Line #27 Music/BowlingForSoup


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Are they bowling to ''get'' soup, or bowling ''[[AmbiguousSyntax on behalf]]'' of soup?]]
3	->''She works at Hot Topic,
4	-> His heart microscopic
5	-> She thinks that it's love but to him it's sex
6	-> He listens to emo but Fat Mike's his hero
7	-> His bank account's zero
8	-> What comes next?''
9	-->--"Punk Rock 101"
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11	Bowling For Soup (also known as BFS) is an American pop-punk band started in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Their songs focus on drinking, partying, peppy songs about being a high school ButtMonkey and teenaged debauchery (the song High School Never Ends), and ones that are almost a deconstruction and analysis of the UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist (the song A-hole). Other times they talk about the band being high school buddies and the GirlOfTheWeek. Basically the kind of themes you'd find in an average Music/Blink182 song or a high school freshman's journal.
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13	They also do the opening theme song for ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' (frontman Jaret Reddick also voiced a recurring character, Danny, in the series), the movie theme for ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', the main theme for ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', a cover of Modern English's "I Melt With You" for Disney's ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', and a cover of A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)" for the opening of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'''s English dub. As of 2012, Jaret Reddick is the new voice of Creator/ChuckECheese.
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15	!! Studio albums:
16	* ''Bowling for Soup'' (1995)
17	* ''Rock on, Honorable Ones!!'' (1997)
18	* ''Let's Do It for Johnny!!'' (2000)
19	* ''Drunk Enough to Dance'' (2002)
20	* ''A Hangover You Don't Deserve'' (2004)
21	* ''The Great Burrito Extortion Case'' (2006)
22	* ''Sorry for Partyin'' (2009)
23	* ''Fishin' for Woos'' (2011)
24	* ''Merry Flippin' Christmas'' (2011)
25	* ''Lunch. Drunk. Love'' (2013)
26	* ''Drunk Dynasty'' (2016)
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28	----
29	!!This band provides examples of:
30	* The80s: "1985".
31	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: "Girl All The Bad Guys Want", despite the title making it sound like an InvertedTrope. It's also a gender-flipped version, since the protagonist is an uncool guy who wants to date a bad girl. He resorts to trying to be a bad boy himself to get her.
32	-->''Now I'm watchin' wrestling, trying to be a tough guy''\
33	''Listening to rap metal, turntables in my eyes''\
34	''I can grow a mustache, but I got no season pass''\
35	''All I got's a moped''.
36	* AnimatedMusicVideo:
37	** The video for their cover of ''Patent Pending'''s "Hey Mario" is 8-bit and has them hanging out with [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]].
38	** Made a couple of animated videos for their rerecordings of "1985" and "High School Never Ends" for ''Songs People Actually Liked - Volume 2 - The Next 6 Years (2004-2009)''.
39	* AntiLoveSong: Many.
40	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "Here's Your Freakin' Song" is written about the singer's (presumably ex) girlfriend, who always begged him to write a song about her. So he did. And, well... if she's ''not'' his ex, she certainly ''will'' be after she hears it.
41	-->''You talk too much,''\
42	''you never shut up.''\
43	''Everything I do for you is never enough!''\
44	''You snore, you drool,''\
45	''you talk in your sleep.''\
46	''Won't get a night's rest''\
47	''until you're six feet deep!''\
48	''I promised you forever,''\
49	''but we both know,''\
50	''we're never gonna get along.''\
51	''You want it? You got it!''\
52	'''''[[TitleDrop Here's your freakin' song!]]'''''
53	* BigFun: Guitarist Chris Burney is difficult to miss (for more reasons than one). Jaret as well in recent years.
54	* BittersweetEnding: "Graduation Trip" ends with the singer and his girlfriend ultimately drifting apart, due to them getting together on a four-day-long trip and living in separate states, but it's clear there's no bitterness on either end, and the singer is glad to hear the girl is doing well.
55	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Their cover of "I Melt With You" changes the second line from "Making love to you" to "Being friends with you" due to it being recorded for the Disney-produced ''Film/SkyHigh2005''.
56	* BreakupSong: A-Hole. Different from most in that the singer feels bad about not having done more to make the relationship work, and features an IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.
