Chris Ford

A young "Weird Al" Yankovic, playing accordion barefoot in quilted velvet pants and a frizzy ball of hair, looked positively hip next to square extraordinaire Tom Snyder.

Given the cornucopia of new videos "Weird Al" Yankovic has given us from his new album, 'Mandatory Fun,' available on Amazon and iTunes, we thought now might be a good time to dig into his videolog and pick out our favorites.

The first time a kid is allowed to dress himself can be a decisive moment in his life.

It would seem that Tim Burton has been making weird versions of already-weird stuff since the beginning of his career.

You know what we haven't had in a long while? A dance craze.

Thanks to the Internet -- as well as "public figures" like Glenn Beck, Alex Jones and David Eick -- conspiracy theories have become a part of mainstream pop culture.

Wes Anderson's movies are known as much for their charming visual settings as they are for their deceptively deep storytelling.

Courtney Love, a constant source of entertaining news, told NME that she's reconsidering the possibility of producing a musical about her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

Millennials. They're everywhere. The debate rages on. Sides are taken over how to define this upcoming batch of semi-adults. Some see them as whiny, self-entitled egomaniacs, while others see them as ambitious go-getters who are willing to rewrite the rules to get what they want.

It has been said recently, and on numerous occasions, that we are enjoying a new golden age of television. It's a point that's hard to argue with. Almost every network has had at least one show that knocked it out of the park.