All we saw from Motherboy was a brief snapshot that suspiciously looked liked the Bluth family. The narrator, who also suspiciously sounded like the guy who played Richie Cunningham, told us that they were big in the 70’s. Somehow, with only one picture to go on, we think we could come up with a reason to vote for them.

Seriously, take a look at that picture and tell us we are wrong!



The Bullet Points:
TV Show Appeared:
Arrested Development (2005)

Actors:
Jason Bateman
Jeffery Tambor
Will Arnett
David Cross
Michael Cera

Songs you might remember:
None

Why you should vote for them:
This is one of the most awesome pictures ever!

Why you should not vote for them:
All we have is a photograph, nothing else.

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Capitalizing on Beatlemania, the Mosquitoes were written as the most popular band in the world that due to the fervor of their fans looked for some much needed R&R, which of course they found on Gilligan’s Island. We were treated to a couple tunes from the band, but like many who arrived on this “uncharted desert isle” they left the Castaways behind, especially after seeing the girls perform fearing they would be competition. Of note, the Wellingtons, who were the group who recorded the original theme for the show, played the Mosquitoes.



The Bullet Points:
TV Show Appeared:
Gilligan’s Island (1965)

Actors:
The Wellingtons (Bingo, Bango, Bongo & Irving)

Songs you might remember:
Don’t Bug Me
He’s a Loser

Why you should vote for them:
We can say this; this was one of the more memorable episodes of Gilligan’s Island, which does say something.

Why you should not vote for them:
The Honey Bees were way better!

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We only got a glimpse of the horrible garage sound of Moop, which consisted of the four main children of South Park, but it was evident that they were pretty bad. After Cartman leaves the group, the remaining members download songs for free off the internet to gather inspiration. In true satirical fashion, they are arrested by the FBI and learn of how they are making millionaire musicians a little lighter in their wallet. What does Moop do when they learn of this atrocity? They refuse to play, which become National news and they are joined by other famous acts in their strike. Again, in South Park, the satire is brilliant as somewhere it is believable that a musician you never heard of going on strike could make national news. Actually, you believe it more every year.



The Bullet Points:
TV Show Appeared:
South Park (2003)

Actors:
Trey Parker
Matt Stone

The Fictitious Band
Eric Cartman
Stan Marsh
Kyle Broflovski
Kenny McCormick

Songs you might remember:
None

Why you should vote for them:
Hey it’s South Park after all.

Why you should not vote for them:
The ten seconds we saw were really bad.

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The Monkees (1966-68)

We debated a long time whether this should be on the ballot or not, in fact it may have given us a migraine or two.  At the end of the day we decided to let all of you decide their fate, and you told us loud and clear by placing them in the Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

The origin of the group came from television executives looking to follow a fictional band in the vein of the Beatles’ Hard Days Night film.  With Davy Jones already under contract after a successful run on Broadway, three more cast members were needed and after an exhaustive search, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith were cast.

The show was an instant hit and the Monkees became stars.  Pop songs were written for them and with the regular television exposure they had, they were able to generate a lot of Billboard success, though on most of the songs they didn’t play an instrument on the recording, though on later songs they did.

This is where it gets a little muddled as the foursome were billed on the album as the creators and would go out on tour performing those songs to the delight of thousands of kids.

That is where they ran into problems as a group like the Monkees is the type that older music fans and music critics want to take down.  Ironically, it was Michael Nesmith who did it for them.  We’ll let him explain from an article in the Saturday Evening Post:

“The music had nothing to do with us. It was totally dishonest. Do you know how debilitating it is to sit up and have to duplicate somebody else's records? That's really what we're doing. The music happened in spite of the Monkees. It was what (Don) Kirshner wanted to do. Our records are not our forte. I don't care if we never sell another record. Maybe we were manufactured...Tell the world we're synthetic because we are. Tell them The Monkees are wholly man-made overnight that millions of dollars have been poured into this thing. Tell the world we don't record our own music. But that's us they see on television. That show is really a part of us. They're not seeing something invalid.

The press decided they were going to unload on us as being somehow illegitimate, somehow false. That we were making an attempt to dupe the public, when in fact it was me that was making the attempt to maintain the integrity. So, the press went into a full-scale war against us. Telling us The Monkees are four guys who have no credits, no credibility whatsoever, who have been trying to trick us into believing that they are a rock band. Number one, not only was it not the case, the reverse was true. Number two, [for] the press to report with genuine alarm that The Monkees were not a real rock band was looney tunes. It was one of the great goofball moments of the media, but it stuck.”

Actually, that sums it up perfectly.

Regardless of how you saw the Monkees, the fact remains that this was one of the most successful groups of the 1960’s and they have a catalogue of hits that hold up very well.

The Fictitious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is excited (and admittedly a little surprised) to welcome the Monkees to the Hall.


The Bullet Points:
TV Show Appeared:
The Monkees (1966-68)

Actors:
Davy Jones
Peter Tork
Mickey Dolenz
Michael Nesmith

Songs you might remember:
We’re the Monkees
Last Train to Clarksville
I’m a Believer
Daydream Believer
Valleri

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