Plumbing the Death Star - Which Fictional Teens Would Make the Best Boy Band?
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Hey, everybody,
and welcome to this week's episode
of Plumbing the Death Star,
where we ask the important questions like, which fictional teens would make the best boy band?
I think the best way to do this is we just take from fictional teens
and we make them together as a unit.
We create a boy band.
Yeah, cool.
Because you don't want to just be like Riverdale.
Yeah, that's cheating.
You know?
Can we Luke Perry this?
What?
So when someone is obviously 40 years old but can pass for a team.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Obviously pass for a team.
I assume most team boy bands are comprised of 40-year-olds.
All right.
Okay, so with a boy band, you generally have a team of five.
Yeah.
An archetypal team of five.
Yeah.
So you've got the heartthrob.
Heartthrob.
So they're usually kind of like the face of the boy band.
The Harry Styles.
Yes.
Often blonde.
Often blonde.
Would that be not right?
Is that true?
What was Justin Timberlake?
He was bleached.
He's got the bleached tips.
He's blonde.
He was in a boy band.
Yeah.
Good.
You're sweating bullets right now.
God, my boy band knowledge is so limited
You got the bad boy
It's a classic
Leather jacket
No shirt
You got the cute one
The cute one
Yeah
So while he's not the heartthrob
He's kind of like a baby face
Right yes
He's like the second heartthrob
Yeah Usually he's like
Not as sexually threatening
As the first one
It's the one that the mums are like
Yes, that one's okay
He's like the promise ring member
Yeah
The Nick Jonas
Yeah
You've got the older brother
What was the first one?
The heartthrob
Bad boy The cute one Cute one Sorry, I was writing this down Who's the older brother Wait, what was the first one? The heartthrob The heartthrob, bad boy
The cute one
Cute one
Sorry, I'm just writing this down
Who's the older brother?
What's that?
So it's like the cool reassuring figure
That people can relate to
Is that generally the Luke power?
Yes, I feel
I want to say it's kind of almost like
Drama from Entourage
He's literally the older brother
But he's a bit of a fuck-up.
The Kevin.
The Kevin Jonas.
And then you've got the shy one,
who is a bit nerdier than the rest of the band.
Yeah.
Can you give me...
The Adam Cannavale.
Can you give me where in the music video
each of these boy band members would be found?
All right, so the heartthrob is front and center. Yeah. I'm in literal locale. where in the music video each of these boy band members would be found.
All right, so the heartthrob is, like, front and center.
Yeah.
Like, I'm in literal location.
Yeah.
Okay, like, as in... All right, so we are in an old-timey malt shop.
Cool, that's what I'm looking for.
And they're all wearing, like, button-down shirts.
Bad boy alleyway.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Older brother... He's working the... older brother he's he's working he's working the
construction no he's working he's like the cook yeah he's like behind the counter he's got one
of those like paper hats on and he's like wiping his forehead and being like working's hard um
having responsibility the cute one is having a milkshake Yes The heartthrob walks in to pay
And then he sees you
Would the heartthrob maybe be mopping?
Why?
What's sexy about mopping?
Something sexy about mopping
And then he chucks down the mop
No, I'm with Simon on this one
He starts singing a bit
Yeah
You say mop, I smell a mop
Fine, he's wiping down tables
Yeah, that's much better
A mop is just not sexy
Maybe they're all working there
Yeah, so the bad boy is mopping
He's like taking out the trash
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, he's taking out the trash
The heartthrob is like your waiter
He's wiping down tables
And he's like, you're drinking your milkshake
You're there like
Yeah, yeah
Sexy noises
Sexy, sexy noises
And he like, yeah, he comes up to you.
He maybe puts a like a banana split down in front of you
and you make eye contact, like prolonged eye contact.
Where's the shy guy?
The shy guy.
He's in the back stacking shelves.
He doesn't get to be in the music video.
Be more absurd.
We need a good harmony.
All right, okay.
Now I've kind of got visually where they are now.
The shy guy is maybe around the jukebox.
Yeah.
He's the one that presses the button so the jams come on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
He's the instigator of said music clip.
I'm there.
I'm with you.
All right.
So where do we want to begin?
Okay.
Do we want to start at the heartthrob?
Yeah.
Who's this teen heartthrob?
Who's the greatest fictional teen heartthrob?
