Blaming a managerial mistake that briefly blocked its release, Lady Gaga has indeed approved “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Born This Way” parody.

“Perform This Way” placed #12 on Entertainment Weekly’s new dozen-best ranking of Yankovic’s skewed tunes, but missing from the list are two of my favorites, both of which happen to be riffs on classic TV.

No “Ricky,” his I Love Lucy parody of Toni Basil’s “Mickey”?

No “I Lost On Jeopardy,” his game-show spoof of the Greg Kihn Band’s “Jeopardy”?

With Lady Gaga’s now approval in hand, Yankovic’s getting to work on a music video for “Perform This Way.” If he really delivers on the visual accompaniment (and Gaga provides a rich pile of references to pull from), it might make his latest parody worthy of a better ranking in my book (the HRC charity tie helps), but it’ll still be hard to top these two.

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