White & Nerdy

More than you need to know about the Weird Al White & Nerdy Video:

* White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, released on September 26, 2006.
* Parodies the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone.
* Chamillionaire himself put "White & Nerdy" on his official MySpace page, and commented that he enjoys the parody.
* The song became Yankovic's first career Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, its peak being #9 and beating his previous #12 peak for 1984's "Eat It".

References in the Song:
* In the video, "Weird Al" refuses a 40 and sticks to his Earl Grey tea, a drink that Captain Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation commonly drinks.
* In the video for Ridin', Chamillionaire is seen rapping in an empty street at night. On the pavement behind him, his personal logo is outlined in burning road flares. In the night scenes for Yankovic's video the same red-colored flares are in the shape of Pac-Man.
* When Yankovic is rapping in front of Donny Osmond, the Schrödinger equation for a hydrogen atom can be seen in the background. However, it is incorrect in that ħ2 is replaced by a h2. This scene parodies shots of the original song's video, which featured Chamillionaire rapping in front of his own name, with Krayzie Bone doing some moves.
* Al's character in the song indicates that he graduated first in his class at MIT (in reality, MIT does not actually give students a class rank).
* Yankovic refers to M.C. Escher as being his "favorite MC".
* When in his library, Al is seen reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, which is also the book he is seen holding in his READ poster.
* Above and to the left of Yankovic's computer is a large poster of the Periodic Table of Chemical elements.
* Yankovic created his "pimped-out" MySpace page for the filming.[9] "White & Nerdy"'s top eight MySpace friends are Bill Gates, Napoleon Dynamite, Mr. Peabody, Albert Einstein, Screech, Frodo, Pee Wee Herman and Tom.
* When Al raps "Yo, I know π to a thousand places..." a background displays the value of π to about 515 digits.
* A scene shows him playing Minesweeper on a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X. The logged-in user is listed as "whitenerdy."
* When Al sings that he even has his name on his underwear, someone pulls a wedgie on him, exposing the name "Alfred" on the waistband, "Weird Al"'s given name.
* The scene for the line, "I ain't got a gat, but I got a soldering gun" refers to his use of a soldering iron for electronic assembly or repair, rather than a firearm.
* While Yankovic is in the store browsing for X-Men comic books, he is wearing a shirt that reads "Carl Sagan is my homeboy".
* The Wikipedia article Yankovic vandalizes (by typing "YOU SUCK!" in large Impact type) is the article about Atlantic Records, referring to the company refusing permission for Yankovic to include "You're Pitiful", a parody of James Blunt's song "You're Beautiful", on Straight Outta Lynwood.
* The word "dog" is said at the same point in both "Ridin'" and this song; however, rather than in the original song, where it was "dawg" — slang for "friend" — Al's character is referring to his pet dog.
* Yankovic parodies the Star Wars kid and is seen purchasing a bootleg VHS recording of The Star Wars Holiday Special toward the end of the video.
* On the trash container in the back alley is a Lambda-graffiti, which is the logo of the pc-game Half-Life. Lambda Lambda Lambda was the nerds' fraternity in the film Revenge of the Nerds.
* Chamillionaire flashes a gang sign; Yankovic flashes the Vulcan salute sign from Star Trek.
* In the scene where Weird Al talks about how he can recite Monty Python and the Holy Grail, he is wearing a tee-shirt which has "Monty Python" written across the front.

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