History Music / ILikeFun

* CoolOldGuy:
** Verse 2 of "I Like Fun":[[note]]John Flansburgh has clarified that he did not write the song about 58-year-old bandmember John Linnell; he only chose 58 because it was easier to sing than 57, and he'll "be 58 soon enough anyways". Even if Linnell would like you to think he's a master of parkour.[[/note]]

** Heck, at this point the entire band is starting to become cool old guys.

''I Like Fun'' is the twentieth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in 2018 by Idlewild Recordings. Noted for being DarkerAndEdgier than much of their recent work, it was nearly named ''My Murdered Remains'' after a line from the song "Mrs. Bluebeard" (they saved the name for a Dial-A-Song compilation released later that year).

* NonAppearingTitle: "Mrs. Bluebeard".
* OutOfBodyExperience: "I Left My Body", obviously.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The narrator of "Mrs. Bluebeard" reflects on the things that should have tipped her off that her husband was a serial killer.

** At one point in the video for "Push Back The Hands", the Time Traveler runs into one of the Morlocks from ''Film/TheTimeMachine1960''.

!! Let's Get These Tropes Over With:

** "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" in "Let's Get This Over With" is an old phrase, but is most-famously remembered as the key line in Semisonic's 1998 hit "Closing Time".

** "[=McCafferty's=] Bib" mentions crowds waving signs of Creator/BobHope, inspired by a real piece of performance art by Brazilian artist Öyvind Fahlström.

* IsThisThingStillOn: The refrain of "This Microphone".

''I Like Fun'' is the twentieth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in 2018 by Idlewild Recordings. Noted for being DarkerAndEdgier than much of their recent work, it was nearly named ''My Murdered Remains'' after a line from the song "Mrs. Bluebeard".

* CoolOldGuy: Verse 2 of "I Like Fun":

** John Flansburgh has clarified that he did not write the song about 58-year-old bandmember John Linnell; he only chose 58 because it was easier to sing than 57, and he'll "be 58 soon enough anyways". Even if Linnell would like you to think he's a master of parkour.

* GagDub: "Last Wave" was originally written to sync up with the music video to "Walk This Way" by {{Music/RunDMC}} and {{Music/Aerosmith}} - on the tour supporting ''I Like Fun'', the band's second set always started with the "Walk This Way" video being projected on a screen, synced to a recording of the original demo. They reworked it musically for the album but kept the WordSaladLyrics, some of which originally made more sense in the context of a gag dub: For instance, the lyric "now you gotta buy me some antlers" synced up to a scene where Steven Tyler was holding his hands over his head like antlers.

** "Mrs Bluebeard" as a modern retelling of Literature/{{Bluebeard}} from the dead wife's perspective
** "Mc Cafferty's Bib" mentions crowds waving signs of Creator/BobHope, inspired by a real piece of performance art by Brazilian artist Öyvind Fahlström.

* GagDub: "Last Wave" was originally written to sync up with the music video to "Walk This Way" by {{Music/RunDMC}} and {{Music/Aerosmith}} - on the tour supporting ''I Like Fun'', the band's second set always started with the "Walk This Way" video being projected on a screen, synced to a recording of the original demo. They reworked it musically for ''I Like Fun'' but kept the WordSaladLyrics, some of which originally made more sense in the context of a gag dub: For instance, the lyric "now you gotta buy me some antlers" synced up to a scene where Steven Tyler was holding his hands over his head like antlers.

* GagDub: "Last Wave" was originally written to sync up with the music video to "Walk This Way" by {{Music/RunDMC}} and {{Music/Aerosmith}} - They opened a New Year's Eve 2017 performance with this version of the song while projecting the "Walk This Way" video onstage, which then became the standard opening number for their next tour. They reworked it musically for ''I Like Fun'' but kept the WordSaladLyrics, some of which originally made more sense in the context of a gag dub: For instance, the lyric "now you gotta buy me some antlers" synced up to a scene where Steven Tyler was holding his hands over his head like antlers.

* DescentIntoAddiction: (possibly) the main theme of "Mc Cafferty's Bib"

** "Mrs Bluebeard" as a modern retelling of Literature/Bluebeard from the dead wife's perspective