It’s Sunday, which means that it’s time for your Sunday Evening Super Awesome Vegetarian Post of Awesome Vegetarianism, and this week it’s the one, the only, the incomparable ”Weird Al” Yankovic!  I was debating whether or not to use Mr. Yankovic for this series because, well, it’s Weird Al, but I realized that most of you probably haven’t really paid attention to him in a while, and missed his parody of “Trapped in the Closet,” which he calls “Trapped in the Drive-Thru.”  He actually did an 11-minute parody of R. Kelly.  It’s amazingly amazing and awesomely awesome.  Enjoy:

I am really impressed with that.  Maybe too much.  Now, parodies aside, Weird Al always wanted to be known for his original songs, which take up half of each of his albums.  Of course, I’m not sure he meant “Harvey the Wonder Hamster” to be what he’s remembered for.

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Nerve.com has assembled fifty of the best commercial parodies for you. Unfortunately, many of SNL’s most infamous are no longer available online, due to NBC’s copyright-enforcing blitz a while back. However the folks at Nerve did muster up lots of classics and plenty of favorites from Chappelle’s Show, MADtv, In Living Color and SCTV. Enjoy Nerve’s #4 pick ( and one of my favorites) Buhweet sings:
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And after you enjoy Nerve’s 50 takepart and check out mediamatters.org. Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.