken Base: Of course, the most famous are the "Blue Album and Pinkerton only" crowd, but there's also a significant amount of the fanbase who likes everything made before Make Believe, those who only like the stuff they did Make Believe and afterwards, and those who like everything they've ever done. None of these fan subdivisions get along too well.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Every single music video.
  • The music video for Photograph shows home made clips of what the band did during the Green Album Tour. Somewhere between clips of Rivers playing soccer and everyone playing pranks on their new bassist, the band is shown performing on stage as Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D barge onto the stage and join in.
  • Doing a cover of Toto's "Africa" in 2018 because the fans asked for it -- and then bringing in "Weird Al" Yankovic to do the video with them.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: The cover of Raditude
  • The music video for "Hash Pipe".
  • Any of the Spike Jonze-directed videos. And anything Matt Sharp and Pat Wilson do during performance segments of even the more straight-ahead videos like "The Good Life".
  • The cover of Hurley is nothing but a photo of Jorge Garcia.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The Blue Album, Pinkerton
  • For American soccer fans, "Represent."
  • Adding to Blue: all guitars on the album were recorded by Rivers. Yes, all of them.
• Ear Worm: 90% of their songs are the kind you hear once, and it'll be in your head all day long.
• First And Second Installments Win
• Epic Riff: "My Name is Jonas", "Island In The Sun", "Undone (The Sweater Song)", "Only In Dreams", "Tired Of Sex", "Say It Ain't So"
• Flanderization: The chief criticism directed at Weezer's albums after Pinkerton (especially Green, Maladroit and Make Believe) is that Rivers Cuomo "dumbed down" his songwriting to a Strictly Formula process after the more ambitious Pinkerton completely tanked. This three-part essay elaborates on that theory.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: The B-side "Mykel and Carli" is named after two girls who befriended the band and ran Weezer's fan club. The once bittersweet song became a pure Tear Jerker after they died in a car crash (as the lyrics contain the lines Then the schoolbus came/Took my friends away).
• Memetic Mutation: While trying to interact with fans during the Maladroit sessions, Cuomo had an infamous outburst when he described the universally acclaimed "Only in Dreams" as "GAY! GAY! DISNEY GAY!". Since then, Weezer fans sometimes use the term "Disney gay" to either disparage latter-day songs they consider "cheesy" or to sarcastically admit they like a song.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Many fans say that their newest album Hurley is Green Album quality or better.
• Seasonal Rot: Pretty much everything they've done since Pinkerton has met with accusations of this.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: The reason Pinkerton was initially a failure.
• Tough Act to Follow: Pinkerton
  • At the time, The Blue Album.
• Vindicated by History: Pinkerton. Initially blasted by critics for being far darker than The Blue Album, the album has since been considered one of their best efforts.