Magneto.
Magneto.
Magneto.
I'm listening.
So there is several issues where they baby-ify Magneto,
and then he's got to get older a bit.
Do they teen-ify or baby-ify?
They baby-ify him, and presumably he has to grow up for a bit
He's a teen for a moment
At some point in his life he was a teen
Clearly there has to be a moment where Magneto
Is a teen
No because from the movies I remember
Childs
Adults
He goes from child
To Ian McKellen
And then we backtrack a bit to Michael Fassbender.
There's got to be a time before Michael Fassbender.
I mean, it's got to, but we haven't seen it yet on screen.
Can I actually make an amendment?
Joseph, as in Magneto's clone, younger self.
Okay.
So he was, whilst not as old as Magneto and probably not a teen,
I reckon he could have Luke Perry this because he had long, flowing white hair.
Is Magneto considered a heartthrob by anyone in the Marvel Universe?
I mean by Rogue and myself.
Rogue does fuck Magneto.
That's fair.
That's fair.
She wants to cheat on Remy Lebut, who is also a heartthrob.
But isn't it also because Magneto cannot get rogued by her?
That's also an aspect, yes.
She's not like, damn.
That old, more like, huh, I guess so.
I guess this is the only way I'm getting off.
All right.
Cool.
I guess I'll go in for it.
No, but look, we'll go Magneto.
Look, you can put forward some ones as well.
Look, I'm just going to get some images of Magneto.
Yeah, try and find me a very sexy image of Magneto.
It's not easy.
Why is that one coming up?
Hey, here's one.
Look.
All right, show me sexy Magneto.
There you go.
He's in the Xavier's kind of like the yellow and gold outfit.
Platinum hair. outfit, platinum hair.
Long, platinum anime hair.
But is he more of a bad boy?
Yeah, he's maybe a bit more of a bad boy or even an older brother type.
He's not a heartthrob.
I will hold my comment until we get to the bad boy or brother thing.
I'll pass that out.
Yes.
All right, then.
Heartthrob.
Who do we want for a heartthrob?
Bumblebee from the Transformers. Yes. All right, then. Heartthrob. Who do we want for a heartthrob? Bumblebee from the Transformers.
Good.
Car.
A car.
You've picked a car.
He's a car man.
Just a car.
So are we talking Bumblebee from...
The Michael Bay Bumblebee.
The sexy Bumblebee.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So in a boy band where you need to sing, who famously can't talk.
He goes from the radio.
So he does the samples.
Good, good, good.
Every bumblebee's no good for the pin in bumblebee.
There's something there.
Hey, how old's Wally from Where's Wally?
From Where's Waldo?
Waldo from Where's Waldo?
I don't know if he could pass as a teen.
That's a dad.
You reckon?
He's fairly hairless.
Get a picture of Waldo or Wally up there.
I mean, he's a twunk.
He's one hell of a twunk.
But he ain't a twink.
Is he in shape, actually?
He's just very gangly.
You don't want a heartthrob to be gangly.
Show me Wally.
He could maybe be a teen, but he no he's too oh my jesus christ
maybe the shy boy maybe the shy boy type in sexy words let's see what we get if you put the little
qualifier sexy uh that it's a lot of costumes like a halloween costumes of a of a woman. That's not what I want. Mainly photos of me, actually.
Every Halloween. Oh, there's a tubby boy who's worn a
onesie. That's a sex. That's not even Wes Wally.
He's just wearing a fucking striped one-piece.
He's hung, though.
He's quite hung.
He's a big boy.
I went to an underwear store today. Sorry to sidetrack.
I went to an underwear store today
and in the guys section
the mannequin was hung
what yeah how big like notice i was like what that's weird but i guess it's underwear so like
i want to be if you know if i if i was maybe insecure about my penis or whatever and i'd
look at it and be like damn my dick will look big in that underwear. Maybe. Right? That mannequin has just got a massive bulge.
I hope they've just been slowly making dongs on mannequins,
bigger and bigger and bigger, hoping no one notices.
That was weird.
That was almost a vomit.
Yeah, that's not good, Jack.
All right.
But again, we need someone archetypal.
Archie Andrews.
Archie Andrews from the comics.
