I think he fit in as well as anybody could. Here is some info from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_al :
Alfred's first accordion lesson was October 22, 1966 a day before his seventh birthday. A door-to-door salesman traveling the Lynwood neighborhood offered the Yankovic parents a choice of accordion or guitar lessons for a local music school. Yankovic claims the reason his parents chose accordion over guitar was "they figured there should be at least one more accordion-playing Yankovic in the world," referring to Frankie Yankovic, to whom he is no relation.[5] He continued lessons at the school for three years before continuing to learn on his own.[4] Yankovic's early accordion role models include Frankie Yankovic and Myron Floren (the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show). In the 1970s, Yankovic was a big fan of Elton John and claims John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album "was partly how I learned to play rock 'n roll on the accordion."[5] He would repeatedly play the album and try to play along on his accordion.
Yankovic began kindergarten a year earlier than most children, and he skipped the second grade. "My classmates seemed to think I was some kind of rocket scientist so I was labeled a nerd early on," he recalls.[5] As his unique schooling left him two years younger than most of his classmates, Yankovic was not interested in large social events at school. He claims to have been a "straight A" student throughout high school, which earned him the honor of becoming valedictorian of his senior class.[5] Yankovic was fairly active in his school's extracurricular programs, including the National Forensic League (in which he "usually brought home some kind of trophy"); a play based upon Rebel Without a Cause; the yearbook program (for which he wrote most of the captions); and the Volcano Worshippers Club, "which did absolutely nothing. We started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook."[5]
2006-11-13 10:46:46
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answered by rules27 6
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Nope.
I watched the Behind the Music on him and he talked about how he didn't fit in. (Hence the name "Weird Al.) He took accordian lessons because his parents were in hopes that he would be the next Alfred Yankovic (no relation) who was a famous polka band accordian player.
2006-11-13 01:30:34
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answered by metalmom71 3
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No all he did was insult them and then do a bad song about them
2006-11-13 03:46:29
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answered by Shawnee 4
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look at old pictures, everyone was a nerd then!
2006-11-13 01:28:06
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answered by parental unit 7
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I am guessing no, that he was an odd one.
2006-11-13 01:27:50
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answered by Tony M 7
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