Line #174 Music/TimMinchin


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3	->''"And fine, if you wish to glorify Krishna and Vishnu in a post-colonial, condescending bottled-up and labeled kind of way... then whatever, that’s okay, but! Here’s what gives me a hard-on: I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant lump of carbon. I have one life, and it is short, and unimportant...but thanks to recent scientific advances, I get to live ''twice as long'' as my great-great-great-great uncleses and auntses!"''
4	-->-- "Storm"
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6	Timothy David Minchin [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever AM]] (born 7 October 1975 in Northampton, England) is a flame-haired Australian pianist who once wrote an album full of silly songs to get them out of his system. When he discovered that the public loved them more than his more serious work, he became a comedian, and proceeded to become quite famous both in Australia and in the UK. He's known for his BlackHumor and for his spot-on criticisms of both the religious right and the new age left.
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8	Several of his songs have official videos, including "The Pope Song" and "Storm", the latter of which has been adapted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U into an animated short]]. He also famously serenaded Creator/JonathanRoss's wife.
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10	He hosted one episode of ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks'' and has now won an Olivier Award for writing the score to the hit musical ''Theatre/{{Matilda}}''. He has also been nominated for Tony Awards for his work on ''Matilda'' and ''Theatre/GroundhogDay''. His latest work involves writing [[MovieBonusSong a new song]] for the 2022 [[Film/RoaldDahlsMatildaTheMusical film adaptation]] of his ''Matilda'' musical.
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12	Not to be confused with [[Music/DavidBowie Tin Machine]].
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14	Has his own [[https://www.youtube.com/user/timminchin YouTube channel]].
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16	!!Tropes embodied in his work include:
17	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Tim is probably one of the few people who could sing a song to Creator/JonathanRoss about how he wants to bang Ross's wife and make Ross laugh his head off about it.
18	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: ''Five Poofs and Two Pianos'':
19	-->"Why settle for a quartet of queers when there's a possibility of a penta-poofter piano posse here?"
20	* AndADietCoke: ''Fat Children''
21	-->Ordering a Diet Coke is not the way back,\
22	Bumb-a-larda kiddie-stuffer your kids are fat have you noticed that?
23	* AnswerSong: ''Song for Phil Daoust'', a response to a [[CausticCritic scathing newspaper review]].
24	* AntiLoveSong:
25	** ''You Grew on Me'' is a love song, despite comparing love to a malignant cancer.
26	** ''If I Didn't Have You'' is "I do love you, but I'm not going to pretend you're the only person I could ever love".
27	--->If I didn't have you someone else would do.
28	*** Which would make it a song in favour of realistic love...?
29	* TheAntiNihilist: Several of his works, like ''Storm''. Better seen in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEezZD71sc address]] for a graduation ceremony in The University of Western Australia.
30	-->There is only one sensible thing to do with this empty existence, and that is: fill it.
31	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
32	** The Pope Song levels many accusations against {{pedophile priest}}s and those who cover for them. The very last of which, on the very last line of the song, is that they wear stupid hats.
33	** In Cont[[spoiler:ext]], Tim discusses his hatred of, amongst other things, [[spoiler:racist]] Africans, Japanese [[spoiler:homophobes]], the disabled [[spoiler:rapists]] and Burmese [[spoiler:cats]].
34	** "Song for Phil Daoust" includes several embittered lyrics towards the journalist which get more and more caustic as the song continues. As everything builds to a climax, the final departing verse of the song calls the journalist a "poo-face".
35	** "5 Poofs and 2 Pianos":
36	--->And all those angry letter writers,\
37	Like Disgusted from the Isle of Wight, and\
38	Mad from Hull, and Outraged from Leeds,\
39	And Slightly Annoyed from Berwick-on-Tweed...
40	* AssociationFallacy:
41	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU WoodyAllenJesus]] is built on this trope. PlayedForLaughs, naturally.
42	** Likewise, his stand-up skit about assuming that all ice-cream van operators are paedophiles.
43	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74SQ6w6LdU0 Thank You God]] touches on this.
44	* AstronomicZoom: ''Not Perfect''. "This is my Earth ... This is my house ... this is my body ... this is my brain"
45	* AudienceParticipation: He often talks to members of the audience during performances.
46	* AudienceParticipationSong:
47	** ''Canvas Bags'' and ''Peace Anthem For Palestine''. Although in ''Peace Anthem'' he has a habit of setting up obvious jumping in points for the audience before cutting them off with more piano solo.
