So check this out...Autotune wasn't a thing until 1997. This was recorded in 1993. Al hit those big long notes FOR REAL! And those last two after the key change are legitimately impressive.
@@aycc-nbh7289 correct, pitch correction has been around for a very long time and pretty much all vocalists have it done on recorded songs at some point or another
Believe me... I have heard longer notes held by people who do live musical theater, but tha doesnt mean Weird Al is a bad musician/singer... FAR FROM IT! He is definitely someone who can more than likely carry a long note like a broadway actor, after all he's a musician with a butt ton of energy and that requires some lung power to even hit notes like that!
Fun fact: In the scene where the T-Rex comes towards the crew members, Steven Spielberg was originally going to be crushed. But because he was such a good sport about Al using the "Jurassic Park" property for the parody, Al decided to spare him.
Oh yeah. Doing a workable parody of a song that was voted the "worst song ever made"? And having it actually turn out as one of his best songs? (I mean, that's a long list, but still.) Yeah. Genius.
I don't know why McArthur Park was voted one of the worst songs ever made. Sure some of the lyrics are either kind of corny or silly, but it's a hell of a lot more creative than 90% of pop music today.
The whole: "I'm afraid those things will harm me, 'cause they sure don't act like Barney amd they think that I'm their dinner not their friend..." Is probably my favorites part of the song. It's absolutely brilliant in my opinion.
Funny you mention that, I just finished watching the "I Love You, You Hate Me" documentary on Peacock, which is pretty much the whole history of Barney and how GenXers made hating Barney a trend.
@@danielaldana818 I saw that documentary, and it pretty much misses the point that most of the GenXers who did this were only doing this for the purpose of satire and would not hurt anyone involved with Barney or his show.
Al would play this video during his concerts while making a costume change (into the Fat suit, as I recall). There would be a tremendous roar of approval from the audience when Barney got his stupid purple head bitten off.
The attention to detail when the T-Rex is waving at the end and gets tired of waving and uses its other arm to hold the tiring waving arm up attention to that detail that's incredible
Thirty years later and this song still randomly gets stuck in my head. For DAYS! He's actually pretty damned good when he writes his own melodies and arrangements. The break down sounds very Zappa-esque.
He didn't write the tune, it's a parody of "MacArthur Park". The original has the same arrangement and breakdown you're talking about. But yes "Genius in France" is an original pastiche of Zappa
@@theheathbar123 Oh, yea, I learned about MacArthur Park eventually. I definitely hadn't heard that song in the 5th grade, when I was rocking this cassette! "Dare To Be Stupid" is another pastiche of Oh No-era DEVO that's pretty right on.
Ive been playing a game with my younger brother for about 15 years where if one of us sings the beginning of the chorus and the other doesn’t finish it we get to give the loser a punch on the shoulder. We can go years without bringing it up but its always fun when it happens. Also i love this song
Another fun fact: this song was an Easter egg for a brief moment during the seen that involved a radio. Another song that was an Easter egg in that scene was the 1987 duck tales theme song.
Don't mean to rain on your fun fact parade, dear, but you positive that wasn't just a joke from Nostalgia Critic? Could'a sworn he did something like that for his Lost World review... Eh, maybe it was just a fever dream, wouldn't be the first time...
Even with the brilliance of the stop-motion animation, my favorite part is the 2D animation when Al is being swallowed with the T-Rex dancing in different art styles.
You have to search REALLY, REALLY hard to find a decent track. I, on the other hand seem to be taken in almost instantly by a catchy beat, so in terms of personal taste, I'm a lost cause.
tony shehatta asside from you tube there are websites that are exclusively for music and delete anything found to not be the property of the up-loader basically anyone can make song and the bad or good ones are rated by users and so fourth
This popped into my head after hearing MacArthur Park on the radio just now; haven’t heard this song since I was a kid (I’m 41) and it still rocks! Absolute genius!
