The Stale Beat Band

Bad Day, the closing song. Opposite of FBB's Good (Great) Day.

The Stale Beat Band (formerly known as เกาหลีเอานิ้วโป้งส่ายไปมาแล้วโยกๆใส่ชุดสูทเทาคล้ายอบร้อน) is the derivative/parody of The Fresh Beat Band is a children TV show with original pop songs produced for Michelle Media. described as four best friends in a band who go to music school together and love to sing and dance. The show is filmed at Thai Wikipedia in Wikia Campus. It is also a combination of Senna, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, iCarly, Big Time Rush, Rugrats, Dora the Explorer, So You Think You Can Dance and Wikipedia Admins' Rush

All episodes follow the same basic structure:

• Each episode begins with a song that foreshadows a problem that the band will solve.
• The band works together to solve the problem.
• When the problem is solved they perform a song with the problem and solution incorporated into the lyrics.
• Each episode concludes with a version of The Fresh Beat Band's closing song, "Bad Day".
• The main characters dance to choreography by Mandy Moore; Sean Cheesman; Chuck Maldonado; Scotty Nguyen; Dreya Weber; Mary Ann Kellogg; Nakul Mahajan; Mihran Kirakosian; Susan Austin and Fred Tallaksen.

Music

Staled Album will be released sometime in January 2012. The soundtrack album is scheduled to feature their hit singles, including "Bad Day", the theme song, "Go Apples", "School Day", "Shit it up", and "Fuck You".

Singles

Three singles were released to iTunes; "Fuck You" was released February 2, 2010, "Go Apples" was released June 28, 2011, and "Bad Day" was released September 13, 2011.

Cast

Main characters

Cast (from left:เอ็มขวัญเอกซ์(รอ), broหูล้อๆ, ไพบูลย์(มือ) and สุธาวี(ตาชั่ง)

The show's main characters are:

1.Julie (Marina, Julie Raffer)

2.Thomas (Twist, Thomas Ellis)

3.Barrick (Shout, Barrick Derres)

4.Christina (Kiki, Christina Ager)

Their real name was declared before the Season 4 is start (season 1 under the current name).

Recurring characters

Add Carabao

Ayrton Senna

Junior Beats

EMA and เกาหลีเอานิ้วโป้ง

• Bell the PC's friend - Owner of the Pizza Cafe. Played by Shane Blades. He goes angry when someone said "Bell".
• Mario the Smoothie Maker - Owner of the Groovy Smoothie Shop. Played by Dioni Michelle Collins.
• แอ๊ด คาราบาว the Guitar player - He loves to throw the guitar. He destroy broหูล้อๆ's guitar once so he get fined by the police.
• Ayrton Senna, the school's famous race driver, died in racing accident. His death causing the Open House show has been cancelled as a tribute to him.
• Horis the Wikipedia Vandal, he has been fired from the Wikipedia School and de-sysopped. He always like to hurt the other and insult the teachers. He always in detention.
• Greg the Wimpy Kid, he got a Cheese Touch and no one want to touch him except Rowley Jefferson.
• Carly Shay
• Peachkung
• Big Time Rush
• EMA
• Yoggl

Junior Beats

There are also four children known as "The Junior Beats" who are essentially the child equivalent of their grown up counterparts. All can sing and dance, and dress as a corresponding character. They are in many of the episodes, but each episode's focus rarely features them in the main plot.

Former characters

• Ms. Piccolo2 the Teacher - Music School Teacher. Played by Monica Lee Gradischek. Killed by the criminal wearing Muslim women outfit.

Episodes

Main article: List of the Fresh Beat Band episodes

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Promotion

เกาหลีเอานิ้วโป้งส่ายไปมาแล้วโยกๆใส่ชุดสูทเทาคล้ายอบร้อน and real Fresh Beat Band performing at the evacation center to entertain the survivors from the Thailand's flooding crisis. (In picture, Marina, Twist, ไพบูลย์(มือ), broหูล้อๆ and Koris the Fan.)

Due to the success of the show, เกาหลีเอานิ้วโป้งส่ายไปมาแล้วโยกๆใส่ชุดสูทเทาคล้ายอบร้อน went on a small mini promotional tour making appearances at charity events and theme parks such as Dream World.

