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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: The protagonist of "Level Clear," a Mario-esque video game hero whose life feels empty after he defeats the villain; he tries finding meaning through family, humanitarian endeavors, sporting pursuits, crime, and religion but always feels unfulfilled.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: The narrator of "Level Clear," given the chance to live his life over in a "new mode," rejects the call to become a hero and takes a nap instead.
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* AffectionateParody: The video for "Level Clear" serves as one for ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
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* AndThenWhat: The bad guy in "Level Clear" pulled this on the narrator before his demise, causing the narrator's spiral throughout the song.
-->''"Even if you did defeat me, what would you do then?"''
-->''"Even if you did defeat me, what would you do then?"''
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G87p148EOjo Level Clear]]'s whole video comes off more like an AffectionateParody than a ShoutOut, but during the hook, Mario does hit Luigi with a [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Hadouken]].
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* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: The narrator of "Level Clear" can't find a purpose in life after defeating the bad guy, trying out multiple avenues for fulfillment but ultimately finds them unfulfilling.
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* IceCreamKoan: The main character in "#Inspirational" says a lot without saying anything at all, and admits he uses emojis to distract from these nonsensical posts.
-->''Follow your dreams, when your dreams that your following your dreams is not to be a follower. Thoughtful!''
-->''Listen to your heart when your brain does a fart out your asshole, that's your soul! Social media's bad, skull!''
-->''Follow your dreams, when your dreams that your following your dreams is not to be a follower. Thoughtful!''
-->''Listen to your heart when your brain does a fart out your asshole, that's your soul! Social media's bad, skull!''
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* SharedFamilyQuirks: Both Smokin' Joe Rudeboy and [[spoiler: his daughter]] preface their quick draws with a question preceded by "[[LetMeGetThisStraight Lemme make sure I heard you right...]]"
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: In "Hey, I Don't Work Here," the final verse takes place in an active [=NASA=] compound just outside of Sydney, Australia, despite [=NASA=] being an independent agency of the United States government. The narrator even Lampshades the absurdity of it and asks the listener to "just bear with [him]" when he mentions it. However, NASA does have an active station in Australia in the form of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex]], just about a 4 hour drive away from Sydney.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: In "Hey, I Don't Work Here," the final verse takes place in an active [=NASA=] compound just outside of Sydney, Australia, despite [=NASA=] being an independent agency of the United States government. The narrator even Lampshades the absurdity of it and asks the listener to "just bear with [him]" when he mentions it. However, NASA does have an active station in Australia in the form of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex]], just about a 4 hour drive away from Sydney.
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** Also in "Hey, I Don't Work Here," the final verse takes place in an active [=NASA=] compound in... Sydney, Australia. [=NASA=] is an independent agency of the United States government. This is Lampshaded, as the narrator asks the listener to "just bear with [him]" when he mentions it.
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** Also in "Hey, I Don't Work Here," the final verse takes place in an active [=NASA=] compound in... Sydney, Australia. [=NASA=] is an independent agency of the United States government. This is Lampshaded, as the narrator asks the listener to "just bear with [him]" when he mentions it.
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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Smokin' Joe's full name is Joseph Rudeboy, fitting for a guy whose shtick is FlippingTheBird.
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* ChristmasCreep: "Not Quite Almost Christmas Time" mocks people and stores who start setting up their decorations as early as November 1st.
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* ChristmasCreep: "Not Quite Almost Christmas Time" mocks people and makes fun of stores who start setting that set up their Christmas decorations as early as November 1st.
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* ChristmasCreep: "Not Quite Almost Christmas Time" mocks people and stores who start setting up their decorations as early as November 1st.
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** "Call Your Mother" which is about how you should call her mother and be nice to her, and how you can generally make a positive difference in the world through small kindnesses.
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** "Call Your Mother" which is about how you should call her your mother and be nice to her, and how you can generally make a positive difference in the world through small kindnesses.
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* DirtyCop: In "Business Man," it turns out [[spoiler: Dwink Bexon killed Officer Jackson's wife, which he confesses while trying to kill him and his business associates for making fun of his name.]]
