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  • Crosses the Line Twice: Pretty much the entirety of "I Feel Fantastic." The song is a cheerful, upbeat song about a guy with a severe addiction to painkillers and other prescription drugs. Including "steak-tastes-better" pills.
    • From "First of May" (especially effective after the first verse):
      So we went to the park together
      We were walking in the midday sun
      We met all kinds of people, and we
      We fucked everyone
      We fucked the lady who sells ice cream
      We fucked a man with a tan Shar-Pei
      Everyone that needed fuckin', well they
      They got fucked today
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    "I come from a rock and roll town
    And I know a kid named Mike Brown
    If he ever comes to my town (if he ever comes to this crazy town)
    I'm a gonna knock him down (I'ma gonna knock him down, I'ma gonna knock him down)"
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Ikea teamed up with one company to furnish prefab homes, and another to build a block of cheap apartments.
    "Everyone has a home, but if you don't have a home you can buy one there!"
  • Ho Yay: He has described his songs from Portal in a romantic sense, with "Want You Gone" in particular being GLaDOS' "Break-Up Song" towards Chell.
  • Magnificent Bastard: "Re: Your Brains": Bob is a chipper office worker who has become a Flesh-Eating Zombie. When his former coworker Tom holes up in a mall with a group of survivors, Bob is sent to convince them to let the undead hordes in. After expressing genuine understanding of Tom's plight, Bob points out that he's simply delaying the inevitable due to their limited resources, even offering to have the zombies only eat the survivors' brains as a concession. When Tom holds his resolve, Bob elects to fall back for the moment and work on other survivors, treating the whole thing like a normal business meeting.

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