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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.
Their cartoons can be viewed [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132818/http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/all here].
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* [[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:
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* [[List Song]]: All the year-in-review songs.
* [[Patter Song]]: Some, especially "2-0-5".
* [[Predatory Business]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120226124642/http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart "Big Box Mart"] is a heavy [[Take That]] at this.
* [[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]]:
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* [[Running Gag]]: [[Bill Clinton]] doing some lascivious activity and his wife Hilary slapping him for it.
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: "It's Time for some Campaigning" has McCain riding a tank, and Obama hopping around on a unicorn.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] - Their "Year In Review" videos pretty much repeat [[Humans Are
** Thankfully, the cycle's been broken for the 2009 Review, which doesn't claim [[Humans Are
** 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."
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