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* DirtyCop: In "Business Man," it turns out [[spoiler: Dwink Bexon killed Officer Jackson's wife, which he confesses while trying to kill him and his business associates [[DisproportionateRetribution for making fun of his name.name]].]]
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* DirtyCop: In "Business Man," it turns out [[spoiler: Dwink Bexon killed Officer Jackson's wife, which he confesses while trying to kill him and his business associates.]]
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* DirtyCop: In "Business Man," it turns out [[spoiler: Dwink Bexon killed Officer Jackson's wife, which he confesses while trying to kill him and his business associates.associates for making fun of his name.]]
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* AerithAndBob: "Business Man" has Officers Jackson and Dwink Bexon.
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* SkewedPriorities: The definitely-not-a-cop in "Business Man" tries to maintain his (completely transparent) cover even after everything goes to shit and even though his "business associates" all clearly tell him that a) they already know he's a cop, and b) they don't ''care'', will he please just call in backup so they don't all die?
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* SincerityMode: "Call Your Mother" which is about how you should call her mother and be nice to her.
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** "Call Your Mother" which is about how you should call her mother and be nice toher.her, and how you can generally make a positive difference in the world through small kindnesses.
** "Big Dumb Idiot" segues from being a song about how embarrassing it is to accidentally do mildly stupid things in public, to being about how being a little stupid in front of other people occasionally is worth it for human connection.
** "Call Your Mother" which is about how you should call her mother and be nice to
** "Big Dumb Idiot" segues from being a song about how embarrassing it is to accidentally do mildly stupid things in public, to being about how being a little stupid in front of other people occasionally is worth it for human connection.
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* AnachronismStew: Smokin' Joe lives in a Wild West with high noon shootouts and outlaws, but also lattes and store credit
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* AnachronismStew: Smokin' Joe lives in a Wild West with high noon shootouts and outlaws, but also lattes and store creditcredit. And Amazon.
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* AnachronismStew: Smokin' Joe lives in a Wild West with high noon shootouts and outlaws, but also lattes and store credit
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: A variation occurs in "The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy"
-->''They know that I know that they know that they can [[PrecisionFStrike fuck themself!]]''
-->''They know that I know that they know that they can [[PrecisionFStrike fuck themself!]]''
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* BadassPacifist: Smokin' Joe is able to defeat all his opponents - who have literal guns, mind you - by simply FlippingTheBird.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: How Smokin' Joe is able to out-draw 20 people at the same time.
-->''The Mongoose Mountain Gang played dirty with a 20-man crew''\\
''But tales are told that Joe grew eighteen arms that day as a gift from [[Myth/HinduMythology Vishnu]]''
-->''The Mongoose Mountain Gang played dirty with a 20-man crew''\\
''But tales are told that Joe grew eighteen arms that day as a gift from [[Myth/HinduMythology Vishnu]]''
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* ArtisticLicensePolitics: Invoked in "Party Dog". The narrator declares that he's the pope of the corgi and nobody else can come hang out without a passport, since in this analogy the dog is now the Vatican--only to find out while screwing around on his phone that the Vatican actually doesn't require visitors to show their passports. (They will make you buy a ticket, though.)
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* ArtisticLicensePolitics: ArtisticLicensePolitics:
** Invoked in "Party Dog". The narrator declares that he's the pope of the corgi and nobody else can come hang out without a passport, since in this analogy the dog is now the Vatican--only to find out while screwing around on his phone that the Vatican actually doesn't require visitors to show their passports. (They will make you buy a ticket, though.))
** At the end of the video for "Hey, I Don't Work Here," the front page of a newspaper shows that after the narrator [[spoiler: saved the planet from an alien invasion]] he was somehow elected President of Earth.
** Invoked in "Party Dog". The narrator declares that he's the pope of the corgi and nobody else can come hang out without a passport, since in this analogy the dog is now the Vatican--only to find out while screwing around on his phone that the Vatican actually doesn't require visitors to show their passports. (They will make you buy a ticket, though.
