History WesternAnimation / NewKidsOnTheBlock

%% * DisneyAcidSequence: Not just the songs either. The whole show is presented in [[DesignStudentsOrgasm Glorious Seizure-Vision]]! Also see OffModel and StockFootage below.

* OffModel: This was a ''very'' cheap show (It was made by [=DiC=] after all).
** While the episode "New Heroes on The Block" is already a mess even for this series, the animation marker signalling the next cut can be glimpsed for a frame in one scene.

''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, and is best remembered as embodying everything wrong with CelebrityToons. [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nkotb+cartoon Episodes]] are usually not difficult to find on Website/YouTube. A review of the series, with viewing guide (the author is [[Tropers/TragicTheDragon a fellow Troper]] and lets no trope pass without comment), can be found [[http://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/nkotb-cartoon-block-party/ here]].

* ActivationSequence: A needlessly pointless and half-baked one 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.
* AdventureTowns: The various stops on their seemingly endless tour. If you live in one of the towns, be aware that the writers ''really'' made no attempt at accurate portrayals.
* 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. Whee.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Not just the songs either. The whole show is presented in [[DesignStudentsOrgasm Glorious Seizure-Vision]]! Also see OffModel and StockFootage below.
* TheFaceless[=/=]TheGhost: Sam, who makes only two appearances in the series, and is for some reason shown only from the neck down in both of them.

* {{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!"
* GroupieBrigade: Ugh. Yes. 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.
* 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). ''Sigh...''
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In "New Kid in the Class," Joey entertains the notion of quitting the group so that he can...go to school. [[CursedWithAwesome The hell?]]

* StealthParody: You ''almost'' get the sense that [[WildMassGuessing the series may be an elaborate]] TakeThat against CelebrityToons.
* StockFootage: One of the worst offenders in the medium. 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). It was as if the producers were saying, "Here, here are the actual New Kids. Are you happy?" 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" or something. As previously stated, the overall effect is that the show is a WebAnimation/YouTubePoop of ''itself.''
* TeamPet: Nikko the Shar-Pei. Somewhat justified in that he was the Knight brothers' dog in reality too. Funny thing is, he's clearly the writer's favorite character.
* 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. If there's a more downright odd place for the StrawFan trope to be applied (you'd ''have'' to be an obsessed New Kids fangirl to like this show), we here at Website/TVTropes would love to know about it.

* 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. If there's a more downright odd place for the StrawFan trope to be applied (you'd ''have'' to be an obsessed New Kids fangirl to like this show), we here at Wiki/TVTropes would love to know about it.

* OffModel: This was a ''very'' cheap show (It was made by [=DiC=] after all). In particular, the episode "In Step, Out of Time" will [[UncannyValley make your eyes bleed]].

* NotFunnyAnymore: It's hard to see producer Dick Scott cast as the show's ButtMonkey in light of his passing.