Hefty Fine

"Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" was inspired by a joke between Jimmy Pop and "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff.{{cite news|last=Karol|first=Adam|title=Bloodhound Gang|url=http://www.popularunderground.com/Bloohoundganginterview.htm|access-date=January 10, 2012|newspaper=Popular Underground Magazine|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816152713/http://www.popularunderground.com/Bloohoundganginterview.htm|archive-date=August 16, 2010}} Originally, the two had sent each other euphemisms for sexual intercourse via email. The joke later evolved into the song. According to Jimmy Pop, "Ralph Wiggum" took the longest to write because it required the band to sift through several scripts of The Simpsons. "Something Diabolical" features vocals from Finnish band HIM's lead singer, Ville Valo, who makes reference to the band in the lyric "Tonight belongs to H.I.M." HIM and Bloodhound Gang toured with each other in the 1990s. Eventually, the groups became close and Jimmy Pop offered to distribute HIM's CDs in America. When it came time to record "Something Diabolical", Valo was asked by the band to record some of the vocals. The hidden track is said by Bam Margera of CKY/Jackass/Viva La Bam fame. He can also be seen in the video for "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" driving a car shaped like a banana, which RockHard Films' Marc Klasfeld directed. "Balls Out" can be heard briefly in the car chase scene from the 2008 movie Drillbit Taylor.

"I'm the Least You Can Do" reuses a piano riff from "Birthday Boy", a song by Jimmy Pop's pre-Bloodhound Gang band Bang Chamber 8, released in 1990 on a self-titled demo tape.

The cover depicts a large, naked white man, whose genitals are obscured.

The title and album art each have unique stories. Initially, the album was going to be titled Heavy Flow, but Jimmy Pop discovered that there was a Moby song of the same name. Guitarist Lupus Thunder and Pop have expressed their distaste for Moby in the past. After scrapping Heavy Flow, Lupus Thunder and Jimmy Pop began trading emails that featured the recurring gag "now that's a hefty fine". The band later realized that Hefty Fine would make a good name for a record. Lupus Thunder, in an interview with The News-Times said, "it just clicked in his head and [we're] like, 'Hefty fine? Hold on a minute.'" Bassist "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff and Lupus Thunder have also gone on the record stating that the name could be a play on words meaning an attractive, obese person.{{Cite web | last = Friedman | first = David | title = Bloodhound Gang gets ready to serve fans with humor-packed 'Hefty Fine' | publisher = NewsTimes | date = July 29, 2005 | url = http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Bloodhound-Gang-gets-ready-to-serve-fans-with-53440.php | access-date = April 3, 2011}}

As for the cover art, there are several stories. According to "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff, the cover art was originally intended to feature an obese African-American woman, but Geffen insisted that the band change it. According to former guitarist Lupus Thunder, the cover model, Carlin Langley,{{cite AV media notes| title = Hefty Fine| author= Bloodhound Gang| year = 2005| type = liner| publisher=Geffen Records}} was chosen out of several applicants.{{Cite web | title = Lupus Thunder: 'Everything Is Nasty In Bloodhound Gang' | publisher = Ultimate-Guitar | date = October 13, 2005 | url = https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/lupus_thunder_everything_is_nasty_in_bloodhound_gang.html | access-date = February 23, 2020}} Potential models were asked to send in a picture and a bio, but Carlin Langley sent in a photograph of himself performing fellatio on another man. The band was impressed by Langley's sense of humor and hired him. Carlin Langley went on to post in the official Bloodhound Gang forums, under the user name "Hefty Fine".{{Cite web | last = Bürgler | first = Stephanie | title = Bloodhound Gang | publisher = Slam-Zine | year = 2005 | url = http://www.slam-zine.de/php/bloodhound_gang,14121,8386.html | access-date = April 3, 2011}}

A clean version of the album was released in the US, containing instead plain wooden box-style artwork, and the poster of Langley being replaced by a larger version of the image of the band from underneath the CD tray. That version also omitted the skit "Diarrhea Runs in the Family".

