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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_else_cd.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:In English: "They take advantage [of]"]]
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4	->''I'm impressed, I'm impressed\
5	When that gorilla beats his chest\
6	I fall to bits, I confess\
7	I admit, I'm impressed\
8	When that torpedo in the vest\
9	Barks his orders, I'm impressed''
10	-->--'''I'm Impressed'''
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12	''The Else'' is the twelfth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in May of 2007. Linnell has admitted in interviews that the album's dark and satirical tone largely came from the tense political atmosphere after the Iraqi war. The album's production was largely a collaboration with "The Dust Brothers", Mike Simpson and John King, and TMBG's usual producer Pat Dillet.
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14	One of the songs on the album, "Careful What You Pack", was originally written for the film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''.
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16	!!Tracklist
17	#I'm Impressed (2:39)
18	#Take Out the Trash (3:14)
19	#Upside-Down Frown (2:17)
20	#Climbing the Walls (3:15)
21	#Careful What You Pack (2:40)
22	#The Cap'm (3:11)
23	#With the Dark (3:17)
24	#The Shadow Government (2:37)
25	#Bee of the Bird of the Moth (3:32)
26	#Withered Hope (2:54)
27	#Contrecoup (3:11)
28	#Feign Amnesia (2:29)
29	#The Mesopotamians (2:57)
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32	!!I Got a New Job, Listing the Tropes:
33	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Sad Sack is in love with Withered Hope, [[LoveDodecahedron who's in love with their alleged soulmate, who is actually in love with "a beautiful crook" whose picture they once saw, who's in love with "the brand new motorbike", who's in love with Sad Sack]].
34	* BreakUpSong: "Take Out the Trash" is a song about convincing a girl that her boyfriend is no good and she should dump him.
35	-->''Girl, why not take out the trash\
36	And once you get him out, tell him not to come back again?\
37	Girl, put that cat in the bin\
38	After what he said, after everything he did''
39	* ChewOutFakeOut: From "The Cap'm"
40	-->''Did you say what I think you just said,\
41	My hat looks good on me?\
42	I agree, I agree''
43	* FriendlyZombie: Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh from "The Mesopotamians" evidently really are the historical figures in question, now risen as undead, at least if the music video's anything to go by. They're hardly malicious, though, and mostly just want to play music together as the titular band and hopefully be remembered for it.
44	* GirlfriendInCanada: From "Withered Hope"
45	-->''Withered Hope says she has a soulmate\
46	Living in a city in another state''
47	* MixAndMatchCritters: "Bee of the Bird of the Moth" mentions creatures called "Catbug" and "Man-House".
48	* PerpetualSmiler: The narrator of "Upside-Down Frown" smiles all the time, to the annoyance of his girlfriend.
49	-->''I'm happy at your happiness as well\
50	Your anger makes me mad, though you can't tell\
51	Believe me when I say, I'm with you in my private way\
52	And though you think I'm trying to blow you off\
53	It's only that my frown is upside down''
54	* PunkInTheTrunk: The fate of the narrator of "The Shadow Government"
55	-->''Crawling out of the flop-house\
56	I saw the mayor stealing my junk\
57	I doth protest, citizens' arrest\
58	Now my body's in his trunk''
59	* SanitySlippageSong: "Climbing the Walls"

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