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MB: An Empire in Turmoil --- The Next Generation
When http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/48...e-turmoil.html was finally cancelled after twenty-four successful seasons, fans were livid. The show, they said, had only just been about to reach its greatest heights, and many loose ends were yet to be tied up. But series creator someonecompletelyrandom (known forever more as SCR) scoffed at their letter, email and flaming-poop-on-doorstep campaign to save, or revive the show. Enough was enough, he said. What do they think this is? Star Trek? I've given thirty years of my life to this show, and I don't intend to die writing it! We had our fun, now let it rest in peace.
And so it was, for twenty years, until one day, an insignificant little MB troll who had been left to sweep up after a particularly unsuccessful thread found himself reasoning thus: Yes, the show was all but forgotten now, and the stars dead or in various institutions, with its writer rumoured to have bought his own private island, from where he issued an edict to declare that the land of Randomia was a new and independent state, and had deep and intimate knowledge of the government's contact with aliens, which he intended to reveal soon in a tell-all book, just before the island was "mistakenly" used as a drop site for a new type of bomb by the US Army. And yes, the storylines were convoluted and intricate, and would be unlikely ever to be sorted out, but what if... what if, there was a New Generation? Star Trek had done it, why not MB:AEIT? Bring in new stars to replace those who had all drifted away or died, new storylines, maybe even some of the older stars who were not dead could return to do guest slots? And so, off he went to the networks with his idea. Every single one of them laughed at him. One chased him out of their offices with a broom. But he did not give up, and through the miracle of crowdfunding, eventually, MB: AN Empire in Turmoil --- The Next Generation was born! (Super glitzy graphic from Plankton pending...) |
CAST MEMBERS (Collect them all! Trade with your friends! If you have any friends..)
http://www.musicbanter.com/avatars/5...ine=1448169295 Name: Frownland Position: Emperor in waiting Age: 46 Status: Stoned First Appearance: Out of Town on a Rail Last Appearance: still current as of season nine First seen in the opening episode to season four, Out of Town on a Rail, Frownland had in fact auditioned for the role of Sleazy Pusher but had been turned down by the producers due to, quote, that ridiculous moustache. Cleverly concealing the offending face fuzz by tying it back, Frownland managed to land the job and so was first seen in the very first scene of S04:E01 when he attempted to sell blow to the kids in the local school. However he was outfoxed and the kids beat him up and stole his stash. When he tried to get it back, the kids sicced the cops on him, calling him a paedophile. Frownland's response to this has since become a cult classic: "Look, I think that's a bit much. I mean, I LIKE Pedestrian, sure, but to say I'm obssessed with her? She's hardly John Cage, you know!" Thrown in jail for eighteen years, Frownland resigned himself to his situation and endeavoured to "Do a Burzum", making music from the cell bars and his own teeth. His plans to record and release a six-album box set, "Frownland In Pokey", were however thwarted, when the cops, unable to take anymore of his so-called music, petitioned the judge for a retrial. At the retrial it turned out that evidence of his guilt had been falsified by YorkeDaddy, the prosecuting counsel, and his offence was quashed, and Frownland was a free man again. After successfully running for mayor in season five however, Frownland was found to be guilty himself of fraud, when it was discovered that of the 140,000 votes he had acquired, 138, 904 were dead and the rest were just his own name written in various cunning disguises. Stripped of his post, Frownland retired to the local music school, where he now teaches music theory. Pupils love his classes, they are very popular due to his somewhat revolutionary theories based around the John Cage 4:22 principle, wherein nobody in his class plays or sings anything but simply sits still, visualising the music process. He says he has trained some very promising students. Frownland has written four books on this theory, all of them blank, and all bestsellers. He is currently in discussion with movie producers with a view to bringing the first one to the big screen. |
If anyone is interested in being a character, this will be FCFS so let me know. Otherwise you may just get done anyway. No permission from you is required and no lawsuits will be entertained. Let them get their own damn clowns!
