History Main / GarageBand

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': "House Band" features Luna and the Loud siblings forming a garage band to perform at the Family Fun Fair. A flashback in the same episode reveals Lynn Sr. used to be in one himself, but his horrid cowbell skills got him kicked out.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/TotalDistortion''. One of its endgame locations is called "Hell's Garage", a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literal garage in Hell]]. You can listen to a group of satanic rock songs by downloading them from a [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Macintosh]], but the band itself is never seen, just its equipment.

* ComicBook/ScottPilgrim's band [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Sex Bob-omb]].

* In the Creator/TimDorsey novel ''Florida Roadkill'', there's a Satanic Rock band that practices in a storage unit. They're so bad that they have to practice with the door closed because of noise complaints from the nearby airport.

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* Marty [=McFly=]'s band The Pinheads in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', which auditions for the school dance. (The judge? [[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews Huey Lewis]] in a cameo.)

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The Lords of the Underworld. They only become popular when they become [[EnsembleDarkhorse Timmy]] and the Lords of the Underworld.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' naturally stars one. [[DontExplainTheJoke Because "groj" sounds like "garage."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The Lords of the Underworld. They only become popular when they become [[EnsembleDarkhorse Timmy]] and the Lords of the Underworld.
** There's also Moop. In the same episode, Faith+1 starts out this way before getting popular.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Chris starting a metal garage band in one episode.
** In another episode, Peter and his buddies form a rock band, but things don't go so well at their first gig when they find out they don't know any songs.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}} Gumby Adventures]]'', Gumby and his friends have a rock band of their own. They practice in their barn.

* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'':
** Duane's garage band SCÄB (note the HeavyMetalUmlaut). They even do a rock opera based on Creator/FranzKafka.
** Brendon and his pals start a band in "Guitarmageddon", but they put more energy into coming up with band names than on their music.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBremenAvenueExperience'' takes the animal characters from the FairyTale "Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians" and re-imagines them as a modern day FunnyAnimal Garage Band.

* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' had the episode "Garage Banned" where Brad and his gang practised to win the Battle of the Bands, leaving Kick and Gunther to practice elsewhere.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' music video segment "All Day Jam", Rudy, Penny, and Snap perform as one.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The episode "Krabby Road" has [=SpongeBob=] and Plankton starting a band with Patrick and Squidward, which is actually a plot by Plankton to steal the krabby patty formula.

* ''Series/CoryInTheHouse'' has DC3, formed by Cody, Meena, and Newt. Sophie joins them one time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', the human counterparts of the ''Friendship Is Magic'' characters form a rock band, the "Rainbooms", following Rainbow Dash's idea. They're even seen rehearsing in the barn of Applejack's family farm. Several of the Web shorts preceding the movie also show them picking up their respective instruments.

* An episode of ''Series/TheWonderYears'' has a rock musician transfer into the protagonists' school and gets Kevin and friends to form a band. Even the so-called musician can't actually play; luckily the local cops shut them down for noise complaints before they get a chance to play for an audience.

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'' has an episode where Jimmy & Co. try to start a band for a talent show.

* In ''Literature/SoulMusic'', there's Insanity/The Whom/The Surruptitious Fabric/The Blots/And Supporting Bands. Due to an absence of cars (and hence of garages), they reherse in Crash's dad's stables.

** In one episode, the Teen Girl Squad tried to form their own band, Kissyboots, but [[KillEmAll it didn't go so well]].

This trope is often played in fiction as a ragtag group of teenagers, for bonus points it may be a group of {{Emo Teen}}s, forming a band. More rarely, it will consist of middle-aged adults; usually this is PlayedForLaughs, or to show what [[ManChild immature]] [[LoserProtagonist losers]] they are for doing something ''usually'' associated with teenagers or twenty-somethings, as if to say WereStillRelevantDammit Sometimes the band is a spur of the moment thing, started as a weekend project or to win a talent show and becomes the plot of the episode. Often the band will break up at the end of the episode.

** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]" Homer start a barbershop quartet with Barney Gumble, Principal Skinner, and Apu.

* An episode of ''Series/TheWonderYears'' has a rock musician transfer into their school and gets Kevin and friends to form a band. Even the so-called musician can't actually play; luckily the local cops shut them for noise complaints before they get a chance to play for an audience.