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In the first season of the brilliant program, Arrested Development, we learn that Tobias and Lindsay had a family Folk Band in the mid 90’s that was subsidized by a drug company. They attempted a brief comeback, but as expected from this show, it was a failure and the music was pretty bad. Would it have been even nearly as funny if the Funke family was talented? Of course not! The Bullet Points: TV Show Appeared: Arrested Development (2004) Actors: David Cross (Tobias Funke) Portia De Rossi (Lindsay Bluth Funke) Alia Shawkat (Maebe Funke) Songs you might remember: None Why you should vote for them: This is one of the funnier bits of what was a very funny show. Why you should not vote for them: It is a folk group in one episode after all.

With all due respect to the writers at Degrassi, “Downtown Sasquatch” has to be lamest name of any band, real or fake that we have ever heard. With that said, this band was a lot more polished than the Zit Remedy from the previous generation, and showed quite a bit of range through the series. The band never really made it; though their lead singer, Craig Manning did go on to make his own solo record. Incidentally, their guitar player in the real world would go on to have a huge Rap career, under the name of Drake. The Bullet Points: TV Show Appeared: Degrassi: The Next Generation (2003-06) Actors: Jake Epstein (Craig Manning, Guitar & Vocals) Aubrey “Drake” Graham (Jimmy Brooks, Guitar) Adamo Ruggiero (Marco Del Rossi. Bass) Shane Kippel (Spinner Mason, Drums) Melissa McIntyre (Ashley Kerwin, Keyboards) Stacey Farber (Ellie Nash, Drums) Cassie Steele (Manny Santos, Tambourine) Songs you might remember: Dust Why you should vote for them: They were not that bad for a teen band. Why you should not vote for them: Somehow, they should be punished for such a horrible name. {youtube}
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Many Boy Bands are essentially lame but in the straight to video Disney effort, Pop Star, Aaron Carter takes it to a new level. He plays J.D. McQueen who is one of the members of Downtown, and he has to go to school…or something…hell we don’t know. We do know that Leif Garrett shows up as a janitor, which is interesting for nostalgic purposes, but in watching this, we remembered why we wanted Aaron Carter would just go away. As it turned out, he eventually did! The Bullet Points: Movie Appeared: Pop Star (2005) Actor: Aaron Carter…and we don’t know who else. Songs you might remember: We don’t remember any. Why you should vote for them: You probably shouldn’t. Why you should not vote for them: If the best we can say is a Leif Cassidy cameo that says it all. {youtube}
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A torch singer (who might as well been called a “tortured” singer), Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) was steamy, sexy, and troubled in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”. She sang the signature song in the film, and did a decent job at it.