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* Danny Wood
* Joey McIntyre
* Jordan Knight
* Jonathan Knight (Jordan's older brother)
'''Discography'''
* 1986 - ''New Kids On The Block''
* 1988 - ''Hangin' Tough''
* 1989 - ''Merry, Merry Christmas''
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* [[Celebrity Endorsement]]:
** During their original run, the band endorsed name-brand products during their most popular years. Most notably, Coca-Cola, which peaked with a contest run by the soda company that tied into their Magic Summer tour. Sadly, the "Magic Cans" caused a lot more grief than expected. (Your Golden Ticket was supposed to pop up through the opening of the can if you won. This did not work so well in practice.)
** Since his mother's death from breast cancer, Danny has become an outspoken supporter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, with proceeds from some of NKOTB's merchandise during the reunion tour and all of the profits from his solo album ''Stronger: Remember Betty'' going to the Foundation.
* [[Christmas Songs]]: ''Merry, Merry Christmas'', combining Christmas standards with original songs that were of...questionable quality.
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* [[Cover Version]]: Jordan covered [[Prince]]'s "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" on his debut solo album, and did several covers on ''Love Songs''.
* [[Eighties Hair]]: What did you expect?
* [[Fan Service]]: We could spend a whole paragraph on this. It's probably enough just to note that there was a lot of it. Now that they're back together, it's even more prevalent. Conversely...
** [[Misaimed Marketing]]: The usual band merchandise like posters, t-shirts, buttons... and marbles, slippers, ''plush dolls'' (try not to [[Fetish Fuel|think about that last one too hard]].)
* [[Fandom Nod]]:
** The group's song "Tonight", and Joey's song "Five Brothers and a Million Sisters".
** The entire comeback tour, especially in its later stages.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Of course!<br />[[The Hero]] / The Sweet One - Jordan Knight<br />[[The Lancer]] / The Tough One - Donnie Wahlberg<br />[[The Smart Guy]] / The Cute One - Joey McIntyre<br />[[The Big Guy]] / The Cool Big Brother - Danny Wood<br />[[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Jordan's older brother Jon.]]
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* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: In spades since the reunion.
* [[Intercourse with You]]:
** Mostly averted in their original run.
** ''The Block'' plays this very straight, depending on the song.
** In their solo material, Jordan uses this a ''lot'', with [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Give It to You"]] being one of the best examples. Joey and Donnie also use it fairly regularly. Danny used it a lot more in his earlier material than his more recent albums.
* [[Mondegreen]]: "Grown Man" features the repeated line "Yo, check out our DJ's spin", but it sounds a lot like "Yo, check out Adidas Bay".
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: Jordan's solo song "Give It to You" is '''very''' steamy; the video has him dancing in an amusement park.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]:
** Subverted with "Grown Man"; the two places where profanities would fit were replaced with effects or wordplay.
** Mild versions show up in banter and lyrics when they're performing live.
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** Pretty much a standard feature of the shows during the NKOTBSB tour.
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: Take a shot every time they say "girl". By the ''Hangin' Tough'' album, snarky critics started wondering if they were actually singing to a woman ''named'' Girl.
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* [[Take That]]:
** ''Face the Music'''s first track was a Take That of sorts to the lip-syncing accusations and other criticisms the group had been facing during that time.
** Some of Joey's songs have taken sly jabs at the Backstreet Boys, N*SYNC, and [[Britney Spears]].
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Jordan, who took full advantage of it for [[Fan Service]].
* [[Yoko Oh No]]: Poor Tiffany!
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* [[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).
* [[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!"
* [[Groupie Brigade]]: Ugh. Yes. It was referred to as a fan club, but strangely enough it was almost a literal brigade. It was entirely consumed with stalking the New Kids, and the actions of its leadership were not unlike those of a brigadier and officers overseeing a theater of operations.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Jordan is [[Batman: The Animated Series|Robin]]! Joey is, uh, [[Teen Titans (animation)|also Robin]] and (just to keep things confusing) [[My Little Pony|Danny]]! Donnie is [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]] ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|Planet]]!?!''
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* [[The Power of Rock]]: Figured in at least once every other episode.
* [[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?"
** 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.
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