The internet had a field day over the weekend when a Twitter user posted a photo of a truck and trailer she saw belonging to a company called Alanis Landscaping, captioned with a pun based on a repurposed Alanis Morissette lyric.
People were having so much fun making puns and jokes about it even Alanis Morissette herself got in on the game, parodying her own lyrics to "You Oughta Know" in a quote tweet of the photo.
\u201c@Alanis It\u2019s not fair to deny me\nOf the shrubs and trees you would plant for me\u2026\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657487745
But parodying lyrics is of course music icon Weird Al Yankovic's stock in trade.
So naturally, the ascendant master of the repurposed lyric has also joined the Alanis Morissette/Alanis Landscaping joke-fest in a bid to protect his musical territory.
And fans are loving this new chapter to the silliness.
See Yankovic's tweet below.
\u201cHey! Stay in your lane!\u201d— Al Yankovic (@Al Yankovic) 1657575876
Quoting Morissette's tweet, Yankovic tweeted:
"Hey! Stay in your lane!"
Fair enough.
Morissette is already a Grammy-winning musician, a celebrated actor and writer and has a Tony-winning Broadway show based on her first album Jagged Little Pill under her belt.
Now she has to do song parodies too‽‽
Morissette took the chastisement well.
\u201c\ud83d\ude06\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657651682
Weird Al has of course done countless parodies, beginning in the 1970s with songs like "My Balogna"—his version of "My Sharona."
The 80s were arguably his greatest decade, as the advent of MTV made Yankovic's parodies of songs by the channel's biggest stars, like Madonna and Michael Jackson, nearly as popular as the originals themselves.
One of those parodies, of Michael Jackson's "Beat It," even won Yankovic a Grammy in 1985 for Best Comedy Recording. He'd go on to win four more Grammys between 1989 and 2019.
But though he has worked her hits "You Oughta Know" and "Thank U" into his live performances and once parodied her "Ironic" video on his MTV show, Yankovic has never officially parodied Morissette on any of his official releases.
If he's thinking of doing an official parody any time soon, there will certainly be a built-in audience.
Fans of both stars loved Yankovic's leap into the Alanis Landscaping absurdity.
\u201cThis entire thread is the gen x content I am here for, click through.\u201d— Tom Costantino (@Tom Costantino) 1657670851
\u201c@Alanis Sounds like we need a new collab. Just saying\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657651682
\u201cPossibly the best quote chain I've ever seen on this website.\u201d— Dan Johnson \ud83d\udc99 (@Dan Johnson \ud83d\udc99) 1657580709
\u201c@Alanis This whole back n forth has been a wonderful refresher from the crazy going on everywhere! Much appreciated.\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657651682
\u201cThis is a Jagged Little Tweet\u201d— Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ (@Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ) 1657611778
\u201c@Alanis This entire chain makes my heart so happy\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657651682
\u201cOne of the best and most wholesome interactions I think I've ever seen on this website\u201d— Mathew Ingram (@Mathew Ingram) 1657639487
\u201c@Alanis Isn't it iconic...\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657651682
\u201cLemme correct yesterday\u2019s tweet\u2026 the perfect celebrity tweet doesn\u2019t exist\u2026 wait, wait, incoming transmission.\u201d— Am\u00e9lie E. Koran (@Am\u00e9lie E. Koran) 1657657850
\u201c@Alanis Weird Alanis Morissankovic would be collaboration's GOAT. \u2665\ufe0f #onlyavailableoncassetteandcompactdisc\n@alyankovic @Alanis\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657651682
\u201cEvery once in a while this site delivers hard\u201d— Amber Naslund (@Amber Naslund) 1657625916
\u201c@Alanis @Alanis and @alyankovic won Twitter! This is exactly what I doom scroll for and never really ever find. More of this type of fun, less of everything else.\u201d— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis Morissette) 1657651682
\u201cevery so often the magic of Twitter reveals itself\u201d— SeanSilcoff (@SeanSilcoff) 1657599108
\u201cQuitting my PhD, I can retire now\u201d— jessica (@jessica) 1657576852
\u201cI smiled twice.\u201d— Mark Davis (@Mark Davis) 1657585694
Weird Al, if you're reading this, a parody version of the entire Jagged Little Pill album is precisely what we need to get us through these difficult days.
The time has come!
@LauraLoomer/X
