Weird Owl

Weird Owl is the host of Weird Al Karaoke at Little Mountain Gallery. He was originally performed by Shane McLean, and then later by Christine Bortolin (who didn't work out in the role and was replaced herself with Shane McLean to the delight of fans).

Weird Owl appears on stage at all times during the show, and will sometimes interact with comedians performing in-between his activities.

His son is Weird Owl Jr. and his father is Weird Owl Sr.

In 2018, it was confirmed by fans that Weird Owl is officially a Saw-whet Owl, though Weird Owl has not confirmed this himself.

In 2021, following the supposed Covid-19 imposed lock-downs, Weird Owl returned with a new hairstyle and glasses and announced that he had sold Little Mountain Gallery to a group of Business Boys that had approached him while he was living in the venue.

After a full year away while Little Mountain Gallery was closed due to the Business Boys sale, Weird Owl revealed he had been living in Harajuku, Japan working at an Owl Cafe. He was vague when asked about his role at the cafe but made it clear that the decision to leave the island nation and return to Vancouver was an amicable split with his former employer.

Weird Owl became the host of the show after the mysterious disappearance of Weird Pal in 2015.

## Physical Appearance

Weird Owl is brown with a white face, yellow eyes and grey feet.

He wears a red Hawaiian shirt with two yellow buttons.

Weird Owl wears a wig with long brown hair attached to his round frame glasses. In 2021, Weird Owl was given a fresh look for the 2020s with fuller, human hair and more appropriately sized glasses for an owl.

Sometimes Weird Owl's mouth doesn't move when he's talking, he says it's because of magic powers but this hasn't been confirmed.

Weird Owl is about 9 inches high.

It's difficult to estimate what Weird Owl weighs without being allowed to hold him but most fans agree he appears to be roughly 10-20 pounds.

## Rich Lore

Weird Owl lives a life of luxury at Little Mountain Gallery. Eating human beings and birthing many children with a variety species of bird - children he says he sells.

    Weird Owl has a complicated relationship with his family as evidenced by the instalment when Weird Owl used his father's Nega Verse Portal Gun to send Weird Owl Sr. into the Nega Verse rather than have his son taken from him.
In 2016, Weird Owl revealed that he has raised many of his children and was now without any children to support for the first time. In the song he described where some of his children had gone:

> ***"Some live in a fancy mansion***
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> ***And make the pillows soft***
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> ***Some are in pro-badminton***
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> ***They keep shuttlecocks aloft***
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> ***Some of them work in fashion***
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> ***They test lipstick on their eyes***
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> ***For others food is their passion***
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> ***They’re served with a coke and fries."***
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    Weird Owl has been open about his willingness to include any and all sponsorship in the show including performing ads for Frank’s Hospice Care, Beaver Buzz energy drinks and Trojan Ultra Slims - a line of very small condoms.

Although he says he doesn't like Little Mountain Gallery, Weird Owl successfully defused all seven bombs planted by his father, Weird Owl Sr. to save the audience and his son.

Weird Owl briefly lived with a roommate, the troll, Mister Tiddlywinks, but was unnerved by the troll's behaviour and demeanour and devised a plan to make Tiddlywinks move out by offering him jewels and treasure he had accumulated over the years.

## Views on Other Bird Species

Weird Owl has announced different and, sometimes, conflicting views on other species of birds.

In 2016 Weird Owl announced that eagles were responsible for both lowering and raising property values in his neighbourhood of the forest.

In 2017, Weird Owl had this to say on his views:

> ***"Lots of changes since we last did this show***
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> ***Deep state has started to all be exposed***
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> ***My owl heritage***
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> ***shouldn’t be negative***
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> ***We’re all different, pigeon, sparrow or crow***
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> ***Our world’s ripped apart by all the divides***
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> ***It’s clear there’s bad people on many sides***
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> ***No issue to admit***
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> ***I want to see flamingo’s birth certificates***
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> ***We should unite together against the flapping hoards***
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> ***The hordes of lower class***
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> ***We need to build a wall***
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> ***Made of glass so they can’t see it***
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> ***Then they’ll all crash and fall"***
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## Song Parodies

List of Weird Owl's song parodies:

"Hoo Hoo Hoo" (The Who's "Who are You")
"I Mostly Eat Mice" (Nancy Sinatra "You Only Live Twice")
"I Ate a New Bug" (Huey Lewis "I want a new drug")

In the song "At the Zoo" (ABBA's "Waterloo")
 Weird Owl declares a list of zoo animals that he would like to be intimate with, including a shrew, an emu and a panda, among other animals leading fans to conclude that Weird Owl is pansexual.

## Relationship with Shane McLean

In a classic bit of meta storytelling, Weird Owl has an antagonistic relationship with Shane McLean (who performs as Weird Owl behind the scenes).

Weird Owl once complained that Shane performs too much on the show and in the following song parody (set to the tune of Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train"):

> "***It’s Lazy***
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> ***And everyone knows***
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> ***He wants the attention on all his own shows***
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> ***(Like if) Scorsese***
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> ***Cast himself in Wolf of Wall Street***
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> ***This self righteous fuck, suckles at his own teat***
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> ***Takes spots from other comics***
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> ***Doesn't feel ashamed***
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> ***We all had to sit through another song from Shane***
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> ***It occurred and we endured a wank-off fest from Shane***
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> ***He kicked off three people***
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> ***So that he could sing***
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> ***They’ve been asking for ages, but he needs the whole thing***
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> ***garbage, shouted out of his jowls***
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> ***Do you really need to write eight songs for the owl?***
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> ***He says his songs are gifts to us***
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> ***from his genius brain***
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> ***strap in, it begins, there’s lots more songs from Shane***
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> ***You can go, it’s the whole show - it’s just more songs from Shane"***
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    It's unknown to fans if this song reflected any real attitude on behalf of the staff and crew of the show or if it was just a fun joke for everyone.

Some have speculated that it was the former based on the long hiatus the show went on in 2018.