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Uncle Bonsai (Music)

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Uncle Bonsai is a quirky, irreverent contemporary folk trio from Seattle, Washington. The original members were acoustic guitarist/vocalist Andrew Ratshin and vocalists Arni Adler and Ashley O'Keefe, who was replaced in 2007 by singer/songwriter Patrice O'Neill of the Mel Cooleys. The band has been recording and performing since 1981, with a hiatus from '89-'98.Though perhaps best known for their cheerfully cynical, often vindictive comedic songs such as "Suzy", "Boys Want Sex in the Morning", and "Cheerleaders on Drugs", much of their music tackles serious and even somber subjects with tearjerking artistry. They also produced a Concept Album titled Doug in 2000, in collaboration with the Mel Cooleys.Their latest album, The Family Feast: The Study of the Human Condition, First World Problems, and the Lasting Physiological and Psychological Effects of Eating Our Young, is available on iTunes.
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: "Boys Want Sex in the Morning"
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Protest Song
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Protest Song: "Women with a 'Y' (Womyn)". A half-parodistic, half-sincere feminist rant.
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Green-Eyed Monster
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Green-Eyed Monster: "Anne" is a Sanity Slippage Song sung by someone, probably a rival mother, who is is insanely jealous of perfect homemaker Anne.
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Face on the Cover
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Face on the Cover: Well, half of his face, anyway.note Actually a photo of young Andrew
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Self-Harm
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Self-Harm: "Skin Deep" seems to be about cutting.
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Ironic Name
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Ironic Name: Invoked. When Andrew performs solo, he bills himself and his acoustic guitar as "The Electric Bonsai Band".
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Title Track
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Title Track: "Boys Want Sex in the Morning", "A Lonely Grain of Corn", and "The Grim Parade". Myn ynd Wymyn contains both "Men and Women" and "Women with a 'Y' (Womyn)".
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Age-Progression Song
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Age-Progression Song: Parodied in the second chorus of "Doug's First Date".
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This Is My Side
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This Is My Side: "There Is a Line".
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Second Coming
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Second Coming: Discussed/parodied when Doug's mom starts going a little overboard in her adoration of her new son.
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Food Songs Are Funny
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Food Songs Are Funny: "Chubby Wanna Sundae?", which actually gets pretty dark.
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Ode to Intoxication
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Ode to Intoxication: As part of the bandwagon motif, the Drunken Song "Meet Me Under the Table".
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Inkblot Test
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Inkblot Test: "Bat" is about a very obviously guilty person trying to avoid giving themself away while answering one of these.
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: "The Monster in the Closet" is all about this. It's a pair of parents emotionally manipulating their child by "lovingly" warning them about the many monsters lurking in the house.
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Everyone Hates Mimes
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Everyone Hates Mimes: Inverted. "Precious Mime" is a Silly Love Song to a mime.
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Appeal to Worse Problems
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Appeal to Worse Problems: From "Don't Put It in Your Mouth":
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Incredibly Long Note
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Incredibly Long Note: Andy at the end of "I Like Girls". As well as some clearly looped "ooo"-ing in the beginning of "Go to Sleep".
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Genre Roulette
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Genre Roulette: Invoked. They try to do a song (parody) of every genre.
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Bookends
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Bookends: The first and last verses of "Charlie and Me" begin with "Charlie comes up from downtown".
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Mistaken for Gay
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Mistaken for Gay: "I Like Girls" is about how Andrew is frequently this.
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"I Am Great!" Song
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"I Am Great!" Song: "Doug's Birthday Song" and "Doug's First Job (The Crossing Guard)" are "Doug is great" songs from Doug's dangerously delusional mother.
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Parental Love Song
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Parental Love Song: "Doug's Birthday Song".
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"The Hero Sucks" Song
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"The Hero Sucks" Song: "Doug at Home (So Typical)" and both parts of "Doug's Divorce".
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Self-Demonstrating Song
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Self-Demonstrating Song: "Folk Song", which doubles as Heavy Meta for the genre.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: In "Isaac's Lament", a man kills himself when he hears his favorite TV show has been cancelled.
