Still remember logging into Newgrounds back in the day and finding this on the front page. Thought it was a fan animation at first. Really cool that Al did a music video with flash animators so early in it's life. This is definitely the kind of song that would've been big with early-2000s comedy.
Yea The Same With Eat It And Foil. AL Talks About You Should Eat Your Food Even If You're Full. In Foil He Says He Wraps His That He Doesn't Eat In Tin Foil.
to people who hate this song: turn off your computer and make sure it powers down. drop it in a 43 foot hole in the ground. bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine.
This is a direct quote from Boingo2000 from another Weird Al video, about the inspiration for this song: "Weird Al once did an interview online where he talked about the influences on his parodies. The interviewer asked about “Virus Alert” and Al responded that it was a style parody of a band he liked called Sparks, specifically from the era of their album Kimono My House. I had never heard of Sparks before, but a recommendation from Weird Al is good enough for me, so I went out, picked up that album, and fell in love. Thank you Weird Al for not only making my life better with your music, but making my life better with other people’s music too."
@@masonhunter2748 or use an if statement. Although I suppose a while loop would allow the song to repeat infinitely until the issue is dealt with. Best not to use the loop. People may take too long to respond due to repeatedly letting the song play.
You're sending virus laden mail with log-in attachments To every single person you know. Maybe this "Stinky Cheese" thing was what he was referring to in that song.
The scary part is some of the things this "virus" could do in this video seemed so insanely absurd at the time, but viruses nowadays could seriously pull off some of the things in this video.
I am gonna make a virus to make you think of horrible ways your pet could die by your fault of some way What if you accidentally step on the poor little dude?
"Translate your documents into Swahili" - Not sure why it would do this, but it's possible. "Make your TV record Gigli" - If it's a "smart" TV then it could be possible to make it record anything. "Neuter your pets and give your laundry static cling" - No. "It's gonna make your computer screen freeze" - Absolutely possible. "Erase the Easter eggs off your DVDs" - Not possible unless they're DVD-RAMs. "Erase your hard drive and your backups too" - Possible and often done. That's why critical data should have air-gapped backups. "And the hard drive of anyone related to you" - If it can find those people and fool them too, definitely possible. And that's just the first verse. The following ones get more crazy, but setting the (device's) clock is possible, even the pH balance of your pool could be controlled if it's automated and connected to your computer (or to whatever gets infected).
The kind of creepy thing is that not all of the ridiculous stuff he mentioned is actually beyond the scope of cyberattacks. In fact, almost all of the actually computer-related things could be done by a hacker with enough skill and a reason to do them, such as "for the hell of it". Depending on how integrated the control systems are, it even could make you TV record Gigli and mess up the pH balance in your pool. Fortunately, it would not be possible to leave Twinky wrappers, so we are safe from the greatest threat hackers might pose.
@Mark Hendrix some one actually said I won a car in a contest I entered. I told them to send me a message from there main account on TH-cam. Because there a popular youtuber. And he didn't so I just ignored it saying well it's just some scammer.
Let us take a moment to appreciate Weird Al’s efforts to prevent the insidious Stinky Cheese virus. My grandfather’s conputer was infected by it and our poodle got a hicky. I have learned to tune out the knock knock jokes at night but I am not on speaking terms with my grandmother anymore.
Could be an All-In-One computer, where the components you'd normally have in a separate tower are integrated into the monitor housing instead (you know, like the old iMacs).
I just love that, at the very end, the email being sent looks to have the Subject Line: STINKY CHEESE So, it's a virus spreading itself as a virus alert. I'm almost surprised no one actually tried this, considering the method used by the "I LOVE YOU" virus.
That's actually one of the MOST COMMON types of malware virus used in website links. Usually they appear as popups (or new tabs) in internet browsers claiming that a computer "may be at risk from an infected webpage" and claim that a certain number, email, or website should be contacted in order to "fix the problem". They are meant to mimic warning popups that some actual anti-viruses will activate whenever a risk is detected. However, the real antivirus popups typically come from the applications themselves, NOT from browsers. Another difference is the fact that most antivirus software popups will not ask you to contact anyone.
@@viddork The aspect I'm surprised about is that this turns the entire song from "A nice, albeit exaggeration-filled warning" to a situation of a grave omen which now lists every torment you would now endure. At the beginning of the song, you would have an email with a bizarre title, so you would click on it. Only to realize that, by opening it, you have doomed everything on your counter, and even others. The kindest thing about the list now is that you know exactly (in theory) what this is going to do, or, maybe even worse, convince someone to destroy their counter when it really is "a normal email with a weird title" because the virus is a complete joke and doesn't even exist.
I love the irony of this song. It’s warning about a virus and tells you to “forward this message to everyone you know,” which spreads it like a… well, virus!
@@jessicacaron5084 it does also give you terrible advice like destroying your computer and saying that it would do things a computer virus could not possibly do, but that could just be for the sake of comedy and there's no deeper meaning it's just nonsense
So, I recently learned that this song is a Style Parody of the artpop band Sparks, of which Yankovic was a huge fan of their work, even appearing in the recent documentary about the brother duo behind it. Looking that this video all these years later, he had to have told the guy who animated it. How? Look at the keyboardist in the video, it's meant to look like Ron Mael, the head songwriter of the group, who has a distinctive look of a short moustache and a deadpan scowl he never breaks from.
