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** "Lubachevsky": "I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk, who's friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk has friend in Akvolinsk..."
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** "Lubachevsky": "Lobachevsky": "I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk, who's whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk has with friend in Akvolinsk...Akmolinsk..."
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Wick removal.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* HangingOurClothesToDry: In the "Patiently" verse of "L-Y".
* HangingOurClothesToDry: In the "Patiently" verse of "L-Y".
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* JukeboxMusical: ''Tom Foolery''.
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** Very obviously in Oedipus Rex, given the subject of the song is infamous for that act.
---> There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex\\
You may have heard about his odd complex\\
His name appears in Freud's index\\
'Cause he LOVED his mother
---> There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex\\
You may have heard about his odd complex\\
His name appears in Freud's index\\
'Cause he LOVED his mother
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** "The Elements": is probably the most literal example of this trope there will ever be. It's literally just a list of all the elements known at the time to the tune of The Major General's Song from ThePiratesOfPenzance, the only other lyrics being a note that there may be more as-yet undiscovered elements that aren't in the list.
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** "The Elements": is probably the most literal example of this trope there will ever be. It's literally just a list of all the elements known at the time to the tune of The Major General's Song from ThePiratesOfPenzance, Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance, the only other lyrics being a note that there may be more as-yet undiscovered elements that aren't in the list.
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** "The Elements": is probably the most literal example of this trope there will ever be. It's literally just a list of all the elements known at the time to the tune of The Major General's Song from ThePiratesOfPenzance, the only other lyrics being a note that there may be more as-yet undiscovered elements that aren't in the list.
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Real Life troping; Cool Old Guy is a narrative trope and deemed NRLEP because of that; I'm sure his approval of being sampled could be put in the Trivia tab through Approval Of God?
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* CoolOldGuy: He's in his ''nineties'' and retired but he's clearly StillGotIt and was delighted to have Music/TwoChainz sample his song "The Old Dope Peddler" for his debut album (in Lehrer's words) "[[DeadpanSnarker literally sixty years after I recorded it.]]" He described his official response to the copyright request:
-->'''Lehrer''': As sole copyright owner of "The Old Dope Peddler", I grant you [[PrecisionFStrike motherfuckers]] permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?
-->'''Lehrer''': As sole copyright owner of "The Old Dope Peddler", I grant you [[PrecisionFStrike motherfuckers]] permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?
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---> I like it best when it's uncut, and unsubt...tle.
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---> A dirty novel I can't shut / If it's uncut / And unsubt...tle.
---> I thrill / To any book like ''Fanny Hill'' / And I suppose I always will / If itbest when it's uncut, and unsubt...tle.is swill / And really fil...thy.
---> I thrill / To any book like ''Fanny Hill'' / And I suppose I always will / If it
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* CityShoutOuts: The fourth verse of "Pollution" has local variants for UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity ("The breakfast garbage they throw out in Troy/They drink for lunch in Perth Amboy") and UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco ("The breakfast garbage that you throw in the Bay/They drink for lunch in San José").
* CoolOldGuy: He's in his ''nineties'' and retired but he's clearly StillGotIt and was delighted to have Music/TwoChainz sample his song ''The Dope Peddler'' for his debut album (in Lehrer's words) "[[DeadpanSnarker literally sixty years after I recorded it.]]" He described his official response to the copyright request:
* CoolOldGuy: He's in his ''nineties'' and retired but he's clearly StillGotIt and was delighted to have Music/TwoChainz sample his song ''The Dope Peddler'' for his debut album (in Lehrer's words) "[[DeadpanSnarker literally sixty years after I recorded it.]]" He described his official response to the copyright request:
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* CityShoutOuts: The fourth verse of "Pollution" has local variants for UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity ("The breakfast garbage they throw out in Troy/They drink for at lunch in Perth Amboy") and UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco ("The breakfast garbage that you throw in the Bay/They drink for at lunch in San José").
* CoolOldGuy: He's in his ''nineties'' and retired but he's clearly StillGotIt and was delighted to have Music/TwoChainz sample his song''The "The Old Dope Peddler'' Peddler" for his debut album (in Lehrer's words) "[[DeadpanSnarker literally sixty years after I recorded it.]]" He described his official response to the copyright request:
* CoolOldGuy: He's in his ''nineties'' and retired but he's clearly StillGotIt and was delighted to have Music/TwoChainz sample his song
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In the fall of 2020, at the age of 92, he announced that he was releasing all of his lyrics and sheet music to the public domain, and set up [[https://tomlehrersongs.com/ his own website]] for downloading them, which will remain online until 2024.