Archie and Jughead. Yeahs From the comics Archie and Jughead
Yeah
Or from the TV show
Riverdale
I want to go from the comics
Because he's so pure
In the comics
Riverdale is killing people
But will he make
A lot of say
Millions of
Adoring teenage girls
Squee
Yeah
Maybe not
He's a bit too
Clean Archie
Certainly comic Archie
Yeah
Could we take
First season One of the Supernatural brothers?
Oh, yeah.
Which one?
Jared Padalecki.
See, I would have gone the other one.
No, because that's a bad boy.
Can they share the role?
No.
I want a Jedward situation.
No.
What about Fred Jones?
Fred Jones. He's so he's such a handsome muscular good
blonde blonde ascot and he's got like a hook yeah exactly that's the thing everyone will be wearing
ascots because fred jones will be wearing ascots fred jones is fucking man eating and and and the
fact that he's clearly a grasshopper
and a man's skin.
It's the kind of thing we'll just keep under wraps.
It'll be a big Hollywood secret.
So I think that's good.
I think Fred Jones makes a good front man
to our boy band.
Fred Jones, as much as I like Bumblebee,
he's not going to make many teenage girls squee.
He'll make teenage girl robots squee.
How many are there?
There's one, R.C.
R.C., yeah.
Is she loving it?
Is she loving it?
She's not loving it.
She's loving Hot Rod.
I think actually in the Michael Bay movie,
she's just dead.
Oh, yeah.
Never mind.
Although I am like a Transformer role.
Yeah, because the problem is
you can't have a lot of women in movies.
Yeah, that's Michael Bay's fault.
Because or else their periods sync up
and it's a whole thing.
Yeah, look.
Does R.Cie have a period?
Yes.
Oil's got to leak at some point.
Fucking Optimus Prime takes a piss so bodily functions are happening.
One of the Transformers has balls, so I guess yes.
Okay, so at least we've got our protagonist.
Yeah, we've got Fred Jones.
We've got our heartthrob.
All right, what's next?
All right, so the bad boy.
The bad boy.
Now, I know you've seen Hot Rod from Transformers.
Which one was Hot Rod?
He was the one that was voiced by Judd Nelson in the 1986 cartoon movie.
Oh, good, you painted a picture of him.
He ends up becoming...
What kind of car is Hot Rod?
I believe...
I felt like an ethnic grandmother.
Zameth, Zameth, what kind of car is Hot Rod?
He ends up becoming Rodimus Prime.
Rodimus Prime.
Because he gets the basic...
Because he digs him down good.
He gets the all spark or whatever.
Okay, he becomes a prime.
He becomes a new leader of the Autobots.
Show me a picture.
There he is, this little handsome fella.
Yes.
And he's a bit like a rebel.
Look, my vote will always be not a car.
However, he's like a sweet hot rod.
I think that the bad boy in a boy band has to be the most fuckable.
That's my belief.
They're the one that everybody secretly wants.
I'd fuck Judd Nelson wants I'd fuck Judd Nelson
I'd fuck Judd Nelson maybe but not a car
I'd fuck a car
I would fuck Hot Rod
Because what a jerk
But there's a difference between fucking someone
Because you want to fuck them
And fucking someone because you're like that's going to be a good story
For the sweet novelty of being like
Hot Rod is handsome
I think you go the ultimate bad boy, Voldemort.
Too far, can't pass as a teenager.
We cannot Luke Perry.
Ah, Tom Riddle.
Tom Riddle?
Tom Riddle, sure.
Tom Riddle.
He's very evil.
Is he sexy, though?
He's kind of attractive when he's Tom Riddle.
When he's Tom Riddle.
He's killing cats, but we just keep that under wraps
with Fred Jones' mantis.
cats, but we just keep that under wraps with Fred Jones' mantis.
I wanted Kenny Wrangler from Oz.
Who's Kenny Wrangler?
I know you, which is kind of.
So you know in The Wire, you know Bodhi from The Wire.
Yeah.
So Bodhi from The Wire or Kenny Wrangler from Oz, because they're played by the same actor.
Okay.
Both bad boys.
Who the hell is Kenny Wangler?
Oh, fuck you.
All right, hold on.
Get me a photo and then we'll talk.
You made me think of someone with Kenny Wangler.
Who'd you make me think of?
How about, while that's happening,
another Judd Nelson character. Sure.
Bender from Breakfast Club.
