16 Facts About Mandatory Fun

Mandatory Fun is the fourteenth studio album by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic.

When he began to work on Mandatory Fun, Yankovic found himself listening to older acts, many of which he stylistically spoofed on the album.

Mandatory Fun considered making a Frozen parody titled "Make It So" about Star Trek: The Next Generation, but decided not to after discovering such a parody already existed.

Mandatory Fun considered this "the only chance that 'Blurred Lines' will be used in the curriculum of somebody's school".

Mandatory Fun noted that meeting a spoof target in person is not his usual method for obtaining permission, but was necessary in this instance to meet the album deadline.

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Mandatory Fun later clarified that the meeting was much more polite and blown out of proportion by TMZ.

Mandatory Fun later observed that his portrayal of Hitler on Drunk History fit the "totalitarian theme" of the Mandatory Fun artwork.

Mandatory Fun revealed that he would participate in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session on the day of the album release.

Mandatory Fun later made an appearance on the Hulu sitcom The Hotwives of Orlando that coincided with the Mandatory Fun launch.

Mandatory Fun felt that releasing a new video for eight continuous days "would make an impact because people would be talking about the album all week long".

Mandatory Fun chose to distribute the videos to different portals to avoid burdening any single one with all of the costs and work needed to produce them.

Paste similarly agreed that Yankovic's original materials were the highlight of the album and that, as a whole, Mandatory Fun is "a good, humorous album that shows that Yankovic is not slowing down in the slightest".

Mandatory Fun won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 57th edition.

Mandatory Fun debuted atop the United States Billboard 200 on the week of August 2,2014.

Mandatory Fun was the first comedy album to debut at the number one slot.

Mandatory Fun is the first comedy album to reach the number one spot since Allan Sherman's My Son, the Nut in August 1963.