(OUR HOSTS - BIG IDEAS)
Nathan "Big Nate" Wright brought his active imagination to its ultimate apex after teaming up with none other than the excellent host himself, DOC SCRATCH, he who is already here. Now... he has basically no idea what to do next. Competitions are fun, right?

- Music related to comic-based media and the titles of Big Nate books
(Batman, Spiderman, Baman Piderman)
(Not being able to take it, music that goes thunka thunka thunka, releasing hounds)
- Unsettling, disturbing or glitchy music
(Venetian Snares, Igorrr, Disturbia)
- Music related to drawing or writing and imagination
(Paperback Writer, Drawn to Life, Pure Imagination)
- Music related to Homestuck, hosts, gambling and any music Nate and Doc want
(Black, Fuschia Ruler, Carefree Victory)
(The Price is Right, Luigi Poker or whatever, AWESOME ROCK MUSIC)

SOURCES:
Nickelodeon - Big Nate Preview Trailer (Big Nate)
Stuart A. Hudson - Doc Scratch Introduction Dub (Doc Scratch)
Sub Urban - Cradles (Imagination/glitchy/unsettling)
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It (Big Nate book titles [not being able to take it]/music Nate wants [AWESOME ROCK MUSIC])
Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower (Comic media [Enter the SpiderVerse])
SpongeBob SquarePants - Squidward's Tiki Land (Big Nate book titles [Aloha, like what you say on a tropical island]/imagination)
Panic! at the Disco - Bittersweet (Big Nate book titles [not being able to take it; i.e. panicking]/Homestuck [Doc Scratch Bittersweet animatic]/music Doc wants/hosts/imagination)
Daler Mendhi - Tunak Tunak Tun (Big Nate book titles [thunka thunka thunka])
Pharrell Williams & Trey Parker - Hug Me (Big Nate book titles [hugging it out])
Glass Animals - It's All So Incredibly Loud (Big Nate book titles [being loud]/imagination [from the album Dreamland])
Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Big Nate book titles [not being able to take it; i.e. panicking]/writing)
Lady Gaga - Poker Face (Gambling)
Jack Stauber - 6B (Drawing/Big Nate book titles [doodling])
—THEY WILL SOON ARRIVE.—
Bart Simpson - Do the Bartman (Lenny and Carl - The Simpsons)
Imagine Dragons - Enemy (Jerma - Jerma)
Bill Cipher - We'll Meet Again (King and Hooty - Disney/Alex Hirsch)
Deltarune - Spamton (Mike - Deltarune)
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town (Gourd and Her - JerryTerry)
Smash Mouth - All Star (Jay Gatsby - Book-based media [Shrek])
Freddie Dredd - GTG (Freddie Dredd - Freddie Dredd)
Radiohead - Creep (Thom Yorke - Radiohead)
Smile.dk - Butterfly (Mad Rat - Post-2009 rhythm games [imma be real he replaced someone else and I need to figure out how he'd get this])
Jazz Emu - I Like Crispy Towels (Jazz Emu - Jazz Emu)
PaRappa the Rapper - Noodles Can't Be Beat (TakoGex - PaRappa the Rapper)
Silento - Watch Me (Silento - Silento)
Crank Squad - Crank That Super Mario (Mario Head - Mario)
Brain Dump - Burnbot Has No Feelings (Bubs - Internet animation)
Bo En - My Time (15 - ■■■■■)
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (16 - ■■■■■■■■)

I LOVE EVERYTHING

(CHARACTER 01 - CARL AND LENNY)
(looks at hand) Carl's the black one.

- The Simpsons, musicians on The Simpsons, and other adult cartoons
(See My Vest, Quahog Candy Marshmallow, Back In The 90s)
- Friendships, duos, dualities, sequels and the number 2
(Friend Like Me, Duolingo, Shrek 2, Two Takes It)
- Nuclear power, work/jobs, eyes/sight and differences/distinctions
(Nuclear, Job Job, With My Own Eyes, I’m Different) 
- Things Lenny shouldn't get in his eye
(Pudding, jigs, glass)

SOURCES:
Glass Animals - Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Adult animation [named after an Adult Swim show]/work [Space Ghost's job is to host]/things Lenny shouldn't get in his eye [glass])
The Simpsons - We Do (The Stonecutters’ Song) (The Simpsons)
The Simpsons Hit and Run Soundtrack - Simpsons Hotline (The Simpsons)
Counting Crows - Accidentally in Love (Sequels [Shrek 2])
Nuclear Throne - Where The Guns At (Nuclear power [Nuclear Throne]/things Lenny shouldn’t get in his eye [bullets])
Conway Twitty - The Games that Daddies Play (Adult animation [Family Guy and their stupid drawn-out Conway Twitty bits])
Panic! at the Disco - Crazy = Genius (Dualities/things Lenny shouldn't get in his eye [fire]/work [rocket scientist]/nuclear power [rocket science]/musicians on The Simpsons [The Beach Boys])
Mike Oldfield - Nuclear (Nuclear power/things Lenny shouldn't get in his eye [ashes, bullets, embers])
Weezer - Blue Dream (The Simpsons/musicians on The Simpsons [debuted on the show]/things Lenny shouldn't get in his eye [water]/friendship [the fishes are his friends])
Glass Animals - Pork Soda (things Lenny shouldn't get in his eye [soda, glass])
The Correspondence - Fear and Delight (Jobs/business [music video]/dualities [fear and delight])

