Dare to Be Stupid track listing
"Like a Surgeon" "Dare to Be Stupid" "I Want a New Duck" "One More Minute" "Yoda" "George of the Jungle" "Slime Creatures from Outer Space" "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch" "This Is the Life" "Cable TV" "Hooked on Polkas"

"Dare to Be Stupid" is an original song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a musical pastiche (or "style parody") of the band Devo.

Lyrically, the song dares the listener to be stupid in various ways; mostly by advising the listener to do the opposite of common idioms (e.g. "let the bedbugs bite" or "put all your eggs in one basket"), with the occasional absurd non sequitur (e.g. "stick your head in the microwave and get yourself a tan").

In an interview on VH1's Behind the Music, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh stated in reaction to the song that: "I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and... I hate him for it, basically."

The song was featured in The Transformers: The Movie. It was later released as a double a-side along with "The Touch" by Stan Bush.

The music video is, according to Yankovic, also a "style parody" of Devo's works:

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