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[[File:worldinferno2011small_6742.jpg|frame|"The Devil's Ball needs a band. We want to be that band."<ref>2011-2012 touring lineup, from left to right: Leslie Wacker, Matt Landis, Rebecca Schlappich, Jack Terricloth, Sandra Malak, Frank Morin, Mora Precarious.</ref>]]
 
{{quote|''"A morality play with the morality removed. Oh, and 10 boys and girls throttling an orchestral range of musical instruments while grinning in harmony. In evening wear. Sweating profusely. At a punk show. Drunk."''|Jack Terricloth, [http://www.myspace.com/chuck_1977/blog/378316700 when asked to describe World/Inferno]}}
 
'''The World/Inferno Friendship Society''' is a Brooklyn-based cult/gang/circus punk band. It started in the mid-1990’s1990s in New Brunswick, New Jersey as a "surrealist prankster organization" semi-led by Scott Hollingsworth and Pete Ventantonio (aka Jack Terricloth) of the punk band Sticks & Stones. Eventually the pair started writing songs and by 1997 they'd roped in enough musicians to record and release ''The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League'', a bizarre concept album about a group of New Jersey kids who steal cars through astral projection. Since then the band has released five albums with songs about Dante Alighieri, [[Philip K. Dick]], Paul Robeson, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, shoplifting, outrunning angry mobs, stage diving, a temporary autonomous zone, and the [[Weimar Germany|Weimar Republic]]. Also, a musical about [[Peter Lorre]].
 
The band is known almost as much for their live performance antics as their music, and on at least one occasion were accused of starting a riot in Coney Island. Every year they put on a Halloween show, Hallowmas, which is full of bizarre surprises and always ends with the band and audience attempting to summon the [[ItsIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown|Great Pumpkin]]. {{spoiler|He always comes. Yes, really. Also, that's what she said.}}
 
Although not well-known, World/Inferno has managed to attract a group of dedicated fans known as "Infernites" who jokingly refer to themselves as a cult. Whether this is true or not is up to the authorities to decide.
 
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* [[A Good Name for Aa Rock Band]] - the oddly-punctuated variety▼
 
▲* [[A Good Name for A Rock Band]] - the oddly-punctuated variety
* [[Audience Participation Song]] - all of the songs become this at concerts
* [[Awesome McCoolname]] - Lucky Strano, former guitarist
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* [[Concept Album]] - ''The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League'' and ''Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century''.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] - In 2003 they performed their traditional show-opener, "Tattoos Fade," [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96-isS71U6I with a string quartet.]
* [[Don't Try This At Home]] - Averted in one entry of the "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131030115834/http://www.worldinferno.com/wwjd.php What Would Jack Do?]" column. Somebody wrote in saying that they taught themself how to breathe fire, had recently set the ceiling of a venue on fire doing so, and were carried off screaming "I learned it from watching Jack Terricloth!" Jack replied that he "couldn't be prouder."
* [[The Eleven O'Clock Number]]
** "Tarot Americaine" in ''The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League''
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* [[Literary Allusion Title]] – ''The Anarchy and the Ecstasy'' is taken from a William Butler Yeats poem. [[Unreliable Narrator|Or a biography of Vincent van Gogh.]]
* [[Mega Neko]] - the mysterious Giant Talking Cat
* [[Mind Screw]] - the band's [https://web.archive.org/web/20121230092424/http://www.worldinferno.com/history.php History page] includes somebody blacking out for a year, a Giant Talking Cat enhancing/ruining several people's lives, ghosts appearing at the first Halloween show, and the band burning down somebody's house.
* [[Motor Mouth]] - Jack in some of the songs, to the point where the lyrics become nigh-indecipherable
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] - their style has been variously described as circus punk, dark cabaret, klezmer, jazz, soul, ska, and general insanity
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* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]] - Everyone, but especially Jack. Apparently they've used their appearance to get out of trouble more than once.
* [[Shout-Out]] – Many, both in the songs and out.
** The History page (above) contains several references to ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'', especially the giant talking cat and the Devil’s Ball. The cat also takes on aspects of [[The Cat in Thethe Hat]].
** "The Models and the Mannequins" is taken from the final scene of ''[[The Threepenny Opera (Theatre)|The Threepenny Opera]]''.
** "Ich Erinnere Mich an die Weimarer Republik" references [[The Threepenny Opera (Theatre)|Pirate Jenny]], [[Cabaret|Sally Bowles]], and ''[[Triumph of the Will]]''.
** The leader of the Bridgewater Astral League is named Jon Gilch, who was an early member of the band and the drummer for Sticks & Stones. The cover of the album is a reworked version of art from a Flip Wilson comedy album, and Jon Gilch’s astral guide is named [[Sdrawkcab Name|Nosliw Pilf]].
** The tarot cards named in "Tarot Americaine" come from a passage in Steve Erickson’s ''Amnesiascope''.
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