PLAYIN' TOO MUCH OF THAT HIT AND RUN

(CHARACTER 02 - JERMA985)
If I chopped you up in a meat grinder, 

- Jerma, his in-jokes and things he's shown on stream
(Rats Birthday Mixtape, I Gotta Feeling, baby sensory videos)
- Other streamers/people on Twitch, their in-jokes and things they've shown on stream
(Simpleflips, Vinesauce, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain)
- Clowns, short people, horrible noises, "generic white men" and music they like and "songs that get white people turnt"
(THE WORLD REVOLVING, Short Kings Anthem, Weezer)
(Scott the Woz, Harry Styles, Jack Harlow)
- Psychos, psycho behavior and things Jerma has done/gotten away with
(American Psycho, Sweet But Psycho, murder, leaving the toilet seat up)

SOURCES:
Jeremy Morris Music - jermaBars (Jerma)
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (Jerma stream)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop (Generic white men [Macklemore]/things Jerma has done [gotten clothes from the trash]/songs that get white people turnt)
Z.Z. Hill - That Ain’t The Way You Make Love (Clowns)
Fox SZN - Circus (Clowns/generic white men [Danny Gonzalez]/people on Twitch [Danny Gonzalez])
Harry Styles - Late Night Talking (Generic white men/psycho behavior [staying up all night]/songs that get white people turnt)
Bloodhound Gang - Mope (Jerma in-jokes [PAC-MAN]/generic white men [The Bloodhound Gang]/songs that get white people turnt)
Imagine Dragons - Enemy (Jerma [sang by him on stream]/things Jerma has done [made enemies]/songs that get white people turnt [Imagine Dragons])
Will Wood - 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun. goodbye.) (Generic white men/psychos)
Jack Harlow - WHAT'S POPPIN' (Generic white men)
Miracle Musical - Labyrinth (Generic white men [Joe Hawley]/psycho behavior [doing the same thing expecting different results]/things Jerma has gotten away [trapping people in a maze]/other Twitch streamer in-jokes [Penny Snapcube])
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (Generic white men [John Denver]/songs that get white people turnt)
Huey Lewis and the News - It's Hip To Be Square (Psychos [American Psycho]/generic white men [Patrick Bateman, Huey Lewis]/psycho behavior [liking Huey Lewis and the News]/songs that get white people turnt)
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire (Things Jerma got away with [starting the fire]/short people [Billy Joel]/songs that get white people turnt)
Vampire Weekend - Flower Moon (Jerma inside jokes [being absolutely destoryed on red wine, sory guys]/generic white men [Ezra Koenig])
SimpleFlips - The Best Ditty I've Ever Made (Twitch streamers [SimpleFlips]/short people [SimpleFlips]/things Jerma has done [scream in your head])

CERTIFIED PSYCHO BANGER jermaVenus

(CHARACTER 03 - KING AND HOOTY)
They both unnerve me for entirely different reasons. NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR FOURTH WORD HOOTY

- Disney, isekai media and shows with 3 or less seasons
(Gravity Falls, Space Jam, Invader Zim)
- Magic/magical creatures, islands, pets and animals kept as pets, doors, birds/flying things and demons
(24K Magic, Island in the Sun, Snoop Dogg, Riders on the Storm, Free Bird, Snakes on a Plane, DOOM)
- Anything with Alex Hirsch and other people who worked on The Owl House
(Homestar Runner, Inside Job, The Stanley Parable)
(Dana Terrace, Arin Hanson, Robin Atkin Downes)
- Gay people and things gay people like
(BROCKHAMPTON, Will Wood, music I like since I'm bi) 

SOURCES:
Mystery Skulls - Magic (Magic/things gay people like [Mystery Skulls Animated])
MAGIC! - Rude (Magic)
Matt & Kim - Good Ol Fashion Nightmare (Doors [used in the Hyun's Dojo Doors collab]/things gay people like [causing chaos])
Brad Breeck - Gravity Falls theme song (Disney shows/shows with less than 3 seasons/Alex Hirsch/magic/things gay people like)
The Doors - Riders on the Storm (Doors/magical creatures [B-side is "The Changeling"])
Lorde - Royals (Islands/pets/shows with 3 or less seasons [Suburgatory]/things gay people like [Lorde])
Wet Pets - Rap Commercial (Pets/birds)
Middle Milk - Birds (Birds)
BROCKHAMPTON - ZIPPER (Gay people [Kevin Abstract])
Little Barrie - Better Call Saul (Things gay people like [Breaking Bad memes])
Bronze ft. BBRC - pa$$ the time (Alex Hirsch/Shows with 3 or less seasons [Inside Job])
Doja Cat - Say So (Animals kept as pets [cats])
Vampire Weekend - Sunflower (Magical creatures [vampires]/gay people [Steve Lacy])
Imagine Dragons - Demons (Demons/magical creatures [dragons])
Tyler, the Creator - I THINK (Gay people)
Pogo - Forget (Disney/magic/things gay people like [wholesome vibes])
Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Gay people/demons)

It's Like Magic!

