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1* "Bank Job". That is all.
2-->"But how do you plan for a bank full of nuns?"
3* "Why Say Anything Nice?"
4-->"Why'd you put your backpack on\
5If you won't just take a hike?"
6* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_snpe3QmzCc This]] Rendition of "King Of Bedside Manor".
7* "Crazy" is basically a string of one-liners based around slang for being insane.
8-->"The lights are on but nobody's home\
9My elevator doesn't go to the top\
10I'm not playing with a full deck\
11I've lost my marbles!"
12* The "Give me a break" in the background during the bridge of "Stomach vs Heart"
13* The end of Enid:
14-->I can get a job, I can pay the phone bills\
15I can cut the lawn, cut my hair, cut out my cholesterol\
16I can work overtime, I can work in a mine\
17I can do it all for you!\
18''[beat]''\
19But I don't want to!
20** The Music/DepecheMode-style intro is also unsettlingly funny.
21--> "The silence, the terror, the pain and the horror as your mom comes downstairs..."
22* "Grade 9".
23-->Jim: They called me "Chicken Legs"\
24[[ThePeteBest Andy]]: They called me "Four Eyes"\
25Steven: They called me "Fatso"\
26Tyler: They called me "Buckwheat"\
27Ed: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They called me Eddie.]]
28* On their Live DVD ''Talk to The Hand'', Steven literally [[BigEater eats the mic]] during a pause in the middle of "Be My Yoko Ono", much to the amusement of everyone.
29* "If you think of her as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Catherine_the_Great#History Catherine the Great]], then you should be the horse to help her meet her fate."
30* The otherwise sombre "Pinch Me" has this bit of comic relief.
31-->"I could hide out under there/I just made you say underwear"
32** Sometimes, the audience would throw underwear on that line, causing Ed to change the line to "I just made you '''throw''' underwear."
33** At least one live performance, "It's hard to tell if I exist" was answered with "That's 'cuz you don't".
34* [[http://t.co/RyqtePRZUc The entire video for "Odds Are]], particularly as it contrasts so spectacularly with the lyrics of the video. There are quite a few bonuses for Creator/RoosterTeeth fans, too.
35* Their rendition of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvFURcDMXfk Jingle Bells]]." Few bands but BNL would actually commit to tape the famous "Batman Smells" verse.
36** The [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments crowning moment]] must be when Steven Page starts {{corpsing}} in the third chorus due to his voice squeaking from the harsh high-pitched near-falsetto he uses for most of the song.
37* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9Wi4ie2no Deck the Stills]]. Basically, replace all of the lyrics for "Deck the Halls" with the phrase "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young".
38* "Another Postcard". It's a ListSong about how one of the band members kept being spammed with postcards with [[SillySimian chimpanzees]] on them.
39* ''Snacktime'' has "Crazy [=ABCs=]," a song where Ed tries to find "stranger" words that begin with each letter, such as "A is for aisle, B is for bdellium / C is for czar, and if you see him, would you mind telling him?" The goofy dialogue between Ed and Steven makes the song funnier as it goes on.
40-->'''Ed:''' P for 'pneumonia', ''[='Pterodactyl'=]'', and 'psychosis' / Q is for 'qat'--\
41'''Steven:''' Okay. Q. 'Qat'. What?\
42'''Ed:''' Yeah, it's, uh... 'q-a-t'; it's an evergreen shrub. It's a perfect ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' word because it's a Q with no U; there's not many of those.\
43'''Steven:''' ...You have too much time on your hands.\
44'''Ed:''' [[BlatantLies R is for 'argyle'--]]\
45'''Steven:''' ''(singing the same tune)'' No, it isn't.\
46'''Ed:''' ...Okay, you're right; I couldn't find a good "R" word.
47** The "Food Party" skit from the same album. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rjwMExU55Q Words really don't do it justice.]]
48* "Light Up My Room" from ''Stunt'' is a beautiful, soulful paean to the singer's hometown... and then you start actually listening to the lyrics.
49-->There's a shopping cart in the ravine\
50Foam on the creek is like pop and ice cream\
51Field full of tires that is always on fire\
52To light my way home...
53* On the first track from Silverball, ''Get Back Up''. we get this gem:
54-->Standing eight and I'm on the ropes\
55Knees givin' but I won't lose hope\
56Not the second coming of Muhammad Ali\
57But can I get a "whoop" for the boxing imagery?
58* The band's 2004 tour (as documented in the live album ''Everything to Everyone Tour Recordings'') had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx9oKDBxRs4 hysterical]] ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w_9FgwuKAY?t=1524 intermissions]].
59* "Box Set" from ''Gordon'' is about a washed-up musician trying to get fans excited about the elaborate retrospective of the title ("I never thought I'd be regretful of all my past success/But some stupid number one hit single/Has got me in this mess..."). Among other amusing disasters, Disc Two would've contained new songs but is blank because "some other label bought 'em", and Disc Three... "Well this is really me/In my grade school play/I haddabout a hundred thousand lines and of course I forgot 'em..."
60** It gets worse. Disc Four was never released before "...and you can tell why. It's just some demos I recorded in my basement." Disc Five is entirely a computer voice due to being recorded while the singer was "hacking up a lung" while Disc Six is "a dance remix" that will "make you scratch your head and wonder where my taste went."
61* "Upside Down" from ''Everything to Everyone'' is all about the singer's dramatic insistence that nothing exciting ever, ''ever'' happen to disturb his boring existence.
62-->Though I appreciate the aim\
63Tell Andy Warhol's ghost that he can keep his fame\
64I'd only use it to make everything the same again, so don't applaud till the end\
65I'm not around\
66Cos I will not turn my whole life upside down!
67* "Second Best" from the same album finds a... questionable bright side to the fact that "Everything's a lie/We're all gonna die," adding:
68-->I admit it's bleak\
69Still, I give it a week\
70Until our friends the meek\
71Give it back...
72* "Flat Earth" from ''Detour de Force'' brings some rather creative insults that are bound to get a laugh.
73-->Now she's shootin' from the hip and slingin' slack words\
74She's not speaking in reverse but everything is backwards!

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