When “Weird Al” Yankovic is in the zone, he can spin a parody that is better than the original. He took R. Kelly’s preposterous pop soap opera "Trapped in the Closet" and turned it into "Trapped in the Drive Thru," one of the best portraits of everyday suburban ennui I’ve ever come across. His hilarious tune "White and Nerdy" got twice as much traffic on YouTube than the song he spoofed, "Ridin’" by Chamillionarie. And off of his latest (and possibly last) album, Mandatory Fun, Yankovic takes Robin Thicke’s bizarre but catchy ode to date rape "Blurred Lines" and flips it into "Word Crimes," a ditty that is bound to delight grammar pedants everywhere. Watch it above.

Jonathan Crow is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in Yahoo!, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. You can follow him at @jonccrow.