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Nirvana the Band consists of friends Matt Johnson and Jay [=McCarrol=]; Nirvana the Band the Show is their 10 episode webseries, produced over 2007-2009. The show follows their misadventures trying to get their band--Matt [[Improv improvising]] to Jay's piano-playing--booked at the Rivoli, a local dive. HilarityEnsues when they come up against minor issues in getting themselves booked (sometimes self-created issues) and decide to resolve them through wild (and usually illegal) means. The series is shot in a fake documentary style.

* CannotTellAJoke: In the deleted scene, "Good Will Hunting," Matt tries to do Matt Damon's famous "how do you like them apples?" line but repeatedly messes it up. When they switch roles and Jay tries to tell it, Matt interrupts him with [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Oh my god! ''Matt Damon?''"]]

* CannotTellAJoke: In the deleted scene, "Good Will Hunting," Matt tries to do Matt Damon's famous "how do you like them apples?" line but repeatedly messes it up. When they switch roles and Jay tries to tell it, Matt interrupts him with [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Oh my god! ''Matt Damon''?"]]

-->Matt: Maybe you won't! Maybe we're gonna cut, and then be in the apartment, you'll have done nothing, and I'll be putting these photos on a board. {{SEGA}}!

Nirvana the Band consists of friends Matt Johnson and Jay [=McCarrol=]; Nirvana the Band the Show is their 10 episode webseries, produced over 2007-2009. The show follows their misadventures trying to get their band--Matt improvising to Jay's piano-playing--booked at the Rivoli, a local dive. HilarityEnsues when they come up against minor issues in getting themselves booked (sometimes self-created issues) and decide to resolve them through wild (and usually illegal) means. The series is shot in a fake documentary style.

* BattleOfTheBands: [[spoiler:It never actually happens, but after the band splits up, Jay and Matt both separately prepare for it.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Jay is generally the more docile and grounded of the two. But after a passerby insults him in "The Burn," Matt continually torments him, and Jay sets fire to his apartment.]]

"Is the term 'mulatto' still taboo?"

* ManOfAThousandVoices: It's a RunningGag that every single voice that is heard offscreen (via phone, etc.) is actually Jay's voice, since he is [[ManOfAThousandVoices good at impressions]]. Both Vince Valence's & Jeremy's voices are done by Jay. Even ''the guy who insults Jay'' in "The Burn" is Jay's voice.

* HilariousOuttakes: With a great deal of them [[ThrowItIn just being used as the final cut]].
* ManOfAThousandVoices: It's a RunningGag that every single voice that is heard offscreen (via phone, etc.) is actually Jay's voice, since he is good at impressions. Both Vince Valence's & Jeremy's voices are done by Jay. Even the guy who insults Jay in "The Burn" is Jay's voice.

* NoFourthWall: There is and isn't one; they both look at the camera, talk to the camera men, and the camera men themselves are even in some of the shots. This doesn't seem to be {{mockumentary}} style so much as it is "just the way things are"--there are just camera men following their adventures, which are thought out, but not scripted, for fun.

* ThePianoPlayer: Jay, but occasionally Matt [[GlassShatteringSound tries his hand at it]].

* StraightManAndWiseGuy

-->'''Jay:''' Alright, I'm going to stop you right there--(''he doesn't, and Matt launches into an impression of a slave naming Ruth Chris.'')

* BattleOfTheBands
* CanadaEh: It takes place in Toronto. Matt even says "eh" a few times.

-->Matt: Maybe you won't! Maybe we're gonna cut, and then be in the apartment, you'll have done nothing, and I'll be putting these photos on a board. SEGA!

* AffectionateParody: Many episodes' beginning credits parody the credits of TV shows, like GrowingPains and Frasier.

Nirvana the Band consists of friends Matt Johnson and Jay [=McCarrol=]; Nirvana the Band the Show is their 10 episode webseries, produced over 2007-2009. The show follows their misadventures in their quest to get their band--Matt improvising to Jay's piano-playing--booked at local club The Rivoli. HilarityEnsues when they come up against minor issues in getting themselves booked (sometimes self-created issues) and decide to resolve them through wild (and usually illegal) means.

* FantasticRacism: Matt has offensively brought up Chinese people several times, not to mention the impression of the black slave he does in "The Burn."
* GameMusic: [[OneofUs Jay]] covers many a video game song in their short series "The Piano Lessons," including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario 64, and more.

* HilariousOuttakes: With a great deal of it [[ThrowItIn just being used as the final shot]].
* ManOfAThousandVoices: It's a RunningGag that every single voice that is heard offscreen (via phone, etc.) is actually Jay's voice, since he is good at impressions. Both Vince Valence's & Jeremy's voice are done by Jay. Even the guy who insults Jay in "The Burn" is Jay's voice.
* {{Neologism}}: Matt calls Jay a "pussard".
* NoFourthWall: This is tough, because it's like there is and isn't one; they both look at the camera, talk to the camera men, and the camera men themselves are even in some of the shots. This doesn't seem to be mockumentary style so much as it is "just the way things are"--there are just camera men following their adventures, which are thought out, but not scripted, for fun.
* PaperThinDisguise: Matt's attempt to dress as Victor Valence.

* TwoGamersOnACouch: Their DVD menu.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Oh my ''goodness'', yes. They cut one another down constantly, even in real life.

** Although throughout the whole series there is a callous disregard for any sort of copyright infringement, punctuated in the deleted scene, "Mountain". Jay says, "This, right here, is TheEdge." ...immediate cut to TheEdge.

* ChekhovsGun: The gun found in Valence's office in "The Break-In" is later used [[spoiler:to kill Valence in "The Rivoli."]]

Nirvana the Band consists of Canadians Matt Johnson and Jay [=McCarrol=]. Nirvana the Band the Show is their 10 episode webseries, produced over 2007-2009. The show follows their misadventures in their quest to get booked at local club The Rivoli. HilarityEnsues when they come up against minor issues in getting themselves booked (sometimes self-created issues) and decide to resolve them through wild (and usually illegal) means.

->''"Rivoli: you may not know this, but what you hold in your hands is explosive. We are Nirvana the Band, the live musical, that will never play the same show twice. To not let us play on your stage would be a terrible mistake. We are Nirvana the Band. For now, forever, for better, for worse, 4, times 4, is 16."''

* VitrolicBestBuds: Oh my ''goodness'', yes. They cut one another down constantly, even in real life.

** Although throughout the whole series there is a callous disregard for any sort of copyright infringement.

* VoiceChangeling: Played straight when Jay imitates the two club owners' voices. Parodied when he tries to do Morgan Freeman's, too.
** It's a RunningGag that every single voice that is heard offscreen (via phone, etc.) is actually Jay's voice, since he is good at impressions. Even the guy who insults Jay in "The Burn" is Jay's voice.

* AllJustADream: Parodied in the last episode.

** It's a RunningGag that every single voice that is heard offscreen (via phone, etc.) is actually Jay's voice, since he is good at impressions. Even the guy who insults Jay in The Burn is Jay's voice.