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A website created in 1999 featuring satirical music videos animated [[Clip Art Animation|using cut-outs of photographs]]. The site attained fame in 2004 when its video "This Land", which featured then-president [[George W. Bush]] and John Kerry, became a huge viral hit. Since then, they have released at least one current-events parody a year in the same style.

 

 

* [[An Aesop]]: Most of their videos are simple satire, but "What We Call the News" and "Big Box Mart" have very explicit Aesops about the impact of [[Strawman News Media|yellow journalism]] and volume retail stores, respectively. They even [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|address the news networks and stores in the second person]].

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: There are quite a few of these examples in the year-in-review episodes, but they mostly have to go to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zls4Ao3GyM 2011, Buh-Bye!]" A few examples are:

** This verse:

'''2012 "[[Seers]]":''' Not yet, but it's near. (Next year!) }}

** A verse which could be either this or [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]:

While Weiner just tweeted [[Double Entendre|his junk]]. }}

** Another verse:

And folks who will surely be missed. }}

** And here's one more verse:

* [[Art Shift]]: In "What We Call the News", characters (except the old-timey anchors) talk by having their heads pop apart at the jawline (similar to babies and Canadians on ''[[South Park]]'') instead of just having movable jaws. This was done to emphasize their "talking head" status.

** Also, the 2010 year in review uses puppets instead of the usual animation.

* [[List Song]]: All the year-in-review songs.

* [[Patter Song]]: Some, especially "2-0-5".

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Bush and Kerry are presented this way in "This Land".

* [[Rhyming with Itself]]: The Christmas song "Santa Claus" has one, combined with a [[Last-Second Word Swap]]:

The last time I got... ''[[[Beat]], camera cuts back to Santa grabbing dollar bills]'' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|paid]]! }}

* [[Running Gag]]: [[Bill Clinton]] doing some lascivious activity and his wife Hilary slapping him for it.

** And the 2007 review has about half its song dedicated to the positive things that happened that year.

* [[Strawman News Media]] / [[24-Hour News Networks]]: Satirized in "What We Call the News."

* [[Strawman Political]]: Nicely averted. They don't seem to favor one side over the other, and mock both sides equally. Of course, they mock whoever is in power, so they were just as ready to parody Obama as they were Bush.

* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]]: Done with "The Year 2008 in Review", sung to the tune of "Miss Susie". One example:

It's that this job's now YOOOOUUUURS! }}

* [[The Theme Park Version]]: Each year in review song is, essentially, the theme park version of that year.

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