@@ilyestanki7618 it's a lot like This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us, but not a line for line parody. There's probably another Sparks song or two mixed in there, kinda like how Germs is Closer + I'm Afraid of Americans, and Close But No Cigar is a mix of Short Skirt Long Jacket, and another Cake song, maybe Sheep Go to Heaven. I like to think that Sparks get a nod in Dare To Be Stupid in the bit about putting your head in the microwave to get a tan. Sparks songs have a running gag about being less attractive without a tan.
I need to make some piece of malware in which the main payload is that this song plays constantly, and you cannot stop it. Actually it might just be a joke program.
back in the 90's I had a floppy disk, labeled as some kind of game, and when you ran it, it produce a window that looked like a command promt window, full screen, not interactive in any way with a message that read "Your hard drive is formatting: 1%-100%" ticking 1%, then 2% then 3% and so on, it ran for like 20min, and once its done, nothing happens. When the program reaches 100% it closes, and returns to the desktop. I pranked so many of my friends with that its not even funny.
I love the guy that did the art for this. Has a series on Newgrounds that is godawful, but amazing. I love the fact that he put several of the characters from the series into the background stuff.
That’s the point. People are like sheep and will believe all these “warnings”, memes, Facebook posts, etc and will pass them to all they know! Even when I prove it’s false through Snopes.com or another source, they still defend that they feel morally or ethically just passing this bs around! Go figure...
So, so far I’ve been recommended... - Weird Al’s “Virus Alert” and Germs - A Ted Talk where Bill Gates explained how we aren’t ready for the next epidemic (a few years ago) - A clip from the House MD episode where there is a mystery virus spreading throughout the plane he is on I’ve only been on the recommendation screen 4 times, each time I got something new that had something to do with germs or illness. Thanks TH-cam! I did watch all of them.... still....
I got this virus once. I thought for sure I was actually going to get free riot points! Now my pets are neutered and my laundry has static cling. I don't even want to mention the pool.
Oh god, it was really bad in '96. I remember we couldn't do anything in the office, so the boss made us purge everything from our computers. Mr. Satan told us it was worse back in '73, but that was before Lucifer was finally moved back to IT instead of surveys and accounting.
Newgrounds had a whole section dedicated to Weird Al videos, and several of them are considered official. There was also a really good Flash video for Ween's "Transdermal Celebration" that the band adopted as the official video.
@@dahger7 well yes and no. He didn't create the virus (don't go conspiracy theory on me guys) but by hiding the outbreak and letting it spread, he most likely played a huge part in us being unable to contain it and the mess we are in now.
I hadn't listened to the song for years and absolutely remembered the lyric at 2:53 as "Then burn all the clothes you may of ever bought online" and honestly I think that would of fit a lot better.
I always love it when all Weird Al video are funny, this song is very creative and very cool for my eyes to see. Lyrics: [Verse 1:] Hey, everyone, listen up, Your attention if you please Really wanna give you a warning 'Cause I found out this morning 'Bout a dangerous, insidious computer virus If you should get an e-mail with the subject 'stinky cheese' Better not go taking your chances Under no circumstances Should you open it Or else it will Translate your documents into Swahili Make your TV record "Gigli" Neuter your pets, and give your laundry static cling [Pre-Chorus:] Look out! It's gonna make your computer freeze Look out! Erase the Easter eggs off your DVDs Look out! Erase your hard drive and your backups too And the hard drive of anyone related to you [Chorus:] Virus alert! Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt! Forward this message on to everybody [Verse 2:] Soon, very soon, it will make all the paint peel off your walls It'll make your keyboard all sticky Give your poodle a hickey And invest your cash in stock in Euro Disney Then, it will tie up your phone, making crank long-distance calls It'll set your clocks back an hour And start clogging the shower So just trash it now, or else it will Decide to give you a permanent wedgie, Legally change your name to "Reggie", Even mess up the pH balance in your pool [Pre-Chorus:] Look out! It's gonna melt your face right of your skull Look out! And make your iPad only play Jethro Tull Look out! And tell you knock-knock jokes while you're trying to sleep Look out! And make you physically attraction to sheep Look out! Steal your identity and your credit cards Look out! Buy you a warehouse full of pink leotards Look out! Then cause a mayor rift in time and space And leave a munch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place That's right. It's a [Chorus:] Virus alert! Deleted immediately before somebody gets hurt! Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert! Deleted immediately before somebody gets hurt! Forward this message on to everybody Warn all your friends, send this to everybody Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now [Bridge:] If you get infected, you'll wish you had never been born So before it e-mail your grandmother all of your porn Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down Drop it in a forty-three-foot hole in the ground Bury it completely; rocks and boulders should be fine Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were on-line! [Chorus:] Virus alert! Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt! Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert! Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt! Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert! Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt! Forward this message on to everybody Warn all your friends, send this to everybody Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now What are you waiting for? Just hurry up and forward this to every single person that you know! Hit "Send" right now!
Funny thing I started getting recommended this song after my computer suffered a virus attack and finally clicked on it and found one of my new favorite songs
@Epic Gamer co on the left clear, v under and id is backwards on the right with the pins. the octopus has 10 eyes covid grows tenticles 10 is 1 and 9 the scene with the bubles if you watch close, you can see dark shadow bubbles spell out covid, dude its all there. there is even more
@@bruninghouse4137 then how come multiple times it literally spells covid? 19 is all to often in the video as well. its also a tell everyone scam virus as is covid
This was in my recommended videos this morning, and I thought "Well that's appropriate". Mind you, the fact that I spent yesterday evening watching loads of Weird Al videos probably had something to do with it.
