YMMV / Stephen Lynch

• Crosses the Line Twice: And then some.
  • With his Live at the Del Ray performance of "Baby", he asks "Is it wrong to hope for SIDS?" The audience groans, and he takes offense by replying "Fuck you, it's my fuckin' baby!"
  • The premise of Little Tiny Mustache, in which a Jewish man's girlfreind turns out to be a neo-nazi.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The joke of "Little Tiny Mustache" is based around the absurd notion that dating someone who turned out to be a neo-Nazi was a one-in-a-million chance. With the resurgence of white nationalism in the late 2010s, finding out late in the game that your partner is a literal Nazi no longer feels so absurd.
• He Really Can Act: He got huge praise for his portrayal of Robbie Hart in the Broadway adaptation of The Wedding Singer.
• Heartwarming Moments: "Jim Henson's Dead," a reasonably effective tribute to Henson with next to no swearing or Lyrical Dissonance. It's the closest he's come to writing a completely serious song.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The "Obama Doesn't Stand A Chance" line from "Beelz". It has since been changed to "I'm the reason that Barack Obama's shitting in his pants."
• Nightmare Fuel
  • "Priest," if taken at face value, is a surprisingly unnerving song about a man having a crisis of conscious as he comes to terms with his pedophilia, something he's completely ashamed of.
  • "Halloween" as well, though it's just audacious enough to not find genuinely frightening.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Superhero" follows a similar chord progression for the Sesame Street song "I Don't Want To Live On The Moon." Of course, this was probably intentional.

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