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[[Bob Rivers]] is a well-known American rock and roll radio on air personality in [[Seattle|the Pacific Northwest]] as well as a prolific producer of [[Song Parody|parody songs]], which he brands as "Twisted Tunes". (The logo is a clear [[Shout Out]] to WB's [[Looney Tunes]], ripping off the design outright.) He's most famous (or infamous) for his Christmas song parodies; his earliest notability dates to [[wikipedia:The American Comedy Network|The American Comedy Network]] and an AT&T breakup song "Breaking Up is Hard on You" (which was topical in 1982).
[[The Other Wiki]] has an extensive [[wikipedia:Bob Rivers|article]]. He has his own [http://www.bobrivers.com
Interestingly, He's also a [[Contest Winner Cameo]] on an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]''. ▼
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* [[Acceptable Lifestyle Targets]]: He seems to be a glutton for [[fat]] jokes. While changing "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" to "50 Ways To Eat Your Lover" [[This Is Not That Trope|is not this]] (it's a [[Not Safe for Work|NSFW]] reference to oral sex), "Fifty Plates To Feed My Brother" is... as is "Middle Age Waistline" (<s>"Teenage Wasteland"</s> [[Refrain From Assuming|"Baba O'Reilly"]]), as is "It's The Most Fattening Time of the Year" ("It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), as is "Getting Fatter All The Time" ([[The Beatles]], "Getting Better All The Time"), as is "I'm A Weight Watcher".
* [[Acceptable Professional Targets]]: Too many to mention. The "Minimum Wage" flunky [[Spitting in the Customer's Food]] is a prime example. Incompetent or brutal police are another. Addressing someone as "a clown" is inevitably pejorative. Individual politicians are always fair game for parody.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: "Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator" (as a [[Drunk Driver]] version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", which ends with the Santa sled wrapped around a tree). "Police Stop My Car" (as a parody of "Feliz Navidad") is also about [[Drunk Driver|DUI]].
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Invoked at least a couple of times: "My Toyota" (parody of The Knack's "My Sharona") and "The Day My Lemon Died" (parody of Don McLean's "American Pie"). Other automotive-related easy targets range from distracted drivers ("Drivers on the Phone", a parody of The Doors' "Riders on the Storm") to excessively high fuel prices ("Can't Afford To Drive My Car" as parody of the [[Beatles]] "(Baby You Can) Drive My Car").
** The [[Duct Tape for Everything]] approach to transport extends beyond alleged cars to alleged aircraft ("Beat Up Old Jetliner / Hope you got a tuneup today / Oh beat-up old jetliner / Did they sneak you past the FAA?") and even an alleged space station ("This is ground control to Station Mir / You guys are doing great / And we're sorry that you [[Bring My Brown Pants|stained your underwear]]" as a "Space Station Oddity" reminiscent of [[David Bowie]]).
* [[Bad Santa]]: "Santa Claus Is Fooling Around" (a parody of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", told from the POV of a [[Your Cheating Heart|jealous, suspicious husband]]).
* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: [[Eminem]]'s "Real Slim Shady" is parodied as "Would the real big ladies/Please stand up..."
* [[Brand Name Takeover]]: "I'm Just A Singer In A Holiday Inn®" (parodying the [[Moody Blues]] "I'm just a singer in a rock-and-roll band" as "we are the Moody Tunes")
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep" (a parody of [[ACDC|AC/DC]]'s "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap").
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: "You Chesty Thing" (a [[Breast Expansion|silicone]]-[[Gag Boobs|enhanced]] version of Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing") infers bigger is better, while "I Love Your Breasts The Way They Are" (as parody of [[Billy Joel]]'s "I Love You Just The Way You Are") creates more [[A-Cup Angst]] than it resolves.
* [[Christmas Elves]]: "All You Need Are Elves" (as parody of the [[Beatles]] "All You Need Is Love").
* [[The Cover Changes the Gender]]: Mostly [[Averted Trope|averted]]. If [["Weird Al" Yankovic|"Weird Al"]] needs a female blonde for a [[Lady Gaga]] parody ("I'm not insane/I just Perform This Way") we get his face pasted onto a skinny blonde bikini girl's figure - with jarring effect. If Bob Rivers needs a Sonny Bono and a [[Cher]] soundalike for a parody "I Can't Ski Babe" he'll find musicians who seamlessly match the originals in both gender and style.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "Osama Got Run Over By A Reindeer" ("Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" by Elmo & Patsy)
{{quote|Al-Qaeda found him Christmas morning
Face down on that mountain pass
There were hoof marks on his turban
And a broken reindeer antler up his — [[Santa Claus|HO HO HO!]]}}
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: "Caught Me One Handed" (a parody of Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me") is largely a flurry of [[Unusual Euphemism]]s for being [[Caught with Your Pants Down|awkwardly caught]] (by mama) choking the chicken or beating the bishop.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: He's prone to create multiple, different parodies of the same song. For instance, Don McLean's "American Pie" is parodied as "The Day My Lemon Died" (a song about [[The Alleged Car]] abandoned at roadside) and parodied again as the American Pie Eulogy ("She made my music die" - blasting [[Madonna]] for her remake of the song [[Deader Than Disco|disco style]]). Likewise, Dead Moon's "Johnny's Got A Gun" is parodied as "[[Sesame Street|Elmo]]'s Got A Gun" and parodied again to target George W. Bush's VP with "Cheney's Got A Gun". [[The Doors]]' "Riders on the Storm" is parodied as "Drivers on the Phone" and parodied again as "Burgers on the Grill". [[Willie Nelson]]'s "On The Road Again" becomes "Off The Dope Again" only to be parodied again as "Pick My Nose Again".
