27

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27 is a number that comes up on a lot of Al's songs and other things.

Contents 1 Songs 2 Album Covers 3 Internet 4 Concerts 5 Videos 6 Interviews 7 Life 8 Other

[edit] Songs

• In the song Albequerque, Al's mom fed him sauerkraut until he was 26 1/2. An obvious reference to 27.

• In the song Cable TV Al mentions that his friends are jealous because he's seen "Porky's" 27 times that week.

• In "Callin' In Sick", he says he hits the snooze alarm 27 times.

• In "Confessions Part III", he says, "I haven't changed my underwear in 27 days."

• In "Hardware Store", "every 27th customer will get a ball pen hammer free".

• In "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", the kids started singing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" for the 27th time that day.

• In "Polkamon," Al says "Hold on a minute, there's still at least one hundred and 27 more."

• In "True Player For Real," MC Lars says "...and I can give 27 reasons why..."

[edit] Album Covers

• On the cover of Running With Scissors, Al's running number is 27.
• On the Poodle Hat cover, the number on the boy scout's arm is 27'.
• On the Straight Outta Lynwood Cover, the license plate says "027 NLY".

[edit] Internet

• At The Official Site in the questions gallery, he answers exactly 27 questions every month.
• For the album Straight Outta Lynwood, his website brought you to a big 27 then redirected you to the normal site.

[edit] Concerts

• In a live performance, he puts his hand just above his waist (indicating height) and says he was that tall "Back when I was...27..."

[edit] Videos

• In the animated video for Do I Creep You Out, Debbie lives in apartment 27.

• The actor portraying the caning victim in the video for Headline News arrives at gate number 27 in Singapore at the beginning of the video.

• In the I Lost On Jeopardy video, not including the photographs or TV images, Al appears in 27 different shots.

• There are some hidden 27s and messages in the chalkboard in the Jurassic Park video. One says "2(pi)r^2=(some other complicated equation)=7." Put the first and last number together and you get 27. Another time, the numerator of the equation starts out as a 2, then changes to a 15, then changes to a 27 before changing into some weird symbols.

• In the video for Like A Surgeon we catch a quick glimpse of the number 27 as Al advances his counter as he goes to work on his next patient.

• At the end of the video The Saga Begins, Weird Al teams up with 26 other look-alikes in a triangle formation. With the singer Al in front, it makes 27.

• In the video for This Is The Life, Al takes dates number 26 and 27 out for the time of their lives.

• In the White and Nerdy Video, Al has 27 friends on his myspace page.

[edit] Interviews

• In this interview where Al is interviewing Keith Richards, they are talking about bowling and Al says to meet him in lane 27.

[edit] Life

• Al was 27 when he first was noticed.
• His father was 27 when he had him.
• He originally had 27 songs before he was famous.
• He has 27 members of his close family (siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins).
• Al's mom's birthday is 2/7

[edit] Other

• When Al was on Wheel Of Fortune, he won $27,800.
• The weird al $100 bill has hidden 27s.
• The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic was released October 27.