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**** like this is always funny as hell to me (hence me creating Music Banterus), so I approve of this thread and should obviously be a character
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Name: Black Francis Position: Revolutionary Age: 31 Status: Deceased First Appearance: A New Life Last Appearance: The Red Dinnerparty Coming from the “wrong side of the tracks”, ie MB's natural enemy, mundane Banter (identified by the lowercase “m” in its abbreviation), Black Francis arrived from the small town of PortiRoci in the second episode of season one, and with his family set up the now iconic Pixies Bar and Grill, where he worked tirelessly for three years. He met and fell in love with ChelseaDagger, a member of the Council of Ten, and they had a child, Little Frank Dagger. Viewers of the show watched their romance blossom and grow throughout two seasons until the shocking reveal at the end of season three, when it was shown that Pixies Bar and Grill (ever after known simply as Pixies) was nthing more than an elaborate front for the CEMB, the Communist Enemies of Music Banter, who had, unbeknownst to them, recruited all of Francis's family into their organisation and sent them there as sleeper agents. At the climax of season three, S03E22: The Red Dinnerparty, Pixies is hosting an important gala dinner for the Council, when the trigger word is sent. Immediately, all the meals are laced with strychnine, and there ensues a horrible and memorable scene where Francis, regaining some control due to his love for Chelsea, knocks the plate from her hand and saves her from death. Tragically, his hand, which falls into the spilled food, is cut on the sharp pottery and when he instinctively licks the blood, he tastes the food and falls prey to his own murder weapon, dying on the spot. Chelsea is aghast, and tries to commit suicide, but Urban and Janszoon, as well as the dying Loathsome Pete, entreat her to live, for the boy. Urban, Janszoon, Vanilla and a few other survive the massacre, but much of the Council is wiped out. Perhaps ironically, a statue is built in the town square in PortiRoci, proclaiming the family as brave freedom fighters, who gave their lives to destroy the inner circle of the hated enemy. (Editor's note: The actor who portrayed Black Francis says he is still persona non grata in every restaurant in the country, and has had to resort to eating in, every single night. "People still boo me when I walk down the street", he sighs. "You'd think this stuff was real. For some people, I guess it is." Chelsea still receives notes of support, sympathy and marriage offers on a regular basis. She has since deleted her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.) |
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Also, you should know that though this was certainly not my idea (and thanks to SCR for the amazing start) much of it is based on your journal, though I'll make sure not to rip you off. |
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Name: Mordwyr Position: Professional Plate-spinner, second grade Age: 17 Status: Deceased First Appearance: You Want it When? Last Appearance: Fall of a Pushbroom, Part II Although initially Frownland's enemy, to the degree that he stole his girlfriend, which is to say his favourite mirror, it was revealed in a shock ending to season four that mordwyr was in fact the ex-mayor, ex-jailbird's half-brother. When the two fought on Overhang Bluff in the now legendary season (literal) cliffhanger, and Frownland wrested the mirror from mordwyr's hands, hitting him over the head with it and thus causing him to fall, he was amazed to hear his adversary admit that he was his brother. The line “Every time you look in a mirror, you'll see me” has gone down in television history as one of the most moving ever, especially when Frownland, faced with the prospect of saving his now-revealed half brother, or his favourite saxophone, which had slipped from his hands during the fight (Frownland later revealed he had hoped to capture the “true sense of man's conflict with himself through music”), grabs for the instrument and watches with a tear in his eye as his brother falls to his death. Viewing figures for Fall of a Pushbroom, Part I which ended season four and had the shock revelation as to who mordwyr was, though impressive, were blown apart by those for the season five opener, which resolved the arc and led to the character's death, still seen as one of the most iconic in the last five years. |
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Name: bob Position: God Age: Indeterminate Status: Immortal First Appearance: Now You See Me... Last Appearance: Recurring character bob is God. We all know it. And in season two's opener, Now You See Me... he made his first appearance when Urban dreams of destroying all noobs. Bob appears to him and tells him he is fated for much greater things, a position Urban resists until he is shown a vision of the future without him, in season four's This Was Your Life and realises that he has indeed a higher calling. As a result of this, he instigates the now famous Reconvening, where the original Council of Ten, or what remains of it, return to the show and with some new additions propel the arc through the next three seasons. The frequent appearances of bob have led to many accusations that the show relies too much on religion, a question which Trollheart, who reimagined the series and is its Executive Producer and showrunner, responded to thus online: “Religion? Ah, who the **** cares about that? As long as it gets bums on seats, I'll bring the devil into it if I have to.” Interestingly, The Batlord was cast in this role three weeks later, just as season five began... |
How was Urban shown a vision from a future episode if it hadn't been filmed yet?
