I Can't Watch This

Song: I Can't Watch This

Running Time: 3:31

Year: 1990

Album: Off The Deep End, TV Album, Al-In-The-Box, I Can't Watch This

Parody of: U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer

Genre: Pop-rap

Guitar tuning: E standard

Lyrics: Lyrics

Video: None

Download/Listen: Mp3

Trivia

• This is one of the many "Weird Al" songs where the theme is Television.
• There was a Siskel & Ebert spoof on the Weird Al Show.
• One of the lyrics is “Can’t stand Twin Peaks/Wish they’d Lynch those doughnut-eating freaks”. This is a reference to Twin Peaks creator and executive producer, David Lynch.
• Another lyric is "Those Siskel & Ebert bums must go home and sit on their thumbs" refers to a bad review of UHF by the duo, which made Yankovic angry.

Shows mentioned

• America's Funniest Home Videos
• Cosby Show
• Roseanne
• Judge Wapner
• Thirtysomething
• Twin Peaks
• Siskel & Ebert
• Late Night with David Letterman ("stupid pet tricks")
• The Arsenio Hall Show (Hall is the "guy with the real flat hair")

Channels mentioned

• HBO
• Playboy
• Showtime
• MTV

Commercials sampled/recreated include:

• Energizer batteries ("They keep going and going...")
• Pantene ("Don't hate me because I'm beautiful")
• Head & Shoulders ("Could be dandruff")
• Crazy Eddie ("Our prices are insaaaane!!!")
• Palmolive ("You're soaking in it")
• Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
• Excedrin ("When you've got a headache this big")
• Time-Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" book series ("Read the book")
• "This is your brain on drugs" Anti-drug PSA
• Life Alert ("I've fallen and I can't get up!")