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[[ShaggyDogStory "Shaggy Dog" Stories]] in {{Music}}.

* [[Music/KingCrimson King Crimson's]] Music/RobertFripp once penned a Creator/RoaldDahl-styled children's story called "The Saga Of Rodney Toady", about a man who is constantly picked on for being fat and ugly. Neighbors would make fun of him behind his back, girls would ask him out to dates just so they can stand him up and his parents would tell him to find a fat and ugly girl to marry. The end of the story just has Rodney buying "rude books with rude pictures in them". It can be found on the 1968 album ''The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp'', which includes, [[MadnessMantra among other]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs things]], other Shaggy Dog Stories in the form of songs like "Call Tomorrow", "Digging My Lawn" and "The Elephant Song".

* [[Music/KingCrimson King Crimson's]] Music/RobertFripp once penned a Creator/RoaldDahl-styled children's story called "The Saga Of Rodney Toady", about a man who is constantly picked on for being fat and ugly. Neighbors would make fun of him behind his back, girls would ask him out to dates just so they can stand him up and his parents would tell him to find a fat and ugly girl to marry. The end of the story just has Rodney buying [[ADateWithRosiePalms "rude books with rude pictures in them"]]. It can be found on the 1968 album ''The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp'', which includes, [[MadnessMantra among other]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs things]], other Shaggy Dog Stories in the form of songs like "Call Tomorrow", "Digging My Lawn" and "The Elephant Song".

* [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]] once penned a Creator/RoaldDahl-styled children's story called "The Saga Of Rodney Toady", about a man who is constantly picked on for being fat and ugly. Neighbors would make fun of him behind his back, girls would ask him out to dates just so they can stand him up and his parents would tell him to find a fat and ugly girl to marry. The end of the story just has Rodney buying [[ADateWithRosiePalms "rude books with rude pictures in them"]]. It can be found on the 1968 album ''The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp'', which includes, [[MadnessMantra among other]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs things]], other Shaggy Dog Stories in the form of songs like "Call Tomorrow", "Digging My Lawn" and "The Elephant Song".

* Music/TheFoxyBard: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuus5Ul6cuU What the Hell are Kitniyot]]" is all about how it's unreasonable to keep adding things to the list of kitniyot[[note]]grain-like foods that Ashkenazi Jews aren't allowed to eat on Passover[[/note]], starting with quinoa. At the end, he actually tries quinoa and hates it.

* Music/BruceSpringsteen's ''Born In The USA'' tells the story of a man who went off to Vietnam, fighting in a war he had no investment in and where the USA accomplished nothing but killing a lot of people. His best friend died there and he can't even hold a grudge against the Vietnamese since the man had had a Vietnamese lover who also lost him. He goes back home only to find that his job is long gone and even the VA can't do anything for him either. At the end, he has nothing, nowhere to go and nothing to do but lament that [[LyricalDissonance he's been completely abandoned by his country.]]
* [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]] once penned a Creator/RoaldDahl-styled children's story called "The Saga Of Rodney Toady", about a man who is constantly picked on for being fat and ugly. Neighbors would make fun of him behind his back, girls would ask him out to dates just so they can stand him up and his parents would tell him to find a fat and ugly girl to marry. The end of the story just has Rodney buying [[ADateWithRosiePalms "rude books with rude pictures in them"]]. It can be found on the 1968 album ''The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp'', which includes, [[MadnessMantra among other]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs things]], other Shaggy Dog Stories in the form of songs like "Call Tomorrow", "Digging My Lawn" and "The Elephant Song".

* The Music/VelvetUnderground song "The Gift" is a long, detail-rich spoken-word story about a guy who mails himself in a crate to his ex-girlfriend. The ending is very sudden.
* Music/TomWaits' spoken word piece "Missing My Son", which is apparently his telling of a well-traveled shaggy dog joke: Tom relates a long, involved story that starts with him getting in the checkout line at a grocery store and being convinced by a woman ahead of him, who thinks he looks like her late son, to tell her "Goodbye, mom" before she checks out. After he does so, he brings up his own small amount of groceries, and it turns out the woman stuck him with the bill, telling the cashier that her son was in line behind her and would pay for everything. The story climaxes with him running out of the store, seeing the woman just about to climb into her car, grabbing her leg, and pulling on it... [[spoiler: just the way that he's pulling yours]].

* "Titty Bar" by Music/TheAxisOfAwesome is a 2-and-a-half minute song that ends with a YourMom joke.
--> '''Jordan''': We need to find another [titty bar], so I will call your mother, 'cuz she works at another titty bar.