Yes, and sung by Richard Harris aka Prof. Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films. Here's the original czcams.com/video/sD-zTwi3_GU/video.html&app=desktop
LOL... no... it's about a failed relationship the writer, Jimmy Webb had. He stated, "I've also tried to tell the truth, which is that it's just a song about a girlfriend of mine, Susie Horton, and this place on Wilshire Boulevard where we used to have lunch, which is called MacArthur Park. And the truth is that everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park". But your interpretation is hysterical.
This may be my favorite Al parody because it marries the bizzare specificity of this song with the specifics of the weird plot of Jurrassic park. It's just done so well.
It was also great in the original, when the velociraptor was on top of the stainless food-prep counter, and tapped his claw while he was figuring out where lunch was hiding.
Wow, it's amazing listening to this again after hearing Richard Harris' original and seeing how Al was able to take and fashion a parody from McArthur Park's bizarre lyrics and center it around one of the biggest hit movies of that year. Awesome stuff!!!!
@@resplndnt yes it is! It's about loosing the love of one's life that never fully was, to neglect, immaturity, and circumstances out of one's control. An epic tragedy in the context of this song!
@@resplndnt the song has deeper undertones too, as the writer had not only lost his lover but also his mother who had been almost his sole support as a budding songwriter. And it is about societal loss and change, as the actual MacArthur Park in Los Angeles where this songs theme had actually taken place for the songwriter, which had been beautiful only a few years before, back when they were still seeing each other, had recently started to go rapedly downhill and become dangerous, along with the surounding neighborhoods.
@@JKTube yes, and of course that didn't exactly happen... But Jimmy has finally come to fully, if reluctantly, embrace the profound and beautiful but very sad meanings of the song. He has said that MacArthur Park was very prophetic for him, if partly self fulfilling prophecy including some things that he came to deeply regret in time. But it is life and it was and still is very real to him!
I honestly thought there was 2 different parodies of this song. I thought the weird thing with the cake out in the rain was a parody too, I had no idea it was the original song. Talk about a weird freaking song. This version is hilarious, and actually makes sense!
Yeah, went to Jurassic Park 2 years ago. My cousin and my boyfriend were both mauled and eaten by Velociraptors and I was stepped on by a Brachiosaurus, leaving me in a coma for 6 months and completely paralyzed from the waist down. Don't worry though. I left a scathing review on Yelp.
I can't believe that Al is basically a god here. He can live with only 1/4 of his body, and somehow found a way to get out of that T-rex without being digested.
Not comdey not comedy butt parody yes I really don't think you can put king of comedy on any stand up for any person or off on the in their own way and I watch a lot of stand-up but I get what you mean he is the king of parody songs is the best out of everybody that doesn't it
False. They did everything they could to coax him to eat them, and he still couldn't be cajoled to do so until the end of each season, persuaded by the threat they'd bring the same kids back if he didn't eat them.
my mom came to my apartment recently (and this was, of course, waaay past when the movie was popular); then seriously and angrily said that my living room, "looks like Newman's desk from that dinosaur movie. I feel like that black guy did; i just wanna shove everything off the tables..."
You know, either Weird Al Yankovic can be either hilarious or immature. And Jurassic Park is both of those descriptions, and it is a hilarious song of his. Wish he'd make more songs like this.
There's a line "Well this sure ain't no E-ticket, and I'll tell them where to stick it" For those who don't know or remember, back in the 60's and 70's Disneyland sold tickets for the rides. They came as A, B, C, D and E, if I remember right the A tickets were the cheapest and the E tickets were the most expensive. The others wee somewhere in between. When you wanted to go on a ride, you had to buy the correct ticket for that ride. At the gates, you might buy 10 A tickets, 5 B tickets, 8 C tickets etc.You then went looking for the rides you could go on depending on what tickets you had left.
I had a vague knowledge that an E-ticket meant something pretty good and ritzy, but I didn't really know the backstory behind the definition. Thanks for teaching an '81 kid.
