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TISM (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })TISM (short for This Is Serious Mum) were a seven-piece anonymous Australian alternative rock/electronic band known for their satirical lyrics, energetic live shows and frequent piss-taking. Formed in 1982 in south-east Melbourne, they immediately broke up after a disastrous first gig (with every subsequent gig termed a "re-union gig"), before getting back together and releasing their 1988 debut album Great Truckin' Songs Of The Renaissance to mild success. In 1995, with the release of their third album Machiavelli And The Four Seasons, they departed from the simple rock sound of earlier albums into a more synth-orientated electronic style. The change was a hit, and the album became their best-selling and most famous. They broke up in 2004 after releasing The White Albun, (sic) their sixth and final album.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Taking inspiration from The Residents, TISM were never seen without their trademark balaclavas and often sported elaborate costumes at concerts. The band used their anonymity to become the premier trolls of the Australian music scene, known for pranks on both the media and audiences alike (for example, turning up on Hey Hey It's Saturday with 28 band members, and playing a gig that lasted a whole 3 minutes). Naturally they courted a lot of controversy, most famously earning the ire of Australian-born Flea for a song about the death of River Phoenix, and getting sued by artist Ken Done for an album cover parodying his artwork.While relatively popular in Australia, TISM are probably best known internationally for their 2004 single "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me", due to the music video of a lamenting bunny becoming an early viral video on flash sites such as Newgrounds and Albino Blacksheep.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); }) | |
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Fan of the Past | |
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Fan of the Past: "Garbage" blasts these in the younger generation. | |
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Played Straight in the video for "I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt", which parodies a sex tape. While the couple get it on with flippers and a Jeff Kennett mask, a member of TISM lies on the other side of the bed disinterestedly reading a book. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: 1988's The Penis Mightier Than The Sword - a diatribe about Derryn Hinch - is reversed by 2001's Yet Another Derryn Hinch Diatribe, in which Hinch engages in similar criticism of TISM to the same rhyme scheme. | |
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Hypocritical Humour: The introduction to video for "They'll never called him Old Man River" on TV show Rage starts with them claiming the song is saying say no to drugs. After the director yells cut they immediately start cutting up some white powder. | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: A few: "I Shit Me", "B.F.W.", "I'm Fucked In The Head", etc, etc. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies "I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt" starts out with the assurance that the narrator would fuck your sister but never your mum. Later he admits that he doesn't always tell the truth - and asks for your mum's phone number. | |
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Public Service Announcement | |
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Public Service Announcement: "Greg, The Stop Sign!" is a reference to an Australian driving PSA, where a distracted driver misses a stop sign, prompting a passenger to yell "DARREN!" | |
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Three Chords and the Truth | |
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Three Chords and the Truth: While not unskilled musicians, they prefered to keep songs simple and catchy. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: Subverted in "Message From A Big Day Out Port-A-Loo". After worrying about what various obscure and nuanced details of Middle-Eastern politics will mean for the region, the singer just decides to get drunk and take E. | |
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Tokin' Blackman (James Paull, not actually a token minority): Guitar (died of cancer in 2008) | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down: "Been Caught Wankin" | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: On the extras for one of their DVDs they state "If you find on this DVD anywhere shots of us talking to people from our past and walking around on location I want you to take it back and demand a refund.". Two guesses what the next shot was. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: Their first single was "Defecate On My Face", in which Hitler loses World War II because Eva Braun stops doing the eponymous act. | |
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Just for Pun | |
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Just for Pun: Almost all of their song and album titles, the names of some of the band members, and often in the lyrics too. Notable examples include "The Penis Mightier Than The Sword", "Hot Dogma", "Jung Talent Time" and "Les Miserables". | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs | |
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Slobs vs. Snobs: "Whatareya" translates this to Australian as "Yobs" versus "Wankers". | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comparison | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comparison: "Greg! The Stop Sign!" contains the lines: | |
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Film the Hand | |
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Film the Hand At the end of the video for "Whatareya? (You're A Yob or You're A Wanker)" one of the band members does this in a failed attempt to cover up their beating of an aerobics instructor who spilled one of their beers. | |
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Inaction Video: Inverted by the video for "Whatareya? (You're A Yob or You're A Wanker)", as the band themselves are the Funny Background Event: At first the band are participating in an aerobics program, and there's already a little bit of Weirdness Censor in place, since no one sees anything unusual about a large group of men dressed in all black and wearing balaclavas taking up the whole back row of the class. Then the members of the band get bored of exercising and haul in a couch, a television and a cooler full of beer - by the end of the video, the band are watching soccer, drinking, and generally littering and making a mess of the set, all while everyone else is obliviously continuing the aerobics routine. Played Straight in the video for "I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt", which parodies a sex tape. While the couple get it on with flippers and a Jeff Kennett mask, a member of TISM lies on the other side of the bed disinterestedly reading a book. | |
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Wild Teen Party | |
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Wild Teen Party: One appears in the music video for "Greg, The Stop Sign!". Also the default state of Hell, if "Schoolie's Week" is to be believed. | |
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'80s Hair | |
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'80s Hair: Oddly enough, praised in "The Parable of Glen Mcgrath's Haircut": | |
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Our Lawyers Advised This Trope | |
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1993 - Australia The Lucky Cunt (EP, the aforementioned Ken Done sued them over its cover art, and it was subsequently re-released as Censored Due to Legal Advice) | |
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Colony Drop | |
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Colony Drop: In "Greg! The Stop Sign!": | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Undisputed masters of the art. In the course of giving one to then-Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett in "The Greatest Victorian Alive", they managed to give a take that to the whole rest of Australia: | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: All over the place. Besides "TISM Are Shit", (which became their fan's catchphrase), there was a bonus track on one album of their producer calling them "middle-class, pathetic little wankers". There's also "We Are The Champignons": | |
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