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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 website]. He could be heard on-air weekday mornings by clicking the listen button on the radio station's [https://web.archive.org/web/20110416155343/http://radiotime.com/station/s_31870/KJR-FM_957.aspx website], and there's (predictably) a [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeG9qCrtPXKzfqiBaSMlY5g channel] and [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVvapflmOOV8tVL6JoRe9A topic] on [[YouTube]].
One of the [[Names to Know in Comedy]], he's also a [[Contest Winner Cameo]] on an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]''.
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* [[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.
* [[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 police harassing drunks ("Police Stop My Car" as parody of the traditional Spanish-language "Feliz Navidad") 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]]'s "Space Oddity").
* [[Bad Santa]]: "Santa Claus Is
* [[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 thin 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.
* [[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 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 ("
* [[Gender Bender]]: Any [[crossdresser]]s or [[transgender]] characters
* [[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]]: "Cat's In The Kettle" (as 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".
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* [[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.
* [[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"). And yes, [[mondegreen|there's a bathroom on the right]].
* [[Twisted Christmas]]: "Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire", as one of many [[Anti-Christmas Song]]s which fill a few 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]] or deriding Gary Hart's 1988 campaign, have become dated very quickly.
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