Actually ive done that and this one time my friend sent me one of those forward or die hoax things so I messaged her a link to the song Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me
@@nicktopo8380, If Weird Al had time travel he would use it for things so much more fun and ludicrous than a vague and uninterpretable warning about a pandemic.
+Kenny Schmidt yes. Linux is mainly protected by there not being very much reason to write viruses for it, in relation to windows computers. that doesn't mean it is super protected against them, just that they are less common.
@@ruler_of_everything It's really easy to just reload Linux from scratch, nearly everything on it is text-based, and easy to check if anything is altered. Or, just wipe everything and download a new version--it's free.
Another thing to note: Weird Al actually NEVER plagiarize the songs from the original artist even if he takes some of the melodies and the concept to turn it to a parody. He respects the original artists of the songs he uses. but the lyrics he uses are of his own creation. He’s a talented songwriter, instrumentalist, poet and a comedian He doesn’t only play an accordion but he plays other instruments as well. We saw from his popular videos and others that won Grammys as well. Weird Al may be ‘weird’ but he’s an amazing Al that we all love and we are so lucky to have him, even though we lost many others, like Michael Jackson.
Al didn't predict anything. This song is a warning for what will happen in the remaining months of 2020. We must prepare for this. Remember, forward this message to everybody
0:29 I've seen this video several times over the past 10 years and always noticed the picture on the desk, but only just recently noticed the one on his cubicle.
Still remember logging into Newgrounds back in the day and finding this on the front page. Thought it was a fan animation at first. Really cool that Al did a music video with flash animators so early in it's life. This is definitely the kind of song that would've been big with early-2000s comedy.
Wait? He worked with the animators? That’s sick
@@PartnershipsForYou I can attest to this. I animated this video...
@@hamsterdunce WOAH
@@hamsterdunce :0 dude.
Im a little late but what was it like working with Weird Al? He seems like a nice guy.
@@hamsterdunce Dave, I still say "D is for Lysdexia" after all these years, so thanks for that.
As someone who got this virus, the most horrifying part was when Grandma responded with "You have good taste!"
LMAO
That's funny
unfortunately for me, My grandmother sent me an email detailing how I was out of the will and she never wants to see or hear from me ever again.
@@tonethymcbuttox5830 CHRIST ON A BIKE-
...mmm
I love how he tells you forward the message to everyone in this song, and then in Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me, he... well you know.
Never caught that
“I play both sides, that way I always come out on top”
haha. wonder if he thought about that.
Yea The Same With Eat It And Foil. AL Talks About You Should Eat Your Food Even If You're Full. In Foil He Says He Wraps His That He Doesn't Eat In Tin Foil.
@@LedgerIsDumbany one else wanna know why we all got recommended this like 11 years later is this whats gonna happen next
to people who hate this song:
turn off your computer and make sure it powers down.
drop it in a 43 foot hole in the ground.
bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine.
You forgot to tell them to burn all the clothes they were wearing while they were online!
Yes but who would hate this and how?
2:44
Front this massage to everybody
Couldn’t of said it better
Everything about this video and song screams early 2000s.
It's from 2006 so you're not far off!
AverageDoggo we technically haven’t left the early 2000’s then and that makes me happy ;-)
AverageDoggo actually if you think about it it could be anywhere from 2000 to 2500.
@@AverageDoggo 2050 is more like mid 2000s
@@An_excellent_TH-cam_account I don't think it's true
this has to be one of the most underrated weird al song
Yeah but spark is one of the most underrated bands, what'd you think would happen hahahaha
It has 7.3M views, what are you talking about?
Mister Apple he means that when people think of Weird Al, they usually think of white and nerdy and Canadian idiot
+jeremy scungio Yeah, I guess. Still, it's far from obscure.
Mister Apple 7M isn’t much in terms of music.
This is a direct quote from Boingo2000 from another Weird Al video, about the inspiration for this song: "Weird Al once did an interview online where he talked about the influences on his parodies. The interviewer asked about “Virus Alert” and Al responded that it was a style parody of a band he liked called Sparks, specifically from the era of their album Kimono My House. I had never heard of Sparks before, but a recommendation from Weird Al is good enough for me, so I went out, picked up that album, and fell in love. Thank you Weird Al for not only making my life better with your music, but making my life better with other people’s music too."
The Sparks were Weird Al before Weird Al (arguably more Beautiful South / They Might Be Giants)... but "when i'm with you" is legit good.
Is it me or does the keyboard player in this video look suspiciously like Ron Mael?
I haven't heard much of Sparks except when they made some stuff with Franz Ferdinand, but I'll be sure to look more into them
@@cosmicaii You should definitely do it! You won't be disappointed.
I thought I had never heard of Sparks before this comment, but cyriak actually made a music video for The Existential Threat a few years back.
Around 1 million people now had their name renamed to “Reggie” because of this virus.
What if you name was already Reggie? Does it get changed to say, Alfred?????? Or better yet....SATAN?????????????
@@sha11235 nah it changes to reggald
i think about this comment a lot LOL
Ever heard of a rat called Reggie?
