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1	The Arrogant Worms are a [[ComedyMusic comedy folk trio]] from [[strike: Alberta, Canada]] Kingston, Ontario. They gained massive popularity on the internet in the early 2000s, with their catchy tunes and hilarious jabs at Canadian culture. They got so popular that another Canadian comedy group, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, has had the misfortune of their entire catalog being attributed to the Worms.
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3	!!Discography
4	* 1992 ''[[SelfTitledAlbum The Arrogant Worms]]''
5	* 1994 ''Russell's Shorts''
6	* 1995 ''C'est Cheese''
7	* 1997 ''[[LiveAlbum Live Bait]]''
8	* 1997 ''[[ChristmasSongs Christmas Turkey]]''
9	* 1999 ''Dirt!''
10	* 2001 ''Idiot Road''
11	* 2002 ''[[CompilationRerelease Gift Wrapped]]''
12	* 2003 ''Semi-Conducted'' (LiveAlbum with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra)
13	* 2004 ''[[LiveAlbum Toast!]]''
14	* 2006 ''Beige''
15	* 2008 ''[[LiveAlbum Torpid]]''
16	* 2013 ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Hindsight 20/20]]''
17	* 2014 ''[=SPACE=]''
18	* 2016 ''[[BlatantLies The First Farewell Album]]''
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20	While their songs about Canada, such as "Canada's Really Big" or "We Are The Beaver", are among their most popular, they've also had hits with songs about other subjects, such as vegetable rights activism ("Carrot Juice is Murder"), sports ("Me Like Hockey"), various animals ("I Am Cow," "Billy The Theme Park Shark"), and little-known relatives of famous Biblical people ("Jesus' Brother Bob"), to name a few. Their music consists of style parodies of nearly every music genre one can think of, from folk to Eighties pop to country to Celtic, and even children's music ("Rippy The Gator"). Arrogant Worms concerts are always somewhere between jam session and stand up comedy.
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22	''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' did a ShoutOut to them in the form of the card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=12623 Arrogant Wurm]].
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24	!!'''The Arrogant Worms contains examples of:'''
25	* TheAllegedCar: "Car Full Of Pain" is about one of these, and the titular Plymouth Horizon of "Horizon" seemed to be well on its way before a violent death.
26	* AndThatsTerrible: From "Carrot Juice Is Murder":
27	-->'''Lead:''' Carrot juice constitutes murder
28	-->'''Background:''' ''And that's a real crime''
29	* AntiChristmasSong: Their Christmas album, ''Christmas Turkey'' is full of them.
30	%%* AntiLoveSong: "New Car Smell" qualifies.
31	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "I Ran Away", the insults thrown at the protagonist's girlfriend include "She's a fat ugly tramp", "She smells like peanut butter", "She's a loser", "She's pedantic", and "She's a mediocre [[UsefulNotes/TheBeautifulGame soccer player]]".
32	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The Saskatchewan River doesn't actually flow through Regina, despite what "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" says:
33	--> Farmers, bar your doors\
34	When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores!
35	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Their "Gaelic Song" is a perfect example.
36	* AudienceParticipationSong:
37	** "Rippy the Gator" and "Rocks and Trees" are straight examples.
38	** "Jesus' Brother Bob" has a couple of lines that tends to be spoken by the audience, taking the place of various crowds that come seeking Christ.
39	** "Mounted Animal Nature Trail" is a bizarre example, as the animals in the song are dead and shouldn't make noise, but the crowd will make the noises anyway just so the Worms will make fun of them for doing so.
40	* BalladOfX: "The Ballad of Dan."
41	* BoyBand: Their song of the same title.
42	* ChainsawGood: "Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw."
43	* ChildrenAreAWaste: With a title like "Go to Sleep Little Leech," was there ever any doubt? [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood It's sung from the perspective of the child too, for added hilarity.]]
44	-->''"Go to sleep little leech\
45	You've sucked mama dry\
46	Made her more crazy with every cry\
47	Why weren't we more careful than night on the beach?\
48	So go to sleep, go to sleep, little leech\
49	...\
50	Go to sleep little leech\
51	You've sucked us both dry\
52	Stolen our money and will to survive\
53	But you're old enough now to get kicked out on the street!\
54	So go to sleep, go to sleep, little leech!\
55	...\
56	Go to sleep little leech\
57	You're driving me mad!\
58	Sometimes I dream that I'm not your real dad\
59	It's 5 in the morning, I work in the day\
60	Go to sleep little leech or get sold on eBay!"''
61	* ChristmasSongs: A whole album.
62	* CoolBoat: "The Wolfe Island Ferry" is about a very nice ferry called the Wolfe Island Ferry.
63	* CoolCar: Winnebago. It has a pool for a humpback whale on the roof. Next to a tennis court. And helipad. Among other things.
64	* DirtyCoward: The protagonist of "I Ran Away."
65	* DisproportionateRetribution: "Carrot Juice is Murder" mentions assaulting a man for eating celery and murdering five farmers.
66	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Pretty much everyone in the song "Idiot Road".
