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First in line is ''Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!!,'' followed by ''Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante'' (apparently a cross between [[Al Capone]] and [[Babar]].)
Songs on each album range in topic greatly, but generally deal with a common theme of an [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] [[Death World]]. It is like [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], but with a pinch of [[Bloodier and Gorier]] [[Sadist Show]] tendencies. Each song is told from the singer's point of view; but it's [[Anthology|a different character each time]]. Singer characters range from the [[The Cassandra|Righteous Prophet nobody believes]] to the sadistic [[Mad Bomber]] to a [[Red Shirt|doomed victim]] to a random deranged killer [[Kick the Dog|who is cruel to animals]]. [[Black Comedy]] is the rule, though it sometimes borders on [[Dead Baby Comedy]]. Every now and then, [[Something Completely Different|a breather song will show up]]. These songs often mock commercialism, or revert to a more traditional Weird Al theme of imagining the artist singing about a topic they would never actually sing about.
Most of the songs are lyrical parodies, but the occasional style parody makes its way into the mix as well. "Once I'm Gone," for example, is a style parody of Daughtry and [[Nickelback]]; while bearing completely original lyrics.
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# '''Cadmium''': "[[Evanescence|Lithium]]" is retooled to be about a man's struggle with loneliness and dying RC car batteries after his stinginess drives everyone else away. [[Shaggy Dog Story|In the end, he still has no friends]]. But his willingness to spend money on new nickel-cadmium batteries means that [[Man Child|at least his toy cars work again]].
# '''The Bison's Apocalypse''': To the tune of Gym Class Heroes' "Cupid's Chokehold," a [[Flying Brick]] buffalo with all the subtlety of [[Godzilla]] goes around the world finding creative ways to kill anyone [[This Cannot Be!|who claims it can't be done]]. A lone prophet must [[Walk the Earth]] and warn everyone before they are massacred for their arrogance.
# '''Serial Bomber''': [[Exactly What It Says
# '''Serial Bomber, Pt. 2''': Remember the Numa Numa meme? Imagine it being sung by a man on a blimp who's about to be blown out of the sky by the serial bomber from the first song, solely because his wife's on the blimp and she was unfaithful to him.
# '''Salem (Story of a Trial)''': An [[Edutainment]] song about the Salem Witch Trials, set to the tune of "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" by Nine Days.
# '''Slaughterized''': A woman [[Gorn|cuts a man to ribbons]] while his ghost sings of the grisly fate.
# '''Once I'm Gone''': This song is a style parody of Daughtry and Nickelback, and serves as a [[Protest Song]] to cliche eulogies.
# '''Livin' It Like al-Queada''': Ricky Martin sings about [[The War
# '''Miss A. Defendant''': Kelly Clarkson's "Miss Independent" gets sent to the electric chair.
# '''Die Die Die!!!''': N'Sync's "Bye Bye Bye" gets an upgrade to a [[Darker and Edgier]] tale. The girl in "Slaughterized" is at it again; but the new man is not as much a helpless victim as his predecessor. When she threatens him; he decides to fight back in a battle that blurs the line between [[Cycle of Revenge]] and [[Escalating War]].
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# '''Jokerfish''': Lady Gaga's "Pokerface" gets stolen by [[The Joker]], who repurposes the song to revel in reiterating to us the plot of "The Laughing Fish."
# '''The Eel Thing''': Bo Bice warns ships about a giant sea monster.
# '''On the Ethics of Creating Werewolves''': "Face Down" (Screamo Version) by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is retooled into a song about [[The
# '''Meat Cleaver''': Remember that guy from "The Only Resort" who loved killing chickens? Now he does it to ducks! To the tune of "Hash Pipe" by Weezer!
# '''Serial Bomber, Part 3''': The Serial Bomber is believed to be dead. But it turns out [[Oh Crap|he had an apprentice]]! Now, that apprentice is stalking a black widow to bring about some [[Vigilante Man|vigilante justice]]!
# '''As One''': An anglicization of a song from the Philippines. [[Mood Whiplash|Remarkable in that it contains absolutely nothing offensive, and nobody dies]].
# '''Pokédices Apart''': A Pokémon trainer mocks his defeated opponent to the tune of a song by [[Journey (
# '''War Crimes''': An entire nation is destroyed [[Doomed Hometown|in every imaginable way]], while a young married couple flees in panic and the wife describes the atrocities committed against her neighbors. Set to the tune of "Firework" by [[Katy Perry]], and done in the spirit of "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al.
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* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: [[All of the Other Reindeer]] committed felonies against Jerry and [[Bullying a Dragon|harassed him]] until he became an [[Omnicidal Maniac]]—with Santa's blessing!
* [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]: [[Generic Doomsday Villain|The Bison]] has this as his entire modus operandi.
* [[Death
* [[Eating the Eye Candy]]: What any female singer attempting to perform "Phantasmic" sounds like she's doing when singing it identically to Jaci's "Baptize Me." Especially considering that it's a song where a girl is promoting a product to men to remove unsightly hair.
* [[For the Evulz]]: In "On the Ethics," the [[Mad Scientist]] appears to be doing his experiment for...no real reason. Also, the hunters in "Massacre" have as their top reason for murdering Pooh: "[[It Amused Me]]."
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* [[No Sympathy]]:
{{quote| "Emergency rooms are full / you're out of luck!"—"Earthquake"}}
* [[Off
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: A good lot of the lyrics are about taking the original songs and making them sound [[Up to Eleven|more violent than they have to]]...then pushing ''that'' [[Serial Escalation]]
** The Crowning Moment of [[Refuge in Audacity]] is probably "War Crimes;" which fits ethnic cleansing, mass graves, targeting of civilians, land mines, mustard gas, nukes, Staph infections, Navajo flu, [[And Your Little Dog, Too|puppy slaughter]], [[Moral Event Horizon|chlorine triflouride assaults]], and mutilation - all in one song!
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* [[The Scrooge]]: Our singer character in "Cadmium."
* [[Shown Their Work]]: All the processes of killing and roasting chickens and ducks mentioned in "The Only Resort" and "Meat Cleaver" come from someone with experience in butchering poultry. (And [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|talking down to both]].)
* [[Shout-Out]]: A lot of the gimmicks used in "Serial Bomber" to blow up the convertible are actually references to ''[[
* [[Start of Darkness]]:
{{quote| "Jerry the Psycho Reindeer / always had a bloody nose / Got dead rats in his mailbox / followed everywhere he goes..."}}
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