48	** Lampshaded and subverted in both ''Hello'' and ''I Love Jesus''.
49	** Averted in one of the versions of ''Dark Side'' when he tells the clapping audience to shut up. The fact they were off-tempo may have had something to do with it.
50	* AuthorTract: Of the good kind in ''Storm'', in which Tim makes a passionate argument for rationalism.
51	* BaitAndSwitch: "Prejudice", a song about a nasty word that has caused no end of damage and hurt to people, spelled with "a couple of Gs, an R and an E, an I and an N". It is, of course, [[spoiler:[[RedheadsAreUncool "ginger"]]]].
52	* BeamMeUpScotty: {{Invoked\|Trope}}
53	-->If you're so into [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]], lend me your ear:\
54	To gild refined gold... to paint the lily...\
55	to throw perfume on the violet... ''is just fucking silly.''
56	* BitingTheHandHumor: The entirety of ''Three Minute Song'' is basically about Tim mocking the BBC (or whatever network he's performing it on) and their restrictions.
57	* BlackComedy: ''Lullaby'' which is an, um, [[ShapedLikeItself lullaby]] about getting a baby to sleep. It starts out pretty sweetly, and ends with a line explaining that how much you love your child is directly proportionate to how dead it looks.
58	-->What more can I do to put a stop to\
59	this mind-numbing noise you are making?\
60	Where is the line between patting and hitting?\
61	When is rocking "rocking" and when is it "shaking"?\
62	I don't know what else I can do to try to hush you.\
63	My heart says "I love you", but my brain's thinking "fuck you."\
64	And hoping a child trafficker will abduct you.\
65	At least then I'll get a few hours in bed.
66	* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
67	** ''If You Really Loved Me'' gets more bizarre and fetishistic as it goes along. It starts with somewhat beautiful metaphors for love that just get more and more depraved and vulgar as the song continues:
68	-->Because I need you, like a fish needs a sea.\
69	Like a fire needs oxygen, like a flower needs a bee.\
70	And if you really cared for me...\
71	you'd let me video you while you wee\
72	standing up in the bath.\
73	I shouldn't even have to ask,\
74	perhaps you'd even store a little more in a flask.\
75	These are just the things that people do\
76	when their love for one another is true.
77	** ''Angry (Feet)'' gets weirder and more psychotic, until the narrator finally admits to cutting his psychotherapist's feet off and [[GrievousHarmWithABody kicking him in the head with them]].
78	** In ''Cont'', he expresses hatred to the rich and poor [[spoiler: who use wealth/poverty as an excuse for bigotry]], bitches [[spoiler:who get rabies and try to bite babies]] and whores [[spoiler:who don't accept Visa]].
79	* BrickJoke:
80	** In the second verse of "Rock 'n' Roll Nerd", he mentions guitar kids learning Stairway To Heaven. The outro quotes the song.
81	** In "Three Minute Song": "Yeah, I got people. And a phone. And a sense of the passage of time." The whole joke of of the song is being performed on talk shows and lasting for three minutes, because if he goes over people watching the talk show will get bored.
82	* BrownNote: "F Sharp" may very well be the real deal. Try listening to it and ''not'' cringing.
83	* CampStraight: Tim wears heavy eye makeup and fancy, frilly clothes as part of his stage persona. Minchin has even said it's not as an act of [[{{Transvestite}} transvestism]], but simply because it helps him [[ChewingTheScenery exaggerate his expressions and movements]] (which is otherwise difficult when your hands and feet are occupied the playing piano).
84	* ChewingTheScenery: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQmJ_vxHB4&feature=related Dark Side]]. Every Part of it. But the ReVeal ([[spoiler:Daddy never came to my ball games...]]) takes the cake.
85	* ClusterFBomb: 86 times in ''The Pope Song''. You may as well call it ClusterFBomb: The Song.
86	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: "Happy Little Africuns":
87	-->Millions of kids in starving nations\
88	Living their life with no Playstations\
89	AIDS and war, no vaccinations\
90	Living their life with no Playstations
91	* CountryMatters: The bridge of "Three Minute Song" is: "For China is a country that can bring me to my knees!" sung on a loop until the words sound like something else entirely.
92	* CowardiceCallout: "Come Home (Cardinal Pell)" places some verbal emphasis on calling the main character, supposedly too ill to testify against child sex abuse but also implicitly complicit in hypocritically covering up such abuse; a coward.
