Your Improv troupe was Almost named…

[qnarf]

dave, johnny frufru, jarrett...what the heck was sweet/crude almost named? you guys wanted it real bad. it was off of lilith fair. plus we had some really bad ones. JF...

lilith farrakhan.
i think mohammad a.t.-a.t. was also medium brilliant.

 

[John_Frusciante]

Oh Lilith Farrakhan, another great name wasted.

And what was even more brilliant about the name Mohammed AT-AT was the postcard Warth made and which he will now post below.



John.

 

[qnarf]

Oh Lilith Farrakhan, another great name wasted.

And what was even more brilliant about the name Mohammed AT-AT was the postcard Warth made and which he will now post below.



John.

i'm so sorry.

 

[John_Frusciante]

<Stands, applauds, wipes tear from eye>

 

[jomama]

and how could we forget: JFKKK

 

[John_Frusciante]

I actually did forget about that one. I can't understand why we got disbanded.


John.

 

[Lord Hatsumi]

Swash Chucklers

We ended up just being Swash.

 

[jomama]

I actually did forget about that one. I can't understand why we got disbanded.


John.

it was the rape-bots

 

[zomby sneakers]

nakitomi plaza is an awesome name.

 

[citizenhudson]

Fat Penguin grew out of a practice group with like thirty-two people called "The League of Make-Believe".

HAHA I was never a part of this practice group!

Snacktime was officially named two other things. First it was Sloth Tusks, which we collaborated on shirt designs for, and then it was Fuck House. No clue how either of those got thrown out. But Snacktime's cute right??

 

[Hal Phillips]

I remember seeing a plug thread that mentioned Fuck House and being so happy that a group was called that.

Also, less than a month before I saw a plug for the debut of Sugar Cookie, I thought of the name Sugar Cookie myself, and I was pissed off when I found out that some group had beaten me to it.

 

[citizenhudson]

I distinctly remember being nonplussed by the name Fat Penguin when I first heard it, but not having the heart to crush the look on Alan Starzinski's ever-hopeful face when he said it. I'm glad my apathy and pity prevailed that day, Alan, because the name is awesome.

I know the feeling, Johnny. I too, used to be swayed by Alan's "Elijah Wood flying down a hill in a radio flyer wagon" face. But now, I've learned to firmly tell him to shut the fuck up. I am glad I was not invited to be on the team yet when the name was decided, Alan, because the name is awesome.

 

[zomby sneakers]

HAHA I was never a part of this practice group!

i was on that email list but all the practices were either too early (i worked until 7 back then) or during my class at the time so i could never make it to any.

i would have fought against fat penguin, i think. also, and i am just guessing here, but alan most likely would have died by my hand long ago.

 

[SixSider]

Hal, Sugar Cookie is still available. We never performed as it and throw it back into the ether.

 

[qnarf]

Junior Varsity was the first and only name anyone* suggested.







*It was Lucia.

are you sure jarret didn't suggest 'jarret's team'?
i've been on like five teams with jarret, and he's always suggested 'jarret's team.'

 

[SixSider]

Backstory:
Ben Scwartz was pushingfor us to pick a name while we were still a practice group although we weren't REALLY thinking of performing yet. Abra (because she is twelve types of adorable) often brings baked goods to practice. She brought sugar cookies on day. So that's how that name came about.

I loved that logo but can't find it now.

Thank You, Robot came about from a scene in practice. If I remember correctly, three women were at a WNBA game where they were waited on by robots. The robots were doing manicures and hair and such. Someone (I totally forget who) said "Thank you, robot." For some reason we all thought it was hilarious. It was in the delivery. As soon as someone said that we should take it as a name, we all agreed. No debate at all. We tend to agree on those things quickly.

Now, if you were to hear are conversations about intro music... those start to resemble the fwand name board.

 

[ruby sneakers]

Backstory:
Ben Scwartz was pushingfor us to pick a name while we were still a practice group although we weren't REALLY thinking of performing yet. Abra (because she is twelve types of adorable) often brings baked goods to practice. She brought sugar cookies on day. So that's how that name came about.

I loved that logo but can't find it now.

Thank You, Robot came about from a scene in practice. If I remember correctly, three women were at a WNBA game where they were waited on by robots. The robots were doing manicures and hair and such. Someone (I totally forget who) said "Thank you, robot." For some reason we all thought it was hilarious. It was in the delivery. As soon as someone said that we should take it as a name, we all agreed. No debate at all. We tend to agree on those things quickly.

Now, if you were to hear are conversations about intro music... those start to resemble the fwand name board.

ROBOT ROCK.

 

[Hal Phillips]

Now, if you were to hear are conversations about intro music... those start to resemble the fwand name board.

I always want to come out to this, and am always the only person in the world who thinks that that's a good idea:

[youtube]bVDfmn_TMkI[/youtube]

 

[SixSider]

Hal, I am so entering that song into the next Intro Music debate! I'll trade you Sugar Cookie for it.

 

[Bent]

Backstory:
Thank You, Robot came about from a scene in practice. If I remember correctly, three women were at a WNBA game where they were waited on by robots. The robots were doing manicures and hair and such. Someone (I totally forget who) said "Thank you, robot." For some reason we all thought it was hilarious. It was in the delivery. As soon as someone said that we should take it as a name, we all agreed. No debate at all. We tend to agree on those things quickly.

For the record, I said "Thank you, robot." I was pretty surprised when it became our team name.

And SixSider, check your durn blog if you wanna find your old graphics for teams that never existed: