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  • The end of the "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" music video. How does Pete Wentz respond to seeing his GF (played by Kim Kardashian, no less) getting kissed by the crazy-ass chimpanzee director? Trash the whole set.
    • Even funnier is if you pay attention to the other guys. You briefly see Joe getting the hell out of there, and Patrick just vanishes, but Andy just keeps on playing. It isn't until Pete destroys the sign that he spontaneously disappears too.
  • An IGN interviewer didn't prepare properly before interviewing Fall Out Boy on the Nintendo Fusion tour and Pete takes full advantage. Behold the infamous "Jason" interview.
  • In the same vein, here is another interview where Pete encourages his fans to visit Lemonparty.org, which he claims is a fashion blog.
  • As the support act for blink-182 on their reunion tour, a particularly ornery guy threw a bottle at Fall Out Boy. When asked by Pete why he did so, the guy goes "Play blink!" The band says no, tells him to be more patient, and offers to play any song in their catalog to shut the guy up. "Play blink!" Fall Out Boy instead plays an incredibly unrehearsed version of Don't Stop Believing. They'd continue to play "Don't Stop Believing" for the rest of the tour, even bringing Brendon Urie into it.
  • The pure hilarious insanity of the music video for I Don't Care.
  • During their first post-hiatus show in Melbourne Patrick held his guitar up and saying he wanted it to be like Simba in The Lion King (1994). There's a reason he's so Adorkable.
  • Their appearance on Conan was filled with This is Spın̈al Tap references, complete with cloaked midgets dancing around mini Stonehedge. Also, Pete getting stuck in the pod... Patrick, Joe, and Andy looking concerned... Then Harry Shearer (as Derek Smalls) came out to play bass. First thing Pete and Harry did after he got out? Fistbumped.
  • There's something absolutely ridiculous about completely drugged-out insane snapping Patrick in the "Young Volcanoes" video.
    • In the "Phoenix" video before that, it's weirdly funny how easy it is to kidnap our daring heroes.
      • Also, during the "Phoenix" video, when Pete is delivered Patrick's severed hand on his doorstep, what does he do? Look slightly bemused, scratch his head, and go back inside.
    • The entirety of the "The Mighty Fall" video. The boys' expressions when they saw the kids, Patrick singing about love while running for his life, the awkward way he trips and falls to the ground, and, most of all, Big Sean rapping about sex while being killed by two women. It's all still quite lovable though
    • In "Just One Yesterday", Foxes suddenly decides, during her verse, to stop driving her car. Cue the Funny Background Event of Patrick desperately trying to drive with a hook-hand.
    • In "Death Valley", among all the drugs, alcohol, and hot women, there's a brief shot of Joe happily partying with his dog, Louis
      • There's also something darkly hilarious about the police taking Patrick's fingerprints from his severed hand
  • This quote from a Kerrang! interview in 2007:
    Kerrang: What are some of the more elaborate schemes that fans have come up with to meet you?
    Pete: Some of them started a band called Panic! at the Disco...
  • In the video for "A Little Less Sixteen Candles", there's a part that is played completely serious, where Pete stands alone, fists raised, against a dozen of Beckett's Dandies. They stare at each other for a minute. Then Pete shuffles forward a bit, they shuffle back. He shuffles forward again, they shuffle back. And then it cuts to Beckett, sitting on top of a car, using a dead guy, slumped in the open window, as a footrest and looking rather bored with the proceedings.
  • Fall Out Boy taking part in "Mean Tweets" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
  • The music video for "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet" is a wholesale Shout-Out to Weekend at Bernie's with Pete in the Bernie role. Brendon and Spencer discover Pete dead on a beach, take him out on a day of fun, and then return him to the beach where they found him....minus Pete's wallet, jacket, and phone.
    Brendon: I'm calling 911!
    Spencer: Waitwaitwait...are you gonna call 911 or are you gonna call Jason Tatenote ? [Beat] You want 1 million followers on Twitter?
    Brendon: [huge grin on his face] I just got an idea! Grab his arm! Grab his arm!
  • For a live performance of "Sugar We're Going Down", Pete explains the story behind the song, and finishes the story by yelling:
    Give it up for your motherfucking right hand!
