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Teenagers these days will never understand the glory of sneaking out after curfew, crashing a ride with your friends, and heading to the most coveted event of the week: a polka party. Remember the good old days? In the new trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a young Al Yankovic (David Bloom) faces the wrath of his parents for going against their word and being, well, weird.
The Roku Channel biopic will trace the very early days of Al Yankovic’s weirdness—as in, everything that gave him the nickname “Weird Al.” But we’ll also get plenty of adult Weird Al (Harry Potter alum Daniel Radcliffe) on the rise in pop culture. We even get a glimpse of Weird Al’s shoddy college apartment, the spot where the musical mastermind first developed his groundbreaking idea for a new genre.
“My whole life, all I’ve wanted is to make up new words to a song that already exists,” he says. Cue “My Bologna,” a hammy knockoff of The Knack’s “My Sharona.”