Fear, Terror, and Unease...thanks Weird Al!

When I was young, my parents went through a Weird Al phase I suppose to have a few laughs over the parodies of popular songs they were familiar with. As I kid I thought it was so fun how Mom and Dad loved these silly songs; usually our silly kid music drove them crazy! I remember the exact moment I realized that Weird Al was a parodist. I was on a birthday date with my parents and we were in the car driving home. The song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" came on the radio and I flipped out:

"Mom! Dad! This song is a rip-off of Weird Al's 'Girls Just Wanna Eat Lunch'!"

They had a good laugh and kept talking to one another, not seeming to understand my distress.

"Mom! Dad! Don't you get it?! They stole his song, changed the words, and are now trying to get famous for his work?! It isn't right!!"

Apparently they didn't understand how serious I was until my second outburst. It was then that they told me that it was Weird Al, in fact, who "stole" other artists songs to make fun of them.

And just like that my world was turned upside down.

I have had a hard time trusting the media ever since.

Kidding, my mistrust of the media came later in life, however, this truly was a saddening/big moment in my life. Especially since one of my deepest rooted fears can be attributed to one of Weird Al Yankovic's songs, "Slime Creatures from Outer Space." You can laugh, but this song terrified me as a kid. That fear was compounded when I was fourteen and saw "Signs":

It took me a while to get over seeing that movie, and I really did think I was over it until last weekend when I saw "Interstellar." You can read more about my reaction to that here. Since reading "Tales from the Screen: Enduring Fright Reactions to Scary Media" (Harrison, K., & Cantor, J. (1999). Tales from the Screen: Enduring Fright Reactions to Scary Media. Media Psychology, 1(2), 97.) I feel like something inexplicable in my life has come full circle...

Anyways, does anyone else have a fear that is oddly connected to fond childhood memories like listening to Weird Al...? Understandable if you don't.