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New Kids on the Block Animated Series

New Kids on the Block was a Not Quite Starring animated series by DiC Entertainment based on the grouping. It ran from 1990 to 1991, around the time New Kids fandom peaked, and is best remembered as embodying everything wrong with Celebrity Toons. Episodes are ordinarily non difficult to find on YouTube. A review of the series, with viewing guide (the author is a fellow Troper and lets no trope pass without annotate), can be found here .

New Kids on the Block provides examples of:

Activation Sequence: A needlessly pointless and half-baked i shows up in "New Heroes on The Block" as Sam, the ring's driver, starts up the passenger vehicle. Information technology ends as abruptly as it appears.
Take chances Towns: The various stops on their seemingly endless tour. If you live in one of the towns, exist enlightened that the writers really fabricated no attempt at authentic portrayals.
Ring Toon: And it followed the associated tropes to a T: every episode they go into some kind of run a risk and sing a song at the end. Whee.
Disney Acid Sequence: Not just the songs either. The whole show is presented in Glorious Seizure-Vision! Also run into Off-Model and Stock Footage below.
The Faceless/The Ghost: Sam, who makes but 2 appearances in the serial, and is for some reason shown only from the neck down in both of them.
- In "New Heroes on the Cake", she appears and disappears to the point of creating continuity errors in a few shots.
Flanderization: "So you lot 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 fissure bad jokes? Well, there'due south our enquiry, let'southward outset writing some scripts!"
Groupie Brigade: Ugh. Aye. It was referred to every bit a fan order, only strangely plenty information technology was almost a literal brigade. It was entirely consumed with stalking the New Kids, and the actions of its leadership were non unlike those of a brigadier and officers overseeing a theater of operations.
Horrible Camping Trip: "Overnight Success" may likewise exist the type specimen. There is a slight subversion in that the characters really know how to go camping ground, but it fifty-fifty has the requisite grizzly bears...in the forests outside Boston (which are real, but are lacking in the bear department). Sigh...
I Just Want to Exist Normal: In "New Kid in the Class," Joey entertains the notion of quitting the grouping so that he tin...go to school. The hell?
Not Quite Starring: The New Kids were voiced past professional vocalism actors.
Off-Model: This was a very inexpensive show (It was made by DiC later on all). In particular, the episode "In Step, Out of Fourth dimension" volition make your eyes bleed.
- While the episode "New Heroes on The Block" is already a mess fifty-fifty for this series, the animation marker signalling the next cutting tin be glimpsed for a frame in one scene.
The Power of Stone: Figured in at least once every other episode.
Rotoscoping: Featured in the opening when the live action New Kids turn into their drawing counterparts.
Shout-Out: "New Heroes on The Block" includes homages to Frankenstein , Star Wars and Robin Hood .
Stealth Parody: You almost go the sense that the serial may be an elaborate Take That! against Glory Toons.
Stock Footage: Ane of the worst offenders in the medium. Actual concert and interview footage was edited into the serial seemingly at random (ie, the cartoon's story would be interrupted by a clip of Hashemite kingdom of jordan talking well-nigh his cats). It was as if the producers were proverb, "Here, here are the actual New Kids. Are y'all happy?" A lot of the random cutaways and effects are due to the blitheness coming back from Wang Film Productions with lots of mistakes. There was no time to fix them, so they added all these video effects and cutaways to salve what usable footage they had, and passed information technology off as "music video effects" or something. As previously stated, the overall effect is that the show is a YouTube Poop of itself.
Squad Pet: Nikko the Shar-Pei. Somewhat justified in that he was the Knight brothers' dog in reality too. Funny thing is, he'south conspicuously the writer's favorite character.
This Loser Is You: Personified past the character Fanny, who is basically an incarnation of Fan Impaired. Other fans were portrayed as existence just short of a Stalker with a Trounce. Half the plots involved the New Kids looking for their few fans who weren't completely obsessed. If there'south a more than downright odd identify for the Harbinger Fan trope to be applied (you'd have to exist an obsessed New Kids fangirl to like this bear witness), nosotros here at Tv set Tropes would love to know almost it.
Totally Radical: To the point where you wonder if the writers are fifty-fifty enlightened of how people from Boston speak. (Or, one could argue, how people from Globe speak. Ballistic!)