- Today, we reveal the worst band names ever.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
(fire crackles)
"Good Mythical Morning."
- If you are in a band, or have ever been in a band,
and I'm talking like garage band-
- Oh, yeah." - I'm not talking about
marching band, because this doesn't apply to that,
that the most important thing that you got to do
is not write a hit song, is not be good-
- Right. - It's have a good name
for your band.
- Mm-hm. - Because you know what?
One day it's gonna be on the Billboard charts,
and you don't wanna be embarrassed,
or you're gonna have to make a flyer
that you're gonna give to your mom
so at least someone shows up,
and you don't want her to question it.
- Right, that's why we were The Wax Paper Dogz.
- [Both] With a Z.
- 'Cause it mattered.
- And it was the '90s.
(Link chuckles)
- But these bands made a mistake with the band names
that they came up with. - Okay.
- It's time to play
"Is That Really Bad Band Name Really Real?"
Really?
Really real.
- Okay. - Okay, Rhett.
So if you get five out of eight of these correct-
- Oh. - And by correct,
I mean you tell me that it's true
when it's a real band name, and you tell me
that I made it up- - And tell you it's fake
when it's not. - When I made it up.
Okay? - Yeah.
- Then you win a serenade.
- Oh. - By a talent-
- From who?
- By a talented musician,
who's gonna impromptu create a song about how great you are.
- You got a mariachi band?
- It's me. - Oh.
(crew laughs) Okay.
- But if you lose- - A little disappointing,
but- - You gotta do that
for me.
- My motivation is not quite as high.
But you know, I think I'm gonna be good at this.
- In 1994, this L.A. based- - I was alive.
- Punk band was banned in Massachusetts
because a mother got upset
that her daughter was listening to 'em.
They are Butt Trumpet.
- (chuckles) Mm.
The old fart.
- Real or fake?
Butt Trumpet. - Butt Trumpet.
Sometimes you do get one of those.
It just has a little sustenance to the note.
(Link imitates trumpet) (Rhett imitates trumpet)
Yeah. - Start looking around-
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - For a real trumpet.
- Yeah. - It's just a dude
bending over.
- Like a boat is pulling into the harbor.
- Yep. - Baby, that was just me.
(crew laughs)
Don't forget why you married me.
(crew laughs)
- Butt Trumpets.
Is that from my brain or from someone else's?
- Butt Trumpet is a great...
First of all, this is a great band name,
but I almost feel like it's not the kind of thing
that a mom would get upset about,
because it wasn't Cat Killer or something like that.
It was just, like, Butt Trumpet!
But you know, what state was it?
- Massachusetts.
- No, they don't care about Butt Trumpets up there.
If this was, like, Mississippi,
they'd be like "No, don't get into Butt Trumpet."
(crew chuckles)
But I'm gonna say that this is not a real band name.
This is fake.
- It's real.
- No! (buzzer blares)
- Check it out.
Their greatest hits include "The Butt Cheek Squeak,"
"Bean Bombers," and "Voice of the Toothless One."
- Wow, look at that "Greatest Hits" cover.
That is amazing.
- If you actually did that with a trumpet,
I think I could...
I got a trumpet back here.
We could test it out.
- Okay. - Later.
- Rhett and Link.
Six.
Channel. - This...
The Hot Baby Mama and the Dirty Diapers
are an all-female alt country band
with singles including "Hitched in a Hardee's,"
"Ditched in a Sears," and "He's Buried With His Tractor."
(crew laughs)
Hot Baby Mama and the Dirty Diapers.
- Again, excellent band name.
- Thank you.
- Oh.
(crew laughs)
- I picked it. (crew laughs)
I didn't make it up, I picked it.
- Wow, gosh, I mean...
See, I wanna say that this one's real.
I wanna say that this one's real.
I went with my instinct last time, I was wrong,
so I'm gonna say that it's fake.
This is made up.
- It is fake.
- Yeah! (bell dings)
- But if it were a real band,
they'd have other hit songs,
including "Part-Time Wife,"
"If I Were a Man, I'd Marry a Woman Like Me,"
and "Tater-faced Boy."
(Rhett laughs) (crew laughs)
- "Tater-faced Boy."
♪ Tater-faced boy ♪
♪ He's a tater-faced boy ♪
♪ But I love him ♪
♪ Tater-faced boy ♪
- What's the tater part?
- The face.
(crew laughs) - Oh, the face part.
(crew laughs)
All right, got it.
Okay, yeah, tater-face.
- Tater-faced boy. - Yeah, yeah.
- You've never seen one of those?
- No, but I'd like to.