Yeah me neither
@@ataphelicopter5734 hi my name is *insert at the gates of doom here*
imagine if an antivirus program played this song everytime it detected a virus.
if(virus_detected){
play("virus_alert.mp3");
}
That would be awesome
@@ndrew_B Error: Variable missing a value ("virus_detected")
@@masonhunter2748 Stop speaking Australian
@@masonhunter2748 or use an if statement. Although I suppose a while loop would allow the song to repeat infinitely until the issue is dealt with. Best not to use the loop. People may take too long to respond due to repeatedly letting the song play.
"Forward this message to everybody"... "Stop forwarding that crap to me" - Weird Al.
Maybe he wrote Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me after this song😂👍
@@JaneDoe-ci3gj Yep
Ah, the innocent problems of the early 00s internet.
This was first.
You're sending virus laden mail with log-in attachments
To every single person you know.
Maybe this "Stinky Cheese" thing was what he was referring to in that song.
"Make you physically attracted to sheep."
I don't remember clicking anything titled "Stinky Cheese."
This is overly underrated
Might just be a kiwi
Are you Scottish? that might be it.
@@raras8252 *Welsh
This one of the few comments to actually make me laugh. Congrats
The scary part is some of the things this "virus" could do in this video seemed so insanely absurd at the time, but viruses nowadays could seriously pull off some of the things in this video.
yeah, my brother got a virus and his face melted off of his skull!
modern viruses are scary, get an antivirus folks
I am gonna make a virus to make you think of horrible ways your pet could die by your fault of some way
What if you accidentally step on the poor little dude?
Internet of things without people having a baseline understanding of IT is scary
while True:
name = 'Reggie'
"Translate your documents into Swahili" - Not sure why it would do this, but it's possible.
"Make your TV record Gigli" - If it's a "smart" TV then it could be possible to make it record anything.
"Neuter your pets and give your laundry static cling" - No.
"It's gonna make your computer screen freeze" - Absolutely possible.
"Erase the Easter eggs off your DVDs" - Not possible unless they're DVD-RAMs.
"Erase your hard drive and your backups too" - Possible and often done. That's why critical data should have air-gapped backups.
"And the hard drive of anyone related to you" - If it can find those people and fool them too, definitely possible.
And that's just the first verse. The following ones get more crazy, but setting the (device's) clock is possible, even the pH balance of your pool could be controlled if it's automated and connected to your computer (or to whatever gets infected).
The kind of creepy thing is that not all of the ridiculous stuff he mentioned is actually beyond the scope of cyberattacks. In fact, almost all of the actually computer-related things could be done by a hacker with enough skill and a reason to do them, such as "for the hell of it". Depending on how integrated the control systems are, it even could make you TV record Gigli and mess up the pH balance in your pool. Fortunately, it would not be possible to leave Twinky wrappers, so we are safe from the greatest threat hackers might pose.
The twinkies:-D
*****
Oh no! You're right! The Horror! Twinkie wrappers everywhere!
NOOO da twinkies
OMG I REALLY GOT A VIRUS RIGHT NOW OMG
NO
every old person's understanding of the internet in a nutshell.
Rainbowshine, that is absolutely hilarious because my grandmother said the same thing about young people
REVENGE I
REVENGE
VIRUS ALERT
you mean ignorant, not old.
@Mark Hendrix some one actually said I won a car in a contest I entered. I told them to send me a message from there main account on TH-cam. Because there a popular youtuber. And he didn't so I just ignored it saying well it's just some scammer.
Let us take a moment to appreciate Weird Al’s efforts to prevent the insidious Stinky Cheese virus. My grandfather’s conputer was infected by it and our poodle got a hicky.
I have learned to tune out the knock knock jokes at night but I am not on speaking terms with my grandmother anymore.
lol😂😂😂
Where does your rift in time and space lead?
@@Flammifleure We do not speak of the Forbidden Depths from whence the Ancient One dwells. Lest it overhear.
@@emarceeqem4715 Oh, right. Silly me.
So, should I call you Reggie now?
0:19 Just noticed the guy holding the "Does he work here?" sign after watching this video a million times.
Underrated joke
Hey, stop roasting someone that just created the best comment in the universe!
2:47 YOU FOOL! YOU ONLY BURIED THE MONITOR! WE ARE DOOMED!!!!!!!
Do not worry it was a imac
and I ate it! :3
Could be an All-In-One computer, where the components you'd normally have in a separate tower are integrated into the monitor housing instead (you know, like the old iMacs).
New ones as well.
+haloharry97 nothing of value was lost.
I just love that, at the very end, the email being sent looks to have the Subject Line: STINKY CHEESE
So, it's a virus spreading itself as a virus alert. I'm almost surprised no one actually tried this, considering the method used by the "I LOVE YOU" virus.
I0NE007 that’s kinda clever tho.
That's actually one of the MOST COMMON types of malware virus used in website links. Usually they appear as popups (or new tabs) in internet browsers claiming that a computer "may be at risk from an infected webpage" and claim that a certain number, email, or website should be contacted in order to "fix the problem". They are meant to mimic warning popups that some actual anti-viruses will activate whenever a risk is detected. However, the real antivirus popups typically come from the applications themselves, NOT from browsers. Another difference is the fact that most antivirus software popups will not ask you to contact anyone.
