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Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (Music)

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Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third album by the American nu metal band Limp Bizkit, released on October 17, 2000 to the biggest commercial success and some of the most polarized reactions that the band would ever see. One could say that the album defines everything that their detractors hate about them, and everything their fans love.The album's famously unique name was actually a backup option, as its long-time working title Limpdependence Day was abandoned after the band failed to meet their original July 4 deadline. "Chocolate starfish" is a slang term for the anus, and "hot dog flavored water" was an inside joke started by the band's guitarist Wes Borland at a truck stop while the band was on tour, where he saw bottles of Crystal Geyser flavored water and joked about them tasting like meat.Chocolate Starfish was the band's best-selling album upon its release, debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling over 1 million copies in its first week (with 400,000 of those copies being first-day sales), and going on to be certified six-times Platinum a year after release. Several of the album's singles were also big hits: "My Way", used as the theme song for WrestleMania 17; "Take a Look Around", which appears on the soundtrack to Mission: Impossible II; and "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)", the biggest hit from the album and a Signature Song for the band to this day.However, the album is also usually pointed to as the start of the band's decline in popularity. Common areas of criticism include its length (75 minutes), too many songs feeling like filler, overlong sections seemingly designed to do nothing more than test the listener's patience (such as the 3-minute loop of Ben Stiller laughing in the outro), and the abrasiveness of frontman Fred Durst's voice."Rollin'" also received an equally mixed reception and legacy. While it's popular among fans and as a nu metal anthem, it drew backlash towards the genre and the band for its simplistic, banal lyrics and the perception of Durst being posturing in the song and video (which was even mocked by MADtv in a skit which featured Will Sasso as Durst performing a parody called "Posin'"). Borland also named it as one of the Limp Bizkit songs he hates.The album did have its fair share of praise, though; it was once included in an edition of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, but was later removed in recent editions of the book. It was generally received much better than the band's next album, Results May Vary, which got generally negative reviews from critics and mixed reviews from fans.
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Atomic F-Bomb: "Hot Dog":
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Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times
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Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: "Livin' It Up" has a line "I seen the Fight Club 'bout twenty eight times!". Fred would go on to feature "Prescribed by Dr.: Durden, Tyler" in the Results May Vary artwork, and even be a Guest Fighter in the Fight Club video game.
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Bilingual Bonus: The video for "Boiler" features a diner named "Bolacha Mole", Portuguese for "limp biscuit," of which the band's name is a Xtreme Kool Letterz spelling.
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Cluster F-Bomb: "Hot Dog", again. Allmusic's review of that album lampshaded that while the censored version "basically guts the record," (the clean "Hot Dog" is a succession of short silences) the cussing gets to the point that it "isn’t even noticeable, just part of the midrange hum, like the drums and droning guitars."
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Concept Video
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Concept Video: The music video for "My Way" pokes fun at concept videos, with the production crew constantly changing the concept as the video proceeds. Examples include Limp Bizkit the doo-wop band, Limp Bizkit the biker gang, Limp Bizkit the KISS-expy, and Limp Bizkit the cavemen. "Take a Look Around", taking a cue from the movie it was written for, has the band doing a spy job in a diner, and a phone self-destructing.
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Lucky Charms Title: The album's artwork spells the title as "chocolate st★rfish and the hot dog flavored water"
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My Way or the Highway
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My Way or the Highway: Uttered ad verbatim in the chorus of "My Way". Also described Durst's whole attitude from that point on, to be honest.
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Mind Rape
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Mind Rape/Break Them by Talking: Explicitly mentioned in "Full Nelson":
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Rhyming with Itself
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Rhyming with Itself: "Rollin'"; it could be argued that it actually rhymes "this shit right here" with "biz-kit's right here" (although this wouldn't be obvious in the censored version).
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Careful with That Axe
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Careful with That Axe: There are many moments on this album where Fred got criticized for this. Some of the screams are ear-piercing.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Hot Dog"'s bridge emphasizes every word, and eventually syllables in "Kiss... my... star... fish... my... cho...colate... star...fish...".
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Take That!
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Take That!: Durst, to Trent Reznor in "Hot Dog". Specifically, the whole chorus is made up of Nine Inch Nails references: You wanna fuck me like an animal/You wanna burn me on the inside/You like to think that I'm a perfect drug/Just know that nothing you do will bring you closer to me. Also on "Livin' It Up":
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The first lyric of "Full Nelson", "Why's everybody always pickin' on me?", is a reference to The Bloodhound Gang's "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?".
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Self-Deprecation: Durst announces that his band is "bringing on the dumpster funk" on "Livin' It Up", and refers to himself as the Chocolate Starfish throughout the album.
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Unusual Euphemism: Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. "Chocolate starfish" here being a euphemism for asshole, while "hot dog flavoured water" comes from an in-joke about how Wes Borland saw flavoured water on sale at a truck stop while touring, and jokingly wondered if they also come in meat or hot dog flavour.
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Album Title Drop: "Hot Dog"'s intro goes "Ladies and gentlemen... introducing the Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog-flavored water!"
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Surprisingly Gentle Song
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Hold On."
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Surreal Music Video: The oft-disturbing video to "Boiler", which even includes an animated sequence similar to the cover of Chocolate Starfish.
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Hidden Track: Both "The One" and "Boiler" end with short interludes that act as the pregap to the next track.
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Food and Body Comparison: The album title uses the titular foodstuffs as less-than-subtle metaphors for anal sex, tying in with the band's trademark crude humor. The reference is accentuated by the fact that one of the characters on the album cover holds a starfish with a human anus up to the viewer.
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Movie Bonus Song: "Take A Look Around".
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