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* CelebritySong: "Au Contraire" references Creator/DavidBowie, Franklin Roosevelt, Creator/JodieFoster, Music/JohannSebastianBach, and Mohandas Gandhi.
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* CelebritySong: "Au Contraire" references Creator/DavidBowie, Franklin Roosevelt, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, Creator/JodieFoster, Music/JohannSebastianBach, and Mohandas Gandhi.UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Wearing a Raincoat"
-->'''Demanding constant attention\\
Will only lead to attention\\
And once they have your attention\\
They use it to ask for attention''
-->'''Demanding constant attention\\
Will only lead to attention\\
And once they have your attention\\
They use it to ask for attention''
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** Everyone saying "right on!" over and over at the end of "Au Contraire" is a reference to the background chatter in Music/MarvinGaye's [[Music/WhatsGoingOn "What's Going On"]].
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** Everyone saying "right on!" over and over at the end of "Au Contraire" is a reference to the background chatter in Music/MarvinGaye's [[Music/WhatsGoingOn "What's Going On"]].On"]].
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: The narrator of "Memo To Human Resources" is implied to be a jaded businessman who's just been talked down from a ledge.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: The narrator of "Memo To Human Resources" is implied to be a jaded businessman who's just been talked down from a ledge.
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** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes your T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".
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** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes your T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".away".
** Everyone saying "right on!" over and over at the end of "Au Contraire" is a reference to the background chatter in Music/MarvinGaye's [[Music/WhatsGoingOn "What's Going On"]].
** Everyone saying "right on!" over and over at the end of "Au Contraire" is a reference to the background chatter in Music/MarvinGaye's [[Music/WhatsGoingOn "What's Going On"]].
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!!Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Tropes
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!!Gonna Make You Fall In Love With TropesTropes:
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* TheAlcoholic: "Thunderbird"
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* TheAlcoholic: "Thunderbird"AlcoholicParent: "Thunderbird" is about a struggling alcoholic whose daughter tries to get him to kick the habit.
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* ShoutOut: "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.
** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes the T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".
** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes the T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.
** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takesthe your T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".
** "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.
** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes
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* TheAlcoholic: "Thunderbird"
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* ShoutOut: "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.
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* ShoutOut: "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.song.
** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes the T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".
** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes the T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In the second verse of "It's Kickin' In", the narrator recalls going to a fancy restaurant and hearing "the disaffected waitress / in some fake foreign accent" speaking vaguely-French gibberish.
* CelebritySong: "Au Contraire" references Creator/DavidBowie, Franklin Roosevelt, Creator/JodieFoster, Music/JohannSebastianBach, and Mohandas Gandhi.
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Every piece will say "I love you"''
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Every piece will say "I love you"''you"''
* ShoutOut: "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.
* ShoutOut: "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.
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* BreakUpSong: "Broke In Two"
* IWantMyJetpack: "The World Before Later On" is about a man lamenting the absence of such spectacular sci-fi items as personal jetpacks and a "tel-ray".
* LeFilmArtistique: "Experimental Film" is about a man excitedly telling his friends about an experimental film he's making.
* IWantMyJetpack: "The World Before Later On" is about a man lamenting the absence of such spectacular sci-fi items as personal jetpacks and a "tel-ray".
* LeFilmArtistique: "Experimental Film" is about a man excitedly telling his friends about an experimental film he's making.
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* BreakUpSong: "Broke In Two"
Two" is about a guy who admits his girlfriend wants to leave him because [[PoorCommunicationKills he's a terrible listener]].
-->''You said something before you left\\
Something I was not to forget\\\
Then is when I maybe should have wrote it down\\
But when I looked around to find a pen\\
And then I tried to think of what you said\\
We broke in two''
* IWantMyJetpack: "The World Before Later On" is about a man lamenting the absence of such spectacular sci-fi items as personal jetpacks and a"tel-ray".
"tel-ray" in the actual twenty-first century.
* LeFilmArtistique: "Experimental Film" is about aman guy excitedly telling his friends about an experimental film he's making.