He's too bad a boy. No, he's too bad.
Kind of a rapist. A little bit, yeah.
Not a fan. But he's got a leather jacket and that's what you need
and good hair. He does have a leather
jacket. Attractive. Attractive.
We're on the Kenny Wenger because in both things that I
know him from, that one episode of Law and Order
SVU, he is a drug dealer.
Okay. That's too bad.
No, too bad because in one he's in prison and one he's
working the streets. He's working the corner. See, that's too bad., too bad, because in one he's in prison And in one he's working the streets
He's working the corner
See, that's too bad
See, I think a bad boy's gotta have soft edges
Edges, but soft edges
So maybe Voldemort's not a good choice
Yeah, you picked Voldemort
Yeah, you kind of want someone that would appear to be a bad boy
Rides a motorcycle
Maybe could win a fight, but isn't gonna go pick a fight
Yeah, absolutely
Yeah, no
Kenny's not gonna, Kenny's picking fights
You kind of want, like, that middle ground bad boy fight but isn't going to go pick a fight. Yeah, absolutely. Kenny's picking fights.
You kind of want that middle ground bad boy. What of Bowser?
From Mario?
Yeah. I don't know if we could Luke Perry
that. He is man.
Is he his turtle?
Age hard to define.
I mean, he could be teen for turtle.
Yeah, do you know how old Bowser is?
I don't fucking think so
Good point
I certainly don't
I don't know how old Mario is
He's so youthful but he's got that mustache
He might just be an out of shape teen
What about in that same vicinity of teens
What about Donkey Kong?
Ah
Now that's a bad boy
He could put him in a leather jacket
He could be a teen.
Yeah, because he's
not wearing pants.
Loose tie.
Tie and no shirt.
It's a pretty bad boy.
That's pretty bad.
He's like,
fuck the formality rules.
Yeah, he's like,
look, I'm going to wear a tie,
but just to point out
how silly wearing a tie is.
Also no pants.
Dicks out for the girls.
Yeah.
And then he could just be
slapping the stage
to get some good
percussion going.
Only downside of Donkey Kong is that he just
hoots like an ape.
That's what you might need in the backing.
You're not coming to see a concert of
our wonderful bad boy
We're picking the best musicians.
We haven't quite nailed it.
He'll lip sync.
We haven't quite got the name of this thing,
but I reckon DK would be a pretty good addition to the squad.
As Fred Jones is like,
Baby, you're my forever.
And then he points to Donkey Kong.
Donkey Kong's just like...
Yeah.
And look, he's making screeches.
Yeah.
And he can easily lip sync over those screeches.
I guess somebody has to quiet those screeches down.
Well, it's like in, oh, fuck.
So you know the Jonas Brothers who I mentioned prior.
I'm going to say this sentence and I know maybe Jackson will know.
How can I not know the Jonas Brothers?
You know in Burning Up?
Sure.
Yeah, see?
So in Burning Up, there's a bit and Joe Jonas is like,
he's like, red dress.
And then backing, Nick Jonas is like, red dress. And it's like, there's a bit in Joe Jonas is like, he's like red dress and then backing Nick Jonas is like red dress.
And it's like that's Donkey Kong.
He's like back in red dress.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's perfect.
Not enough.
You know, we need to combine the 1950s to 60s and 70s love of chimps and gorillas and film with the modern love of boy bands.
Oh, 100%. Mix that shit together.
Give me chimp boy bands.
I think we definitely need to combine
these boy band and ape perception.
I just think it's about time.
All right.
I think that's a money-making machine.
The ape from Ape Escape instead of DK.
There are many apes in Ape Escape.
Ape Escape is about acquiring apes.
You play as a young boy with spiky hair who needs to get all the apes
for reasons I cannot remember.
And then you do.
What if we get ape from George of the Jungle?
Ah.
Fancy ape.
Or even ape from Tarzan.
Yeah.
It's a lady.
Are they bad boy apes, though? No, that would be like the older brother
ape. Yeah. Are we now making an ape
boy band? We'll stick with
a fronted by one Jones, yes.
Okay, next one we've got.
Fuck, there's an ape boy band.
A cute one.
That's a stressed Fred Jones.
Alright, the cute one. So we've got to get someone
who's quite young-ish. Yeah.
Can you go in the opposite direction?
Can you go up?
As in...
