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  • Broken Base: Fans of the music videos vs. fans of the political videos.
  • Crack Pairing: Chris Martin and... a yeti that looks like Chewbacca?!
  • Fetish Retardant: Fergie's dance in Sensual Spandex while talking about her bowel habits can be this. The toilets that appear do not help.
  • Growing the Beard: The later videos cut down on the Word Salad Lyrics a lot and focus on lip readings that are, coincidentally and hilariously, coherent dialog.
  • Heartwarming Moments: The deleted scenes of "MEDIEVAL LAND FUN-TIME WORLD" reveal that the reason Eddie needs the park to raise money is so that he can afford surgery for his daughter.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • One line from "Party in the USA" (which was turned into "Black Umbrella") mentions that "the Jay-Z song was on".. think she meant "Empire State of Mind"?note 
    • Russian Unicorn becomes even funnier when you find out that the girl in the video is his wife.
    • After Rick Perry becomes the first "target" for BLR soundbytes, Rick Perry gets famously tongue-tied for real.
    • Mitt Romney's line "In America, we have a song." He later recited "America the Beautiful" during a speech.
    • Apparently Chris Martin didn't take losing Gwyneth Paltrow to Tony Stark all that well...
    • "Rockin' All Night Long" actually predicted Taylor Swift's more pop direction and her collaborating with a rapper (specifically on the remix of "Bad Blood" with Kendrick Lamar).
    • "Hot Jumping Beans" has a section where Justin Bieber offers an unseen girl some of the title beans while saying "I think you want 'em," while Gary LeVox follows up with "She might not want 'em." Come to find out, as of January 2013, she doesn't.
      • In 'Asian Baby', Bieber says "What do you mean?" and "Sorry!" Four years later, both lines became official Bieber song titles.
    • A couple of years after "Black Umbrella", Miley Cyrus and Snoop Dogg actually did collaborate on a song - "Ashtrays & Heartbreaks", which Snoop released under his current moniker of Snoop Lion. Miley tweeting "Black Umbrella" to Snoop had to have had something to do with it.
    • Herman Cain: "I'm gonna teach you an expression: I quit." Not long after the video was released, Cain dropped out of the presidential race.
    • James Blunt's song "You're Beautiful" was turned into "Beard with glue". The second video of "More The Walking (And Talking) Dead" has Rick say that Daryl glued a beard to a mannequin.
    • After the countless references to Star Wars over the years, all three films in the original trilogy finally got lip readings of their own, to coincide with the release of The Force Awakens.
    • a Crossover featuring "Game of Thrones" and West World was planned with the former being a theme park.
    • Bruno Mars ends the bridge of "Morning Dew" with the lyrics "Mirror, mirror, on the floor/Am I the prettiest at the store?" Cue "That’s What I Like" years later involving Bruno taking a girl on a shopping spree and flirtatiously asking her to "Take a look in that mirror and tell me who’s the fairest - is it you? Is it me...?"
  • Ho Yay:
    • In "Hostiles on the Hill", there is some between Luke and Wedge.
    Luke: I wish I wasn't so dang sweet.
    Wedge: You are like cinnamon.
    • Mike Pence refers to Donald Trump as "my prince" in "Inauguration Day".
  • Memetic Mutation: Have I brought this chicken for us to eat?
    • No, but you've brought this chicken for us to thaw.
    • From The Right Stuff: "Meshuggeneh Vinny had a hoopty".
      • Also from The Right Stuff: "And I'm pregnant".
      • Dirty Spaceman: TIE DYE EINSTEIN TAKES STOP SIGNS!
    • It's becoming more and more common to see quotes from the BLR versions of the videos posted on the original videos.
    • This segment from the High School Musical video.
    • From "Time To Rock": "Fuck this, I can't hear you in the market."
    • "YOU TOOK A SAMPLE OF MY PASTA!", from "Sample of My Pasta". Especially since that line matches perfectly with Jimin's lips. People compared it to the famous "Jimin, you got no jams" line.
  • Nausea Fuel: "Diarrhea is OK. I once let it shoot out for half a block."
  • Portmanteau Couple Name: Some people have been calling the High School Musical dub pairing of Chorky and Lumpkinella, "Chorkinella".
  • Signature Song: "Gang Fight." "Russian Unicorn" is also a contender.
    • "Seagulls! (Stop It Now) is a very strong contender, it being BLR's most popular video at one hundred million views and counting. It has also been doing the rounds on sites such as Tumblr for the last year or so, and Devin Townsend covered it live in 2019.
  • Squick:
    • The "Everybody Poops" video has a character say "Open wide." It also mentions pooping on the floor. Also "greenish potatoes with them soggy fish sticks" could be referring to what Fergie puts on the floor.
    • "Dirty Spaceman" has the lines "Can you leave your wrinkled willie glue inside my ocean, please?" and "every grandma oughta freak when they see me and my brown one-eye". The Nicki Minaj reaction shot after the "wrinkled willie glue" line is priceless.
    • The Yeti is described as "wet and furry and funky". And that's before we learn just why it's like that...
    • Just the mere thought of Rick Santorum shooting out diarrhea half a block long is just... OH GOD!!!
    • Ted Cruz likes to eat human hair.
    • "Last night I pooped out glass." You're right, Fergie, that is TMI.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: "Don't Stare at the Sun," the dub of "We're All in This Together," has several sections that sound like "We Go Together" from Grease, particularly at the beginning and during the sections with nonsense lyrics. This is likely intentional, since both "We Go Together" and "We're All in This Together" have similar titles and themes (both being the finale number of a high school musical in which the cast sings about their friendship).
  • Tear Jerker:
    • Despite the ridiculousness of it, the scene where Peter Parker admits he ate Gwen's pet Pig and Duck can be quite sad. He ate 'em both, man.
    • The Dark Reprise of "Axe-Assassin Albertson" theme seems to be at least in part from the point of view of KASCAID, an AI that's the last remaining being on a dead Earth. It clearly isn't happy about this.
    "Oh, how beautiful the human race is. Never knew how much I'd miss their faces."
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The Photoshop work on these videos has led people to check out the originals just to see how much of that stuff is legit. No, the forest and Chewbacca were NOT in Coldplay's "In My Place".

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