Back in 1984, “Weird Al” Yankovic released Eat It, his parody of Michael Jackson’s single Beat It, with the contents changed to be about an exasperated parent attempting to get their picky child to eat anything at all, much less to eat properly. Yankovic recently found footage from the video not seen before and shared it on YouTube.
Yankovic says, “Recently a friend of mine was digitizing all the original film footage that we shot for the “Eat It” video, and he came across this “coverage” take. Basically this is a take where the director just points the camera at the star of the video, who just does anything they feel like doing for the duration of the song. It’s insurance, in case for some reason the production runs out of time and doesn’t get all the shots they were hoping to get. I’m pretty sure NOTHING from this take got used in the final video, but I still thought it was stupid/amusing enough to share.”