Older?
Younger?
As in younger,
but like the opposite of a Luke Perry.
Does such a thing exist?
Oh, right.
Oh, like younger but could play older.
Yeah.
Because what are you thinking?
Oh, God, no.
The weird child from the Babadook?
What?
That is the most left-field answer.
I was actually thinking Ralph Wiggum.
Is it like, wait, by cute one,
is it like, oh, he's like the sweet, innocent one?
I think he even plays the cute one
when they make a boy band in The Simpsons.
He's like the sweet, innocent one, yeah?
Yeah.
I guess that's why I was thinking real.
The boy from The Babadook.
That kid's like a monster in that movie.
So generally they act kind of opposite where the bad boy is, right?
Yes.
So they're diametrically opposite, right?
So you have DK, who is our bad boy.
Diddy Kong.
True.
Diddy Kong wears a T-shirt.
Diddy Kong just make an ape band
Why not so?
That's not the question
For the love of god
Why not?
Alright
Because my other two answers
Are also Kongs
We should have just made
A Kong band
We've done the Konga
I want
The boy From Stranger Things That didn't have teeth in the first season.
Oh, yeah.
Dustin?
Dustin.
How did I remember that?
Because A, cute as a button.
Yeah, absolutely.
Cute as a button.
And B, his mum seems hella cool.
Which is a big factor in how I choose a loved one.
Okay, that wasn't the question.
Sure.
He's got to be cute, and his mum's real cute.
She's got a cat that he loves.
And then in the second season he gets that weird pet thing that he loves.
That's true.
Yeah.
Is that going to translate to the stage?
Well, yes, because it'll be like his hook,
is that he's always taking photos with his pet demogorgons.
Like, oh, man, Fred Jones has that cool ass guy,
and Dustin, he's got the demogorgon.
Donkey Kong's hook, he's a big ape.
He's a fucking ape.
He's a full-on gorilla.
That's why I like listening to his music.
No, look, you're right.
Dustin, he's got no teeth.
He is cute.
He wears that little, like, hat, the little trucker cap.
Yeah.
And he's always wearing, well, he's riding a bike because he's a child.
He probably won't be riding the bike in the music.
He might be in the music video, yeah.
In the mall shop.
In the mall shop.
Yeah, he's late for his shift.
Shift, yeah.
Or he's like, he's up.
Or is he meeting a cute little girl somewhere and he's right there
and then you've got to have a cute milkshake.
Yeah.
We're going to meet soon.
Donkey Kong's a bad boy.
He's meant to be mopping.
He's just throwing the mop and mopping around.
He seems panicked.
He's just a gorilla.
He's a gorilla in a leather jacket.
He's a gorilla in a tight leather jacket
That's restricting his movement
And he seems angry
And off stage you know there are people with cattle prods
Just being like
God please hurry up and finish filming
We are all in danger
One guy with a train
Alright I'm happy to call Dustin from Stranger Things
Our innocent sweet boy
The older brother
Bumblebee.
Stop suggesting cars and monkeys.
Bumblebee is like an older brother to Sam Witwicky.
No, again, he just can't.
He just used.
I mean, yes, we have Donkey Kong.
Bumblebee has no voice.
Bumblebee plays songs from the radio.
Yeah, we're not making a
Milli Vanilli here
All we gotta do is have someone
Record his line, put it on
The radio, and then he says
How do we record the original line?
We get someone else to do it
Dub it
We're not making a Milli Vanilli
Someone else dubs a line
Then Bumblebee re-records that line. Can anyone
relate to Bumblebee?
As an older brother.
Are you going to Bumblebee
for advice? Sam Witwicky
does. He shouldn't. He does.
He shouldn't. Bumblebee really wants
him to fuck.
There's that scene in the first Transformers
I know the scene
Megan Fox and Sam Witwicky
Hop in a car together
Well they're in Bumblebee
And then Bumblebee locks the doors and plays sexy music
That sounds hella rapey
Yeah I don't know why Bumblebee does that
Herbie the Lovebug does the same thing
Why haven't you suggested Herbie the Lovebug?
Herbie the Lovebug!
Now we're talking
Herbie the Lovebug is like an older brother.
He looks after fucking, what's her name?
Lindsay Lohan.
Lindsay Lohan in Herbie Fully Loaded.
