May 032007
 

When I was younger, the family and I used to play a drive-time game called, rather boringly, “Categories.” Somebody would simply shout out a category of something from the back seat, and each member of the family would take turns listing items — one at a time — from that category, until some poor schmo couldn’t think of any more and had to ignominiously admit defeat. The game would continue until there was one person left, who had to end the game with a triumphant final category item after everybody else caved, and he or she was gloriously celebrated as the “Master” of that category.

Here at RTH, we play a more freeform version of the game, and have ascribed a more Mandom-infused name to it as well: “Last Man Standing.” The rules are essentially the same, though those who moderate acknowledge it’s impossible to proclaim a “winner.” It may in fact be the least insightful activity RTHers pursue — it’s silly, pointless, a gigantic waste of time, leads to no greater understanding of any concept, and contributes nothing to any form of “healing” whatsoever. It’s our greatest achievement!

So it is that I offer the first edition of Last Man Standing here at RTH’s new home, in the hopes that it may amuse, and nothing more.

Today’s category is:

Fake TV “Bands” (ie, bands or artists that did not exist outside the boundaries of a TV script or animator’s cel.)

I’ll start with Johnny Bravo, as played by Greg Brady. I’ll throw a couple more in for good measure, to make the concept clear: Josie and the Pussycats and Spock when he jams the Vulcan blues on his Intergalactic lyre.

I look forward to your responses.

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  1. Yay! Frantic Freddy and the Beau Brummelstones! I love it! Their cartoon image is on the rerelease of one of the two Beau Brummels reissues albums put out also;) I love the Brummels!

    Let’s see – easy, but: The Wiggles (my friend’s 2 year old LOVES this show and freaked out like it was the Beatles in concert when she saw them “live”;) and the Banana Splits, anyone?

    “Sha la la, la la la laaaa… sha la la, la la laaaa… one banana two banana…”

    Hanna Barbara did musical bands and so did Sid & Marty Krofft:
    * The Amazing Chan’s The Chan Clan Band!
    * The Neptunes! (JabberJaw “Ah!Ah!Ah!Ah!”;)
    * The Bugaloos (I really love you!)
    * The Impossibles!!! I guess Fluid Man was on an episode of Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law (I LOVE that show;)
    * Kids Incorporated (which brought you Fergie AND Martika)

    “The Impossibles were a trio of Rock and Roll musicians who, when called upon to do so by their commander, “Big D,” became superheroes. Like the Monkees, the group’s appearance (in their musician form) was based on 1960’s pop star stereotypes, which included long-ish hair, brightly colored (and matching) outfits, high-heeled boots, and, unlike the Monkees, no percussion or bass instruments.”

    TO THE IMPOSSIMOBILE!

  2. saturnismine

    pretty encyclopedic there sally!!!

    from saturday morning tv, late 70s vintage: were the Kids from C.A.P.E.R.. a crime stopping team by day, Rock and Roll band by night? or was it just that the shows were interspersed with “numbers” that they would sing?

    there must have been something from the jetsons…

    my brady bunch fake rock and roll band isn’t johnny bravo, but the “silver platters”.

    gilda radner’s SNL character, based on (and satirical of) Patti Smith: Candy Slice (who’s signature tune was “Gimme Mick”, with the chorus that went: “gimme mick, gimme mick, baby’s hair, bulgin’ eyes, LIPS SO THICK”).

    most unbelievable, however, is a lack of mention of the Archies thus far.

    by my absolute favorite comes to us from Mr. Show’s “Up With People” sendup: “Indomitable Spirit”. Check out that drummer, man.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckxOWz868k

    art

  3. general slocum

    Of course, the Honeybees, on Gilligan’s Island. And also, the Wiggles formed as a real band playing to kids, and then went to TV. They were just guitar and keys and singing, and none of them plays drums, but they really were a band of sorts. 2 of them had played together in a very popular Aussie pub band. And if you don’t know it already, the Banana Splits theme is given a great treatment by the Dickies. Didn’t Speed Racer’s Spritle and Chim Chim start a band at some point? And there was an episode of Bewitched where Elizabeth Montgomery’s “twin” Serena starts singing “hippie” songs with a bunch of scruffy youngsters and gets arrested.
    My first band, Junior Mints, covered the song “Kill Kill Kill” by the Sacred Cows on Get Smart:

