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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. 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").
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* [[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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