At the very end? Did you somehow miss that taking up the whole screen and being specifically mentioned in the lyrics at 0:21?
@@viddork The aspect I'm surprised about is that this turns the entire song from "A nice, albeit exaggeration-filled warning" to a situation of a grave omen which now lists every torment you would now endure. At the beginning of the song, you would have an email with a bizarre title, so you would click on it. Only to realize that, by opening it, you have doomed everything on your counter, and even others. The kindest thing about the list now is that you know exactly (in theory) what this is going to do, or, maybe even worse, convince someone to destroy their counter when it really is "a normal email with a weird title" because the virus is a complete joke and doesn't even exist.
@@viddork he's talking about the fact that the message Al is telling them to forward is the Stinky Cheese E-mail
I remember downloading this onto my DSI and listening to it over and over again
what a nostalgia trip this is
Nice pfp
@@FiddlerMcRiddler thanks
bro same 😂
I love the irony of this song. It’s warning about a virus and tells you to “forward this message to everyone you know,” which spreads it like a… well, virus!
What if the warning is actually a virus
@@jessicacaron5084 it does also give you terrible advice like destroying your computer and saying that it would do things a computer virus could not possibly do, but that could just be for the sake of comedy and there's no deeper meaning it's just nonsense
@@systemreb00ted honestly I'm going with my conspiracy theory of the virus alert email actually being a virus be cause it's funnier that way I think!
@@jessicacaron5084 conspiracy theory lol are you using that as a joke or do you not actually know what that means xd
@@systemreb00ted as a joke
2:43 I love how snappy his singing and the melody become
It reminds me about the theme of Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Yep, just like Sparks.
oh ok
@@Kotoucakthe Coldplay song?
@@PandorasWorldYT The band this is a style parody of.
2:08
turning the bass into a bass, nice.
Teen Girl Squad reference with the shark XD
My bass feels seaworthy.
Now to really drop the bass.
a very fishy sound
Jamie Coo
So, I recently learned that this song is a Style Parody of the artpop band Sparks, of which Yankovic was a huge fan of their work, even appearing in the recent documentary about the brother duo behind it. Looking that this video all these years later, he had to have told the guy who animated it. How? Look at the keyboardist in the video, it's meant to look like Ron Mael, the head songwriter of the group, who has a distinctive look of a short moustache and a deadpan scowl he never breaks from.
So this is actually an original song by yankovic and not a parody of one their songs?
McCartney mimics the Sparks guy in his video for Coming Up
@@ilyestanki7618 it's a lot like This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us, but not a line for line parody. There's probably another Sparks song or two mixed in there, kinda like how Germs is Closer + I'm Afraid of Americans, and Close But No Cigar is a mix of Short Skirt Long Jacket, and another Cake song, maybe Sheep Go to Heaven.
I like to think that Sparks get a nod in Dare To Be Stupid in the bit about putting your head in the microwave to get a tan. Sparks songs have a running gag about being less attractive without a tan.
The way the piano accompanies the notes of the vocals most of the time makes this song particularly catchy imo.
I need to make some piece of malware in which the main payload is that this song plays constantly, and you cannot stop it. Actually it might just be a joke program.
Dr. W. D. Gaster Omg! I have to tell Sans I found you!!!
th-cam.com/video/zvfD5rnkTws/w-d-xo.html
Virgil Gregory: ingenious
Just a virus that would make this video play every time you turned on your computer. I wouldn't even be mad.
back in the 90's I had a floppy disk, labeled as some kind of game, and when you ran it, it produce a window that looked like a command promt window, full screen, not interactive in any way with a message that read "Your hard drive is formatting: 1%-100%" ticking 1%, then 2% then 3% and so on, it ran for like 20min, and once its done, nothing happens.
When the program reaches 100% it closes, and returns to the desktop.
I pranked so many of my friends with that its not even funny.
This is one of Al's "style parodies" and the band getting ribbed is Sparks - you can see Ron Mael playing synth in the background.
I can definitely hear that now
I was two days ago years old when I first learned of Sparks and I now understand my appreciation of this song so much better.
Sparks is life
The song sounds like a Sparks song too
After watching Edgar Wright's Documentary on The Sparks Bros, I can confirm this is very much a Song done in their style.
I think its funny that most of them are just mild annoyances
I think my grandmother getting all my porn emailed to her would be much more than a simple 'mild annoyance'..
I think having my face melted off my skull is much more than a mild annoyance...
@@theyofmanynames well thats why I said "most"
So being sexually attracted to sheep is mild?
@@ToaofAwesomeness321 Only if you're welsh. Or a dra-oh dear.
I just barely noticed that the keyboard player in the video looks a bit like Ron from Sparks. Which makes since because this song is in their style.
send timestamp?
@@skymanisbtman th-cam.com/video/zvfD5rnkTws/w-d-xo.html&lc=Ugz7U4FJnvRO0INV0A94AaABAg.9KEfcaE0G7Z9QstAbYI1MC
A bit?
If someone makes a virus that plays this on loop permanently I wouldn't even be pissed.
That is not virus. It is feature.
I'd chip into a Kickstarter to make a virus that did that
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nice
Wonder how many emails he have recieved with the subject 'Stinky Cheese'....
0
Albert Møller Wonder who sent them to begin with?
Albert Møller I mean seriously, why would he use "Stinky Cheese" as the subject unless he has received emails like that.
