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  • Broken Base:
    • Calling the song "Quote Unquote" VS calling it by its originally intended name, "Travolta". Chances are, if you look up a given YouTube video of the song, the comments section will have at least one string of users arguing over the name of the song.
    • Which is their best album? All three albums have roughly equal numbers of people who will vouch for them as their best, and they are so distinct in style that people's preferences can get quite vocal.
    • The 2020 re-recording of The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny demo - before the album was even released in full, there was a divide between fans who were looking forward to it and ones who would rather see them create new material in the usual Genre Roulette vein, rather than remake an old Death Metal / Thrash Metal demo tape. Some also take issue with it not being a full reunion (due to prominent members Danny Heifetz and Clinton "Bär" McKinnon being replaced by Dave Lombardo and Scott Ian)
  • Crazy is Cool: Just everything they released, basically. Part of the reason their music is so awesome is because it is so weird.
  • Creator's Pet: Was accused of this by several of Patton's fans, especially in the early days. Despite all the success of his new band Faith No More in the late 80s, Patton seemed more focused on getting exposure for Bungle and fought to get them signed to Warner. Was part of the early friction with FNM.
  • Creepy Awesome: Their music often falls into this as well, given how terrifying it can get.
  • Fandom Rivalry: With the Red Hot Chili Peppers and, to some extent, Faith No More.
  • Misattributed Song: The Ping Pang Band's version of "...Baby One More Time" is commonly misattributed to either Mr. Bungle or Mike Patton solo. This was initially because of a fan uploading their cover to an FTP otherwise dedicated to Mr. Bungle bootlegs, as well as because the vocals were done in Patton's style.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: While he never took part in the writing for the album, two songs from Disco Volante, notably "Everyone I Went to High School with Is Dead" and "Violenza Domestica" have took on a very disturbing meaning after ex-founding member Theo Lengyel got arrested for murdering his girlfriend by the end of 2023.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • "Everyone I Went to High School with Is Dead" is about a Serial Killer who is hunting down his old high school schoolmates and using the yearbook as a way to track the ones that he already murdered. The music itself is chaotic and distorted, with random, agonized gibberish thrown in for good measure.
    • Honestly, half of their catalog could be considered "Nightmarish".
    • The art from their first album, borrowed from the comic "Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children," certainly counts.
    • "The Bends", from their second album Disco Volante, is a starting-and-stopping nightmare ending in a burst of cacophonous noise.
  • Nightmare Retardant: The hidden track at the end of Disco volante initially comes off as Nightmare Fuel; it's distorted and ominous, and its supposed title — "Nothing" — recalls Nihilism. Then you realize it was a case of Throw It In!, the title an in-joke.
  • Once Original, Now Common: It's difficult for a listener coming to the album in a modern sense to appreciate just how avant-garde the band's self-titled album was in '91, and how remarkable it is that it got released on a major label. Since a ton of bands from later or earlier years who were equally (or more) experimental than Mr. Bungle also have crossed into the mainstream.

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