Band Weird Al - Vocals Jim West - Strings and Brass Section Steve Jay - Bass Ruben Valtierra - Keyboards (his first time with Al Yankovic) Jon Bermuda Schwartz - Drums
More like pcp and lsd with a fuck ton of xans this dude saw dinosaurs barney was in clay saw himself in the third person saw cartoons and cage stripper dancing dinos and a mutant hybrid energizer bunny he had to have been high as fuck
"A huge Tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer, well I suppose that proves they're really not all bad" this line still makes me laugh
Well, it is from the film.
I’m afraid those things will harm me because they sure don’t act like Barney
@@Scottwilkie18 and they think I'm their dinner, not their friend
I'm a lawyer and I thought it was hilarious.
“Jurassic park is frightening in the dark”
Of course, it had to be done in the scariest type of animation: the claymation
I always thought motion capture was the creepiest.
I mean have you seen Mars Needs Moms?
***** Clay motion is stop motion that uses models made from a clay like material or actual clay.
+Triple Triculmite I don't see the problem with that.
from the look of the models, i'd say (though i can't confirm this just yet) that this was animated By Vinton.
So check this out...Autotune wasn't a thing until 1997. This was recorded in 1993. Al hit those big long notes FOR REAL! And those last two after the key change are legitimately impressive.
I've seen Al sing this in concert and trust me, he can sing!!!
I’m glad I’m not the only person to notice - stunning! 😄
Vocoder pedals were around since the 1970’s or so, weren’t they? Autotune is not the first of its kind.
@@aycc-nbh7289 correct, pitch correction has been around for a very long time and pretty much all vocalists have it done on recorded songs at some point or another
Believe me... I have heard longer notes held by people who do live musical theater, but tha doesnt mean Weird Al is a bad musician/singer... FAR FROM IT! He is definitely someone who can more than likely carry a long note like a broadway actor, after all he's a musician with a butt ton of energy and that requires some lung power to even hit notes like that!
I love that this is done in clay-mation because it pays respect to the old stop motion dinosaur content before Jurassic Park came out.
Fun fact: In the scene where the T-Rex comes towards the crew members, Steven Spielberg was originally going to be crushed. But because he was such a good sport about Al using the "Jurassic Park" property for the parody, Al decided to spare him.
We are all at the whims of weird al. Never anger him.
All of these actions sound entirely in character
That was sure nice of Al, I love it when professionals can cut each other a break
Seems like Speilberg alright
That’s the greatest thing I heard in a while and it makes this music video 6.74 times better.
I think this is Weird Al's most under-rated parody. Classic.
Oh yeah. Doing a workable parody of a song that was voted the "worst song ever made"? And having it actually turn out as one of his best songs? (I mean, that's a long list, but still.) Yeah. Genius.
I don't know why McArthur Park was voted one of the worst songs ever made. Sure some of the lyrics are either kind of corny or silly, but it's a hell of a lot more creative than 90% of pop music today.
It was voted down because people thought;
1. It was too long
2. An actor can't be a singer (natch).
Hellwyck Ironically there are a number of singers who try to act.
What about Adam Sandler or will Smith
The fact that Steven Spielberg likes this makes me happy!
Is this true
@@isobel9195 Yes!
Kurt Cobain called Al a musical genius and loved his cover. I agree. Been a fan for like 25 years.
The whole:
"I'm afraid those things will harm me, 'cause they sure don't act like Barney amd they think that I'm their dinner not their friend..."
Is probably my favorites part of the song. It's absolutely brilliant in my opinion.
Funny you mention that, I just finished watching the "I Love You, You Hate Me" documentary on Peacock, which is pretty much the whole history of Barney and how GenXers made hating Barney a trend.
@@danielaldana818 I saw that documentary, and it pretty much misses the point that most of the GenXers who did this were only doing this for the purpose of satire and would not hurt anyone involved with Barney or his show.
