The Badabing Saga

The Badabing Saga is the next major saga of Jilmstory after The Jilm Saga. This saga introduces Dynamo, Steve, Sufferthorn, Christian Ram Anderson, Dynamo's Grandma, Paco, and many many more. It is second only to the Jilm Saga in terms of importance to the Jilm Lore at large.
== The Badabing Series ==
The Badabing series is a television series summarizing the events involving Sufferthorn, Steve, and Paul "Dynamo" Helmworth. This era is often broken down into seasons by various historians, as much of the story was developed for network television many years later.
* Season 1- Simple years
* Season 2- Caribbean heist
* Season 3- The Lester Connection
* Season 4- Saving the World
* Season 5- Russian Invasion
* Season 6- Saving the World (Part II)
* Season 7- Dynamo's Bullies
* Season 8- Sufferthorn's Cousin
* Season 9- The Freeze
== Simple years ==
This era begins with Sufferthorn and Dynamo drunkenly falling down and loitering in Steve's lawn after a house party across the street. This event would change the history of our world, and the very fabric of space-time years later. Dynamo and Sufferthorn had not seen Steven for years, having been friends in the same club they started in middle school, and sharing P.E. classes. Steve's life rapidly fell apart as Dynamo specifically would find all manner of ways to completely fuck over Steve's life. These involve showing up to Steve's office job, embarrassing him in front of his boss, smoking weed at inappropriate times, hitting on women Steve would be dating at the time, having Steven take the blame for attempted statutory rape, and "borrowing" money only to never pay it back. 
Sufferthorn during this time would be cultivating his early business practices, earning money to throw insanely "ill-as-fuck" parties, eventually being abler to afford yacht rentals to get "shitfaced" at and watch the crowd enjoy themselves. Several of these parties are where Sufferthorn would form long-term connections and build his covert drug empire.
Several side characters seen on occasion through season one of the Badabing Club are Paco, Dynamo's Grandfather, Dynamo's Grandmother, Phat Dhump (In flashbacks), Steve's fellow office workers, Steve's Boss, and several reoccurring partiers.
This time period is often viewed as the light-hearted formative years of the Badabing Club. The antics and humor were greatly received by television and online audiences in the televised series. The budget was typical of a late night comedy of its time.
File:Badabing club poster.png|The poster and DVD cover for the first season of The Badabing Club.
== Caribbean heist ==
This season is what truly gave The Badabing Club its fame, as this era found itself focusing on a larger goal for our heroes to face against. 
With the initial wealth and influence that Sufferthorn had accumulated from season 1, he hatched together a plan which would involve his two closest allies, Dynamo and Steven. Sufferthorn purchased a retired Soviet submarine as a hideout to covertly plan their missions, promising his friends a "Boat load of cash, literally" for completing the mission. Dynamo would often be seen smoking in the hull of the submarine, despite entirely too many warnings from Steve, and several signs stating it was dangerous to smoke in the confined space. The mission involved stealing from the well guarded safehouses of several cartel drug lords.
There was a departure from real-life events within the televised series however, due to several budget cuts being made to afford the finale episode. Filler episodes became a bane to many viewers nearing the end of the second season. Despite this, the season was met with incredibly positive reviews from a climatic end, boasting a movie-length finale episode, and featuring several notable actors temporarily playing the roles of Dynamo, Sufferthorn, and Steve. The finale had become one of the most-watched episodes of "The Badabing Club" of all time. Critics and historians left unsatisfactory reviews for the second season of series, finding distaste for several filler episodes that were a departure from true events. Several such episodes had the members of the Badabing Club go collect random, typically easy to find and afford common items in needlessly perilous situations, including an entire episode spent on finding a blowtorch on the top floor of a skyscraper by using a helicopter, which could have instead been easily bought on Amazon, Walmart, or pretty much any hardware store due to how excessively rich Sufferthorn is.
This time period is often viewed as the beginnings of the Badabing Club's years of teamwork by historians. A particular moment stands out where Steve and Dynamo temporarily find themselves getting along almost as friends, a rare moment for the two that fans adored.