-->''You said something before you left\\
Something I was not to forget\\\
Then is when I maybe should have wrote it down\\
But when I looked around to find a pen\\
And then I tried to think of what you said\\
We broke in two''
* IWantMyJetpack: "The World Before Later On" is about a man lamenting the absence of such spectacular sci-fi items as personal jetpacks and a
* LeFilmArtistique: "Experimental Film" is about a
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thespine_350.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:I've been dragging my feet across my back\\
And I've been rubbing my head against my neck]]
->''The color of infinity\\
Inside an empty glass\\
I'm squinting my eye and turning off\\
And on and on and off the light''
-->--'''Experimental Film'''
'''The Spine'' is the ninth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in July of 2004 alongside a companion EP, ''The Spine Surfs Alone''. It was their first adult album following their foray into children's music with ''No!'', and featured a number of songs that had previously been released on Dial-A-Song or as online demos, or which had exclusively been played live. Most famously, They Might Be Giants collaborated with Creator/TheBrothersChaps to do a music video for the opening song "Experimental Film" featuring characters from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''.
!!Tracklist
# Experimental Film (2:56)
# Spine (0:33)
# Memo to Human Resources (2:02)
# Wearing a Raincoat (3:10)
# Prevenge (2:44)
# Thunderbird (2:38)
# Bastard Wants to Hit Me (2:14)
# The World Before Later On (1:52)
# Museum of Idiots (3:02)
# It's Kickin' In (2:01)
# Spines (0:30)
# Au Contraire (2:26)
# Damn Good Times (2:38)
# Broke In Two (2:59)
# Stalk of Wheat (1:27)
# I Can't Hide From My Mind (2:47)
!!Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Tropes
* BreakUpSong: "Broke In Two"
* IWantMyJetpack: "The World Before Later On" is about a man lamenting the absence of such spectacular sci-fi items as personal jetpacks and a "tel-ray".
* LeFilmArtistique: "Experimental Film" is about a man excitedly telling his friends about an experimental film he's making.
* LoveMartyr: "Museum of Idiots" is about a man stuck in his dilapidated home town, still holding a torch for his childhood sweetheart.
-->''Chop me up into pieces\\
If it pleases, if it pleases\\
And when the chopping is through\\
Every piece will say "I love you"''
[[caption-width-right:350:I've been dragging my feet across my back\\
And I've been rubbing my head against my neck]]
->''The color of infinity\\
Inside an empty glass\\
I'm squinting my eye and turning off\\
And on and on and off the light''
-->--'''Experimental Film'''
'''The Spine'' is the ninth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in July of 2004 alongside a companion EP, ''The Spine Surfs Alone''. It was their first adult album following their foray into children's music with ''No!'', and featured a number of songs that had previously been released on Dial-A-Song or as online demos, or which had exclusively been played live. Most famously, They Might Be Giants collaborated with Creator/TheBrothersChaps to do a music video for the opening song "Experimental Film" featuring characters from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''.
!!Tracklist
# Experimental Film (2:56)
# Spine (0:33)
# Memo to Human Resources (2:02)
# Wearing a Raincoat (3:10)
# Prevenge (2:44)
# Thunderbird (2:38)
# Bastard Wants to Hit Me (2:14)
# The World Before Later On (1:52)
# Museum of Idiots (3:02)
# It's Kickin' In (2:01)
# Spines (0:30)
# Au Contraire (2:26)
# Damn Good Times (2:38)
# Broke In Two (2:59)
# Stalk of Wheat (1:27)
# I Can't Hide From My Mind (2:47)
!!Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Tropes
* BreakUpSong: "Broke In Two"
* IWantMyJetpack: "The World Before Later On" is about a man lamenting the absence of such spectacular sci-fi items as personal jetpacks and a "tel-ray".
* LeFilmArtistique: "Experimental Film" is about a man excitedly telling his friends about an experimental film he's making.
* LoveMartyr: "Museum of Idiots" is about a man stuck in his dilapidated home town, still holding a torch for his childhood sweetheart.
-->''Chop me up into pieces\\
If it pleases, if it pleases\\
And when the chopping is through\\
Every piece will say "I love you"''