Kids Johnson things like porn sites or news give viruses
Let's do an "experiment." All of us sends an email to everyone we know labeled 'Stinky Cheese' and in the email it has this video.
This aged remarkably well
Like a fine Limburger, you might say....
As much as I love that Grandma reaction, the "Spatula City" reference is my favorite little thing.
I love the guy that did the art for this. Has a series on Newgrounds that is godawful, but amazing. I love the fact that he put several of the characters from the series into the background stuff.
link of the series
Just search retarded animal babies lol
I have to check that out!🙂
Jonid Crushfire i'm so glad i'm not the only one who remembers RAB.. i wish i didn't.
Another little something by Dave
Did anyone else notice that Al spread the virus by making everyone warn others about the virus?
Shhhhhhhh, he's not trying to help ;)
...that is the point of the song.
I thought I was the only one!
The song itself is the virus. A _MIND_ virus. Otherwise known as a "Meme".
That’s the point. People are like sheep and will believe all these “warnings”, memes, Facebook posts, etc and will pass them to all they know! Even when I prove it’s false through Snopes.com or another source, they still defend that they feel morally or ethically just passing this bs around! Go figure...
I always forget this song is Weird Al when I hear it.. he NAILED the Sparks style
I absolutely love everything about this song: It's catchy, it's fun, it's silly, and it's such a cool animation.
So, so far I’ve been recommended...
- Weird Al’s “Virus Alert” and Germs
- A Ted Talk where Bill Gates explained how we aren’t ready for the next epidemic (a few years ago)
- A clip from the House MD episode where there is a mystery virus spreading throughout the plane he is on
I’ve only been on the recommendation screen 4 times, each time I got something new that had something to do with germs or illness.
Thanks TH-cam!
I did watch all of them.... still....
I've been watching the Mitchell and Webb "Remain Indoors" sketches. I think I might watch some episodes of "Not going out" next.
Lol the mystery virus known as hysteria
Have you heard “germs” by weird al?
I was also recommended germs
I got one about social distancing bar fight from many years ago
I got this virus once. I thought for sure I was actually going to get free riot points! Now my pets are neutered and my laundry has static cling. I don't even want to mention the pool.
Lol
Where'd you put all those leotards?
Hey Reggie, how's that wedgie? :p still there?
Oh god, it was really bad in '96. I remember we couldn't do anything in the office, so the boss made us purge everything from our computers. Mr. Satan told us it was worse back in '73, but that was before Lucifer was finally moved back to IT instead of surveys and accounting.
Zeruckiven How's the keyboard octopus doing?
Everyone: It’s modern Days.
Me: It’s all about viruses in your electronics causing them to crash.
I would actually argue it’s about technophobia, ignorance and the scaremongering that takes advantage of both of the former.
Cern.
Never seen an official music video made in flash other than "the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny"
Newgrounds had a whole section dedicated to Weird Al videos, and several of them are considered official. There was also a really good Flash video for Ween's "Transdermal Celebration" that the band adopted as the official video.
Watching this in the middle of the corona virus outbreak.
It may be from Japan.
Oh it ain’t over. nowhere near over now.
China Virus. Their evil Communist ruler is responsible for this.
@@dahger7 well yes and no. He didn't create the virus (don't go conspiracy theory on me guys) but by hiding the outbreak and letting it spread, he most likely played a huge part in us being unable to contain it and the mess we are in now.
@@PatrickDAllen1 Correct. Also this th-cam.com/video/gxAaO2rsdIs/w-d-xo.html
Everyone saying how this got recommended to them during Corona, meanwhile I just looked it up cuz I love Weird Al and it got stuck in my head
Legit my fav Weird Al song
Top 5, 10 it's up there.
lies
Me too!
i love weird al ever since my cousin introduced me to his song amish paradise in 2011
TH-cam video: Has "Virus" in title
8 Million people: HE PREDICTED THE FUTURE
It’s just a joke mate
@@Harry-xb2xn I don't think they're joking...
@@AllEyezOnDeRozan I think that MOST people are joking.
1:41 spells covid bruh
@@nicktopo8380 no it doesn't lol
Why are you spamming this? It doesn't even sound like a joke anymore
I love that he embraced Flash as music video option through the years.
@epicgamer23 Hey, I use Newgrounds every day...
@epicgamer23 This is hand drawn by my buddy David Lovelace. He runs the catlazers page on facebook :D.
10 years later and its still a masterpiece...
amazingdough right
*11
12
one of the most underrated Al tunes ever, and one of his best original songs (even though it has nearly 10M views)
This song is history. Part of the essence of the early 2000's
13 years later I still love this
0:29 the picture on his desk was every where in the early 2000's.does anyone know where it originated or who/what its supposed to be?
I hadn't listened to the song for years and absolutely remembered the lyric at 2:53 as "Then burn all the clothes you may of ever bought online" and honestly I think that would of fit a lot better.
Respectfully disagree
could clothes even have been bought online in 2006??
@@drippiink4972 yeah dude. You know Amazon started in 1994 right?
@@duplexidemic i was under the assumption that they only sold books until bezos realized capitalism is a winnable game
@@drippiink4972 Well even eBay started in 1995. Plenty of stuff could be bought online in the mid 90s, much less mid 00s.
His vocal flexibility is Awesome.
