Music Videos
While Yankovic's albums usually generate only one or two official music videos, Straight Outta Lynwood has spawned ten (one was never released). The DualDisc includes videos for all six original songs, and subsequent videos have been made for four of the parodies. This is in marked contrast to his last album, Poodle Hat, which generated only one (Bob).
| Videos from "Straight Outta Lynwood" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Animator | Notes |
| "Don't Download This Song" | Bill Plympton | Premiered on August 22, 2006 on Yahoo! Music. |
| "I'll Sue Ya" | Thomas Lee | Thomas Lee is best known for his Flash music video Star Wars Gangsta Rap. This video is currently in rotation on Fuse TV and is on Yankovic's MySpace page. During the concert scene of the video, one of the lawyers is playing a guitar similar to RATM's guitarist Tom Morello's "Arm the Homeless" guitar (except this one says "Arm the Lawyers") |
| "Virus Alert" | David Lovelace | David Lovelace is the creator of Retarded Animal Babies. According to Lovelace, "just about every RAB character will have cameos in the video." Yankovic has admitted to exercising more creative control over this video than the others present on the DVD, citing concern with Lovelace's infamous content. The keyboardist in the video has a similar appearance to Ron Mael, the keyboardist and chief songwriter of Sparks. |
| "Close but No Cigar" | John Kricfalusi Katie Rice |
John Kricfalusi is the creator of Ren & Stimpy. The video "takes an irreverent look at the world of dating as seen thru the eyes of Cigarettes the cat." In the following posts on Kricfalusi's blog there are some screenshots to the then-upcoming video as well. Prior to the album's release, Kricfalusi only referred to them as a "Mystery." |
| "Pancreas" | Directed/Concept by Jim Blashfield | Jim Blashfield used stock footage from the Prelinger Archives to create this video. |
| "Weasel Stomping Day" | Shadowmachine Films | A stop-motion animated video was created for the Adult Swim TV show Robot Chicken. It aired on "The Munnery", the show's 32nd episode on September 24, 2006. Yankovic also provides the voice of a boy whose wish to become a giant robot becomes true in another sketch in the episode. Later, in response to Yankovic's first time in the Billboard Top 10, Cartoon Network, the network on which Robot Chicken airs, jokingly took credit for his success in one of their commercial bumpers during Adult Swim, the adult-oriented television programming block on the network. |
| Other videos (parodies) | ||
| Title | Notes | |
| "White & Nerdy" | On August 15, 2006, Yankovic announced that he planned to shoot a music video for a song on the new album in the Los Angeles area on August 21, 24, 25, and 27. He posted a solicitation for volunteers to appear in the video on his MySpace blog. It was later revealed that the video was filmed for "White & Nerdy". This video was going to be released Monday September 18 at 9 PM Pacific Time on AOL.com, but, since the video had been leaked, AOL cancelled the premiere event and uploaded the video early. The video may also be viewed on Yankovic's MySpace.
On October 13, 2006 Yankovic teamed up with Yahoo! Music to create a fan-made music video for "White & Nerdy". The music video, with submissions from fans, is available at http://music.yahoo.com/vid-36680429-White-&-Nerdy-(Fans-Only-Version). |
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| "Do I Creep You Out" | JibJab premiered an animated video for "Do I Creep You Out" on November 15, 2006. | |
| "Canadian Idiot" | MuchMusic, a 24-hour Canadian cable music and variety television channel, had run a fan-made video contest on their website, however it was scrapped due to lack of entries. It was reinstated later, only giving the five fans their camera and a personalized greeting from Al. The fan music video was never created. | |
| "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" | MySpace debuted a video animated and directed by Doug Bresler (known for Doogtoons) on March 19, 2008 on the front page of MySpace. | |
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