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1!!YMMV tropes for the band:
2* AluminumChristmasTrees: As goofy as it might sound, "Young Nastyman" is [[ShoutOut the name of a real comic book supervillain]]. He's a supporting villain in the British superhero comic book ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' (aka ''Marvelman''), and the EvilCounterpart of Miracleman's {{kid sidekick}} Young Miracleman.
3%%* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic
4* FridgeBrilliance: Wait... Tribute is a tribute to the song they play near the end of Beelzeboss! Except it did not go exactly as they portray it in Tribute.
5* FridgeLogic: The music video to Tribute is contradictory in nature. In the flashback showing Jack and Kyle singing to the shiny demon, they are shown to be singing at least part of the song Tribute, despite them making a point that the song they sang on that night didn't actually sound anything like it.
6* MemeticMutation
7%%** "Nay, we are but men...ROCK!"
8** "FUCK YOU!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A soundbyte taken from Jack Black's rant at the end of "Inward Singing", which immediately became popular for YouTubePoop videos, often juxtaposing it with some of Black's more family-friendly roles to exploit the inevitable tonal dissonance for humor.[[/labelnote]]
9%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3kna1iKAzw Small seasoned curlies.]]
10%%*** Alternatively, "Fuck my ass" from the same song.
11%%** Jack saying "boner", from "Cock Push-Ups".
12** A majority of their explicit soundclips have become a heavy source of use through "edited" videos on Website/YouTube; said videos contain an episode of a children's television show (typically ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'') that have their innocent dialogue tampered around with by adding profanity, sexual references, or anything of that vulgar nature, to them in an attempt to make them funnier.
13** Similarly, these clips are inserted into Jack Black’s appearances on ''Series/SesameStreet'', especially the octagon {{Voice Clip Song}}s.
14** The music video of "Video Games" quickly became a meme in the "Every time character says X/X happens it gets faster" sense.
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16* RefrainFromAssuming:
17** "Tribute" is often misnamed "The Greatest Song in the World", which it is merely a tribute to.
18** One song starts with the line "This is a song called The History of Tenacious D." It's actually just called History.
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20!!YMMV tropes for the TV series:
21%%* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Again - it's ''Tenacious D!''
22* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The over-the-top karate fight from "Angel In Disguise" is basically the boys as human cartoons.
23* CultClassic: This series is what you eventually reach if you're a dedicated Tenacious D fan.
24* CrossesTheLineTwice: Many of the songs on this show, but particularly "Sex Supreme" (aka "Double Team").
25%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: Lee, from "The Fan."
26* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Lee's IHaveJustOneThingToSay moment at the end of "The Fan," and then his [[ThePowerOfFriendship Power Of Friendship]] song, "Special Things," with KG and JB.
27%%* HoYay: Jack and Kyle
28* NightmareFuel: The Lee montage, set to the song "Lee," which involves the boys following Lee everywhere [[spoiler: and then '''''stabbing him to death.''''']] Yeah, it's a fantasy sequence, but god-''damn.''
29* RetroactiveRecognition: Of course, Creator/JackBlack became incredibly popular over the next decade.
30** Sasquatch is a barely recognizable Creator/JohnCReilly, better known as ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', or [[Series/CheckItOutWithDrSteveBrule Dr. Steve]] [[Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob Brule]].
31** Paul, the open mic host, is played by Paul F. Tompkins, who has since been annoying the hell out of ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' as Mr. Peanutbutter.
32* TheWoobie: Poor Sasquatch. Caught in a bear trap, then rejected by his new friends.

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