File:Badabing friends.png|Last moment of "The Badabing Club" Season 2 before the credits rolled.
== The Lester Connection ==
After the events of the Caribbean heist, some members of the Badabing Club began to flaunt their new found wealth. Sufferthorn was flush with cash for his drug businesses, upscaling his production over 3 times the regular output. Steve was able to invest in several safe tech stocks (such as Apple and Microsoft), profiting modestly in order to support his lack of a job in this era of the story due to Dynamo's antics. Meanwhile, Dynamo managed to immediately spend his entire share of the funds to move out of his grandmother's home and into the most expensive penthouse apartment he could find, located on the top floor of a local casino, an apartment which he could only afford for 2 months. Despite this new wealth, the Badabing club decided it was time for a more daring heist, one involving The Diamond Casino & Resort that Dynamo moved into.
We were introduced to several important side characters in preparation for the heist, as it would require near Ocean's 11 amount of planning. One notable character is Sufferthorn's uncle, also known as "Lester the Molester". Lester is a fetid, disabled child molester who, through several close encounters with law enforcement, found connections within the law to get away with his vile acts. Despite working with the disgusting, unclean pig-man, it worked in favor of the Badabing Club. Despite the Badabing Club needing to put up with his foul odor, smegma-covered clothes, and repugnant character, Lester offered some important assistance in evading police detection during several key moments during the heist.
This time period is often viewed as a mastery of the Badabing Club's money-making schemes by historians. Many critics of the TV series viewed this season of the series as a drastic improvement over the prior season, as far less filler episodes were involved. The budget was notably increased in the televised series, offering new character designs for several of the cast, ability to follow locations accurate to the true story, and create an incredibly season finale that had paid off viewer's desires.
File:Lester and Sufferbro.png|Sufferthorn looking on in disgust at his uncle.
== Saving the World ==
Historians widely agree that after the events of the The Diamond Casino & Resort heist, Sufferthorn used the money he had acquired to bankroll a brand new "Military and Weapons Division" for the Badabing Club, purchasing an entire underground base of operations deep in the Nevada desert. This underground based rivaled the scale and square footage of the Avenger's 'Stark Tower', putting them on the map for many lead nations as a potential superthreat to the world. Steve managed to invest in several more risky Wall street bets with his new found money, and leased a newly built upscale apartment closer to the city with his new funds from the heist. Dynamo was able to pay an additional 2 months on his Casino apartment with the money he had earned. 
The good times within The Badabing Club was shortlived however, as the President of the United States at the time, Donald J. Trump, announced that the US had received several strange signals from a civilization outside of Earth that threatened a war to end all live on the planet. The Avengers, having recently found a new member, Captain Planet, were called in by Donald, despite the President's disgust in previous years at the hero's liberal stance during the height of the George Floyd riots. This would be the doom of the Avenger's team however, as they figured another Earth invasion would be made quick work of in a conveniently-timed 2 hour movie-length adventure. Nearly the entire superhero population was pulped and used as fuel for mech-suit bioweapons. The President was dumbfounded at the Avenger's attempt to beat the alien invaders with mid-battle quips, giving the aliens ample time to land killing blows to the disgraced heroes. The American president, in a panicked move, announced to the world that the Avengers had failed their mission, but personally called on a "Plan B to send these aliens back", making a personal call out to the Badabing Club to save the world, and offering a lump sum of US Tax dollars to fund their venture. 
The Badabing club, in their usual fashion of desiring money, accepted the deal. Sufferthorn during this era handled most of the meetings with US political leadership over Zoom, and was involved in much of Badabing's weapons development. Steve was typically found assisting Sufferthorn with much of the planning phase, helping delegate work. Dynamo was indirectly assisting with weapons testing, blowing up expensive vehicles and testing the weapon's capabilities when he wasn't smoking weed, or bumming money from their budget to bring prostitutes to weapons depot. When the true invasion began, through the atypical battle strategy of Sufferthorn surprising the enemy, Steve's quick wit, and Dynamo's ability to baffle the smartest minds of the alien forces, The Badabing Club got together to save the world. 