** At the end of the video for "Hey, I Don't Work Here," the front page of a newspaper shows that after the narrator [[spoiler: saved the planet from an alien invasion]] he was somehow elected President of Earth.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Smokin' Joe's wife didn't want him to use guns against the velvet-cloaked bandit. He honors her posthumously by winning duels using only his [[FlippingTheBird middle finger]].
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* RuleOfThree: In "Hey, I Don't Work Here" the narrator is mistaken for an employee a total of three times; first by a lady at the store, then by a man at the beach, and finally [[spoiler: by aliens]].
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* FastestGunInTheWest: Subverted for laughs in "The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy" in which the titular character wins QuickDraw duels despite not having a gun - rather, he [[FlippingTheBird flips his opponent off]] before they're able to draw their own weapon.
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* FastestGunInTheWest: Subverted for laughs in "The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy" in which the titular character wins QuickDraw duels despite not having a gun - rather, he [[FlippingTheBird flips his opponent off]] before they're able to draw their own weapon. [[spoiler: His daughter is even faster.]]
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** One of the men who try to duel Smokin' Joe in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7W4dAvZmQc The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy]] is [[LeeroyJenkins Leroy]] [[TheMagnificent "2 gun"]] [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Jenkins]].
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* FastestGunInTheWest: Subverted for laughs in "The Ballad of Smokin' Joe Rudeboy" in which the titular character wins QuickDraw duels despite not having a gun - rather, he [[FlippingTheBird flips his opponent off]] before they're able to draw their own weapon.
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* AnAesop: For "Red Flags": Someone may be passionate about things that are traditionally considered "weird", but so long as it's self-moderates and isn't harming anyone you shouldn't let it cloud your opinion on them.
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* AnAesop: For "Red Flags": Someone may be passionate about things that are traditionally considered "weird", but so long as it's self-moderates self-moderated and isn't harming anyone you shouldn't let it cloud your opinion on them.
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* AnAesop: For "Red Flags": Someone may be passionate about things that are traditionally considered "weird", but so long as it's self-moderates and isn't harming anyone you shouldn't let it cloud your opinion on them.
-->''Stop hiding behind your silly made-up'' ''[[TitleDrop red flags]]\\
To not take a chance on the best relationship you never had\\
Maybe you're right, and I'm looking for excuses\\
My heart's got bruises, but I'm ready to choose this love!''
-->''Stop hiding behind your silly made-up'' ''[[TitleDrop red flags]]\\
To not take a chance on the best relationship you never had\\
Maybe you're right, and I'm looking for excuses\\
My heart's got bruises, but I'm ready to choose this love!''
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* BlatantLies: "Paint That Lady" devolves into the narrator insisting he's not stalling for time by painting his hookup because he's too nervous to actually have sex with her. It's totally just a coincidence that this is taking hours--oh, and by the way, he has to get up ''really'' early tomorrow, so...
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* FailedASpotCheck: In "Hey, I Don't Work Here" people repeatedly miss obvious signs the narrator ''isn't'' an employee of wherever they are. The biggest offender is the guy who mistakes him for a lifeguard just because he's by the lifeguard stand, despite the fact he's not wearing a uniform and is asleep in a silly sand sculpture.
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* ''H.Y.C.Y.BH?'' (2021)
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* ''H.Y.C.Y.BH?'' (2021)
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** ''H.Y.C.Y.
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* ''H.Y.C.Y.BH?'' (2021)
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* ''H.Y.C.Y.BH?'' (2021)
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Messages". That girl's poor dad...
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* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Mercilessly parodied in "Mixed Messages" where the narrator does all kinds of ludicrous things to confuse his girlfriend, up to and including ''repeatedly punching her dad in the dick''.
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* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Mercilessly parodied in "Mixed Messages" where the narrator does all kinds of ludicrous things to confuse his girlfriend, up to and including ''repeatedly punching her dad in the dick''. She seems to be into it, if the MV is any indication.