57	* CallBack: The hidden outro track on ''Great Burrito Extortion Case'' fades in after about a minute of silence at the end of "If You Come Back To Me", and consists of StudioChatter discussing the subject of every other track on the album, over a loop of the jaunty "la-la-la-laaaaaa" chorus from "I'm Gay". Also, arguably, the reprise of "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" on ''A Hangover You Don't Deserve'', which continues the LongList of famous Texans who miss the singer's girlfriend from that song's breakdown.
58	* ChangingChorus: "Highschool Never Ends" makes minor shifts to the chorus.
59	** It starts out as:
60	---> ''You still don't have the right look, and you don't have the right friends; Nothing changes but the faces, the names, and the trends, Highschool Never Ends''
61	** Then changes to:
62	---> ''You still don't have the right look, and you don't have the right friends, and you still listen to the same shit you did back then, Highschool Never Ends''
63	** Which finally becomes:
64	---> ''And I still don't have the right look, and I still have the same three friends, and I'm pretty much the same as I was back then, Highschool Never Ends''
65	* ClothingConcealedInjury: "99 Biker Friends" discusses how their female friend is being [[DomesticAbuse beaten by her husband]]. In addition to her wearing "seven pounds of makeup just to hide her beat-up face", the chorus mentions:
66	-->''She's wearing shades\
67	But we all see\
68	Behind the tinted glass''
69	* ClusterFBomb: Their song "My Hometown."
70	* ContinuityNod: In their music video for their song, 'S-S-S-Saturday,' they wear the blue tuxes from their earlier album cover for ''Drunk Enough to Dance''
71	* CoverVersion: “...Baby One More Time”; “Five O’Clock World”; “Gilligan’s Island Theme”; “I Melt With You”; “I Ran (So Far Away)”; “Jimmy Neutron Theme”; “Li’l Red Riding Hood”; “London Bridge”; “Sick Of Myself”; “Spanish Harlem”; “Speed Racer”; “Summer of ‘69”; "Circle"
72	** "1985" is a song by their friends in SR-71. The Bowling for Soup version though is in a different key and has slight alterations to the lyrics to make the song less bitter and more of a celebration of The80s.
73	** “Belgium”: A special case in that they themselves wrote and recorded the original, but continue to cover it in new styles as hidden tracks on their albums. Currently the alternate versions include acoustic, boy-band, and polka.
74	** "Stacy's Mom:" Because everyone thought they did it anyway.
75	* DeadpanSnarker: Their songs are normally quite cheerful, but they can also get ''impressively'' sarcastic.
76	* DiscoDan: "1985"
77	* DistractedByTheSexy: The end of the "1985" video with the housewife dancing on top of the car. The band is finished. She isn't. It takes her husband calling from across the street for the band to stop staring at her and give her an awkward applause as she covers herself up and scampers back to her house.
78	* DoubleEntendre: "My Wena" seems like a long dick joke until TheReveal in the video, which shows that it's actually about a wiener dog named Wena.
79	* DrunkRolling: In "I Think You Like Me Too", the singer initially claims that he got jukebox money from a friendly biker. In one of the later verses, he admits:
80	-->''That biker guy was passed out on the floor\
81	We took his wallet and the keys to his Harley\
82	And now he doesn't have them anymore''
83	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "The Bitch Song"
84	* FunWithForeignLanguages: Three words that will change your life: "No Hablo Ingles."
85	* GagCensor: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A Blocking a jock's penis]] in the video for "High School Never Ends." It's labelled "[[TeenyWeenie Too small for TV.]]"
86	* GoodOlBoy: Averted; the band are from Texas, but despite Texas gaining a bad reputation of historical homophobia, they, at multiple points throughout several songs, make it clear they love gay people. From wishing they were gay to avoid girl troubles to stating they have no problem with gay people while singing about how a friend calls them such when he comments how he loves him.
87	* HatesTheirParent: PlayedForLaughs and mentioned in "I'm Gay":
88	--> ''Well, we've all heard about how the guys in the band''
89	--> ''Weren't the popular kids in school''
90	--> ''And you hate your parents 'cuz the way it turned out''
91	--> ''But in the end, the blame's on you''
92	* HeavyMeta: "Really Cool Dance Song", which is rife with TakeThat against meaningless, generic dance music.
