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.
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."
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
@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.
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 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!
@@NiennaFan1 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
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 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.
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....
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...
Eh? The Crowdstrike incident was a mistake made by an anti-malware software company. Companies had paid to install Crowdstrike on their machines, and when it broke it stopped the machine it was installed on from booting up. Months before, the place I work for had considered istalling it on our servers, but found that it made them unusably slow. Fancy anti-virus software in general has a reputation for slowing down computers and being worse than the viruses it is protecting you from.
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.
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
@@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.
The line "...and be sure it powers down." is such an amazing line. It's a tiny little detail, the song would be amazing without it, but we all knew that person, and it just pushes the song over the top. That's what makes Al and other great humorists the cream of the crop.
+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.
I feel like the mainstream media doesn’t respect this guy enough. This guy deserves more respect from the mainstream media than he does now just saying.
I mean, Al has always been quirky alternative parody. He is heralded as pretty much the titan of a genre he owns exclusively. That being said though, parody itself is an alternative culture. There are a lot of people that acknowledge it, but don't adore it or love it enough to give it the attention it deserves when it's truly good. He's won awards and definitely gotten his praise, but he'll never get the mainstream attention the pop icons he is parodying get, even when he's outlasted many of them for decades now.
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.
I think this song perfectly matches the unbelievable reactions people have towards any virus of any kind, starting from the real potential consequences to the impossible, mocking those who flip out over any form of virus.
I love how in the parts where it shows him with the band, it actually has his band members. It just makes me happy. Also the reference to Spatula City is pretty banger.
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!
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.
For me being only 6 years old when this video released, I have to say, I must have watched this video alot because it's been almost a decade later and I still remember the lyrics.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
0:19 Just noticed the guy holding the "Does he work here?" sign after watching this video a million times.
Hey, stop roasting someone that just created the best comment in the universe!
Lol
i like how the otehr fella jsut shrugs
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
"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.
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 😂
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.
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
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.
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
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*
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 way the piano accompanies the notes of the vocals most of the time makes this song particularly catchy imo.
"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
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
His vocal flexibility is Awesome.
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.
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.
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
@@NiennaFan1 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!
@@NiennaFan1 conspiracy theory lol are you using that as a joke or do you not actually know what that means xd
@@systemreb00ted as a joke
10 years later and its still a masterpiece...
amazingdough right
*11
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one of the most underrated Al tunes ever, and one of his best original songs (even though it has nearly 10M views)
2:37 is the best part imo
Or more 2:44?
This song is history. Part of the essence of the early 2000's
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.
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
As much as I love that Grandma reaction, the "Spatula City" reference is my favorite little thing.
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?
On-point tribute to Sparks.
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
This aged remarkably well
Like a fine Limburger, you might say....
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
0:19
"Does he work here?"
Sensible chuckle there
I always forget this song is Weird Al when I hear it.. he NAILED the Sparks style
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?
Out of all of these, 2:37 is definitely the worst.
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
after listening to Weird Al for long enough, his originals start to eclipse his covers. Musical Genius.
I just realized my man Huggbees plays guitar in this. Idk why he's never addressed it
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
3:01 "Well,I say. It appears my keyboard has transformed into an octopus. How unfortunate."
LMAO
Viirus alertttt
Oh memories... one of my favorite Al songs. I think around the 2:43 mark is when I truly realized that this was going on my "top Al songs" list.
I absolutely love everything about this song: It's catchy, it's fun, it's silly, and it's such a cool animation.
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...
0:30 i love the picture on the desk
I like all the subtle jokes hidden in the texts that flashes by the screen so very quickly.
Posting from the great Crowdstrike Windows BSOD outage of 2024. Should've listened.
It's like he knew
Eh? The Crowdstrike incident was a mistake made by an anti-malware software company. Companies had paid to install Crowdstrike on their machines, and when it broke it stopped the machine it was installed on from booting up.
Months before, the place I work for had considered istalling it on our servers, but found that it made them unusably slow. Fancy anti-virus software in general has a reputation for slowing down computers and being worse than the viruses it is protecting you from.
2:17
This was actually my second cameo in a Weird Al related production. I got payed quite handsomely for it.
Then who are you?
the lobster
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.
"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
13 years later I still love this
1:35 My Body is Reggie.
Dumb Garden Gnome lololololololololololololol
1:34
Yes
ok
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
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
The line "...and be sure it powers down." is such an amazing line. It's a tiny little detail, the song would be amazing without it, but we all knew that person, and it just pushes the song over the top. That's what makes Al and other great humorists the cream of the crop.
That virus really likes turning musical instruments into over-sized sea creatures.
Close enough, Welcome back Albequrqe
people when a weird al song gets an animation or fan animation:
@cornstarch5920 yes
@cornstarch5920 erm… Akshally.. I AM A WEIRD AL FAB
@@cornstarch5920and?
0:30 this parts underrated
i love how swahili is pronounced tbh
Fr
0:35 Almost no one will get the reference of the pets today. But I know. I was there. "D" is for 'Lysdexia'.
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.
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
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 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
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 :)
Top 10 comments that predicted the future
1:42 -
Ha! Nice!
Love the Raiders of the Lost Ark face melting reference!
Glad I’m not the only one who saw it!
That scene traumatized the hell out of me as a kid lol
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.
1:32 I absolutely love the delivery of the word Reggie
I'm on a weird Al binge, I've been listening to the youtube weird Al playlist for days now.
Chaz Steiner same
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 feel like the mainstream media doesn’t respect this guy enough. This guy deserves more respect from the mainstream media than he does now just saying.
I mean, Al has always been quirky alternative parody. He is heralded as pretty much the titan of a genre he owns exclusively. That being said though, parody itself is an alternative culture. There are a lot of people that acknowledge it, but don't adore it or love it enough to give it the attention it deserves when it's truly good. He's won awards and definitely gotten his praise, but he'll never get the mainstream attention the pop icons he is parodying get, even when he's outlasted many of them for decades now.
1:47
I like how the virus only says the "knock knock" part but they laugh anyways
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.
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
I think this song perfectly matches the unbelievable reactions people have towards any virus of any kind, starting from the real potential consequences to the impossible, mocking those who flip out over any form of virus.
Are you a wizard?
Wait...
I love how in the parts where it shows him with the band, it actually has his band members. It just makes me happy. Also the reference to Spatula City is pretty banger.
0:30 HOW DID I GET INTO THE VIDEO????
The Burning Toast Monster of Uranus idk
I love the part at 3:16 where the marching band plays the song for a sec.
I remember getting this cd for my birthday in the 4th grade...I listened to this song in particular because of how much i just loved 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.
the melody at 2:44 is godly
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 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...
@@MezephelesArt 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.
this is actually one of the most underrated al songs ever
This song is amazing! I used to love it when I was younger and I'm so happy I rediscovered it!
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.**
2:42 - 2:57
favorite part...
100% Trash ya XD
Bunny Bell I think it's his expressions.
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.
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
For me being only 6 years old when this video released, I have to say, I must have watched this video alot because it's been almost a decade later and I still remember the lyrics.
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
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.