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Toy-Box is a Danish dance music group consisting of Anila Mirza and Amir El-Falaki. The are known for their songs “Tarzan and Jane” and “Best Friend”, which are famous on YouTube.

Examples in Toy-Box include:

  • All Men Are Perverts: The toy men with laser guns thrust their pelvises (which resembles masturbation) on Alina in the “Best Friend” video, the monkeys in the video for “Tarzan & Jane” smother themselves all over her, and a seagull puppet harasses her in “The Sailor Song”.
  • Bird-Poop Gag: In the video for “The Sailor Song” the seagull puppet does this to Amir out of jealousy.
  • Bittersweet Ending: In the video for "Superstar", Amir and Alina enjoy their wealth and fame but lose it after they run out of time. They recall how great it was while bidding farewell to the fairy.
  • Black Comedy: The smokestacks on the ship in the video for “The Sailor Song” act as cannons that shoot people overboard. These people most likely drowned.
  • Cool Car
    • In the video for “Superstar” Amir drives a “red Ferrari”.
    • In the video for “Best Friend” he drives a yellow toy Porsche.
  • Comedic Spanking: At the end of the video for “Best Friend” Amir spanks Alina which pisses her off.
  • Concept Video: The video for “Superstar” is about Amir and Alina becoming famously rich with the help of the fairy from Cinderella.
  • Double Entendre
    • In “The Sailor Song”, Tarzan says this line
      ”Yeah baby you can sail my ship!”
    • In the video for “Tarzan & Jane” Tarzan at his party does a dirty thrust with a computer device in front of Jane.
  • Everything's Better with Sparkles: In the video for “Best Friend” there is a magic sparkle that transforms everything it surrounds.
  • Hulk Speak: In “Tarzan & Jane” Amir plays Tarzan, of course, he talks like this.
  • Improbable Hairstyle: In the video for “Best Friend”, Alina sports a pineapple-like hairstyle with blue dye strands.
  • Intercourse with You: In “Tarzan & Jane” there are many do these moments.
    Tarzan: When you touch me I feel funny. Jane: I feel it too when you're touching me!"
  • Large Ham: Amir, who plays the guy characters often yells energetically.
  • Lucky Charms Title: They have a song titled, “www.girl”.
  • Shot in the Ass: In the video for “Best Friend", Anila uses a bow-and-arrow to shoot two girls Amir cheats with. She shoots their rear ends.
  • Shout-Out: In the video for “The Sailor Song”, Anila and Amir do the same pose Jack and Rose did in Titanic (1997), and this song and it's music video came out during that time.
  • The Drunken Sailor: The song and video for “The Sailor Song” is about drinking and sailing the seas.
  • Toon Physics: In the video for “Tarzan and Jane”, Jane’s arms stretch like a rubber toy when two gorillas pull her, then Tarzan saves her.

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