If you liked seeing Eric Stonestreet in Weird Al’s video for “Tacky,” then you have Twitter to thank for it.
The “Modern Family” star told the hosts of “The View” Wednesday that Weird Al him for the recruited for the video, which helped boost the album to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, after the two met via social media.
After Stonestreet tweeted to Al that there should be a “Weird Al Night” on “American Idol,” they they ran into each other on a plane to Montreal and hit it off. He didn’t hesitate when Weird Al asked him to appear in the parody of Pharrell’s “Happy.”