67	* EnemyMime: The narrator of "Mime Abduction" is [[HumiliationConga kidnapped and then tortured and then forced to jam Cajun music and then after a brief altercation, escape from]] a gang of angry mimes. They force him to perform skits (including the Invisible Box Routine) and play the accordion for them while they sit in invisible chairs drinking imaginary tea.
68	* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Carrot Juice is Murder", parodying veganism.
69	* HillbillyHorrors: "Goin' Huntin'!" is about a bunch of rednecks going hunting. They're going to kill something and don't care what it is, up to and including the neighbor's children.
70	* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: "Jesus' Brother Bob", where the titular character is either mistaken for Jesus or the subject of disappointment when crowds come seeking his [[OvershadowedByAwesome much better-known brother]].
71	* HurricaneOfPuns: "Jerry Came Home Headless" is this.
72	* IncrediblyLongNote: Trevor Strong at the end of "Dangerous".
73	* InherentlyFunnyWords: "A Night in Dildo". Seriously, with Newfoundland place names like that, how could they resist?
74	* IntercourseWithYou: "Log In To You" is this done in computer geek jargon.
75	* KillItWithWater: "Pressure Washer", taken to its (il)logical extreme.
76	--> I got a Pressure Washer, I like it a lot, [[MundaneMadeAwesome 'cause it makes cleaning destructive!]]
77	* LongRunnerLineUp: The Worms have been a group since 1991, and Trevor Strong, Mike [=McCormick=] and Chris Patterson have all been there since 1995 (Patterson joined that year, and John Whytock left). This is not counting backup musicians, of which there have been several in the years between 1995 and 2010.
78	* LookBehindYou: The narrator of "I Ran Away" outwits the devil himself by saying, "Look over there!" and fleeing.
79	-->I'm hopin' that the devil smokes two packs a day, 'cause my day of reckoning is here and I ran away!
80	* LosingYourHead: "Jerry Came Home Headless". Jerry got decapitated while bumbling around town one day and didn't notice until he came home and tried to fix his hair.
81	* LyricalDissonance: All over the place.
82	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: "Rippy the Gator went chomp chomp chomp!"
83	* MisterMuffykins: The Chihuahua in "Gonna Kill The Dog Next Door" ''literally'' drives the narrator AxCrazy.
84	* NonAppearingTitle: "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" and "Tokyo Love Song" are two examples.
85	* OdeToIntoxication:
86	** "Drink With Me" from the ''Idiot Road'' album.
87	** "Bottle of Booze" from ''Toast''.
88	* OvershadowedByAwesome: The title character of "Jesus' Brother Bob".
89	-->''If you haven't heard of me, I wouldn't be surprised''\
90	''I bet you know my relatives, their names will never die''\
91	''My mother is a saint and my brother is a god''\
92	''But all I am is Jesus' brother Bob.''
93	* PirateSong: "The Last Pirate of Saskatchewan" describes how a down-and-out farmer is lured into piracy in the modern era.
94	* ProtestSong: Parodied with "Carrot Juice is Murder".
95	* RageBreakingPoint: The Mountie from "The Mountie Song" is faced with a barrage of questions from a crowd of tourists, starting with the [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore hackneyed]] ("Hey, Mountie, where's your man? Haven't you got him yet?") and proceeding to become so inane ("What's your shoe size? What does your cat look like? Why don't you drive a little car like the Shriners?") that he ''screams'' in anguish.
96	* RapIsCrap: Mentioned in the song "My Voice is Changing":
97	-->''Pretty soon I bet I'll be right into heavy metal,\
98	but my parents say "At least it isn't rap"''
99	* RousingLullaby: "Go to Sleep Little Leech" is all about how [[ChildrenAreAWaste the child being sung to is a maddening, parasitic burden. The second verse is even about how happy Mike's dad was to be able to kick him out of the house.
100	* SelfDemonstratingSong: The aforementioned "Song Inside My Head".
101	* SelfDeprecation: Often in their live acts, but the song "Steel-Drivin' Man" is notable because even in the album version the title character -- a lazy, alcoholic railroad worker who never actually works and only keeps his job because he works for his father -- is named "Mike [=McCormick=]," and performed by singer ... Mike [=McCormick=]. With the aforementioned father performed by Mike's real-life father.
102	* SelfTitledAlbum: Their first album.
103	* SquashedFlat: "Tokyo Love Song":
104	--> Her death was unintentional, but now she's two-dimensional. My angel is truly in Heaven.
105	* TakeThat:
106	** On their live DVD, ''Semi-Conducted'', a performance of "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" with full symphony back-up concludes with Mike saying, "Let's see Captain Tractor cover that!" ... referring to the cover version that is now (arguably) more well-known than the original.
107	** "Mounted Animal Nature Trail" includes the lyric "It's not like [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks other theme parks]], the mice won't say hello..." which is followed by a falsetto impersonation of Mickey Mouse saying "Hi! Give me all your money!"
108	* TitleConfusion: Some people think that "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" is called "Pirates of the Saskatchewan." Despite the [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean obvious pun]], this is not the case.
109	* YourMimeMakesItReal: The narrator of "Mime Abduction" escapes by pouring pretend marbles out on the floor and making himself a door.

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