93	* CureYourGays: Referenced and inverted in ''Five Poofs And Two Pianos''.
94	* UsefulNotes/ChristmasInAustralia: Basically the subject of ''White Wine in the Sun''.
95	* DarkerAndEdgier: Parodied in ''Dark Side'', and to a lesser extent ''Rock And Roll Nerd''.
96	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: He's fond of this when introducing his songs.
97	-->This is a song about prejudice, and the language of prejudice, and the power of the language of prejudice. It's called... ''Prejudice''.
98	-->This is a poem about anger. It's called ''Angry'' (or, in brackets, ''Feet'').
99	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: "Storm" has such a moment when he indulges the titular character with an argument over spiritualism, as his wife and friends urge him to back down for the sake of harmony, but Tim's had a few wines and decided "in for a penny, in for a pound".
100	* DoubleSubversion: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRKbfs1jOc At The Hairdressers]] joke.
101	* DramaticWind: Tim even uses a fan he brings on to pull it off during "Canvas Bags".
102	* GettingTheBabyToSleep: "Lullaby" is a song sung by parent who is getting more and more desperate as their crying child won't go to sleep.
103	--> ''I don't know what else I can do to try to hush you''\
104	''My heart says "I love you", but my brain's thinking "[[PrecisionFStrike fuck you]]"''\
105	''And hoping a child trafficker will abduct you''\
106	''At least then I'll get a few hours in bed''
107	* GranolaGirl: Storm is a very on the nose example.
108	* GreenAesop: "Canvas Bags" advocates carrying your shopping in reusable canvas bags instead of plastic ones.
109	* GriefSong: The aptly titled ''The Grief Song'', also known as ''Fuck The Poor''.
110	* {{Guyliner}}: Because his performance doesn't allow him to gesture, he uses Guyliner to make his facial expressions easier to read from the audience. [[YourMakeupIsRunning His makeup starts running]] (because he had been sweating under hot lights for two hours) during the Royal Albert Hall show while performing "Dark Side".
111	* HoYay: [[invoked]]
112	** "Adam Hillsong," made especially hilarious by the fact that you can see the exact moment when the subject (victim?) of the song realizes what the "apple" euphemism is.
113	** Also in ''Five Poofs and Two Pianos'', where he considers being gay to be part of the "Four Poofs and a Piano" band.
114	* HollywoodTourettes: ''Angry (Feet)'', the funniest being the involuntary [[StealthPun quacks]] whenever he mentions his doctor.
115	* HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: He composed an unusually clean, three-minute long song for pre-{{watershed}} TV appearances which is all about the reasons he needs to write a clean three-minute song.
116	* HurricaneOfPuns: "Prejudice" is filled with puns regarding its subject matter: [[spoiler:gingers and red hair]].
117	* HypocriticalHumor:
118	** Referred to in ''Website/YouTube Lament''.
119	** In ''If You Really Loved Me'':
120	--->We go together\
121	Like a cracker and Brie\
122	Like racism and ignorance\
123	Like niggers and R&B
124	** Interestingly, he'd later lament using the joke because, even with the obvious HypocriticalHumor stratagem, the power of the slur is such that [[NWordPrivileges he still shouldn't have used it.]] In subsequent performances it's changed to "bling and R&B".
125	** ''Nothing ruins comedy like arenas'', written to serve as part of the opening song to Tim's first arena tour.
126	** ''Song for Phil Daoust'' is about Tim's efforts to overcome criticism and be mature in the face of negative feedback... but he still thinks Phil is a fucking poo-face who deserves to have big chunks of flesh cut out of his face and be forcefed them while his children watch.
127	** "Confessions" opens with Tim epathising with the struggles of womankind, only to suddenly start singing about how much he loves boobs.
128	* ImpracticalMusicalInstrumentSkills:
129	** Tim has demonstrated on more than one occasion the ability to play certain notes with his feet while he is in the middle of playing. Often the alternative would be stretching across the piano uncomfortably, or stop playing altogether to reach the note. Impressively he's not only capable of timing the foot note, but also play it in correct key as well. Musically inclined toes!
130	** If you listen to "Ready For This", the ENTIRE song is pretty much performed by him creating different effects with his MOUTH and then adding SFX to them (ie giving the "guitar" some distortion or rounding out the "kick drum" a bit so it sounds like a kick drum).