93	* HellishLA: "I Can't Stand LA". It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a song about how much the band loves a variety of cities, but can't stand Los Angeles due to things like pollution, road rage, and [[CaliforniaCollapse "the threat of breaking off into the sea"]]. They do, however, have a section about giving the "benefit of the doubt", and point out positives like the good sushi, the city's diversity, and the hot women.
94	* HeterosexualLifePartners: "BFFF" is essentially a love song from one partner to another, even saying "I'm tryin' to say I love you in a heterosexual way."
95	* HighSchool: "High School Never Ends".
96	* IHateSong: "I Can't Stand L.A." is, well... about how the band can't stand Los Angeles, while mentioning other cities they do enjoy.
97	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: "Get Happy", possibly, depending on whether you think they're being {{sarcas\|mMode}}tic or not.
98	--> "Maybe you're right: We've had a good time. I'll sit around, you get yourself a new life. Go get your spark, go find your smile, and [[TitleDrop get happy]]."
99	** A lot of their songs touch on this, when the narrator doesn't get the girl - notably, in "A-Hole," the narrator fully admits that [[JerkassRealization they were a jerk]], and apologizes to his (now-ex) girlfriend, hoping she can find somebody better.
100	* JadedWashout: Rare female example with Debbie, the protagonist of "1985."
101	* JustTheWayYouAre: "Normal Chicks" is a song about how girls don't need to look like supermodels to be attractive.
102	* LanguageFluencyDenial: "No Hablo Ingles" is about pretending not to speak English (by using the title phrase) to get out of various quandaries and responsibilities.
103	-->''My teacher asked where my homework was''
104	-->''And that's when I told her''
105	-->''"No hablo ingles!"''
106	* LastSecondWordSwap: The entire chorus of "Friendly Goodbye".
107	--> "Ain't that a bee with an itch. Ain't that a mother-trucker. You can go to H-E double hockey sticks and F yourself! 'Cause I'm flippin' gosh darn sick of all the S-words you put me though."
108	** Also "99 Biker Friends"
109	--> "Such a big man, such a little chick/I think it all goes back to your tiny/Pick- up truck in the driveway"
110	--> "Your friends think you're an asshole/And I do too/Over compensatin' for your small shoes"
111	* ListingCities: "I Can't Stand LA".
112	* MoneyDearBoy: Invoked InUniverse in "Really Cool Dance Song", which is about a band that writes a dance song for no other reason than the fact that dance songs sell albums.
113	-->Now we're getting older, and much more sober,\
114	And we've got some big house payments to make.\
115	The wife wants a handbag, the kids need some college,\
116	And we just need one hit single to break.\
117	Get ready here it comes!
118	* NetworkDecay: Referenced in "1985": "There was U2, and Blondie/And music still on MTV".[[invoked]]
119	* NonconformistDyedHair: The protagonist dyes her hair pink in "Star Song", to the consternation of her parents. The song has a BeYourself aesop.
120	-->''"Your mother's so happy you became a cheerleader\
121	Homecoming queen, just like your older sister\
122	'Til you dyed your hair pink, and she said what were you drinking?\
123	And it never did sink in it don't matter what they think..."''
124	* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: The chorus of "BFFF:"
125	-->''You'll tell the world I'm gay / when you hear me say / that I really and truly feel this way. / Not that there's anything wrong with being gay.''
126	* PottyFailure: One of the flashbacks in the music video of "High School Never Ends" shows a cheerleader acting friendly towards an awkward-looking boy while secretly slipping Ex-Lax into his drink. At the reunion, he gets revenge on her by eating various disgusting things to make himself [[VomitIndiscretionShot puke all over her]].
127	* PuttingThePeeInPool: In "No Hablo Ingles", the question "Did one of you guys pee in the pool?" is listed as one of the phrases a person can say the song's title in response to.
128	* RashomonStyle: "I'll Always Remember You (That Way)" is about a past romantic tryst as narrated by the former lovers (emphasizing rather different details of the same event).
129	* RealSongThemeTune: "Knights of the Zodiac", the [[{{Bowdlerise}} DiC dub]] of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', used the Bowling for Soup cover of Music/AFlockOfSeagulls song "I Ran (So Far Away)", and [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day"]].
