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These are the visuals that occur during the music video for the song Smells Like Nirvana.

Visuals Lyrics
Cut to a gym, with the studentsmoving their feet while sitting on bleachers, cheerleaders cheering, and a band playing. It later reveals that a middle-aged lady was cheering amongst the other cheerleaders. Cut to a janitor with mopping equipment. He grabs a bagel out of the bucket and takes a bite. Cut back to the bleachers where the cheerleaders are still cheering, and we learn that the principal has been "rocking out" Introduction
Cut to the band playing and "Weird Al" Yankovic dressed as Kurt Cobain. He sings along to the words. What is this song all about?
Cut to the drummer, who is supposed to be Dave Grohl. He plays. On "any", cut to the bass player (Krist Novoselic, who is playing. Can't figure any lyrics out
Cut to the cheerleaders. They're cheering, and one of them has a large amount of underarm hair. How do the words to it go?
Cut to "Weird Al". He sings along with the words. I wish you'd tell me, I don't know
Cut to the janitor, moving his mop around on the first two "Don't know"'s. On the third one, cut to the cheerleaders cheering with "Weird Al" jumping around with his guitar in the back. On the fourth "don't", cut back to the janitor, doing some sort of swimming-style dance. Don't know, don't know, don't know, I don't know
Cut to the drummer after the second "know", who drums intensly. Don't know, don't know, don't know...
Cut to the bleachers, where the students are shaking there heads. Al jumps in front of them with his guitar, sings and plays. Now I'm mumblin' and I'm screamin'
Cut to the side of the bleachers, where the camera moves to the left and we see the back of a bald man's head saying "This Space for Rent". On "what", cut back to Al with the drummer behind him. Al sings the line. And I don't know what I'm singin'
Cut to the drummer, who drums in slow motion. Crank the volume, ears are bleedin'
Cut to Al. He sings the line. On "what", cut to his side where we see a small person holding a spotlight up to his face. I still don't know what I'm singin'
Cut to the side of the bleachers with the students shaking their heads. On "incoherent", cut to the front and we see a student tear off someone's head and throw it. We're so loud and incoherent
Cut to Al on "oughta", who sings the line. On "-ents", cut to the top of the bass, then cut to the drummer. Boy, this oughta bug your parents
Cut to Al, who sings the line. Yeah
Cut to the bleachers, where a person has been thrown into the crowd. Cut to the drummer, then cut to the bass player. Cut to Al, who bends the top of his guitar up and says "Haing!". burp. Haing!
Cut to Al, who sings the line. The words appear at the bottom of the screen. It's unintel-ligible
Cut to the cheerleaders with Al jumping in the back. The words appear at the bottom. I just can't get it through my skull
Cut to headshot of Al, who sings the line. The words appear at the bottom. On "-dle", three question marks appear after the line. It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss
Al sings the line with marbles coming out of his mouth constantly. The words appear at the bottom of the screen. With all these marbles in my mouth
Cut to the front of the bleachers. Al is playing, facing the students. On the third "don't", cut to a headshot of Al, singing the line with marbles coming out of his mouth. Don't know, don't know, don't know, I don't know
On the second "don't", cut back to the front of the bleachers with Al playing for them. People are being thrown from the crowd. Don't know, don't know, don't know...