Al would play this video during his concerts while making a costume change (into the Fat suit, as I recall). There would be a tremendous roar of approval from the audience when Barney got his stupid purple head bitten off.
Ah yes energieser dino
NO. BARNEY.
The director of this video went on to direct SpongeBob SquarePants 1999-2004, Kung Fu Panda, and The Little Prince.
HIIIIIII DIB WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?!!
Look at Al's hair bounce... now THAT'S quality claymation!!
Was this done by Aardman (Wallace and Gromit/Shawn the Sheep/Chicken Run)?
@@jamescopeland6107
It looks kinda like it was done by whoever did the California Raisins, but I'm not sure.
@@Zarnirox its will vinton
Yes
Who?
"Now I'm being chased by some irate velociraptor." Imagine being able to fit words like that into a song and it still makes perfect sense.
… even better than the original! 👍
The range of Weird Al's voice and the musicianship of him and his band is really underrated.
He’s been with his band for a long time
@@resplndnt For EVER!
I love how that random hand comes out to relight the light on the gate
That's called god
I thought the hand will set the gate on fire
Handsaurus
It probably just actually went out and the crew was like "hey wouldn't it be funny if we relit it in camera?"
Thats just god..
Imagine life without Weird Al. It would suck.
Shark Man X bro! It would be weird
Agreed.
Then someone else would have to have voiced Dollmam in a Batman cartoon😘😘😘
@@Awestefeld6612 or Milo Murphy?
@@thehunterator520 what?
0:30 **dinosaur facepalms and uses key** "clever girl"
The attention to detail when the T-Rex is waving at the end and gets tired of waving and uses its other arm to hold the tiring waving arm up attention to that detail that's incredible
'Jurassic Park' is my favorite book, my favorite movie, and my favorite Weird Al song.
A hell of a trifecta.
Exactly
Best movie - Jurassic Park
Best book - Jurassic Park
Best game - Jurassic Park (Sega Genesis)
Best book: TLW Jurassic Park
Best movie: TLW Jurassic Park
Best Game: TLW Jurassic Park (PS1)
Laughed my ass off when the arm with the cigarette lighter lit the other torch.
Thirty years later and this song still randomly gets stuck in my head. For DAYS!
He's actually pretty damned good when he writes his own melodies and arrangements. The break down sounds very Zappa-esque.
Have you listened to Al's tribute to Zappa, Genius in France?
YES - all of the sudden, I’ll remember 2 lines of this song for no real reason - I’m glad I’m not the only one! 😄
He didn't write the tune, it's a parody of "MacArthur Park". The original has the same arrangement and breakdown you're talking about. But yes "Genius in France" is an original pastiche of Zappa
@@theheathbar123 Oh, yea, I learned about MacArthur Park eventually. I definitely hadn't heard that song in the 5th grade, when I was rocking this cassette!
"Dare To Be Stupid" is another pastiche of Oh No-era DEVO that's pretty right on.
I get lots of Weird Al songs playing in my head for days. Today it’s I’m going to the Hardware Store.
Ive been playing a game with my younger brother for about 15 years where if one of us sings the beginning of the chorus and the other doesn’t finish it we get to give the loser a punch on the shoulder. We can go years without bringing it up but its always fun when it happens. Also i love this song
Fun fact, this was filmed over the course of 2 months. Not terribly long, considering the quality of the end result.
Yeah, thankfully it being animated means that the scenes can all be done simultaneously as opposed to having to do it linearly.
Klay-Kremling hah you posted that 2 months ago
Another fun fact: this song was an Easter egg for a brief moment during the seen that involved a radio. Another song that was an Easter egg in that scene was the 1987 duck tales theme song.
Don't mean to rain on your fun fact parade, dear, but you positive that wasn't just a joke from Nostalgia Critic? Could'a sworn he did something like that for his Lost World review... Eh, maybe it was just a fever dream, wouldn't be the first time...
The reason they finished so quick is because they slept in shifts.
"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life" Homer Simpson.