* [[Gender Bender]]: Any [[crossdresser]]s or [[transgender]] characters are portrayed in [[Incredibly Conspicuous Drag]] as a source of [[Played for Laughs|cheap laughs]]. There's the infamous "Walkin' 'Round In Women's Underwear" (as parody of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland") but, even if the stated intent is permanent transition instead of [[Drag Queen]] comedy or [[Disguised in Drag|disguise]], the patient is given [[Man in a Bikini]] proportions. If Butch checks into Genital Hospital on Tuesday and Bev checks out with a change of undergarments on Thursday, her 16XL measurements ensure she will not pass. (In "I Wanna Be A Woman", what was [[Pink Floyd]]'s "Young Lust" - "I am just a new boy / A stranger in this town..." becomes "I am just a female / Trapped inside a man")
* [[Going Postal]]: "Please, Don't Shoot Me Mr. Postman" (as parody of the often-remade "Please, Mr. Postman")
* [[Intercourse with You]]: "Hello, I love you, Let's get tested for AIDS" (as a parody of the [[The Doors|Doors]] tune).
* [[Misattributed Song]]: The Bob Rivers tunes are often mistaken for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s work, even though Rivers tackles many awkward topics "Weird Al" refuses to touch.
* [[Mondegreen]]: "There's a bathroom on the right!" (to the tune of [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]]'s "Bad Moon Rising").
* [[Mystery Meat]]: [[Jimmy Buffett]]'s "Cheeseburger in Paradise" becomes a "Cheeseburger with Parasites", while in "Cat's In The Kettle" (an Asian takeaway food parody of Harry Chapin's "Cats In The Cradle") "They'll say it's beef or pork/But Garfield's on my fork/He's purring there on my fork".
* [[Older Than They Look]]: "Roach", the lead singer for a death metal band who sings a duet with a simulation of [[Bing Crosby]] in Bob Rivers' parody Christmas song "Rummy Rocker Boy", confides "I'm not as young as I look", wearing a wig and using cosmetic surgery to maintain the illusion of youth. And then there's "I Used To Rock-and-Roll All Night (and party every day)" in which a geriatric, ageing [[KISS]] hides the "liver spots" and skin wrinkles under heavy makeup ("If [[Merchandise-Driven|the shirts]] keep on selling/We'll keep on yelling...").
* [[Police Brutality]]: "Take A Whack on the US Side" (parody of Lou Reed's 1972 "Take a Walk on the Wild Side") has a pair of illegal Mexican immigrants sue for this, as the beating is caught on video.
* [[Seattle]]: Done to death. There's an entire album of tedious local in-jokes (for instance, [[ACDC|AC/DC]]'s "Highway to Hell" becomes "Highway to Bellevue").
* [[The Stoner]]: Apparently [[Stoners Are Funny]], as it's a recurring theme. "What if God Smoked Cannabis?" is a parody of Joan Osborne's "What if God Were One of Us?", while "One Toke Over the Line" is parodied as "One Toke Under The Bench" with the implication of a high court judge being stoned instead of sober. Court-ordered rehab is a recurring theme, both for alcohol ("Gimme 12 Steps") and for drugs ("Off the Dope Again", to the tune of "On The Road Again").
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: "Gropin In The Classroom" (to the tune of "Smokin In The Boys' Room"), complete with [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|double standard]] that "women never go to jail".
* [[Technology Marches On]]: "Chat Room" (a parody of the 1975 C.W. McCall CB radio song "Convoy") steps directly into this pratfall by hard-coding 56kbps dial-up speeds, hard-wiring the piece to an era a few years after the [[Eternal September]] of 1993.
* [[Teeny Weenie]]: [[wikipedia:I Only Want to Be with You|I Only Want to Be with You]] becomes "(I've Only Got A) Three-Inch Tool"
* [[Toilet Humour]]: Loads of crap, piled high. "The Old Man Down The Road" (John Fogerty) becomes "The Old Man's on the Commode". [[Bob Seger]]'s "Night Moves" becomes "Bowel Moves". A parody [[Britney Spears]] exclaims "[[gasshole|Oops]], I [[fartillery|farted]] again!" while the dogs mark their territory with "Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow! Yellow Snow!" (to the tune of "Let It Snow") with the doggie doo "Stinkin Up My Backyard" ([[Creedence Clearwater Revival|CCR]] 1970, "Lookin Out My Backdoor"). And yes, [[mondegreen|there's a bathroom on the right]].
* [[Twisted Christmas]]: The [[Trope Namer]]: "Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire" is just one of many [[Anti-Christmas Song]]s which fill a few entire seasonal albums. The plight of the poor little angel who has [[Ass Shove|a Christmas tree forced up her bottom]] in "Who Put The Stump (In My Rump)" (a parody of Barry Mann's 1961 [[wikipedia:Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)|Who Put the Bomp]]) is painful.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Any political references, such as invoking the Monica Lewinsky scandal to justify [[Chubby Chaser|fetishising]] [[Big Beautiful Women]], become dated very quickly.
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