(CHARACTER 04 - MIKE NOT-DELTARUNE*)
Haha, how's it feel to NOT EVEN BE REAL?! #tennasweep 

- Toby Fox and fanmade content for Toby Fox media, as well as media notable for fandom
(Undertale, Deltarune, Homestuck)
- Television, other technology/machines and advertising
(Video Killed The Radio Star, Hotline Bling, CreditReport.Com)
- Game shows, other things with hosts/leaders and common TV show subjects
(Jeopardy, Price is Right, travel)
- Things that don't exist, erasure/deletion, hope, disappointment and conjecture/conspiracies/theories
(Canada, Erase Me, Danganronpa, Disappointed, Game Theory, X-Files) 

SOURCES:
Toby Fox - A CYBER’S WORLD? (Toby Fox/technology)
Daft Punk - Face To Face (Robots)
FreeCreditReport.com - New Car (Technology [cars, computers]/advertising/things that don't exist [a good credit score])
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (Machines)
Panic! at the Disco - High Hopes (Common TV show subjects [redemption]/hope)
Benny Benassi - Satisfaction (Technology [text to speech]/things that don’t exist [satisfaction])
Soulja Boy - Speakers Going Hammer (Technology [speakers]/things that don't exist [someone playing a Soulja Boy song])
Bomba Estereo - Soy Yo (Advertising/technology [stereos, bombs])
Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu (Common TV show subjects [heartbreak, betrayal]/disappointment/erasure/things that don’t exist [a good Olivia Rodrigo song])
WiiCube64 - Just A Theory (Theories/media known for fandom [Friday Night Funkin’, Game Theory])
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Television/technology/common TV show subjects [betrayal]/erasure)
Hideki Naganuma - The Concept Of Love (Media known for fandom [Jet Set Radio]/common TV show subjects [love]/things that don’t exist [love])
Travis Scott - SICKO MODE (Advertising/things with leaders [Cactus Jack])
Jeopardy - Waiting Music (Game shows) 

*design by Mr. Luwigi

Y0U'R3 1N M1K3'5 W0RLD N0W!!

(CHARACTER 05 - GOURDCHAT AND H E R)
Why, yes, I was trying to access classified information. Why do you ask? 

- JerryTerry and media he's referenced/remixed, alternative/indie pop music and hard rock
(The Boys Are Back In Town, A Hat in Time, Midnight City, Runnin’ with the Devil)
- Scary things, Halloween and stuff associated with it, plants with a focus on fruits/vegetables and MEAT
(Skeletons, This Is Halloween, VeggieTales, MR. MEATY)
- Law enforcement, social media, BEING LOST and THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT KNOW
(Bad Boys, Twitter For Android, LOST IN THE WOODS, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS)
- People who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS, and songs that are about girls (especially HER)
(Private detectives, the news, Replay, KISS ME) 

SOURCES:
Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong (Hard rock/BEING LOST)
JerryTerry - Bust Some Heads (JerryTerry/scary things [busting heads])
Foo Fighters - All My Life (Hard rock/people who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS [people who search]/things associated with Halloween [ghosts])
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (Scary things [being misidentified]/THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT KNOW [MY NAME]/songs about girls/people who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS [people who ask what HER NAME is])
Andrew Gold - Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remixed by JerryTerry/scary things/things associated with Halloween [skeletons])
Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun (Remixed by JerryTerry)
Levi Stubbs - Feed Me (Git It) (Plants/scary things [the little shop, theater kids]/MEAT/people who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS [Seymour])
Nickleback - Photograph (Hard rock/remixed by JerryTerry/THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT KNOW [what the hell is on Joey's head]/things that are scary [the thing on Joey's head]/law enforcement [police records]/people who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS [Chad Kroeger])
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Carbon Prevails (Social media [from the movie The Social Network]/things that are scary [Mark Zuckerberg]/people who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS [Mark Zuckerberg])
Inner Circle - Bad Boys (Law enforcement/scary things [people who are bad, Will Smith]/people who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS [the cops])
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me (Scary things [being watched, Michael Jackson]/Halloween/people who need to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS)
Gorillaz - Stylo (Scary things [overpopulation, Plastic Beach]/indie pop)
Skrillex - Rock n Roll (Will Take You To The Mountain) (Hard rock semi-source/scary things [scary monsters])
JerryTerry - ReDoin (JerryTerry)
Rob Zombie - Dragula (Things associated with Halloween [Dracula, zombies])
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HEAD COUNT

(CHARACTER 06 - JAY GATSBY)
I had to read The Great Gatsby for school and I HATED it!! YOU RUINED MY SUMMER, JAY!!!!