Frank, they’re not here for you. Weird-Al Yankovic is on the plane
100 percent agree
Claymation dinosaurs playing trumpets was something I didn't know I needed
Even with the brilliance of the stop-motion animation, my favorite part is the 2D animation when Al is being swallowed with the T-Rex dancing in different art styles.
The post-swallow breakdown is the highlight for sure
It's a (stomach) acid trip.
Remember when music was awesome?
I do.
Music is still awesome but it's hidden away
Its underground
You have to search REALLY, REALLY hard to find a decent track. I, on the other hand seem to be taken in almost instantly by a catchy beat, so in terms of personal taste, I'm a lost cause.
tony shehatta
asside from you tube there are websites that are exclusively for music and delete anything found to not be the property of the up-loader
basically anyone can make song and the bad or good ones are rated by users and so fourth
I like how the hand reaches over and lights the little torch with a cigarette lighter lol
Should have been the closing credits song to Jurassic World Dominion
Might have actually made the movie entertaining.
This popped into my head after hearing MacArthur Park on the radio just now; haven’t heard this song since I was a kid (I’m 41) and it still rocks! Absolute genius!
This parody is an absolute masterpiece.
One of his best!
I agree! hands down! :-))
What song
Xander Ginders I thought it was Maynard Furguson
@@absurdturd5137 MacArthur Park is the song, Maynard Ferguson is the artist.
2:17 Man I love those references.. especially the yellow submarine one
The song this is based on is about a guy losing a cake recipe in a park during a storm and being sad about losing it.
wth
no seriously wth
Seriously, just listen to the original which is called MacArthur Park. It's by far one of the most bizarre sounding songs i've ever heard.
@@justinmiddleton8818 wait so thats what its called
Yes, and sung by Richard Harris aka Prof. Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films.
Here's the original
czcams.com/video/sD-zTwi3_GU/video.html&app=desktop
LOL... no... it's about a failed relationship the writer, Jimmy Webb had. He stated, "I've also tried to tell the truth, which is that it's just a song about a girlfriend of mine, Susie Horton, and this place on Wilshire Boulevard where we used to have lunch, which is called MacArthur Park. And the truth is that everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park".
But your interpretation is hysterical.
I will never know how Weird Al was able or even allowed to turn such a classic into a parody like this
A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer, well I supposed that proves, they're really not all bad".
One if the funniest lines n in any of his songs.
It's one of the funniest lines in a song because of how everyone says lawyers are the worst people lol
** Illuminati confirmed **
Lawyers are like congressmembers in that everybody hates them in general but they love the ones they have.
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right when i read that, that line played.
“I admit it’s kind of eerie, but proves my Chaos Theory”
Very well done 👌
Yeah?
Ian malcom
All The Dinosaurs Are Running Wild But The Can’t Catch Me Because I Smiled If Dinosaurs Can’t Stay In Earth They Don’t Know How To Curve
@@kevinbejkoxdxd1514 what
@@kingstonvlach7835 Rhyming Is My Passion, Crime Is Not My Fashion, Don’t You Dare Say More Questions, My Brain Will Be Fully Pressioned 🧠
The fact that this song hasn't been used in any of the Jurassic World movies or Camp Cretaceous is a violation of the Geneva Convention.
This was one of the very first videos I watched on CZcams as a kid, and 17 years later, it's still one of my favorites
This may be my favorite Al parody because it marries the bizzare specificity of this song with the specifics of the weird plot of Jurrassic park. It's just done so well.
I looked up the original song and it is BIZARRE! Seriously, google McArthur Park, it's actually weirder than Weird Al's parody.
Brian Fowler someone left a cake out in the rain, and a dinosaur ate it.
@@BauthorFowler The original was sung by Richard Harris, aka Dumbledore.
And claymation? Perfection.🤩
@Brian Fowler
I know the cake melting in the rain is supposed to be a metaphor for a lost love but it's still goofy as hell.
