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* AsianHookerStereotype: "Asian Hooker", complete with deliberate CriticalResearchFailure, identifying a geisha as a prostitute.

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* AsianHookerStereotype: "Asian Hooker", complete with deliberate InUniverse CriticalResearchFailure, identifying a geisha as a prostitute.
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* AntiLoveSong: "If You Really Really Love Me", in which Michael Starr demands that his girl show her love by overlooking his many, ''many'' flaws such as laziness, rampant infidelity, spending her money on himself rather than important stuff like the rent, and insulting her family members. All that, and he can't even bring himself to say "I love you" back, only being able to muster that he's "really really fond" of her. The only positive trait one can glean from the song is that he's "[[BiggerIsBetterInBed hung like a horse]]".
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Dewicking Bi The Way per the Trope Repair Shop thread.


** Lexxi's persona, who frequently makes advances towards Satchel during performances. Satchel usually slowly walks away while Lexxi plays it off. Could also be BiTheWay, since he's equally likely to be cozying up to one of the ladies in the videos.

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** Lexxi's persona, who frequently makes advances towards Satchel during performances. Satchel usually slowly walks away while Lexxi plays it off. Could also be BiTheWay, bisexual, since he's equally likely to be cozying up to one of the ladies in the videos.

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* IntercourseWithYou:
** It would be easier to list the songs which don't fit. Are there songs which don't fit?
** The Burden of Being Wonderful. It's also about the only clean song.

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* IntercourseWithYou:
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IntercourseWithYou: It would be easier to list the songs which don't fit. Are there songs which don't fit?
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Such a list might consist entirely of "The Burden of Being Wonderful.Wonderful". It's also about the only clean song.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Though still full of the usual Steel Panther ridiculousness, ''Heavy Metal Rules'' is much heavier and angrier than their usual fare.
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* ''Heavy Metal Rules'' (2019)
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* "Always Gonna be a Ho"

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* ** "Always Gonna be a Ho"



* RussianRoulette: Styx winds up playing a drunken round of this with Creator/CarrotTop in the video for "All I Wanna Do (Is Fuck Myself Tonight)". The scene is clearly an homage to "TheDeerHunter''.

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* RussianRoulette: Styx winds up playing a drunken round of this with Creator/CarrotTop in the video for "All I Wanna Do (Is Fuck Myself Tonight)". The scene is clearly an homage to "TheDeerHunter''.''Film/TheDeerHunter''.
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* "Always Gonna be a Ho"


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* RussianRoulette: Styx winds up playing a drunken round of this with Creator/CarrotTop in the video for "All I Wanna Do (Is Fuck Myself Tonight)". The scene is clearly an homage to "TheDeerHunter''.
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* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: Michael stumbles upon the "Gangbang at the Old Folks' Home" while delivering pizzas to the home.
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** Lexxi
** "You're Beautiful When You Don't Talk".

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** Lexxi
Musician example: Lexxi.
** Song example: "You're Beautiful When You Don't Talk".
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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Parodied with "Wrong Side of the Tracks (Out in Beverly Hills)". The singer has a mansion the size of a city block, lavish statues, and his name on the side of a plane. But he's considered on the "wrong side of the tracks" because his Trophy Wife threw away his Dokken CDs, he can't figure how to set up Bluetooth to his mansion, and he can't afford a hanger for his plane yet.

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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Parodied with "Wrong Side of the Tracks (Out in Beverly Hills)". The singer has a mansion the size of a city block, lavish statues, and his name on the side of a plane. But he's considered on the "wrong side of the tracks" because his Trophy Wife threw away his Dokken CDs, [=CDs=], he can't figure out how to set up Bluetooth to his mansion, and he can't afford a hanger for his plane yet.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Lexxi's persona, who frequently makes advances towards Satchel during performances. Satchel usually slowly walks away while Lexxi plays it off. Could also be BiTheWay, since he's equally likely to be cozying up to one of the ladies in the videos.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: AmbiguouslyGay:
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Lexxi's persona, who frequently makes advances towards Satchel during performances. Satchel usually slowly walks away while Lexxi plays it off. Could also be BiTheWay, since he's equally likely to be cozying up to one of the ladies in the videos.



* IntercourseWithYou: It would be easier to list the songs which don't fit. Are there songs which don't fit?

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* IntercourseWithYou: IntercourseWithYou:
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* SmallNameBigEgo: A lot of their early videos and the "war stories" they tell about the "good old days in the 80's" which, of course, never happened.