    Kill Kill Kill
    Get yourself a thrill
    Yeah yeah yeah
    Bump off a square

    or something like that. Very similar to a band from a mod British movie that I’ve never been able to find since, we covered their song Black Leather Rock. Also inciting young people to homicidal hepitude. It was on UHF late night once, and we memorized their song at once. (It was *that* cool.) If anybody happens to know this film, help me out! A bunch of ne’er-do-well kids on scooters or bikes, and they break into song occaissionally. Well, these days what are the fake bands? Certainly “bands” aren’t even something to lampoon anymore. They just do singers. I guess someone should suggest Avril Levigne?
    Oh! I just remembered. The name stuck with me for decades: the Silver Toothpicks! They were on Room 222. The parents were protesting and there was much healing over the Generation Gap. And when Junior Mints was forming, and going through it’s formation mutations, we were called Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation. From the original Bedazzled, which has just been released, finally, on DVD. It is a fucking riot. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. We used to cover that song, soo. There is a version of it by Nick Cave now, but naturally, he couldn’t hold a candle to Junior Mints!

  4. general slocum

    Oh Yes. Not to suggest how I misspent my youth any more than I have, but in the Saturday morning division, there was also Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan. I think the Archies were more self-evidence than missed, Art!

  5. pretty encyclopedic there sally!!!

    Of course, Art, I’m all ABOUT Britannica;) Ha ha

  6. saturnismine

    yeah, the thought crossed my mind that the archies should be filed under “too obvious”, too. but the longer it goes without being mentioned….

    i THOUGHT there was a “speed racer” band, too. i can’t remember any of the details, though…

    i just remembered that Opie Taylor, from the Andy Griffith show, was in a rock band. i’d KILL for a youtube of that. i can still remember the song…

    I also remember a fake rock band called the “O-men”, a real nuggets style garage band, in a movie, but i can’t remember which one.

    a question i’ve always wanted to ask:

    which came first, the banana splits theme, or the passage in “buffalo soldier” that sounds like the banana splits theme? i’ve never bothered to “crunch the numbers” and figrue out the dates….

  7. plus, couldn’t sleep at *all* this morning and found myself bright-eyed and awake at 3am – ever have one of those? thanks to rock town hall, I had something to READ;)

  8. general slocum

    Art baffles:
    which came first, the banana splits theme, or the passage in “buffalo soldier” that sounds like the banana splits theme? i’ve never bothered to “crunch the numbers” and figrue out the dates….

    I always had the feeling that could have been a “My Sweet Lord” kind of thing. Just genuinely thinking you wrote it, and how catchy it is, and having no idea it came from anywhere. They seemed too self-serious at the time to have knowingly incorporated something so silly into their songs. But that song was well after the Banana Splits. I also wondered about the club hit from the eighties that quotes the entire melody from Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” without any sense that they knew it was a song already.

  9. saturnismine

    slocum, thanks for the “okham’s razor” interpretation of the commonalities in ‘buffalo soldier’ and the ‘banana splits theme song’. i tend to agree. but even if the appropriation was a knowing one, it doesn’t necessarily detract from, but adds to, some of the songs less ‘high minded’ aspects…the swaying beat, played in a relaxed fashion, the sing-song melody…i really love that song. especially on a day like today…

    what WAS that 80s club hit? i know the song you’re talking about….

    gals, guys, you HAVE to check out that mr. show youtube and watch all the way to the end.

  10. hrrundivbakshi

    Hey, Perfesser —

    I went out in search of that youtube file, and it was indeed a hoot. More importantly, perhaps, it led me here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnwteaGsPLM

    I have no recollection of this show — and that may be a good thing. Unbelievable! But these “kidz” seem to also fit the Fake TV “Bands” category.

