Best guest band/house band appearances on TV shows (especially 'Get Smart')

(2) Motorhead on "The Young Ones"

(3) the Damned on "The Young Ones"

(4) the Ramones on "Space Ghost Coast to Coast"

the feelies at the prom were the only good thing about "something wild"

andy warhol was great on the 200th anniversary sailing of the original loveboat

the young and the restless had their own fake pop star in plot as love interest as well as terrible hearthrob rock gig filler material

the beach boys should have been banned from any form of tv years ago (even timaru local -- should i mention Snakeskin ?) and the osbournes would be as good as the partridge family if they gave us a song each episode -- hey reality tv

back in the funny old days the Monkees sincerely added Head but you will have to bring us up to speed about Get Smart

There was a *GREAT* "Love Boat" episode where Sony Bono played an Alice Cooper/Gene Simmons character named "Deacon Dark" who was trying to change him image, but Gopher was a huge fan of his, particularly his hit tune "Step, Step, Step on Toads." I swear I'm not making this up.

also quite fond of the lovin' spoonful in "what's up tigerlily" and the bizarre line up of musical guests in the strange canadian roadmovie "roadkill". not only do we get nash the slash, but we also have a strange bit with one of the ramones and a cuddly toy. i forget which ramone it is but the conceit throughout the film has been lying taxi driver making great claims about his music links. and then when all the protagonists are in a bar one of the ramones pops by for some bizarre reason. very strange film. would love to see that one again...

Steve Nieve and the playboys from (I think) "The last resort" had some wonderfully cheesy moments.

The MTV send up on "The day today" with Nirvana doing "Pantie smile" and the gangster rapper "Far Q" while not really relevant to this thread is pretty funny.

Of course, who could also forget The Flaming Lips shambolic performance on Beverly Hills 902150

''The Wu-Tang Clan on Larry Sanders. Hank tells them that his favourite is "Shame On A Nigger". A classic TV moment.''

Yeah I remember that one, I was laughing so hard at that late hour. I could never understand how Seinfeld and larry sanders used to get such late hours on BBC2.

Cibo Matto on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the Bronze band doing "Sugar Water."

REM on Seasame Street doing some variation on "Shiny Happy People."

Leather Tuscadero (Suzy Q.) on Happy Days.

10,000 Maniacs were shit on Sabrina though. As were whatever that piss awful US collegiate rock band in the award show episode.

Since we're including movies, how about the Yardbirds in Blow-Up.

obviously.

However, we've joked about bands appearing on The Muppets so many times that I've actually come to believe that it happened. Please someone reassure me that Bauhaus NEVER appeared on Sesame Street, miming "Spirit" to the accompaniment of little fluffy bats and the Count because we've joked about it so much I'm CONVINCED that it happenned.

Oh yeah. Better yet, the episode was about the immorality of scalped tickets!

Oops.

The Mothers-In-Law: In a special episode of this somewhat-forgotten series about the trials of two pairs of middle-agers coping with their married offspring, the older set have a go at managing wild primitive rockers Sky Saxon and The Seeds! This amazing show was directed by Desi Arnaz, and also features Joe Besser of The Three Stooges (what a meeting of the minds!).

The Flintstones: In "Shinrock-a-Go-Go," then-popular rock showcase Shindig and its host Jimmy O'Neill are caricatured, as are San Francisco's genius folk-rock/beat group The Beau Brummels. Fred inadvertently invents a new dance craze, "The Flintstone Flop," as "The Beau Brummelstones" play their hit "Laugh Laugh."

Plus much more, including The Andy Griffith Show (Opie's garage band play their first gig at a teen party), and Love American Style (with segments featuring both Davy Jones and Sonny & Cher).

http://www.cathleenheard.com/personal/secret_cinema/events1999.html

And Bob Dylan in 'Dharma and Greg'!

Actually, it seems like any time a band performs on BtVS, it's the best guest appearance. Wacky ...

recent favourite is splodgenessabounds on tv burp 8)

Don Ho on the Brady Bunch "Goes to Hawaii" two-parter
Charo's mutiple performances on The Love Boat
etc

Gawd, I wish we could still ask for YSIs...

There was another band on Pete and Pete (besides Polaris) that played at the weird dance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqx31g9Mes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyRXFd1Hv2o

I was gonna mention Boyce and Hart and Spector on "I dream of Jeannie" but someone did.

OK, how about Nilsson on "The ghost and Mrs Muir" then.

Buffalo Tom on My-So Called Life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwcLSpZsIM

Did the Meat Puppets appear on the remake Munsters series? Or does this not count since series otherwise dire?

& are Kraftwerk on Tomorrow's World.

Have definitely seen a pre Little Feat Lowell George on F Troop

I was gonna mention Boyce and Hart and Spector on "I dream of Jeannie" but someone did.

Wait, no Beau Brummelstones?

Mentioned above (2002).

Tiny Tim sang in a little folk club on an early Ironside. I can't find it on youtube but did find this amazing Ed Sullivan appearance, with Tim backed by "all-girl rock group" The Enchanted Forest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8t0VxZXEM

were black flag on Quincy? there was definitely an episode where Quincy writes "punk rock" as cause of death for some poor misguided teen........... i seem to remember a legit band being on there....

Supposedly, the Quincy punk band (Mayhem) were based on Fear, but it was a fake band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHV9wQv6u8

"Why listen to music that makes you want to hate, when you can listen to music that makes you want to love?"

Just read about some Paul Revere (RIP) appearance on some TV show, can't remember what though.

Does anybody (wish they could not) remember a TV comedy called "Throb", set in the offices of a record label? (The throb record label had a logo of a heart so stop that!)..

One episode had a 'punk' theme, where the three band members were all sulky and snotty and not nice, but when it came to the gig, one of the band members was all nice and rocky and the other two all rubbish. Clearly the two were actors and the rocky one was a bona fide star guest.

At the end the record label guy was all "yeah, I guess the kids go for it, I'm more a CSN&Y guy myself"

( I think Sammy Hagar was involved somehow)

(Like I don't actually know it was him, like)

Just read about some Paul Revere (RIP) appearance on some TV show, can't remember what though.

They were on Batman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5X12RuoEY

John Mellencamp getting the name Cougar because he looked at the back end of a shitty 70s car!

this SCTV sketch was a parody of Jerry Lewis' Nutty Professor

CHiPs also had a legendary punk rock episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBnyaWt9V24

Does anybody (wish they could not) remember a TV comedy called "Throb", set in the offices of a record label? (The throb record label had a logo of a heart so stop that!)..

I had nearly purged that show out of my head completely. Here's the wedding episode with guests Donny Osmond and James Brown dubbed into German. Go to hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136SDR9mYro