This week's match-up pits The Presidents of the United States of America's "Lump" against Weird Al's "Gump"...but is it really a face-off if the original is two thirds of the way towards being the parody? What is the age of Al-wakening? What's the difference between "unserious" and "unpretentious"? Are butt-adjacent references the Yankovic equivalent of a Hitchcock cameo? And did Al have any choice when it came to his subject matter back then? Watch out for those shifting matrices; it's an all-new ep of MASTAS.

Our intro is by David Gregory Byrne, and our outro is by the Offspring. For more information/to become a patron of the show and hear all episodes of this season, visit patreon.com/mastas.

SHOW NOTES

• "What...is this thing?" Start at the beginning!
• The official video for PUSA's "Lump"
• And the video for "Gump"
• sentinel.com/1996-05-10/entertainment/9605080567_1_dune-buggy-spiders-string">Chris Ballew on his lyrical inspirations
• Episode 70: REM's "Out Of Time," Ranked
• Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 7: Footnotes and Odd Lots