Taking the Name in Vain

All over the known world (pretty much), people, things and organisations have been spotted taking the name of our hero, Sideshow Bob, in vain. Here we have a quick run down on these vile imposters, most of whom were discovered clogging up my search engine.

the band

Sideshow Bob - The Band: From Edmonton, Alberta, USA, this is a five-piece bar band. It consists of: Don (lead guitar); Darren (vocals and lover of the Bob character); Brad (bass); Dan (drums); and Greg (rhythm guitar). From what I can tell, they appear to be cartoons.

the other band

Sideshow Bob - The Band #2: Now, I can't work this out. Either the other band had a complete line-up change and moved to another state, or there's another five-piece bar band in 'Merka called Sideshow Bob. This one seems to be more popular as it gets in my search engine more. It's from California and the members are called Dali, Scott, Louis, Ted and Terry. the government-employed imposter

Sideshow Bob - The Millenium Dome Scandal: All right, so it's just scandalous to me. So, I went to the Dome (and it wasn't as bad as everyone says... in fact it was quite good), and, the first thing I do is stop for a drink. I'm just putting my flask away when this sort of cart thing with "Moonlight Entertainment" written on it pulls up a little way away. I wander up to it and there are these acrobats dressed as weird green lizard creatures hopping around and doing rope tricks. The show's really good, so I stop to watch. I'm just getting into it when this person dressed in red, who's obviously the keeper, starts talking about how she captured these fabled beasts in a far off land, yadda yadda. I carry on watching the show. It ends, everyone claps, and, to my horror, the keeper says, "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, these are the magnificent basilisks of Whosis [wherever] and I am Sideshow Bob, thank you for watching and good night," and trundles off, happy as you like, a name thief. So I took some pictures, was seriously scandalised, and put it on the site. Thank you.

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