User:HotelDetectiveInTheFuture

This is the user page for HotelDetectiveInTheFuture (that's me). For the extremely funky track from Podcast 5A (and Cast Your Pod to the Wind), see (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future.

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813-edit contributor! They Might Be Giants is this user's favourite band. FAV This user's favourite TMBG song is The Mesopotamians. This user's favourite album is Apollo 18. This user's second favourite album is Lincoln. This user's third favourite album is Flood. This user's fourth favourite album is The Else. This user's fifth favourite album is They Might Be Giants. This user's favourite live album is Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg 11.29.15 This user's favourite kids' album is Here Comes Science. TMBG's management sent this user two stickers and a signed photo of the Johns as a consolation prize for not being able to join the 2024 Instant Fan Club, which might even be cooler than being an actual IFC member. No, this user is not making it all up. This actually happened. FAN This user became a TMBG fan in 2019. CTB This user has contributed to these pages. SHO This user has seen the following TMBG concert livestreams. LYR This user's favourite TMBG lyric is You can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding. LYR This user's other favourite TMBG lyric is Think of this as solving problems that should never have occurred, please don't call it strangulation, that is such an ugly word. skin This user uses Yuletide. HRW This user is also on Homestar Runner Wiki. WP This user is also on Wikipedia. INT This user has written the following song interpretations. RC This user often patrols the Recent Changes page. SV This user has rated the following songs. 1st This user's first TMBG album was Here Come the 123s. This user is a huge "Weird Al" Yankovic fan, and has seen him live. VID This user's favourite TMBG video is Experimental Film. AGE: 1000 This user is 1000 years old. This user is a Canadian. This user's favourite EP is The Pamphlet EP. This user is not a letter! This user thinks that Mink Car is underrated. This user has his lazors set on stun because he has to stun you just to get his point through. This user's favourite Venue Song is Los Angeles. This user's favourite State Song is West Virginia. This user doesn't know which John they prefer. This user's favourite band member is Danny Weinkauf. This user plays drums. This user plays keyboard. JL This user's favourite John Linnell quote is "I'd be a delicious steak dinner" This user is a gigantic Homestar Runner fan!!

Greetings

Hello! I am HotelDetectiveInTheFuture, but you can call me Oz. Happy Friday. How's it going? I am a guy who's just a little too obsessed with TMBG but has sadly NEVER seen them in concert. I am slowly building my collection of TMBG memorabilia. I like to make taglines among other things, here is a list of all the taglines I've made.

Apparently I have spent more than 7,320 minutes of my life listening to They Might Be Giants, and that's just their adult music!

My TMBG fandom story

Part One

When I was a wee young'un (about 3 or 4), my parents played me the Here Come The 123s DVD, and I absolutely fell in love with the songs, music videos, and of course, the Puppet Johns. They also played me Here Comes Science but admittedly I wasn't as in love with THAT album as much as the 123s album (I like Science more now.) So yeah, those were my two favourite albums for a very long time.

Part Two

Cut to 2019, I had mainly forgotten about They Might Be Giants and Here Come the 123s etc, that is until I heard Crystal Fortress. You see, in the summer of 2019, I was on a huge Homestar Runner phase, and I stumbled upon Crystal Fortress. Then I was like: "Oh yeah, They Might Be Giants, I forgot about them!" That led me into a TMBG rabbit hole. I didn't know where to start with TMBG, but then I found this random TMBG Top 20 Songs list, and I checked out those songs. The list had a healthy mix of TMBG classics like Don't Let's Start, Ana Ng, Birdhouse In Your Soul, and also some obscure deep cuts like Mr. Klaw, Cowtown, and I'm All You Can Think About.

Part Three

Then, in 2021, I went into an even deeper dive to prepare for BOOK and listened to every single album. And as a result They Might Be Giants became my new favourite band.

John Henry is All About the Same Death, But in Alternate Realities Tour

PAST TOUR DATES!

• 12 March, 2022 - Interpretations:Subliminal
• 12 March, 2022 - Interpretations:Snail Shell
• 12 March, 2022 - Interpretations:Sleeping In The Flowers
• 18 June, 2022 - Interpretations:Unrelated Thing
• 18 June, 2022 - Interpretations:AKA Driver
• 27 June, 2022 - Interpretations:I Should Be Allowed To Think
• 12 November, 2022 - Interpretations:Extra Savoir-Faire
• 8 March, 2023 - Interpretations:Why Must I Be Sad?
• 27 March, 2023 - Interpretations:Spy
• 27 March, 2024 - Interpretations:O, Do Not Forsake Me

FUTURE TOUR DATES!

• Idk. \(•_•)/

My collection

For my non-TMBG collection, see here.

HotelDetectiveInTheFuture's Collection

My personal top 10 TMBG songs

10. Nanobots
9. Birdhouse In Your Soul
8. Ana Ng
7. Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
6. Doctor Worm
5. The End of the Tour
4. Snowball in Hell
3. Fingertips
2. Experimental Film
1. The Mesopotamians

TMBG studio albums ranked worst to best (in my personal opinion)

Album	Favourite song	Least favourite song
23. The Escape Team	Mr. Mischief Night	Flo Wheeler
22. Why?	Or So I Have Read	Then The Kids Took Over
21. Here Come the ABCs	Flying V	I Am a Robot
20. Long Tall Weekend	Older	On Earth My Nina
19. No!	Four of Two	Lazyhead & Sleepybones
18. Here Come the 123s	Triops Has Three Eyes	Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme
17. The Spine	Experimental Film	Spines
16. Phone Power	I Love You For Psychological Reasons	Got Getting Up So Down
15. Here Comes Science	Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)	Solid Liquid Gas
14. Glean	Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2	All the Lazy Boyfriends
13. Factory Showroom	The Bells Are Ringing	I Can Hear You
12. BOOK	Brontosaurus	Quit The Circus
11. My Murdered Remains + More Murdered Remains	Tick Tick Tick Tick	Door To Door Minotaur
10. Mink Car	Man, It's So Loud In Here	Mr. Xcitement
9. Nanobots	Nanobots	Didn't Kill Me
8. John Henry	The End of the Tour	Stomp Box
7. I Like Fun	Let's Get This Over With	Lake Monsters
6. Join Us	When Will You Die?	Dog Walker
5. They Might Be Giants	Rhythm Section Want Ad	Toddler Hiway
4. The Else	The Mesopotamians	Feign Amnesia
3. Flood	Birdhouse In Your Soul	Theme From Flood
2. Lincoln	Snowball In Hell	You'll Miss Me
1. Apollo 18	Fingertips	If I Wasn't Shy

INDIVIDUAL SONG RANKINGS OF EACH ALBUM CAN BE FOUND RIGHT HERE!!!!!!

Other musical interests

Artist	Favourite song	Favourite album
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Albuquerque	Running with Scissors
Metallica	Master of Puppets	Master of Puppets
The Beatles	Something	Abbey Road
Mother Mother	The Sticks	The Sticks
Rush	2112	2112
Ninja Sex Party	6969	The Prophecy
The Dear Hunter	The Bitter Suite IV and V: The Congregation and the Sermon in the Slit	Act III: Life and Death
Flight of the Conchords	Father and Son	Flight of the Conchords
Fitz and the Tantrums	MoneyGrabber	Pickin' Up the Pieces

A thing I made

This is an edit of the Stranger Things season 4 episode Dear Billy with Max listening to Rabid Child.