# Talk:You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

Here's an interview, they mention the song a few minutes in; about writing the song, not much on it though...[[1]]  Dizzydark 03:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

The inclusion of promotional singles in greatest hits compilation albums is the norm. A great example of this is the case of pop-punk Reprise Records labelmate Green Day who have two "greatest hits" albums, both of which follow the same format as May Death Never Stop You, going through Green Day's successful albums in order and including singles from each.
Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band covers the singles from Green Day's albums from Kerplunk! (which is just represented by a random song from the album as no singles were released from it) to the at-the-time newest, Revolution Radio. The more popular albums get more representation, with all four Dookie singles plus the promotional single being included.
International Superhits! is the earlier and even more comparable Green Day compilation as it was released when they had only had four successful albums under their belt, and My Chemical Romance also released four albums. Thus, the compilation is able to include every single and one promotional single from each album, as does May Death Never Stop You with the exceptions of the singles "Headfirst for Halos" (even though "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" from the same album, and My Chemical Romance's one non-"Thank You for the Venom" promotional single, is included, showing the value they were placing on promotional singles) and "I Don't Love You" (which happens to have had a significantly worse performance on the charts than the other three singles released from The Black Parade, making the inclusion of non-singles "Cancer" and "Mama" in place of it more sensible than such a substitution usually would, since "I Don't Love You" wasn't really one of their greatest hits.
Similarly, "Thank You for the Venom" did not receive the recognition it normally would as a promotional single (like what "Vampires Will Never Hurt You", which was not a big hit but held to lower standards due to the first album's circumstances, got with its inclusion on the compilation) because it did not do well on the charts and so a fan-favorite and popular, notable song like "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison" was a better fit for the compilation. PizzaStallion (talk) 05:34, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@PizzaStallion: I am, frankly, confounded by your repeated assertion that there is some rulebook dictating how Greatest Hits albums should be structured. This is, first and foremost, a page about "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison". It is a fact that it was included on May Death Never Stop You. It is not a fact that whoever put together the tracklist here, whether execs or the band, decided to choose it over "Thank You For the Venom" because this one was a fan-favorite and the other one underperformed. The source suggests this as its reason, but it would be undue weight to include it in the article as though this is the "actual" reason. Hell, the source even wrongly calls "Venom" a single as part of its rationale. Maybe it's worth a line in the article for "Venom": something like "However, Evan Sawdey believed the song was omitted from May Death Never Stop You because it was "dry-sounding" in comparison to "YKWTDtGLUiP"". But it's not worth a line in this article.
Your argument comparing it to Green Day's greatest hits album is also flawed. For one, this is original research. There is no source suggesting that MCR based their greatest hits album off of Green Day's International Sueprhits!, and any attempt to compare the two thus has no place on Wikipedia. In addition, even if you want to bring other albums into this, there are also countless examples of greatest hits albums with non-single songs on it. Some examples: Greatest Hits (1983 Air Supply album) (includes "Bring Out the Magic" and "Chances", not released as singles), Greatest Hits (Blink-182 album) (includes "Carousel", not a single), Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper album) (includes "Is It My Body" and "Desperado", not released as singles), etc. Hopefully I've made my case clear here, and you can reconsider. Leafy46 (talk) 16:23, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
@PizzaStallion: Any response here? Otherwise, I'm going to undo the additions for the reasons I've listed above. Leafy46 (talk) 02:38, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
I was going to revert my edit and add your sentence to the Venom page but that's like, barely a page, and I ended up not bothering. I'll just revert it now. PizzaStallion (talk) 05:39, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
Gotcha. Thanks for being a good sport about it, and thank you for the other improvements you've made to this article! Leafy46 (talk) 17:38, 18 August 2025 (UTC)