On "don't", cut to the bass player's midsection, where he's playing. On "like", cut to Al, who jumps, plays, and sings the line. Well, we don't sound like Madonna
Cut to the front of the bleachers with a cow at the right. On "now", cut to the side of the bleachers, with the cheerleaders on the left and Al in the back. The cheerleaders are doing the Chicken Dance. Here we are now, we're Nirvana
On "we", cut to Al who sings the line. Sing distinctly? We don't wanna
Cut to the front of the bleachers. On "album", the actual Al (digitally added in) walks from the left of the screen, eating a banana. He looks at you, spits the banana out, and runs off towards the right. Buy our album, we're Nirvana
Cut to the principal. He's holding a burger. On "band", he offers it to the student to his left, our right. On "Sea-", the student refuses the offer by throwing it out onto the front of the bleachers. The principal notices, but doesn't mind. A garage band from Seattle
Cut to the side of the bleachers. On "raisin'", Cut to Al, singing the line. After the line, cut to the drummer, then the bass player. Well, it sure beats raisin' cattle
Cut to Al, who sings the line and raises his guitar. Yeah
Cut to the drummer. He plays a little. Cut to a cow, who moos on "Moo". Cut to the front of the bleachers, where people are being thrown around. Cut to a sheep, who bleats on "Bleat". Then cut to the bass player, then the drummer, both playing. Moo. Bleat.
Cut to Al, who takes a sip of water, raises his head, and gargles the melody. In the background, a basketball game is going on. A ball is thrown at one player, but hits him in the head. Then, a man on fire comes from the right side of the screen and spins around to the left. Al swallows at the end. {Gargles melody}
Cut to the front of the bleachers, where all of the kids are sitting down. They stand up, put kazoos in their mouths, and play the line. {Kazoos}
Cut to the janitor, who is playing a tuba. {Tuba}
Cut to Al, who sings the line. The basketball game continues in the back. And I forgot the next verse
The basketball players leave. Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
On "sh-", the ball gets passed to Al. On "to", he throws it behind him without looking. The lyric sheet's so hard to find
On "nevermind", the basketball makes it through the hoop, while Al sings the line. What are the words? Oh, nevermind
Cut to the janitor, who finds a pink tutu in his bucket. On the third "don't know", cut to Al, who jumps and sings. Don't know, don't know, don't know, oh no
Cut to the janitor, who is wearing the tutu and dancing around like a generic ballerina. Cut to Al on the third "don't know" Don't know, don't know, don't know..
Al sings the line. On "-in'", cut to a crowd of students, where people are still being thrown around. Well, I'm yellin' and we're playin'
Cut to the drummer. On "don't", cut to the crowd. Two Girl Scouts selling cookies walk up. A student walks towards them and throws the cookies out of their hands. But I don't know what I'm sayin'
Cut to the drummer. On "mes-", cut to the crowd. A person rips someone else's arm off, and swings it around. What's the message I'm conveyin'?
On "tell", cut to a closeup on Al, who sings "tell me". On "what", cut to the crowd, where one of the Girl Scouts is travelling on top of the crowd by their arms. Can you tell me what I'm sayin'?
On "have", cut to the bass player. On "got", cut back to the crowd, where people are being thrown around. On "-dea", a person hangs on the rim of the basketball hoop, and it falls with him. So have you got some idea?
Cut to a closeup of Al, who sings the first line. Between the two, a staff ember of the school is shown moving a cymbal in front of the crowd. Cut back to the closeup of Al, who sings the second line. After the two lines, cut to the drummer, then to a person in the crowd being tackled by about three people. Didn't think so -- Well, I'll see ya
Cut to the Al closeup, who sings the first "Sayonara". On the second one, cut to Al in the crowd, throwing his guitar to the ground in slow motion. Sayonara, sayonara
On "Ayo-", cut to Al's side smashing his guitar. Cut to closeup Al, who sings "-nawa". On "odin-", cut to Al smashing a plate over someone in the crowd's head. On the last "-nawa", cut to closeup Al, who is licking the camera. Ayonawa, odinawa
On "Odin-", cut to Al pulling someone in the crowd's nose with pliers. On "-aya", cut to closeup Al, still licking the camera. On "yodi-", cut to the crowd, with Al and a TNT box with the handle. He pushes it. A clip of a building falling down plays. Odinaya, yodinaya
Cut to closeup Al. He sings the line, and cuts his hair. At the end, cut to the drummer, who falls off of his seat. Yaddayadda, yaaahyaaah
Cut to closeup Al, who sings the line with his head raised. He coughs, and then falls. Ayaayaaaah! {Coughs}
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