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* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "Handbook for the Sellout". At live shows, Reese would simply stick the mic into the crowd and let them sing the entire first stanza for him.

* [[Band of Relatives]]: Leanor and Micah Ortega are cousins

* [[Canada Eh]]: "Oh Canada". Before playing the song at shows, Reese would refer to Canada as "a mystical, far-off land" or "part of Minnesota".

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: "Oh Canada". Before playing the song at shows, Reese would refer to Canada as "a mystical, far-off land" or "part of Minnesota".

* [[Creator Backlash]]: "Combat Chuck", from the first album, was catchier than it had any right to be, but nothing special. FIF got so sick of playing it that they swore it off altogether -- though they did incorporate it into the "Medley of Power Ballads and Bad Taste" that they played on their farewell tour.

** ''How The Story Ends'' has it that Combat Chuck's dying wish was that they never play his song ever again.

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** Even the last song of their last studio album, "On Distant Shores" on "The End Is Near," ends with the final coda of "Every New Day." This is subverted in their last album, "The End is Here," of which the first CD is a reissue of "The End Is Near" with an extra song at the end... only to be played with on the second CD, a recording of their final concert, in which the last track is "Every New Day," but it isn't quite the last song in the album.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: The song "Giants" opens with one.

* [[Fully Absorbed Finale]]: The song "That's How the Story Ends" wraps up alleged loose ends from other songs, as well as providing a [[Where Are They Now Epilogue]] to some others.

* [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]]: The song "That's How the Story Ends" wraps up alleged loose ends from other songs, as well as providing a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] to some others.

* [[Geek]]/[[Nerd]]: "Suckerpunch" is about a "pencil-necked geek" getting picked on in middle school. "You Can't Handle This" is from the perspective of someone bragging about his geek-fu. [[Wild Mass Guessing|It's possible both songs are about the same person.]]

* [[A Good Name for A Rock Band]]

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* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Blue Comb '78" is an overwrought, dramatic song... about a comb that Reese lost when he was 8. Subverted in that {{spoiler|it's a subtle metaphor for his parent's divorce and his loss of innocence.}}

* [[Metal Scream]]: "The Day We Killed", B-side "Mind for Treason", and the rock section of "These Are Not My Pants".

* [[My God What Have I Done]]: Reese introduces the above-mentioned Hilarious Outtakes on ''Proof'', claiming that this is what you'll say after hearing them.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Reese introduces the above-mentioned Hilarious Outtakes on ''Proof'', claiming that this is what you'll say after hearing them.

* [[No Longer With Us]]: A comment about their trumpet player being "in a better place" led to fan rumor's about Brad's death. Which in turn led to a vinyl titled ''Brad is Dead'' and a song "The Untimely Death of Brad" (which, oddly enough wasn't on the aforementioned vinyl).

** No, it's okay, he's actually alive. He didn't die by plague or prison; what really died was cynicism.

* [[Old Media Are Evil]]: "Anchors Away" takes aim at TV news, accusing them of eschewing accurate reporting in favor of [[You Can Panic Now|fear-mongering]].

* [[Proud to Be A Geek]]: "You Can't Handle This," "Wizard Needs Food Badly," and much of "At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys."

* [[Self Deprecation]]: Both silly and serious (the aforementioned "Eulogy"). They named their farewell tour The Winners Never Quit Tour.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Both silly and serious (the aforementioned "Eulogy"). They named their farewell tour The Winners Never Quit Tour.

* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]/[[This Trope Is Bleep]]: Used ''extensively'' in "These Are Not My Pants (Part 8)". Just the first two lines:

{{quote| Yo, me and Bobby, we was walking down the [BLEEP]<br />