Not Your Kind of People World" contains a lyrical sample from the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas. Both daughters of Steve Marker and Butch Vig laid down vocals on the album's title track. Finnish actress Irina Björklund performs the musical saw on "Sugar". "Beloved Freak" includes a sample of Klaus Nomi, as the group felt the artist fit Manson's lyrics about "people being an outsider, feeling like a freak, and not fitting in and trying to come to terms with that it's okay to feel like you're an outsider." KROQ-FM and MTV Buzzworthy described the sound of the
Things That Go Boom and tenth for the night, behind "The Orville", "S.W.A.T.", "Life in Pieces", "The Wonderful World of Disney", "Mom", "A Charlie Brown Christmas", "Young Sheldon", "The Big Bang Theory", and "Thursday Night Football". "A Dark Knight: Things That Go Boom" received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode a "good" 7.0 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, ""Gotham" had the chance to do something really dark and defining with Penguin, but pulled the rug out from under us, and also, in turn, the drama from this episode. On top of that, Pyg now apparently gets