Line #3 YMMV/BowlingForSoup


1	* CoveredUp:
2	** Raise your hand if you thought "1985" was originally by them. It was actually written by SR-71.
3	** "Stacy's Mom" managed to be a case of this ''before they covered it''. (As in, [[MisattributedSong everyone thought they did it]] when it was really Music/FountainsOfWayne.)
4	** For everyone who grew up in the 2000s who don't know about the original, "I Melt With You" by Modern English.
5	* PeripheryDemographic: Despite many of their songs covering very adult content, they have a lot of teenaged fans, due to them having done their cover of "I Melt with You" for ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', which many of those teenagers grew up with, and because they did the theme song for ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', which has a PeripheryDemographic of its own. Lampshaded in "Friends Chicks Guitars."
6	-->''We've been in this band''\
7	''longer than most of our fans have been...''
8	* RefrainFromAssuming:
9	** ''Our Hometown'' is what shows up in the lyrics, ''My Hometown'' is the song name.
10	** It's called "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)," not just "Come Back to Texas."
11	* SignatureSong: "1985" or "High School Never Ends". "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" is also one of their more popular songs, being their first song to really hit big.
12	** "[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Today is Gonna Be A Great Day]]" for their younger fans.
13	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
14	** "1985" is about scoffing at a woman who has yet to catch up to culture of TheNineties. To illustrate how out of touch she it, the singer notes that she's no Music/LimpBizkit fan, a band whose popularity did not survive long past the TurnOfTheMillennium.
15	*** There are now several different remakes that change the song to "2005" parodying people in their late 20s to early 30s who grew up listening to Bowling For Soup and their contemporaries.
16	** "High School Never Ends" falls into this as well. Referencing early 2000's celebrity stories like Creator/TomCruise's marriage to Creator/KatieHolmes, [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Mary Kate Olsen's]] weight loss, and so on. Several of these use just their ''first'' names ("How did Mary Kate lose all that weight / And Katie had a baby, so I guess Tom's straight"), which makes it more confusing for those who didn't grow up during those celebrities' heyday.
17	* {{Wangst}}: Mocked quite spectacularly in "Self-Centered".
18	-->''I'm gonna feel sorry for myself/I want to blame it on everyone else/I want to be self-centered/and make everybody feel sorry for me''
19	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The band did the theme song for ''Phineas and Ferb'' (and lead singer Jaret Reddick even voices a character on the show), and also did songs for lots of kids movies, so they must be kid-friendly, right? Well, not really. Though they did {{Bowdlerize}} some of their songs for Radio Disney airplay, the unedited versions of the songs aren't really kid-friendly (the unedited version of "High School Never Ends" for example mentions sex and drugs in the chorus alone), and that applies to their albums in general, lots of songs about sex, drinking, and profanity.

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