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* ScienceMarchesOn: Some live versions of "The Elements" are followed with what Lehrer claims are the original lyrics by Aristotle:
-->''There's earth and air and fire and water'' (song ends)
-->''There's earth and air and fire and water'' (song ends)
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park":
-->''We've gained notoriety and caused much anxiety\\
In the Audubon Society with our games\\
They call it impiety and lack of propriety\\
And quite a variety of unpleasant names!''
-->''We've gained notoriety and caused much anxiety\\
In the Audubon Society with our games\\
They call it impiety and lack of propriety\\
And quite a variety of unpleasant names!''
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* BirdPoopGag: A variation in "A Christmas Carol" in that it's reindeer, not birds, but it amounts to the same thing:
-->''Let the raucous sleigh bells jingle\\
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle\\
Driving his reindeer across the sky\\
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.''
-->''Let the raucous sleigh bells jingle\\
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle\\
Driving his reindeer across the sky\\
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.''
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Oedipus Complex is a disambiguation
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* OedipusComplex: Has a song about [[Theatre/OedipusRex the Trope Namer]]. Lehrer probably deserves an award for rhyming "Rex" with "Complex".
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** At the end of the same song, Lehrer describes his company captain thus: "He used to be, so rumor has / The Dean of Men at Alcatraz."
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* CampCook: "It Makes a Fella Proud to be a Soldier" has a verse for the base cook, who's a LethalChef:
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* CampCook: "It Makes a Fella Fellow Proud to be a Soldier" has a verse for the base cook, who's a LethalChef:
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* ExpositoryThemeTune: Parodied. "Oedipus Rex" was a modest proposal for a title tune "which the people could hum" for the film of [[Theatre/OedipusRex the eponymous play]].
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* ExpositoryThemeTune: Parodied. "Oedipus Rex" was a [[BlatantLies modest proposal proposal]] for a title tune "which the people could hum" for the film of [[Theatre/OedipusRex the eponymous play]].
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* TitleThemeTune: Parodied in "Oedipus Rex". In his spoken-word introduction, he explains that he feels the 1957 film version of Creator/{{Sophocles}}' ''[[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus Rex]]'' did not fare well with audiences because it "did not have a title tune which the people could ''hum'', and which would actually make them eager to attend this particular flick". He then attempts to "supply this need" with a "prospective title song".
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* TitleThemeTune: Parodied {{Parodied|Trope}} in "Oedipus Rex". In his spoken-word introduction, he explains that he feels the 1957 film version of Creator/{{Sophocles}}' ''[[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus Rex]]'' did not fare well with audiences because it "did not have a title tune which the people could ''hum'', and which would actually make them eager to attend this particular flick". He then attempts to "supply this need" with a "prospective title song".
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: "Oedipus Rex" assumes that the listener will know about the SurpriseIncest twist in the story of the title character. While a movie had come out about the legend not long before this album was released, the story goes as far back as Ancient Greece, so even someone more than fifty years later can still get it.
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* CruelTwistEnding: "In Old Mexico" sees Tom watching a bullfight in Mexico. At last, the matador "did what we wanted him to" by raising his sword and killing the bull with a well-aimed strike. However, "in that moment of truth", Tom realizes that someone stole his wallet.
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* MotorMouth: "The Elements".
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* MotorMouth: "The Elements".Elements" sees Tom rattling off the name of all of the elements on the periodic table set to a jaunty tune.
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* SurpriseIncest: In "Oedipus Rex", although not explicitly, because the audience is presumed to know the story already; it's merely alluded to in the line "When he found what he had done".
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* SurpriseIncest: In "Oedipus Rex", although not explicitly, because the audience is presumed to know the story already; it's merely alluded to in the line "When "when he found what he had done".
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trope merge
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* BastardGirlfriend: "The Masochism Tango".
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* RomanticizedAbuse: "The Masochism Tango" follows a man who is enamored with his physically abusive partner.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: The song "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier" describes a variety of incompetent and inappropriate recruits Lehrer supposedly encountered during a stint in the Army. In the spoken introduction, he remarks:
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalOvercorrectness: The song "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier" describes a variety of incompetent and inappropriate recruits Lehrer supposedly encountered during a stint in the Army. In the spoken introduction, he remarks:
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** The liner notes include a selection of negative reviews, such as "plays the piano acceptably", and "Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste."
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** The liner notes include a selection of negative reviews, such as "plays "[[DamnedByFaintPraise plays the piano acceptably", acceptably]]", and "Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste."
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* VocalRangeExceeded: Tom struggles to hit the last note of "We Will All Go Together When We Go", being a little too low for him. Since he wrote the song for himself, he [[RuleOfFunny almost certainly intended that.]]
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* InTheStyleOf: In "Clementine", Lehrer works his way through the folk song, switching to a different musical style for each verse, starting with Music/ColePorter, passing through opera and bebop, and finishing up by finishing off Creator/GilbertAndSullivan.
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* InTheStyleOf: InTheStyleOf:
** In "Clementine", Lehrer works his way through the folk song, switching to a different musical style for each verse, starting with Music/ColePorter, passing through opera and bebop, and finishing up by finishing off Creator/GilbertAndSullivan.
** In "Clementine", Lehrer works his way through the folk song, switching to a different musical style for each verse, starting with Music/ColePorter, passing through opera and bebop, and finishing up by finishing off Creator/GilbertAndSullivan.
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* BegoneBribe: "In Old Mexico":
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* BegoneBribe: "In Old Mexico":Mexico". Overlaps with IncessantMusicMadness.
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* CampCook: "It Makes a Fella Proud to be a Soldier" has a verse for the base cook:
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* CampCook: "It Makes a Fella Proud to be a Soldier" has a verse for the base cook:cook, who's a LethalChef:
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May you make the Yuletide pay.\\
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May you make the Yuletide pay.'''pay'''.\\
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Tell us to go out and buy.''
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Tell us to go out and buy.'''buy'''.''
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What's important is the price''
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What's important is is... the price''
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* IncessantMusicMadness: "In Old Mexico":
-->The mariachis would serenade\\
And they would not shut up till they were paid
-->The mariachis would serenade\\
And they would not shut up till they were paid
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** "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier":
--->Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war\\
But his savory collations add to our ''esprit de corps''\\
To think of all the marvelous ways\\
They're using plastics nowadays!
** In "She's My Girl", this is one of the girl's shortcomings:
--->Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war\\
But his savory collations add to our ''esprit de corps''\\
To think of all the marvelous ways\\
They're using plastics nowadays!
** In "She's My Girl", this is one of the girl's shortcomings:
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** "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier":
--->Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot offSoldier", as quoted above. Also, in the war\\
But his savory collations add to our ''esprit de corps''\\
To think of all the marvelous ways\\
They're using plastics nowadays!
** In"She's My Girl", Girl" this is one of the girl's shortcomings:
--->Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off
But his savory collations add to our ''esprit de corps''\\
To think of all the marvelous ways\\
They're using plastics nowadays!
** In
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Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollahs''
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[[ReferencedBy/{{Monopoly}} Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollahs''dollahs]]''
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He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well''
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He's from Georgia, UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}, and he doesn't speak the language very well''