About to single-handedly get this to 10 million views
Some chinese guy: enjoying his bat soup
God: *emails him with the subject: S T I N K Y C H E E S E*
0:19
"Does he work here?"
Sensible chuckle there
"And make your iPod only play Jethro Tull."
Don't threaten me with a good time.
I would be quite happy with that outcome!
I'd never heard of them. They're a British band that play American Folk. Kind of weird, but pretty good.
Dude i just said that to myself
SITTING ON A PARK BENCH
@@nathangamble125 Aqualung
1:04 invader zim reference???? :0
On-point tribute to Sparks.
3:01 "Well,I say. It appears my keyboard has transformed into an octopus. How unfortunate."
LMAO
Viirus alertttt
The song is a pastiche of the style of Sparks, a band that Weird Al's a fan of.
I always love it when all Weird Al video are funny, this song is very creative and very cool for my eyes to see.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1:]
Hey, everyone, listen up,
Your attention if you please
Really wanna give you a warning
'Cause I found out this morning
'Bout a dangerous, insidious computer virus
If you should get an e-mail
with the subject 'stinky cheese'
Better not go taking your chances
Under no circumstances
Should you open it
Or else it will
Translate your documents into Swahili
Make your TV record "Gigli"
Neuter your pets, and give your laundry static cling
[Pre-Chorus:]
Look out!
It's gonna make your computer freeze
Look out!
Erase the Easter eggs off your DVDs
Look out!
Erase your hard drive and your backups too
And the hard drive of anyone related to you
[Chorus:]
Virus alert!
Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
[Verse 2:]
Soon, very soon, it will make
all the paint peel off your walls
It'll make your keyboard all sticky
Give your poodle a hickey
And invest your cash in stock in Euro Disney
Then, it will tie up your phone,
making crank long-distance calls
It'll set your clocks back an hour
And start clogging the shower
So just trash it now, or else it will
Decide to give you a permanent wedgie,
Legally change your name to "Reggie",
Even mess up the pH balance in your pool
[Pre-Chorus:]
Look out!
It's gonna melt your face right of your skull
Look out!
And make your iPad only play Jethro Tull
Look out!
And tell you knock-knock
jokes while you're trying to sleep
Look out!
And make you physically attraction to sheep
Look out!
Steal your identity and your credit cards
Look out!
Buy you a warehouse full of pink leotards
Look out!
Then cause a mayor rift in time and space
And leave a munch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place
That's right. It's a
[Chorus:]
Virus alert!
Deleted immediately before somebody gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Virus alert!
Deleted immediately before somebody gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Warn all your friends, send this to everybody
Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now
[Bridge:]
If you get infected, you'll wish you had never been born
So before it e-mail your grandmother all of your porn
Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down
Drop it in a forty-three-foot hole in the ground
Bury it completely; rocks and boulders should be fine
Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were on-line!
[Chorus:]
Virus alert!
Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Virus alert!
Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Virus alert!
Deleted immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Warn all your friends, send this to everybody
Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now
What are you waiting for?
Just hurry up and forward this to
every single person that you know!
Hit "Send" right now!
I sent this to everyone with the subject: STINKY CHEESE
YOUVE KILLED US ALL!!!!!!
+Slytherin to the TARDIS it's spelled s l I t h e e n, slitheen.
Aaron Wise It's the Hogwarts house
Duh!
Dude stop forwarding that crap to me
Out of all of these, 2:37 is definitely the worst.
Same
I like this song so much! It probably has to be my favorite Weird Al songs.
I meant Weird Al song! Auto correction these days.
Ok boomer
Ok boomer
@@magnifcentmarie8703 Hmmmm yes replying to yourself 2 times
@@loganboi2166 i think they were talking to someone else who deleted their comments
I love that the climax of all the problems this virus causes is to leave a bunch of twinkie wrappers all over the place.
Through a major rip in time in space no less though.
That kid has some mad connections.
ikr
ha
He even got through to the sheep! THE SHEEP!!
Absent Coder which kid?
@@TuckyBlueI know that I'm 4 years late,but the one in 3:05
I can thank my dad for making me listen to Weird Al and ultimately getting me to like his songs
Ghopher Plays you have a good dad
I love the little office space reference with the initech building 👌🏻
The virus took Milton’s stapler
Funny thing I started getting recommended this song after my computer suffered a virus attack and finally clicked on it and found one of my new favorite songs
I do not mine the bad things that happen, but when the easter eggs are removed from my DVD's I will shed blood.
*mind mistakes are made (try telling that to TMZ)
Rhys Kelly TMZ! we are cool we swear
PolterpupAndPikachu oh nostalgia critic jokes.
Rhys Kelly I was hoping someone would get that joke
That means no pizza planet truck in every Pixar movie. DANGIT
1:35 My Body is Reggie.
Dumb Garden Gnome lololololololololololololol
1:34
Yes
0:35 Almost no one will get the reference of the pets today. But I know. I was there. "D" is for 'Lysdexia'.
Newgrounds has the videoclip in 1080p but has compressed audio.
Youtbe has the videoclip in 480p but has way cleaner audio.
That virus really likes turning musical instruments into over-sized sea creatures.
why yall acting like viruses didnt exist 10 years ago?
Yeah I mean Dr. Mario
1:41 spells covid bruh
@Epic Gamer co on the left clear, v under and id is backwards on the right with the pins. the octopus has 10 eyes covid grows tenticles 10 is 1 and 9 the scene with the bubles if you watch close, you can see dark shadow bubbles spell out covid, dude its all there. there is even more
@@nicktopo8380 I'm gonna call weird Al to explain your wrong.