Sometime in 2006, Bloodhound Gang launched a campaign to have the Pennsylvania state anthem changed to their song, "Pennsylvania". The outcome is unknown. A follow-up single (and its accompanying video) titled "Screwing You on the Beach at Night" was released in 2007; an alternate version of the video features former porn actors Till Kraemer and Leonie Saint fornicating while the band is performing around them.{{Cite web | title = Bloodhound Gang - Music video, concert, lyrics | publisher = The-BloodhoundGang.Com | date = February 24, 2014 | url = http://the-bloodhoundgang.com/music-videos/screwing-you-beach-night-2007 | access-date = March 5, 2014 | archive-date = December 5, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181205143938/http://the-bloodhoundgang.com/music-videos/screwing-you-beach-night-2007 | url-status = dead }}

On December 10, 2024, Jimmy Pop announced a vinyl reissue of the album on X for the following year.https://x.com/jimmypop/status/1866661942661623935/photo/1

{{Music ratings

| MC = 28/100{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/hefty-fine/bloodhound-gang/critic-reviews | title = Critic Reviews for Hefty Fine|website=Metacritic|access-date=February 4, 2011}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web | last =Erlewine | first =Stephen Thomas | author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/r789262 | title = Hefty Fine - Bloodhound Gang | website =AllMusic | access-date = April 18, 2011}}

| rev2 = Billboard

| rev2score = (unfavorable){{cite magazine | url = http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61210/bloodhound-gang-hefty-fine | title = BLOODHOUND GANG, "Hefty Fine" | author = Jeff Vrabel | magazine = Billboard | date = October 5, 2005 | access-date = November 4, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071024024243/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61210/bloodhound-gang-hefty-fine | archive-date = October 24, 2007 | url-status = dead}}

| rev3 = Blender

| rev3score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}{{Cite magazine | title = Bloodhound Gang - Hefty Fine | magazine = Blender | pages = 131 | date = November 2005}}

| rev4 = Hot Press

| rev4score = 0/5Cummins, Steve. (November 1, 2005). [http://www.hotpress.com/Bloodhound-Gang/music/reviews/albums/Hefty-Fine/2834595.html "Hefty Fine"]. Hot Press. Retrieved January 16, 2016.

| rev5 = IGN

| rev5score = 3.5/10{{cite web | url = http://www.ign.com/articles/2006/01/05/bloodhound-gang-hefty-fine | title = Bloodhound Gang - Hefty Fine | author = JR | website =IGN | date = January 5, 2006 | access-date = April 18, 2011}}

| rev6 = Music Emissions

| rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web | url = http://www.musicemissions.com/artists/albums/index.php?album_id=3748 | title = Bloodhound Gang - Hefty Fine | author = Dave Edair | publisher = Music Emissions | date = November 8, 2005 | access-date = April 18, 2011 | archive-date = May 27, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110527124439/http://www.musicemissions.com/artists/albums/index.php?album_id=3748 | url-status = dead }}

| rev7 = Playlouder

| rev7score = {{Rating|0|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.playlouder.com/review/+-hefty-fine/ |title=Hefty Fine |author=Swells |publisher=Playlouder |date=October 4, 2005 |access-date=November 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051012094811/http://www.playlouder.com/review/%2B-hefty-fine/ |archive-date=October 12, 2005 |url-status=dead }}

| rev8 = PopMatters

| rev8score = 2/10{{cite magazine | url = https://www.popmatters.com/bloodhoundgang-hefty-2495847421.html | title = Bloodhound Gang: Hefty Fine | author = Mike Schiller | magazine = PopMatters | date = November 7, 2005 | access-date = April 18, 2011}}

| rev9 = Rolling Stone

| rev9score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine | last =Hoard | first =Christian | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/7661697/review/7663057 | title = Hefty Fine: Bloodhound Gang: Review: Rolling Stone | magazine = Rolling Stone | date = October 6, 2005 | access-date = April 18, 2011 | url-status =dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071209082915/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/7661697/review/7663057 | archive-date = December 9, 2007}}

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Hefty Fine was panned by music critics. The review aggregator website Metacritic gave the album an average score of 28/100 from ten reviews, making it the second-worst-reviewed album ever at the website. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic criticized its lyrical and musical similarities to their previous releases, saying that "the music is tired, almost all plodding 4/4 alt-metal, with the exception of parodies of dance music from the early '90s." Erlewine added that, "the humor may be perpetually adolescent, but the Bloodhound Gang's music is stuck in the '90s, so it can't really appeal to a new era of teenagers."

