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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Gibby Haynes' appearance in the documentary ''The Devil and Music/DanielJohnston'', where he talks about how Johnston underwent a CreatorBreakdown after taking acid at an Butthole Surfers show, was inexplicably shot BigLippedAlligatorMoment while Gibby was at the dentist getting a root canal. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment No explanation is given as to why,]] but it's absolutely one of the funniest parts in the movie.
** "Sweat Loaf" starts with a father and son talking about regret to soft ambient music...the conversation ends with Gibby saying "By the way, if you see your mom this weekend, tell her...SATAN!" before going into a warped version of the riff from "[[Music/BlackSabbath Sweet Leaf]]"

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Gibby Haynes' appearance in the documentary ''The Devil and Music/DanielJohnston'', where he talks about how Johnston underwent a CreatorBreakdown after taking acid at an Butthole Surfers show, was inexplicably shot BigLippedAlligatorMoment done while Gibby was at the dentist getting a root canal. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment No explanation is given as to why,]] but it's absolutely one of the funniest parts in the movie.
movie because Gibby is absolutely the kind of person to do an interview while also getting a cavity filled.
** The beginning of "Sweat Loaf" starts with Loaf": using his patented Gibbytronix, Gibby plays a father and son talking to his son about regret to soft ambient music...regret. The moral of the conversation ends with Gibby saying "By the way, if story? "If you see your mom mother this weekend, tell her...SATAN!" before going into SATAN!", followed by a warped version of demented take on the riff from "[[Music/BlackSabbath Sweet Leaf]]"Leaf]]".
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* FunnyMoments: Gibby Haynes' appearance in the documentary ''The Devil and Music/DanielJohnston'', where he talks about how Johnston underwent a CreatorBreakdown after taking acid at an Butthole Surfers show, was inexplicably shot BigLippedAlligatorMoment while Gibby was at the dentist getting a root canal. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment No explanation is given as to why,]] but it's absolutely one of the funniest parts in the movie.

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* FunnyMoments: SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Gibby Haynes' appearance in the documentary ''The Devil and Music/DanielJohnston'', where he talks about how Johnston underwent a CreatorBreakdown after taking acid at an Butthole Surfers show, was inexplicably shot BigLippedAlligatorMoment while Gibby was at the dentist getting a root canal. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment No explanation is given as to why,]] but it's absolutely one of the funniest parts in the movie.
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* FunnyMoments: Gibby Haynes' appearance in the documentary ''The Devil and Music/DanielJohnston'', where he talks about how Johnston underwent a CreatorBreakdown after taking acid at an Butthole Surfers show, was inexplicably shot BigLippedAlligatorMoment while Gibby was at the dentist getting a root canal. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment No explanation is given as to why,]] but it's absolutely one of the funniest parts in the movie.
** "Sweat Loaf" starts with a father and son talking about regret to soft ambient music...the conversation ends with Gibby saying "By the way, if you see your mom this weekend, tell her...SATAN!" before going into a warped version of the riff from "[[Music/BlackSabbath Sweet Leaf]]"
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: {{Invoked|Trope}} with "Pepper." The rap-spoken verses and backmasked chorus are a style parody of Music/{{Beck}}'s "Loser", which the band believed was a rip off of their style, so this was their way of "getting back" at him.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: {{Invoked|Trope}} with "Pepper." The rap-spoken verses and backmasked chorus are a style parody of Music/{{Beck}}'s Music/{{Beck|musician}}'s "Loser", which the band believed was a rip off of their style, so this was their way of "getting back" at him.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Admittedly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNAkbbKycCM "Who Was In My Room Last Night?"]] has some pretty damn good guitar riffs, to the point where it was even in ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero II]]''.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Admittedly, SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNAkbbKycCM "Who Was In My Room Last Night?"]] has some pretty damn good guitar riffs, to the point where it was even in ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero II]]''.II]]''.
* CreepyCute: The worm on the ''Independent Worm Saloon'' cover art. [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Butthole_Surfers_Independent_Worm_Saloon.jpg Just look at it]]!
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** On the other hand, in at least one interview they went the DeniedParody route instead, claiming that "Pepper" was initially inspired by TripHop, and they were surprised when people started comparing it to Beck instead.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "Kuntz" off of ''Locust Abortion Technician'' takes a Thai folk song and edits it to make it sound dirty. Kind of sounds like an 80's version of a Main/YouTubePoop, doesn't it?
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What Do You Mean It Wasnt Made On Drugs is now Quirky Work, and YMMV can't be played with.


* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:
** AvertedTrope. The band admits that they did a lot of drugs, acid especially. It explains a lot, really.
** In the early days, Gibby Haynes would often go onstage drunk, stoned, and/or tripping on various psychedelics. (It wasn't at all unusual for him to be under the influence of multiple drugs at once during their live shows in TheEighties). Gibby has also admitted to taking ''six'' hits of blotter acid meant for the entire band before a performance at one point, and a possibly apocryphal story features him preparing for a recording session by throwing a handful of acid in a bathtub he'd filled before getting in and spending the next three days straight tripping.
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Misuse; doesn't mention lack of audience due to premise


* AudienceAlienatingPremise: You'd think a band that wanted to be taken seriously would want a better name than ''Butthole Surfers''.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Admittedly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-zH9eX8U88 "Who Was In My Room Last Night?"]] has some pretty damn good guitar riffs, to the point where it was even in ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero II]]''.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Admittedly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-zH9eX8U88 com/watch?v=CNAkbbKycCM "Who Was In My Room Last Night?"]] has some pretty damn good guitar riffs, to the point where it was even in ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero II]]''.

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* NightmareFuel: A good portion of their repertoire.
** One part of "Jimi" sounds like a cartoon character getting raped.
** Even if you know that it's just a band member's pet pitbull, the growls that appear throughout "Mark Says Alright" can be disturbing.
** "[[https://youtu.be/ETG9xtJxxNY 22 Going On 23]]" is basically a local psychiatric call-in show being used as SpokenWordInMusic over a sludgy NoiseRock jam that seems to have been electronically slowed down. What makes it unnerving is the combination of the music and the content: one caller discusses a traumatized reaction to sexual assault, another speaks of a loveless, emotionally abusive relationship, and the host's advice is edited down into a series of meaningless buzz words ("Medicine... Anxiety... Sleep programming... Counseling"). [[note]]Possible NightmareRetardant: The band have claimed that they could tell both callers were the same person, meaning that, since the things she says in both calls seem to contradict each other, she was likely to have been lying - in fact, they used to regularly listen to this show and noticed this same woman kept calling with totally different stories, and the people running the program either didn't notice or didn't care.[[/note]]
** "The Last Astronaut" crosses this over with TearJerker once you realize what's going on, which is that [[spoiler:the titular character may be the last human alive after a nuclear war on Earth. "Hello? Is there anyone left? My God! All of them, huh?"]]

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* NightmareFuel: A good portion of their repertoire.
** One part of "Jimi" sounds like a cartoon character getting raped.
** Even if you know
So much that it's just a band member's pet pitbull, the growls that appear throughout "Mark Says Alright" can be disturbing.
** "[[https://youtu.be/ETG9xtJxxNY 22 Going On 23]]" is basically a local psychiatric call-in show being used as SpokenWordInMusic over a sludgy NoiseRock jam that seems to have been electronically slowed down. What makes
it unnerving is the combination of the music and the content: one caller discusses a traumatized reaction to sexual assault, another speaks of a loveless, emotionally abusive relationship, and the host's advice is edited down into a series of meaningless buzz words ("Medicine... Anxiety... Sleep programming... Counseling"). [[note]]Possible NightmareRetardant: The band have claimed that they could tell both callers were the same person, meaning that, since the things she says in both calls seem to contradict each other, she was likely to have been lying - in fact, they used to regularly listen to this show and noticed this same woman kept calling with totally different stories, and the people running the program either didn't notice or didn't care.[[/note]]
** "The Last Astronaut" crosses this over with TearJerker once you realize what's going on, which is that [[spoiler:the titular character may be the last human alive after a nuclear war on Earth. "Hello? Is there anyone left? My God! All of them, huh?"]]
now has [[NightmareFuel/ButtholeSurfers its own page]].

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