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''Ten million tween girls and old perverts can't be wrong!''

|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}t7CHfqg0wd8 The Key of Awesome]''' ''[[One Direction]] parody''}}

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* [[Celtic Thunder]] is essentially Public Television's answer to the Boy Band — too bad they're about a decade too late. Basically, they took five incredibly attractive Irish guys who could sing and range in age from about 15 to 40 in order to attract as many women as possible. Though not as well-known or well-merchandised as some of the examples above, they have a big international following.

* [[Rockapella]] was a college a capella group that was signed on to a PBS game show in order to cash in on the popularity of boys bands. The show was called ''[[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?]]''.

=== Advertising ===

* Amongst their mockery of pop culture in the late 90's and early 2000's, Jack In The Box had a fake boy band called "The Meaty Cheesy Boys" sing the praises of their Ultimate Cheeseburger. If you're curious (and goodness knows, why wouldn't you be), you can find the OFFICIAL SITE!!! [https://web.archive.org/web/20140101234656/http://meatycheesyboys.com/ here].

=== Anime and Manga ===

* Ciel Phantomhive in the ''[[Kuroshitsuji]]'' manga assembles from the [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]] his own manufactured boyband Funtom 5 to play in his Funtom Company's new Funtom Music Hall. The band members are made to adapt various artificial personality quirks except for Cheslock who was deemed to be already weird enough.

=== Film ===

* The ''[[Josie and the Pussycats (film)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] featured a boy band called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ica0S13BTh4&feature=related Dujour.] To make fun of the effeminate nature of many boy bands, their hit single was called "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Backdoor Lover]]". When they find out that their record label is putting [[Subliminal Advertising]] into their music, their manager (who isn't a big burly dude, but is instead an evil Alan Cumming) tries to have them killed by causing their plane to crash. {{spoiler|They survive, having managed to safely land the plane on their own... only to find that they had landed in the parking lot of an arena hosting a [[Metallica]] concert.}}

* ''[[Sons of Provo]]'', which takes the Boy Band idea (using just three, instead) and mixes it with the most humorously ironic thing possible: the Latter-Day Saint lifestyle. "Evercleen", as they called themselves, managed to lampoon several things in both worlds. Well worth seeing, if only for the strange fascination of the idea of an LDS "''boy band''"—or any other religious-pop act.

=== Live-Action TV ===

* MTV's [[Made for TV Movie]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKktTRdkHW4 2ge+her]'' was an [[Affectionate Parody]] of Boy Bands and their formation. It even spawned several TRL-popular singles. A TV series based on the movie soon followed, as well as other singles. Sadly, it was quickly canceled after the death of one of the core members, which caused many a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] as his [[Real Life Writes the Plot|disease was written into the story]] -- [[Dude, Not Funny|as a gag]].

* [[David Letterman]] had a parody of boy bands on with the fictitious act Fresh Step.

* Conan O'Brien also had a fake parody band, Dudez-A-Plenti.

* ''[[The Middleman]]'' has an episode in which a boy band turns out to consist of aliens trying to get back to their home galaxy. The Middleman has apparently read this page, because he identifies all of them by role.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' created one out of the series [[People in Rubber Suits]] to sing the [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIUqtKZDJic No,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TpzCAaK5no seriously.]

* [[Mitch Benn]]'s Boy Band song: ''Twenty minutes have gone by/since I met these other guys/and we've already had a hit/and you're listening to it/and I'm sure you think it sh-/ould be number one already''

* The crew of ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]'' dressed up as a parody of boy band and did a live song. The song started out normally with dancing and <s>singing</s> lipsyncing at a nice and steady pace. Then [[Hilarity Ensues|the music skips on a few words and starts to rewind and start over, then proceeding to speed up and slow down randomly.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_xdL2HT-Y/ Forcing the "boy band" to improvise quickly and beautifully.]

* The [[Korean Drama]] ''[[You Are Beautiful]]'', while not a parody, is basically about a made-up Boy Band.

* ''[[Law and Order UK]]'': DS Brooks' [[Dirty Cop|corrupt ex-partner]] cites the numerous favors that he did to cover him during his drinking days, then blasts him for "letting your boy-band partner come after me", (referring to [[Fair Cop|DS Matt Devlin]]), apparently feeling that all this should have warranted Brooks turning a blind eye to his involvement in criminal activities.

