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* LocationSong: "Canajoharie", which is an actual town in upstate New York. According to the song, apparently a major moment in primordial physical evolution happened on the current townsite.
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* LocationSong: "Canajoharie", which is an actual town in upstate New York.UsefulNotes/NewYorkState. According to the song, apparently a major moment in primordial physical evolution happened on the current townsite.
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* MyFutureSelfAndMe: In "2082", a time-traveller discovers he's still alive countless centuries into the future, and eventually puts his future self out of his misery by [[VorpalPillow smothering him with a pillow]].
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* MyFutureSelfAndMe: In "2082", a time-traveller discovers he's still alive countless centuries into the future, and eventually [[TemporalSuicide puts his future self out of his misery misery]] by [[VorpalPillow smothering him with a pillow]].
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* LyricalDissonance: "When Will You Die", a cheery sounding upbeat song with horns about a mortal enemy the Johns want to see dead.
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** "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] and Creator/HieronymusBosch. On a more obscure level, the spoken intro ("to play a record, select an album and place it on the turntable") is a collection of quotes from [[https://vimeo.com/35157660 a bizarre video]] by conceptual artist Tom Sachs giving instructions on how a club DJ (played by a visibly pregnant woman) can simultaneously play music and sell and distribute marijuana via toy cars on a miniature racetrack.
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** "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] and Creator/HieronymusBosch. On a more obscure level, the spoken intro ("to play a record, select an album and place put it on the turntable") is a collection of quotes from [[https://vimeo.com/35157660 a bizarre video]] by conceptual artist Tom Sachs giving instructions on how a club DJ (played by a visibly pregnant woman) can simultaneously play music and sell and distribute marijuana via toy cars on a miniature racetrack.
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It became their first album to make the top 40 on ''Billboard''s' album chart, peaking at #32. It's still their highest-charting album.
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It became their first album to make the top 40 on ''Billboard''s' ''Billboard'''s album chart, peaking at #32. It's still their highest-charting album.
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** "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] and Creator/HieronymusBosch.
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** "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] and Creator/HieronymusBosch. On a more obscure level, the spoken intro ("to play a record, select an album and place it on the turntable") is a collection of quotes from [[https://vimeo.com/35157660 a bizarre video]] by conceptual artist Tom Sachs giving instructions on how a club DJ (played by a visibly pregnant woman) can simultaneously play music and sell and distribute marijuana via toy cars on a miniature racetrack.
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* ShoutOut: "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] and Creator/HieronymusBosch.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] andCreator/HieronymusBosch.Creator/HieronymusBosch.
** "Cloissoné" makes a passing reference to second-story Sleestaks before going back to address it. "[[Series/LandOfTheLost1974 Sleestak? What's a Sleestak?]]"
** The trope itself is played with in "You Don't Like Me". The viewpoint character seems concerned with not being liked by someone else, based on having a LongList of everything they do like, possibly gathered from social media.
** "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] and
** "Cloissoné" makes a passing reference to second-story Sleestaks before going back to address it. "[[Series/LandOfTheLost1974 Sleestak? What's a Sleestak?]]"
** The trope itself is played with in "You Don't Like Me". The viewpoint character seems concerned with not being liked by someone else, based on having a LongList of everything they do like, possibly gathered from social media.
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* EyeBeams: The Lady in "The Lady and The Tiger" claims to have "laser vision" she plans to break out of the hall.
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* EyeBeams: The Lady in "The Lady and The Tiger" claims to have "laser vision" she plans to use to break out of the hall.
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* LocationSong: "Canajoharie", which is an actual town in upstate New York. According to the song, apparently a major moment in primordial physical evolution happened on the current townsite.
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It became their first album to make the top 40 on ''Billboard''s' album chart, peaking at #32. It's still their highest-charting album.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The "your" in "the afterparty has been moved to your house" in "Celebration" seems to be directed at the listener.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: The narrator of "Dog Walker" is a humble dog walker convinced he's a tough guy and an unappreciated genius.
-->''I take the long way home\\
Stay realistic and stay awake\\
My mind is a wrecking ball\\
And someday my mind's gonna wreck all y'all''
-->''I take the long way home\\
Stay realistic and stay awake\\
My mind is a wrecking ball\\
And someday my mind's gonna wreck all y'all''
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* ShoutOut: "Celebration" mentions Creator/{{Banksy}}, [[HackerCollective Anonymous]] and Creator/HieronymusBosch.
* SingerNamedrop: As sung by Linnell on "When Will You Die".
-->This is Dan\\
And that's Dan\\
And there's Marty on the drums to complete the band\\
And I'm John\\
And he is also John\\
And all of us are wondering when you're gonna die
* SingerNamedrop: As sung by Linnell on "When Will You Die".