The televised series' sudden shift from humor and heisting to saving the world was both comical, and drew in audiences to see how they could possibly succeed in their mission. For a historical standpoint, this era was when a true threat tested the Badabing club's capabilities, seeing them work as a team against a threat bigger than themselves. Critics adored this season's drama, showing true events as close as possible to what genuinely occurred. 
The Badabing Club was at an incredible high, both in its true historical sense, and within the TV series' popularity at this time. 
File:Badabingfile.png|"Even the Avengers need a Plan B" (Badabing Club gets called to save the world), circa 2018
== Russian Invasion ==
The Russian invasion era was a short lived time within the true events of the badabing lore. It is often skipped over by many Historians as the events of it are barely comparable in scale to the early and later events of the story, often relegated to the deepest parts of "iceburg" style videos.
As the alien invasion seemingly came to an end, both Badabing and US resources were stretched thin. The Russian government had detected Sufferthorn's now-defunct Soviet submarine, and in a swift move, decided to use their nuclear stockpile to repeatedly nuke it, as a means to end a possible "badabing level threat" to their country. The term "badabing level threat" was later popularized by this in our culture to this day. This act however only gained the attention and anger of the Badabing club, and they used their own new weaponry against the Russians in this period. Several Russian-bought politicians, and a nameless failed CEO of a jetpack manufacturer whom sympathized with the Russian government were ousted as war criminals by the sitting US President, and were later sentences to death by means of being shot into space after their capture. This era was short lived, as the Russians realized the Badabing Club no longer used their Soviet era Submarine as a base anymore, making the entire unprovoked attack pointless in the first place. Sufferthorn entered a call with Russian leadership, the contents of the call however were never recorded. All that is known of this call is the aggressors had pleaded to surrender only hours after receiving it.
The showrunners, having already signed a contract for a 24 episode season, had to find a way to make this era of the Badabing lore work in a televised format. In a devastating, near show stopping move, Scott M. Gimple was brought in as temporary show runner during this time. Gimple found copious numbers of ways to needlessly extend the season with what he claimed were "cool ideas" he had for the show, plaguing the series with 9 scattered mid-season hiatuses, an 8 episode long battle scene in the same office film set where Sufferthorn, Dynamo, and Steve had to fight through an office building against far too many Russian soldier extras to find their way out (often times seeing the same handful of 'Russian grunt' extras actors dying 10 to 12 times in the same episode as to pad out the number of Russian soldiers the characters had to fight against), and having the jetpack manufacturer become a main villain during the season's final episode with no buildup or hints as to who his character even was. The TV show became incredibly boring and repetitive at this point, with no payoff at the end. Critics, historians, and fans alike that all once praised the TV series' height, creative plot twists, and well articulated retelling of true events, was now universally panned, mocked, and criticize severely.
Overall, Russian Invasion was a short-lived era within the true Badabing lore, but became widely remembered by our culture as a permanent stain on an incredible story due to the actions of show runner Scott Gimple. The television adaptation of events made the real-life events of the Badabing Club look and feel incredibly dull and repetitive. It is often quoted that this singular decision to invite Gimple to act as showrunner could have possibly ended the series entirely had it not been for the ousting of him as showrunner directly after being found guilty of embezzling show funds, public nudity, statutory rape, and attempted rape of one of the Jury members during his trail. This season would devastate the series viewership for the entire year, yet hope and excitement was still prevalent for the next season of the TV series, as several hints at the end of the "Saving the World" season lead audiences and reviewers to believe it was not over.
File:Gimple2.jpg|Scott Gimple dramatically attempting to explain how using the same 7 extras to play several hundred grunts was a "creative decision" on 'The Badiscussion Club' series.
File:Scott M. Gimple.jpg|Scott Gimple at a Comic-Con panel, mouth mashing an incoherent answer as to how the jetpack manufacturer made sense as a villain for the Badabing story, to the jeers and insults of attendees viewing his panel
File:Gimp.jpg|Gimple's alter ego, "Gimpy Wimpy", as seen overlooking production on the set of The Badabing Club's 4th season.