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In the fall of October 2020, at the age of 92, he announced that he was releasing all of his lyrics and sheet music to the public domain, and set up [[https://tomlehrersongs.com/ his own website]] for downloading them, which will remain online until 2024. In November 2022, he formally surrendered the copyright and performing/recording rights on his songs, making all the lyrics and music he had composed free for anyone to use.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: From "I Got It from Agnes":
-->She then gave it to Daniel, whose spaniel has it now.
** Also suggested in the opening monologue to "In Old Mexico"
--->...Where he majored in animal husbandry until they...caught him at it one day.
-->She then gave it to Daniel, whose spaniel has it now.
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--->...Where he majored in animal husbandry until they...caught him at it one day.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: BestialityIsDepraved:
** From "I Got It from Agnes":
-->She --->She then gave it to Daniel, whose spaniel has it now.
** Also suggested in the opening monologue to "In OldMexico"
Mexico".
--->... Where he majored in animal husbandry until they...caught him at it one day.
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** Also suggested in the opening monologue to "In Old
--->... Where he majored in animal husbandry until they...caught him at it one day.
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* CityShoutOuts: The fourth verse of "Pollution" has local variants for UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity ("The breakfast garbage they throw out in Troy/They drink for lunch in Perth Amboy") and UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco ("The breakfast garbage that you throw in the Bay/They drink for lunch in San José").
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* '''BlackComedy''': Lots and ''lots'' of examples, but "I Got It from Agnes" has this doozy: "Max got it from Edith, who gets it every spring/ [[ParentalIncest She got it from her daddy]], ''[[DaddysGirl who just gives her everything]]''..."
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* '''BlackComedy''': BlackComedy: Lots and ''lots'' of examples, but "I Got It from Agnes" has this doozy: "Max got it from Edith, who gets it every spring/ [[ParentalIncest She got it from her daddy]], ''[[DaddysGirl who just gives her everything]]''..."
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* LyricalDissonance: "I Got It from Agnes" is a cheerful ditty about the spread of VD through vectors including parental incest, zoophilia, and a homosexual threesome (Aha! Lucky Pierre!).
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* LyricalDissonance: "I Got It from Agnes" is a cheerful ditty about the spread of VD through vectors including parental incest, zoophilia, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a homosexual threesome threesome]] (Aha! Lucky Pierre!).
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* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted. Lehrer looks like the math professor he is, and his tunes are all happy, upbeat piano pieces, but egad, the lyrics!
* SerialEscalation: Each verse of "I Got It from Agnes" endeavours to be more controversial than the last, gradually implying DepravedBisexual tendencies, a [[ThreesomeSubtext gay threesome]], ParentalIncest, a man who [[BestialityIsDepraved bred with his dog]] and finally that their dentist raped one of them while they were under anaesthetic.
* SerialEscalation: Each verse of "I Got It from Agnes" endeavours to be more controversial than the last, gradually implying DepravedBisexual tendencies, a [[ThreesomeSubtext gay threesome]], ParentalIncest, a man who [[BestialityIsDepraved bred with his dog]] and finally that their dentist raped one of them while they were under anaesthetic.
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* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted.{{Inverted}}. Lehrer looks like the math professor he is, and his tunes are all happy, upbeat piano pieces, but egad, the lyrics!
* SerialEscalation: Each verse of "I Got It from Agnes"endeavours endeavors to be more controversial than the last, gradually implying DepravedBisexual tendencies, a [[ThreesomeSubtext gay threesome]], ParentalIncest, a man who [[BestialityIsDepraved bred with his dog]] and finally that their dentist raped one of them while they were under anaesthetic.anesthetic.
* SerialEscalation: Each verse of "I Got It from Agnes"
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*** And frequently, Creator/DanielRadcliffe will dust off the song from memory when he's a guest on daytime, evening, and late-night talk-shows, so does that mean Lehrer also has [[Franchise/HarryPotter Diagon Alley]] cred to his name?
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*** And frequently, Creator/DanielRadcliffe will dust off the song from memory when he's a guest on daytime, evening, and late-night talk-shows, talk shows, so does that mean Lehrer also has [[Franchise/HarryPotter Diagon Alley]] cred to his name?
