The music video for "Tacky" debuted on July 14, 2014, as the first in a series of eight videos. Produced by Nerdist Industries, the one-shot video mimics Williams' own style used in her video for "Happy": it features Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal, Jack Black and Yankovic dressed in tacky clothing. and dancing badly intentionally. her as she lip-synches to the lyrics of the song about a person who brags about her questionable style choices. The video was filmed at the Palace Theater in downtown Los Angeles, previously featured as Julianne Moore's apartment in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski. Yankovic specified that during each of the six continuous takes, he would have to run down five flights of stairs while he changed outfits to appear at the beginning and end of the video.