* Less a parody, more an affectionate homage: Season 3 of ''[[Glee]]'' saw a classic boyband routine performed in the choir room. Interestingly, the sequence involved some revision of the typical boyband tropes; though the lineup included a Heartthrob (Sam), a Bad Boy (Puck), an Older Brother (Mike), a Cute One (Kurt) and a Shy One (Artie), the leader of the group was definitely Artie - partly because the song was a step in his courtship of Sugar Motta, and partly as a reference to Kevin McHale's boyband career.

* Philippine gag show ''Bubble Gang'' has come up with two. The first is the Sex Balls (a parody of the Sex Bomb Girls), who made parodies of novelty songs and theme songs from TV shows. The second is D'Wonder Boys, a parody of K-pop boy bands, fawned over by fangirls who squeal at the smallest things and completely repetitive lyrics.

=== Music ===

* In [[Hot Chip]]'s video for "I Feel Better", directed by [[Peter Serafinowicz]], a bunch of [[Uncanny Valley]] [[Pretty Boy|prettyboys]] called [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Kyng, Mar'Vaine]], [[Awesome McCoolname|Octavian and Popeye]] are attacked by a floating man with the [[Fan Nickname]] "Cancer Jesus", as well as a [[Scary Black Man]] with [[Eye Beams]].

* In [[Jon Lajoie]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijr4rwb2WbE "Pop Song"] he sort of parodies this (though it's mostly a parody of Justin Bieber).

* [[Barenaked Ladies]] [[Deconstructive Parody|deconstructed]] the boy-band phenomenon in their song "New Kid on the Block".

=== New Media ===

* Internet parodist David Lehre's fictitious boy band Heat Street, featuring songs such as "Girl, Touch My Weiner."

=== Professional Wrestling ===

=== Stand-up and Recorded Comedy ===

* [[The Midnight Beast]], the heavily [[Auto-Tune|Auto Tuned]] UK comedy [[Power Trio]], are in their own words [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mH5epMSp4 "Just Another Boy Band"]

=== Theatre ===

=== Video Games ===

* Xbox snowboard game ''Amped 3'' had an [[Excuse Plot]] that included one snowboarder joining a French-themed boy band called Mengae a Brahs. Their hit, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNllLkBCcY "Bling 4 U"], has a [[Subliminal Seduction]] twist.

=== Web Comics ===

* ''[[Angel Moxie]]'' has one uses as part of Candi Shugari's (a powerful demon who mixes cute with evil) plot to eliminate Alex, Riley and Tristan.

* Early in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', Tagon's Toughs are hired to guard the "[[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|New Sync Boys]]"—who turn out to be the holographic creation of a single AI owned by the record company, who ends up "defecting" to the mercenary company. "Ennesby" is still a main cast member.

=== Western Animation ===

* The ''[[South Park]]'' gang form the band FingerBang in the episode "Something You Can Do With Your Finger". [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] the [[Five-Man Band]] aspect and archetypes.

* Party Posse featured the [[The Simpsons (animation)|well-known heart-throbs]] Bart Simpson, Millhouse Van Houten, Nelson Muntz, and Ralph Wiggum.

** And *N SYNC appeared in a cameo to [[Self-Deprecation|parody themselves]].

*** And somehow gained ''[[The Matrix]]'' powers.

* ''[[The Replacements (animation)|The Replacements]]'' had Todd, Sheldon and the rest of the Boy's Choir become "Boy's Rock" when he replaced his choirmaster with a Large Intimidiating Boss in an episode fairly similar to the ''[[South Park]]'' and ''[[The Simpsons]]'' examples.

* Señor Senior Snr. and Señor Senior Jnr. kidnapped a group like this in ''[[Kim Possible]]''. They'd outlived their popularity (which lasted about a week) until the kidnapping put them back on top.

* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' had an episode where a washed up boy band kidnapped a "hip" boy band and stole their faces.

* In (of all things) ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', boy band Binky is not real... sort of. In concerts, holograms are used in concerts, somehow, without anyone noticing at all. Which kind of begs the question—who does the singing? (Though, by the sound of the only example of their music in the show, which consists of "wheeowheoowheeo" repeated over and over, it could be [[Yoko Ono]].)

** One word: [[Vocaloid]].