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[edit] Central theme
- After Hours Party At The Insect Hospital
- Ant
- Asbury Park - Venue song for The Stone Pony
- Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
- Beatles And Bugs
- Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth
- Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
- Birdhouse In Your Soul - Blue canary and bee
- Birds Fly
- Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes
- Courage The Cowardly Dog
- Cowtown
- Dinner Bell - About Pavlov's dog
- Doctor Worm - In addition to Dr. Worm, his friend Rabbi Vole
- Dog On Fire
- Don't Let's Start - Cats and dogs
- Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
- Flying V
- The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
- Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - "Long-haired hippie kitten"
- Havalina
- Horse With No Name
- Hot Dog! - "Hot Dog, Leapfrog and Holy Cow", "So long for now from Mickey Mouse".
- I Am A Paleontologist
- King Weed - Mice, cats, sparrows, roaches, housefly, worms
- Kitten Intro
- Mammal
- Mink Car
- My Brother The Ape
- New Haven - Venue song for Toad's Place
- Nine Bowls Of Soup
- Olive The Other Reindeer
- One Dozen Monkeys
- Penguin
- Pictures Of Pandas Painting
- Planet Of The Apes
- Pretty Fly
- Rat Patrol
- Return To The Planet Of The Apes
- So Long, Mockingbird
- Snail Shell
- Spider
- T-Shirt - Squirrels, monkeys
- This Ape's For You
- Tigerella
- Triops Has Three Eyes
- Turtle Songs Of North America
- Welcome To The Jungle - Bugs under the rock
- What Are We Doin' To Pigs?
- White Rabbit
- Youth Culture Killed My Dog
[edit] Briefly mentioned
- AKA Driver - "We can't fly like birds in the air"
- Alphabet Lost And Found - "There was a zebra that lost his 'z'", "Crowds of people, animals, and inanimate objects"
- Bad Jokes - "Why was I stapled to the chicken?", "I wasn't stapled to any chicken"
- Baroque Hoedown - Bears, hippo
- Bed Bed Bed - "Moo"
- Be Patient -"The cat is sitting on the bed"
- Broke In Two - "I heard 'I'm An Orangutan'"
- C Is For Conifers - "If you see a plant in the shape of an elephant or in the shape of a dog"
- Cabbagetown - "Just talking to the dog"
- Canada Haunts Me - "Because I have dreamed of black horses"
- Careful What You Pack - "Digging underground by the goldfish pond"
- Cells - "A frog, a fish, or you"
- Certain People I Could Name - "A lizard stalks a helpless creature on TV"
- Charlottesville - "Spun from sugar by woodland creatures", "Sell the dog, sell the fish, sell the birds"
- Damn Good Times - "She's got ants in her pants"
- Dark And Metric - "Parrot on my arm"
- Drink! - "In your monkey suit"
- Red Red Intro - "Monkey choke / Monkey got broke"
- Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "You're a weasel overcome with dinge"
- Fake-Believe - Alpacas
- Fake-Believe (Type B) - Ants
- Fibber Island - "We just ride giraffes", "Our dog is two miles wide"
- Go For G! - Gorillas, gazelles, goats, gophers
- Haunted Floating Eye - "A spider was my mom"
- Hide Away Folk Family - Sadly the cross-eyed bear
- The House At The Top Of The Tree - A dog and some mice
- Houston - "I wanna go play where the geckos play"
- Human Interest - "That beard of bees"
- I Enjoy Being A Boy - Starfish, blackbirds
- I Need Some Lovin' - "Some turtledove-in'"
- I Palindrome I - "I am a snake head"
- I'm Impressed - "When that gorilla beats his chest"
- I've Got A Match - "Beat up the cat"
- Impossible - "I'd like to be an octofish"
- Iowa - A cat
- Kings Of The Cave - "Take me to the animal's den"
- Lazyhead And Sleepybones - The liner notes and Enhanced CD material imply that the title characters are two stuffed animals
- Lesson 16 - "I wrung his neck like a duckling"
- Letterbox - "She's my best friend, she's a sparrow"
- Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow - "Watching the tomtit", "This life is for squirrels"
- Live Like Pigs
- Lullaby To Nightmares - a few animals mentioned, bats, elephants
- Maine - "Reclining in the bear trap of its tender warm embrace"
- Meet The Elements - "Did you know that elephants are made of elements?"
- Metal Detector - "Look past the squawking gull"
- Michigan - "The tank the fishes are in"
- Microphone - "The dog who hears it"
- No Answer - "Like a question from the tiger"
- North To Alaska - "He called to his team of huskies"
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "Some people call them snake eyes / But to me they look like mice"
- Number Three - "Now I'm in the middle like a bird without a beak"
- On Earth My Nina - "Say, the sparrow wants a morbid arrow"
- One Everything - "There are some clouds, some birds, a monster"
- Q U - Squid
- Rabid Child - Rabbit Ears
- Raleigh - "My name is Jump Little Chicken"
- Renew My Subscription - "Makes the carpet stop turning into snakes"
- Sally Boy Candy Bar - "I've been told when a fish needs a bike, the fish can walk or take a hike"
- Science Is Real - "About angels, unicorns and elves"
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective - "The dumbwaiter's a monkey," "And make me feel like a bee"
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future Commentary
- She's An Angel - "I met someone at the dog show"
- Stalk Of Wheat - "I was all out of luck like a duck that died / I was all out of juice like a moose denied / I was all out of money like a bunny that's broke"
- Swing Is A Word - "Where's my cat's pajamas?"
- Tryptophane - "By the leg of the bird", "Like a swan on the lake"
- Twisting - "She set your goldfish free"
- Violin - Hippos
- We Live In A Dump - "Hanging out while the monkeys type away", "We're living with bats"
- Why Did You Grow A Beard? - "Animals rule this land"
- With The Dark - "My mind naturally turns to taxidermy"
- Words Are Like - a billy goat
- Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire - Bats
- You Are Old, Father William - "Yet you finished the goose", Yet you balanced the eel"
- You'll Miss Me - "While bloodhounds wait down in the lobby"
[edit] Honorable mentions
- Apollo 18 album cover features a giant whale and squid.
- Dallas - Serpent, cat, bees (in music video)
- Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants has a close-up of an ant.
- Experimental Film - In the H*R video, Gavin the cockroach, "It's a lion!"
- Figure Eight - Also briefly shows the text "It's a lion!" in the music video.
- Letter Shapes - Shows a dog multiple times in the music video.
- The Spine's album cover has a roasted turkey on it.
- They Might Be Giants' cover has a dog.
[edit] See also
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