  • There is something oddly hilarious about the fact that Fall Out Boy ''nesting dolls'' are an official merch product you can buy from their store.
  • When Andy was asked about what part of his body ''wasn't'' inked...
    Andy: Uh...I'll put it in Game of Thrones terms: Don't wake the dragon!
    Patrick: I do not understand. At all.
    Andy: Or how about in Joss Whedon terms: The hammer is my penis.
    Patrick: Thank you...
  • A Drunk History of Fall Out Boy as told by Brendon Urie. Brendon got completely wasted on the Save Rock and Roll tour and recounted the history of Fall Out Boy. And then the band acts it out. Just go watch it, it's 8 minutes of absolute hilarity.
    • People lost it when Patrick was showing off his "soul voice".
    • According to Brendon, an important part of Fall Out Boy's history is Pete doing his makeup.
      "Pete": Makeup is fucking great for a guy. Because...it makes a guy look beautiful. Which, a lot of times...a guy is not beautiful. And I wanna change that. I wanna make sure everyone thinks that guys are beautiful.
    • Brendon's confusion on "Evening Out With Your Girlfriend"'s title and his (mostly) accurate synopsis:
      Brendon:: "It's called "Eating Out Your Girlfriend" and it's real and it doesn't matter!"
    • The Fueled by Ramen guy stating the criteria for signing FOB as "If you could make our scene (as in pop-punk) any bigger than it is, which is not fucking hard..."
    • Save Rock and Roll according to Brendon:
      Brendon: So they made Alone Together, Light Em Up, Alone Together, Phoenix...and everyone's like "What the fuck, you're working with this guynote  who recorded Avril Lavinge and P!nk"...what the fuck is on my shirt, did I puke on myself?
    • As it happens he did not puke on his shirt, but he had poured a whole cup of beer over his head and chest about 5 minutes earlier.
    • Brendon reminiscing about Pete Wentz's naked pics, and giving Pete a stern look as he assures him that it's "not a bad dick".
    • Brendon describing the success of Infinity on High.
      Brendon: And they made this record that was fucking dope. And it fucking hit on the charts, like... one! Two! Three! ... Three, two, one! ... Three, four five six seven eight nine TEN! TEN TO ONE!
    • "And Brendon Urie had nothing to do with the entire record and Patrick was like, 'FEELS GOOOOooOOOOoOOOOooOOOD!''"
    • Panic! at the Disco getting on the cover of Rolling Stone before Fall Out Boy is here depicted as Pete showing up at Panic!'s hotel room and yelling at them.
      Pete: (standing in the doorway, yelling into the room) Yo, fuck these dudes! We're gonna fucking go miles above!
      (pan over to an understandably confused Brendon and his bandmates)
    • Made doubly funny by the fact that of the three members of Panic! shown, only Brendon was actually in the band when they got the cover. Dallon and Kenny's confused faces are even more understandable than Brendon's, although Kenny arguably looks more sad than confused - which, again, only increases the humour in it
  • Irresistible the song is about an abusive relationship. Irresistible the video is about FOB being fantastically bad basketball players, getting completely destroyed by much better athletes, all while hallucinating that the crowd is cheering for them, and trying all manner of amusing and woefully ineffective tactics like standing on each other's shoulders to make a 2-point shot — which misses.
  • The recurring joke of Patrick losing his hand in music videos in the aftermath of the Youngblood Chronicles. Examples of this can now be seen in "Uma Thurman", "Irresistible", and "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)"
  • How did something like the Champion remix featuring RM from BTS come about? Pete was at an arcade with his son when he noticed someone entering and a ton of people following them. Turns out that RM is a massive DanceDanceRevolution fan and when Pete saw a guy like him getting that much attention, he looked into it and the collab happened. While Pete had some base familiarity with K-pop, it didn't dawn on him how popular BTS actually was before ARMYs made the collaboration a massive worldwide trending topic on Twitter before the song had officially come out. Long live the ARMY hearts!
  • Joe taking a mental health break from the band as they prepared to launch their first album in 5 years isn’t funny. What's funny is that, rather than just proceed without him, the band get around his absence in the music video for "Love From the Other Side" by having a wizard turn him into a large raccoon.

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