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The standard format for such shows usually goes like this: the band is [[Walking the Earth|Touring the World]], often riding in a [[Cool Car]] or tour bus (or even better, a Cool Tour Bus!). [[Adventure Towns|They have an adventure in every city]]. They solve the issue in time to sing a song at the end of the show.
Alternately, it may be a flashback series, showing the band in their hometown as up-and-coming performers looking to make their big break. And getting in and out of adventures and singing a song at the end. Other series may go even further, casting the band as [[Superhero
Inevitably, fame being what it is nowadays, most groups end up declining in popularity shortly after the airing of these shows. This might be because getting one's own cartoon usually ''happens'' at the height of one's popularity, and one can only go down from there. It could also be claimed, however, that getting your own cartoon is a sign of [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|"selling out."]] (Though one could argue that many of the examples listed never bought in.) Whether this is true or not, you gotta admit: If someone offered the opportunity for ''you'' to have your own cartoon, wouldn't you take it?
A form of [[Animated Adaptation]]. See also [[Celebrity Toons]]. Not to be confused with ''[[Censored Eleven|banned]]'' toons, which are a different matter entirely.
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* ''[[The Beatles (
** And later, ''[[
* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' is an edge case - this "band" [[Virtual Celebrity|exists only on records and in animation]], but the records came first.
* ''[[The Jackson
* ''[[The Osmonds]]'' - The show featured only the brothers; the omission of Marie was never explained.
** Marie had not yet made into the music scene when the Osmonds cartoon was made (
* ''[[The Partridge Family]] [[Recycled in Space|in Outer Space]]''
* ''[[Kidd Video]]'' - One example of a band being made specifically for the purpose of the series. Other examples include [[Josie and
* [[New Kids
* ''[[Kid N Play|Kid 'n Play]]''
* MC Hammer (''[[Hammerman]]'')
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** A bit of a subversion in that the show wasn't made in response to the band's popularity, but as an attempt to establish them as stars in the US. The group and the show were only moderately successful. In Japan, where Puffy are pop legends, the show is a more conventional example of this trope.
* ''[[The Brady Kids]]''
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] with the [[
* ''[[South Park]]'' parodied this in "[[
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' parodied the trope with Limozeen: "[[Recycled in Space|but they're in space!]]", a cartoon featuring the fictional band Limozeen which was cancelled ''during'' its pilot episode.
** "[[Catch Phrase|I'm afraid I have some bad news, boys]]...our pilot episode has been cancelled."
* ''[[TV Funhouse]]'' parodied the trope with a cartoon based on [[
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' also parodied this, with the show-within-a-show "KISS saves Christmas"
* ''[[Gorillaz
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', of course, is a parody of this trope [[Black Comedy|painted pitch black]] with the brutal nature of its stars' extramusical activity, a nature reflected in the music itself ([[Lyrical Dissonance|though not necessarily in the lyrics]]).
* ''[[Sons of Butcher]]'', although the band and cartoon came out at roughly the same time.
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* Not a "toon" per se, but ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzOZUTAsgg Blood Red Dragon]'' is a comic starring [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]] created by Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane.
* [[The Monkees]]
* Starland Vocal Band, whose show was so bad, that their announcer stated that he was glad that nobody would be watching the show. It was cancelled shortly after it began. Their announcer did slightly better. His name is [[David Letterman]].
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* ''S Club 7'' had ''Miami 7'', ''LA 7'', "Hollywood 7", "Viva S Club" and [[The Movie]] "Seeing Double", about a British pop group trying to make it big in America (as well as the unrelated "S Club Go Wild", a safari show). It's debatable whether the band was made for this purpose or not.
* ''[[Lucky Charms Title|allStars*]]'' were probably made for their TV Show, ''<nowiki>STARStreet*</nowiki>'', but again, it's debatable.
* ''[[Pink Lady
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzLoTGQ5C_s Avenged Sevenfold: The Cartoon]. Need I say more?
* Who could forget ''The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour''? OK, maybe a lot of people would ''want'' to forget that one.
* ''[[
* The Aquabats! Super Show!, a live action/animated [[Widget Series]] featuring aforementioned superhero rock band [[The Aquabats!]], from the fine people that brought you [[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]. Subversion in that The Aquabats have been trying to get the show off the ground [[Development Hell|since 1997]] (and it serves as the closest brush with fame they've had since that year as well).
* Inverted with [[Spinal Tap]]- a fictional band, but because of the parody/mockumentary, they actually do have a few albums out, and a hit called "Big Bottoms".
* Subverted and averted with ''[[Almost Famous]]''. A very fictionalized movie account of the protagonist's start, using several real examples from real musicians/bands, such as the quote about beiong a golden god, and the use of the name Stillwater, which was a real band, for the titular band. Songs were written for the film, and are not similar in style to the actual band Stillwater, but became well-known. So for the ACTUAL band, it was averted, and subverted in other facets.
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