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* [[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".
* [[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
* [[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).
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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. 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"
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