In this 1994 parody, Yankovic takes on the Crash Test Dummies’s 1993 hit “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” with a song that references 3 different huge stories that broke the news during the recording of this song.

Brad Roberts, the original songwriter for “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” was extremely pleased with the parody, and found it humorous. He later noted that, “People assume that I was annoyed but when [Yankovic] does a parody of you, you know you’ve made it.” He later praised the way Yankovic interacted with the artists that he parodies, noting that “Weird Al goes the whole route and cultivates a relationship with the artist. Plus he gets half the earnings and that helps me make money.

Roberts and the band also performed the song with Yankvoic twice; once on Canada’s MuchMusic channel and another time at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. Reportedly, during one of the performances, Ellen Reid, backing vocalist and keyboardist for the Crash Test Dummies, went out and purchased kazoos. The band then hid the instruments until the end of the song, when they took them out and played them; this “came as a big surprise to” Yankovic. Yankovic’s Straight Outta Lynwood concert tour contained new lyrics as part of a parody medley, referencing Britney Spears, dealing with her 2007 head-shaving shock and underpants-less limousine trip in late 2006. Later in the tour, he changed it to reference Paris Hilton’s DUI and imprisonment, and her subsequent interview on Larry King Live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCbg3_Yp8dg