History YMMV / TheLonelyIsland

* MisaimedFandom: "Spring Break Anthem" is touted by some fans as some sort of "ultimate bisexual anthem" when the point of the song is contrasting all the degeneracy and debauchery that straight college students engage while in spring break, with homosexual marriage and how the latter is hypocriticaly criticized while the first is seen as a staple of American culture.

* {{TearJerker}}: While utterly ''hilarious'', the song "Great Day" is about a guy who lost his job, his family have left him and haven't spoken to him, is living in a ''filthy'' house, and has gone on a cocaine bender and subsequently gone insane; or alternatively, he succumbed to his coke addiction and he lost his job and his family.

* SignatureSong: "I Just Had Sex," first and foremost. "I'm on a Boat," "Jizz in My Pants," and "Like a Boss" more or less tie for second place, given that each turned out to be a FountainOfMemes. And for the little ones, "[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Everything Is Awesome]]".

* WeirdAlEffect:
** "Like a Boss" by Slim Thug, 2 million [=YouTube=] views. "Like a Boss" by The Lonely Island, 82 million.

** ''The Creep'' invokes this by basically being a tailor made guide to making yourself look ''as creepy'' as possible and no, imagining Nicki Minaj doing the same things does ''not'' make it less creepy.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: "Throw It on the Ground" has the protagonist celebrating a kid's birthday...by ''throwing his birthday cake to the ground''.

** "Jizz in My Pants" is far better known than its inspiration - every Music/PetShopBoys song ever made.

** ''The Creep'' invokes this.

* EpicRiff: The bassline for Incredibad. Also qualifies as a major Ear Worm.
* FaceOfTheBand: Andy Samberg and ''who else''? Thought even disregarding Samberg's successful acting career, neither Jorma Taccone or Akiva Schaffer have done much acting outside of Lonely Island projects, primarily working as writers.

--> "I threw the rest of the cake too! WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, JACKASS!"

%%* CrossesTheLineTwice
* EarWorm: All of their tracks. All of them.

* FaceOfTheBand: Andy Samberg and ''who else''? Thought even disregarding Samberg's successful acting career, neither Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer have done much acting themselves in projects that they didn't write themselves and primarily work as writers.

** The entirety of, for obvious reasons, "No Homo" and its outro.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The troupe formed several years before Samberg joined the cast of SNL, where the three became famous. Many, many years prior, in fact: the boys have been writing comedy together since junior high.

* MemeticMutation: To the point that the main page on this Wiki had to be locked to prevent users from perpetually referencing them.

** Jack Sparrow, Motherlover, Jizz In My Pants, Threw It on the Ground, Space Olympics, Semicolon, YOLO, We Are a Crowd, and I'm On A Boat. Don't even try to deny it.
** Dick In a Box and Three-Way (The Golden Rule).
** Do the Creep, I Just Had Sex, and Like a Boss.

** "Everything is Awesome". A family friend song without a some kind of bizarre twist in the song.

* HilariousInHindsight: "Threw It On The Ground" involves throwing a PHONE on the ground, bacause [[MemeticMutation MY DAD'S NOT A PHONE]]! Unfortunately, players of ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' have to call their always unseen dad to save, and many say that the dad IS a phone. [[NightmareFuel Poor Ness]].

* SignatureSong: "I Just Had Sex," first and foremost. "I'm on a Boat," "Jizz in My Pants," and "Like a Boss" more or less tie for second place, given that each turned out to be a FountainOfMemes.

** Like A Boss by Slim Thug, 2 million Youtube views. Like A Boss by The Lonely Island, 82 million.
** Jizz In My Pants is far better known than its inspiration - every Music/PetShopBoys song ever made.

** Michael Bolton in Film/ErinBrockovich drag (which makes him look like Creator/SarahJessicaParker) is either this or a CrowningMomentOfFunny, especially with the smoldering look he gives the camera.

** Michael Bolton in Film/ErinBrockovich drag (which makes him look like Sarah Jessica Parker) is either this or a CrowningMomentOfFunny, especially with the smoldering look he gives the camera.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Jack Sparrow, Motherlover, Jizz In My Pants, Threw It on the Ground, Space Olympics, Semicolon, YOLO, We Are a Crowd, and I'm On A Boat. Don't even try to deny it.
** Dick In a Box and Three-Way (The Golden Rule) certain qualify for this list. As well as Do the Creep, I Just Had Sex, and Like a Boss.

-->'''Andy:''' Okay... Turns out Michael Bolton's a major cinephile.

* [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crosses the Line]] [[SerialEscalation Ten Times Over And Over]]

* HoYay: ''We'll Kill U'': "Hey, Guy Number One." "Hey Guy Number Two." "I'm just doing me." "I'm doing you too." [[-"No!"-]]
** And the entirety of "Iran so Far", towards Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (played by ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s own, Fred Armisen).

* OlderThanTheyThink: The troupe formed several years before Samberg joined the cast of SNL, where the three became famous.
** Many, many years prior, in fact: the boys have been writing comedy together since junior high.

* WeirdAlEffect: Like A Boss by Slim Thug, 2 million Youtube views. Like A Boss by The Lonely Island, 82 million.
** And if that metric's anything to go by, Jizz In My Pants is far better known than its inspiration - every Music/PetShopBoys song ever made.
* TheWoobie: The title character of "Ardy Party" is a drug-addicted, disgusting, unhygienic, sexually-deviant, possibly mentally-challenged hobo who is forced by Jorma and Akiva to "rock the party" under the condition they provide him with cocaine and PCP. One of the last lines truly hammers this point in.
-->'''Akiva''': If Ardy ever stopped rockin', then you know we would kill him!\\

* SignatureSong: They don't have one in particular, but the top three are probably "I'm on a Boat," "Jizz in My Pants," and "Like a Boss."

** Motherlover is about two men who forgot Mothers Day and decide the best present they could give is to "fuck each others mothers". That's already creepy but then one of them says "while your in my mother, make me another brother" and plan on becoming each others step fathers.

-->'''Adam:''' Okay... Turns out Michael Bolton's a major cinephile.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Michael Bolton is either an [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny easily-distracted]] cinephile, or a {{troll}} who likes mocking the club jam he's writing the hook for.