YMMV / Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Jack Black an Iconic, if hammy, badass who does what he does for the rock? Or is he just fighting for his daddy's love the only way he can, through music, as suggested by "Baby" and "Sasquache"?
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: "Kickapoo" might sound like a scatologically humorous name for a fictional town in the Midwest, but there are actually several cities named Kickapoo, named after the Native American nation.
• Awesome Music: The main reason to watch this movie. Especially "Beelzeboss".
  • For a non-Tenacious D example, "Agnus Dei" the song playing when Jables gets his first guitar.
  • The opening number, "Kickapoo," a mini-Rock Opera featuring (in order) Jack Black doing his thing, Meat Loaf singing in a movie for the first time in thirty years and Ronnie James Dio rocking so hard that his voice literally caused a microphone to blow out!^note He does not need! A microphone! His voice is fuckin'! POWERFUUUUULLLL!!
  • Classico.
  • The sheer unadulterated awesomeness that is "Master Exploder," often regarded as The D's best song.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The sasquatch scene.
• Fanon: It's usually accepted that the reason JB managed to deflect Satan's lightning bolt in the end with his guitar was because Tenacious D had actually managed to win the rock-off. ^note After all, the Devil sings about how he loves metal, and it's explicitly stated to be a rock-off, not a metal-off.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Well, I just want to say that I'm a huge fan."^Explanation A scene from the making of where Dave Grohl, in costume as Satan, says this to Jack Black, which is used to invoke Your Approval Fills Me with Shame on someone. A variant of the meme replaces the picture of Satan Dave Grohl with one of Jesus, and the evil deed with a good one.
  • The Scream from "Kickapoo" is a popular source to edit into other scenes where people either scream or get hit.
  • "You're gonna gargle mayonnaise!"^Explanation This line from "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)" became a popular editing source for YouTube Poops, mainly because of the hammy way JB says "gargle".
  • 'Twas I who fucked the dragon!^Explanation A line from "Kickapoo", used in reference to, well, sex with dragons, such as Donkey from Shrek or the stereotypical Dungeons & Dragons Horny Bard player.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Meat Loaf as JB's father in the opening song, notably his only other singing role in a movie after The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • Ronnie James Dio as himself immediately after.
  • Dave Grohl as the Devil.
• Signature Scene: The Rock-off against The Devil that is the climax of the film is by far the most remembered moment of the film, in no small part due the "Beelzeboss" musical number.
  • And to a lesser extent, the scene where Jables uses his penis to deactivate a security system
• Strawman Has a Point: So, wait... rock and roll actually does come from the Devil?! JB's dad was right!
  • JB's dad was right about pretty much everything. He also said that rock would be a corrupting influence on JB, which JB blows off with "Rock is not the Devil's work! It's magical and rad!" By the time he's been living the rock lifestyle for years and learns that the Devil is in fact responsible for rock'n'roll, he thinks that's awesome and will do whatever it takes to snag that demonic power for himself.
    • Though if we want to get technical, the Pick of Destiny is actually a product of triumph over the Devil.
• Tear Jerker: The song "Dude (I Totally Miss You)" is pretty damn depressing for a comedy rock film.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: There are about 15 minutes worth of Deleted Scenes which would have set up more jokes and allowed for better character development. Liam Lynch had them all cut to speed up the pace and allow for more gags, but there is a minority of fans who feel that it wasn't worth it, and both of those things would have benefited the movie by giving it a stronger emotional core.
• The Woobie: KG has a couple short scenes in the movie designed to invoke this. One shows that he was bald as a kid and bullied for it, and another has a college kid throw a plastic cup at him after he bombs a performance. Bordering on Jerkass Woobie as he takes advantage of Jables for the first half of the movie, makes up stories to try to get with girls not half his age, and is a major slacker.

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