Word: emo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after frolicking happily for awhile, Emo's animals start butchering each other. Emo's song ends with the monkey committing suicide "by screwing his head into the light socket/and the birds picked him clean/and the people thought he was a wiiind chiiime...
Thrown in jail, Emo asks his cellmate what he's in for. "'Sodomy.' I figured he was a lawn installer or something....Well, it pays to increase your vocabulary...
...also get to see this innocent babe turn on the world that has twisted him. Emo goes to the zoo and starts to dream about the greedy, warring humans locked behind bars, and the animals free. The loose animals "start to jam to the Animals Square Dance...
...That song," continued Emo, "represents my philosophy of life. Why do people hate people for their race, for their creed, for their religion... when there are so many real reasons to hate them...
...hate Emo Phillips. He's weird, and he's whiny, but he's very funny. Whether his exaggerated appearance and style helps or hinders his material is beside the point--it all works. You'll leave singing the Animal Square Dance, electrocuted monkey-bone wind chimes tinkling in your head...