 " Jurassic Park " is a parody of Jimmy Webb 's single " MacArthur Park " written and performed by " Weird Al " Yankovic ; it was released both as a single and as part of Yankovic 's Alapalooza album in October 1993 . " Jurassic Park " was penned by Yankovic after he remembered the enjoyment he had when he combined a classic rock track with a recent movie topic with his 1985 song " Yoda " . Yankovic decided to combine the plot of the recent movie Jurassic Park — a film about a park on a fictional island where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs . 