- Books/print media and media based on them, musicians/people involved with the Great Gatsby movies, and media starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Redford
(King’s Dead, No Church In The Wild, Wolf of Wall Street)
- Parties/songs and musicians that are played at parties, things associated with parties/partying lifestyles, cars/other vehicles and money/rich people
(Playing Around Before The Party Starts, Shots, Sorry For Party Rocking, Life Is A Highway, Money Money Money)
- Longing/desperation, futility/regret and facades/lies
(Mr. Lonely, It’s All Futile! It’s All Hopeless!, Regret In Your Tears, Liar Liar)
- Music from pre-1930 and music that is meant to be “vintage”/old-sounding, big-band/swing music and people and things who are BORING and RUIN MY LIFE!!
(West End Blues, Lone Digger, my parents)

SOURCES:
Caravan Palace - Beatophone (Swing)
Pitbull & TJR - Don't Stop The Party (Parties/party lifestyle/songs that are played at parties/musicians that are played at parties [Pitbull])
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (Parties/lies [I'm not having a particularly good time]/artists involved with the Great Gatsby [GoonRock])
Fall Out Boy - 20 Dollar Nosebleed (Money/desperation/people who are BORING [people who use French phrases; Folie a Deux]/party lifestyle [drugs; Benzedrine])
Lemon Demon - As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It (People who RUIN MY LIFE [parents])
PaRappa the Rapper - Instructor Mooselini's Car RAP (Vehicles)
Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance (Songs that are played at parties/modern "vintage" songs)
Far East Movement - Like A G6 (Party lifestyle/songs that are played at parties)
They Might Be Giants - The Bright Side (Pre-1930s [interpolates a poem from the 20s]/regret/lies [they are most certainly not giants])
Caravan Palace - Lone Digger (Swing/parties [music video])
Epic Rap Battles of History - Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney (Things that are BORING [politics]/lies [Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are not actually participating in this battle])
Kid Cudi - Day 'n' Nite (Futility/party lifestyle [drugs]/songs that are played at parties/people who are BORING [People who have done TED Talks; Kid Cudi])
The Beatles - Yesterday (Longing/regret/futility/people who are BORING [the Beatles])
Beyonce - Crazy in Love (In the Great Gatsby)
Daft Punk - Teachers (People who are BORING [teachers]/musicians that are played at parties/things at parties [DJs])
Bo Burnham - Bezos I (Rich people [Jeff Bezos]/people who are BORING [Bo Burnham])
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Leonardo DiCaprio [Titanic]/longing/things that are BORING [Titanic])

A Pack Of Lies

(CHARACTER 07 - FREDDIE DREDD)
Oh, shoot, it's the CHA CHA guy! That's his only song, I think. Right? 

- Freddie Dredd, his collaborators, other Canadians and artists/songs who blew up on TikTok
(CHA CHA, Lil Darkie, Justin Bieber)
- Phonk/hardstyle/trap metal music, experimental rap, Memphis-style rap and the 7 deadly sins/sins in general
(CLOSE EYES, Our Church, DIRTBIKE, Baby I’m Bleeding, Get Paid, I'd Rather Sleep)
- Bossa nova and other Brazilian music, lyrical dissonance/deceptively dark media, vocal sampling and fire
 (The Girl From Ipanema, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, Fire Burning, AIN'T NOTHING LIKE A FUNKY BEAT)
- VHS/retro-aesthetic media, music videos with skits and songs that have probably been played for karaoke/talent shows somewhere
(Jack Stauber, Nas Album Done, Living on a Prayer) 

SOURCES:
Mr. Oizo - Hand in the Fire (Fire/vocal sampling)
Freddie Dredd - DARKO
fun. - Some Nights (Lyrical dissonance/TikTok/karaoke somewhere)
Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy (TikTok/sinning/music videos with skits/vocal sampling)
DVRST - Close Eyes (Phonk)
Steve Lacy - Bad Habit (TikTok/karaoke somewhere/retro media/sins [sins are by definition bad habits])
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song (Karaoke somewhere/7 Deadly Sins [sloth]/retro media [from the album Doo-Wops and Hooligans])
Masked Wolf - Astronaut in the Ocean (TikTok/music videos with skits)
Lil Darkie - TRAP METAL (Freddie Dredd collaborators/trap metal/experimental rap)
Whitewoods - Beach Walk (Retro media [vaporwave])
The Pharcyde - Runnin' (Bossa nova/vocal sampling)

Trigger Fingers On Fire

(CHARACTER 08 - THOM YORKE)
What a nice-looking young man. Surely his performance of this song will be gentle and restrained. 