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Anti-Love Song
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Anti-Love Song: "Kill the Competition (A Love Song)". "Too Many Creeps", about disappointment with a series of bad hookups. "Charlie and Me", while not dark, is a deconstruction of the Silly Love Song.
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Location Song
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Location Song: "Send My Body Home" cycles through several of the states the band visited on their infamous RV tour—which were all terrible.
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Parent Never Came Back from the Store
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Parent Never Came Back from the Store: The premise of "Where's the Milk?"
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Celebrity Song
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Celebrity Song: "Olivia Newton John", an unabashed fanboy ode. "Julie Andrews", a short and frankly bizarre little piece that w as probably made on drugs. "Lois Lane", a tragic ballad. "The Voice of God" turns into a rag on Elvis.
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Human Mail
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Human Mail: A man in "Parcel Post" ships himself to his ex-girlfriend.
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Lyric Swap
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Lyric Swap: Many of their choruses are slightly different with each iteration.
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World of Snark
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World of Snark: Both Andrew and Arni, the primary songwriters, are incredibly cynical and dry-witted, which is clearly telegraphed by the music.
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Because I Said So
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Because I Said So: There's a lot of this in "Don't Put It in Your Mouth".
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
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In "Doug's Divorce: Preamble", Delilah (who is leaving Doug) encourages him to move on once she's out of his life—even though she'll still give him alimony.
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The One That Got Away
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The One That Got Away: "Where's the Milk?" features a woman whose husband walked out on her while out to buy milk ten years ago. And his sudden return.
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Phrase Salad Lyrics
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Phrase Salad Lyrics: "The Devil You Know" seems to be this.
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Something Blues
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Something Blues: "Ashley's Little Blues".
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Deconstruction
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"Charlie and Me", while not dark, is a deconstruction of the Silly Love Song.
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The Phoenix
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The Phoenix: From "Skin Deep":
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Homage
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Homage: "Big Chihuahua" to The Cockroach Sisters. Subverted by Arnie's insistence that they're only doing it as part of the Bandwagon Motif—the Cockroach Sisters have, after all, been signed to a record label.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: from "Isaac's Lament":
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Doug's mother never receives any comeuppance for her damaging parenting. Invoked by Doug, who makes sure to straighten things out with the Rabbi before committing suicide to ensure he'll get to heaven.
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First World Problems
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First World Problems: Discussed in "Problems in the First World".
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Anti-Christmas Song
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Anti-Christmas Song: "Doug's Greatest Christmas Ever", in which he's the only one keeping the office running through Christmas because he's "the company Jew."
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Based on a True Story: Andy and Arni frequently draw from their own—purported—experiences in writing the songs. Arni claims to have failed cheerleading tryouts in eighth grade, causing both the bitterness and the impressive retention of cheer lyrics that became "Cheerleaders on Drugs". "I Like Girls", in which Andy comes out as straight, seems to be based on a real interaction he had with a man at a bar.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: When Doug realizes he is not, in fact, in Heaven.
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Parody
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Parody: "A Day Old Whale" of reggae music.
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Break-Up Song
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Break-Up Song: Both parts of "Doug's Divorce" from Delilah.
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Added Alliterative Appeal
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Added Alliterative Appeal:
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Take That!
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Take That!: most of their songs, honestly "Cheerleaders on Drugs", to the insipid squad that rejected Arni in eighth grade. "Johnny It's Downhill from Here" to all those perfect people who are gonna be eating out of trash cans in ten years. We wish. "Half of the People" to religious folks. "Me and Mrs. Middle America" to middle-Americans. "Rich Kids" to . . . shaddup.
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Wanderlust Song
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Wanderlust Song: Parodied. Young Doug wants to go to town, but his mother imposes so many ridiculous restrictions on the trip (including not crossing the street) that he sadly concludes, "I think I'm staying home".
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My Beloved Smother
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My Beloved Smother: Doug's mom is wildly overprotective and controlling.
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Rage Against the Heavens
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Rage Against the Heavens: Downplayed. Doug isn't enraged by his treatment in the afterlife, just miffed that there isn't any bacon.