The part with the dinosaurs playing the trumpet always kills me
Lmfaao
I love the cage dancers!
for me man, the scene with Barney's decapitated head made me laugh my ass off
Same here
I'm a little late finding this video, but dang it's perfection
Can we just appreciate how good of a singer he is?
Yes we can
He knows his strengths, and always plays into them. This song is great.
This video literally gave me nightmares when i was 7 years old.
SAME HERE
My parents made me watch this when I was about 4 or 5 I haven't slept for 3 days
SAME HERE!!!
Same
how would this give you nightmares? honestly.
the barney part is hilarious
i love it when i was little
i was like- oh no barney died
Blank space
PHILL SHIVELY haha. Ikr?
Isabel Parsley Sure is!
This shit was my childhood, lol
Also the fuel to some weird nightmares
Childhood memories unlocked
Who noticed that dinosaur at the end holding the sign that said "don't forget to write."
and the other holding its tired arm up from all the waving.
The velociraptor realizing he could use the key is pretty funny.
He's like: "wait what am i doing banging on his door? I can just use a key!"
It was also great in the original, when the velociraptor was on top of the stainless food-prep counter, and tapped his claw while he was figuring out where lunch was hiding.
I thought the joke was that he was slicking back his nonexistent hair as he composed himself?
This is my favorite version of the Original song, Weird Al made it humorous, which I luv
I feel like he had a hella weird trip watching jurassic Park and this was the creative outcome 😂😂
Three thing I love: Weird Al, Claymation and the original Jurassic Park
30 years of Jurassic park. This song is awesome
I love every song ever written about dinosaurs. I love studying dinosaurs. This has to be one of my favorite dinosaur songs of all time
Dinosaurs are cool. Dinosaurs are for everyone.
How about alligators
One of..?
I've been into dinosaurs almost my whole life
+Amber Hanson: Was (Not Was)' "Walk The Dinosaur" is great too.
It's been 30 years since good music has been in invented....
Imagine replying to yourself 😂
Imagine replying to a reply you replied to a comment you made
Imagine replying to a reply to a reply of a comment you made😂
Imagine replying to a reply to a reply to a reply of a reply to a comment you made
@@RocketDudeTV tf
I'm crying in laughter.. Ahhh the good old days.. Al will forever be the most unique individual in music and comedy
He will forever be the most unique individual ever
yah definetly
Wow, it's amazing listening to this again after hearing Richard Harris' original and seeing how Al was able to take and fashion a parody from McArthur Park's bizarre lyrics and center it around one of the biggest hit movies of that year. Awesome stuff!!!!
Is the original mcarthur park a metaphor for something? Because the part about never having that recipe again never made sense to me
@@resplndnt yes it is! It's about loosing the love of one's life that never fully was, to neglect, immaturity, and circumstances out of one's control. An epic tragedy in the context of this song!
@@resplndnt the song has deeper undertones too, as the writer had not only lost his lover but also his mother who had been almost his sole support as a budding songwriter. And it is about societal loss and change, as the actual MacArthur Park in Los Angeles where this songs theme had actually taken place for the songwriter, which had been beautiful only a few years before, back when they were still seeing each other, had recently started to go rapedly downhill and become dangerous, along with the surounding neighborhoods.
+Justin Middleton: Jimmy Webb, the writer of "MacArthur Park," approved of the parody in hopes that it would finally kill off the original.
@@JKTube yes, and of course that didn't exactly happen... But Jimmy has finally come to fully, if reluctantly, embrace the profound and beautiful but very sad meanings of the song. He has said that MacArthur Park was very prophetic for him, if partly self fulfilling prophecy including some things that he came to deeply regret in time. But it is life and it was and still is very real to him!
I honestly thought there was 2 different parodies of this song. I thought the weird thing with the cake out in the rain was a parody too, I had no idea it was the original song. Talk about a weird freaking song. This version is hilarious, and actually makes sense!
What I love about this is that it references chaos theory, which figures MUCH more heavily in the book than in the movie. Al clearly did his research.
