All (?) TMBG references in Weird Al's Everything You Know Is Wrong!

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All you need to understand about this song!

We are Don't Let's Start: A Podcast About They Might Be Giants hosted by Jordan Cooper and Dave Fox.

In this YouTube EXCLUSIVE, we try to guess (correctly!) all of the They Might Be Giants references in the song Everything You Know Is Wrong, by "Weird Al" Yankovic, which he wrote as a parody and tribute to TMBG!

Around 150 TMBG songs are potentially referenced! WOW! Take that, YouTube copyright claims!

In this video we discuss:

Al's professed fandom of TMBG.
Al's style parodies in general.
TMBG's many themes and recurring musical and lyrical motifs.
Every single second of Bad Hair Day's second track, Everything You Know Is Wrong and how it may relate to various TMBG songs from 1986-1996.

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SPECIAL UPDATE! John Linnell was asked about the Weird Al song in an interview with Creative Loafing. He had this to say:

"It took me years to get around to hearing it, but at some point in the last ten years or so, I finally checked it out. And I feel sort of dumb saying this, but it really appealed to me as a piece of songwriting, and I realized that's because Weird Al is copying our style, and I just automatically liked it. I suppose you can hear somebody imitate you and then be annoyed by it, but I thought the song was great. I really liked it."
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00:00 - All about Al
3:47 - Al and TMBG
09:09 - Firesign Theater
10:40 - Organ intro
12:30 - Guitar stabs
15:25 - General musical arrangement
16:22 - Driving on the freeway
17:50 - Animals
20:00 - Tortured protagonists
21:00 - Driving with hands over your eyes
21:50 - Verse 2, confusion
23:35 - Car crashes
24:54 - Hibachi
25:30 - Bari sax
26:54 - Prosthetic lips
27:30 - General TMBG songwriting
31:54 - Chorus
37:42 - Lyrical contradictions
40:20 - Songs within songs
42:28 - 2nd verse: Food
44:59 - Sci-fi
46:11 - Pop culture references
47:04 - Body horror
47:45 - Phones
49:20 - Disembodied heads
50:56 - Pop culture mascots
51:27 - Instrumental bridge
59:57- My Evil Twin
01:01:08 - DEATH
01:05:55 - Clothing
01:07:33 - Hotels
01:08:06 - Screaming
01:08:44 - Whizzy keyboard
01:09:46 - Big hits
01:10:18 - Call and response
01:11:22 - The very very end
01:12:07 - Thank you!