    FS

  11. saturnismine

    fritz wrote:

    “I have no recollection of this show — and that may be a good thing. Unbelievable! But these “kidz” seem to also fit the Fake TV “Bands” category.”

    yes, fritz. see above where i recommend them.

    as i state there, i can’t remember if they ever explicitly SAY that in addition to solving crimes, they’re a rock band, or they just occasionally break into song during the show, without ever talking about a gig, or lugging drums around, or “performing” in the configuration of a rock band in their fictive lives. i’m sure the moderator will appreciate my awareness of this distinction.

    there’s nothing in the opening sequence to suggest it either, no images of them rocking out, and nothing in the lyrics.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI0jjGZOAMc&mode=related&search=

    note that don kirshner is the executive producer of the show, too.

    as for the “when it hit me” song, it’s very belle and sebastian, huh? nice use of the delay box (hurricane…cane…cane…). she’s cute! it’s the dorothy hamill wedge grown out as the 70s drew to a close. nice teeth, too.

  12. BigSteve

    The Blues Brothers, though I think they did eventually play gigs, and Jim Belushi’s garage blues band on According To Jim.

  13. mockcarr

    Fritz, you ought to have the Way Outs from the Flintstones

    One of my favorites, Seth Green, was in a band on Buffy the Vampire Slayer called Dingoes ATe My Baby

  14. mockcarr

    Technically, the Rutles were a TV band, right?

  15. saturnismine

    the blues brothers performed as a band on SNL before there was ever a movie built around them. still, i don’t think that really matters, and i second your nomination, bigsteve: they were a “tv” band…

    what was the name of matt dillon’s band in that movie about early 90s seattle (whose title, i’m proud to declare, has gloriously escaped me, giving me faith in the selective capacity of my memory)? were they called “touch me i’m dick”? or was that their hit song? pretty funny jab at mudhoney, either way.

  16. saturnismine

    god i love the rutles. i suppose that means i’m daft.

    a sidenote on seth green; a friend of mine went to summer camp with him when they were little kids. he was primadonna all the way, in a fashion that is kinda sad: he had a bunkhouse all to himself, was picked on by the regular kids, and he had extra parental visits. it happened to be the summer when he found out that he had landed a big role in a woody allen film (radio days). and he actually held a press conference at the camp. my friend claims green was a little prig about the whole thing…

    just thoughtchamightliketoknow…passing on the ittle pop culture tidbits when i can…

    art

  17. mockcarr

    The Partridge Family and Powerpuff Girls are are as obvious as the Monkees and Archies. There are a ton of them on SCTV, too. Happy Wanderers, Queen-Haters, the Ramblers, Jackie Rogers, jr., Schmenge Brothers.

    What was the name of the guy who did the Bedrock Twitch? Rock Roll?

  18. That Matt Dillon band was called Citizen Dick in that movie “Singles”.

    My favorite fake TV band/artist was Johnny Bravo. I’m such a geek that I met Barry Williams once and asked him to sign his book “I Was A Teenage Greg” and asked him to inscribe it “To Michael, You Fit The Suit” to which he added “aka J Bravo” underneath his own name. I dug that. 😉

  19. saturnismine

    hey, whatabout….the Happy Days band, featuring the dreamy warren “potsie” webber? they always did “put your head on my shoulder”…

  20. mockcarr

    I know too many of these.

    How about Scum of the Earth from WKRP?

    Homer’s barbershop band the B-Sharps.

    Felix from the Odd Couple had the Sophisticados which morphed into Red River Unger and the Saddle Sores to pay off a bet made by Oscar.

  21. saturnismine

    Scum of the Earth! “We’re eeeeeeresponsible!!!”.

  22. hrrundivbakshi

    You guys (and gals) are downright scary on this topic. For the record, however: The Blues Brothers do *not* qualify, as they eventually did “exist” outside of their TV show characters. And I guess the TV show I posted a link to (I’ve already forgotten what it was called) wouldn’t count, either, since they weren’t a “band.”

  23. sammymaudlin

    Bedrock Rockers- http://youtube.com/watch?v=fLFflINAlOc&mode=related&search=

    Groovie Ghoulies- http://youtube.com/watch?v=UjykWj26yxA&mode=related&search=

    The Darlings- http://youtube.com/watch?v=NXjVjfEaxJw

    Roofi (Simpson’s Rafi)

    Lenny and The Squigtones- http://youtube.com/watch?v=kozXmXBuJHE&mode=related&search=

    Various rap bands from Simpsons- http://youtube.com/watch?v=kozXmXBuJHE&mode=related&search=

    The Nairobi Trio (Ernie Kovacs)- http://youtube.com/watch?v=DoLTFQsFswM

    Hot Lips Hanniga (Flintstones)- http://youtube.com/watch?v=6saQc2hndwY

    Andromeda (Buck Rogers)- http://youtube.com/watch?v=VmxXIS2ot8w

    I went here to find a clip of The Tangerine Conspiracy from SCTV and found all of the Mel’s Rockpile bands- http://www.sctvguide.ca/programs/rockpile.htm

    I’ll stop (for now) with Happy Kyne (the great Frank DeVol!) and The Mirthmakers- http://youtube.com/watch?v=n70JhjO-p8g

  24. sammymaudlin

    Lenny & The Squigtones I think existed outside of TV so they’re out. But we have to put the kibosh on fake movie bands or this thread will go on forever. Agreed? TV only?

  25. sammymaudlin

    Although not TV, this is one of my favorite fake band names. It’s on the bass drum-

  26. I also know waaay to many of these

    How about:

    Chad & Jeremy as “The Redcoats” on The Dick Van Dyke show?

    Chip Skyler – Fairly Odd Parents

    Rock Roll – The Flinstones

    Ann Margrock – The Flinstones

    The Mosquitoes – Gilligan’s Island

    Jet Screamer – The Jetsons

  27. sammymaudlin

    OK andyr. I don’t have time to find the links (but can if challenged) but here’s your six-

    The Heights (short lived FOX series)
    Faith + 1 (South Park)
    Lotta Velour (The Tick)
    The Young Caucasions (SNL)
    The California Raisens
    The California Dreams (short-lived syndicated show)

    And I’ll raise you three-

    Eddie Barnett and the Eddie Barnetters (Cheers)
    Pinky Tuscadero (Happy Days)
    Leather and the Suedes (Happy Days)

  28. I know this is out of scope but Max Frost & The Troopers from “Wild In The Streets”

    Sammy lists the fox shows – wasn’t there a fox show called “the heights” or something that had that Jaimie ______ dude.

  29. Ooops. I need to learn to read better. carry on

  30. OK. How about the original TV rock star – Ricky Nelson?

  31. sammymaudlin

    Flag on the play! Ricky Nelson existed outside of TV.

  32. hrrundivbakshi

    Samulah, Velv: great fighting spirit! You honor us with your presence. Together, we will forge a Last Man Standing force of extraordinary magnitude!

    Mockcarr, I know you can keep this topic going for days if necessary. My coaching advice: let Sammy and Velv exhaust themselves for a while, then jump in at the last minute with a soul-crushing barrage of teevee band name-droppery.

  33. mockcarr

    OK, here’s obscure for you – The Bedbugs on F Troop! Hah! Top that! Corporal Agarn managed them, and quit the calvary to do it.

  34. I’ll go with the Power Puff Girls –
    Bubbles has some serious drumming talent.

    Oh yeah, and on the Muppet Show – featuring Mahna Mahna & The Two Snowths singing the Mahna Mahna song of course.

  35. This was the episode I was thinking of specifically – love the rug harmonies – eh, eh Mr. Moderator??

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htlG1lM64t8

  36. God, how could I forget the most importantt of all – the Electric Mayhem (from the Muppet Show) – Floyd’s eyebrows are to die for.

