History Music / TheLonelyIsland

* AmbiguousSyntax: During "Threw It On the Ground'', Samberg's girlfriend hands him her cellphone and says "it's your dad" (on the phoneline). He responds "Man, this ain't my dad! [[LiteralMinded This is a cellphone!"]]

** "Throw It On The Ground"'s character is nothing but a series of these.

* BirthdayPartyGoesWrong: In "Threw It On The Ground", a kid who's having a birthday party offers a slice of cake to the protagonist. Said protagonist not only [[UngratefulBastard makes a mockery of his generosity]] by throwing it on the ground, he throws ''the rest of the cake too''.

* BlatantLies: The narrator of "Threw It On The Ground" claims that "two Hollywood phonies" (Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/ElijahWood) attempted to give him an unwanted autograph. We see that, in truth, the two were having dinner and minding their own business, and he flipped their dinner table over completely unprovoked.

** Creator/JennySlate, Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/ElijahWood in the video for "Threw It On the Ground".

* DontYouDarePityMe: In "Threw It On The Ground", the protagonist rejects a free hot dog and [[UngratefulBastard throws it on the ground]], insisting he's a well-off adult who "don't need your handouts!"

* FlippingTheTable: The climax of "Threw It On The Ground" has the protagonist toppling the dinner table of two "Hollywood phonies".

* HairTriggerTemper: The narrator of "Threw It On The Ground", who'll let out his rage by throwing things on the ground at the slightest provocation.

* HeroicSacrifice: The narrator in Space Olympics, against the alien hordes.
* {{Hipster}}: The narrator of ''Throw it On the Ground''.

* InsufferableImbecile: The protagonist of "Threw it On The Ground", who throws whatever is held in front of him onto the ground with little provocation and with very poor reasoning, even throwing a slice of birthday cake onto the ground and proceeding to throw the rest of the cake onto the ground out of spite. In the end, the thick-headed jerk gets his comeuppance when he lashes out on two "Hollywood phonies" and they retaliate by tasing him in his butthole. The lesson he claims to learn from this is "You can't trust the system", when a more applicable lesson would be "There are consequences to being rude and ungrateful to everyone."

* IronicEcho: In "Threw It On The Ground", the protagonist rejects a free hot dog, insisting ''"I'm an adult!"'' who doesn't need "handouts". Later, after going on a spree of throwing so many other things on the ground, he once again insists "I'm an adult!" While he was never a mature adult to begin with, as [[UngratefulBastard he violently threw said hot dog on the ground]], that case of "I'm an adult" can be chalked up to a (warped) case of DontYouDarePityMe, as the second instance is just him being a full-on InsufferableImbecile.

** The narrator of "Threw it on the Ground", who is oddly angered by being handed things and responds by breaking them from tossing them to the ground. This comes to a head when he [[FlippingTheTable topples the dinner table]] of a couple of "Hollywood phonies" who he claims tried to give him their autographs (in the music video, the two of them were just ''minding their own business''), and [[LaserGuidedKarma gets tased in the butthole for his efforts]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: The obnoxious narrator in "Threw It On The Ground" gets tasered "in the butthole" by Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/RyanReynolds after he flips over their table in a restaurant.[[note]]One could say that this is '''T'''aser-Guided Karma.[[/note]]

* NeverMyFault: The InsufferableImbecile narrator of "Threw It On the Ground", after being tased in the butthole by Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/ElijahWood for flipping their table over, comes to the conclusion that "YOU CAN'T TRUST THE SYSTEM, MAAAN!" It never occurs to him that it might have been because he was an ungrateful {{Jerkass}}.

* {{Overcrank}}: Adds emphasis when the main character from Threw It On The Ground demonstrates the song title.

* ShotInTheAss: When the singer of "Threw It On the Ground" interrupts "two [[Creator/ElijahWood Hollywood]] [[Creator/RyanReynolds phonies]]" having dinner, it "turns out they had a taser, and they tased me in the [[PunctuatedForEmphasis butthole!]]"

** Elijah Wood has a hilarious one in the video for "Threw It On the Ground" while he's tasing Andy in the butthole.

** The narrator of "Throw It On The Ground" is your typical know-it-all rebel hipster raging at everyone else for being mainstream.

** Throw It On The Ground: YOU CAN'T TRUST THE SYSTEM!

* TheTreacheryOfImages: One verse in "Threw It On the Ground" has the narrator's girlfriend hand him her cellphone, saying it's his dad (on the phone). He in turn asserts that "this ain't my dad -- ''this is a cellphone!''" Three guesses as to [[TitleDrop what he does with it after]].

* UngratefulBastard: In "Threw It On The Ground", the protagonist is offered several items for free, including an energy drink, a hot dog, and a piece of a kid's birthday cake. Not satisfied with politely declining, he takes these items and violently throws them on the ground. Bonus points for the poor birthday kid, because he ''throws the rest of the cake too''.

** Inverted with "Spring Break Party Anthem", which extols the virtues of being a dudebro on Spring Break: drugs, misogyny, beer goggles, trashing hotel rooms, more misogyny, and [[spoiler:'''MARRYING A MAN.''']]

* AnAesop: All PlayedForLaughs, of course:
** Boombox: A boombox is '''NOT''' a toy.
** Throw It On The Ground: You can't trust the system, ''MAAAAAAN.''
** Dreamgirl: [[spoiler:Chex Mix]] = Number One.
** After Party: You can't spend your whole life jerking off.

* SpoofAesop: In "Threw It On The Ground", after throwing a bunch of random things on the ground such as hot dogs, his girlfriend's cellphone, a kid's birthday cake, and the dining table of Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/RyanReynolds only to be tazed in the butthole by them, he concludes that the moral of the story is "YOU CAN'T TRUST THE SYSTEM, MAN!" when a more applicable lesson would be "Being an ungrateful and disruptive asshole to everyone has consequences".

** Music/MichaelBolton, much to the trio's annoyance, keeps singing about ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Film/ForrestGump'', ''Film/ErinBrockovich'', ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''...

* GraveHumor: When The Boss in "Like A Boss", he's honored with a tombstone that reads "He was da best".

* BirthdayPartyGoneWrong: In "Threw It On The Ground", a kid who's having a birthday party offers a slice of cake to the protagonist. Said protagonist not only [[UngratefulBastard makes a mockery of his generosity]] by throwing it on the ground, he throws ''the rest of the cake too''.

** Music/{{Beck}} in "Attracted to Us".

** Akiva (along with the other members of the band) are annoyed that Michael Bolton keeps referencing Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean [[spoiler:(and other movies)]] yet he makes a reference to Film/TopGun in his own verse.

** Most of their guest stars play exaggerated versions of themselves. Music/MichaelBolton is an easily distracted [[TheMovieBuff cinephile]], Music/JustinTimberlake goes after AnythingThatMoves, and Music/NickiMinaj has NoSocialSkills.

* SpeedSex: One of the guys who just had sex in “I Just Had Sex” describes it as the best thirty seconds of his life.

* BlatantLies: The narrator of "Threw It On The Ground" claims that Ryan Reynolds and Elijah Woods attempted to give him an unwanted autograph. We see that, in truth, the two were minding their own business and he flipped their dinner table over completely unprovoked.

** Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/ElijahWood in the video for "Threw It On the Ground".

* NeverMyFault: The InsufferableImbecile narrator of "Threw It On the Ground", after being teased in the butthole by Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/ElijahWood for flipping their table over, comes to the conclusion that "YOU CAN'T TRUST THE SYSTEM, MAAAN!" It never occurs to him that it might have been because he was an ungrateful {{Jerkass}}.