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Emergency Multifaith Prayer
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Emergency Multifaith Prayer: In "Doug at the Gates of Hell", Doug requests that his family perform some non-Jewish rites for him "Just in case I wasn't chosen / And the Catholics were right."
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Folk Music
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Folk Music: One acoustic guitar, three high vocalists, 100% awesome.
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Blues
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Blues: "Ashley's Little Blues" and "Heartache".
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God Is Flawed
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God Is Flawed: Apparently "God" started the Earth as some sort of science experiment and never meant it to go this far.
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Face on a Milk Carton
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Face on a Milk Carton: Mentioned in "Where's the Milk?":
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One-Woman Song
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One-Woman Song: "Suzy", "Lois Lane", "Julie Andrews", and "Olivia Newton John".
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: "Doug's Divorce: Part 2, The TV" is riddled with them.
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Bitter Wedding Speech
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Bitter Wedding Speech: And again invoked in "I Never Learned How To Waltz":
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Stepford Suburbia
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Stepford Suburbia: "Billboard Love" pokes fun at the kind of all-American suburban life touted by the advertising industry.
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Rock Opera
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Rock Opera: Technically more of a Rock Opera than a Concept Album, since it does tell the story of one life—it's just a really boring one.
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Album Title Drop
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Album Title Drop: In the second chorus of "Doug's Birthday Song":
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Lyrical Dissonance
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Lyrical Dissonance: Many of their songs are upbeat and jaunty and fun to sing along to—even when they're about suicide, cannibalism, or schizophrenia. "The Monster in the Closet" starts off fairly creepy, but after the first stanza, it launches into a jaunty banjo tune.
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P.O.V. Sequel
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POV Sequel Song: Immediately after "Doug Gets Married", which is from Doug's Mom's perspective, comes "Delilah Gets Married (I Never Learned How to Waltz)", which explored the bride's experience of the wedding.
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"When I'm Gone" Song
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"When I'm Gone" Song: In "Doug's Divorce: Preamble", Delilah (who is leaving Doug) encourages him to move on once she's out of his life—even though she'll still give him alimony. In "Doug at the Gates of Hell", Doug makes a series of requests of his loved ones from the afterlife.
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Chronic Pet Killer
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"The Grim Parade" is about a family of Chronic Pet Killers.
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Continuity Snarl
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Continuity Snarl: Some of the later Doug songs (a few of which were released on other albums) don't work so well together. Did Doug literally explode, as in "Doug at Home (So Typical)"? Did he survive, as suggested by "Doug at His Mom's"? Did he commit suicide only to be resuscitated, ala "Where's My Puppy (Doug's Ressurrection: Part One)"? And where the heck does "Doug at the Gates if Hell" fit in?note Doug remarried? He had kids?? Whaaaat?
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Switching P.O.V.
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Switching P.O.V.: There are songs from the perspective of Doug, his mom, Delilah, Doug's dog, God, Delilah's mom, and a third-person narrator.
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Manchild
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Manchild: Doug's mother treats him like a kid when he comes back home for the holidays. The fact that he watches TV all day while his wife is the major breadwinner suggests that she might not be remiss in that assessment.
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Midword Rhyme
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Mid Word Rhyme: Especially frequent in "Splitting the Genes" and "Another Fat Song".
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Jazz
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Jazz: With the addition of the Mel Cooleys, the album took on a much jazxier vibe than previous works.
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Grief Song
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"The Fish Is in the Freezer" is a Grief Song from a child to its newly departed fish.
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In the Style of
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In the Style of: "The Star-Spangled Banner" as Doo Wop?? Eine Kleine Nachtmusik A Cappella???
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Freud Was Right
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Freud Was Right: "Penis Envy", in which Ashley and Arni discuss the various advantages of having a penis, as well as all the things they would stick it in if they had one.
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Sanity Slippage Song
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Sanity Slippage Song: "Anne"—complete with insane laughter.
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Vocal Tag Team
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Vocal Tag Team: Most of their music features all three singing, with each taking turns soloing particular songs.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: "This is a true love song."
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Theme Naming
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Theme Naming: The original trio: Andy, Arni, and Ashley.
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