Chris Ford

A young "Weird Al" Yankovic, playing accordion barefoot in quilted velvet pants and a frizzy ball of hair, looked positively hip next to square extraordinaire Tom Snyder.

Given the cornucopia of new videos "Weird Al" Yankovic has given us from his new album, 'Mandatory Fun,' available on Amazon and iTunes, we thought now might be a good time to dig into his videolog and pick out our favorites.

Not many people can say, "It's really, like, one of the worst things we've ever done" in reference to something they're proud of.

It would seem that Tim Burton has been making weird versions of already-weird stuff since the beginning of his career.

David Lynch is known mostly for his strange storytelling method and cavalcade of hard to understand but still fun to watch movies.

We take the Internet for granted now.

You know what we haven't had in a long while? A dance craze.

Does this mean that the Reagan administration filled the White House with bong-fueled parties during the '80s?

Thanks to the Internet -- as well as "public figures" like Glenn Beck, Alex Jones and David Eick -- conspiracy theories have become a part of mainstream pop culture.

The classic American writer Mark Twain once said, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”