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* ''Back in Black Tie'' (2012)
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* IndecipherableLyrics: Undone by many of his covers, in which you can understand him perfectly. There is at least one song where he keeps it in tact, though, by mumbling all the words.

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* IndecipherableLyrics: Undone by many of his covers, in which you can understand him perfectly. There is at least one song where he He keeps it in tact, tact for LilWayne's "Lollipop", though, by mumbling all the words.
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-->''Uno, does, tres, catorce! Hola, senoritas y senores! Me llamo Ricardo Queso, let's mambo!''

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-->''Uno, does, tres, catorce! Hola, senoritas y why senores! Me llamo Ricardo Queso, let's mambo!''
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* SelfTitledAlbum: Inverted; Cheese used synthetic instruments for his first album, and then named his actual band after said album when he got one for the second.
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** "Yellow" may also qualify--the lyrics are the same, but they're applied to the theme from ''{{Brazil}}'', which does have its own lyrics.

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** "Yellow" may also qualify--the lyrics are the same, but they're applied to the theme from ''{{Brazil}}'', ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', which does have its own lyrics.
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** "Yellow" may also qualify--the lyrics are the same, but they're applied to the theme from ''{{Brazil}}'', which does have its own lyrics.
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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted, always, even when the song is "Don't Cha". Becomes especially bizarre when he covers "My Neck, My Back".
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* {{Medley}}: His "American Idiot" cover devolves into one of these, going through "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", "America the Beautiful", "The Star-Spangled Banner" and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers "La Cucaracha"]] before cycling back around to the Green Day song.
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* BerserkButton: Bobby is ''very'' protective of his piano if "Viva La Vida" is anything to go on.
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** "Just Dance" is reinterpreted as being a completely depressing. "Now she's drunk, lost, no communication, can't get home because she can't find her keys, and now she can't ''see'', ladies and gentlemen."

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** "Just Dance" is reinterpreted as being a completely depressing. "Now she's drunk, lost, no communication, can't get home because she can't find her keys, and now she can't ''see'', ladies and gentlemen."
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* LyricalDissonance
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!!Tropes associated with "Weird Al" Yankovic include:

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!!Tropes associated with "Weird Al" Yankovic Richard Cheese include:
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[[caption-width-right:325:[[RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:325:[[RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WON'T WILL NOT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:325:[[RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]

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[[caption-width-right:325:[[RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]
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[[caption-width-right:325:[[RageAgainstTheMachine FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]]
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* IncrediblyLamePun: During [[StarWars the Imperial March]] cover: "Piano solo! Bass solo! Drum solo! HAN SOLO!"
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** "Just Dance" is reinterpreted as being a completely depressing. "Now she's drunk, lost, no communication, can't get home because she can't find her keys, and now she can't ''see'', ladies and gentlemen."
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* CallAndResponseSong: "Chop Suey". "''Why'' did you leave the keys ''upon the table?''" "You wanted to!" "Oh."
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* AutoTune: Occasionally retained in covers of songs where the AutoTune is supposed to be gratuitous. He gets in an argument with his at the end of his "Stronger" cover.
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** "[[{{Queen}} Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileo]]--I'm sorry, what's the next line?"
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* GratuitousSpanish: Richard getting into the spirit of "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

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* GratuitousSpanish: Richard getting into the spirit of "Sunday Bloody Sunday"Sunday":
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* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: His cover of "Down with the Sickness" tweeks the lyrics slightly to make the song about an actual sickness, rather than a metaphor for societal oppression.
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* CarefulWithThatAxe: In the cover of "Been Caught Stealing", Richard is attacked by a dog, which is conveyed with a mix of barks, growls, and Richard screaming for help.
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* ThisSongGoesOutToTvTropes: "Rape Me" is "for the ladies", "Don't Cha" "goes out to all the lesbians in the audience."
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* MusicalPastiche
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* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Sunny Side of the Moon''
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-->''Uno, does, tres, catorce! Hola, senoritas y senores! Me llamo Ricardo Queso, let's mambo!''

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-->''Uno, does, tres, catorce! Hola, senoritas y senores! Me llamo Ricardo Queso, let's mambo!'' mambo!''



* NationalityStereotypes: Johnny Lava's entire band consists of increasingly bizarre ones.

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* NationalityStereotypes: NationalStereotypes: Johnny Lava's entire band consists of increasingly bizarre ones.
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* NationalityStereotypes: Johnny Lava's entire band consists of increasingly bizarre ones.
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* GratuitousSpanish: Richard getting into the spirit of "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
-->''Uno, does, tres, catorce! Hola, senoritas y senores! Me llamo Ricardo Queso, let's mambo!''
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'''Richard Cheese''' is an artist that does [[StealthParody seemingly straight]] CoverVersion[=s=] of RockAndRoll and HipHop songs in the style of a LoungeLizard, backed by his band '''Lounge Against the Machine'''.

Discography:
* ''Lounge Against the Machine'' (2000)
* ''Tuxicity'' (2002)
* ''I'd Like a Virgin'' (2004)
* ''Aperitif for Destruction'' (2005)
* ''The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese'' (2006)
* ''Silent Nightclub'' (2006)
* ''Dick at Nite'' (2007)
* ''Viva la Vodka'' (2009)
* ''OK Bartender'' (2010)
* ''Lavapalooza'' (2010)
* ''A Lounge Supreme'' (2011)
* ''Richard Cheese Live at the Royal Wedding'' (2011)

!!Tropes associated with "Weird Al" Yankovic include:
* AudienceParticipationSong: "She told me to--" "CUM!" "Come. Yes. Thank you."
* EpicFail: He spends the entirety of the "Viva La Vida" cover ''trying to figure out the piano notes.'' He gets maybe three lines in.
* IndecipherableLyrics: Undone by many of his covers, in which you can understand him perfectly. There is at least one song where he keeps it in tact, though, by mumbling all the words.
* PenName: Richard Cheese is really Mark Jonathan Davis, meaning he invoked all those YouTube comments [[ParodyFailure pointing out his name is Dick Cheese.]] The Lounge members are also given rather silly names--Bobby Ricotta (Noel Melanio), Frank Feta (Brian Fishler), and Billy Bleu (unknown.)
* RunningGag: The word American in the line "knocking me out with those American thighs" changes every time he sings "Shook Me All Night Long".
* TheScapegoat: Britney Spears in the "Toxic" cover, as Richard launches into a monologue blaming her for every scandal ever up to and including the WarOnTerror.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Dick at Night'', which covers TV themes; ''Lavapalooza'', which covers songs tiki-style rather than lounge-style.
* SophisticatedAsHell: His charming, smooth demeanor is meant to create this contrast with the songs he sings.
-->''Pardon me, do you know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby! You're gonna die!''
* SongParody: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The lyrics are kept largely the same, but the tunes are radically changed. The only straight-forward example is "Star Wars Cantina", which is "Copacabana" with the lyrics rewritten to be a plot summary of the ''Star Wars'' original trilogy.

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