- Radiohead, anything involving its members and other alternative or experimental rock
(Idioteque, The Smile, The Sweater Song)
- MTV media and live shows/crowds/songs performed on TV shows
 (Daria, Don’t Dream It’s Over, BOY BYE)
- Guitar/people that can play it, bodies of water/sand, houses/places you live, screaming/loudness and anything referenced in Anyone Can Play Guitar
(Teardrops On My Guitar, Ocean Man, Our House, It’s All So Unbearably Loud)
(Destiny, running and confusion, London burning)
- Music that makes you go absolutely insane, music that foretells tragedy and sudden surprises/unexpected events
(Thermodynamic Lawyer, Up From The Skies, BOO) 

SOURCES:
Sports Team - Here's The Thing (Alternative rock/guitar/screaming/Anyone Can Play Guitar lyrics [London burning]/makes you go insane)
Radiohead - Idioteque (Radiohead/makes you go insane/Anyone Can Play Guitar lyrics [running and confusion])
Weezer - Buddy Holly (Alt rock/performed on TV shows [Happy Days])
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious (People that can play guitar [Beyonce]/Anyone Can Play Guitar lyrics [destiny])
The Living Tombstone - Got No Time (Anyone Can Play Guitar lyrics [running and confusion]/places you live [FNAF4 takes place in your home]/sudden surprises [jumpscares])
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (Crowds/houses/alt rock/music that foretells tragedy [it actually was over])
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Experimental rock/unexpected events [this not being your beautiful house or wife]/MTV media [one of the first videos played]/places you live [a beautiful house]/Anyone Can Play Guitar lyrics [confusion])
Tally Hall - Hidden in the Sand (Alt rock/bodies of water/sand/guitar/Anyone Can Play Guitar lyrics [standing on the beach with my guitar]/music that foretells tragedy)
Radiohead - Anyone Can Play Guitar

The Thing About Playing Guitar

(CHARACTER 09 - MAD RAT AND HEART)
You [LOVE/HATE] weird obscure video game reps. 

- Nippon Ichi Software games, rhythm games from 2003 and after, and puzzle platformers/platformers with unique gimmicks
(Disgaea, DDR, Braid, Drill Dozer)
- Rodents and other small mammals
(rats died, Modest Mouse, Secret Squirrel, Batman)
- Science, medical practices, time/time travel, death and anger/negative emotions
(Weird Science, Doctor, One Week, Mad World, Hey Jealousy)
- Hearts and other internal organs, death/mortality and obscure underrated things you should totally check out
(The Heart Pt. V, Dead Weight, The Beatles) 

SOURCES:
Dyes Iwasaki & Johngarabushi - Mad Rat Heart (All sources)
Friday Night Funkin' - Fresh (Post-2003 rhythm games)
Ke$ha - Die Young (Death/used in MAD RAT MONDAY/post-2003 rhythm games [Just Dance]/small mammals [hedgehogs; used in the Sonic 06 Real Time Fandub])
Barenaked Ladies - One Week (Time/negative emotions)
Parry Gripp - This Is The Best Burrito I've Ever Eaten (Small animals [hamsters, axolotls]/obscure underrated things you should check out [Parry Gripp])
Masafumi Takada - Dangan Ronpa! (Nippon Ichi Software/death)
Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (Used in MAD RAT MONDAY/post-2003 rhythm games [Just Dance])
Robert Palmer - Bad Case Of Loving You (Medical practices)
Magnus Palsson - Pressure Cooker (Platformers with unique gimmicks/obscure underrated things you should check out [VVVVVV])
Linkin Park - Crawling (Used in MAD RAT MONDAY/death/organs [skin])
Maroon 5 - Misery (Negative emotions)
Deadmau5 - Animal Rights (Rodents/death)
N.E.R.D. - Squeeze Me (Time travel)
Panic! at the Disco - Emperor's New Clothes (Death/post-2003 rhythm games [Beat Saber])

Update On The Rat Situation

(CHARACTER 10 - JAZZ EMU)
What kind of name is Archie, anyway? 

- Jazz Emu, his influences and music/musicians he's referenced, as well as other YouTubers and celebrities with YouTube accounts
(My Brothe, KAYTRANADA, Gold Digger)
(PewDiePie, Jacksfilms, Will Smith)
- Jazz/jazz subgenres, jazzy/funky music, sub-2-minute songs and music/musicians that are known for not being able to be classified in one genre
(Fly Me To The Moon, A Tribe Called Quest, AIN'T NOTHIN LIKE A FUNKY BEAT, WHERE THE CASH AT, Will Wood)
- People with weird voices, comedic media/comedians/things that are funny and British and Australian media/media and artists from Florida where he definitely lives
(Louis Armstrong, Seinfeld, Slowthai, The Avalanches, T-Pain)
- Things Jazz Emu has talked about in his songs and things that are either way too relatable or have not ever happened to anyone
(Light switches, when you can’t open plastic wrap, having a good time at the mall) 

