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[[File:20057769_931.jpg|frame|It's kinda like that.]]
[[Ween]]'s a band. Ween is [[Those Two Guys|Two Guys]]. [[Those Two Guys]] are Dean Ween and Gene Ween, [[Tiny Toon Adventures|no relation]]. They make the songs with the music, the music and the Scotchgard.
They're multi-instrumentalists and sometimes [[I Am the Band|the only performers on their albums]]. Gene is usually the lead singer, and Dean the lead guitarist.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Ween-ThePod.jpg cover art] to ''[[The Pod]]'' is a parody of the cover of [[Leonard Cohen]]'s ''[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/The_Best_of_Leonard_Cohen.jpg ''The Best of]'' album.
** Similarly, [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/WeenLiveinToronto.jpg ''Live In Toronto Canada''] has album art that parodies [[Frank Sinatra]]'s [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Itmightaswellbeswing.jpg ''It Might As Well Be Swing''].
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* [[Album Title Drop]]: ''Almost'' done during "Candi" with the line "Chocolate with cheese." The actual name of the album is "Chocolate ''and'' Cheese."
** They do it on "Mononucleosis" from ''The Pod'' ("When you came into the Pod, you told me that something was wrong..."). <ref> The album was named after the apartment they recorded it in, and the song is the true story of them coming down with mononucleosis while they were living there.</ref>
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Arc Words]]: Guava
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "Reggaejunkiejew" is a hurricane of seething insults toward whoever the song is about - including telling the person to overdose on heroin and drop dead - but then there's the significantly less harsh but still rude line, "Maybe some people like to eat it, but I think you're a dick!"
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** They greeted the world with, "You fucked up! You bitch! You really fucked up! You fucked up! You fucking Nazi whore!" They relied on this a lot early on.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: "Big Jilm" features the line "It's a pleazel, it's a pleazel my weasel," a reference to their earlier tune, "I Gots A Weasel," whose lyrics were based on similar lines.
** "Baby Bitch" has the line "Wrote 'Birthday Boy' for ya babe", which is a reference to an earlier song of that name. It might also be a [[Shout
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]
* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Inverted, for the most part. They have actually encouraged the use of fan torrents like [http://www.browntracker.net/ browntracker] for those who want digital copies of their live songs as well as their now-rare home demos/albums like ''The Crucial Squeegie Lip'' and ''[[Jimi Hendrix|Axis: Bold As Boognish]]'', though they haven't advocated piracy of their studio releases. Dean also runs Ween Radio, an Internet radio stream where fans can request songs and listen to obscure, unreleased, and/or live songs in addition to songs found on their studio albums.
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* [[Indecipherable Lyrics]]: In some songs like "The Stallion (Part 2)," "Mourning Glory," and "Poopship Destroyer," there are lines that are so hard to make out that even the official lyrics replace some words with question marks.
** "My Own Bare Hands" devolves into Dean spewing absolute nonsense constructed only partly out of swears.
* [[Intentionally Awkward Title]]: The first album, ''God-Ween-Satan: The Oneness'', is itself an example, and gives us: "Licking the Palm for Guava", "Mushroom Festival in Hell", "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree", "Squelch the Weasel", and "L.M.L.Y.P." ([[Intercourse
* [[Intercourse
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: "She Wanted to Leave," " It's Gonna Be (Alright)"
* [[Letters 2 Numbers]]: The band has songs with titles like "Pumpin' 4 The Man" and "Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)." They also substitute "You" with "U" frequently, such as "Can U Taste The Waste?" and "Loving U Thru It All." This is probably done as a [[Shout
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Never more so than when they write one of the prettiest tunes you've ever heard and fill it with Incredible Vulgarity.
* [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]: Gene Ween. His vocal range is so broad it's almost mindblowing to listen to ''Chocolate And Cheese'' when you realize yes, that's him doing the [[The Doors|Jim Morrison]] style vocals on "Take Me Away," the bizarre growling of "I Can't Put My Finger On It," the Mexican speaking in "Beunos Tardes, Amigo," the country drawl of "Drifter in the Dark," and the falsetto soul singing of "Freedom of '76." And that's just ''five songs'' on ''one album''.
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* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]
* [[Rhyming
{{quote|
Go away on a puffy cloud
My brain is dead from too much pot
Cause Deaner and I smoke too much pot }}
* [[Sesame Street Cred]]: "Ocean Man", the ending theme of the ''[[
** On top of that, Ween also wrote and recorded "Loop de Loop" for a ''Spongebob'' episode.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "A friend's a friend who knows what being a friend is!"
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* [[Stage Name]]: Dean Ween's real name is Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr.; Gene Ween's is Aaron Freeman.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: While their genre parodies tend to be more obvious, they have a couple of these as well. For example, "Buckingham Green" almost sounds like a serious song rather than a satire of [[Progressive Rock]].
* [[Step Up to
* [[Straw Fan]]: Their live-only song, "Leave Deaner Alone," is about this.
* [[Studio Chatter]]: ''GodWeenSatan: The Oneness'' is full talking before, after, and sometimes during the songs.
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* {{spoiler|[[The Killer in Me]]}}: {{spoiler|"Buenos Tardes, Amigo"}}
* [[Theme Naming]]: Dean Ween, Gene Ween, and their former bassist, Mean Ween. In his side project, Moistboyz, Dean is known as Mickey Moist and singer Guy Heller is known as Dickie Moist.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: ''The Pod'' contains no less than four songs with references to pork roll, egg, and cheese: "Frank", "Awesome Sound", "She Fucks Me", and [[Exactly What It Says
** Nearly every album has at least one song that mentions guava, or has it in its title.
** They also seem to have a thing for bacon; "Awesome Sound" mentions a "pork roll egg cheese and bacon," "Freedom of '76" has a line about a bacon steak, and "Even If You Don't" has a line about bacon.
* [[The Something Song]]: ''The HIV Song'': "Da da, da Da da da da Da! Dada Dada Da Da Da Dun Dun Dun Da Da Dada dada dun. AIDS! Da da, da Da da da da Da! Dada Dada Da Da Da Dun Dun Dun Da Da Dada dada dun. HIV!" repeat.
* [[Trey Parker and Matt Stone]]: Co-directed the music video for "Even If You Don't."
* [[Wham! Line]]: In ''Buenos Tardes, Amigo'' - a song about a man hunting down his brother's murderer:
{{quote|
On this most joyous day
{{spoiler|I tell you it was '''''me''''' who killed him}}
{{spoiler|But the truth I'll never have to say.}} }}
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** What we mean to say is: [[Inverted Trope]].
* [[Underboobs]]: Prominently featured on the cover to ''Chocolate And Cheese''.
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