Most of her songs were made purely for their entertainment value, but a few had morals (like Walk Away and Better Things to Do), and a few were inspired by her own children (like Monkey Girl and The Potty Dance).
Judy Pancoast's songs provide examples of
- Acid Reflux Nightmare: The singer in "Swimming in Jello" believes that the reason why they dreamt they were swimming in jello was because they ate pizza before bed.
- Afraid of Needles: Zigzagged for the child in "Got to Get a Shot". She is very nervous to get a shot but afterwards, she tells the audience to be brave, but that "you'll be fine 'til you have to go and get one again".
- An Aesop:
- "Walk Away" has an Aesop about how, if you've been mean to, don't listen to the mean person, just, well, walk away.
- "Better Things To Do" has an Aesop about how you don't need drugs, because you can find better things to do.
- Bawdy Song: Parodied. The song "Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh" treats songs full of Toilet Humour-related words as though they're dirty.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: The kid from "Pickles" makes pickle cookies.
- Books vs. Screens:
- "Read a Book to Me" is about a kid who begs to be read to because it's apparently "better than TV" and the kid reckons Captain Hook from Peter Pan is "even scarier in the book".
- "Take Me to Your Reader" is about some aliens who want to read Earth literature because all they've gotten is TV and they're bored of it.
- Butt-Monkey: In the song "Yucky", Judy has "never met anyone more unlucky" than the nursery rhyme characters.
- Censored for Comedy: "Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh" has the seven words unsaid and treated like swear words, but they're implied to be cheeky, but tame words (like "pee" and "potty").
- Changing Chorus: Her song "Gotta Get a Shot" changes the Title Drop in each chorus from "I gotta get a shot" to "I'm gonna get a shot" to "I had to get a shot" to "You gotta get a shot".
- Christmas Episode: In "Pickles", a kid puts out pickle-related gifts for Santa.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: The kid in "Pickles" puts pickles in everything.
- Does Not Like Spam: Apparently, the singer in "Yucky" doesn't like plums.
- Drugs Are Bad: "Better Things To Do" is about how drugs are not only bad, they're not as fun as some other things you can do.
- Drugs Are Good: Initially, the friend in "Better Things To Do" thinks that drugs are just magic pills to make you happy and popular, but he soon changes his tune.
- Fake Interactivity:
- "The Potty Dance" has the steps to the dance.
- "Yucky" tells the audience to say, "bleah" and a fake audience replies.
- Fear Song: "Gotta Get a Shot" is sung from the point-of-view of a little girl who needs to get a shot but is Afraid of Needles.
- The Food Poisoning Incident: Zigzagged for "Swimming in Jello". The singer dreams they are swimming in jello and believes it to be because of too much pizza, however, they have no other symptoms, and we all know how surreal dreams can be.
- Genki Girl: "Monkey Girl" is all about a very energetic little girl.
- God: God is mentioned in "Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh", where He's said to have a sense of humour because He made giraffes.
- Grub Tub: One song, "Swimming in Jello", has the singer dreaming about trying to swim through jello but having great difficulty doing so.
- Heaven: Judy states that she's heard that if you say the seven words that make kids laugh, you won't get to Heaven, but doubts that it's true on the grounds that God probably has a sense of humour.
- Injection Plot: "Gotta Get a Shot!" is about a girl who is very nervous of getting her booster shot and tries to run away, but then gets the shot anyway.
- Massively Numbered Siblings: The old woman's children who lived in a shoe are mentioned in "Yucky" and are said to be yucky themselves.
- The Medic: A doctor features in "Gotta Get a Shot".
- Nose Nuggets: One of the Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh is implied to be "booger".Now, you can try hard not to laugh because you're sweet as sugar, but why is your finger up your nose? Are you looking for a—?
- NOT!: The song "The Perfect Kid—Not" has pretty much all the lines end in "not".
- Ode to Food: "Candy" is about how lots of children wish they could have candy all the time.
- The Pig-Pen: If the song "Yucky" is to be trusted, all of the old woman who lives in a shoe's children are "yucky, icky and sticky".
- Potty Dance: The whole song "The Potty Dance" is about this.
- Potty Failure: Never happens, but "The Potty Dance" does mention "If I don't get to a bathroom soon, I'm gonna have to change my pants".
- Potty Emergency:
- In "The Potty Dance", a girl needs to pee during school.
- In "Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh", the narrator is implied to have to go to the bathroom twice.
- Santa Claus: A kid leaves gifts for Santa in "Pickles".
- Shout-Out: Scooby-Doo is mentioned in "There's Nothing Like a Dog".
- Sound-Effect Bleep: In the song "Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh", each of the seven words are censored with a sound effect.
- Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: Downplayed. One of the Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh is implied to be "butts", but the whole song is not about the buttocks.
- Squick: In-Universe, the song "Yucky" is about finding "yucky" aspects of nursery rhymes.
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In "Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh", each of the first six is implied with a rhyme but left unsaid.I think that you can figure out what some of them might be. I'll have to tell you later 'cause now I have to—*(boing!)*
- Sweet Tooth: The song "Candy" is all about having a sweet tooth but not being allowed candy.
- Take That!: "Yucky" seems to be a Take That towards nursery rhymes, calling certain aspects of it yucky.
- Toilet Humour:
- "The Potty Dance" is all about needing to pee.
- "Seven Words That Make Kids Laugh" has seven toilet-humour-related words that make children laugh. They are not said, but the first six are implied to be "pee", "farted", "poop", "potty", "butts" and "booger". The seventh is not revealed.
- The Unreveal: The seventh of the seven words that make kids laugh is not revealed.
