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{{quote| ''"This is that 'The Lonely Island' TVAll The Tropes page."<br />

''"Oh shit, TVAll The Tropes? That's my joint!"<br />

''"Mine too! But a lot of these busters don't know about it!"<br />

''"Well, let's tell these motherfuckers!"'' }}

A comedy troupe featuring current{{when}} ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'' cast member Andy Samberg, and his long-time friends Jorma Taccone and Akiva Shaffer (who serve as SNL writers). They are as well known for their humorous tongue-in-cheek songs as they are for the accompanying videos, which often air on SNL. They're quite prone to [[Memetic Mutation]], as the famous "Jizz in my Pants" single from 2009 shows, being one of the top viewed [[YouTube]] videos. They've released two albums, ''Incredibad'' and ''Turtleneck and Chain''.

* [[An Aesop]]:

* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|"Watch Me Do Me".]]

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]:

* [[But You Screw One Goat!|But You Screw One Fish!]]: In "Like A Boss".

{{quote| "...Crash down in the sewers (Like a boss!)/ Meet a giant fish (Like a boss!)/Fuck its brains out! (Like a boss!)..."}}

* [[Beyond the Impossible]]:

{{quote| "It's music to my ears when you scream in your sleep."}}

** Similarly, "Like a Boss" deals with the day of a boss. Most of the earlier stuff is fairly mundane boss stuff (workshops, birthdays, synergy), then after a failed suicide attempt, degenerates into scoring coke, crashing his car, self-fellating, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|eating chicken strips]], self-castration, having sex with a giant fish in a sewer, turning into a jet and bombing Russia, and finally crashing into the sun and dying. ''On a daily basis.''

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: The actions in Like A Boss gets more ridiculous as that song progresses.

* [[Butt Monkey]]:

* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: I'm On A Boat, among others.

* [[Crack Pairing]], [[X Meets Y]]:

** [[The Neverending Story (Filmfilm)|Falcor and Atreyu]] in a skit.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Shy Ronnie. Shame he only gets a verse off.

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "Boombox" specifically invokes the power of this trope, and the last verse demonstrates the dangers of an overdose.

* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]- Yes.Yes, they did. In a song called, say it with us, "I Just Had Sex!"

* [[Dull Surprise]]:

{{quote| "Whoa-oa-oa, everyone was wearing fingerless gloves..."}}

* [[Flat What]]:

* [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body]]: In Rocky, the titular boxer {{spoiler|rips off Andys and beats him with them}}.

{{quote| "Chop my balls off! (Like a boss!)"}}

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: "After Party" plays with this, the narrator going through a cycle of living a playboy lifestyle, having an existential breakdown, [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|masturbating in various locations]], joining Alcoholics Anonymous, sleeping with a prostitute, losing his hand in a game of dice, then going back to his old ways. Then going through the same cycle the next week.

* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]: The narrator of "Threw It On The Ground", who'll let out his rage by throwing things on the ground at the slightest provocation.

* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]?: The two singers in "No Homo", specifically of the "doth protest too much" variety.

* [[In -Joke]]: Motherlover references Dick in a Box twice (throwing away empty boxes with dickholes in the beginning of the video after being released from prison, and the last verse's lyric "This is the second best idea that we've ever had"), being that they both feature Justin Timberlake.

* [[Intercourse Withwith You]]:

* [[Jerkass]]:

* [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in Ras Trent, a song about a white college kid convert to Rastafarianism and being as stereotypical as possible.

* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]:

* [[Precision F -Strike]]:

* [[Pretty Fly for Aa White Guy]]: Ras Trent. See [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent]].

* [[Shout -Out]]:

** The trio are playing [[Punch -Out!!]] in ''Incredibad''.

** [[Michael Bolton]], much to the trio's annoyance, keeps singing about ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean (Film)|Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', ''[[Forrest Gump (Film)|Forrest Gump]]'', ''[[Erin Brockovich]]'', ''[[Scarface (Film)|Scarface]]''...

* [[Laser Blade|Space Swords]]:

* [[Stylistic Suck]]:

* [[Stealth Parody]]:

* [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]]: In-universe, the three boys wish to be the "Greatest Bad MCs on Earth" in the song "Incredibad".

** Natalie Portman, of all people, launches the [[Cluster F -Bomb]] from hell in the aptly named "Natalie's Rap".

* [[This Is Sparta]]: At the memetic part of ''[[Three Hundred (Film)|300]]'', I ''Jizzed. In. My Pants.''

* [[Those Two Guys]]:

* [[A Threesome Is Manly]]: What the duo attempt to convince the other of in the song [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|"3-Way".]]

* [[Touched Byby Vorlons|Fucked By A Vorlon]]: According to "Incredibad", the source of their musical talents.

* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]:

{{quote| "Puke on Debra's desk! (Like a boss!)}}

* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?]]: "Like A Boss" is mostly the boss talking about how he does stuff like a boss.

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: ''Space Olympics'': "As you file to your escape pods, I'll distract the alien hordes. And as I stare death in the face [[HeelDeadly Face Door SlamChange-of-Heart|I know my sins will take me to Hell.]]