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''I told my robot to cook me a stew.

''He said, “I got better things to do.”...''}}

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

* [[All People 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":

{{quote|''And underneath his fingers

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* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: "A Boy Named Sue".

* [[Dancing Pants]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is a poem in ''Where The Sidewalk Ends''.

* [[~~Dead~~ Baby Comedy]]: See [[Eats Babies]] below.

* [[Unalive Baby Comedy]]: See [[Eats Babies]] below.

* [[Death by Gluttony]]: "Pie Problem"

* [[Death by Irony]]:

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''That they filled up the room

''And he drowned.}}

** The poem "~~Ladies~~ First", in which Pamela Purse is always using the titular 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!"

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

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

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

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* [[Mermaid Problem]]: The song "The Mermaid".

* [[Multiple Head Case]]: The poem "Us".

** Inverted in "Double-Tail Dog", which is about a dog with a ''tail on each end''.

* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: A number of his poems deal with states of undress, as well as the fact that some illustrations in his works feature images of characters being naked for apparently no reason.

* [[Neat Freak]]: The poem "Clean Gene".

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{{quote|''Now I lay me down to sleep;''

''I pray the Lord my soul to keep.''

''If I should ~~die~~ before I wake,''

''If I should unalive before I wake,''

''I pray the Lord my toys to break,''

''So none of the other kids can use 'em...''

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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 unalive 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'' is what would happen if onset metathesis was [[Strange Syntax Speaker|grammaticalized]].