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* TakeThat: "Kill Rock Stars" was a very incensed take at [[Music/BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna,]] written after she criticized the band earlier on.

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* TakeThat: "Kill Rock Stars" was a very incensed take at [[Music/BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna,]] written after she criticized the band earlier on. Kathleen responded by including a few lines mocking the lyrics to NOFX's "Linoleum" in "Deceptacon", a song by her next project Le Tigre. Much later, NOFX's "Linewleum" would include a backhanded compliment about "Deceptacon" being "the best Le Tigre song".
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* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: The band's name is officially pronounced "no ef-ex", but some fans understandably say it as "En Oh Ef Ex".

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* TooDumbToLive: ''We threw gasoline on the fire and now we have stumps for arms and no eyebrows''

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* TooDumbToLive: ''We threw gasoline on the fire and now we have stumps for arms and no eyebrows''eyebrows''.
* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: The band's name is officially pronounced "no ef-ex", but some fans understandably say it as "En Oh Ef Ex".
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* FakeOutFadeOut: Please Play This Song On the Radio goes into a third verse after a brief pause, and becomes a song that you very much cannot play on the radio without a bleeper button.
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* ''Double Album'' (2022)

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* AdultFear: In "Doors and Fours"
--> His parents didn't need to find their oldest son cold as a fish


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* DeathOfAChild: In "Doors and Fours"
--> His parents didn't need to find their oldest son cold as a fish
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* BestialityIsDepraved[=/=]ContemptibleCover: The cover to ''Heavy Petting Zoo'' depicts a man cuddling in a...rather interesting way with a lamb. Then there's the cover of ''Eating Lamb'', depicting him in a 69 position...make note that the album has no references to bestiality, nor animals or zoos in general, at all.

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* BestialityIsDepraved[=/=]ContemptibleCover: BestialityIsDepraved: The cover to ''Heavy Petting Zoo'' depicts a man cuddling in a...rather interesting way with a lamb. Then there's the cover of ''Eating Lamb'', depicting him in a 69 position...make note that the album has no references to bestiality, nor animals or zoos in general, at all.
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* CoverVersion: ''S&M Airlines'' has a cover of [[Music/FleetwoodMac "Go Your Own Way"]], performed with Greg and Brett of Music/BadReligion.

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* CoverVersion: ''S&M Airlines'' has a cover of [[Music/FleetwoodMac "Go Your Own Way"]], performed with [[Music/BadReligion Greg Graffin and Brett of Music/BadReligion.Gurewitz]].
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* OpenMindedParent: "What's the Matter With Parents Today?" is about Fat Mike's parents not only supporting but joining in on his punk rockstar lifestyle, to the point where Mike is creeped out, bewildered, and exhausted.
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** "This Machine Is 4" contains several references to the plot of [[Literature/TheSneetchesAndOtherStories The Sneetches]].
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* AdultFear: In "Doors and Fours"
--> His parents didn't need to find their oldest son cold as a fish
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Mike clearly thinks so, as he's written several songs about lesbians, most notably "Liza and Louise", and in "Creeping Out [[Music/TeganAndSara Sara]]" he asks her if she and her sister ever had a lesbian threesome.
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** "Woah on the Woahs" contains a very light-hearted jab at {{Music/AFI}} and Music/The Offspring for their overuse of the titular word.

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** "Woah on the Woahs" contains a very light-hearted jab at {{Music/AFI}} and Music/The Offspring Music/TheOffspring for their overuse of the titular word.

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* DrugsAreBad[=/=]DrugsAreGood: Both topics have been covered in their songs. Songs about the former include "Six Years on Dope" and "Doors and Fours"; songs about the latter include "Herojuana" and [[CaptainObvious "Drugs Are Good"]].



* LastSecondWordSwap: In "Grieve Soto"
--> Now all the bands who got bigger
--> Wouldn't dare sing words that Exene and Penelope sang with vigor
--> We all know that Jesus Christ was a [[spoiler: figment]]



** Another Bush protest song was 'The Idiot Son Of An Asshole." As you can imagine, this one is a bit more on-the-nose and was only ever performed live.

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** Another Bush protest song was 'The Idiot Son Of An of an Asshole." As you can imagine, this one is a bit more on-the-nose and was only ever performed live.



* SelfDeprecation

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* {{Spoonerism}}. ''Liberal Animation'' and ''Punk in Drublic''
* StageName. El Hefe and Fat Mike.

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* {{Spoonerism}}. {{Spoonerism}}: ''Liberal Animation'' and ''Punk in Drublic''
* StageName. StageName: El Hefe and Fat Mike.Mike
** Erik Sandin is normally known as "Smelly", but he's also taken on other aliases in liner notes, usually a PunnyName:
*** ''S&M Airlines'': Erik Shun
*** ''Ribbed'': Groggy Nodbeggar
*** ''The Longest Line'': Seymour Butts
*** ''White Trash, Two Heebs, and a Bean'': Erik Ghint
*** ''Punk in Drublic'': Herb Reath Stinks



** "Woah on the Woahs" contains a very light-hearted jab at {{Music/AFI}} and Music/The Offspring for their overuse of the titular word.



* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth

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* ThreeChordsAndTheTruthThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Very often, though much like labelmates Lagwagon and Strung Out they've taken on deceptively complex melodies and chord progressions from time to time.
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* DrivenToSuicide: "All His Suits Are Torn", as well as one of the many characters described in "The Decline".

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Philthy Phil Philanthropist."

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Philthy Phil Philanthropist."Philanthropist"



* ApocalypseHow: "Just the Flu"



* BreakUpSong: "I Have One Jealous Again, Again" (a downer sequel to ''War on Errorism'''s "We Have Two Jealous Agains") and "Your Last Resort"
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: They have a song by this title, though it's about [[ObligatoryBondageSong a different subject entirely]].
* CoverVersion: ''S&M Airlines'' has a cover of [[Music/FleetwoodMac "Go Your Own Way"]], performed with Greg and Brett of Music/BadReligion.



* DividedStatesOfAmerica: "Leaving Jesusland"

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* TheDissTrack: "Kill Rock Stars", directed at [[Music/BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna]].
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: Attempted and abandoned with ''Single Album'', which as its title suggests, was originally going to be a dobule album before the band decided they didn't have two album's worth of good songs.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: "Leaving Jesusland"Jesusland" and "We Called It America", the latter picturing a future where the United States break apart and lose all global relevance as a result.



** "The Big Drag" clocks in at 5 minutes 48 seconds, which for a punk band that usually caps songs at two and a half minutes makes the title quite apt.



* GriefSong: Several examples:
** "Doornails", dedicated to several members of the punk community who died young and Fat Mike's mother.
** "I'm So Sorry Tony", dedicated to Tony Sly of No Use for a Name.
*** Tony is also often namedropped in performances of "Doornails" post-2012.
** "Grieve Soto", dedicated to Steve Soto of Music/{{Adolescents}}, also featuring a verse about Darby Crash of Music/TheGerms.
* HiddenTrack: ''So Long And Thanks For All The Fish'' has a brief clip of Creator/HowardStern playing their song "Drugs Are Good" on the air hidden after the last track - Stern doesn't even let the song play long enough for the vocals to start, dismissing it for not "rocking" enough, comparing it to disco, and suggesting they change their name to No Talent.
* HulkSpeak: "Whoops I OD'd", sung from the perspective of someone who has overdosed on drugs, features a lot of this.



** Also, "Heavy Petting Zoo"
* HiddenTrack: ''So Long And Thanks For All The Fish'' has a brief clip of Creator/HowardStern playing their song "Drugs Are Good" on the air hidden after the last track - Stern doesn't even let the song play long enough for the vocals to start, dismissing it for not "rocking" enough, comparing it to disco, and suggesting they change their name to No Talent.
* HulkSpeak: "Whoops I OD'd", sung from the perspective of someone who has overdosed on drugs, features a lot of this.

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** Also, "Heavy ''Heavy Petting Zoo"
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* HiddenTrack: ''So Long And Thanks For All The Fish'' has a brief clip of Creator/HowardStern playing their song "Drugs Are Good" on the air hidden after the last track - Stern doesn't even let the song play long enough for the vocals to start, dismissing it for IronicNickname: Fat Mike is not "rocking" enough, comparing it to disco, and suggesting they change their name to No Talent.
* HulkSpeak: "Whoops I OD'd", sung from the perspective of someone who has overdosed on drugs, features a lot of this.
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* IronicNickname: Fat Mike is not very fat.



** "Fish in a Gun Barrel" is directed towards the media frenzy following mass shootings, as well as pro-gun groups.



** The tracks "Theme From a NOFX Album" and "60%" are very harsh towards the band, while "Linewleum" calls the song itself "not very good."



* TakeThat: "Kill Rock Stars" was a very incensed take at [[BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna,]] written after she criticized the band earlier on.

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* TakeThat: "Kill Rock Stars" was a very incensed take at [[BikiniKill [[Music/BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna,]] written after she criticized the band earlier on.
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* ''Single Album'' (2021)
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** During the Bush administration the band noticeably became more political in their songs. ''The War On Errorism,'' as the title might imply, was mostly made up of these. Fat Mike also produced two compilations in 2004 entitled ''Rock Against Bush'' for his label Fat Wreck Chords.

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** During the Bush administration the band noticeably became more political in their songs. ''The War On Errorism,'' as the title might imply, was mostly made up of these.these (up to and including the cover art with a caricature of Bush in clown makeup). Fat Mike also produced two compilations in 2004 entitled ''Rock Against Bush'' for his label Fat Wreck Chords.

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