* Lyle Lovett brings us "Here I Am," which appears to be a poetic reflection on life, destiny, the decisions we make, and their consequences. Turns out he wants to change his order, please if it's not too late, to a cheeseburger.
* The Music/FountainsOfWayne song "Someone to Love" spends most of the song profiling two lonely people and promising that they'll find someone to love, heavily implying they will MeetCute. In the last verse, when they are "supposed" to meet, Beth [=MacKenzie=] steals Seth Shapiro's taxi and leaves him alone in the rain, rendering the buildup pointless.
* Music/TheFoxyBard: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuus5Ul6cuU What the Hell are Kitniyot]]" is all about how it's unreasonable to keep adding things to the list of kitniyot[[note]]grain-like foods that Ashkenazi Jews aren't allowed to eat on Passover[[/note]], starting with quinoa. At the end, he actually tries quinoa and hates it.
-->'''Dovid:''' Ugh, this tastes like dreck! Make it kitniyot for all I care.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic:
** "Albuquerque" is a long, rambling story about the singer's escape from his mother "who tied [him] up and force-fed [him] nothing but sauerkraut until [he] was twenty-six-and-a-half years old" (because "IT'S GOOD FOR YOOOOOOOOOOOU!") and his subsequent escape, journey to Albuquerque, plane crash, battle with a hermaphrodite with only one nostril, encounter with flesh-eating weasels, donuts, marriage, kids, divorce, job at Sizzler, and so forth. Near the end, he loses his train of thought after telling a few vaguely related anecdotes and then remarks that the only thing he was trying to say with the story was that [[DoesNotLikeSpam he just really hates sauerkraut]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGVYki-oyQ ''Trapped in the Drive-Thru'']] deserves a mention as well. A husband and wife argue over what to have for dinner, and finally decide to go to a fast-food place. At the drive-thru, another argument ensues over what to order, followed by the husband realizing he doesn't have his wallet. Wife offers her credit card but they don't take credit, and she only has $3 in cash on her. Husband scrounges through the car looking for loose change to cover the difference, doesn't have enough and is ultimately forced to cancel the wife's chicken sandwich ("I wasn't even really hungry in the first place"). A 10-minute-long buildup that ultimately culminates in the husband biting into the burger at a red light only to realize [[spoiler:they forgot the onions]].
** "Jackson Park Express" tells the story of Al riding a bus and flirting with a female passenger through body language. Every act of body language seems to have oddly specific meanings to Al which are either silly, illegal, or rather disturbing. Near the end, the woman gets off at her stop and Al never sees her again.

* The Music/FountainsOfWayne song "Someone to Love" spends most of the song profiling two lonely people and promising that they'll find someone to love, heavily implying they will MeetCute. In the last verse, when they are "supposed" to meet, Beth [=MacKenzie=] steals Seth Shapiro's taxi and leaves him alone in the rain, rendering the buildup pointless.

* The Music/FountainsOfWayne song "Someone to Love" spends most of the song profiling two lonely people and promising that they'll find someone to love, heavily implying they will MeetCute. In the last verse, when they are "supposed" to meet, Beth MacKenzie steals Seth Shapiro's taxi and leaves him alone in the rain, rendering the buildup pointless.

* {{Music/Weird Al|Yankovic}}'s song "Albuquerque" is a long, rambling story about the singer's escape from his mother "who tied [him] up and force-fed [him] nothing but sauerkraut until [he] was twenty-six-and-a-half years old" (because "IT'S GOOD FOR YOOOOOOOOOOOU!") and his subsequent escape, journey to Albuquerque, plane crash, battle with a hermaphrodite with only one nostril, encounter with flesh-eating weasels, donuts, marriage, kids, divorce, job at Sizzler, and so forth. Near the end, he loses his train of thought after telling a few vaguely related anecdotes and then remarks that the only thing he was trying to say with the story was that [[DoesNotLikeSpam he just really hates sauerkraut]].

--> '''Jordan''': We need to find another [titty bar], so I will call your mother, 'cuz she works at another titty bar.//

* Lyle Lovett brings us "Here I Am," which appears to be a poetic reflection on life, destiny, the decisions we make, and their consequences. Turns out he wants to change his order, please if it's not too late, to a cheeseburger.

* Music/LyleLovett brings us "Here I Am," which appears to be a poetic reflection on life, destiny, the decisions we make, and their consequences. Turns out he wants to change his order, please if it's not too late, to a cheeseburger.

* TAI & Le Shuuk's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGJzQgsNhU "Unicorn"]] tells the story of a wild young man who traveled the 7 seas and meets an old woman in a tavern. She gives him an apple that she says will get rid of his lady troubles but "then [[GroinAttack his dick fell off.]]" He goes to Moon Island, fights a unicorn to touch his horn, and finds his dick grew back so well that he would be called "The Three Leg Pirate". He races back to the tavern, finds the old woman, "and then they fuck all night". And then his dick fell off.

--> '''Jordan''': We need to find another [titty bar], so I will call your mother, 'cuz she works at another titty bar.

* {{Music/Weird Al|Yankovic}}'s song ''Albuquerque'' is a long, rambling story about the singer's escape from his mother "who tied [him] up and force-fed [him] nothing but sauerkraut until [he] was twenty-six-and-a-half years old" (because "IT'S GOOD FOR YOOOOOOOOOOOU!") and his subsequent escape, journey to Albuquerque, plane crash, battle with a hermaphrodite with only one nostril, encounter with flesh-eating weasels, donuts, marriage, kids, divorce, job at Sizzler, and so forth. Near the end, he loses his train of thought after telling a few vaguely related anecdotes and then remarks that the only thing he was trying to say with the story was that [[DoesNotLikeSpam he just really hates sauerkraut]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGVYki-oyQ ''Trapped in the Drive-Thru'']] deserves a mention as well. A husband and wife argue over what to have for dinner, and finally decide to go to a fast-food place. At the drive-thru, another argument ensues over what to order, followed by the husband realizing he doesn't have his wallet. Wife offers her credit card but they don't take credit, and she only has $3 in cash on her. Husband scrounges through the car looking for loose change to cover the difference, doesn't have enough and is ultimately forced to cancel the wife's chicken sandwich ("I wasn't even really hungry in the first place"). A 10-minute-long buildup that ultimately culminates in the husband biting into the burger at a red light only to realize [[spoiler:they forgot the onions.]].

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