YMMV / Tenacious D

YMMV tropes for the band:

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: As goofy as it might sound, "Young Nastyman" is the name of a real comic book supervillain. He's a supporting villain in the British superhero comic book Miracleman (aka Marvelman), and the Evil Counterpart of Miracleman's kid sidekick Young Miracleman.

• Fridge Brilliance: 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.
• Fridge Logic: 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.
• Memetic Mutation

• "FUCK YOU!"^Explanation A soundbyte taken from Jack Black's rant at the end of "Inward Singing", which immediately became popular for YouTube Poop videos, often juxtaposing it with some of Black's more family-friendly roles to exploit the inevitable tonal dissonance for humor.

• A majority of their explicit soundclips have become a heavy source of use through "edited" videos on YouTube; said videos contain an episode of a children's television show (typically SpongeBob SquarePants and Ed, Edd n Eddy) 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.
• Similarly, these clips are inserted into Jack Black’s appearances on Sesame Street, especially the octagon Voice Clip Songs.
• The music video of "Video Games" quickly became a meme in the "Every time character says X/X happens it gets faster" sense.

• Refrain from Assuming:
  • "Tribute" is often misnamed "The Greatest Song in the World", which it is merely a tribute to.
  • One song starts with the line "This is a song called The History of Tenacious D." It's actually just called History.

YMMV tropes for the TV series:

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The over-the-top karate fight from "Angel In Disguise" is basically the boys as human cartoons.
• Cult Classic: This series is what you eventually reach if you're a dedicated Tenacious D fan.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Many of the songs on this show, but particularly "Sex Supreme" (aka "Double Team").

• Heartwarming Moments: Lee's I Have Just One Thing to Say moment at the end of "The Fan," and then his Power Of Friendship song, "Special Things," with KG and JB.

• Nightmare Fuel: The Lee montage, set to the song "Lee," which involves the boys following Lee everywhere and then stabbing him to death. Yeah, it's a fantasy sequence, but god-damn.
• Retroactive Recognition: Of course, Jack Black became incredibly popular over the next decade.
  • Sasquatch is a barely recognizable John C. Reilly, better known as Wreck-It Ralph, or Dr. Steve Brule.
  • Paul, the open mic host, is played by Paul F. Tompkins, who has since been annoying the hell out of Bojack Horseman as Mr. Peanutbutter.
• The Woobie: Poor Sasquatch. Caught in a bear trap, then rejected by his new friends.

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