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* [[The Adjectival Man]]/[[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man]]

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: "It's Time to Start" parodies rock concerts by explaining what rock concert tropes the audience should carry out, ranging from the realistic ("Rock Concert Movement #1, the basic head bob", and "#2, the one-armed fist pump") to the ridiculous ("#4, the behind-the-head leg stretch", which the Blue Men proceed to actually do). #3 ("the up-and-down jumping motion") receives a step-by-step explanation, though in live performances it's been replaced with #10 ("getting a closer look at the audience") which involves footage from a miniature camera supposedly being shoved down an audience member's throat.

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]

* [[Audience Participation]]: "Time to Start" again.

** "What is Rock?" continues the theme from "Time to Start".

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{{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."~~\}}~~

{{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."~~

"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".

** If there are latecomers, the Blue Men are interrupted by a really catchy song as the camera focuses on the latercomers entering.

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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: About three quarters though The Complex Live Tour, the Blue Men perform Exhibit 13 -- a subdued, solemn piece that includes recitations from scorched documents found in Carroll Gardens during the aftermath of the [[The War on Terror|September 11th attacks.]]

* [[The Mole]]: In the audience! During some concerts, a member of the BMG's crew will be planted into the audience with the express purpose of shouting 'FREE BIRD!' during the concert. The band will then start playing the beginning guitar riffs of Free Bird.

* [[Naked Blue People]]/[[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: The former is subverted because the Blue Men wear black head-to-toe.

* [[Numerological Motif]]/[[Rule of Three]]: Except for the original Blue Man Group performance, "The Funeral for the Eighties", there have always been three Blue Men.

** This is because this is the smallest number for a group to have an outsider, which many of their acts and sketches revolve around.