- This guitar-shredding, Seattle based experimental duo
are described as sounding like fresh garbage.
They are Slicing Grandpa.
(crew member chuckles)
Slicing Grandpa. - Slicing Grandpa.
Seattle. Slicing Grandpa.
(crew members chuckle)
- Kind of sad.
- Huh? - Kind of demented.
- I don't know.
Sometimes grandpa attacks.
(crew members chuckle) - You gotta slice-
- In a lot of families.
If my grandpa attacked me and I had a knife,
I'm sorry, Grandpa.
(crew chuckles) I mean, he's dead.
They're all dead (crew chuckles)
at this point.
But I would have sliced him.
- I actually pictured a dead grandpa
that was being sliced all the way through
like a ham at Jersey Mike's.
(crew chuckles) - Okay.
Wow, you pictured it.
- Yeah. - You pictured it
when you learned about it.
- Or when I made it up. - Because it's a real band.
Real!
- (chuckles) It is real.
- Yeah! (bell dings)
You gave it away, Link.
- No, I didn't, 'cause I pictured it when I made...
I could have made it up.
- Okay, well.
- Their first single was called
"The Best Thing Since Sliced Grandpa."
- That's great.
- Well, I did make that up.
- Oh.
- See? You don't know.
(Rhett laughs)
This Los Angeles punk rock band
created scary songs titled "Burn, Witch, Burn,"
and "Cemetery Girl."
(crew member chuckles)
But the scariest part was their own name,
Penis Flytrap.
(crew member chuckles)
- Really?
Those things don't seem to line up.
- They don't.
- It's like you're a "Cemetery Girl"
and "Burn, Witch, Burn,"
Penis Flytrap.
(crew member chuckles)
- I wouldn't say Penis Flytrap,
I'd say Penis Flytrap.
- No. - I mean, think.
- This is like a nerdcore band to me.
Penis Flytrap.
- If it catches your penis,
I don't think you'd say it like that.
I think you'd be pretty scared.
- Oh, that's what the situation is?
- I think it, yeah. - It's your penis
being caught in one?
It's not a plant?
- It is a plant that catches penii.
(crew laughs) I don't know!
It's not my band.
- It is not your band.
- Unless I made it up, and it could be.
- But it's a real band.
Real.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Really real? - Yeah, yeah.
Really real. - Really real?
- Totally real. - You think someone
would name their band Penis Flytrap?
- Those guys, Penis Flytrap would do it.
- These guys did.
(bell dings) - Yes, they did!
- And look what a friendly group they are,
sharing a nice dinner.
- [Rhett] Are they eating a dude?
- [Link] I think that's a woman.
They're eating- - Oh, yeah.
That's a woman.
You shouldn't eat people.
(Link clears throat) (crew chuckles)
Even if you're Penis Flytrap.
- I do not want to have anything to do with Penis Flytrap,
the band or the plant.
- Well, if they wanna come on the show,
I don't see why they shouldn't.
(crew chuckles)
- This indie rock band from beautiful Chico, California...
Been there? - Oh, been there.
- Was formed in 1985.
- Oh, yeah.
- As, quote, an excuse to drink beer,
a goal they likely achieved,
judging by their name, Vomit Launch.
- Vomit launch?
- Vomit launch.
Wow.
Okay. - How are you doing?
You got three right.
You're on a roll here.
- But I gotta get five total.
- Yeah.
- Vomit Launch, it sounds...
The story seems incongruous.
Incongruous.
- People didn't vomit in '85?
- It's like, "Let's get together and drink beer."
You wouldn't call it Vomit Launch.
- Mm, okay. - So I think you
made it up.
- I did not.
(buzzer blares) (Rhett groans)
Hm, here they are.
And check it out.
Their album cover, "Shocking Early Works Volume One"
has an ice skating chick-
- [Rhett] That happens.
That happens with the spins.
- Right, when you spin. - You get the spins, yeah.
- It happens. - That's my favorite part
of the Olympics.
- And this is a very classic band photo here.
Let's stand in front of this arrow that's pointing up,
but none of us should make eye contact with the camera.
This pop duo, formed in 1999, opened for bands
like Toad the Wet Sprocket- - Oh, whoa.
- And The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
They are-
- That was such a great time...
Not really.
Not really. - Dingaling A Ding Ding Dong.
- Dingaling A Ding Ding Dong?
- Dingaling A Ding Ding Dong.
- There's two dings?
- Double ding.
Well, there's three dings.
- Dingaling A Ding Ding Dong.
- There's one ling and one dong.
♪ Dingaling A Ding Ding Dong ♪
(crew laughs)
My pronunciation, not theirs.
