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** The song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHnTocdD7sk&feature=relmfu Trapped In The Drive-Thru]" acts as if getting dinner at McDonald's has the same impact as breaking up with a girlfriend.
*** The song is a parody of R. Kelly's "''[[Trapped in The Closet]]''", which is an epic-length "Hip-Hopera" (22 separate chapters and counting...) about the inhabitants of an apartment complex doing little worthy of the drama. It features Kelly throwing his full vocal might into lines like "And then he said, 'I'ma heat this chicken!'"
** Perhaps his most pure use of this trope is not in a spoof but in an original song, "Hardware Store", an ecstatic paean to the grand opening of a new hardware store. Also interestingly, his song "[[Jurassic Park]]" ''inverts'' this -- taking an overblown epic about love, loss and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|soggy cake]] and making it about fleeing giant killer dinosaurs.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsIQk7o-p0 Albuquerque]" made ''ordering donuts'' epic!
** You do NOT mess with CNR... ever! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnapb-30hA Watch]. It's a parody of the [[Chuck Norris Facts]], but it's actually ''about'' actor '''C'''harles '''N'''elson '''R'''eilly.
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY I just ate a grape and I JIZZED. IN. MY PANTS.]
* Sisqo's "Thong Song". And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wtt8yRxYU HOW.]
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvnYIxv_364 Canvas Bags]" by [[Tim Minchin]] embodies this trope. An environmental ballad about taking canvas bags to the supermarket instead of plastic bags. It devolves into a rap-interlude by Minchin, the song becoming a massive [[Crowd Song]] with the audience waving canvas bags around, and then he brings on a fan, unbuttons his shirt, and lets it [[Dramatic Wind|flap in the wind]], finishing off with a [[Truck
* John Cage's ''4:33'' consists of a pianist sitting down before a piano and spending the title time making ''no sound whatsoever''.
** Not quite. The piece is made up of the sound of someone ''not playing the piano'', which is entirely different to someone making no sound whatsoever. Cage effectively wrote a duet for the awkward fidget and nervous cough.
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