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"The Fan" contains examples of:

  • Couch Gag: The Open-Mic Host's intro:
    Open-Mic Host: "Caution: the surgeon general of rock warns that viewing this next band is equal to 29 orgasms." Here they are, Tenacious D.
  • Loony Fan: Zig-Zagging Trope. When Lee is first introduced in the series, it seems that he will be portrayed as such, pointing out many minor details about the band that one would not normally notice and doing an Offscreen Teleportation in front of them. When Jack and Kyle get a look at the website he made for them, they end up turning into his psycho-fans instead. By the time he comes home from work the next day, they've left him dozens of messages on his voice box, messaged all the hospitals in the area when he does not call back, somehow learn various personal details of him and break into his apartment to talk to him.
  • Stalking is Love: Of the platonic variety. By the end of the band's Obsession Song about him, Lee admits that while it does scare him, he has never had anyone who cared so much about him, and the episode ends with Lee singing with them on stage about their friendship. Although JB takes pains to point out that he'll never be allowed to join the band.

"Road Gig" contains examples of:

  • Couch Gag: The Open-Mic Host's intro:
    Open-Mic Host: "Attention: If you're ovulating, move away from the stage because this band is so potent, just sitting near them can get you pregnant." Here they are, Tenacious D.
  • Cult: The Jesus Ranch Cult are all Christian hippies that believe that one parts with a piece of their souls when they defecate, and that they need to bury their deceased bodies with all of their feces for their souls to be whole. Their leader Liggaguie admits that they are a cult and they spend time through singing and talent-shows. While generally peaceful and probably not the kind to brainwash, they do keep guns around and board up their doors when ask to leave by the County Health Department.
  • Green Thumb: Because the Jesus Ranch Cult keeps the "collective leavings" of their members as part of their philosophy, their soil is very fertile, demonstrated with a potato the size of a human torso.
  • Looped Lyrics: When they are asked to evict by the County Health Department, the Jesus Ranch Cult stay in protest and spend hours singing the same song over and over.
  • Path of Most Resistance: When the Open-Mic Host asks Tenacious D to spend the next night at his brother's club, they treat it like a "road gig", seeing it as a step-up for the band. Even though the open-Mic host insists that it is only a few blocks away. To keep up the fantasy, they draw a needlessly long route there, taking them to the desert.
  • Too Dumb to Live: They decide to get out of the car and wander the desert. Not for gas, but for wiper fluid.

 
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When Lee is first introduced in the series, it seems that he will be portrayed as such, pointing out many minor details about the band that one would not normally notice and doing an Offscreen Teleportation in front of them.

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