On July 5, 2011, the band made an appearance on The View to perform their single "กันชุนหวัตร".

The band was originally supposed to return to New York City to perform at the Chiang Mai as part of the 16th annual tennis festival. The event ended up being canceled due to a flood.

On September 11th, the band performed at Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play Concert in Washington DC.

On November 24th and 25th 2011, the band played with the real Fresh Beat Band to entertain the survivors from the Thailand's flooding crisis in the evacation center.

Live Tour 2012

The Fresh Beat Band will hit the road in February 2012 for the first time ever on a 15-week nationwide concert tour that will hit all major cities including NYC, LA, Chicago, and more. Cast members Kiki (Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer), Shout(Thomas Hobson), Marina (Tara Perry), and Twist (Jon Beavers) will perform songs from Seasons one, two and three of the live-action series.

The tour was announced via Facebook by Tara Perry (Marina) and Thomas Hobson (Shout).

They had performed in Asiavision Song Contest 2009 too.

Nominations and awards

• 26th Annual Imagen Awards Nomination for Best Young Actress/Television : Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer in The Fresh Beat Band
• Parents Choice 2011 Award: The Fresh Beat Band – Fun Stuff (Ages: 2 - 5 years)

Logo and intellectual property rights infringement claim

A composite pictures made by Greg Logan, the SpongeBob Squarepants Wiki administrator on Wikib. On the top is the Fresh Beat Band's logo, below is the logo derived from FBB. Logan uses this image to complaint Viacom about this incident.

The anouncement. (translations: Michelle Media Co, Ltd. wish like to announce about the trademark infringement on the logo. it is our mistake.)

The logo has been changed on August 18, 2011 due to a trademark claim from Viacom International Inc. The old logo was derived from The Fresh Beat Band 's official logo, but change the lettering in the logo. Prajim Leythaisong, the logo editor had announced that Viacom had filled the lawsuit aganist him, this damage costed him THB50,000,000, Leythaisong has been sent to prison for 1 year, while Jimbo Anderson helps Leythaisong off the prison. Causing Anderson in prison for life. While Leythaisong's prison sentence has been reduced to 6 months. While Wansorn Menthod had said on August 10, 2011. "This is our major mistake about using the logo owned by the respectiveful company of Viacom Int'l Inc. As this is Fresh Beat Band's parody, we need to made it similar to that. We didn't noticed that we had violate someone else's intelectual property rights such as copyright and/or trademarks, but we apologise for this inconvenience. As of now, we're ready to resolve this problem, and the another new logo will be unveil on August 18..

The FBB-derived logo has been dropped down from the title card on August 14 and replaced with the lettering. The lettering has been appeared on five episodes. Also, the notice about logo appeared before those five episodes. Also, the official website has been cut access by redirecting all pages to the disclaimers and announcements to disclaim about the claim from Viacom. Also, the logo on the top has been changed to the lettering, there is no styles and div on the pages at that day.

Not just the logo, the costumes of the characters are almost exactly the same to The Fresh Beat Band. Viacom had fined another THB10,000,000 for costumes on August 20, 2011. Fortunately, the costumes has been changed on August 30, 2011 and Viacom did not fine the producer for those costumes.

On October 2011, Michelle Media had paid THB300,000,000 for the authorization of the use of the costume designs, and Viacom had accepted those money and permitted the use. While all August 30th costumes were sold in the recycle shop and donated for the survivors of the flooding crisis.

Global air

The show is aired on Sky F1.

Sky F1 once misidentified it.

The show is planned to air globally in mid-2012. They would rename to "The Stale Beat Band". With the support of Sky TV. They would planned for global air on 2010, but they were intercepted by Viacom. It will be air on Sky Sports F1 when there is no Grand Prix. The show has been aired on Sky F1 once on October 31, 2011. Sky F1 has planned to air a 24-hours marathon in December 25, 2011. The 24-hours marathon includes 48 episodes. 24 episodes of real Fresh Beat Band, and 24 episodes of เกาหลีเอานิ้วโป้งส่ายไปมาแล้วโยกๆใส่ชุดสูทเทาคล้ายอบร้อน. Aired swaply during the 24-hours marathon. After the 24-hours marathon ended, they will air the F1 footages as usual.

External links

• Official site