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Bassist Wanted

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Popularity rank 6 #75. Clone Project is a Success

November 17, 2005

DR. MERRILL: Now, sadly, none of the cloned bands have actually become good musicians.
JOEL: So, the project is a failure.

DR. MERRILL: Oh no! It's actually a success. We're friends with the band clones! We've proven that Ph.D.'s and rock stars aren't genetically predisposed to dislike one another.

JOEL: That was your hypothesis?
DR. CARY: Yes, we've submitted out findings to several bands along with invitations to hang out. No one's replied.

DR. MERRILL: Well, Mark McGrath said he'd get a beer with us.
DR. CARY: Yeah. We never sent him anything though.
JOEL: Look, I, uh... I better go.

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Popularity rank 7 #74. New Wave and New New Wave

November 16, 2005

JOEL: You know, 20 years after you guys made all these clones of "New Wave" bands, the whole "New New Wave" thing started. Quite a coincidence.

DR. CARY: Yes, it certainly is a coincidence and nothing more.
JOEL: Yep.

DR. CARY: The Duran Duran clones certainly didn't escape. And they certainly didn't move to Las Vegas and become the Killers.

JOEL: Wait, what?
DR. CARY: That certainly did not happen.

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Popularity rank 8 #73. Devo Clones

November 15, 2005

JOEL: Have there ever been any security problems at GeniTECH?
DR. CARY: Yes, the Devo clones took over the entire facility two years ago.

JOEL: My God.
DR. CARY: They created multiple clones of themselves. Hundreds. A veritable army of Devo.

JOEL: Was it some strange plot for world domination?
DR. CARY: No, no, it was just this large-scale performance art piece.

JOEL: Sounds a little obtuse.
DR. CARY: Yeah. Most of us don't really... "get" the Devo guys....

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Popularity rank 9 #72. Nature vs. Nurture

November 14, 2005

DR. CARY: Now, it's not all genetics a lot of what makes a musician great is how they grow up.
JOEL: Nature vs. nurture, sure.

DR. CARY: So we tried to raise the clones in situations similar to those of the original band. Here's where we raised the boys of Chicago, for example.

JOEL: This is an 8-foot cube with padded walls.
DR. CARY: Yes, but... with a Bears poster!

JOEL: You guys really do have funding problems.
DR. CARY: They used to have a Bulls poster, line, but we had a tough winter in '94, and the Peter Cetera clone burned it for warmth.

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Popularity rank 10 #71. No Beatle Cloning

November 11, 2005

DR. CARY: Sadly, soon after the project began, we lost a lot of funding, so later bands like the Pixies and Nirvana were never cloned.

JOEL: But what about older bands? Like the Beatles? Why not clone the most successful rock band of all time?

JOEL: I guess back then you thought those bands would be just as successful.
DR. CARY: Well, there were also legal issues.

DR. CARY: Michael Jackson owns the rights to the Beatles DNA...
JEFF LYNNE: I was the fifth Beatle!
JOEL: Hey! A clone of Jeff Lynne!

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