  37. mockcarr

    Here’s the band for Fritz – the Hornddogs, which are the Drew Carey show cast with Joe Walsh. Although, in fairness, the other cast guys are fired and replaced by James Gang memebers.

  38. mockcarr

    Memebers is a word, right? I memember that from someplace. Dammit, me and my google beer lunches.

  39. Rod Torfulson’s Armada featuring Herman Menderchuk (Kids in the Hall)

  40. saturnismine

    now wait a minute…

    let’s be clear about this whole “existed outside of tv” thing.

    if the band is created by or for television, they qualify. but if their tv fame leads to records and touring that outlasts the tv show (as w/ the monkees and the blues brothers) that should not disqualify them.

    mod, am i right?

  41. sammymaudlin

    Lemon Sisters (Cheers)
    Tammy (Kids in the Hall)
    Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good Time Family Based Solution (Arrested Development) I had to Google to get the exact name.
    Sacred Cows (Get Smart)
    Charlene (the lounge singer friend in Mary Tyler Moore)
    The Brady Six (another Brady Buncher)
    Tommy had a band on Eight is Enough- Biplane. I had to Google to get the name.

  42. sammymaudlin

    OK. I’m down with originated on TV.

  43. BigSteve

    Has anyone mentioned SCTV’s Five Neat Guys?

  44. Mr. Moderator

    Hey, you guys are kicking ass in my absence. I”m in Toronto, getting stoked for tonight’s April Wine reunion. Just catching up for a minute. Has anyone mentioned The Beat Alls and Mojo JoJo’s Yoko-like character?

    Art, I think that fake bands that became real (eg, The Monkees) should be disqualified, but I’m not making or enforcing the rules here.

    Really glad The Way-Outs and Rock Roll were mentioned. They were key to my childhood understanding of rock.

  45. sammymaudlin

    Lola Heatherton (SCTV)
    Chef (South Park)
    Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld (SCTV)
    Armada (Kids in the Hall)
    The Gentlemen Callers (Malcolm in the Middle)

  46. I’ll out-geek you all with the name of a band on an actual current TV show:

    Hep Alien (Gilmore Girls)

  47. Aww – good one Great48! I tried to get on last night but the internet wouldn’t let me (traffic?), now I have to go to work again – but I wanted to make sure that I posted about the Groovie Goolies (I forgot about them – great one Sammy!!) – the “real” version; called The Groovie Ghoulies – have a great Saturday everyone!:

    http://www.myspace.com/groovieghoulies

    My baby gives me back rubs – she throws great pizza dough
    She helps me push my car – when it will not go
    I need not defend her – some people run and scream
    Daily she says no to the coach of the baseball team

    ’cause she the Beast with five hands
    The Beast with five hands
    Don’t you try and take her
    Don’t you know that I’m her man
    She’s my baby baby yeah the Beast with five hands

    When we’re at the movies – she makes me feel alright
    One arm’s wrapped around me – two arms hold me tight
    Arm four holds the popcorn – arm five holds the drink
    There’s no other girl I’d rather have I do not think

    ’cause she’s….

    I really love you baby – you really drive me wild
    Especially when all 25 of your nails are filed
    You really make me happy – you really make me sing
    But I don’t think we’ll marry ’cause I can’t afford five rings

    Yeah you’re…

    She’s the beast with five hands… Five hands! Five hands!

  48. sammymaudlin

    Foregone Conclusion (The Office- BBC version, don’t know about US version)
    Zorak (band leader Space Ghost)

    And how could we forget- Danger Kitty
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6nVNONFwhs

  49. saturnismine

    South Park’s “Lords of the Underworld”, featuring “Timmy”.

  50. Mr. Moderator

    Scum of the Earth, from a WKRP episode.

  51. sammymaudlin

    Banana Convention- Brady Bunch when Greg Smokes. But it was really Tommy’s pack.

  52. saturnismine

    charlie mentioned “Scum” way up there…

    how about “Splash Log”, the metal band that Family Guy’s Chris joins? Their hit song was “Evil Monkey”.

  53. Mr. Moderator

    OK, I missed Scum… I got nothing. Is Art the Lsst Man Standing?