In an old fan Q&A from the 90s, someone asked Weird Al what books he'd been reading lately and he said Jurassic Park. Awesome
Yeah, went to Jurassic Park 2 years ago. My cousin and my boyfriend were both mauled and eaten by Velociraptors and I was stepped on by a Brachiosaurus, leaving me in a coma for 6 months and completely paralyzed from the waist down. Don't worry though. I left a scathing review on Yelp.
Nicole Tracy if you were stepped on by a Brachiosaurus, you wouldn't even survive. So... that's where you went wrong
deponds on where you were stepped on, if you got hit in the legs it wouldn't be that 'bad'
yeah thats where you went wrong
Jeff Jeff but if you WERE paralyzed you could die from your lower organs failing.
Nicole Tracy And, ON TOP OF THE HORRENDOUS INJURIES in Jurrassic Park 2, Geoff Goldblum was the protagonist, so thats another strike against it!
"I'm afraid those things will harms me, 'cause they sure don't act like Barney" LOL
25 years later I still some how know this whole song.
I love how the velociraptor started selecting the right key off his key ring to unlock the door to Al when brute force wasn't working.
that always makes me laugh
I can't believe that Al is basically a god here. He can live with only 1/4 of his body, and somehow found a way to get out of that T-rex without being digested.
He left two different T-Rex Stomachs. Which one were you counting? The one with the shirt seller, or the one that eats the helicopter?
didn he get squished as well
He IS basically a god here.
Weird Al
The Master of parody Comedy.
Not comdey not comedy butt parody yes I really don't think you can put king of comedy on any stand up for any person or off on the in their own way and I watch a lot of stand-up but I get what you mean he is the king of parody songs is the best out of everybody that doesn't it
I love the T-Rex eating the lawyer, then wiping his lips, having a cup of tea, then flossing. Pure genius!
who ever done the stop motion deserves on Oscar
This was actually nominated for a Grammy for best music video.
@@darthstarkiller1912 there's a bunch of violence
@@jojopossom_marcelaopossom Have you seen todays crummy Music videos.
Craig Bartlett himself.
Ye
1.2k dislikes were from Lawyers. 😆
and from barney lovers
And maybe from the palaeontology community because, y’know, inaccuracies.
Now 1.8k dislikes from them lawyers
I don't get why...I mean Al admitted they must not all be that bad.
Including she hulk
weird al is a national treasure
It really says something when the original "MacArthur Park" is considered one of the worst songs of all time, and this parody is beloved by all.
When the human arm lights the park entrance...gets me every time lol
Weird Al is a Genius, Plain and Simple
I ALWAYS Say:
This man IS a GENIUS!
I fully agree
It took some guts for Al to follow up his wildly successful Nirvana spoof with a parody of a song none of his young fans would have heard of.
Ever wonder if Barney had to wear a shock collar to prevent him from eating the kids?
you have won the Comment Section
+B-Dawg The Shiny Zorua hi
Well... The cast of kids changes every season, so if Barney did wear a shock collar, it didn't work very well.
He's probably given experimental mind-melding drugs to keep him from eating them.
False. They did everything they could to coax him to eat them, and he still couldn't be cajoled to do so until the end of each season, persuaded by the threat they'd bring the same kids back if he didn't eat them.
Real talk, the instrumental to this song is actually insanely well done, like the mixing is superb.
WHERE did this genius man get these GENIUS animators?? Absolutely perfect! ☺️
Their names were mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund. They also took heavy inspiration from claymation master Will Vinton.
@@Sumschmuck I felt like it has some Will Vinton vibes to it.
I love how the parody ends on the same note as the actual theme score in the film. Nice little touch
I’ve loved this song and video since I was a kid. I had the VHS in the 90s. Absolutely timeless.
0:43 - Dammit Newman! You had ONE job and you blew it.
