For wasting your youth & using up your teeth

Some fun band-related things to read, do, print, watch, or hear.

On This Site / Interactives / Extras

Truth And/Or Sandwiches

Fan art

• They Might Be Giants Minizine: A free, printable 8-page zine with original artwork by yours truly.
• Famous Polka and Fortnight printable single-sheet minizines
• "X and Y Rule The World": a TMBG-themed comic book pitch. Action! Adventure! Giant robots!
• Bluef00t's fanart gallery

Fan-articles

• Flansik Theory: John Flansburgh hasn't been nearsighted since 2012 (#CONFIRMED).
• "Johnsona" Ratings: Notes on the official caricatures of They.
• TMBG on Gender: A work-in-progress set of song analyses.
• Sciencesonas listing: Got a Here Comes Science-sona? Join today.
• Themed playlists

Interactives

Puzzles & Games

• Daily TMBG Heardle (guess the song in as few seconds as possible!)
• Daily Wiki Detective (guess the song from its lyrical themes!)
• TMBG Lyric Sporcles (how fast can you type a song's full lyrics?)
• "Unique Words in TMBG Lyrics" sporcle

Sorting & Ranking

• Rank your favorite songs (bracket-matching style)
• Rank your favorite albums (bracket-matching style)
• Rank your favorite albums (tier list style)

Charts & Visualizers

• Lyric Word Frequencies
• Neil Richards' 30 Days of Flood Visualizations
• Worldwide TMBG Concert Map (add your TMBW username to the URL like so to see only shows you've been to!)

Misc Timewasters

• Sciencesona picrew: Make your own Here Comes Science-sona inspired by David Cowles' style.
• "Which Member of TMBG Are You?" personality quiz
• "Which Classic TMBG Album Are You?" personality quiz
• John Flansburgh fashion doll picrew

Extras

Archives & Playlists

• Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns full documentary
• TMBW's list of Television Appearances (with links!)
• 2018-2021 Archived Vibe Reports
• Archived episodes of Low Stakes with John F.
• TMBG Quickcam videos playlist (or upscaled resolution versions here)

Fan Discussion Podcasts

• I Heard A Sound (New! Half hour episodes, vocab/sound effect trivia, with guests.)
• 9 Secret Eps (Limited series by two longtime superfans. Complete!)
• Don't Let's Start (album-by-album analyses & occasional in-depth interviews with former collaborators and band members)
• This Might Be A Podcast (song-by-song analyses and cover discussions with fans & occasional celeb guests like Justin McElroy, Open Mike Eagle, and John Darnielle)
• Giants Confirmed (album-by-album analyses with a new and a longtime fan. No longer coming out with new episodes.)

Stuff to Read on TMBW

• This Might Be A Zine (band news, short interviews)
• Learn to play TMBG in 4 Chords
• Show Posters over the years
• The Else Photos
• Mink Car Design Tour
• Four Eyes About To Rock, I Salute You (by JF)
• Useful Phrases for a European Tour (by JL)