"This is that 'The Lonely Island' TV Tropes page." "Oh shit, TV Tropes? That's my joint!" "Mine too! But a lot of these busters don't know about it!" "Well, let's tell these motherfuckers!"
A comedy troupe featuring former Saturday Night Live cast member Andy Samberg, and his long-time friends Jorma Taccone and Akiva Shaffer (who served as SNL writers). They are as well known for their humorous tongue-in-cheek songs as they are for the accompanying videos, which often air on SNL. They're quite prone to Memetic Mutation, as the famous "Jizz in my Pants" single from 2009 shows, being one of the top viewed YouTube videos. They've released two albums, Incredibad and Turtleneck and Chain.
Murder these tropes, feed 'em to the fishes.
Aeris And Bob: Their names are Jorma, Akiva and... Andy.
The reasons for jizzing in your pants becomes... normal toward the end.
Who Said We're Wack?: How could the devil turn the blue sky black? How many babies born won't ever reach their dreams? And how could a person call another person wack?
Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions: "Denzel [Washington] walks, Will Smith walks, Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat."
The boombox from the eponymous song, which can make stuffy old men and women dance, erase racism and crime, and make rich people get loose. It also can cause elderly orgies.
Santana DVX, especially for animals.
Ate His Gun: THE BOSS attempts this but ultimately doesn't go through with it.
Ax Crazy: Dreamgirl, from her eponymous song, talks to her shoe like it's her friend, yells all the time, pretends to be... something... and has threatened to stab the narrator in his sleep.
"Mama", the Mom herself and her husband Dale. In a song about loving your mother.
Call Back: "After Party" uses this in regards to "Like A Boss" in the final verse, with "And then after that I pass out in the sewer, meet a giant fish, FUCK ITS BRAINS OUT"
Seth Rogen in "Like A Boss" (though the album version had Akiva Shaffer as Andy's boss; Rogen only appeared on the music video version that appeared on SNL as Andy's boss while Akiva played a hooded gun dealer)
Ryan Reynolds and Elijah Wood on "Throw It On the Ground"
Justin Timberlake, Molly Sims, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler in "Jizz In My Pants"
Jack Black in "Sax Man" - not so much as cameos as is the whole song.
James Cameron and Steve Martin in two separate Laser Cats sketches.
Will Ferrell (an SNL cast member from 1995 to 2002) and JJ Abrams (the guy who created Lost) in "Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions".
Natalie Portman, of all people, launches the Cluster F-Bomb from hell in the aptly named "Natalie's Rap".
Julian Casablancas (from The Strokes) in "Boombox".
Justin Timberlake in Dick in a Box, Jizz In My Pants and Mother Lover.
invoked In one promo for an awards night Andy was hosting, he was claimed to be the son of Michael Cera and Jack Black.
The entire band and an alien in the eponymous single.
Andy writes "freaky fanfiction where cartoons fuck" in "We're Back!", specifically, he wrote Rule34 of CGI Garfield and Marmaduke, helpfully illustrated in the music video.
Crowning Music of Awesome: "Boombox" specifically invokes the power of this trope, and the last verse demonstrates the dangers of an overdose. invoked
Did You Just Have Sex?- Yes.Yes, they did. In a song called, say it with us, "I Just Had Sex!"
Don't Explain the Joke: "Last week thought I saw you on the street, turned out it was a bag of trash/just a big ol' bag a'trash/(I thought you looked like a bag of trash)"
Andy in "Jack Sparrow", in response to Michael Bolton's non-sequitur chorus.
Akiva in response to the alien's request to have intercourse in Incredibad.
Gag Penis: Shy Ronnie, of all people, claims he hung a "giant ass noose off his giant ass dick".
Giving Up On Logic: The entire band winds up doing this in regards to Michael Bolton's performance on "Jack Sparrow". They eventually give up trying to get the song back on track and just sit back dumbfounded and watch Bolton go.
Groundhog Day Loop: "After Party" plays with this, the narrator going through a cycle of living a playboy lifestyle, having an existential breakdown, masturbating in various locations, joining Alcoholics Anonymous, sleeping with a prostitute, losing his hand in a game of dice, then going back to his old ways. Then going through the same cycle the next week.
Hair-Trigger Temper: The narrator of "Threw It On The Ground", who'll let out his rage by throwing things on the ground at the slightest provocation.
I Love the Dead: Nicki Minaj, of all people, in "The Creep".
In-Joke: Motherlover references Dick in a Box twice (throwing away empty boxes with dickholes in the beginning of the video after being released from prison, and the last verse's lyric "This is the second best idea that we've ever had"), being that they both feature Justin Timberlake.
"Rocky", where Andy fights the titular boxer. Rocky breaks Andy's jaw, nose, ribs and eye socket, knocks his teeth out, fractures his shins, rips his arms out, throws acid in his face, and pees on him. The ref then declares Andy legally dead.
And that was the night I fought Rocky!
The Peeping Tom: Played for equal amounts of laughs and squick in "Do the Creep", which features Jorm, Akiva, and Andy sitting on a tree limb to peep through a window, and Nicki Minaj hiding in a locker to watch boys change after gym.
Schmuck Bait: The end of "Who Says We're Wack", where the boys found out who said they were wack by having first the * Space Opera: Space Olympics is a deconstruction— Turns out, sports in SPAAAACE don't work so well.
The eponymous Dreamgirl gets uglier with every verse. How ugly? Listen for yourself.
"It's music to my ears when you scream in your sleep."
Similarly, "Like a Boss" deals with the day of a boss. Most of the earlier stuff is fairly mundane boss stuff (workshops, birthdays, synergy), then after a failed suicide attempt, degenerates into scoring coke, crashing his car, self-fellating, eating chicken strips, self-castration, having sex with a giant fish in a sewer, turning into a jet and bombing Russia, and finally crashing into the sun and dying. On a daily basis.
'Laser Cats', wherein Andy and Bill Hader attempt to pitch their ultra-low-budget Z-movies, each time getting them thrown out of an office at the end. Even James Cameron's approval doesn't help.
Any video that involves Guy #1 and Guy #2, who sing in a bored monotone.
Half the world is eating boiled goose in "Boombox".
Chex Mix in Dreamgirl. Yes, there's a reason...
The Treachery of Images: Threw It On The Ground: "I'm not a part of your system! My dad's not a phone! DUH!"
Twist Ending: The last few verses of Dreamgirl abruptly switch to talking about Chex Mix.
Undead Author: The boss in "Like a Boss", who apparently survives self-castration and flying into the sun unscathed on a daily basis.
"The doctor came out and pronounced me dead, and that was the night I fought Rocky."
Unflinching Walk: "Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions" mocks and pays tribute to this trope. Subverted at the end, when Will Ferrell and Andy flinch as a building explodes and start running.
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