131	* InTheStyleOf: "Dark Side" includes a great Music/PearlJam imitation, {{lampshaded}} by inserting a few bars of "Jeremy" into the middle of it.
132	* ItMakesSenseInContext: Pretty much the entire point of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryBHYCgw6rw&fe Cont]].
133	* LastSecondWordSwap: In ''Not Perfect'';
134	-->And the weirdest thing about a mind,\
135	Is that every answer that you find\
136	Is the basis of a brand new... [[SelfDeprecation cliché]].
137	* ListSong:
138	** ''The Fence'', a song on how the world [[BlueAndOrangeMorality isn't always black and white]], briefly plays this trope for one of the choruses:
139	--->We divide the world\
140	into terrorists and heroes.\
141	Into normal folk and weirdos.\
142	Into good people and paedos.\
143	Into the things that give you cancer.\
144	And the things that cure cancer.\
145	[[LongList And the things that don't cause cancer, but there's a chance that they'll cause cancer in the future.]]
146	** There's also ''Website/YouTube Lament'', which lists all the techniques Tim ever uses in his songs, [[spoiler: concluding that none of them will ever get as many hits as Kitten Waking Up]].
147	** ''If You Open Your Mind Too Much, Your Brain Will Fall Out'' is essentially this, with the list items (all pertaining to pseudoscience and religion and [[UsefulNotes/TheScientificMethod Reasonable Experimental Conditions]]) getting [[SerialEscalation longer and longer.]]
148	---> If anyone can show me in the history of the world / Of a single person who's been able to prove either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race ''[breath]'' with the ability to punish or reward people for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an af-ter-life... ''[plays the same few notes he's played at the end of all the shorter lines.]''
149	* LyricalDissonance: Quite a lot, given that he's a decent pianist with a dark sense of humour. "You Grew On Me" is something of a DoubleSubversion, since the gorgeous music suits the underlying sentiment perfectly well, it's just the [[DiggingYourselfDeeper comparison of love to terminal illnesses]] that breaks the spell a little. Unless, of course, one is familiar with the Australian slang term [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moll_%28slang%29 moll]].
150	* MoodWhiplash: ''Dark Side'' is a blatantly lampshaded example, but there are others. ''Confessions'' is another... he sings about different issues, only to then cut to him singing about boobs.
151	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Done deliberately in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvnYIxv_364 Canvas Bags]]''. Played with in ''The Good Book'', as he introduces it with "This next song requires a boot".[[note]] He performs barefoot on stage, so the idea of him wearing shoes, especially for this song, counts.[[/note]]
152	* MundaneUtility: Tim using a 60-piece orchestra for background music.
153	* NewAgeRetroHippie: Storm from, well, ''Storm'' is a fan of alternative medicine and new age culture. Tim's initial assumptions about her prove to be quite accurate.
154	-->"I admit I'm a little bit wary/ because I notice the tip of the wing of a fairy/ Tattooed on that popular area/ Just above the derrière/ And when she says “I'm Sagittarian”/ I confess a pigeonhole starts to form/ And is immediately filled with pigeons/ When she says her name is Storm."
155	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU Woody Allen Jesus]]'':
156	--> Praise be to magic Woody Allen zombie Superman komodo-dragon telepathic vampire quantum hovercraft - ''me'' - Jesus!
157	* NWordPrivileges: In ''Prejudice'' he mentions a word that contains a couple of Gs, an R and an E, an I and an N, which is only acceptable to be used by those it applies to.[[note]][[SubvertedTrope Turns out it's "ginger".]][[/note]]
158	* OdeToApathy: His song ''the fence'' is an "anthem to ambivalence" about how people tend to divide the world into a binary of [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good and bad,]] but it's not that simple and it's okay not to know all the answers.
159	* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: "Thank You God" begins with a little speech about how Tim doesn't write songs mocking religious belief anymore, after an encounter he had with a Christian guy in Australia called Sam, who questioned whether Tim really only believed things that he had evidence for. When Tim confirmed that this was so, Sam told him of his own mum, an evangelical Christian who was diagnosed with a progressive degenerative eye disorder, but who didn't believe in medical science and worried that she'd go blind; then, after she, Sam and their entire congregation had prayed to God for a cure, she'd gone back to the ophthalmologist and found out that her eye disorder had gone as if had never been. Tim then launches into a solemn gospel number, "Thank You God", ("Please forgive me all those things I said / I'll no longer betray you, Lord / I will pray to you instead")...which abruptly turns into a jaunty little samba with the refrain "Thank you God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum."
160	--> Thank you, Sam, for showing how my point of view has been so flawed\
161	I assumed there was no God at all but now I see that's cynical\
162	It's simply that his interests aren't particularly broad\
163	He's largely undiverted by the starving masses, \
164	Or the inequality between the various classes\
165	He gives out strictly limited passes, \
166	Redeemable for surgery or two-for-one glasses
167	* PrecisionFStrike:
168	** In ''The Song For Phil Daoust'': Tim manages to avoid swearing in his dressing down of his CausticCritic, until about two minutes into the song when his anger can be held back no more:
169	---> I just want to say, Phil Daoust,\
170	I know it must be really hard to be a 'journaloust'\
171	What with deadlines always looming\
172	And the pressure to be entertaining,\
173	So maybe you should quit and get a job that you'd be better at,\
174	Like ''killing yourself, you fucking cunt.''
175	** An epic one (even for Tim) in 'Thank You God'
176	---> So in a bit of a change of his usual stunt,\
177	Of being a sexist, racist, murderous cunt...
178	* {{Pun}}: In ''Cheese'', when Tim laments giving up cheese:
179	-->I cannot '''''camembert''''' it anymore!\
180	'''''Edam''''' you mon amour!
181	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: He seldom wears shoes during his performances; he says he feels he is not a natural performer, and avoids wearing shoes to make himself more comfortable onstage...so he can forget that he's actually onstage.
182	* RadioFriendliness: TV-friendliness, at least, is discussed in ''The Three Minute Song''.
183	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Come Home (Cardinal Pell)" is a rant against said Cardinal for refusing to return to Australia to testify about sex abuse. He calls him "a coward" twice, says God has a spot in hell for him as well as asking if he actively tried to "keep it buried". It concludes:
184	--> Oh! Well! Cardinal Pell,\
185	if you don't feel compelled\
186	to come home by a sense of moral duty...\
187	Perhaps you will come home and [[BringIt frickin' sue me.]]
188	** "Storm" a 9 minute rant about how ignorant a newager is also qualifies.
189	* ReligionRantSong: ''Thank You God'', ''The Good Book'', ''The Pope Song''...
190	* RuleOfThree: Three movements in ''Confessions''.
191	* RunningTimeInTheTitle: "Three Minute Song" lasts ''exactly'' three minutes.
192	* SelfDeprecation:
193	** ''Rock And Roll Nerd''.
194	** ''The Song For Phil Daoust'', which is as much about Tim's childish inability to get over Daoust's review as it is Daoust himself.
195	* ShamedByAMob: "15 Minutes" [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this mentality, in turn modern "callout culture" at large, depicting it as encouraging [[DisproportionateRetribution excessively damning]] [[WitchHunt Witch Hunts]] that makes everyone on any side a potential future target.
196	-->[[TorchesAndPitchforks Pick up your pitchfork and your torch]]\
197	[[{{Demonization}} We'll go hunt the monster down]]\
198	But keep an eye out for uneven ground\
199	[[WithUsOrAgainstUs We’ll turn on you if you stumble]]\
200	[[LackOfEmpathy Don't need perspective or a heart]]\
201	[[LackOfEmpathy Leave humility at home]]\
202	Welcome to the glasshouse, hope you brought your stones\
203	Are you ready to rumble?
204	* ShapedLikeItself: In ''The Good Book'', he describes Literature/TheBible thus:
205	-->If I wanna know how to be good\
206	it's to the good book that I go.\
207	'Cause the good book is a book\
208	and it is good and it's a book.
209	* ShoutOut:
210	** After a lengthy and incredibly complex piano solo in "Dark Side", the music gradually slows until just two notes are playing for a brief period. This is shortly followed by the opening to "Beethoven's Für Elise" - which Tim may have used to suggest the pseudo-seriousness for the song.
211	** The Coda of "Inflatable You" includes the repeating lyric "Don't let me down" - a nod to The Beatles song of the same name.
212	** "Teenage Years" involves the concept of 'reaching Nirvana' and drinking the 'Teen Spirit', Bundaburg Rum. 'Smells like Teen Spirit' was a song created by Grunge '90's group, Nirvana.
213	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmnxF_WTOgg&feature=related Confessions]] ends with a homage to "I Will Always Love You".
214	** "If I Didn't Have You" includes a verse about Tim's romantic prospects had he been more wealthy, which quotes from "If I Were A Rich Man" from ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof''.
