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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: In ''Searching for Strawberries'', Jongo, his family, and the CorruptCorporateExecutive have yellow skin (making them look rather like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' characters), his main rival at work has purple skin in "Money!" (blue in "Milk and Honey", if it's the same guy), while most other characters have more normal human skin tones.



* FantasticTechnicolorPopulation: In ''Searching for Strawberries'', Jongo, his family, and the CorruptCorporateExecutive have yellow skin (making them look rather like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' characters), his main rival at work has purple skin in "Money!" (blue in "Milk and Honey", if it's the same guy), while most other characters have more normal human skin tones.
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* FantasticTechnicolorPopulation: In ''Searching for Strawberries'', Jongo, his family, and the CorruptCorporateExecutive have yellow skin (making them look rather like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' characters), his main rival at work has purple skin in "Money!" (blue in "Milk and Honey", if it's the same guy), while most other characters have more normal human skin tones.

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* LiteralMetaphor: In "Money!", the "rat race" is literalised as a dangerous rollercoaster/obstacle course.

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In "Money!", the "rat race" is literalised as a dangerous rollercoaster/obstacle course.course.
** In "Hullabaloo", [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Uncle Graham]] feeds off the working class by [[ImAHumanitarian literally eating them]].
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** The video for "Knives, Guns, and Bed" shows a [[AnimalNationalStereotypes panda and a bald eagle]] (the latter wearing a red, white and blue outfit) having a self-indulgent [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence duel/make-out session]] surrounded by dissatisfied humans (with visual cues from the pro-Hong Kong and Black Lives Matter protests, respectively).

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** The video for "Knives, Guns, and Bed" shows a [[AnimalNationalStereotypes [[NationalAnimalStereotypes panda and a bald eagle]] (the latter wearing a red, white and blue outfit) having a self-indulgent [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence duel/make-out session]] surrounded by dissatisfied humans (with visual cues from the pro-Hong Kong and Black Lives Matter protests, respectively).
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: The Panda brought a knife to fight against the Eagle's gun, in the song titled "Knives Guns and Bed."
* RuleOfSymbolism: A lot of Rare American Music Videos run on symbolism while also telling a story.

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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: The Panda brought a knife to fight against the Eagle's gun, in the song titled "Knives Guns "Knives, Guns, and Bed."
* RuleOfSymbolism: A lot of Rare American Music Videos run on symbolism while also telling a story.story:
** The video for "Knives, Guns, and Bed" shows a [[AnimalNationalStereotypes panda and a bald eagle]] (the latter wearing a red, white and blue outfit) having a self-indulgent [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence duel/make-out session]] surrounded by dissatisfied humans (with visual cues from the pro-Hong Kong and Black Lives Matter protests, respectively).
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* LiteralMetaphor: In "Money!", "the rat race" is literalised as a dangerous rollercoaster/obstacle course.

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* LiteralMetaphor: In "Money!", "the rat the "rat race" is literalised as a dangerous rollercoaster/obstacle course.
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* AnthropomorphicVice: Anthropomorphic alcoholic drinks and cigarettes show up quite a few times in the video for "Money!". Jongo dances with a living whisky bottle at the yacht party (representing the dream of luxury used to motivate the employees) early in the video, and is cheered on by cigarettes and bottles the second time he tries to run up the hill. He's also seen walking home for the night with an ''anthropomorphic fleshlight'' at one point.


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* LiteralMetaphor: In "Money!", "the rat race" is literalised as a dangerous rollercoaster/obstacle course.

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* VisualPun: The salespersons get turned into wolves that attack and eat each other in the "Milk and Honey" video. In other words, corporate offices are a dog-eat-dog world.

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The salespersons get turned into wolves that attack and eat each other in the "Milk and Honey" video. In other words, corporate offices are a dog-eat-dog world.world.
** In the same video, the CEO wears a golden suit and his wife/girlfriend wears a white dress, making their appearance correspond to the "milk and honey" of the title.
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* FictionalCounterpart: The doll Lola in "The Moneyz", being a blonde fashion doll that goes through a bewildering range of fashions, occupations and ideological messages, is clearly intended as a stand-in for Franchise/{{Barbie}}.
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette:Nicky when he is human.

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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette:Nicky EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Nicky when he is human.
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* SelfTitledAlbum: All their albums follow this pattern, albeit 3 has a subtitle to it.

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* SelfTitledAlbum: All their Their first three albums follow this pattern, albeit 3 has a subtitle to it.

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* ClaimingViaFlag: Elon Musk does this to Mars in the video for "Money!", after he and the other billionaires leave Earth. The flag simply says "MINE".



* TakeThat: In the video for "Money!" (the first song in ''Searching for Strawberries''), caricatures of Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos appear, representing the ideal of super-wealth that drives the common person to enter the rat race. Musk is also seen landing on Mars and planting a flag saying "MINE" on it (after protagonist Jongo Bongo is fried by the flame from the billionaires' rockets).

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* TakeThat: In the video for "Money!" (the first song in ''Searching for Strawberries''), caricatures of Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos appear, representing the ideal of super-wealth that drives the common person to enter the rat race. Musk is also seen landing on Mars and [[ClaimingViaFlag planting a flag saying "MINE" on it it]] (after protagonist Jongo Bongo is fried by the flame from the billionaires' rockets).
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* You're Not a Bad Person, It's Just a Bad World (2022)
* Searching for Strawberries: The Story of Jongo Bongo (2023)

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