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{{quote| ''"Ready? '''GO.'''"''}}
 
Blue Man Group is a creative organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring music, comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows such as ''The Tonight Show'', ''Las Vegas'', ''Scrubs'', ''FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman'' and ''Arrested Development'', and a children's museum exhibit, "Making Waves".
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* [[Audience Participation]]: "Time to Start" again.
** "What is Rock?" continues the theme from "Time to Start".
{{quote| "Rock concert movement #6: The double upward fist pump with yell. Ready? Go."}}
** "Your Attention":
{{quote| "Your attention please. Please yell if you are paying attention." <ref>AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!</ref>}}
** At one point, they would play the song "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane, while each of them held up an LCD lightboard. The first message on each one was, respectively:
{{quote| "Read this sign if you know the words to this song."\}}
"Read this sign if you don't know the words to this song." "Read this sign if you don't care for this song."
** Before the Las Vegas live show, scrolling text across monitors asks the audience to participate in various tasks. Among these are speaking "Happy Birthday" ("Don't sing. Just speak."), and "making that noise they used to make on Arsenio Hall".
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* [[Double Entendre]]:Please give us our balls back.
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: From the song "The Complex", from their second album, also titled ''The Complex'':
{{quote| "I work on the highest floor<br />
There's nothing in my way<br />
But I saw my picture on the bathroom door<br />
today }}
** It's only once you stop to think that a bathroom door typically has one of [http://images.google.com/imgres?q=mens+room+sign&hl=en&biw=1920&bih=822&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=llXS1PAVhD0xqM:&imgrefurl=http://www.clker.com/clipart-mens-room.html&docid=2w5snXReLw7twM&w=300&h=300&ei=U1BATvb7BsGRgQfTxJH1Bw&zoom=1 these] on it. {{spoiler|The singer is worried about [[The Blank|losing his identity in a sea of corporate sameness.]]}}
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** This is because this is the smallest number for a group to have an outsider, which many of their acts and sketches revolve around.
* [[One of These Things Is Not Like the Others]]:
{{quote| Periodically, you may want to check with your fans to see if they are "with you". If so, you can reward their devotion by handing out a few special souveneir items - such as drum sticks, guitar picks and Courvoisier.}}
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: The song "Shake It."
** You will need to start shaking your rear end, or as some people call it...
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* [[Sorry, Billy, But You Just Don't Have Legs]]: Among the requirements to be a blue man are to be between 5'10" and 6'1" with an athletic build.
* [[Take That]]: Some of the things on the Rock Instruction stuff.
{{quote| If you don't have a lot of natural charisma, you can give yourself a descriptive name like [[Guns N' Roses|Slash]], [[U2|The Edge]], or [[Spice Girls|Scary Spice]].}}
* [[Trash Can Band]]/[[Everything Is an Instrument]]: These guys make instruments out of PVC pipes, fiberglass boat antennae (Airpoles), and whatever else they can think of.
* [[Unreadably Fast Text]]: All three Blue Men simultaneously flash cue cards filled with lots of text to the audience, waiting just a few seconds before moving to the next one. One of the cards says you can't read all of them and should just pick one Blue Man and stick with him.
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