  54. Wait!! Did anyone mention Fat Albert & the Junkyard Band?!

    😀

  55. general slocum

    Do I get a dweeb factor of 7? Dingoes Ate My Baby from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

  56. saturnismine

    The dingoes have been mentioned. But the Fat Albert Band hasn’t. good one sally!!!

    Has anyone mentioned “meg”, the band on “family guy” comprised of all of the members of that family?

  57. Mr. Moderator

    How did we forget Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band all that time?

    Hey, how about fake house bands on fake talk shows? If they count, I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the band from the Jiminy Glick Show.

  58. sammymaudlin

    Dusty Towne backed up by The Wally Hung Trio (SCTV)
    Chachi was in a band on Joannie Loves Chachi that was a significant part of the show but the band’s name was famously never mentioned.

    I’m open for listening to anyone’s surrender terms.

  59. general slocum

    Sammy ultimates:
    I’m open for listening to anyone’s surrender terms.

    My terms:
    How about you get to win, and I get to not be the person that knows the most fake TV bands on this blog?

  60. saturnismine

    sammy, that’s a different set of rules to a different game. your knowledge scares the CRAP out of me, however. and you win THAT game.

    this is called “last man standing”, which, at the moment, is you, anyway. until now:

    recent ‘king of the hill’ episodes have featured a band comprised of John Redcorn, Luanne’s boyfriend, and other rednecks. they call themselves Big Mountain Fudge Cake.

  61. sammymaudlin

    I accept general slocum’s terms.

    And as much as the non-geek in me might want to not be the person that knows the most fake bands- I cannot deny my destiny.

    Mr. Moderator- The Glick band had a name- The Adrian Van Voorhees 7 (sp?)
    Daphne Aguilera (Andy Dick Show)
    Arthur Ewing and his Musical Mice (Monty Python)

  62. saturnismine

    the rock star and former high school nerd “Pony” in the richard linkater movie “suburbia”.

  63. sammymaudlin

    Let’s stick to the topic here, Fake TV Bands. Not that I couldn’t whoop-ass on movies too. And just so there’s no hard feelings, I’ll offer Tom, Bill & Mary from the movie Nashville.

    And just to show off a bit, here’s another ON topic band-

    Kaptain Kool and the Kongs (Krofft Supershow) This show wasn’t on long and in hindsight it might not have helped that band could be abbreviated KKK.

  64. Scary, Sammy.

    I don’t know if they ever came up with a name, but I saw a recent episode of Scrubs where they formed an air guitar band in the Hospital, but then they got banned.

    More than a feeling:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyMz__ES9sc

  65. mockcarr

    Recess Monkeys from SCTV’s Pre-Teen World.

  66. sammymaudlin

    Village Persons- SNL – performing Bend Over Chuck Berry.

  67. sammymaudlin

    Here I am. Top of the heap of lifeless bodies. I AM the last man standing!

  68. mockcarr

    Nope, I’ve got plenty, we haven’t done much Muppet Show yet, how bout Lubbock Lou and and his Jug Huggers. Real sex appeal in that one.

  69. mockcarr

    Hey, Jim – Opie’s band was named Sound Committee.

  70. mockcarr

    Can’t remember if Featuring Aunt Clara followed.

  71. hrrundivbakshi

    Charlie: we’re on the honor system here, vis-a-vis the use of Google to crystallize hazy memories. As memorable as that “Jug Huggers” band name was, do you swear you remembered it unassisted? If so, the hunt for a Master of this category is still on!

  72. BigSteve

    I’ve been holding back, because there are entire webpages devoted to this topic. I assumed we had to rely on memory alone. Let me know when the game is over, and I’ll cite my sources.

  73. mockcarr

    Well, it was incidental to looking at some Muppet Show thing. But I’m also about done unless I were to look at those episodes. What I’m saying is there’s pretty much a “band” during every episode.