== Saving the World (Part II) ==
"Saving the World Part II" is often viewed by Historians as its own era within Badabing lore, due to the changing level of threat during the Saving the World arc of the story. After the seemingly victorious battle against the alien threat, and then sudden shift toward the Russians, the Badabing Club, along with the entire world was ready to rebuild and heal. However, while the Badabing gang was finding time to relax together in Los Santos, a direct attack on the city changed the entire landscape of the Badabing lore. Several alien commanders, still seeking revenge against Earth, found and reforged weapons of unspeakable power from our world. These weapons were later found out to be the remaking of the 7 pollution rings, which held only a small fraction of their original powers, yet still remained incredibly destructive in the hands of their new alien pollution lords. Dynamo and Steve's strained relationship becomes key focuses in this season, the tension between the two now finally reaching the height of enemies. The Badabing Club met their darkest moments, fighting with each other and breaking apart the club as the world came close to a near Mad Max apocalyptic ending.
During the middle of the television season, the show featured several key flashbacks, recalling Dynamo's past with his grandfather, his mother, and several other moments that made him the person he is. It also featured Steve and Sufferthorn focused episodes, deepening their characters in ways we hadn't seen before. This season built on the already established lore in new and unique ways never before seen in the series. Through these flashbacks and episodes, each of the Badabing members realized they needed to come back together and work as a team once more.
The three eventually joined forces again for a heroic final stand against the alien invaders, finally destroying the 7 pollution rings in a climatic ending, reaching the absolute height in viewership, reaching 180 million live viewers, breaking a record held by the Apollo Moon landing in live viewership.
This era of the Badabing saga features one of the few times a direct connection is made with the Jilm saga, which historians and fans alike enjoyed. Critics universally praised the season's return to form and greatness, awarding 'The Badabing Club' both the "Show of the Year" award, and "Most Binge Worthy Series" award in several award ceremonies. The season also earned itself several awards in the Historical, Comedy, and Documentary categories as well from the true-to-life comedic depictions of the Badabing lore, sweeping award ceremonies with their names. To the elation of fans, this season of the series also gained the rights to use the late Phat Dhump's music during several key scenes, after gaining permission from the musician's family. Several notable scenes involving Dhump's music were the song "Burnin Down Da Fuckin Government" In Episode 10: "The Invaders Strike", in episode 15: "DynaDawg Origins" the song "Dynamo the MAN" is played from the album "Hotter Than Jet Fuel", and in the semi-finale episode 23: "Badabing Battle" when the Badabing Club is seen teaming up again, the song "Time For Fuckin' Violence Ni**as" is played during the final battle with the alien invaders.
Several years later, a 3-part movie adaptation was created of the events of the series up until this point, written and directed by Christopher Nolan and scored by Hans Zimmer, who made an effort to mix the late Dhump's songs into an epic-scale cinematic masterpiece of a soundtrack. The Badabing Trilogy, along with its soundtrack by Zimmer won awards for "Best Soundtrack of the Decade", the revered "Cultural Significance" reward, and the "Societal Justice in Music" rewards, along with several Grammys, Golden Globes, and a myriad of film awards. It is often quoted that Nolan's 'Badabing Trilogy' is his finest work as a writer and director in film.
File:Alien1.webp|Aliens seen probing and collecting information from the Jetpack Manufacturer. Seen after they recovered him from being shot into space.
File:Alien2.jpg|The Alien invaders laughing as the Badabing club breaks apart.
File:Alien ship.png|Los Santos seen being invaded.
== Dynamo's Bullies ==
"Dynamos Bullies" is a part of the true Badabing lore, often enjoyed by fans, scholars, and historians for its bombastic nature. The era begins with the Badabing Club being celebrated across the world for their actions in the "Saving the World" arcs of the story, both in-person and online. We also see President Trump award Sufferthorn, Steve, and Dynamo "The Presidental Medal of Super-Honor" in a historic scene akin to the ending of Star Wars: A new hope.