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* SmallNameBigEgo: SmallNameBigEgo:
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A lot of their early videos and the "war stories" they tell about the "good old days in the 80's" which, of course, never happened.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The "strikes" in "Ten Strikes You're Out" include looking at Michael's iPhone without his consent, cheating on him, giving his dog VD, and the very last straw: drinking his last beer.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: All the members play up this aspect of the hair metal era. Lexxi Foxxx takes it a bit further.

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* DudeLooksLikeALady: All the members play up this aspect of the hair metal era. Lexxi Foxxx takes it a bit further.further; during concerts, he'll spend a ''lot'' of time touching up his makeup.
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* MisogynySong: "That's What Girls Are For" tells the story of a man who learned how to treat women from his late father, who pretty much drilled into his head that women were put on this earth to [[StayInTheKitchen do housework and have sex with you]]. The DeliberateValuesDissonance of the song is lampshaded with the protagonist saying he's "stuck in 1955".

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* HairMetal

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* HairMetalHairMetal: A parody band that takes the sex, drugs and rock and roll aspects of hair metal UpToEleven.



** Stix Zadinia [[spoiler: sticks it in ya.]]

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** Stix Zadinia [[spoiler: - sticks it in ya.]]


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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Parodied with "Wrong Side of the Tracks (Out in Beverly Hills)". The singer has a mansion the size of a city block, lavish statues, and his name on the side of a plane. But he's considered on the "wrong side of the tracks" because his Trophy Wife threw away his Dokken CDs, he can't figure how to set up Bluetooth to his mansion, and he can't afford a hanger for his plane yet.
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** Creator/SarahSilverman is the principal in the "Death to All But Metal" video.
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''Steel Panther'' is a [[AffectionateParody parody]] Heavy Metal group, claiming to have failed to gain mainstream success during their formation in 1988. Their look is an obvious throwback to the 80's Hair Metal and Glam Rock era. The music they produce is a spoof of all that was 80's rock music from Def Leppard ballads to Guns 'N Roses hard rock. Taken up to 11. Unsurprisingly this leads to tracklists filled to the brim with sex, drugs, self deprication and asian hookers.

The group are also notable for their live performances. Frequently calling known celebs on stage to join them and proceeding to mock or try to sleep with them. Live shows often feature cover versions of classic rock songs just for the hell of it too. The persona's of each member carrys over into an entertaining live experience filled to the brim with pretend infighting, stories of sexual exploits, overly elaborate solos and of course a healthy slice of FauxYay. It also doesnt hurt a bit that they're all actually talented musicians.

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''Steel Panther'' is a [[AffectionateParody parody]] Heavy Metal group, claiming to have failed to gain mainstream success during their formation in 1988. Their look is an obvious throwback to the 80's Hair Metal and Glam Rock era. The music they produce is a spoof of all that was 80's rock music from Def Leppard ballads to Guns 'N Roses hard rock. Taken up to 11. Unsurprisingly this leads to tracklists filled to the brim with sex, drugs, self deprication deprecation and asian Asian hookers.

The group are also notable for their live performances. Frequently calling known celebs on stage to join them and proceeding to mock or try to sleep with them. Live shows often feature cover versions of classic rock songs just for the hell of it too. The persona's of each member carrys carries over into an entertaining live experience filled to the brim with pretend infighting, stories of sexual exploits, overly elaborate solos and of course a healthy slice of FauxYay. It also doesnt doesn't hurt a bit that they're all actually talented musicians.



* HotForTeacher: The teacher in the "Death To All" video certainly dresses to please and thats ''before'' she throws off the glasses and rips open her top.

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* HotForTeacher: The teacher in the "Death To All" video certainly dresses to please and thats that's ''before'' she throws off the glasses and rips open her top.
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--> ''Death To All But Metal...''