As well as candy bars, soda, burgers, and a whole bunch of other crap at his work area. LOL.
carultch aa
"Uh uh uh. You didn't say the magic word!"
That's Dennis Nedly.
my mom came to my apartment recently (and this was, of course, waaay past when the movie was popular); then seriously and angrily said that my living room, "looks like Newman's desk from that dinosaur movie. I feel like that black guy did; i just wanna shove everything off the tables..."
This music video is the earliest memory I have of CZcams
2:02 his face on that part😂
I remember watching this again and again on an old cassette as a kid. It both entertained and scared me.
Good old claymation. At the time there was this and 3 Little Pigs. Scary, indeed
Mike Panichella
It was the same guy who did this and Green Jelly's stuff.
same same same
not to be semantic, but dont you mean VHS? a cassette is for audio only
subkontrabasklarinet Me 2 XD
A happy birthday to Richard Harris who wrote the original version of this song, MacArthur Park. Born October 1, 1930.
Jimmy Webb wrote it. Richard Harris was the first to record it.
the Velociraptor pulling out the master key ring got me.
You know, either Weird Al Yankovic can be either hilarious or immature. And Jurassic Park is both of those descriptions, and it is a hilarious song of his. Wish he'd make more songs like this.
the shot of the guy relighting the miniature model is just perfect
There's a line "Well this sure ain't no E-ticket, and I'll tell them where to stick it" For those who don't know or remember, back in the 60's and 70's Disneyland sold tickets for the rides. They came as A, B, C, D and E, if I remember right the A tickets were the cheapest and the E tickets were the most expensive. The others wee somewhere in between. When you wanted to go on a ride, you had to buy the correct ticket for that ride. At the gates, you might buy 10 A tickets, 5 B tickets, 8 C tickets etc.You then went looking for the rides you could go on depending on what tickets you had left.
Thanks. I always wondered what that meant.
I figured it was something like this. I just looked at it as it not being as special as they said it was.
thanx for the info! i was always baffled @ those lyrics
i just noticed that line and the only E ticked i know stands for electronic and i know that sure is not what he meant.
I had a vague knowledge that an E-ticket meant something pretty good and ritzy, but I didn't really know the backstory behind the definition. Thanks for teaching an '81 kid.
This claymation is astonishing.
Most underrated weird Al parody ngl
"A huge Tyrannosaurus ate a lawyer, well I suppose that proves they're really not all bad" One of the best lines in his songs.
I watched him live in Indy last night and lemme tell you it was AMAZINGLY FUN!! He sang this song in flippin Japanese, it was surreal!
"Someone shut the fence off in the rain..."
NEWMAN!
The Best Music Video 90's
My favorite part is when the dinosaur is holding a sign saying don't forget to write.
Ha ha
I eat salamanders.
@@InfantIncinerator84 what
I am a temmie but I have become sentient
Timestamp?
3:05 The Dinosaur Dress up as Energizer Bunny?😂😂😂😂😂
Yes. Dinogizer! Buy now! Not only will it power your flashlight, but it will also eat you!
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I can never choose which is the funnier, the song or the video itself.
Band
Weird Al - Vocals
Jim West - Strings and Brass Section
Steve Jay - Bass
Ruben Valtierra - Keyboards (his first time with Al Yankovic)
Jon Bermuda Schwartz - Drums
to all those who Disliked... he won an MTV best video award for this. So go buy an E-ticket to Jurassic Park.
and tell them where to stick it!!!!!!
I always loved you weird al. You make things better.
1:53 what i came for lol
Poor Barney XD
I guess he went on a "stomach" acid trip
Good job. You deserve a medal.
Alexandria Fluker 9
More like pcp and lsd with a fuck ton of xans this dude saw dinosaurs barney was in clay saw himself in the third person saw cartoons and cage stripper dancing dinos and a mutant hybrid energizer bunny he had to have been high as fuck
I HATE LAWYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remystyles this was my favorite weird AL music video. probably because of seeing the Jurassic park characters caricatures in clay.