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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 [[
NKOTB is one of the [[Trope Makers]] (or, at least, [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiers]]) for subsequent [[Boy Band|Boy Bands]].
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{{quote| '''Joey''': (singing) ''Up here we're one big happy family''<br />
''Riding'' - aw, they're gonna sue me and shit! "Joe, you did great but you broke the fuckin' piano! Come back anytime!" }}
* [[Cover Version]]: Jordan covered [[
* [[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...
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** 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.]]
** Note that nearly every [[Boy Band]] since has had these roles or very similar ones -- it was even lampshaded [[wikipedia:Something You Can Do with Your Finger|in an episode of]] ''[[
** Made funnier if you recall that in his acting career, Donnie actually fits more as "the cute one" personality speaking. Remember his role in [[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]] as [[Team Mom|Sergeant Lipton]]? Or the [[Minion
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: In spades since the reunion.
* [[Intercourse
** 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
* [[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.
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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 [[
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Jordan, who took full advantage of it for [[Fan Service]].
* [[Yoko Oh No]]: Poor Tiffany!
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* [[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:
* [[Horrible Camping Trip]]: "Overnight Success" may as well be the type specimen. There is a ''slight'' subversion in that the characters actually know how to go camping, but it even has the requisite [[Everything Trying to Kill You|grizzly bears]]. In [[Ghibli Hills|the forests]] [[Misplaced Wildlife|outside Boston]] (which ''are'' real, but are lacking in the bear department). ''Sigh...''
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: In "New Kid in the Class," Joey entertains the notion of quitting the group so that he can... go to school. [[Cursed
* [[Not Funny Anymore]]: It's hard to see producer Dick Scott cast as the show's [[Butt Monkey]] in light of his recent passing.
* [[Not Quite Starring]]: The New Kids were voiced by professional voice actors. See "Hey, It's That Voice" above.
* [[Off-Model]]: This was a ''very'' cheap show (It was made by [[Di C]] after all). In particular, the episode "In Step Out of Time" will [[Nightmare Valley|make your eyes bleed]].
* [[Poor Man's Substitute]]: SO many [[Hollywood New England|bad Boston accents.]] After a few episodes, they just [[Not Even Bothering
* [[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]].
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** 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.
* [[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
* [[Totally Radical]]: To the point where you wonder if the writers are even aware of how people from Boston speak. (Or, one could argue, how people from Earth speak. Ballistic!)
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: How else to explain the "interruption" in the middle of "Sheik Of My Dreams", where [[Straw Fan]] Fanny assures the Jordan fangirls in the audience that Jordan is ''not'' getting married in real life?
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