Their most recent episode tackles The Day My Kid Went Punk, a 1987 ABC Afterschool Special about Terry, a sweet teen neglected by his parents who explores a punk lifestyle and gets persecuted for it by all the adults in his life. I haven't seen it, but I understand it's hard to watch.
Wil Wheaton has both lived through the 1980s and (as a child actor) seen dear friends get screwed up and even die due to bad home environments; as a result, Mr. Wheaton is passionate about the plight of poor Terry.
In the special, Terry starts a punk band so awesome it sells out the local rock club. The rock club is unnamed. Sadly, Terry's band is also unnamed, so Mikey gives it a name: Fistpump of the Beelzebub. Wil is inspired; he wants to see album covers or posters from this band, and proposes a contest; the best entry wins one of his audiobooks!
Accordingly, I threw together this 72dpi 8.5x11 poster, suitable for printing at the local copy shop and stapling onto the local bulletin boards:
Wil mentioned the "Rainbow Room" and "Jane Gerous" (accidentally a great band name at 79:36); Mikey mentioned "Satan's Underpants." The background image is a detail of a John Martin illustration for Paradise Lost by Milton. I wanted this to look like the low-budget rock flyers I used to see in the late 80s and early 90s, crudely photocopied with torn paper strips providing the details.
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