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  • The video to "Girl All the Bad Guys Want", which features parodies of "It's Been Awhile" by Staind and "Break Stuff" by Limp Bizkit.
    • At one point in the latter parody, three people dressed up as Corey Taylor, Joey Jordison and Shawn "Clown" Crahan from Slipknot beat up Jaret, who's dressed up as Fred Durst from LB - this referencing how those two bands had a significant Fandom Rivalry at the time.
  • A lot of their songs count, but special mention goes to their cover of London Bridge
    Erick: [singing] "HOW COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME?"
    Jaret: [speaking] I don't know.
    Erick: "HOW COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME?"
    Jaret: Erick, I don't know, I'm sorry.
    Erick: "HOW COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME?"
    Jaret: I have no earthly idea.
    Erick: "HOW COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME?"
    Jaret: Erick, I'm confused, seriously.
    Erick: "HOW COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME?"
    Jaret: Stop asking me that!
    Erick: "HOW COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME?"
    Jaret: I DON'T KNOW!
  • "Here's Your Freakin' Song" deserves special mention too. It's exactly as deliberately unprofessional and break-up-y as it sounds.
  • "I've got 99 biker friends... that wanna kick your ass!"
  • The entire video for "1985" is pretty hilarious, but the ending takes the cake: the housewife finally joins the band and dances on the hood of their car a 'la Whitesnake until they end the song... and she keeps going while the band just stare at her slack-jawed until her husband comes out.
    Husband: "Honey, what the heck're you doin'?"
    (Housewife looks up and hastily covers herself as the band give her an awkward applause)
  • "Ohio", which is about an ex who left the singer and moved to Ohio. The entire song, ostensibly begging the girl to come back, is pretty much just a bragging song about how great their home state of Texas is.
    • And then for a portion of the song, the style abruptly shifts from punk rock to country, with background noise of a Texas bar with hootin' and hollerin' patrons.
    • The final reason given for why she should come back to Texas?
      Besides, the Mexican Food sucks north of here anyway!
  • "My Hometown", which is equal parts a heartfelt love note to friends and family who supported them early on, and a Take That! diss track to everyone else, including the hometown itself, which they go out of their way never to name.note 
    2, 3, this song goes out to my good friends
    Especially the ones I had before the Grammy Nominations in 2003
  • "Running from your Dad", a blackly comedic riff on the Boyfriend-Blocking Dad which features an unfortunate boyfriend running away from his girlfriend's shovel-wielding father, before suffering a sudden loss of memory that is in no way related to being hit in the head with a shovel. The second verse makes it even funnier by revealing why the dad is running after him - namely, giving his daughter some rather explicit gifts for Christmas.
    And I can still see your dad
    running after me with a shovel in his hands
    I don't remember much after that

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