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  • Acceptable Targets: Rick Santorum gets hit pretty bad, and Rick Perry gets hit twice thanks to "Strong".
    • Of course, Rebecca Black, the one that started it all, counts - but it pales against the response to "Time to Rock".
  • Broken Base: Fans of the music videos vs. fans of the political videos.
  • Complete Monster: According to "Beard With Glue": YOU. Or at least, whoever the song is being sung to. That person sneaks off and punches orphaned Brazilians, and it's implied that they murdered their friends, "drowning them in blood". They're so bad, a bullfrog hates them and James Blunt wishes they would fall on their burger and fries.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: "Rockin All Nite Long" actually sounds like a real pop song... Until Wiz Khalifa comes in.
    • And "Gang Fight" and "Dirty Spaceman" are around a million times catchier than their originals.
    • "Russian Unicorn". If being the first to be approved by Word of God doesn't count...
    • "Morning Dew" actually has a rather epic beat. If the lyrics weren't so nonsensical, it'd change from hilarious to awesome.
      • If you don't pay attention to what he's saying Bruno Mars comes off as a genuine badass in it.
      • Some of the lyrics even work. Anything Jay-Z says is pretty badass. "I'm Han, you're Greedo" indeed.
      • Don't forget "I'm an alchemist, the beat is my base metal!"
    • "Kicked Your Monkey." If Bad Lip Reading were to do a live performance, this song would be a showstopper.
  • Ear Worm:
    • "Gang Fight, Gang Fight, the gang is down to fight, YEAH!"
    • "I'm the magic man at the magic school..."
    • "Everybody Poops, and if they don't they're an android, and should be destroyed!"
    • "Rockin' all night long, no party people gonna be standing!"
    • "Tonight I'm leaving, though I'm bleeding, now you know me as Dirty Spaceman..."
    • "Oh, the night is young, now baby, we could shoot a Russian unicorn..."
    • "Keep wanting your morning dew..."
    • "Guess I'll shave a beard with glue..."
    • "Yeah, yeah, yeah, we smokin' the right stuff..."
    • "But the genie never got me off..."
    • "Are you deaf? I'ma beat you! Ho, we should kick you, it's time to rock, it's time to rock, rock, rock..."
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: one line from "Party in the USA" (which was turned into "Black Umbrella") mentions that "the Jay-Z song was on".. think she meant "Empire State of Mind"?[1]
    • Russian Unicorn becomes even funnier when you find out that the girl in the video is his wife.
    • After Rick Perry becomes the first "target" for BLR soundbytes, Rick Perry gets famously tongue-tied for real.
    • Mitt Romney's line "In America, we have a song." He later recited "America the Beautiful" during a speech.
  • Memetic Mutation: Have I brought this chicken for us to eat?
    • No, but you've brought this chicken for us to thaw.
    • From The Right Stuff: "Meshuggeneh Vinny had a hoopty".
      • Also from The Right Stuff: "And I'm pregnant".
      • Dirty Spaceman: TIE DYE EINSTEIN TAKES STOP SIGNS!
  • Needs More Love:
    • Despite their production values, and the fact that every other second is a Crowning Moment of Funny, they still don't get enough views.
    • Worse, they seem to get less and less views with each video on YouTube.
      • This is partly due to the fact that younger videos have had less time to accumulate views. But as long as enough die-hard fans buy their iTunes tracks I think they'll pursue it.
    • This might be because it's been hard to top "Gang Fight"/"Friday", which was prime for parody at the time. Most of the other parodies have been based on older songs. "Party in the U.S.A." was over a year old by the time BLR released "Black Umbrella."
    • Word of mouth is doing its part well enough. Three words: Michael Bublé APPROVES.
    • A new wave of fans was brought in by the politician sound bites - "Trick the Bridesmaid" has accumulated over a million views in just 6 weeks. And they had the foresight to advertise some of their best music tracks at the end of each one.
    • Gotye's "Somebody I Used to Know" is a big enough hit and Double Take's "Hot Problems" is enough like "Friday" that these two videos should bring in a lot more views.
  • Painful Rhyme: A rare one from "Black Umbrella":

"That bazooka in the front and then a homie tattoo / On the shoulder of a Puerto Rican dude he used to knew..."

  • Squick: The "Everybody Poops" video has a character say "Open wide." It is about Exactly What It Says on the Tin. It also mentions pooping on the floor.
    • Not to mention that "greenish potatoes with them soggy fish sticks" could be referring to what Fergie puts on the floor.
    • "Dirty Spaceman" has the lines "Can you leave your wrinkled willie glue inside my ocean, please?" and "every grandma oughta freak when they see me and my brown one-eye". The Nicki Minaj reaction shot after the "wrinkled willie glue" line is priceless.
  1. Which was turned into part of "Morning Dew".
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