YMMV / Tom Cardy

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In "Hey, I Don't Work Here," the final verse takes place in an active NASA compound just outside of Sydney, Australia, despite NASA being an independent agency of the United States government. The narrator even Lampshades the absurdity of it and asks the listener to "just bear with [him]" when he mentions it. However, NASA does have an active station in Australia in the form of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, just about a 4 hour drive away from Sydney.
• Awesome Moments: "HEY! I don't work here, and if I did, I would not surrender SHIT!"
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The music video for "Mixed Messages" practically speeds past both lines at Mach 10. First the singer uses fairly typical methods, such as being vague about where he is or leaving his girlfriend on read for days on end. Then he kicks her dog and pays for its vet bills, before immediately breaking her father's dick. As they're accompanying him in the ambulance, the singer decides that the best way to release the sexual tension is to punch him in the dick again, even headbutting it when his girlfriend grabs his hands before kissing her and proposing to her right there and then.
  • Appropriately, the prequel "Red Flags" zooms past this with the words "Human Centipede".
  • "Perception Check". The trigger-happy bard player accidentally murders an innocent child, and when scolded mutters that "it's always a kid". He gives a rushed, half-assed apology, but conspicuously follows up by asking if the dead body is just lying there unattended. When the gamemaster eventually says yes, the bard immediately starts Robbing the Dead while mocking the kid in cheerful song, while the poor gamemaster taps his own head with his microphone.
    Loot that body!
    Gotta loot that body now!
    Loot that body!
    Gotta loot that motherfucka'!
    Play my flute while I loot that dead kid's body!
    BITCH!
• Fridge Horror: As mentioned by one person in the comments section of "Business Man":
  I'd like to take a moment to point out that if Business Man is not a cop, the explanations for his history and all the things he does gets much, much worse.
• Heartwarming Moments: In an extremely bizarre manner, the ending of "Red Flags". After spending the entire song being terrified of his date's obsession with The Human Centipede, the narrator finally admits that he's just using this as an excuse to avoid the emotional risks of a relationship. He commits to opening himself up to love, proposes to her, happily accepts her suggestion of a Human Centipede themed wedding, and the song ends with a duet about their eternal love for each other and for sewing people ass to mouth.
• Jerkass Woobie: Smokin' Joe lost his wife and daughter to the velvet-cloaked bandit, and has been looking for the man for 18 years to avenge his family. He is also the fastest middle finger in the west and seems to delight in telling people to go fuck themselves if they so much as mildly inconvenience him.
  • The father at the beach in the second verse of "Hey, I Don't Work Here". While he's a massive nuisance to the protagonist, it's hard not to feel for him when he's frantically trying to get help for his drowning son when there is evidently no lifeguard on duty.
  • Bill is a disruptive, unprofessional dick in "Let The Children Watch", but it's kind of understandable when you get to the bit where his ex-wife and kids are now living with his best friend/coworker.
• Memetic Mutation: "Why are you blinking so much?" ^Explanation The 1:16 to 1:36 part of Red Flag was used in multiple edits by swapping the characters to, generally, a strange (if not downright evil) girl and a relatively normal guy. Tom Cardy even posted a version where the roles are reversed.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The sudden interlude before the third chorus of "Hey, I don't work here" involves a newscaster informing humanity that aliens have invaded, and that there's only one person on the planet in a position to do anything about it, tasked with making the case for humanity's freedom and survival, a case that the wider public can't even hear and simply has to optimistically imagine in what might be their final moments alive. Then the chorus hits, and he scares the aliens off.
  • Going on a date with someone only to find out they're really, really into The Human Centipede, to the point of wanting to reenact the film.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Multiple comments on "Monster Truck" point out that the narrator is actually pretty reasonable- he'll let his friend play with almost all of his toys just as long as he doesn't touch his monster truck, which is hardly a lot to ask.
• The Woobie: The girlfriend's dad in "Mixed Messages". He really didn't do anything wrong, but for some reason his daughter's boyfriend thinks repeatedly punching him in the dick is a completely legit way to flirt. To add insult to injury, it actually works.
  • In "Red Flags", both plan to make him part of their human centipede.

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