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* [[Batman Gambit]]: In "A Boy Named Sue," {{spoiler|the reason the father named him that is because he knew he wouldn't always be there for his son, so he named him Sue so he would grow up hardened and strong from being bullied and picked on.}}
* [[Best Served Cold]]: The song "A Boy Named Sue".
* [[Big Eater]]: In the poem "Melinda Mae", Melinda eats a whale, but it takes her eighty-nine years.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: The poem "Kidnapped", complete with illustration of excessively tied and chained girl.
* [[Companion Cube]]: "Snowball".
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* [[Playing Sick]]: "Sick".
* [[Posthumous Narration]]: The poem "True Story", played for laughs.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The image associated with "The Homework Machine" shows a child trapped inside of the epononymous machine, apparently getting the answers wrong.
* [[Prayer of Malice]]: "Prayer of the Selfish Child".
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: "Boa Constrictor".
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