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Bedrock Anthem is a parody of "Under the Bridge" and "Give It Away" both by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was sung by "Weird Al" Yankovic and was featured on his 1993 album Alapalooza. The music video proved to be his video directing debut and like many of his video parodies, this one was shot on the same set as the original video.

Track Listing

The following tracks are on the cassette single: # "Bedrock Anthem" – 3:41 # "Young, Dumb, And Ugly" – 4:24

The promo CD single only contains "Bedrock Anthem."

Music video

The differences between the original videos and the parody include:

At the beginning, the Bee Girl
from the Blind Melon video "No Rain" is tapdancing onstage. The guitarist kicks her off.
Yankovc replaces Anthony Kiedis, and he wears a wig similar to Kiedis' hair.
A drawn image of Bedrock replaces the photo of a city.
Dick Van Patten
appears in this video, as he did in Smells Like Nirvana
.
The drummer is dressed up like a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes.
Black and white footage of The Flintstones is intercut with the video.
The band members do crazy things, such as blowing a pinwheel, playing ring toss with the drummer's fake horns and playing Twister.
Close-ups of Yankovic's mouth are weirder than the shots of Kiedis' mouth in the original. One shot shows his jaw upside-down with googly eyes stuck on and eyebrows drawn over them. Another two shots show him with false teeth.
In the split-screen shot of the members jumping, a stone-age majorette, a sumo wrestler, Dick Van Patten
, and a poodle jump as well.

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