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Name: TechnicLePanther Position: Car Salesman Age: 34 Status: Deceased First Appearance: Oh, She's a Beauty! Last Appearance: Over the Hills and Far Away, Part III TLP was not what you'd call a popular character. He lied, cheated and slept with other characters' wives, and that was on his good days. But his luck ran out when he tried to sell William the Bloody a secondhand used Ford Astra. When William was involved in a pile-up on Freeway 109, and barely survived the crash, he went back to the car lot looking for TLP. But he had just left, having been warned of the imminent arrival of the irate cop by his brother. A fierce car chase ensued, during which some cinematography was utilised which has since been described as “like that pod race in The Phantom Menace” and used up most of the budget for that episode, leading to the only other scene being Janszoon looking out his door and saying his only line in the episode, Over the Hills and Far Away, Part III, “Nah, looks like it's raining. Let's stay in.” The episode met with severe criticism, both for the gory and bloody death of TLP at the hands of William, the recklessness with which they both powered through a whole line of schoolchildren and also the complete absence of any other subplot, or indeed any of the other characters. Trollheart has since said it was his “least favourite episode of season nine, unless you count Beer Ahoy!, which I think everyone who's seen the show agrees is not only the worst of that season, but of the entire show so far.” |
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Please, please, please me????
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No, this will be settled. I'm surprised that a supposed grammar Nazi could be content while his grammatical knowledge was in question.
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God?!
i think you need to pad my ego just a little bit more Trollheart :) |
In the beginning there was bob.
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Name: Chula Vista Position: Busker Age: 45 Status: Deceased First Appearance: Hey Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Last Appearance: The Levee Breaks It was a real case of “the wrong place at the wrong time” in season six, when Chula, busking outside the Second National Bank, was unfortunate enough to see the face of one of the bank robbers as they fled from the scene. Identified by the bank's outside CCTV, he was called in as a witness and thus began his two-season new identity in the WitPro as Robert Page III, an out-of-work guitarist running a sauna for gay men. This situation produced many of the comedy nuggets of season seven and eight, including That's Not a Plectrum!, Steamy Stan and one of the best-loved episodes, Guerillas in the Mist, in which Chula inadvertently hires out the sauna to an entire revolutionary army on manoeuvres! However the story arc had to come to an end, and it did, in season six's penultimate episode, The Levee Breaks, when Chula, faced with the prospect of his hero, Jimmy Page, (in a cameo role: he had always said he loved the original show and a chance for even a bit part in the reboot was too good to turn down) being shot by the gang in a case of mistaken identity, jumps in front of the bullet and sacrifices himself, as we all knew he would one day, for dad rock. Rumours abounded for a year or so about a possible return, since we never actually saw Chula die, but the actor himself scotched this gossip last year, by saying “I had a blast during my time on the show, but it's time to move on, let younger blood take over. I wish all the cast and staff the very best. Keep on climbing that Stairway to Heaven!” In a nod to his alter-ego on the show, he now signs all his emails, FB posts and tweets as “RP3”. |
Why is everyone deceased?
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He's just getting rid of the dead weight.
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Oh gods below, please, not Frownland!! Anybody but that guy.
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Name: Roxy Position: Princess of Hell Age: Indeterminate (and don't be impertinent, asking a lady her age!) Status: Immortal First Appearance: Fever! Last Appearance: Come Down and See Me Sometime... It was halfway into season six when this little firebrand appeared on our screens, but was it worth the wait! Originally introduced as nothing more than a love interest in Goofle's life, it was revealed at the end of the season that she was in fact a Hellian, a Princess of the Dark who had been sent by Satan himself to track down and eliminate the insolent Batlord, who was posing as Him. Initially repulsed by Batty, and eager to carry out her orders, Roxy soon fell for him and for the next season and a half we were witness to a smouldering romance that resulted in a shift to a later timeslot after numerous letters of disapproval and the threat of withdrawal by several advertisers. With the power of a dozen ninjas (I said N-I-N-J-A-s!) and a body to kill and die for, Roxy was the perfect foil for The Batlord and together they raised the ratings (as well as other things, if the fan forum is to be believed!) and created their own little piece of history with the first ever televised kiss in Hell. As Roxy prepared to face the music for having not located and destroyed the Batlord, he gallantly agreed to turn himself in .... only to shock viewers at the end of season eight when he grinned, spoke those immortal words “Later, bitch!” and fled back to the Surface, leaving her to Satan's tender mercies. As Roxy's fate was never officially confirmed, and as she is after all immortal, speculation has been rife that she may return to the series in the future. Trollheart will not be drawn, simply replying when asked (and he is often asked) the question with an enigmatic “We'll see. Anything can happen. I'm not saying it will happen, but it can.” |
Yiss I love it.