215	** The orchestral performances of "Rock & Roll Nerd" end with an over-the-top playing of the end riff from "[[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway To Heaven]]", which he references earlier in the song in an extensive band list:
216	--->He's never really been part of the scene\
217	Give him Music/GunsNRoses, he'll take Music/{{Queen}}\
218	He's more into [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] than [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand The Stones]]\
219	He's more Music/StevieWonder than [[Music/TheRamones Ramones]]\
220	And he's never owned a panel van\
221	He's never shot a Music/{{Pantera}} fan\
222	He doesn't know the difference between [[HeavyMetal metal]] and [[ThrashMetal thrash]]\
223	He couldn't tell you nothing about [[Music/GunsNRoses Axel and Slash]]\
224	He likes Music/BenFolds and the [[Music/TheJacksonFive Jackson Five]]\
225	He knows all the words to "[[Music/TheBeeGees Stayin' Alive]]"
226	* SillyLoveSongs
227	* SincerityMode: ''White Wine In The Sun''.
228	* SpoofAesop: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEGLbCNRqw "Confessions"]]: We shouldn't objectify women, but fuck he loves boobs.
229	* StealthPun: Used in ''Inflatable You''.
230	-->Now birth control is not an issue\
231	I clean it all off with a...
232	* StylisticSuck: Fairly often, whether in terms of [[PainfulRhyme lyrics]], [[HollywoodToneDeaf singing]], or [[BrownNote piano]].
233	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: His Atticus Fetch character from ''Series/{{Californication}}'' looks and acts very similar to [[Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall Aldous]] [[Film/GetHimToTheGreek Snow]]. Supposendly this was to cash in on Russell Brand's stardom at the time, but Tim's later filmography diverged into his own unique style.
234	* TakeThat:
235	** Mostly against religion or superstition, but without much in the way of political prejudice — he goes against the New Agey left as hard in ''Storm'' as he goes against the traditionally theistic right in ''The Good Book''.
236	** ''Song for Wossy'' is a TakeThat to the complainants who got Creator/JonathanRoss suspended by the BBC, or specifically those who insisted that Ross would be traumatised if anyone dared to target him with the kind of joke that he was suspended over. Watched from this perspective, you can see that point that Wossy works it out.
237	** The end of "Confessions" features a variation of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You", except for the version on Tim's Ready For This album which had to be removed for copyright reasons. Tim uses the silence to add some perfectly timed commentary slamming the copyright.
238	--->Hi, sorry - Tim here. So I had a bit of a copyright problem with this bit, see as where usually I avoid musical parody as a matter of principle preferring to keep my work as original as possible, I every now and then quote a more well-known popular song within one of my own less-popular works. In this case it was the song "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton, who, it might surprise you to learn I consider her one of the best songwriters of her generation; seems like a bit of a dumb end to my breasticular anthem, but what I did right, is I replaced the word 'you', right, with the word 'boobs', right - it was fucking incredible and copyright lawyers are fucking dicks.
239	* ThirdPersonPerson: ''Rock And Roll Nerd'' - "But he doesn't want to seem self-obsessed, so he writes in third-person."
240	* TragicDream: Slightly PlayedForLaughs in "Rock and Roll Nerd", in that the narrator ([[ThirdPersonPerson really]] [[SelfDeprecation Tim himself]]) aspired to be a [[TheRockStar rock star]]. The caveat? His life is too [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy normal.]]
241	-->But you see the problem is, there's not much depth in what he's singing\
242	He's a victim of his upper middle class upbringing\
243	So he can't write about the hood, or bling bling\
244	So he sits [[CrossesTheLineTwice and imagines his girlfriend is dead]]\
245	To try and invoke some angst in his middle class head\
246	[[TrueLoveIsBoring But the bitch is always fine at half past nine when they go to bed]]\
247	And he's not spent a single night in prison, he has no issues with nutrition\
248	He has no drinking problem, and no drug addiction\
249	Unless you count the drugs they put in chicken\
250	And marijuana always tends to make him cough, he doesn't look good with his t-shirt off\
251	And when he tries to act tough, you can tell he's tricking
252	* TruckDriversGearChange: There's one in "Three Minute Song", because otherwise Tim would get bored.
253	* UncannyValleyMakeup: Granted, only because the bar for men is set ''very'' low, but still, it's strange to see a man, much less a straight one, wearing non-black eyeliner - especially without obvious foundation.

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