SOURCES:
Jazz Emu - Prologue (Jazz Emu/sub-2 minutes/things that have never happened to anyone [getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame])
The Avalanches - Because I'm Me (Jazzy songs/Australian media)
KAYTRANADA - TASTE (Funky songs/Jazz Emu inspirations)
Jazz Emu - My Brothe (Jazz Emu/things that are way too relatable [getting scammed via email])
T-Pain - Buy U A Drank (Musicians from Florida where he definitely lives/things that have never happened to anyone [having a drink bought for them by T-Pain])
Thundercat - Them Changes (Jazz Emu inspirations/funky songs/things that have never happened to anyone [losing their heart])
Jazz Emu - Texting Protocol (The Ultimate Insult) (Jazz Emu/sub-2 minutes/funny things [the reply to the friend])
Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings (Comedians/Australian media/things Jazz Emu has talked about [being insulted (Texting Protocol (The Ultimate Insult))]/things that are way too relatable [having hurt feelings])
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (British musicians/things Jazz Emu has talked about [sitting on trains (Babies on Trains)])
Will Wood - 6up 5oh Cop-Out (Pro/Con) (More than one genre/things Jazz Emu has talked about [being arrested (Whenever there's a queue behind you)]/people with weird voices/things that are way too relatable [getting in trouble with law enforcement])
Jacksfilms - Will Smith Grunt (YouTubers/comedians/sub-2 minutes/celebrities with YouTube accounts [Will Smith])
Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (Jazz/things Jazz Emu has talked about [space (Two well-dressed aliens singing Bill Withers on an industrial tube)]
Jazz Emu - Monster Incorporated (Jazz Emu/funny things [jokes]/sub-2 minutes/things that are way too relatable [awkward social situations])
Jimmie Lunceford - Cement Mixer (Put-Ti-Put-Ti) (Jazz/comedic/funny things)

Because I'm Jazzy

(CHARACTER 11 - GEX AND TAKOYAMA)
CARAMBA! This is like a haircut at Weird Al's place! 

- 2003 and before rhythm/music games and NaNaOn-Sha games, PlayStation 1 and 2 games, and anything with Rodney Greenblat involved
(PaRappa the Rapper, Vib Ribbon, Crash Bandicoot, NFTs)
- Square Enix/Crystal Dynamics games and mascot platformers/notable mascots
(Final Fantasy, Bubsy, Ronald McDonald)
- Water-living animals, lizards, hair, cleaning/things you can clean with, spy media/mysteries/disguises and Spanish musicians/media and music with Spanish lyrics 
(Weird Fishes, Snake Eyes, Whip My Hair, Soap, James Bond, Mask of my Own Face, Bad Bunny)
- Parodic media, highly referential media and anything Gex has referenced
(Weird Al, Family Guy, The Flintstones) 

SOURCES:
PaRappa the Rapper 2 - Hair Scare (Do you really need an explanation?)
Rihanna - Pon de Replay (Pre-2003 music games [Samba de Amigo]/Spanish media [Samba de Amigo]/notable mascots [Amigo])
Willow Smith - Whip My Hair (Hair)
The Citizens of Halloween - This Is Halloween (Media Gex has referenced [Tim Burton])
Shaggy - Boombastic (2003 music games [Donkey Konga])
Weird Al Yankovic - White & Nerdy (Parodic media/highly referential media [Weird Al]/things Gex has referenced [nerds])
Los Del Rios - Macarena (Spanish lyrics/pre-2003 music games [Samba de Amigo]/Spanish musicians/Spanish media [Samba de Amigo]/notable mascots [Amigo])
Luis Fonsi - Despacito (Music with Spanish lyrics/Spanish musicians)
Ween - Loop-de-Loop (Things you can clean with [sponges; SpongeBob]/water-living animals [SpongeBob])
The Who - Who Are You (Mysteries)
Chester the Cheetah - Flamin' Hot Diss Track (Notable mascots [Chester the Cheetah])
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (Lizards)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (Spy media [Kingsman: The Secret Service])

PON DE HAIR

(CHARACTER 12 - SILENTO)
Now do the wee-wee dance 

- Silento, other one-hit wonders, and Nickelodeon media/artists in Nickelodeon media
(Watch Me, Hit The Quan, Best Day Ever)
- Dance moves, musicians known for dances, and media that has dances associated with it
(YMCA, Bobby Pickett, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
- Music related to anything talked about in Watch Me and the Labor Day version, labor/physical exertion, days of the week and weekends/vacations, and holidays/special occasions
(Bopping, people named Harvey, Work Harder, Friday, Weasel Stomping Day)
- Music by sellouts, music that they play at middle school dances and music that they WON'T STOP PLAYING
(Maroon 5, Charlie Puth, I Got A Feeling, TiK ToK) 