Okay, I don't know much about Herbie, but I'm intrigued.
In a live car.
Live, I'm fairly sure, from the one movie I remember that may have been from the late 90s
because the person making the car juice
Tipped a photograph of his wife whom he loved in and that made her become alive an evil herbie happens because
someone's trying to make another herbie and
The their cronies are like you got to put in something you really love and the villain puts in a photograph of himself
And then he gets an evil herbie. So you've got a good Herbie, a bad Herbie.
So I'm actually going to choose that for bad. Bad boy, yeah, to be honest.
But older brother Herbie, just saying.
He's kind of a mentor in a car form.
Can't tour.
No.
What about, again, Hot Rod?
Fuck, put the Batmobile in there.
The Batmobile.
Bat wing.
Flying.
Certainly has to be a car
Or an ape
Actually look
We've been skirting around the edges here
In Herbie, Bumblebee, Hot Rod
When really we should have picked the most obvious choice
Optimus Prime
Oh my god yeah
How old a brother is Optimus Prime?
Optimus Prime is so old a brother
Mondo old a brother He'sus Prime? Optimus Prime is so old a brother. Mondo older brother.
Yeah.
He's cool.
He's a reassuring figure.
And everyone can relate to him.
Absolutely.
Both boys and girls.
That's great because that sounded like the pitch.
Everyone can relate.
Our test audiences relate to Optimus Prime.
Optimus Prime boys have little Optimus Prime costumes.
Girls have little Optimus Prime tutus. Yeah, exactly. Perfect. Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime boys have little Optimus Prime costumes. Girls have little Optimus Prime tutus.
Yeah, exactly. Perfect. Optimus Prime
relates to everyone.
Again, because he's like the older brother, he's got
those sweet baritone kind of notes.
Oh, yeah. I am Optimus Prime.
Yeah. Can he sing?
Well, it doesn't matter.
Can Fred join?
So I reckon Optimus Prime
is the older brother.
I'll pick you up in me, baby.
He also accesses the tour van.
Yeah, exactly.
They can ride everywhere they need to go inside Optimus.
Well, it's a cramped tour van because Optimus Prime is just the front of a truck.
He also has the trailer thing.
Is that him?
Well, it always comes with him when he transforms.
Where does it go?
Who knows?
The cartoons never explained it.
It just kind of went off camera for a bit.
And then when he wanted it, it was there.
All right.
I know we're super into the idea of it just being all cars.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So far, only one of them is a car.
It's a truck.
Oh, my fucking god
I would also accept an Ultra Magnus but I'm going to go with Optimus Prime
Who's Ultra
You know what I don't want to know
What about Thor
Can we have Thor as the older brother
He's kind of reassuring
He's a bit too goofy
No an older brother's goofy
Because you can muck around with an older brother but you know he's going to love you
Is Thor reassuring, though?
Do you want to get a hug from Thor?
Yeah.
He's more almost like the heartthrob.
Yeah.
Can I change Fred Jones?
Ah, but Fred Jones.
He's got that ascot going on.
What has Thor had to do?
He's already done the marketing.
A hammer.
Thor's got a hammer.
Yeah.
We can't sell a hammer.
An eye patch.
We can sell an ascot.
Fuck. All right, I guess I'll write down Optimus Prime.
Yes!
We did it.
And the shy one.
Harry Potter.
Oh, yeah.
Harry Potter's shy.
He's angry.
He's an angry boy.
But do you think he would struggle not being the heartthrob?
Yeah, I think Harry Potter might struggle not being the centre of attention
Yeah, that's true
Try to think of fictional turtle men
Some, maybe Ninja Turtles
Yeah, I don't think possibly
Which one?
Donatello?
Can the Ninja Turtles go into their shells?
Yeah
I want to say, I'm sure
What about Franklin the Turtle from the children's books?
Okay.
Let's just get Kalalau.
Kalalau?
Do you mean Caillou?
Or do you mean Galalai?
Both.
Fuck.
Don't you just say a word written down so many times and you're like, that's how it's pronounced.
Caillou looks like it's spelt Kalalai.
But no, it's...
Caillou.
Caillou's very young.
He's a small, bald child from television.
Too young.
Yeah, that's maybe too young.
I like this turtle idea.
Either Franklin or Donatello.
Donatello?
Is Donatello shy?
