Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Volcano
• VHS Release Date: June 4, 1996
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305338094
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,531 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of his best!, October 14, 1999

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Carole Goetzelmann "Carole" (Cincinnati, Oh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Hair Day [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Weird Al" only improves with age! If you can't see him live in concert, then see his videos. I have seen 3 of these 4 and they are some of his best. Videos on the tape are, Amish Paradise, Gump, Headline News, Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More proof of Weird Al's amazing talent., October 24, 1999

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C. Cramblet "ccramblet" (Muskegon, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Hair Day [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The videos included on this collection illustrate how Weird Al is able to evolve with the whole music video scene. "Amish Paradise" is one of Al's best parody's to date and every video contains subtle gags and spoofs that you don't catch the first time. You'll watch this tape over and over again and enjoy it more each time. Weird Al is certainly one of the most creative and talented musicians of our day. Take his weirdness VERY seriously!

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Al goes forward in reverse! Or something like that..., January 22, 2001

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Zagnorch (Terra, Sol System) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bad Hair Day [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This collection contains one of Al's most remarkable videos, "Amish Paradise". Although I don't find it quite as funny as some of his other videos, there's one sequence that had me marveling at his comedic talent. There's one part in "Amish" where everything was filmed, and then played backwards on the video. It starts with Al falling UP from the ground, and 'walking forward' while farm animals in the background are trotting backward. And all through this sequence, he lip-synchs the chorus perfectly! I found it really mind-blowing that he learned how to lip-synch the lyrics in reverse, and then reverse the film to make it look like he was singing them 'forward'. Amazing. Oh yeah, it was also mighty decent of him to give Florence Henderson some work in this video, too... such a considerate lad, that Al.

The 'Gump' spoof's pretty good too, a take-off of the one-hit-wonders the Presidents of the USA's 'Lump'. The guy playing Gump in the video has a pretty good- although not uncanny- likeness of Tom Hanks' most memorable movie character.

'Headline News' is one of my top-fave Al videos, sung to the tune of Crash Test Dummies 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm'. It makes fun of the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan attack, the guy who got caned for spraypainting graffiti in Singapore, and the Bobbit-ectomy. The best part was 'John Wayne Bobbit' looking through his fridge for his missing- um, you know-, picking up a package of hot dogs, and giving them a longing stare for an instant before resuming his search. It's a scene I'll always remember, no matter how hard I try to forget...

Last, and probably least, is the Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing' parody, 'Beverly Hillbillies'. Although I consider it one of Al's more mediocre efforts, I did find it to be one of the few bright spots in the abysmally unfunny 'UHF' movie. There's also an interesting piece of rather useless and insignificant trivia about this song that you might want to throw at your fellow Al addicts: Dire Straits front man Mark Knopfler does the lead guitar for the spoof, earning him the singular distinction of being the only artist to perform in both the original song and the Weird Al parody of the same song. Knopfler's involvement was the result of an agreement that Al could satirize "Money For Nothing" as long as he could play the lead guitar part.

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