Subdued Section: The beginning of "Little Round Mirrors." The entire song is this, compared to the rest of the much heavier album.
Stealth Parody: "Flagpole Sitta" is a satire of teen angst and the then-dying Alternative Rock scene circa 1998.
The song is effectively calling the trends of the 90s alt.
Stealth Insult: "Flagpole Sitta" is named after a long-forgotten trend from the 1920s in which college students would climb onto flagpoles and sit there for as long as they could.
"Carlotta Valdez" condenses the entire plot of Vertigo into three minutes.
Also on King James was "Meetings With Remarkable Men," which had shout-outs to Kip Winger and Morrissey.
Aaaaaand he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, haha!" It also refers to The Lusty Men and the Marlboro Man
"Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo" has characters named Edith (after Edith Frost) and Norman (Possibly a shout-out to Norman Rockwell).
"Happiness Writes White" is a maxim from the French writer Henry de Montherlant, referring to how happiness cannot be represented on paper - it's like using white ink on white paper.
#Harvey danger radio silence movie
"Cream and Bastards Rise" and the album's title, "Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?", are both lines from the movie Harper.
Sanity Slippage Song: "Flagpole Sitta" is a more tongue-in-cheek example (riffing on angsty songs that were popular among the youth of The '90s), but has occasionally been used as a Standard Snippet for scenes of this trope played straight (most notably in The Nostalgia Critic's when showing movies with particularly bizarre scenes).
Refrain from Assuming: It's "Flagpole Sitta," not "I'm Not Sick, But I'm Not Well.".
Don't forget that I'm the one who filled that fucker up!
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