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  • Before launching into the incredibly short and incredibly simple "Short Songs", Jello yells: "Rick Wakeman, eat your heart out!"
  • And "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" starts with "Nazi Punks Fuck Off, overproduced by Martin Hannett, take four".
  • "Night of the Living Rednecks", Jello Biafra's quite funny tale of how he once dealt with being harassed after a show by jocks in Portland, as told over improvised bebop jazz from Flouride and Peligro.
    "...and I thought, this is Oregon, huh? Tolerant Oregon?"
    • The irony of the conclusion of the tale - when the police become involved, they only ask for the jocks' side of the story, giving them ample opportunity to claim that Jello attacked them unprovoked and thus have an excuse to either arrest Jello or just let the jocks beat him up. But the first jock they asked was either too dumb or too arrogant to lie, so the officer just throws up his hands and allows Jello to escape.
  • And the whole "Pull My Strings" affair, mixed with Moment of Awesome. They hijacked a music awards ceremony with a song tearing the music industry a new one, and the song's chorus is "Is my cock big enough? Is my brain small enough? For you to make me a star? Give me a toot and I'll sell you my soul. Pull my strings and I'll go far." And the crowd loved it.
  • The Faux Horrific of this line in "California Über Alles"
    Your kids will meditate in school...
    Your kids will mediate in school!

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