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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: The poem "My Robot."

* [[All Girls Like Ponies]]: The poem "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony". Let's just say it doesn't end well.

* [[An Aesop]]: Quite often, though sometimes sliding into [[Family Unfriendly Aesop]]. For example, in "The Great Smoke Off":

* [[An Aesop]]: Quite often, though sometimes sliding into [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]. For example, in "The Great Smoke Off":

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There's a little golden scroll <br />

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** The poem "Fear (Barnabas Browning)", where the titular character is so afraid of drowning that he refuses to leave his room. He dies by {{spoiler|literally crying an ocean and drowning in his own tears}}.

** The poem "Ladies First", in which Pamela Purse is always using the title excuse for her selfishness. When the group gets caught by cannibals and are about to be eaten by the king, she still goes, "Ladies first!"

* [[Dual Meaning Chorus]]: The song "I Got Stoned And I Missed It".

* [[Dual-Meaning Chorus]]: The song "I Got Stoned And I Missed It".

* [[Duck|Duck!]]: The poem "Web-Foot Woe".

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: "A Boy Named Sue".

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* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: "Boa Constrictor".

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: The song "A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing", where he goes to increasingly absurd lengths to get [[Johnny Cash]] tickets... and his delivery gets increasingly less sane throughout the song, to the point that he's practically screaming at the end.

* [[Scare Em Straight]]: "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" ends with Abigail dead since she didn't get the beautiful pony. A note at the end suggests children should read it to their parents if they refuse to buy something for them.

* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" ends with Abigail dead since she didn't get the beautiful pony. A note at the end suggests children should read it to their parents if they refuse to buy something for them.

* [[Single Stanza Song]]: The song "26 Second Song".

* [[Spoonerism]]: The entire point of ''Runny Babbit''.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the poem "Cookwitch Sandwich," the kid tells the witch cook to make him a sandwich. Insert predictable punchline here.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Peanut butter sandwiches for the king in "Peanut Butter Sandwich", almost to the [[G Rated Drug|point of addiction.]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Peanut butter sandwiches for the king in "Peanut Butter Sandwich", almost to the [[G-Rated Drug|point of addiction.]]

* [[Trash of the Titans]]: The poem "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout".

* [[Turtle Island]]: "Hungry Kid Island"

* [[Was It Really Worth It]]: Played for laughs in the poem "Big Eating Contest".

* [[Was It Really Worth It?]]: Played for laughs in the poem "Big Eating Contest".

* [[When I Was Your Age]]: Amply demonstrated in the poem "When I Was Your Age".

* [[~~Whos~~ On First]]: The poem "The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt".

* [[Who's On First?]]: The poem "The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt".

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: In the poem "The Monkey," several words are replaced with numbers. Many replacements are painfully forced.

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