Self-Reference

References to They Might Be Giants themselves (and their songs).

Contents 1 Songs referencing TMBG 2 Songs referencing themselves 3 Songs referencing their album 4 Honorable mention 5 See also

[edit] Songs referencing TMBG

• Battle For The Planet Of They Might Be Giants
• Chopping Block Testimonial - "Hey, this is John of They Might Be Giants; You might know me better as one of the guys from They Might Be Giants"
• Countdown Intro - "They Might Be Giants have just crash-landed their glass bottom car into the control tower at Jim Baker International Airport!", "Make way for They Might Be Giants!"
• Critic Intro - "Every once in awhile, a band comes along that changes the course of human history, and that band is They Might Be Giants!"
• Cyclops Rock - "Dan!"
• D Is For Drums - Conversation between the two Johns during which they say each other's names numerous times
• Dan Vs. Cog - References to John F, John L, and Dan H
• The Guitar - "Is it Jim? I don't know" Refers to NASA calling TMBG Jim and Jim
• Hell Hotel - "Bellhop takes his flashlight, takes John up to his room", etc.
• Here Come The 123s - "They Might Be Giants!"
• Here Come The ABCs - "They Might Be Giants!"
• Here Comes Science - "They Might Be Giants"
• I Am Not Your Broom - a broom quarreling with John
• I Can Hear You, The Edison Museum (Wax Cylinder) and Maybe I Know (Wax Cylinder) - spoken introduction ("By They Might Be Giants!")
• Integrity Project - "This is the new They Might Be Giants Integrity Project"
• Kitten Intro - "They Might Be Giants are not Satanists."
• Mario Speaks - "Let's give a warm round of applause for They Might Be Giants!"
• Miller Time
• Minneapolis - Describes the band having a fight
• Mr. Xcitement - "Like Flansy in a soda can it's trooky trooky trooky"
• New Haven - "Croak me, Dan..."
• Not Too Clear, Not Too Long - "Every time I sing along to They Might Be Giants Dial-a-Song"
• The Power Of They Might Be Giants' Dial-A-Song
• Raleigh - "Bo Diddley and They Might Be Giants"
• Rhythm Section Want Ad - strongly implied
• Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love - "John, I've been bad"
• Songs - "Uninterrupted chain of They Might Be Giants material"
• Theme From Flood - "They Might Be Giants' brand new album, Flood"
• Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6 - Thank Yous - "...the Free Cooperation, They Might Be Giants ..."
• They Got Lost (Song) - "They Might Be Giants got lost driving around" also, on the live version, the announcer says, "Ladies and Gentlemen put your hands together for They Must Be Giants!"
• They Might Be Giants (Song)
• This Damn Band
• A TMBG Song
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - Refrences Flansburgh's left-handedness.
• Village Gate Concert Promo - "Weren't you that guy in that band They Might Be Giants that I was in?"
• Welcome To The Jungle - "Welcome to the jungle, Dan, Welcome to it, John"
• You're Watching... - "They Might Be Giants' Dial-a-Song, not too short and not too long"

[edit] Songs referencing themselves

• A TMBG Song
• Alienation's For The Rich - "This song is dedicated to all you modern day troubadours out there"
• Ana Ng - "Showing the home of the one this was written for"
• C Is For Conifers - "That's what this song is about"
• Creepy - "This song is called 'Creepy'"
• Don't Cry - "And this song is all true, dedicated to you"
• Don't Let's Start - "The words I'm singing now mean nothing more than 'meow' to an animal"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "And now the song is over now"
• High Five - "Sing this song!"
• Number Three - "There's only two songs in me and I just wrote the third"
• Oddball - "Like the notes between the chords in this song"
• Olive The Other Reindeer - "And now the song must end"
• On Earth My Nina - "Here's my song"
• S-E-X-X-Y - "This is the way the talking part goes"
• To All The Girls I've Loved Before - "We dedicate this song to all the girls we've loved before"
• The World's Address - "Let them hear this song"
• Weep Day - "I didn't write the words you hear me singing"

[edit] Songs referencing their album

• Here Come The 123s
• Here Come The ABCs
• Here Comes Science
• The Songs Of The 50 States - "State Songs, State Songs"
• Theme From Flood
• Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6

[edit] Honorable mention

• Lie Still Little Bottle - "Singing my favorite song". Might be a reference to the song. Very possible. But maybe not.

[edit] See also

• Recycled Material has a list of TMBG song references.
• Dial-A-Song Reference

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