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1%% * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2%% ** "All Star", of course.
3%% ** Their first hit, "Walkin' on the Sun", does not get nearly enough love.
4%% ** Their cover of Music/TheMonkees' (originally, Neil Diamond's) "I'm A Believer".
5* HilariousInHindsight: ''Magic'', made in 2012, has a song called "Music/JustinBieber" themed around the band's seeming irrelevance, comparing them to other dead fads like high-top sneakers. Released at the height of [[HypeBacklash the anti-Bieber hysteria]], it started with "[[AnyoneRememberPogs Whatever happened to Justin Bieber?]]/Was he all bad or was he left behind?" While Bieber went through an AudienceAlienatingEra thanks to his erratic behavior and the rise of Music/OneDirection taking a big chunk of his core fanbase, he would undergo a CareerResurrection in 2015 and has maintained a presence on the charts ever since.
6* HarsherInHindsight: Following Steve Harwell's death in 2023, some of their earlier material contains lyrics that are rather tragic in hindsight.
7** "Let's Rock" is probably the most notable, featuring this verse:
8-->''Lately I've been thinkin' about my vices \
9And about the prices, that I'll later have to pay\
10I've been thinkin' about myself \
11And about my health \
12Then I'll say, "What the hell?"''
13** The aforementioned "Justin Bieber" has two:
14*** As part of the general theme of "dead or dying fads", the lyrics take a potshot at ''Series/{{Glee}}'' for "covering everything except a song of mine". Creator/CoryMonteith, the actor who played Finn on the show, would die of an overdose the next year, and [[Main/TheProductionCurse since the finale aired several stars of the show had either died or had their careers ruined]] [[note]]Puck's actor Mark Salling hung himself after being found with "the worst collection of child pornography the nation had ever seen", Creator/LeaMichele who played Rachel was accused of being a racist bully, Santana's actor Creator/NayaRivera accidentally drowned, and Creator/BlakeJenner who played Ryder Lynn was accused of domestic violence[[/note]] Nowadays, it would seem weird for them to just complain about THAT.
15*** The chorus goes "Oh, oh, where did everybody go?/In another ten years or so, when it's after the show/Would you buy another ticket, or just let me go?" Nine years after the album, Steve Harwell left the band to deal with his alcoholism, and two years after that he died of liver failure.
16* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Fan reactions to ''Astro Lounge'' after it became a mainstream hit.
17* MemeticMutation:
18** "All Star" has become well known among ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'''s parodic "Brogre" fandom.
19*** [[LyricalColdOpen Some]]
20*** [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 BODY]] once told me the world is gonna roll me... [[labelnote:Explanation]]The opening lines to the song, usually accompanied by someone slamming a door open in reference to the opening scene of ''Shrek''. The above format where "Some" is isolated is popular when quoting the opening in posts.[[/labelnote]]
21*** [[Creator/NeilCicierega people]] [[Music/SteveMillerBand call]] [[Creator/WillSmith me]] [[Film/WildWildWest the]] [[Music/{{Jamiroquai}} Space]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPhXKak_bHw Cowboy...]][[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFX3V1qVWeo Here's a kinetic typography set to the song.]][[/note]]
22*** And then taken up to eleven when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey5GItze-BY one of the memes]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vms3LvONyWM became]]'' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mjweL7fdc a meme]]!!''
23*** "Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming [[OverlyLongGag and they don't stop coming]]..." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Extending the above lyric of "All Star" so the section that says "and they don't stop coming" [[BrokenRecord never stops coming]]. One of the most-viewed examples lasts for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K4oym9Pw48 10 hours]]''.[[/labelnote]]
24** Bread puns are especially common thanks to the Taste of Fort Collins incident.
25** Steve Harwell is occasionally noted for his resemblance to Guy Fieri and to Violent J of Music/InsaneClownPosse.
26** Smash Mouth's [[http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2018/05/smash-mouth-picks-a-fight-with-dj-khaled-because-he-refuses-to-give-his-partner-oral-sex.html twitter feud with DJ Khaled]] has in the eyes of the internet, freed Smash Mouth from being "The Shrek Band". Now they're the band that advocates eating out your girlfriend.
27*** "Is ''that'' what [[DoubleEntendre Smash Mouth]] means?"
28** @smashmouth eat the eggs[[labelnote:Explanation]]A viral joke campaign by the Something Awful userbase to get Steve Harwell to eat a bowl of raw eggs in public. The persistence of the campaign resulted in Harwell becoming jokingly tied with eggs online, culminating in him making good on its demands by actually eating a bowlful of eggs under Guy Fieri's supervision.[[/labelnote]]
29* OlderThanTheyThink: "All Star" was originally a successful hit for the group in 1999, but was widely forgotten until 2001. Also, while it ''was'' originally released to promote a movie, the film in question was not ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', but the less well-known CultClassic ''Film/MysteryMen'' (which the song's music video was a tie-in for, even featuring the film's actors).
30* SignatureSong:
31** "All Star" obviously counts as this due to being their highest-charting hit on the ''Billboard Hot 100'' at #4, and being featured in a wildly successful [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 children's animated movie]] which certainly helped it garner MemeticMutation. Kids of TheNewTens are most likely to only know the band because of the memes that song spawned.
32** Before "All Star", their hit "Walkin' on the Sun" was their most successful one.
33* SongAssociation: Try not to talk about the band without thinking about ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''.
34* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Greg Camp, wanting to write a surefire hit, modeled "All Star" on "One Week" by Music/BarenakedLadies.

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