130	* RiddleForTheAges: When '''did''' [[Music/MotleyCrue Motley Crue]] become Classic Rock???
131	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: "99 Biker Friends" combines with with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. The entire song is about the band gathering up as many people as they can find to go beat the everloving crap out of a [[DomesticAbuse domestic abuser]].
132	* ShoutOut:
133	** "1985" is packed full of them - (deep breath) - Music/{{Whitesnake}}, Music/BruceSpringsteen, {{Music/Madonna}}, {{Music/Nirvana}}, Music/{{U2}}, Music/{{Blondie\|Band}}, Creator/{{MTV}}, ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', ''Film/PrettyInPink'', ''Film/StElmosFire'', [[Music/GeorgeMichael Wham!]], Music/LimpBizkit, Music/DuranDuran, Music/VanHalen, Music/MotleyCrue and Music/OzzyOsbourne (phew!).
134	** "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" has one to Music/TheRamones:
135	--->''"She broke my heart, I wanna be sedated...all I wanted was to see her naked!"''
136	** "Punk Rock 101" has one to Music/BonJovi:
137	--->''"Like Tommy and Gina, they're living on a prayer."''
138	** "Alexa Bliss" is one to, as the name suggests, WWE superstar Wrestling/AlexaBliss.
139	* SillyLoveSongs: "Smoothie King" despite some of its AntiLoveSong lyrics ("Love songs suck and fairy tales aren't true/And 'Happy ending: Hollywood' is not for me and you."). It's about finding that person who drives you crazy in all the right ways.
140	* SnubByOmission: "My Hometown," which very pointedly avoids ''naming'' the town they started in.[[note]]The band is originally from Wichita Falls, Texas, a town whose biggest selling point is that Fort Worth is only a couple of hours away by car.[[/note]]
141	* TheSomethingSong: "The Bitch Song".
142	* {{Subject 101}}: "Punk Rock 101", their ode to the Hot Topic generation.
143	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: See LastSecondWordSwap. There's also another one leading up to the second example in "99 Biker Friends".
144	--> ''You tell her that you're sorry/Blame it on the beer/Your dad was mean to you/Your friends think you're/An asshole''
145	* TakeThat: Towards Music/{{Staind}} and Music/LimpBizkit in the music video for "Girl All the Bad Guys Want," in particular making fun of the Fred Durst directed music videos for "It's Been a While" by Staind and "Break Stuff" by Limp Bizkit. Near the end of the video is a scene of Music/{{Slipknot}} lookalikes beating up a parody of Fred Durst as a reference to a feud Slipknot had with Limp Bizkit in the late 90s.
146	** "My Hometown" has more than a few disses to [[FairWeatherFriend people from their home town]] who didn't support the band until they got popular. In particular, the song goes out of its way not to ''name'' the home town.
147	* ToiletHumor: There's ''a lot'' in The Outro for ''The Great Burrito Extortion Case''.
148	-->'''Jaret:''' "Sometimes, after you fart, and it stinks real bad, and you go to take a drink of beer, all you're really is [[{{Squick}} inhaling fart."]]
149	* {{Tsundere}}: The singer in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERoOn2jS1VA Not a Love Song]]" [[BadLiar totally doesn't want his girl back]].
150	* TWordEuphemism: Featured in "A Friendly Goodbye," where the chorus is a string of these because the narrator's soon-to-be-ex hates cursing.
151	* WalkOfShame: A song aptly titled "Walk Of Shame", about a man and woman walking home alone after a drunk one-night stand; the man, in particular, has no pants, because he left them at the bar.
152	* WhosLaughingNow: The premise of the video to "High School Never Ends", where the band gets karmic revenge on several {{Jerk Jock}}s that picked on them as kids in a high school renuion.
153	* WifeBasherBasher: The target of the song "99 Biker Friends" is ordered to stop beating his wife/girlfriend on pain of the aforementioned bikers coming over to return the favor.
154	* WildTeenParty: The focus characters of "Friends Chicks Guitars" would ''like'' to have one, but they failed to get enough beer, so it fizzled out.
155	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: "Much More Beautiful Person."

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