Dieses Lied, das die ausufernden Folgen eines fiktiven Computervirus beschreibt, ist ein Pastiche des Stils der Gruppe Sparks und gleichzeitig eine Parodie auf die vielen Computerviren Hoaxes, die in den… … Deutsch Wikipedia Virus Alert - ist ein Lied von Weird Al Yankovic.
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A free demo is available, while the actual game is $16.95. He advances in his job by collecting computer disks, installing anti-viruses on computers, killing the viruses and completing the levels.
"Weird Al" plays an employee of Company-Tech Co., Ltd. Named Virus Alert 3D, the game is from the same people who worked on the song's music video. "Weird Al"'s website features a computer game based on the music video. Also present is a reference to the Indiana Jones film " Raiders of the Lost Ark", where three characters (dressed the same as the Germans from the film) get their faces melted "right off their skulls." Also, as the virus infiltrates reality, the band's instruments transform into strange objects (a guitar into a fish, the drum set into a giant lobster, and a keyboard into an octopus). The office building where the Al character works in the video is the home of a company called Initech, which is also the name of the company in " Office Space".The movie's scenes involving the band also have a distinct Tron-style look, with the band members standing on blocky towers of neon-colored luminous tiles reminiscent of the movie.
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The video also contains a reference to the Mike Judge movie " Office Space". Also, the mail program used in the video is "AlMail," a parody of GMail. An interesting note is that the viruses bear a strong resemblance to the viruses from the classic NES game Dr.
In one scene, just before a computer monitor explodes, you can see the Newgrounds logo on the screen also, four of the five Retarded Animal Babies make appearances in the video, in one instance the Bunny character being clickable to see two of the babies watching the video. There is a reference to David's roots in Newgrounds. The music video was animated by David Lovelace, creator of the notorious Newgrounds cartoon Retarded Animal Babies. Also, the virus seems to be spread like the ILOVEYOU virus, by e-mail spamming and scamming into downloading the virus (although the virus seems to infect right by opening the e-mail). These range from plausible behaviors that have occurred in real life, such as deleting data and translating documents into another language (in this case Swahili) to the impossible, such as "causing a major rift in time and space", "messing up the pH balance in your pool", "giving your laundry static cling" and "making you physically attracted to sheep." The e-mailer continually requests its recipients to " forward this message on to everybody," and gives instructions on what to do, should a computer become infected with this virus (such as dropping the computer down a 43-foot hole, and burning any articles of clothing "you may have worn anytime you were online"). The narrative of the song is told from the perspective of someone forwarding an email detailing and warning about the (fictional) "STINKY CHEESE" computer virus, with over-exaggerated effects and consequences.
The song is a satire of hoax computer virus warnings such as the " Goodtimes virus" (also spoofed as " Bad Times".)
It is a pastiche of the glam rock band Sparks. Virus Alert is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic on his 2006 album, " Straight Outta Lynwood".