The awarded television adaptation of events accurately depicts this great time of victory for the Badabing Club, and their actions after saving the world. Sufferthorn began to use his newly formed government ties, along with his Jewish lawyers to work on several government black projects, while devoting the larger portion of his resources and wealth toward amassing his own stockpile of secret weapons to prevent future attacks on the Badabing Club. Steve manages to finally relax as many fans and historians hoped for him, taking some much needed PTO to relax and not worry about problems for a while, attempting to keep a low profile despite his new found fame. Dynamo however took great delight in the newly found limelight, as sponsors, cameo appearances, and young women began throwing themselves toward him. Dynamo during this time also gets featured as a guest for several episodes on the popular 'Joe Rogan Experience', a podcast hosted by American comedian, presenter, and UFC commentator Joe Rogan (Played by Dwayne the Rock Johnson in the TV series episode "The Dynadawg Experience"). Dynamo's ego swells to new heights with this era, and we see it quickly collapse after passing by his old stomping grounds, Los Santos Middle School.
While passing by the junior-high, Dynamo meets a 13 year old boy with the self-given nickname "Big D", along with several ill-mannered teenagers. Big D immediately recognizes Dynamo and attempts to impress his fellow teenage friends by calling the celebrity Dynamo a "f--" in front of them, and states that Dynamo only saved the world so he could "get gay sex all the time and suck dick" to the jeers of others on the schoolyard. Due to Dynamo's fragile ego, and oversensitive nature around being called gay, he fled the schoolyard in tears. Dynamo arrived to an empty Badabing Headquarters since the others were on vacation, and made an emergency call to both Steve and Sufferthorn, claiming a "Badabing level threat" had attacked him, and needed the other members to come together to defeat this newly found enemy.
Dynamo rushes both of the other Badabing members to the middle school, to show this new teenage enemy, only to get mocked by both Steve and Sufferthorn for dragging them away from their vacations for something so idiotic. This alters Dynamo's character drastically during the remainder of this era, as he begins to find ways to pretend to be more like Steve and Sufferthorn in a feigned attempt to seem more mature. To the group's annoyance, Dynamo began copying their mannerisms and actions in order to seem more mature, but only further strained their bonds with his half-assed caricature of the two more mature members. Steve and Sufferthorn hatched a plan to pretend to be like Dynamo for a time, Sufferthorn returning to his party ways, and Steve putting on an alternate persona to act more like the annoying ass that Dynamo was. This plan worked wonders on Dynamo, as it sent him into a fit of jealousy at how cool he thought the other members of the Badabing Club looked. Dynamo would alter his own persona again after learning he was 2% East-African in a 23-and-me test that he took in a desperate move to discover himself. In the mid-season finale titled "Black at it Again", Dynamo would introduce himself as "Watango", wearing a Kufi hat, and Pan-African garb during the fan-named "African Ancestry Arc" of this season. Dynamo's African antics would end quickly as Sufferthorn and Steve continued their party act for several more days, finally having Dynamo quit his act and become the Dynamo he always was again.
This is often viewed as a return to comedy within the television series, as threat within the Badabing Club itself causing much of the hilarious drama within this season. Despite the lack of a powerful threat in this segment, historians and fans alike enjoyed the television adaptation of events, while critics seemed to dislike the departure from a more serious threat for the season, not realizing what was lying around the corner.
File:Big D.png|"Big D" and his fellow middle school bullies.
File:Big d.gif|Bullies featured in the first episode of the TV season.
== Sufferthorn's Cousin ==
The era known as "Sufferthorn's Cousin" is perhaps as dangerous a segment to the Badabing Club's survival as the Saving the World arc, as it nearly ends the Badabing Club's power for good. The widely watched TV adaptation of the era is revered by fans and critics for its return to having a proper "Big Bad" antagonist in the series. This era begins directly after Dynamo's return to character in the "Dynamo's Bullies" arc.
