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* HulkSpeak: "Code Monkey", although it's a reference to B.A.S.I.C. programming (Code_Monkey get: up/get: coffee Code_Monkey goto: job...).

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* HulkSpeak: "Code Monkey", although it's a reference to B.A.S.I.C. programming (Code_Monkey get: up/get: coffee Code_Monkey goto: job...).Monkey".



* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Code Monkey mimics the B.A.S.I.C. programming language (i.e., 10subject → task → goto → 20 etc.)

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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Code Monkey mimics the B.A.S.I.C. programming language (i.e., 10subject → task → goto → 20 etc.)Monkey
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** [[spoiler:This itself was subverted in a performance that took place not long after the 2008 election. He ended up making a politcal statement at the end of the song after all: "But c'mon motherfuckers, Obama won!"]]
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** He loses track halfway through a 2011 performance of 'The Presidents'; leading to the audience singing the rest of the song.
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* CreepyDoll: The doll in "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Creepy Doll]]" always follows you, has a ruined eye that's always open, and has a pretty mouth to swallow you whole.

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* CreepyDoll: The doll in "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Creepy Doll]]" always follows you, has a ruined eye that's always open, and has a pretty mouth to swallow you whole. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking It also makes snide remarks about how you take your tea.]]
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* YouAreNotAlone: "I'm Your Moon". Even if Pluto is no longer one of the planets, its moon Charon is still there for it.

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* YouAreNotAlone: "I'm Your Moon". Even if Pluto is no longer one of the planets, was demoted to a dwarf planet, its moon Charon is still there for it.doesn't care, and will always see it as one from its perspective.
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* AntiChristmasSong: "Chiron Beta Prime", framed as a Christmas family letter... after humanity lost a RobotWar and the narrator's family has been banished to an asteroid mining colony named Chiron Beta Prime.

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* AntiChristmasSong: "Chiron Beta Prime", framed as a Christmas family letter... after humanity lost a RobotWar and the narrator's family has been banished to an asteroid mining colony named Chiron Beta Prime. At least the robots seem to understand the meaning of Christmas, though it's all simply a cover for their dictatorship's militaristic ways.



* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The eponymous Creepy Doll's crimes against the narrator include sleeping in the narrator's bed, moving around when the narrator isn't looking, and ... asking if he really needs that much honey in his tea.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The eponymous Creepy Doll's crimes against the narrator include sleeping in the narrator's bed, moving around when the narrator isn't looking, and ... requesting food whenever the narrator decides to eat something, and asking if he really needs that much honey in his tea.
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** "Shop Vac" includes the line "I like that Starbucks here, it's better than the other one / 'Cause the other one's not as good." The bland, hollow, circular reasoning fits well with the song's theme of the bland, hollow, circular life the protagonists are leading.

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** "Shop Vac" includes the line "I like that Starbucks here, it's better than the other one / 'Cause one/'Cause the other one's not as good." The bland, hollow, circular reasoning fits well with the song's theme of the bland, hollow, circular life the protagonists are leading.



* StealthInsult: The chorus to "Betty and Me" becomes this when it becomes clear that Betty is cheating on the narrator, basically saying that the baby won't be as short, stupid, and all around inferior to the narrator with Dr. Martin fathering it than if the narrator had fathered it himself.

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* StealthInsult: The chorus to "Betty and Me" becomes this when it becomes clear that Betty is cheating on the narrator, basically saying that the baby won't be as short, stupid, and all around all-around inferior to as the narrator with Dr. Martin fathering it than if the narrator had fathered it himself.



* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Code Monkey mimics the B.A.S.I.C. programming language (ie, 10subject → task → goto → 20 etc.)

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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Code Monkey mimics the B.A.S.I.C. programming language (ie, (i.e., 10subject → task → goto → 20 etc.)



* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: "Kenesaw Mountain Landis", tells the story of the first Commissioner of Baseball and how he dealt with the Black Sox scandal. It has some relation to the actual events.

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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: "Kenesaw Mountain Landis", Landis" tells the story of the first Commissioner of Baseball and how he dealt with the Black Sox scandal. It has some relation to the actual events.



%%* ZombieApocalypse: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQYjZc7gKXc "Re: Your Brains".]]

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%%* * ZombieApocalypse: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQYjZc7gKXc "Re: Your Brains".]]Brains"]] is implied to take place during one, with Tom trapped in a mall while a horde of zombies tries to break inside to eat his brains.

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: He's done a few, such as "Beds Hurt My Booty".

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