Sunday, June 6, 2021

Saturtainment: Weird Al meets Lenny & Squiggy (well, not really) (The Weird Al Show, 1997)

 From The Weird Al Show:

A group of miners breaks into Al's home, and chaos follows.

Plus, Al takes a page from Bill Cosby, and we have a show-within-a-show, with the adventures of Fatman ("Weird" Al Yankovic, based on his 1987 song, "Fat"). Michael McKean, David L. Lander, Clarence Clemons, and Martha Quinn guest star in "Mining Accident":


This marked Lander's return to Saturday mornings for the first time since Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down? (1970), and, aside from maybe doing Comic Relief, this might've been the first time Lander had worked with long time best pal McKean since Laverne & Shirley ended nearly 15 years earlier on camera.

Billy West is our announcer, and voices Harvey in the Fatman segment. Beau Weaver (ex-Fantastic Four, Superman) handles the announcing for various channel-surfing skits, including Al doing a parody of fitness videos.

This deserved an earlier time slot.

Rating: B (mostly for 2 minutes of bliss from Martha).

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