On October 15, 2005, Hefty Fine debuted and peaked on the Billboard 200 at number 24,{{cite magazine | title = The Visualizer - The Bloodhound Gang | magazine=Billboard.com }} selling 38,066 copies.[https://archive.today/20130125132755/http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/archcht.cgi?cht964 HITS Daily Double: Building Album Sales Chart] Chart Date: March 10, 2005 HitsDailyDouble.com Retrieved February 4, 2011 The next week, the album fell to number 64, selling an additional 23,665 copies.[http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/archcht.cgi?cht965 HITS Daily Double: Building Album Sales Chart] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121206033750/http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/archcht.cgi?cht965 |date=December 6, 2012 }} Chart Date: October 10, 2005 HitsDailyDouble.com Retrieved February 4, 2011 On its sixth, and final week, the album dropped to number 181, disappearing off the chart the following week. The album spent a total of six weeks on the chart.

{{Track listing

| headline = Hefty Fine track listing

| extra_column = Writer(s)

| total_length = 40:07

| all_writing = Jimmy Pop except where noted

| title1 = Strictly for the Tardcore

| extra1 =

| length1 = 0:09

| title2 = Balls Out

| extra2 = Jimmy Pop, Lüpüs Thunder

| length2 = 4:19

| title3 = Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

| extra3 = Jimmy Pop, Jared Hasselhoff

| length3 = 2:51

| title4 = I'm the Least You Could Do

| extra4 =

| length4 = 3:58

| title5 = Farting with a Walkman On

| extra5 =

| length5 = 3:26

| title6 = Diarrhea Runs in the Family

| extra6 =

| length6 = 0:24

| title7 = Ralph Wiggum

| extra7 = Jimmy Pop, The Simpsons writers

| length7 = 2:52

| title8 = Something Diabolical

| note8 = featuring Ville Valo

| extra8 = Jimmy Pop, Harry Dean, Jr

| length8 = 5:10

| title9 = Overheard in a Wawa Parking Lot

| extra9 =

| length9 = 0:04

| title10 = Pennsylvania

| extra10 =

| length10 = 2:57

| title11 = Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss

| note11 = featuring Natasha Thorp

| extra11 =

| length11 = 4:20

| title12 = Jackass

| extra12 =

| note12 = exclusive to UK and Japanese releases

| length12 = 2:26

| title13 = No Hard Feelings

| extra13 =

| length13 = 9:15

}}

• After "No Hard Feelings" ends, there is four minutes of silence before Bam Margera says "This is Bam and hidden tracks shit dicks out" at 9:11.

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Band members

• Jimmy Pop – lead vocals, guitar, samples, production
• Lüpüs Thünder – backing vocals, guitar
• Willie the New Guy – drums
• Evil Jared – bass
• DJ Q-Ball – backing vocals, turntables, keys, programming

;Other personnel

• Rich Gavalis – engineer, editing, mixing
• Natasha Thorp – guest vocals on "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss"
• Ville Valo – guest vocals on "Something Diabolical"
• Bam Margera – vocals on "No Hard Feelings"

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Production

• Ave – producer
• Adam Ayan – mastering
• Holmes Hiebert – graphic design, art direction, photography
• Thorsten König – executive producer
• Adam Kontis – assistant engineer
• Carlin Langley – model
• Avery Lipman – executive producer
• Monte Lipman – executive producer
• Paul Orescan – product manager
• Jason Perry – assistant engineer
• Jimmy Pop – producer
• Jordan Schur – executive producer
• Les Scurry – production coordination

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