Produced in association with Dick Clark Productions and taped at NBC Studios, it aired on Saturday mornings on CBS.

CBS had greenlit the show from Yankovic, seeking content for its required Educational/Informative programming block and framed similarly to Pee-Wee's Playhouse.

In turn, Al plays him an old-fashioned educational film (with the original dialogue replaced) to help answer his question.

The show had been pitched to Reed as similar to Pee-wee's Playhouse, but to have a more subversive humor that followed Yankovic's style of comedy.

[1] CBS brought in Wayne White, the production designer for Pee-wee's Playhouse, to construct the set for "The Weird Al Show".

For example, a sketch in which Baby and Papa Boolie commit suicide after listening to one too many of Fred Huggins's songs was being seriously considered by the network for use on the show.

[1] The unused script of the unedited Fred Huggins sequence is role-played in an audio commentary for an episode on the DVD.

CBS also wanted more of Yankovic's music parodies as part of the show, though they would not pay for the royalties for the original song.

[1] The show also featured the first television broadcast of the Barenaked Ladies, though Yankovic was surprised that the network allowed them to use the band's full name at the time.

According to Yankovic, he planned to show "actual scenes from Star Wars with me green-screened into them, seamlessly interacting with the characters.

After the end credits of each case, when the "Ear Booker Productions" logo flashes on the screen repeatedly, a three-second version of the "Bite Me" track can be heard.

"Bite Me" originally appeared as a six second long hidden track on the CD version of Weird Al" Yankovic's 1992 album Off the Deep End.

David Bowe, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, and Emo Philips who also were in the film made cameos on the show.

Today is the day of the annual "Weird Al talent show", but Cousin Corky gets stage fright.

According to the DVD commentary, this was originally intended to be the debut, hence containing exposition for characters and segments that seem out of place on what turned out to be the tenth aired episode.

Guest appearances: Gilbert Gottfried as Al's imaginary friend Gilbert, Martha Quinn as Woman in Commercial, "Macho Man" Randy Savage as himself, Dick Van Patten as Burglar & All-4-One as musical guest The Weird Al Show: The Complete Series[4] was released on August 15, 2006 by Shout Factory.