Line #19 WesternAnimation/NewKidsOnTheBlock


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3	''New Kids on the Block'' was a NotQuiteStarring animated series by Creator/DiCEntertainment based on [[Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock the group]]. It ran from 1990 to 1991, around the time New Kids fandom peaked. [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nkotb+cartoon Episodes]] are usually not difficult to find on Website/YouTube.
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6	!!''New Kids on the Block'' provides examples of:
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8	* ActivationSequence: One of these shows up in "New Heroes on The Block" as Sam, the band's driver, starts up the bus. It ends as abruptly as it appears.
9	* AdventureTowns: The various stops on their seemingly endless tour.
10	* BandToon: 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.
11	%% * DisneyAcidSequence: Not just the songs either. The whole show is presented in [[DesignStudentsOrgasm Glorious Seizure-Vision]]!
12	* TheFaceless: Sam, who makes only two appearances in the series, and is for some reason shown only from the neck down in both of them.
13	** In "New Heroes on the Block", she appears and disappears to the point of creating [[OffModel continuity errors]] in a few shots.
14	%% * {{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, there's our research, let's start writing some scripts!"
15	* GroupieBrigade: 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.
16	* HorribleCampingTrip: "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 [[EverythingTryingToKillYou grizzly bears]]...in [[GhibliHills the forests]] [[MisplacedWildlife outside Boston]] (which ''are'' real, but are lacking in the bear department).
17	* IJustWantToBeNormal: In "New Kid in the Class," Joey entertains the notion of quitting the group so that he can go to school.
18	* NotQuiteStarring: The New Kids were voiced by professional voice actors.
19	* ThePowerOfRock: Figured in at least once every other episode.
20	* {{Rotoscoping}}: Featured in the opening when the live action New Kids turn into their cartoon counterparts.
21	* ShoutOut: "New Heroes on The Block" includes homages to ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Myth/RobinHood''.
22	* StockFootage: 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). A lot of the random cutaways and effects are due to the animation coming back from Creator/WangFilmProductions 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".
23	* TeamPet: Nikko the Shar-Pei. Somewhat justified in that he was the Knight brothers' dog in reality too.
24	* ThisLoserIsYou: Personified by the character Fanny, who is basically an incarnation of FanDumb. Other fans were portrayed as being just short of a StalkerWithACrush. Half the plots involved the New Kids looking for their few fans who weren't completely obsessed.
25	* TotallyRadical: 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!)

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