Band Tales

**Band Tales** is the sixth episode of Season 1 of Dumb Teacher and the sixth episode in the series. It originally aired on August 30, 2005. The episode features the three members of Anderson Bros. Pizza, David, Jack, and Louis Anderson.

## Synopsis

Mr. McNeese tells his students a story when he was a part of Sherbetian rock trio, Anderson Bros. Pizza two years ago.

## Plot

The episode opens at Greenhill Elementary, where McNeese is teaching his students about music, and advises them to stay away from "bitchy bands" like Sherbetian rock trio, Anderson Bros. Pizza, which the students disagree with as they are fans of the band, with Dan and Logan owning their debut album on CD. This makes McNeese mad and he begins to violently attack the students while poorly singing the chorus of Shapeshifter by the same group. Afterwards, he tells the students that he was a part of the group two year sago, during the era "in which they didn't want to be a trio". The scene flashes back to 2003 at an Anderson Bros. Pizza concert in the United States, where after the performance, the three decide to host auditions for a fourth member. After many rejected auditionees, McNeese is last and manages to impress the group with his guitar skills, which prompts the group to hire them as their fourth member, where he takes the place of the main guitarist, while David is still on vocals. After McNeese succeeds the audition, he goes to a local barber shop to redo his hair into a mohawk, and meets up with the band at their main recording studio in Sherbetia days later.

McNeese makes his public debut with the band two weeks later during a concert in Toronto, Canada, where the band is presented as "Anderson Bros. Pizza & McNeese". When the band begins to perform with their debut and signature song, "I Don't Wanna Be (Carefree)" though, McNeese begins to strum the strings too hard and breaks them, which causes the band to stop playing and McNeese to throw the guitar at a person in the crowd, injuring them. Afterwards, the band kicks McNeese out, claiming that "[they're] better off as a trio rather than a quartet with a guitarist, who can't play guitar at all". The flashback ends, and when McNeese complains about David, the class begins to ask him what he thought of him prior to his departure from the band, he repeatedly replies with 'no' and begins beating up the class again. After school, Dan and Logan, now in bandages from the beating, think of plans to try and get McNeese to tell the class what he thought of David. Logan gets an idea and calls his Sherbetian cousin, Chris, who is a labelmate at the band's recording studio in Sherbetia and tells him the plan.

The next day at school, McNeese is seen wrongly teaching the class about Andrew Jackson's life, only for David Anderson to come into his class and begin to tell the students how horrible McNeese was during the performance. McNeese tells him repeatedly to stop, only for him to snap when he begins talking about how McNeese sucked on guitar when the first song began to play. McNeese angrily tells him that "[He] is just some stupid Provinian who can't speak Provini even though [he] was born in Aehaest, who likes to smoke crack while listening to The Ramones and LCD Soundsystem, while having butt-sex with Monkey Boy if [they] were both homosexual." This leads to a shocked reaction by the class and David. The students, who are now calmly irritated by his opinion on David, tell him that he is a music hater and all leave the class when the bell rings, where David hands the students free tickets to their upcoming concert in Greenhill. Before David can leave, he notices McNeese sitting on his desk in guilt over what he had said to him, which leads to David giving him a ticket and leaving the classroom. After seeing the ticket, McNeese decides to give the band another chance.

At the Greenhill Memorial Stadium, where the band is performing, the students are sitting together while McNeese sits alone further from the class. When the band gets on stage, they begin to perform their version of Cat Stevens' Wild World until the episode ends.

## Trivia

* During McNeese’s explanation to the class about the things Sherbetia has to offer, he mentions the Mama Motor Company and it’s old slogan, “High quality vehicles, sold for a low and affordable price”, Zimbabwean-Sherbetian rapper, George Makoni, and the country’s famous flag, which looks like Neapolitan ice cream,
* Although McNeese insultingly mentioned that David Anderson wasn’t able to speak Provini language despite him being born in Aehaest, a Provini-speaking city, in real life, he actually speaks Provini.
* The song that plays when David Anderson stops his car in front of the school is "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" by Whale, which is then used again in the Season 2 episode, McNeeseland.