When someone close to me had kids, I came close to loading up an iPod with all of Weird Al's music, so that they would hear his versions first, and they would think that he was the prime musical force of the past 30 years. I didn't follow through, though I regret that sometimes.
When I was a lad, I didn't understand that some of Weird Al's songs were just funny. I though that, for every Weird Al, there was a corresponding pop song. The best part is, even though I was wrong, I still sometimes hear a song and think "Oh. That one was a parody, huh."