-->This is Dan\\
And that's Dan\\
And there's Marty on the drums to complete the band\\
And I'm John\\
And he is also John\\
And all of us are wondering when you're gonna die
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* SmallNameBigEgo: The narrator of "Dog Walker" is a humble dog walker convinced he's a tough guy and an unappreciated genius.
-->''I take the long way home\\
Stay realistic and stay awake\\
My mind is a wrecking ball\\
And someday my mind's gonna wreck all y'all''
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In "Canajoharie", the narrator randomly says "I'm not insane" at several points.
-->''I take the long way home\\
Stay realistic and stay awake\\
My mind is a wrecking ball\\
And someday my mind's gonna wreck all y'all''
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In "Canajoharie", the narrator randomly says "I'm not insane" at several points.
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* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: "Protagonist" is about a struggling screenwriter whose lover has just left him, with the backing vocals done in the style of stage directions [[ImagineSpot as if he's imagining what his ex and her paramour are up to]].
-->''She stole my daydreams, she stole my air guitar\\
(Exterior, man on lawn, alone at dawn)\\
Packed the typewriter and drove off in her car\\
(A battered automobile drives past state line sign)''
-->''She stole my daydreams, she stole my air guitar\\
(Exterior, man on lawn, alone at dawn)\\
Packed the typewriter and drove off in her car\\
(A battered automobile drives past state line sign)''
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* FlippingTheBird: Mentioned in "Can't Keep Johnny Down".
-->''Beneath my dignity\\
To flip off the guy\\
When he pulls up alongside to say\\
My gas cap is unscrewed''
-->''Beneath my dignity\\
To flip off the guy\\
When he pulls up alongside to say\\
My gas cap is unscrewed''
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* PerspectiveFlip: "The Lady and the Tiger" is a meta sequel to Frank Stockton's short story "Literature/TheLadyOrTheTiger", where the Lady and the Tiger are [[OffscreenIntertia restlessly waiting]] in some sort of literary Limbo for an ending that will never come.
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* PerspectiveFlip: "The Lady and the Tiger" is a meta sequel to Frank Stockton's short story "Literature/TheLadyOrTheTiger", where the Lady and the Tiger are [[OffscreenIntertia [[OffscreenInertia restlessly waiting]] in some sort of literary Limbo for an ending that will never come.
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* PerspectiveFlip: "The Lady and the Tiger" is a meta sequel to Frank Stockton's short story "Literature/TheLadyOrTheTiger", where the Lady and the Tiger are restlessly waiting in some sort of literary Limbo for an ending that will never come.
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* PerspectiveFlip: "The Lady and the Tiger" is a meta sequel to Frank Stockton's short story "Literature/TheLadyOrTheTiger", where the Lady and the Tiger are [[OffscreenIntertia restlessly waiting waiting]] in some sort of literary Limbo for an ending that will never come.
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* PerspectiveFlip: "The Lady and the Tiger" is a meta sequel to Frank Stockton's short story "Literature/TheLadyOrTheTiger", where the Lady and the Tiger are restlessly waiting in some sort of literary Limbo for an ending that will never come.
* SmallNameBigEgo: The narrator of "Dog Walker" is a humble dog walker convinced he's a tough guy and an unappreciated genius.
-->''I take the long way home\\
Stay realistic and stay awake\\
My mind is a wrecking ball\\
And someday my mind's gonna wreck all y'all''
* SmallNameBigEgo: The narrator of "Dog Walker" is a humble dog walker convinced he's a tough guy and an unappreciated genius.
-->''I take the long way home\\
Stay realistic and stay awake\\
My mind is a wrecking ball\\
And someday my mind's gonna wreck all y'all''
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/join_us_350.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:This truck is driving out of my mind\\
But this truck has a mind of its own]]
->''Outnumbered a million to one\\
All of the dicks in this dick down\\
Can't keep Johnny down\\
Men piled up in a towering mound\\
None of them once has found a way\\
To keep Johnny down''
-->"Can't Keep Johnny Down"
''Join Us'' is the fifteenth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in July of 2011. Flansburgh was reported as saying he wanted the album to get in touch with the band's earlier "insane" sound from the late 1980s.
The Johns recorded over 30 songs for this album, but only half of them made it onto the finished version. Some of the scrapped songs ended up on the rarities compilation ''Album Raises New And Troubling Questions'', released in October later that year.
!!Tracklist
#Can't Keep Johnny Down (2:22)
#You Probably Get That A Lot (2:57)
#Old Pine Box (1:53)
#Canajoharie (3:39)
#Cloisonné (2:40)
#Let Your Hair Hang Down (2:31)
#Celebration (3:48)
#In Fact (2:20)
#When Will You Die (2:32)
#Protagonist (2:49)
#Judy Is Your Viet Nam (1:26)
#Never Knew Love (2:54)
#The Lady and the Tiger (2:55)
#Spoiler Alert (2:39)
#Dog Walker (2:32)
#2082 (1:55)
#Three Might Be Duende (2:25)
#You Don't Like Me (2:57)
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!!My Tropes are Exploding, It's Like I'm Making Cloisonné:
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Promised in "When Will You Die"
-->''On that promised morning\\
We will wake and greet the dawn\\
Knowing that your wicked life is over\\
And that we will carry on''
* EyeBeams: The Lady in "The Lady and The Tiger" claims to have "laser vision" she plans to break out of the hall.