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--> ''Death -->''"Death To All But Metal...''
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* Love Rocket (2001) - Promo Single released under the name ''Danger Kitty''.
* Hole Patrol (2003) - Originally released as ''Metal Shop'' & reissued as ''Metal Skool''.
* Hey That's What I Call Sludge! Vol. 1 (2004) - Compilation Album.
* Feel the Steel (June 2009) - as ''Steel Panther''.
* Balls Out (2011)
* All You Can Eat (2014)
* Live From Lexxi's Mom's Garage (2016)
* Lower The Bar (2017)

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* Love Rocket ''Love Rocket'' (2001) - Promo Single released under the name ''Danger Kitty''.
* Hole Patrol ''Hole Patrol'' (2003) - Originally released as ''Metal Shop'' & reissued as ''Metal Skool''.
* Hey ''Hey That's What I Call Sludge! Vol. 1 1'' (2004) - Compilation Album.
* Feel ''Feel the Steel Steel'' (June 2009) - as ''Steel Panther''.
* Balls Out ''Balls Out'' (2011)
* All ''All You Can Eat Eat'' (2014)
* Live ''Live From Lexxi's Mom's Garage Garag''e (2016)
* Lower ''Lower The Bar Bar'' (2017)



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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The band's premise used to be that they were an 80's band who missed their chance and were making up for it now. They used to joke about how old they were (supposedly in their 60's). This has been left out of their more recent appearances and the band simply exists as they are with no real story. The just are what they are and embrace it.
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* Lower The Bar (2017)
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* PlayingGertrude: Bobbie Brown (Lexxi's Mom) is only 15 years older than Travis Haley (Lexxi. Of course, given the stories about Lexxi's Mom's prowess, this is ''possible''.

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* PlayingGertrude: Bobbie Brown (Lexxi's Mom) is only 15 years older than Travis Haley (Lexxi.(Lexxi). Of course, given the stories about Lexxi's Mom's prowess, this is ''possible''.
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* PlayingGertrude: Bobbie Brown (Lexxi's Mom) is 47, Travis Haley (Lexxi) is 32, meaning she was only 15 when she had Lexxi. Of course, given the stories abotu Lexxi's Mom's prowess, this is ''possible''.

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* PlayingGertrude: Bobbie Brown (Lexxi's Mom) is 47, only 15 years older than Travis Haley (Lexxi) is 32, meaning she was only 15 when she had Lexxi. (Lexxi. Of course, given the stories abotu about Lexxi's Mom's prowess, this is ''possible''.
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* PlayingGertrude: Bobbie Brown (Lexxi's Mom) is 47, Travis Haley (Lexxi) is 32, meaning she was only 15 when she had Lexxi. Of course, given the stories abotu Lexxi's Mom's prowess, this is ''possible''.


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* ReallyGetsAround:
** Lexxi's mom, according to the [=DVD=] accompanying the album ''Songs From Lexxi's Mom's Garage'' and "Walk of Shame". Everyone in the band except Lexxi has been in her "Garage". And then Michael points out that Lexxi came out of there...
** "Walk of Shame" tackles the subject.
** The singer of "Community Property"
** "Poontang Boomerang" discusses some possible side-effects of this.
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* Bowdlerization: One would think a band as raunchy as Steel Panther wouldn't take kindly to this, but some lyrics in "Community Property" are changed in the video to make them (slightly) less explicit. For instance, both "cock" and "dick" are changed to "dong".

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* Bowdlerization: {{Bowdlerization}}: One would think a band as raunchy as Steel Panther wouldn't take kindly to this, but some lyrics in "Community Property" are changed in the video to make them (slightly) less explicit. For instance, both "cock" and "dick" are changed to "dong".
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* Bowdlerization: One would think a band as raunchy as Steel Panther wouldn't take kindly to this, but some lyrics in "Community Property" are changed in the video to make them (slightly) less explicit. For instance, both "cock" and "dick" are changed to "dong".
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** Apparently he has a father "Pops Zadinia" and a little brother "Squirtz Zadinia", according to the band's appearance on ChrisJericho's podcast.

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** Apparently he has a father "Pops Zadinia" and a little brother "Squirtz Zadinia", according to the band's appearance on ChrisJericho's Wrestling/ChrisJericho's podcast.
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* ShoutOut: During live performances, Steel Panther regularly does covers of songs from famous 1980s HairMetal bands such as Music/VanHalen, Music/DefLeppard, Music/BonJovi, and more.

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* ShoutOut: During live performances, Steel Panther regularly does covers of songs from famous 1980s HairMetal bands such as Music/VanHalen, Music/DefLeppard, Music/BonJovi, and more. They no longer do so many covers since they have enough of their own songs now that fans want to see them perform, but they still slip an occasional one in.
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* ItsSnowingCocaine: "Party Like Tomorrow Is The End Of The World" - the amount of drugs shown is ludicrous, there is so much coke that someone literally ends up with their face covered in coke in one scene.
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** The Burden of Being Wonderful. It's also about the only clean song.

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