Funny / mewithoutYou

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• The first chorus of "The Fox, the Crow, and the Cookie" contains this gem:
  Using most unfriendly words
  That the village children had not yet heard
  The baker shouted threats by canzonette
  To curse the crafty bird
  "You rotten wooden mixing spoon
  Why, you midnight-winged raccoon
  You better bring those pastries back
  You no-good burned-black macaroon!"
  • The crow's reaction to Fox's flattery is equally over the top: "Every rook and jay in the Corvidae's been ravin' about me too".
  • The music video features plenty of comical overacting in and of itself. Additional bits of hilarity include the performers manually moving the puppets around the stage, the use of objects strung across with wire to mimic Symbol Swearing, and the baker's failed slow-motion dive towards the falling cookie.
• Parts of "Fig With a Bellyache" can only be described as hilariously blunt. The fact that the sexual nature of the lyrics is both more-or-less unique to this track and never given any special emphasis relative to any other song makes it even more ridiculous, in a "Did I just hear that?" kind of way.
  We pretend to care like we understand
  Our eyes go soft, but know it now
  What we're thinking about's your mammary glands
  And how to sail your birth canal
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  The dog below our waist's aroused
  As arms embraced the pretty gals
  It came much more as a surprise
  It happening while I hugged the guys
• In "Cattail Down", Aaron offhandedly mentions finding a bag of marijuana along his travels before telling his mom that they left it there.
• This bit from "Fox's Dream of the Log Flume" is pure Black Comedy in an otherwise intensely dramatic piece:
  Looking down at the waltzer, out at the sea
  And I asked her: "You ever have that recurring fantasy?
  Where you push little kids from the tops of the rides?
  And she shook her head no, I said "Oh, neither do I"
• In Pale Horses, there's something amusing about Aaron singing "To heck with all the drugs my parents did!" in "Mexican War Streets" while reserving an actual Precision F-Strike for describing his hairline in "Rainbow Signs".
• During live shows, Aaron ended up updating a lyric from "C-Minor" on different occasions. One known example is as follows:
  "I'm no longer a virgin after 30 something years
  But personally my sex-life is none of your business"
• During one of the performances for the band's Farwell Tour, someone threw a horse mask onto the stage. Without missing a beat, Aaron actually ended up performing with it on for a few minutes.

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