1970: Disturbed bassist (that is, bassist for the group Disturbed) and co-founder Fuzz is born in Covington, Kentucky as Steven Kmak (wha?? You mean his real name isn't "Fuzz??"). In 2003 Al would include the group's "Down With The Sickness" in his Poodle Hat medley "Angry White Boy Polka." Fuzz would eventually leave the group in November of that year.

1971: Red-goateed Disturbed drummer (that is, drummer for the group Disturbed...in case you missed this joke the several hundred times we've done it already, like above) Mike Wengren is born in Chicago. Um...blah blah blah...2003..."Down With The Sickness"..."Angry White Boy Polka."
NOTE: Some sources list Mike's year of birth as 1968.

1984: The second Al-TV premieres on MTV!!! Segments from this four-hour special would later be compiled onto the Compleat Al home video.

1984 - Concert Date: Finally the guys play their last show at the Minnesota State Fair in Minneapolis, as The Tour of the Universe in 3-D comes to a close. The band would not perform a live show ever again......until the next year for The Stupid Tour.

1985 - Concert Date: Speaking of which, as The Stupid Tour goes on, the Stupid Band stops in Ypsilanti, Michigan (isn't that a sherbert flavor?) and plays Liberty's.

1987: Steve Martin's delightful Cyrano de Bergerac-esque romantic comedy Roxanne opens in Australia. In October 2005 Al would appear on VH1's mini-series I Love the '80s 3D to suggest that the movie should have been made in 3-D. "In 3-D, look out, Steve Martin could put your eye out with that nose!"

1993: Steven Spielberg's dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park opens in Finland, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. Al would not only recount the plot for his late-1993 "MacArthur Park" parody "Jurassic Park" (complete with an animated music video spoofing the film), but he would also theme his entire Alapalooza album around the movie, even parodying its poster art for the album cover. In February 2008 Al would also appear as a guest star on one of Mike Nelson's Rifftrax MP3s, offering a Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary track for the movie.

1995: In San Jose, California, computer consultant Pierre Omidyar expands his eclectic personal web site (one that had already included a tribute to the Ebola virus) to include a new marketplace section called AuctionWeb, where visitors can buy and sell items and services to each other. However, when Pierre tried to register a new domain for this site based on his consulting firm's name, Echo Bay Technology Group, he would find that the domain "EchoBay.com" was already taken. So Pierre was left with his second choice, eBay. In the years since, eBay would become a commerce juggernaut, and Al items are quite popular among the site's reported 100 million registered users. Seeing how much it had invaded everyday life, in 2003 Al would salute the online powerhouse with his Backstreet Boys parody "eBay," tackling everything from the site's Paypal service, to its ever-growing Beanie Baby community, to the company's own made-up history that it started life as a Pez collector site. The song would become popular both with eBay sellers and with the eBay company itself, as in June 2003 Al would be invited to perform the song live (well, sort of) for the annual eBay Live! convention in Orlando. And remember, people who snipe others for rare Al items go to Hell, so be kind to your fellow collector out there.

1999: The sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix opens in Bulgaria and Turkey. The movie, and particularly its mentor character of Morpheus, would be parodied in the May 2007 Virus Alert video game. Instead of swallowing either the red pill or the blue pill, Al announces, "I've got me-toids!"

1999: The spy spoof Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me opens in Greece. In December of that year, Al would parody one of the film's new characters when he hosted VH-Al. Taking a cue from Dr. Evil's clone Mini-Me, Al had himself cloned to one-eighth size with the creepy "Little Al."

2000: The zany sitcom Malcolm in the Middle premieres in the United Kingdom. Al would invoke the show in the February 2008 Rifftrax MP3 for Jurassic Park, specifically when Dr. Grant (Sam Neill) stumbles upon a nest of hatched, supposedly impossible dinosaur eggs, confirming Ian Malcolm's (Jeff Goldblum) prediction that life would find a way to thrive in the park despite the dinosaurs' gender engineering. Grant gasps, "Malcolm was right," prompting Al to comment, "He was in the middle, but he was right."

2000 - Concert Date: Proving that no Ohio hamlet should be without the melodious tones of Touring With Scissors, Al and his minstrels arrive in Fort Loramie to play the Hickory Hills Lakes Festival. Okay, please believe us that we have no idea where Fort Loramie is, other than it might sorta be a suburb of Lima. It is not on any of the maps we have here! Anyway, they went there, they played, they moved on.

2001: Actress Thuy Trang is killed in a car crash in San Francisco after another vehicle slammed into hers on Interstate 5. Just five years before, Thuy had appeared as a manicurist in Spy Hard, a movie enhanced by Al's great title sequence. It should also be noted that Thuy first found fame by playing Trini the Yellow Ranger on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, a show later alluded to in "Ode To A Superhero."

2001: The oft-spun-off drama series C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation premieres in Sweden. Since it seems as if every major American city has had its own C.S.I. faction, Al would announce the brand new C.S.I.: Boise in his Eminem parody "Couch Potato."

2002: The action series 24 premieres in the Netherlands. The show's initial stunt, in which each hour would be presented in real time and each episode would chronicle one hour out of a whole day, received tremendous press and generated a huge fan base, so naturally Al would mention it in his Eminem parody...um, "Couch Potato." Um, again.

2003: Disney's blockbuster adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, based on the popular theme park ride, opens in Malta. The movie would get a very expected mention in the Rifftrax for Jurassic Park, specifically during the memorable exchange between John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) and Ian Malcolm about the park's problems. Hammond explains, "All major theme parks have had delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked. Nothing," prompting Malcolm to argue, "But John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists." Adding another layer to this scene, Al comments, "Orlando Bloom tried, until they shot him with a tranquilizer dart."

2004 - Concert Date: Still in Tennessee for The Poodle Hat Tour, the band hits the Knoxville Civic Auditorium in...um, Knoxville. This show is particularly extra-special because it was celebrated as the 900th official "Weird Al" Yankovic live performance (although updated calculations since then have moved the actual distinction over a show or two).

2005: The sci-fi/western/adventure film Serenity, based on the overrated TV series Firefly by the equally overrated Joss Whedon, premieres in France at the Deauville Film Festival (it would open across the rest of the country on October 19). Al would recall the financially disappointing space franchise in the Rifftrax for Jurassic Park, specifically during the scene in which Nedry (Wayne Knight) is racing his Jeep across the island in a panic in order to get to the dock before the boat leaves. Al comments that "he's currently speeding his way home because his Blu-ray copy of Firefly just came in the mail from Netflix," which is a bit vague since it's unclear whether or not he's referring literally to the series or is simply mislabeling the movie version. Ironically, neither Serenity nor Firefly: The Complete Series were available on Blu-ray when the Rifftrax was released, so go figure (both have since been released on the format).

2007 - Concert Date: As the Straight Outta Lynwood Tour heads west, the boys play the California State Fair in Sacramento, California.

2010 - Concert Date: Almost done with the 2010 summer tour, the guys hit Cleveland for the first time on the tour to perform at the Taste of Cleveland at the Time Warner Cable Amphitheater at Tower City, marking the first time in seven years they've played the food festival.

Is there an event I forgot? By all means let me know!!!!

Recording dates and tour dates available at Weirdal.com, compiled by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz. Most release dates, birthdays, and chart positions according to the Internet Movie Database, the Library of Congress, and the All Music Guide.