SOURCES:
Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (One-hit wonders/dance moves [the mambo]/sellouts/middle school dances/WON'T STOP PLAYING)
Biz Markie - Just a Friend (Artists in Nickelodeon media [SpongeBob SquarePants]/one-hit wonders/WON'T STOP PLAYING)
Silento - Watch Me
Maroon 5 - Animals (Sellouts/WON'T STOP PLAYING/labor [hunting someone down])
Green Day - Basket Case (Sellouts/physical exertion [forcing yourself to listen to him whine])
The Village People - YMCA (Dances associated/sellouts/middle school dances/physical exertion/WON'T STOP PLAYING)
Widdly 2 Diddly - Work Harder (Physical exertion)
Tag Team - Whoomp! There It Is (One-hit wonders/physical exertion [that kinda sounds like a noise you'd make when straining yourself]/sellouts/middle school dances/WON'T STOP PLAYING)
a-ha - Take On Me (One-hit wonders/WON'T STOP PLAYING)
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Talked about in Watch Me [bopping])
Total Science - Jungle Jungle (Days of the week [monday already?]/dances [shaking youre tail like this funny cat doe s]/Nickelodeon media [Garfield]/sellouts [Garfield])
Jack Stauber - Valentine's Day Is Not For The Lonely (Holidays/sellouts)
Fortnite - Default Dance (Dancing/sellouts/WON'T STOP PLAYING/media with dances associated [Scrubs])
The Bangles - Manic Monday (Days of the week)
Paul McCartney - Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime (Holidays/sellouts/WON'T STOP PLAYING)
AJR - Thirsty (Days of the week [Thursday]/sellouts/physical exertion [getting up to turn the song off])

You Already Know Who It Is!

(CHARACTER 13 - MARIO HEAD)
Oh boy! I'm-a finally get to move on the ground! 

- Mario media and anything with Mario characters in it, as well as edutainment games and education in general
(Super Mario Bros, Super Smash Bros., Oregon Trail, Another Brick In The Wall)
- First-party Nintendo properties and popular YTP/YTPMV sources
(Kirby, Metroid, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Metal Beat)
- Faces/heads, facial features, typing and letters/songs that spell out words
(Face to Face, Talking Heads, Dope Nose, Murder She Wrote, Z, YMCA)
- Anything that Mario Head has talked about
(Fingers, something to drinky, moving on the ground) 

SOURCES:
Kitsune^2 - Rock My Emotions (Common YTPMV sources)
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show - Theme Song (Mario media/common YTP sources)
Fresh Prince of Bel Air - Theme Song (Anything Mario has been in [Fresh Prince mashups, Mario X The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - Crossover Wiki - Fandom]/common YTP sources/anything Mario Head has referenced [royalty])
Quad City DJs - Space Jam (Common YTPMV sources [that one Space Jam teaser video that was accidentally a second long]/anything Mario has been in [Space Jam mashups])
Mario Paint - Creative Exercise (Mario media/edutainment/common YTPMV sources/anything Mario Head has referenced [exercise])
Verbalase - Mario Vs Sonic - Cartoon Beatbox Battles (Mario/anything Mario Head has referenced [beatboxing])
Black Eyed Peas - Time (Anything Mario has been in [Mario Bros. vs. Black Eye Peas]/facial features [eyes]/anything Mario Head has referenced [time])
Mr. Oizo - Z (Letters)
Pogo - Muppet Mash (Education/edutainment [Sesame Street]/YTPMV (in a sense))
The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face (Faces/anything Mario Head has referenced [getting light-headed])
Khia - Respect (Letters/songs that spell out words/anything Mario Head has referenced [things Mario wants to have {respect}])
AxleCarp - Mario Wario Lucario (First party Nintendo properties [Mario, Wario, Pokemon]/anything Mario has been in [Super Smash Bros.]/YTPMV)
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Heads/anything Mario Head has referenced [wet things {water flowing underground}, the nice place you've got there {your beautiful house}])

[YTPMV] Hooked on Emotions

(CHARACTER 14 - BUBS)
Everybody know me. My name Cornbread. 

- Internet animation, Flash content/content that started on Flash and the early internet
(ENA, Double King, Lethal League, Dreamscape)
- Music and media referenced in Homestar Runner
(Anthrax, Bill and Ted, WarioWare)
- Shopping/storefronts, buying/selling, crime, unethical activities/people and suspiciousness/shadiness
(Wii Shop Channel, music used in in-store playlists, Crime Pays, How Do You Sleep?, AMOGUS)
- Anything Bubs has sold
(Hot dogs, severe pummelings, all types of crazy crap) 

SOURCES:
Hideki Naganuma - That's Enough (Crime/anything Bubs has sold [clock radios])
Bignic - Scream (Crime/Flash-originating content [Lethal League]/anything Bubs has sold [severe pummelings])
Strong Bad - The Theme From Dangeresque II (Homestar Runner/crime/shady people [Dangeresque]/anything Bubs has sold [a very good performance as Baron Darin Diamonocle, movie distribution rights])
Macklemore - Thrift Shop (Shopping)
Weird Al - Hardware Store (Stores/anything Bubs has sold [hardware])
MrWeebl - Crabs (Flash/early internet/anything Bubs has sold [bags])
Outkast - Miss Jackson (Referenced on Homestar Runner)
Homestar Runner - Where U Goin' 2? (Homestar Runner/shady people [The Cheat]/crime [what The Cheat is going to do]/anything Bubs has sold [cheats, Paunchberry ice cream])
#NerdOut - Imposter Imperceptible (Suspicious behavior/crime/anything Bubs has sold [a fifty gallon drum of body bags])
Bubs - "Everybody knows how to talk like Bubs!"
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer (Early internet)
IDKHOW - Do It All The Time (Shady people/suspicious behavior/selling/crime)
Oliver Buckland - Livestock Auctioneers Have Surprising Rhythm (Internet animation [ENA]/selling/shopping)
The "THANK YOU!" from Eminem - Criminal (Crime)

CHECK iT 0UT!