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This is great. I volunteer.
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Name: Deadchannel Position: Investigative reporter Age: 24 Status: Alive First Appearance: If the Sky Were Green... Last Appearance: Ongoing... Fed up of his status as a cub reporter for The Daily Blah, Deadchannel (DC to his mates) contrived to get into Pixies on that fateful night, posing as a member of the catering staff, and so was the only reporter on site to be able to record the terrible events that became known as The Night of the Long Knives and Forks, and to be in a position to record Loathsome Pete's dying words --- “It was .... Dirty ... wasn't it...?” His bravery and self-sacrifice stirred the nation, and put in motion an official inquest into the killings. He became fast friends with the Chief Editor of The Daily Blah, Unknown Soldier, and its wealthy, playboy owner Anteater, who between them began their own, unofficial investigation into what they (correctly) suspected was not a random massacre by a family who had ingested the designer drug Shine, but a conspiracy orchestrated by mundane Banter against their leaders. The scene in season nine's Not With a Whimper...Part IV, where DC, US and Ant all face the terrible truth and have to choose between the safety of their city and the safety of the world, won three Emmys and numerous BAFTAs, and became one of the first ever television episodes to be nominated for an Academy Award, narrowly missing out to episode seven of season ninety-one of The Kardashians on Meth. DC became a sort of superhero without powers, the true, honest, reliable and dependable face of journalism, and it was his qualities that changed the focus of The Daily Blah from a tabloid rag into a voice for truth and justice, becoming one of the most respected dailies in the city, and earning its editorial staff and owner the dubious honour of being added to the CEMB's list of banned publications, costing Anteater millions in lost revenue, a loss he shored up from his own private funds. |
I love this idea. You're too cute, TH.
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Well in fairness it's not my idea, I'm just carrying on the incredibly original idea of a previous member. But it's nice to be able to pick up the torch. You want in? How about Ki? I might be able to do you as a double act...
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I think a Comic-Con type group audience interview with all of the cast members is in order. I for one would love to expound on how at first I felt happy to be free from the bounds of the show, but in hindsight, am stalking Trollheart for a way back in.
Use your powers to make it be TH! I was not used to my fullest potential. |
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Name: Mankycaant Position: Enforcer Age: 30 Status: Alive and very dangerous First Appearance: You Have the Right To Remain Dead Last Appearance: Current character There are few people as feared as The Corporation's chief enforcer. Clint Eastwood once said in the movie Unforgiven that he had “killed everything that walked or crawled at one point”, and this claim can be made too by Manky, and we've seen it borne out over the last four seasons. Introduced midway through season nine, Manky was just a shadow for several episodes, a voice in the night, a knife in the darkness. Little is known of his origins, but it is believed that he studied martial arts, Zen and Origami under Master Yoda himself. Prior to the Jedi's death, of course. If there is one entity that encompasses the Party from Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Obsidian Order from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and The Star Chamber from, well, The Star Chamber, it is the mysterious and dark organisation known only as The Corporation. Little is known of this shadowy institution, but it is believed they have operatives at the very highest levels of government and the military, and over the last season hints have been dropped that a New World Order is being planned. Manky is the personification of that order: cold, calculating, ruthless and without an ounce of remorse in his body. It's been said that if you asked him what mercy was, he'd have to look it up in a dictionary. And then kill you with it. His ruthlessness was thrown into sharp relief when, after a two-season romance with Fetcher, the Council of Ten's double agent, he coldly strangled her when her treachery was made known to him. Unconfirmed reports say that there have been sporadic sightings of him at his former lover's grave, but no photographic or video evidence to support this has ever come to light. Manky is also infamous as the man who killed Janszoon who, in a special guest slot, returned to MB to share some very critical information with the Council. The death of the popular character from the original series so traumatised some viewers that the telephone numbers of counselling services were screened after the episode, S13:E20: A True Hero, aired. Those same services reported being swamped within moments, with the network of one, SHOULDER, crashing within ten minutes. |
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