@@bruninghouse4137 then how come multiple times it literally spells covid? 19 is all to often in the video as well. its also a tell everyone scam virus as is covid
This was in my recommended videos this morning, and I thought "Well that's appropriate".
Mind you, the fact that I spent yesterday evening watching loads of Weird Al videos probably had something to do with it.
I remember when I was a kid and my big brother introduced me to Weird Al. This was one of the first songs he showed me. That was so long ago now.
Someone needs to make an antivirus that plays this video when it finds a virus XD
Hendlton no a virus that plays this song at the maximum volume possible.
The antivirus should just yell “VIRUS ALERT!”
I’m on it🙂
DO DO DO virus found now listen to this while we remove it
Does anyone else want to just put this on and email and send it to every one?
Actually ive done that and this one time my friend sent me one of those forward or die hoax things so I messaged her a link to the song Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me
thepancakeking Yes.
thepancakeking yep! who doesn't want a keyboard octopus or a tear in space time
thepancakeking Don't forget to put 'stinky cheese' in the header.
Speaking of email did you read what the guy who al was convincing email account was you can read it at 3:39
1:47
I like how the virus only says the "knock knock" part but they laugh anyways
It took me a million re-listens the message is basically to spread a virus.
Same
its a warning about covid, 1:41 is the easiest to spot.
@@nicktopo8380 It's not. It's about Computer Viruses, you nut.
@@nicktopo8380, If Weird Al had time travel he would use it for things so much more fun and ludicrous than a vague and uninterpretable warning about a pandemic.
@@Jaydee-wd7wr no one said anything about time travel. this shit was planned for longer than we been alive.
0:30 i love the picture on the desk
after listening to Weird Al for long enough, his originals start to eclipse his covers. Musical Genius.
This still slaps even like 20 years later
more depressing though
It's been 11
I love this music video, it's really got that classic 00s flash animated look to it. Oozing with charm. Oh and the song is stupid catchy.
Like Covid-19
That's because **it is a classic 00s flash animated video.**
I like all the subtle jokes hidden in the texts that flashes by the screen so very quickly.
Thanks to the magic of linux, when I get a virus this plays in the background until I remove it.
a virus? on LINUX?
+Kenny Schmidt yes. Linux is mainly protected by there not being very much reason to write viruses for it, in relation to windows computers. that doesn't mean it is super protected against them, just that they are less common.
it's gonna be a pain when you get a virus that is SUPER hard to remove
@@ruler_of_everything It's really easy to just reload Linux from scratch, nearly everything on it is text-based, and easy to check if anything is altered. Or, just wipe everything and download a new version--it's free.
I love the part at 3:16 where the marching band plays the song for a sec.
After I first head this song I started subjecting all my slightly-less-than-essential emails "Stinky Cheese".
The virus in this is called “Stinky Cheese.”..
Weird Al’s MLP character is named Cheese Sandwich...
oh MY *GOD*
@Kawaiipony Productions ugh
@The Monkynoises KFC Rampage shut up
@The Monkynoises KFC Rampage oh your one of those people who can't accept people are different, ew
@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 nice username
2:51 Why does everyone think that a pile of rocks will block a hole?
Yeah, and why does everyone think that the monitor is the actual computer, cause that's all he threw down the hole in the first place.
I absolutely love this song.
It's like if The Cheese Touch™️ was digital
my favorite song ever
This is probably one of the most mid-to-late 2000's things on the internet.
And that's in a good way, by the way
1:32 My Body Is Ready.
Lol
wut the FACK
Nice Reggie reference
Hello, NCS fan. Not surprised to see you on a Weird Al song :)
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Another thing to note: Weird Al actually NEVER plagiarize the songs from the original artist even if he takes some of the melodies and the concept to turn it to a parody. He respects the original artists of the songs he uses. but the lyrics he uses are of his own creation. He’s a talented songwriter, instrumentalist, poet and a comedian He doesn’t only play an accordion but he plays other instruments as well. We saw from his popular videos and others that won Grammys as well. Weird Al may be ‘weird’ but he’s an amazing Al that we all love and we are so lucky to have him, even though we lost many others, like Michael Jackson.
Does anybody here realize that this is a parody of music by the band Sparks? Brothers Ron and Russell Mael.
0:30 HOW DID I GET INTO THE VIDEO????
The Burning Toast Monster of Uranus idk
After I listened to this I got an email with the title "stinky cheese"
should I be worried?
its probably a weird al fan making a joke with other weird al fans
i got a stinky cheese email too.... then i realised it was a google+ alert and thought (MEH!)
YES
Stinky cheese
How's that for an alert?
Al didn't predict anything.
This song is a warning for what will happen in the remaining months of 2020. We must prepare for this.
Remember, forward this message to everybody
15 likes
nice
@@WolfyRed 16 likes
nice
@@fartsniffer4223 nice
2021
atlast virus is dead
0:29 I've seen this video several times over the past 10 years and always noticed the picture on the desk, but only just recently noticed the one on his cubicle.
if this shit happens, you'd need an exorcist, not a antivirus.
kingemocut Virus Alert!
FireBreathingElk true
DEMON ALERT
Exactly!