* {{Anvilicious}}: Three guesses as to what ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Anti-Bush Game]]'' is about. The game even contains several {{Author Filibuster}}s where the action stops to explain why Bush and his policies suck.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Pretty much the foundation of half the games' humor.
** Steven Tyler raping a bunch of emo kids? [[{{Squick}} Gross.]] Steven Tyler getting [[spoiler:skull-fucked to death]] by Chris Carrabba in retaliation? BloodyHilarious. Chris Carrabba [[spoiler:marrying Steven Tyler's severed head, which still has his dick running through it?]] Yeah, that belongs under this category. And that's just the first game. In the second, you fight Steven's possessed severed head, and one of his attacks is to ''[[spoiler:pour the cum that is still resting in his gouged-out eye socket onto your head]]''.
** Before you face them, Scott Stapp admits that Music/{{Creed|band}} was formed from the shit of [[Music/PearlJam Eddie Vedder]]. Then he elaborates that he and his bandmates have held onto that shit and used it to make an attack helicopter. The player character even has a WhoWritesThisCrap reaction to this revelation.
** Four words: Mandy Moore [[HotCoffeeMinigame finger bang]].
** About half the options available to you in the first game's MTV News segment. Among other things, you can shoot Tabitha Soren, eat [[Series/TheTomGreenShow Tom Green]]'s cancer-ridden testicle, and have sex with Matt Pinfield.
** [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]] [[BestialityIsDepraved raping a donkey]]. And in the sequel, [[SequelEscalation he does it with]] Music/PuddleOfMudd [[RefugeInAudacity to form a man-train]].
* HarsherInHindsight: The first game's villain [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]] is depicted as a depraved rapist. In 2022, Tyler was [[https://ew.com/music/steven-tyler-accused-child-sexual-abuse-lawsuit/ sued]] by Julia Misley, who claimed that he groomed and sexually assaulted her in TheSeventies when she was underage, coerced her into getting an abortion, and convinced her mother to sign over guardianship rights to him.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The plot of the first game involves protecting the world of emo from the forces of commercialism. Emo went on to become one of the defining trends in rock music for much of the TurnOfTheMillennium, such that the third game was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen apparently]] going to make the growing mainstream popularity of emo a major part of the plot.
** ''The Anti-Bush Game'' features then-North Carolina Senator (and John Kerry's 2004 running mate) John Edwards as a playable character, portraying him as a [[WorkingClassHero populist crusader for economic justice]]. Four years later, Edwards was revealed to have been carrying on an extramarital affair that ultimately produced a baby, destroying his career and his marriage.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Playing these games is like stepping back in time to 2002-04, what with all the pop culture references, '80s kid show nostalgia, Music/{{emo}} treading the line between "underground" and "mainstream", Music/MandyMoore being an underage TeenIdol (she has since had a CareerResurrection as an actress and singer with an image far removed from her early days), and Creator/{{MTV}} [[NetworkDecay still, at the very least, basing its reputation around music videos]].
** ''The Anti-Bush Game'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name suggests]], is a political agitprop piece that's firmly dated to 2004 by its references to the impending Presidential election and endorsement of John Kerry in that election, as well as controversies and issues from the early '00s like [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the war in Iraq]], Bush's tax cuts, Music/JanetJackson's WardrobeMalfunction, stem cell research, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Enron scandal]], health care reform, same-sex marriage, and the power of [[MoralGuardians the Christian Right]]. Notably, it doesn't contain any reference to controversies from Bush's ''second'' term in office, such as Hurricane Katrina, the housing bubble, or the onset of the Great Recession, due to the fact that none of these had happened yet. The fact that John Edwards, Kerry's running mate in 2004, appears in the game as a populist crusader for economic justice also rings HilariousInHindsight given how Edwards' career imploded in a sex scandal a few years later.
** The fact that the third game had become one of these to the mid-'00s, [[{{Vaporware}} before it had been released and after that period of time had passed]], ultimately led Jason Oda to cancel it.
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