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* The original video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdS-sSKsBc "Joko Homo"]] is pretty much all NightmareFuel. From the loud alarm playing as Booji Boy runs through the streets of Akron, Ohio in a very odd looking fashion, the rest of the band's squished faces while wearing stocking masks as they answer Mark's question of "Are we not men?" and the doctors and nurses excitedly pounding their fists on the table as people are squirming around in sacks in front of them.

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* The original video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdS-sSKsBc "Joko "Jocko Homo"]] is pretty much all NightmareFuel. From the loud alarm playing as Booji Boy runs through the streets of Akron, Ohio in a very odd looking fashion, the rest of the band's squished faces while wearing stocking masks as they answer Mark's question of "Are we not men?" and the doctors and nurses excitedly pounding their fists on the table as people are squirming around in sacks in front of them.
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* The band's costumes in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU "Freedom Of Choice"]] video. Seriously, what the hell are they supposed to be?

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* The band's costumes in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU "Freedom Of Choice"]] video. Seriously, what the hell are they supposed to be?be? Jerry Casale's commentary on the video on ''The Complete Truth About De-Evolution'' mentions the band representing aliens observing and studying human behavior, so maybe their grey skin and large foreheads are meant to bring to mind TheGreys.
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* The original video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdS-sSKsBc "Joko Homo"]] is pretty much all NightmareFuel. From the loud alarm playing as Booji Boy runs through the streets of Akron, Ohio is a very odd looking fashion, the rest of the band's squished faces while wearing stocking masks as they answer Mark's question of "Are we not men?" and the doctors and nurses excitedly pounding their fists on the table as people are squirming around in sacks in front of them.

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* The original video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdS-sSKsBc "Joko Homo"]] is pretty much all NightmareFuel. From the loud alarm playing as Booji Boy runs through the streets of Akron, Ohio is in a very odd looking fashion, the rest of the band's squished faces while wearing stocking masks as they answer Mark's question of "Are we not men?" and the doctors and nurses excitedly pounding their fists on the table as people are squirming around in sacks in front of them.
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*** Also, the song Booji Boy is singing in this "Tunnel of Life". It's one of the only times Booji Boy actually sounds somber.

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*** Also, the song Booji Boy is singing in this "Tunnel ,"Tunnel of Life". It's one of the only times Booji Boy actually sounds somber.



* Booji Boy has more bad look in the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" video where he is electrocuted after sticking a fork into a toaster.
* The original video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdS-sSKsBc "Joko Homo"]] is pretty much all NightmareFuel. From the loud alarm playing as Booji Boy runs through the streets of Akron, Ohio is a very odd looking fashion, the rest of the band's squished faces while wearing stocking masks as they answer Mark's question of "Are we not men?" and the doctors and nurses excitedly poundin their fists on the table as people are squirming around in sacks in front of them.

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* Booji Boy has more bad look luck in the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" video where he is electrocuted after sticking a fork into a toaster.
* The original video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdS-sSKsBc "Joko Homo"]] is pretty much all NightmareFuel. From the loud alarm playing as Booji Boy runs through the streets of Akron, Ohio is a very odd looking fashion, the rest of the band's squished faces while wearing stocking masks as they answer Mark's question of "Are we not men?" and the doctors and nurses excitedly poundin pounding their fists on the table as people are squirming around in sacks in front of them.
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* The two ''Hardcore Devo'' compilations. They're demos from 1974 to 1977, and they are some seriously creepy sounding stuff ("U Got Me Bugged" in particular is little more than a loop of high-frequency noise).
** The robotic voice on "Mechanical Man" is just a little bit terrifying. Then you add the discordant music.
*** [[AC: Me feel swell. Me work well. Me want what you got.]]
*The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56u6g0POvo0 Beautiful World]]" video. Plenty of music videos include mushroom clouds for shock effect, but something about the imagery of a crying, starving child and a '50s cartoon clip about a man ''suffering from radiation poisoning'' (from a PublicServiceAnnouncement about fallout) is singularly unnerving.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os5uqOsRmBA "Booji Boys's Funeral"]] is a creepy and just downright haunting track that consists soley of droning and bleeping synths. Forget being played at a funeral, it sounds more like it should be played in of the darker sections of a Franchise/FinalFantasy game!
* While on the topic of Booji Boy, there is of course [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcZmjdchKgk this]] video in which his he is ''decapitated'' after his head is crushed by a machine!
** The ''Devo Live 1980'' concert film shows us what happens next. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbEUhtZVBNY This]] video shows Booji Boy's horribly disfigured face after the accident while "Booji Boy's Funeral" plays during it. The fact that this grainy, creepy blue lit projection is the only known version of that particular video that exists is also pretty creepy.
*** Also, the song Booji Boy is singing in this "Tunnel of Life". It's one of the only times Booji Boy actually sounds somber.
* The original recording of the band's cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQjwUyne3kQ "Secret Agent Man"]] is pretty creepy with the high pitched synths playing throuhout and Bob 1's distorted guitar solo. The video itself is quite scary with the random cut aways to various weird sights like a woman being paddled by two men wearing chimp masks, a nurse dancing with a man wearing an unnerving rubber mask and of course the band members themselves with their quite frankly weird looking transparent plastic masks.
* Booji Boy has more bad look in the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" video where he is electrocuted after sticking a fork into a toaster.
* The original video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdS-sSKsBc "Joko Homo"]] is pretty much all NightmareFuel. From the loud alarm playing as Booji Boy runs through the streets of Akron, Ohio is a very odd looking fashion, the rest of the band's squished faces while wearing stocking masks as they answer Mark's question of "Are we not men?" and the doctors and nurses excitedly poundin their fists on the table as people are squirming around in sacks in front of them.
* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBRREj1CLpQ "Peek A Boo"]] has several creepy moments, namely the lauhing cartoon devil, the EvilClown who pops up now and then who ''also'' laughs and the various close ups of Mark's face as he says the name of the song.
* The band's costumes in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU "Freedom Of Choice"]] video. Seriously, what the hell are they supposed to be?

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