“The goal of this game is to figure out which TV show is the closest philosophical analogy to a specific rock and roll band and the criteria are mindblowingly complex. It is a combination of longevity, era, critical acclaim, commercial success, and most importantly, the aesthetic soul of each artistic entity.
For example, the Rolling Stones are Gunsmoke. The Strokes, Keifer Sutherland’s 24. Jimi Hendrix was the Twilight Zone. Devo was Fernwood 2 Night. Lynyrd Skynyrd was the Beverly Hillbillies which makes Molly Hatchet Petticoat Junction. The Black Crowes are That 70s Show. Hall and Oates were Bosom Buddies. U2 was M*A*S*H because both kinda got preachy at the end. Dokken was Jason Bateman’s shortlived sitcom It’s Your Move. The Eurythmics were Mork and Mindy. We even deduced comparisons for solo projects which can only be made to series that were spawned as spinoffs. The four Beatles, post 1970 were as follows: John equals Maude, Paul equals Frazier, George equals the Jeffersons, and Ringo equals Flo. David Lee Roth’s solo period after Van Halen was Knot’s Landing.”
OK, I’ll get the party started:
REM = Saturday Night Live because each began brilliantly, but today no one really gives a crap anymore.
17 comments:
Coldplay = Survivor: Newark, NJ
The Dokken comparison was sheer genius!
Bay City Rollers = Baretta
Cheap Trick = Serpico
I would think that the Bay City Rollers are more like "Three's Company"! :)
Creedance Clearwater Revival = I Love Lucy
Jefferson Airplane = Laugh-In
Jefferson Starship = Hee-Haw
Grateful Dead = The Munsters
Blind Faith = Hello Larry
Mike McGear = Phyllis
Steely Dan = Fantasy Island
The Police = NYPD Blue
Crosby Stills Nash & Young = Beverly Hills 90210
Bon Jovi = The Love Boat
The Eagles = One Day At A Time
Sal Nunziato said...
Mike McGear = Phyllis
LOL. Good one.
Here's mine:
B-52s = Lost In Space
Wow, trippy thread.
Abba = America's Funniest Home Videos. An enormously popular guilty pleasure?
The Ramones = Jackass?
That is enough for me, I think I burst a blood vessel.
Trey
Jesse Colin Young (b, Perry Miller, November 11, 1941, in Queens, New York City) is "Green Acres"
Paradoxically enough, Television does not have a tv analog.
Prince = Webster?
I'm really wasting too much time on this.
Syd Barret = The Prisoner
John Cougar Mellencamp = Two and A Half Men (better than you think it is, but still derivative and you can't believe it's still around after all these years)
Matthew Sweet = Arrested Development
(brilliant and well-regarded, but just not that popular)
Tom Jones = The Rockford Files
Hootie and the Blowfish = Thirtysomething (both of them make me kind of queazy)
Jefferson Airplane/Starship = Rosanne (great at first, but spectacularly flamed out in the end)
Kiss = The A-Team (the characters outweigh the content)
Madonna = Moonlighting (was better when she was just a tease)
David Bowie = Columbo (A lot of those lyrics don't make any sense, but he's probably just pretending to be dumb)
Superchunk = Freaks and Geeks (Why didn't more people watch?)
I love the Syd Barrett one!
Fairport Convention was The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a little quirky, but authentic and sincere as all get-out.
Sorry I'm late -- I just found out about the Journey mention.
Journey = Fantasy Island (both feature a Hideous Little Dwarf)
(Apologies to the late Mr. Villechaize)
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