 Many songs from the album are inspired by Cuomo 's past personal experiences . " My Name is Jonas " , deals with Cuomo 's brother Leaves who had been seriously injured in a car accident while a student at Oberlin College and was having problem with his insurance . Jason Cropper earned co @-@ writing credit for coming up with the intro to the song . Both " No One Else " and " The World Has Turned and Left Me Here " are lyrically connected , with Cuomo describing the narrator of " No One Else " as " the jealous @-@ obsessive asshole in me freaking out on my girlfriend " and claiming that " ' The World has Turned and Left Me Here ' is the same asshole wondering why she 's gone . " The second single from The Blue Album was " Buddy Holly " , whose music video was also directed by Spike Jonze . It portrayed the band performing at the original Arnold 's Drive @-@ In diner from the popular 1970s television show , Happy Days . The video combined contemporary footage of the band with clips from the show . Happy Days cast member Al Molinaro made a cameo appearance in the video . The video was met with great popularity and heavy rotation on MTV . The music video was also featured as an extra in the Microsoft Windows 95 Upgrade CD , along with Edie Brickell 's " Good Times " music video and the movie trailer for Rob Roy . The video won four awards at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards , including prizes for Breakthrough Video and Best Alternative Video . 