- Is that a verb? Is that a sentence?
- It's a band name.
- I've gotta go dingaling a ding ding dong.
Or is it just something you say?
Can you use dingaling a ding ding dong in a sentence?
- Dingaling A Ding Ding Dong
opened for Toad the Wet Sprockets
in 1989. (crew laughing)
- Gotta be a real band.
I mean-
(Link laughs)
It just sounds like something
that if it's not true, it should be,
so I'm gonna make it true right now
by saying it's a real band.
- (chuckles) I wish you had that power.
(Rhett laughs) (buzzer blares)
That is a fake band name,
but it is a duo consisting of Johnny Ding and Jimmy Dong,
and yes, they were sponsored by Hostess cakes.
- Ah.
'Cause of the ding dong.
- This British rock band formed in 1984,
and the next year they were topping the UK Indy charts.
They are Half Man Half Biscuit.
- British?
- British. - Half Man Half Biscuit,
so it'd be a cookie.
- Different thing over there. - Which is a lot different.
- Uh-huh. - Mm-hm, wow.
'Cause a biscuit's a cookie, and a cookie's a biscuit.
- But a man is a man.
- Mm-hm.
And the subway is, what do they call that? The tube.
And over here, that's like- - The Bobby.
- You have to get those tied
so you don't get pregnant anymore.
It's just weird how the UK and America
don't match up sometimes.
If you tie the tubes in London,
the whole city shuts down. - Yeah.
- If you tie the tubes in America,
just one woman doesn't have any more babies.
- Yep.
(crew laughs)
- I'm stalling.
But I'm gonna say that is a real band!
Half Man Half Biscuit!
- You sure? - Yeah.
- It is! - Yeah!
- But I gotta say they missed an opportunity
to depict a half man, half biscuit.
- [Rhett] Yeah.
- It all comes down to this final question, Rhett.
- Pressure.
- Who serenades who?
In 2014, this Chicago dubstep band
had a very minor dance hit
with "Smell Me But Don't Tell Me."
It's Pin The Tail On The Honky.
(Rhett laughs) (crew laughs)
Why are you looking at me?
Pin The Tail On The Honky.
- Pin The Tail On The Honky.
(crew member chuckles)
(Rhett clicks tongue)
- Mythical Beasts were giving you vibes
of the right answer.
- Pin The Tail
On The Honky. - Don't listen to him.
- Wow, man.
I respect this name so much, but-
- A honky is a hot donkey.
- Are you saying that to me right now?
- Yeah.
- You mean that?
- No, it's a white person. - Oh, okay.
(crew chuckles)
(Rhett sighs)
I think that this is a fake band!
Fake for the win!
- You sure? - Yeah.
- You're right!
- Yes! (bell dings)
- And you knew that
because our children play that game all the time.
- Pin The Tail On The Honky.
- Yes, he does. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's painful.
It's painful for Daddy.
- Congratulations, Rhett.
You win a serenade from me
where I have to painfully compliment you in music form.
- Oh, I'm looking forward to that.
- But I'm gonna break out my recorder-
- Compliment the honky. - And make it interesting.
Thank you for liking, commenting, subscribing,
and if you're a band,
send in your demo to Rhett's house-
- Please, do that. - Not here.
- You know what time it is.
- Hi, this is Sarah, and this is my unicorn,
and we are from Neverland,
and it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
(unicorn crows)
- If you're out on the road touring with your band,
your lips and beard tend to get dry.
Don't worry, we've got you covered
with my beard oil and Links perfectly pepper...
What is it called?
- Peculiarly perfect peanut butter peppermint lip balm.
- Yes, it's very easy to remember.
RhettandLink.com/store.
- You'll like it, I promise.
I dare you to try it.
Click the link to Good Mythical More.
I'm gonna serenade this guy and teach you
how to name your own band.
- Dental Hygiene, "The Musical!"
(Link sings high note)
♪ I'm so glad you came in today ♪
(Link sings high note)
♪ Here I am opening my mouth for the dentist ♪
♪ Let me get my tools ♪
♪ It's a trust exercise ♪
♪ I found a fountain pen ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Actually, it's just an ink pen ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ I'm gonna draw all on your tooth ♪
♪ Don't worry, 'cause it's okay ♪
♪ It's the thing to do ♪
- I'm not paying for that.
- You don't have to, 'cause I'm a student
(upbeat music)
♪ His name is Rhett and he's really cool ♪
(Link plays recorder obnoxiously)
♪ Sorry, that didn't rhyme ♪
♪ But anyway ♪
- Put an anyway in there. (Link plays recorder)