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*** For a while they didn't perform the song because they were tired of getting hit with boxes (on the live version, you can hear them complain about it after the line). These days, any boxes that do get thrown are donated to food pantries.
*** They also have donation boxes at their concerts with signs requesting that your Kraft dinners go there instead of the stage.
** Similarly, people sometimes throw underwear on stage during "Pinch Me". Yes, for *that* lyric. See [[Heh
*** Which makes one wonder whether the line "''Throw your mobile phone''" in "Wind It Up" is a [[Shout-Out]] or simply [[Tempting Fate]].
* [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended Fan]]: Steven Page is an avid fan of [[The Mountain Goats]] and has performed with them during the Ships and Dip cruise.
* [[The Band Minus the Face]]: Steven.
* [[Band of Relatives]]: Bassist Jim Creeggan and former pianist/percussionist Andy Creeggan are brothers.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: ''Born On A Pirate Ship'' is named after a childhood attempt at this; try saying the album name while sticking your tongue out and pinching it.
* [[Granola Girl]]: "Alternative Girlfriend" has shades of this.
* [[Heh
* [[I Don't Know Mortal Kombat]]: Ed once got a very poor score when trying to perform "One Week" in public on ''[[Karaoke Revolution]]''. His reaction? "Lousy? I ''wrote'' this song!"
* [[Improv]]: It's not uncommon during concerts to see them making up songs on the spot, or humorous interjections when the band is shooting the breeze on stage.
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* [[It's Been Done]]: "It's All Been Done", obviously.
* [[Long Runner Lineup]]: The time between their first roster change and the second was 14 years.
* [[Loony Fan]]/[[Stalker with a Crush]]/[[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: The song "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank" is written from the perspective of a male one of these. By the end of the song, he's gone off the deep end and has [[If I Can't Have You|murdered the object of his affections]].
** The object of said affections is Anne Murray
* [[Lyrical Cold Open]]: "I Know", "Break Your Heart", "Have You Seen My Love?", "One and Only", "Jerome", "The Love We're In", several tracks on ''Snacktime!'', and most famously, "One Week" and the theme song to ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.
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** Although on each of their albums from ''Gordon'' (1992; their first major label release) to ''Everything to Everyone'' (2003), they ''did'' record one song per album completely naked. (On a couple of occasions, however, the "naked track" ended up coincidentally being left off the final album.) The concept was abandoned while recording 2006's ''Barenaked Ladies Are Me''; the band said it had gotten old.
* [[Ode to Intoxication]]: "Alcohol"
* [[One-Hit Wonder]]: Discussed in "Box Set".
* [[Only Sane Man]]: "Get in Line" wavers back and forth between this and total [[Paranoia Fuel]].
{{quote|Dictate a memo to myself, try to find if I'm the only one in complete health.}}
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*** Not to mention "Next Time", "Second Best" and especially "Shopping" off ''Everything To Everyone'', all direct [[Take That|Take That's]] at [[George W. Bush]].
** The opening track on ''Gordon'', "Hello City", is a Take That to Halifax, Nova Scotia, which according to commenters on [http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/2350/ SongMeanings] gave the band a raucous and rude reception when they played there before becoming famous.
** Some of the tracks on the latest album deal with Ed's frustration with Steve's departure; in an interview, he said that the group owed it to their fans to produce good music because ''they'' effing care.
* [[Three Chords and the Truth]]: Lampshaded.
* [[Turn Your Head and Cough]]: Lyrics in the chorus of the song "Get In Line" are very reflective of things heard during physical exams, including the phrase "turn and cough."
* [[Visual Pun]]: In the video for "Alternative Girlfriend", there's a scene where they [[The Smashing Pumpkins|smash a whole bunch of pumpkins.]]
* [[Vocal Tag Team]], before Steven Page left the band. Still done in concert, with Kevin filling in for Steven on some of the older songs.
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