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New Kids on the Block, or NKOTB, are a [[Southies|Bostonian]] [[Five-Man Band]] [[Boy Band]]. Originally conceived as a [[Race Lift|white version]] of [[New Edition]] (seriously), they enjoyed several years of major success in the late [[The Eighties|80's]] and early [[The Nineties|90's]], but declining sales, internal strife, and accusations of lip-syncing and other issues led to the group disbanding in 1994. Most of the members went on to solo musical careers, and Donnie Wahlberg became a successful actor. They got back together in 2008, released a new album, and held a very successful and much [[Better Than It Sounds]] [http://www.thenewkidsforever.com/ reunion tour] and a tour in 2011 co-headlining with the [[Backstreet Boys]]. [[Boy Band]] fans are ''just'' [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|a little bit excited about this]]...
New Kids on the Block, or NKOTB, are a [[Southies|Bostonian]] [[Five-Man Band]] [[Boy Band]]. Originally conceived as a [[Race Lift|white version]] of [[New Edition]] (seriously), they enjoyed several years of major success in the late [[The Eighties|80's]] and early [[The Nineties|90's]], but declining sales, internal strife, and accusations of lip-syncing and other issues led to the group disbanding in 1994. Most of the members went on to solo musical careers, and Donnie Wahlberg became a successful actor. They got back together in 2008, released a new album, and held a very successful and much [[Better Than It Sounds]] [http://www.thenewkidsforever.com/ reunion tour] and a tour in 2011 co-headlining with the [[Backstreet Boys]]. [[Boy Band]] fans are ''just'' [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|a little bit excited about this]]...


NKOTB is one of the [[Trope Makers]] (or, at least, [[Trope Codifier]]s) for subsequent [[Boy Band|Boy Bands]].
NKOTB is one of the [[Trope Maker]] (or, at least, [[Trope Codifier]]s) for subsequent [[Boy Band|Boy Bands]].


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* [[Adventure Towns]]: The various stops on their seemingly endless tour. If you live in one of the towns, be aware that the writers ''really'' [[Did Not Do the Research]].
* [[Adventure Towns]]: The various stops on their seemingly endless tour. If you live in one of the towns, be aware that the writers ''really'' [[Did Not Do the Research]].
* [[Band Toon]]: And it followed the associated tropes to a T: every episode they get into some kind of adventure and sing a song at the end. Whee.
* [[Band Toon]]: And it followed the associated tropes to a T: every episode they get into some kind of adventure and sing a song at the end. Whee.
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Not just the songs either. The whole show is presented in [[Design Student's Orgasm|Glorious Seizure-Vision]]! The thing looks like a [[Youtube Poop]] of ''itself.''
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Not just the songs either. The whole show is presented in [[Design Student's Orgasm|Glorious Seizure-Vision]]! The thing looks like a [[YouTube Poop]] of ''itself.''
* [[The Faceless]]: The Band's tour bus driver Sam doesn't seem to show her face, but we do get see what her hair looks like (It's brown for those wondering).
* [[The Faceless]]: The Band's tour bus driver Sam doesn't seem to show her face, but we do get see what her hair looks like (It's brown for those wondering).
* [[Flanderization]]: "So you say Jon is serious, Danny likes to work out, Donnie used the phrase 'ballistic' to mean 'awesome' in a song '''once''', and both he and Joey like to crack bad jokes? Well, [[They Just Didn't Care|there's our research]], let's start writing some scripts!"
* [[Flanderization]]: "So you say Jon is serious, Danny likes to work out, Donnie used the phrase 'ballistic' to mean 'awesome' in a song '''once''', and both he and Joey like to crack bad jokes? Well, [[They Just Didn't Care|there's our research]], let's start writing some scripts!"
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* [[Stealth Parody]]: You ''almost'' get the sense that [[Wild Mass Guessing|the series may be an elaborate]] [[Take That]] against [[Celebrity Toons]].
* [[Stealth Parody]]: You ''almost'' get the sense that [[Wild Mass Guessing|the series may be an elaborate]] [[Take That]] against [[Celebrity Toons]].
* [[Stock Footage]]: One of the worst offenders in recent memory. Actual concert and interview footage was edited into the series seemingly at random (ie, the cartoon's story would be interrupted by a clip of Jordan talking about his cats). It was as if the producers were saying, "Here, here are the actual New Kids. Are you happy?"
* [[Stock Footage]]: One of the worst offenders in recent memory. Actual concert and interview footage was edited into the series seemingly at random (ie, the cartoon's story would be interrupted by a clip of Jordan talking about his cats). It was as if the producers were saying, "Here, here are the actual New Kids. Are you happy?"
** Fun fact about this: A lot of the random cutaways and effects are due to the animation coming back from Asia with lots of mistakes. There was no time to fix them, so they added all these video effects and cutaways to salvage what usable footage they had, and passed it off as "music video effects" or something. As previously stated, the overall effect is that the show is a [[Youtube Poop]] of ''itself.''
** Fun fact about this: A lot of the random cutaways and effects are due to the animation coming back from Asia with lots of mistakes. There was no time to fix them, so they added all these video effects and cutaways to salvage what usable footage they had, and passed it off as "music video effects" or something. As previously stated, the overall effect is that the show is a [[YouTube Poop]] of ''itself.''
* [[Team Pet]]: Nikko the Shar-Pei. Somewhat justified in that he was the Knight brothers' dog in reality too. Funny thing is, he's clearly the writer's favorite character.
* [[Team Pet]]: Nikko the Shar-Pei. Somewhat justified in that he was the Knight brothers' dog in reality too. Funny thing is, he's clearly the writer's favorite character.
* [[This Loser Is You]]: Personified by the character Fanny, who is basically an incarnation of [[Fan Dumb]]. Other fans were portrayed as being just short of a [[Stalker with a Crush]]. Half the plots involved the New Kids looking for their few fans who weren't completely obsessed. If there's a downright odder place for the [[Straw Fan]] trope to be applied (you'd ''have'' to be an obsessed New Kids fangirl to like this show), we here at [[TV Tropes]] would love to know about it.
* [[This Loser Is You]]: Personified by the character Fanny, who is basically an incarnation of [[Fan Dumb]]. Other fans were portrayed as being just short of a [[Stalker with a Crush]]. Half the plots involved the New Kids looking for their few fans who weren't completely obsessed. If there's a downright odder place for the [[Straw Fan]] trope to be applied (you'd ''have'' to be an obsessed New Kids fangirl to like this show), we here at [[TV Tropes]] would love to know about it.
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