    I DID use the “internets” to find the name of Opie’s band, but I remember that lame-ass color episode – bad enough I know all these other caroon ones when treking through the bad tv in my head, no WAY I’d know Opie’s band’s name unless I was fighting a hangover watching TVland.

  74. mockcarr

    Sorry, that was Art wondering about that stuff , which makes sense, because I don’t remember that band having a bass in it. FIGURES.

  75. From SNL –

    Candy Slice
    The Bee’s? (forerunner of Blues Bros)

  76. Jem! Truly outrageous! (okay, okay, I can hear the collective groan;) and are they real? I wasn’t talking about Jem. The Dugaboos, wait, the Hulabaloos, wait… um… The Doodlebops! Apparently I am trapped in a cartoon world…. The Smurfs had an orchestra! And didn’t PeeWee’s playhouse have a jazz band? A dog, a cat and something else…

  77. sammymaudlin

    Catwoman and The Kittens (Batman)

  78. sammymaudlin

    And just to stop someone else from using it- Chandell (and his brother Harry) as played by Liberace on Batman.

    PS- I know at least 3 other ones from Batman that haven’t been mentioned.

  79. mockcarr

    Wasn’t there a villianess on Batman who used her voice as a weapon? That’d be better than real life Chad and Jeremy.

  80. hrrundivbakshi

    Surprised none of you SCTV heads has mentioned tenor sax genius and private dick (not to be confused with Seth Dick III), Vic Arpeggio.

    Or Big Momma
    Or Norman Maine (sp?) (“You gotta write more songs about… critters.”)
    Or Angus Crock’s Blues Band

    I swear, that Kristofferson parody (i.e., Norman Maine) is the funniest thing they did on that show. Certainly Flaherty’s finest moment for me — and that’s saying something!

  81. “Cold Slither” Cobra’s subliminal metal band that he used in a sub-plot to I’m sure take over the world in some capacity or another…;) I kind of remember that maybe they wore KISS-like make-up… Yo, Joe!

    And; Alvin & the Chipmunks!

  82. sammymaudlin

    I listed a link to all the Mel’s Rockpile bands earlier in an effort to get that out of the way but alas-

    Speed of Light (SCTV and yes I knew it before I found the link.)

  83. general slocum

    Mr. Ckcarr wonders:
    Wasn’t there a villianess on Batman who used her voice as a weapon?

    The Siren, aka Joan Collins. Her voice was supposed to put men under her alluring spell, like the Sirens that got Odysseus. In Batman, when she opened her mouth they just played a high beeeeeep sound, like a full-answering-machine sound. Years later, I still perk up when a girl’s answering machine is full!

  84. sammymaudlin

    Boone Vincent (Malcolm in the Middle) Played by David Cassidy who is really funny in it.

  85. saturnismine

    wow…youze guys are kickin’ arse!

    i’m done, man…done!

    but sally, the chipmunks record came out in ’58. they didn’t have a tv show ’til ’61 or ’62.

    On South Park, Cartman and Butters (and Token) formed a christian rock band…i can’t remember if they were called “Trinity” or “Sanctified”, but they definitely gigged with one of those bands….

  86. sammymaudlin

    Are you thinking of “Faith + 1” per chance? As previously mentioned by moi? Although Kyle and Stan’s competing band hasn’t been mention, until now- Moop.

  87. but sally, the chipmunks record came out in ’58. they didn’t have a tv show ’til ’61 or ’62.

    Oh poop. I didn’t even think about that.

  88. Mr. Moderator

    Who woulda thunk a Townsperson would go pince nez on The Chipmunks?

  89. Nick the drummer from Freaks & Geeks is in a garage band and constantly plays the drums and is always talking about Bonham; I really loved that show. Especially the Halloween episode where Bill dresses up as the Bionic Woman! Wasn’t there some sort of garage band/ boy lead singer with long hair that Winnie Cooper was in love with on The Wonder Years?

  90. saturnismine

    aha…faith+1! nice. moop! even better. that’s the metallica anti-file sharing episode, right?

    what was the name of the band on “american dad” that kicks steve out when roger the alien joins?

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