The television adaption accurately depicts the historic events, with several creative liberties. Historians debate whether certain exchanges occurred, but overall much of what happens is considered within character for all of the figures involved. Sufferthorn meets up with Parker Reynolds, his edgelord /b/tard cousin he had not seen since the beginning of the television series. After feeling bad for not properly hanging out with his younger cousin for several years, Sufferthorn invites him to become a temporary 4th member to the Badabing Club for the day in the episode "The Reynogade". Parker Reynolds is quite distant from the actual members of the Badabing Club, showing more fascination with the the weapons and power that Sufferthorn had amassed over time. After spending a day with the Badabing Club doing several covert missions, such as delivering weapons packages to cartel spy members, personally meeting with government officials, and more, Parker asks to spend more time with the Badabing club. To the hesitation of Sufferthorn, Dynamo, and Steve, they allow him to continue his stay within the Badabing Headquarters, offering him a futon to sleep on for the night. Inviting Reynolds would prove to be an incredible mistake.
In less than 24 hours, Parker Reynolds manages to leak the location for several of Badabing's weapons depots, gathering a paramilitary guerilla force to take over some of their most valued locations. Parker began to rally his forces, calling for the creation of new Badabing leadership, lead by him. By using Badabing's own weapons and expensive military vehicles against the itself, this drastically hurt the actual Badabing Club's fight against Parker, as every time The Badabing members came to battle with Parker's guerilla forces and won, it came at the great cost of destroying their own wealth, as most of their net worth was held in these weapons.
Near the end of the season, the Badabing Club, lead by Sufferthorn, managed to corner and capture Parker, and contain him within the prison island of Alcatraz, after he had purchased it in the beginning of the season. Parker would remain here until the end of his days as the last and only prisoner on the island. 
In the TV series, critics and fans adored the personable, cocky villain that had made up the majority of this season, making for a widely enjoyed antagonist for the Badabing Club to face. Historians widely agree that Sufferthorn's "Super evil" cousin created a unique threat that tested the Badabing Club's ability to adapt, and created a existential threat to Badabing itself. Several acting awards were given to members of the TV cast, and a movie adaptation was later created, with a return of Christopher Nolan as writer and director, and a return of Hans Zimmer to create a finale soundtrack for the big screen. Both the TV, and movie adaptations received permission from the Dhump family to use Phat Dhump's songs "This Time For Real", and "Aint Got No Time" in key scenes involving the battles between Badabing and Parker Reynolds. To the adoration of fans, "Chocolate River" was used in an after credits scene, depicting Dynamo listening to the song in his headphones as he sees advertisements for the new and upcoming Playstation console.
File:Image-1.png|Sufferthorn's cousin seen exiting his personalized black hawk helicopter, after raiding Sufferthorn's weapons stockpile
== The Freeze ==
"The Freeze" is the second shortest era of the Badabing Club, due to the quick nature of events. Historians view this as the final part of the formative years of the Badabing Club, which allowed for the TV adapation to give a final farewell to the characters and their story before then final events of the freeze.
Dynamo in this part of these series finds another pointless goal to fixate his time on, this time being the launch of the Playstation 7. Feeling an almost holy need to acquire it, he set about finding a plan to do so quickly (which we learn is the direct influence of several of the Elements). Dynamo lured both Sufferthorn and Steve to a local cryogenic facility, before exclaiming his plan to freeze himself and them for the two day wait for the console. Steve, finally having lost his patience, tries to strangle Dynamo, but after tripping over each other and into the chamber, the freezing process began and all of them were caught with it. Unfortunately for them the machine was set for 1000 years because Dynamo is an insipid moron.
This part of the TV series was scaled down to an 8 episode season, giving a final visit to the Badabing Club's early antics. Much of this season was primarily flashback episodes, which showed the childhood moments of the Badabing Club together, and everything they accomplished up until this point. 
Historians find this season enjoyable, as it leads to the well known Badabing 3000 saga, and gave an excuse to show the members of Badabing Club's pasts again. Critics and fans gave this season generally positive reviews, the main source of negativity being a desire for more seasons of the show to go on, whether it take the form of flashbacks, or some other means. 
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