Beastie Boys/YMMV


 * Awesome Music: Take your pick. Paul's Boutique is the most frequently named.
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment:
 * Opening for Madonna on one of her earlier tours. The interaction between the fanbases was...interesting.
 * The short film for "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win" with Santigold certainly qualifies. A marionette adventure! The plot of the video is:
 * Possibly "3-Piece Chicken Dinner" on Paul's Boutique: a Country Music interlude (sampled from Deliverance, no less) in the middle of the album, sandwiched between "Hey Ladies" and "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun".
 * Ear Worm
 * Epic Riff
 * Even Better Sequel: Paul's Boutique.
 * Face of the Band: Highly averted, as the three MCs, Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock, are all equally prominent as band vocalists.
 * They do not even appear in their new videos, "Fight For Your Right Revisited" and "Make Some Noise" (an edited version of the former).
 * They actually do appear at the end of "Fight For Your Right Revisited" as.
 * Funny Moments:
 * The video for "Fight For Your Right". Arguably the funniest music video ever made.
 * As with "Ch-Check it Out". The Boys slap each other with alligators randomly leaping into their hovercraft. It goes from there.
 * Ditto "Sabotage", of course.
 * Growing the Beard: "Paul's Boutique".
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: As of Hot Sauce Committee, the Beastie Boys have nine albums.
 * Magnum Opus: Paul's Boutique.
 * Immaturity Is Serious Business
 * Misaimed Fandom: While a lot of their songs (especially their earlier material) were meant as a parody, quite a few people wound up taking them seriously. For example, "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)" was meant as a spoof of party songs but ironically became a big hit among the people they were making fun of.
 * Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: The "Fight For Your Right Revisited" video is sort of a very late subtle apology for their early days. In the video,
 * Sophomore Slump: Averted Trope.
 * Vindicated by History: Paul's Boutique didn't sell as well as Licensed to Ill, but it's still regarded as their masterpiece.