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* FairForItsDay: On the one hand, "Truck Drivin' Song" loses much of its absurdity the more gender norms are challenged, meaning a song where the entire joke is that the singer is a WholesomeCrossdresser grows less inherently funny. On the other, ir presents an earnest, hearty delivery of a song solidly embracing the singer's perspective. Combined with gradual indications that their fashion sense at least lies in DragQueen territory, this paints an oddly positive picture of a person cheerily confident in their own flamboyant identity.
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** Many of the lyrics in "Jerry Springer" use a few outdated terms, such as "hermaphrodite" (which is also used in "Albuquerque") "shemale" and "midget," which are now considered offensive when compared to their more respectful ones (intersex, transgender and little person, respectively). Because of this, Al stated in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecjM9uazRTI a 2015 interview]] that he will not play the song at his live shows anymore. Of course, the song is about [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow a show]] which regularly made a perverse spectacle of these and other groups on a weekly basis and also used that exact terminology in its episodes.
** "Truck Drivin' Song" loses much of its absurdity the more gender norms are challenged, meaning a song where the entire joke is that the singer is a WholesomeCrossdresser grows less inherently funny.
* ValuesResonance: However, "Truck Drivin' Song" also presents an earnest, hearty delivery of a song solidly embracing the singer's perspective. Combined with gradual indications that their fashion sense at least lies in DragQueen territory, this paints an oddly positive picture of a person cheerily confident in their own flamboyant identity.
** "Truck Drivin' Song" loses much of its absurdity the more gender norms are challenged, meaning a song where the entire joke is that the singer is a WholesomeCrossdresser grows less inherently funny.
* ValuesResonance: However, "Truck Drivin' Song" also presents an earnest, hearty delivery of a song solidly embracing the singer's perspective. Combined with gradual indications that their fashion sense at least lies in DragQueen territory, this paints an oddly positive picture of a person cheerily confident in their own flamboyant identity.
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** Many of the lyrics in "Jerry Springer" use a few outdated terms, such as "hermaphrodite" (which is also used in "Albuquerque") "shemale" and "midget," which are now considered offensive when compared to their more respectful ones (intersex, transgender and little person, respectively). Because of this, Al stated in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecjM9uazRTI a 2015 interview]] that he will not play the song at his live shows anymore. Of course, the song is about [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow a show]] which regularly made a perverse spectacle of these and other groups on a weekly basis and also used that exact terminology in its episodes.
** "Truck Drivin' Song" loses much of its absurdity the more gender norms are challenged, meaning a song where the entire joke is that the singer is a WholesomeCrossdresser grows less inherently funny.
* ValuesResonance: However, "Truck Drivin' Song" also presents an earnest, hearty delivery of a song solidly embracing the singer's perspective. Combined with gradual indications that their fashion sense at least lies in DragQueen territory, this paints an oddly positive picture of a person cheerily confident in their own flamboyant identity.episodes.
** "Truck Drivin' Song" loses much of its absurdity the more gender norms are challenged, meaning a song where the entire joke is that the singer is a WholesomeCrossdresser grows less inherently funny.
* ValuesResonance: However, "Truck Drivin' Song" also presents an earnest, hearty delivery of a song solidly embracing the singer's perspective. Combined with gradual indications that their fashion sense at least lies in DragQueen territory, this paints an oddly positive picture of a person cheerily confident in their own flamboyant identity.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "The Saga Begins" contains the lines "And the Jedi I admire most/Met with Darth Maul and now he's toast/Now I'm still here and he's a ghost". The revelation that Qui-Gon Jinn is the one who discovered the Force Ghost technique upon his death would not happen until ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', released six years later.
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* HilariousInHindsight: "The Saga Begins" contains the lines "And the Jedi I admire most/Met most/Went up with Darth Maul and now he's toast/Now toast/Well, I'm still here and he's a ghost". The revelation that Qui-Gon Jinn is the one who discovered the Force Ghost technique upon his death would not happen until ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', released six years later.