He's a nerd.
Is he the one that does machines?
He's the one that does machines.
Okay.
Put some glasses on him.
Where are we going?
Yeah, he's a good shy one.
That's true. He's eating pizza, on him. There we go. Yeah, he's a good shy one, that's true.
He's eating pizza though, so he'll die.
What about that robot
turtle that they make? What about the rat
that looks after? Splinter.
Splinter. That's more of an older brother.
That's more of a manager.
Can Splinter manage them?
He managed the Ninja Turtles so well.
He managed another separate little topic, I think,
because we need that. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know if... Shy.
Shy, shy, shy.
Shy guys?
Shy guys from Mario.
They are.
Shy in the title.
It's there.
I'm just trying to think of someone, something that goes inside itself.
You just need basically a nerd.
Are there snail men?
Like a Seth Cohen?
Who?
From the...
Fuck, I really wish I did this episode with Cass and Chris.
Huh?
How about...
Okay, Spider-Man's good friend from Spider-Man Homecoming.
I forget his name.
Oh, yeah, that dude.
But the Chunky Boy.
Chunky Boy.
Is his name Plunky?
I don't think so.
Oh, controversial opinion, Michael Keaton.
Again, more of a managerial position.
He could be shy.
Look, I'll even take Tom Holland's Spider-Man as a shy boy.
I don't know if he's...
I think he'd be...
He'd want the heartthrob.
Yeah, he may want the heartthrob.
That's true.
His name is Ned.
Yeah, Ned.
No, I think this Peter Parker would be okay with not being a heart drop.
I think maybe he doesn't actually seem like he loves being the center of attention that much.
I think he loves being a hero.
He does love being a hero, which isn't potentially great for what you want from a boy band.
No, because if you think like when we're in Infinity, no, what's the one before Infinity?
Civil War.
Yeah.
When he's just so happy to be there. Yeah, that's true.. Yeah. When he's just so happy to be there.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
He's just so happy to be there.
What about controversial opinion Groot?
Shy, doesn't like being the center of attention.
Groot.
Now, Team Groot's a little bit of an asshole, though.
Now, Team Groot is an asshole.
Damn, Team Groot could have been the bad boy,
but Donkey Kong's the bad boy.
Gotta let Donkey Kong be.
That's perfect.
We can't go back on that. help us we can't could spider be the cute one who we got for the cute one again dustin from stranger
things that's that's good that's good that's good that's good yeah i think it's the shy one
yeah because he doesn't because in his day-to-day when he is p Peter Parker, he's just a nerd. He's on the educational decathlon team or something.
I just don't think he's that shy.
He's a nerd.
He is a nerd, though.
He is a nerd.
And you couldn't have someone who is actually shy being a boy band.
That's true.
You need the illusion of shy.
I know.
You want that vulnerability.
I just don't think Peter Parker.
I think Peter Parker.
Tom Holland Peter Parker.
Tom Holland Peter Parker.
What about Tobey Maguire Peter Parker? Now we're talking. Now Holland, Peter Parker. Tom Holland, Peter Parker. What about Tobey Maguire, Peter Parker?
Now we're talking.
Now we're talking from the third film.
Yeah.
Or the second film where he's just struggling.
Both are good.
And he's always a bit dangerous and unhinged.
Yeah, that's what we want.
That's the best thing about Tobey Maguire.
He is a big old nerd.
Oh, he is.
He's quite shy. Like, he's very soft-spoken
Yeah
And he's got that wonderful face
Yeah, he's got that
That wonderful punchable face
He gets, in the third one when he's clearly 30
He gets a bit of the neck waddle going on
Oh, yeah
Oh, it's good
You're not a teen, Tobey Maguire
You weren't a teen when we started this
We're Luke Parrots, so we're all good So, Tobey Maguire, Spider't a teen when we started this We're Luke Parrot so we're all good
So Toby Maguire's Spider-Man?
I reckon
Yeah why not just regular Toby Maguire
He's sort of fictional
No
So what is our
And manager
I think Splinter from the Ninja Turtles is perfect
He's
I think Michael Keaton the Ninja Turtles was perfect. He's managed.
I think Michael Keaton from Birdman.
