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• An Aesop: Most of their videos are simple satire, but "What We Call the News" and "Big Box Mart" have very explicit Aesops about the impact of yellow journalism and volume retail stores, respectively. They even address the news networks and stores in the second person.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: There are quite a few of these examples in the year-in-review episodes. "2011, Buh-Bye!" probably has the most.
  Quakes! Crimes! New signs!
• Art Shift: In "What We Call the News", characters (except the old-timey anchors) talk by having their heads pop apart at the jawline (similar to babies and Canadians on South Park) instead of just having movable jaws. This was done to emphasize their "talking head" status.
  • The 2010 year-in-review uses puppets.
  • 2011 used stick puppetry.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The newspaper headlines in "Time for Some Campaignin'" when the candidates sing "When we promise you anything/You wanna hear/To win the crown we're chasin'!":
  GAS TAX HOLIDAY
  TROOPS HOME TOMORROW
  HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
  INCREASE YOUR MANHOOD
  • In "2012: The End Is Here":
    HM The Queen and Olympic Medal Winners: We had Olympic superstars!
    Astronaut: We put an SUV on Mars!
    Arnold Schwarzenegger: In my new book, I bump and grind!
• Clip Art Animation
• Early-Bird Cameo: Mitt Romney in "It's Time for Some Campaigning"
• Filk Song: Most of the songs are parodies of popular folk songs, from "This Land Is Your Land" by Woodie Guthrie to "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" by Bob Dylan.
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Most of the year-in-review videos have a montage to those who have died, showing them there.
• Ink Suit Actor: The Weird Al videos, in which Al appears as Taylor Hicks and Jack White.
• Iris Out: The held open variant occurs at the end of "This Land"
• List Song: All the year-in-review songs.
• Literal Ass Kicking: Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden do this to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (who even lampshade this) in "2012: The End Is Here!"
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Bill Clinton is usually seen hanging around scantily-clad women. It almost always earns him a Dope Slap from Hillary for his troubles.
  Bill: [after getting smacked] What'd I do?
• Marilyn Maneuver: The Statue of Liberty does this pose in the rain and the winds of Hurricane Sandy in "2012: The End Is Here!"
• Mayan Doomsday: "2012: The End Is Here!" is naturally themed around this. ("Wishing you a 2013"). It was even uploaded on December 20, 2012 — the day before the supposed "Doomsday" would occur.
• Medium Blending: The 2009 End Review.
• Patter Song: Some, especially "2-0-5".
• Predatory Business: "Big Box Mart" is a heavy Take That at this.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Bush and Kerry are presented this way in "This Land".
• Rhyming With Itself: The Christmas song "Santa Claus" has one, combined with a Last-Second Word Swap:
  Santa: I'm running out of dough,
  The bills ain't getting paid.
  [camera cuts to Santa in bed with Ma Claus] I can't remember when,
  The last time I got... [Beat, camera cuts back to Santa grabbing dollar bills] paid!
• Running Gag: Bill Clinton being interrupted by his wife Hilary, who slaps him for some infraction (even if what he's doing at the time isn't particularly lewd).
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger has also showed up in some form since the 2009 year-end review
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: "It's Time for some Campaigning" has McCain riding a tank, and Obama hopping around on a unicorn.
• Shave and a Hair Cut: At the end of "2012: The End Is Here!"
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism - Their "Year In Review" videos pretty much repeat Humans Are Bastards. Over and over again.
  • Thankfully, the cycle's been broken for the 2009 Review, which doesn't claim Humans Are Bastards.
  • And the 2007 review has about half its song dedicated to the positive things that happened that year.
• Strawman News Media/24-Hour News Networks: Satirized in "What We Call the News."
• Strawman Political: Nicely averted. They just mock whoever is in power, so they were just as ready to parody Obama as they were Bush.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Done with "The Year 2008 in Review", sung to the tune of "Miss Susie". One example:
  Baby Year 2008: Barrack [sic] defeated Johnny
  So long to the far-right.
  Now McCain has many houses,
  But none of them are...
  White men got passed over,
  From Wasilla she was plucked;
  When the maverick tapped a hockey mom
  The press said, "What the..."
  Truck bombs in Islamabad;
  Bill Gates up and quit.
  Putin stuck his chest out,
  Told the Georgians to eat...
  Ships were seized by pirates,
  Ike and Gustav hit,
  Johnny's honey had a baby,
  But he said it wasn't...
  HIIIIISSS-tory's now littered
  With more famines, floods and wars.
  If there's one thing I am grateful for,
  It's that this job's now YOOOOUUUURS!
• The Theme Park Version: Each year in review song is, essentially, the theme park version of that year.
• We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies: Done for their 2007 year in review.