Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 72/@comment-3351670-20190118133001/@comment-3401602-20190120234033

Zach Sherwin's writing is a little annoying sometimes. He's great at coming up with intricate and smart references but like, I feel some of the lyrics he writes are really clunky every now and again. Examples include...

Scrapped Wallace couplet:

Jersey put your face on a bill, but it's the one that's least valuable! / And your monument represents you perfectly: it's an enormous phallic tool!

This single scrapped Alexander the Great line:

Fold it up like an accordion; stop!

Voltaire:

Let me be frank: don't start beef with the Frank / Who hangs with B. Franks, giving ladies beef franks!

Now I'm not saying that ERB shouldn't have well thought out lines but these examples here are either very very cheesy or just completely unrelated and it's why I'm glad most of them were scrapped in the final songs. Alexander the Great mentioning an accordion is just so wut and it's obviously just a filler for the rest of the rhyme scheme the character had going. Trying to make Wallace rhyme "valuable" with "phallic tool" was straight up trash imo and sounds like something Mat4yo would write. Voltaire's "beef franks" quatrain is just too many homonyms and sounds so weird and clunky and is also a horrible way for the Western Philosophers to end their verses IMO.

This is nothing more than just a nitpick; it's not something that I hate or that I can't stand, I just like think to myself "yeah that line was pretty blegh" and a lot of the times its Zach who writes the over complicated corny lines.