* HookHand: The time-traveller's future self has one in "2082"
-->''As the ancient one cranes his neck to look\\
You see his hand's been replaced with a hook''
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: In "2082", a time-traveller discovers he's still alive countless centuries into the future, and eventually puts his future self out of his misery by [[VorpalPillow smothering him with a pillow]].
* NoEnding: Much like the story the song is based on, "The Lady and The Tiger" ends without a resolution.
-->''The hall remains, it still contains\\
A pair of doors, a choice\\
Behind one door, a muffled roar\\
Behind the other, a voice''
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "When Will You Die" is this in song form, telling an unnamed JerkAss why everyone hates them and is looking forward to their demise.
-->''You're insane\\
You are bad\\
You wreck everything you touch\\
And you're a sociopath\\
But there's one thing\\
That everyone's wondering\\
When will you die?''
* SlasherSmile: In "Three Might Be Duende", Apocryphal Espadrille is described as having "a smile that would frighten the blind".
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Mentioned in "In Fact"
-->''In fact it's messier still\\
That mess on the loose and leading the mob\\
They march with pitchforks and torches now\\
They have your old ID disavow''
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: "Spoiler Alert" is two songs in one about reckless driving, with Linnell singing about a writer distracted from driving by trying to come up with an ending to his latest book, and Flansburgh singing about a sleep-deprived trucker who thinks his truck can drive by itself.
[[caption-width-right:350:This truck is driving out of my mind\\
But this truck has a mind of its own]]
->''Outnumbered a million to one\\
All of the dicks in this dick down\\
Can't keep Johnny down\\
Men piled up in a towering mound\\
None of them once has found a way\\
To keep Johnny down''
-->"Can't Keep Johnny Down"
''Join Us'' is the fifteenth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in July of 2011. Flansburgh was reported as saying he wanted the album to get in touch with the band's earlier "insane" sound from the late 1980s.
The Johns recorded over 30 songs for this album, but only half of them made it onto the finished version. Some of the scrapped songs ended up on the rarities compilation ''Album Raises New And Troubling Questions'', released in October later that year.
!!Tracklist
#Can't Keep Johnny Down (2:22)
#You Probably Get That A Lot (2:57)
#Old Pine Box (1:53)
#Canajoharie (3:39)
#Cloisonné (2:40)
#Let Your Hair Hang Down (2:31)
#Celebration (3:48)
#In Fact (2:20)
#When Will You Die (2:32)
#Protagonist (2:49)
#Judy Is Your Viet Nam (1:26)
#Never Knew Love (2:54)
#The Lady and the Tiger (2:55)
#Spoiler Alert (2:39)
#Dog Walker (2:32)
#2082 (1:55)
#Three Might Be Duende (2:25)
#You Don't Like Me (2:57)
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!!My Tropes are Exploding, It's Like I'm Making Cloisonné:
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Promised in "When Will You Die"
-->''On that promised morning\\
We will wake and greet the dawn\\
Knowing that your wicked life is over\\
And that we will carry on''
* EyeBeams: The Lady in "The Lady and The Tiger" claims to have "laser vision" she plans to break out of the hall.
* HookHand: The time-traveller's future self has one in "2082"
-->''As the ancient one cranes his neck to look\\
You see his hand's been replaced with a hook''
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: In "2082", a time-traveller discovers he's still alive countless centuries into the future, and eventually puts his future self out of his misery by [[VorpalPillow smothering him with a pillow]].
* NoEnding: Much like the story the song is based on, "The Lady and The Tiger" ends without a resolution.
-->''The hall remains, it still contains\\
A pair of doors, a choice\\
Behind one door, a muffled roar\\
Behind the other, a voice''
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "When Will You Die" is this in song form, telling an unnamed JerkAss why everyone hates them and is looking forward to their demise.
-->''You're insane\\
You are bad\\
You wreck everything you touch\\
And you're a sociopath\\
But there's one thing\\
That everyone's wondering\\
When will you die?''
* SlasherSmile: In "Three Might Be Duende", Apocryphal Espadrille is described as having "a smile that would frighten the blind".
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Mentioned in "In Fact"
-->''In fact it's messier still\\
That mess on the loose and leading the mob\\
They march with pitchforks and torches now\\
They have your old ID disavow''
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: "Spoiler Alert" is two songs in one about reckless driving, with Linnell singing about a writer distracted from driving by trying to come up with an ending to his latest book, and Flansburgh singing about a sleep-deprived trucker who thinks his truck can drive by itself.
