This is excellent but also I will always defer to the person named after a combined Illuminatus/Batman reference.

The "speak english" trope is the one where a Prof. Science-type character explains something in very vaguely technical terms that are still within the grasp of the average person ("When this machine activates, the polarity of the earth's gravitational pull will be completely reversed!") and the audience surrogate says…

Yeah, Atlantic City is a god-awful hole. There's a one square-block area right when you first arrive that's got some high-end shopping and overpriced restaurants, and then the rest of it is basically mid-80s New York City-levels of filth and ill-repute.

I love Propagandhi from the bottom of my idiot '90s heart, but they're either engaging in some extra super double-ironic songwriting these days or are just trying way too hard in a hilarious way. Exhibit A: Hadron Collision, off Failed States.