(CHARACTER 15 - SWEETHEART AND JUNKO)
Murder is legal if you're a girlboss. 

- Spike Chunsoft media, visual novels, RPG Maker games and quirky games about depression
(Danganronpa, Doki Doki Literature Club, OMORI, Madotsuki)
- Killing, injury, tragedy/despair, laughter and joy/positive emotions
(Kill You, Injury Reserve, Enemy, Happy Happy Joy Joy)
- Fashion/style, divas, sleep/dreams/imagination and sweet foods
(Fashion Killa, Whitney Houston, Dreams and Nightmares, I Want Candy)
- Gaslighting, gatekeeping, girlbossing and music by girlbosses/that girlbosses like
(Meghan Trainor, deja vu, there are only two examples you're crazy) 

SOURCES:
Ava Max - Kings and Queens (Royalty/girlbosses)
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Laughter/positive emotions)
Sporty-O - Let Me Hit It (Audiostalkers Original Mix) (Music girlbosses like)
Billie Eilish - bad guy (Clothes [white shirt]/dreams [from the album "when we all fall asleep, where do we go?"]/girlbosses/gaslighting)
Mystery Skulls - Money (Visual novels [Ace Attorney]/despair/gaslighting/gatekeeping)
Mother Mother - Hayloft (Killing/injury/gatekeeping/music girlbosses like)
OMORI - Recyling Really Is A Concept (OMORI)
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Dreams/music by girlbosses)
LISA the Joyful - 666 Kill Chop Deluxe (RPG maker/killing/joy/the one (1) actual quirky indie RPG about depression)
Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness (Divas/clothes [red dress]/despair/girlbosses/music girlbosses like)
Meghan Trainor - Me Too (Divas/girlbosses/music girlbosses like)
David Glen Eisley & Bob Kulick - Sweet Victory (Sweetness/killing/despair [Super Bowl 2016])

NO KINGS HERE

(CHARACTER 16 - THE GIRL FROM SENIOR YEAR YOU LIKED BUT WERE TOO SHY TO TALK TO)
You could have told her at the dance. You didn't, though. You deserve none of this. 

♡ Songs the two of you used to like
(Safe and Sound, Wouldn't It Be Nice, Levitating)
♡ School/media set in or around a school, common school subjects, sports and music associated with chants/choreographed routines
(Danny Phantom, Math Blaster, Space Jam, We Will Rock You)
♡ Memories/the mind in general, romance with a focus on the unrequited and nostalgia
(Crazy, The Mind Electric, Bad Romance, Memories)
♡ Music that you're too shy to tell anyone about and music that is a bit painful to think about
(Weezer, 100 gecs, anything from a currently viral game) 

SOURCES:
White Town - Your Woman (Unrequited love/songs the two of you used to like)
Doctor Lazer - Headbangeren (Sports/a bit painful to think about [Lethal League released on the same day as Smash Ultimate...])
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (The mind/memories/nostalgia)
Friday Night Funkin' - Roses (Unrequited love/school-set media/too shy to tell anyone about)
Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Songs the two of you used to like /media set in school [Riverdale]/memories)
Miracle Musical - The Mind Electric (The mind/too shy to tell anyone about)
The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Romance/songs the two of you used to like/too shy to tell anyone about)
Milky Chance - Stolen Dance (Missed opportunities/a bit painful to think about)
Capital Cities - Safe and Sound (Love/songs the two of you used to like/too shy to tell anyone about)
Queen - We Will Rock You (Sports/chants)
Emily Crapnell - Parts of the Cell Rap (School/common school subjects [science])
The Fray - How To Save A Life (Memories/missed opportunities/a bit painful to think about)
The Living Tombstone - Love I Need (Love/too shy to tell anyone about [nerdcore])
Key & Peele feat. Bo Burnham - When the A Cappella Group Already Has One Black Guy (School/love) 

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BNBT is a double-elimination mashup tournament just like Diary of a Tourney Kid! But I had the idea first.

OUR HOSTS: BIG IDEAS
#1: CARL AND LENNY
#2: JERMA
#3: KING AND HOOTY
#4: MIKE NOT-DELTARUNE
#5: GOURD AND HER
#6: JAY GATSBY
#7: FREDDIE DREDD
#8: THOM YORKE
#9: MAD RAT
#10: JAZZ EMU
#11: GEX & TAKOYAMA
#12: SILENTO
#13: MARIO HEAD
#14: BUBS
#15: JUNKOHEART
#16: JENNY [SENIOR YEAR GIRL ETC]

[DISCLAIMER: Despite being based off a comic series intended for young children, BNBT may contain language and themes not suitable for that age range. Everyone handles this kind of content differently, but viewer discretion is advised regardless.]

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