Pain-"Pain"

[tomsmithable]

@amebix27 Great album!

[mambochicken]

episode name was BATTLE OF THE BANDS

[mambochicken]

pisode name was BATTLE OF THE BANDS

[MichaelHansenFUN]

what is the name of the episode?

[charleydee]

Talk to me Earthdog!

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

FISHBONE?!?!?! Guest Stars: Susan Richardson (as Snow Pink), Bill Forsythe (aka "William Forsythe" as Trasher), Doug McClure (from Out of this World as Duke), Daniel Davies (as Potato Head), James Margolin (as Fido), Lori Street (as Surfer Girl), David Boyle (as Father), Shepherd (as Snow's Band), and Jeff Harlan (as Disc Jockey)

[MichaelHansenFUN]

@TEMPmichaelhansen fishbone was in the movie BACK TO THE BEACH

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

wasnt this supposed to have donny most? isnt there supposed to be a scene where these guys are jumping on cars? I vaguly remember this...

[tongskullsouth]

quincy punks did a gret cover of this

[swingcat90]

The hardcore band Bonesaw covered this back in 1994 on their album Abandoned. It was a hidden track.

[stevepid]

the spits also recently released a 7" with this cover on it. definately worth checking out.

[ItsMeItsOlive]

This is one of those scenes you never forget because you laughed all the way through it LOL

[giterdun77]

this is the most hardcore band i've ever seen. they own their shit...

[bretadounitedfc]

thats jd from american me....ORALE ESE!!!

[molachmustdie]

I dig pain ita feeling in my brain

[mrNobody100]

singer reminds me of Flea in back to the future iii.. i think its the teeth.

[MarsHottentot]

Yeah, I was 9 when I saw this and thought "Wowzers! Punk is SCAWY!" and then became one, of course.

[MrChattyO]

Hilarious! I saw this when it aired when I was a lil kid. That is one of the sisters from 8 is Enough.

[762hammer]

Way to go Will! Kick those Berkley Liberals in the TEETH!!!

[tfustudios]

Are you kidding? That's supposed to be the Huntington Beach punk scene of 82!

Those are hardly Liberals...

[762hammer]

hey afrosheenix your comment has had me laughing for days...........this is some funny shit !!!

[MrChattyO]

I saw this when it aired back in '82 when I was like 7 yrs old. Still hilarious!!!

[Jacklord1967]

Summer of '81 September to be exact. Filmed @ the starwood. Lots of my friends are extras. You can see Pat Smear in a kilt. Anthony, animal crackers. pogo, Jason Waterman & many others. & the singer is a Darby clone -William whathis name- this is like his first acting gig, has almost the exact same teeth which i'm sure was intentional This great I hav'nt seen this since it was on NBC on sunday nite alol those years ago. HAHAHAAh!!

[afrosheenix]

God damn this was the best episode ever. Earlier in the show these guys steal a guitar and get tired of playing with it, throw it over a bridge and it causes a 10 car pileup.

The stage part where the guy is trying to climb on the stage and gets a boot to the teeth..hilarious.

[thebeatmachine]

Doesn't Jughead's Revenge does this song, I think the Poncherellos do it too.

[HarryTheHippo]

Yes they do.

[skinhead5]

This was total crap and we went out looking for any punks that were extras on this episode. It was a insult to punk rock.

[swimmingground]

This was an AWESOME episode. Eric Estrada singing "celebration" at the end is classic cheese....

[7thDayAtheist]

yeah...i remember that...estrada singing celebration; that was hilarious

[bolophonic]

This is what got me started on punk rock. The song is actually kind of good in retrospect.

[skinhead5]

That means you were a fuckin poser.

[birdy47]

your a quincy punk, poser!

[charleydee]

My Guitar!

[AdamqK]

I wasn't a regular Chips viewer, but I saw this and the memory of it has haunted me forever. Funnier still was "Snow Pink" who claimed she was "new wave", sang cover versions and was backed by long-haired session rockers. and then there was Erik...

[Jacklord1967]

Snow Pink'I'm new wave . we just wanna have fun. punkers are into violence" I still remember that & I only saw the time it played on sunday nite in sept '81. We laughed about it the next day at Marshall high school. THIS IS GREAT!!! 'EARTHDOG'' I say as I open my switchblade. ready to set my gast ank on fire in the starwoods parking lot. AHAHAHA!!!

[jeredkun]

Belive or not this episode made me love punk....what a awesome song

[Chamdar7000]

This one was at least marginally more realistic than the Quincy punk episode, although the latter is funnier.

[greasemycrack]

is that william forsythe?

[Chamdar7000]

Yep, it's him.

[roblewmac]

oh now seeI was thinking JOHN forsythe

[smokeydiablo]

Wasn't this filmed at the Starwood or one of those clubs?

[ziggyluscious]

Yikes!

I was an extra on this episode.

And the Quincy Punk episode...

Oh and Valley Girl......

I was doing a lot of Punxploitation at the

time, did'nt get onto the Suburbia set though.....

Linda Daniels aka/

Ziggyluuscious

[dma432]

I remember hanging out with 2 Black Flag roadies in '81 who were "technical advisors" for that "Chips" episode. It's awesome that they got the producers to go with their silly punxploitation characters! "I dig Pain/the feeling in my brain". And did anyone notice the character actor William Forsythe (Raising Arizona, etc.) as frontman "Trasher" in the fake-punk band? ha!

[super70bird]

Please post the part where they're practicing on the rooftop.

[earthlingsmustdie]

go check out Erik Estrada-Celebration for a nice nightcap to this one

[ti994a]

Thanks for posting. This is one of the top three 'punk' episodes from 80's TV shows. The other two I remember being the 'punk' episode of Quincy and the Dickies on CPO Sharkey. Good times.

[ManuelHung]

I read about a punk episode of WKRP featuring some band called Detective, but I haven't found it here

[ti994a]

Wow, I think I have a vague memory of that (I'm that damn old). I did a little Googling and discovered that Detective was one of Michael Des Barres' many bands. The WKRP episode is called "Hoodlum Rock" & Des Barres plays "Sir Charles 'Dog' Weatherbee". lol, you gotta love Hollywood faux punks.

[ManuelHung]

Yeah, that's exactly what I read about it, too... could only find one clip from the intro to the episode, but that's it.

[ronnyber]

The band on WKRP is "Scum Of The Earth"

[Japutie]

Jugheads revenge did a terrible job. The best cover hands down was Quincy Punx on their album, "We're not punks we just play them on tv." It rocks your face to Kingdom come.

[FUBARVIKINGHELMET]

Best TV moment ever for me, better than the punk episode on Quincy. Thanks for posting it!

[retrocrush]

The lead singer is William Forsythe, who went on to appear in about 100 other shows and movies! Thanks for putting this up. I loved him in The Devil's Rejects. I wonder if he really did the singing in this, or if it's just dubbed. I understand Fishbone was in this episode, too.

[fighting69th]

Yeah I didn't even realize that Forsythe was in it until I got the episode and that makes it even more classic. Not sure if he wrote it or not. Devil's Rejects and American Me are his best roles IMO...Had no idea about Fishbone in there though, will ave to go back and rewatch

[NeckTooth]

No shit, an old band I was in covered this ironically.

[fighting69th]

Neck if you still have your version I would love to hear it. The only other band I know of that covered was Jughead's Revenge

[gwaughd]

@fighting69th I've heard the Jughead's Revenge version, I never knew it was the song from this episode of Chips though...this is great

[jjchampion]

@fighting69th

The Spits covered it recently, available on a single from Slovenly Records (slovenly.com)

[shotgundvml]

this is pretty much the coolest video of all time