Oh, yes! Because I wanted Michael Keaton. I'll get a Michael
Keaton. Michael Keaton from Birdman, you've
sold me. He's too depressed
though. He's just the right amount
of depressed. He used to be famous
himself. He's struggling
with the fact that he is now behind
the scenes. He'll try to live
through the boy band he might give them cocaine it's all options apes on coke
optimus prime on cocaine
i forgot he was the older brother what a good good band we've got i reckon michael keaton from
birdman is perfect so what's out what's our band now we got fred j Michael Keaton from Birdman is perfect.
So what's our band now?
We've got Fred Jones.
Uh-huh.
Donkey Kong.
Donkey Kong.
Dustin from Stranger Things.
Yeah.
Optimus Prime and Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man.
So in the rap breakdown, when they're, like, introducing themselves and they give a little bit of information, they're like, I'm Fred Jones and I have an ascot.
And there's just little subtitles of I'm DK and I have a tie.
And again, in the rap breakdown, well, DK's experienced.
He is.
DK, Donkey Kong.
DK, Donkey Kong is here.
Yeah.
And then what was it?
Optimus Prime next.
Dustin from Stranger Things.
I'm Dustin and I'm from Stranger Things.
All right.
I'll take you to my upside down
Optimus Prime
I am Optimus Prime
And then Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man
Just like doing that weird dance
I'm Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man
And then Michael Keaton slides on the stage
And I manage them all
And it's this weird amalgamation of Birdman
And like a Beetlejuice.
For some reason in my mind, he's just dressed like Birdman.
Imagine Birdman.
He does that kind of...
You're like, God, this band rules.
What are we calling them?
It's got to be a combination of letters and numbers
and have the word boy in there somewhere.
Yes, so...
Boy five, then six in brackets, because Michael Keaton sometimes comes on stage.
Well, boy five, six.
Hang on.
No, I reckon we got something from the 80s.
Okay.
We've got an 80s theme almost here, because we got like, all right, so Fred Jones, Scooby-Doo.
Yeah.
That was primarily in the 80s or 90s?
Primarily in the 1960s.
But it's been going on the whole forever.
The longevity.
Yeah, exactly.
So we guess we've got 80s.
It does count. We'll make it count on the whole forever. The longevity. So we guess we've got 80s. It does count.
We'll make it count.
Donkey Kong. Optimus Prime.
He's definitely from the 80s.
Stranger Things boy, Dustin.
That's an homage to the 80s.
And Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man was probably born in the 80s.
Yes, he was. It counts.
It counts.
And Michael Keaton's prime.
Michael Keaton's prime would have been in the 80s.
And who did we miss out?
Donkey Kong.
Donkey Kong was invented in the 80s.
I think that's when Jumpman happened,
or Donkey Kong the fucking thing happened.
Jumpman.
I think it was the 80s.
I'm going to say that.
Yeah.
And then you could call it Or like, Orson Welles 1984.
Boyson Welles 1984.
Got to get boy in there somewhere so the people know.
Like, One Direction doesn't have boy in there.
No, they have a number, though.
So you can have one or...
Yeah, that's true.
It's Backstreet Boys or NSYNC, like a fun play.
Remember, like, Scandalous and stuff like that?
It was always a fun play on a word.
Yeah, yeah.
So, Orson Welles, 1984.
DK is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981.
There is an 80s theme happening.
It was completely accidental.
Yeah.
So we could call it like Judd Nelson's Good Time Funk Band.
I do like that.
I'm going to be like, oh, has Judd Nelson got a band?
Oh, I guess not.
It's just an ape, a robot man, and several humans.
A child and a spider boy.
Cool, I guess.
I mean, that spider boy is clearly like a 35-year-old man,
but one of them's a robot,
so I guess there's no rules to this boy band.
Yeah, cool.
The lead singer seems to be some kind of mantis in a skin suit.
In a human skin, and it's not even very obvious.
You can always see an eagle sighting on the side of stage,
trying his best to find his break to jump in.
Is he singing?
There's an eagle who's also just singing around,
doing the dances offstage.
I can see him.
Like a proud mother.
I can see him offstage. He's not on stage.
He's just in the wings, but he's very visible.
Who is that?
John Nelson's
Good Times Punk Band is not what I
imagined. This is not also funk.
This is just pop. This is boy band
pop. Why'd I buy
tickets to this?
Fuck, I love John Nelson.
tickets to this.
Fuck, I love Judd Nelson.
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