History Music / BlueManGroup

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
-->Periodically, you may want to check with your fans to see if they are "with you". If so, you can reward their devotion by handing out a few special souvenir items - such as drum sticks, guitar picks and Courvoisier.

*** Ladies and gentlemen, please stand up.

All of the organization's appearances star a trio of performers called Blue Men, who appear to have blue skin and no voice, hair or ears. The original founding Blue Men still perform occasionally, but they have since then taken on administrative roles in the company. Because of the success of Blue Man Group, a parent company called Blue Man Productions was created, which produces all the Blue Man Group shows in the world.

* NumerologicalMotif: Except for the original Blue Man Group performance, "The Funeral for the Eighties", there have always been three Blue Men. This is because this is the smallest number for minorities and majorities to form, which many of their acts and sketches revolve around. This does not include [[spoiler:the other performers behind stage who use their limbs for some impossible stretching or bodies to fake teleportation]] or the musicians in a dark corner of the stage who wear completely black clothes with some glow-in-the-dark green straps on them.

* BaldOfAwesome: The Blue Men put on a spectacular show but lack hair... and ears.

Blue Man Group is a creative group founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. It produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring music, comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows such as ''The Tonight Show'', ''Las Vegas'', ''Scrubs'', ''FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman'' and ''Arrested Development'', and a children's museum exhibit, "Making Waves".

* PerpetualExpression: While they can be very expressive with their bodies, the blue men's faces are absolutely deadpan.

* FrozenFace: While they can be very expressive with their bodies, the blue men's faces are absolutely deadpan.

* MoodWhiplash: About three quarters though The Complex Live Tour, the Blue Men perform Exhibit 13 -- a subdued, solemn piece that includes recitations from scorched documents found in Carroll Gardens during the aftermath of the [[TheWarOnTerror September 11th attacks.]]

* OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers
-->Periodically, you may want to check with your fans to see if they are "with you". If so, you can reward their devotion by handing out a few special souvenir items - such as drum sticks, guitar picks and Courvoisier.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''The Complex'' is easily the group's most angst-ridden creation, with themes of becoming a soulless slave to convention is a grim corporate world.

-->Periodically, you may want to check with your fans to see if they are "with you". If so, you can reward their devotion by handing out a few special souveneir items - such as drum sticks, guitar picks and Courvoisier.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: The entire "Drumbone" routine is a subtle version of this: two Blue Men have tubes, another has sticks. Alone, they have nothing, but when the one with sticks plays on the tubes individually, he gets a simple melody. It isn't until the tubes are connected and and all three Men work to play it does the song fully form.

-->Each of your eyes has over 3 million photoreceptors called rods and cones. These receptors convert light into electrochemical signals that travel through the optic nerve and into the brain. Here, these signals trigger the neurological process scientists call, "the hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle."

* TrashCanBand: One of the band's trademarks is their self-invented instruments made out of unusual materials, their two most famous being the PVC pipes struck with foam paddles or drumsticks and boat antennas which are waved about to create rhythmic "swooshing" sounds.

** In 2012, the UsefulNotes/LasVegas production updated this segment with giant "[=GiPads=]" that the Blue Men "flip" through. One pad has "Twit that Lit!" (''really'' condensed versions of classic literature), another mock ads, and the last facts about the increased role of technology in people's lives.

* MeaningfulName: The album ''Three'', which is a play on the Group consisting of three members and the fact that it's their third studio album.

* {{The Adjectival Man}}/{{The Man Is Sticking It to the Man}}
* {{Affectionate Parody}}: "It's Time to Start" parodies rock concerts by explaining what rock concert tropes the audience should carry out, ranging from the realistic ("Rock Concert Movement #1, the basic head bob", and "#2, the one-armed fist pump") to the ridiculous ("#4, the behind-the-head leg stretch", which the Blue Men proceed to actually do). #3 ("the up-and-down jumping motion") receives a step-by-step explanation, though in live performances it's been replaced with #10 ("getting a closer look at the audience") which involves footage from a miniature camera supposedly being shoved down an audience member's throat.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation

-->"Rock concert movement #6: The two-armed upward thrust with yell. Ready? Go."

-->"Your attention please. Please yell if you are paying attention." [[note]]AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH![[/note]]

-->"Read this sign if you know the words to this song\\
Read this sign if you don't know the words to this song\\
Read this sign if you don't care for this song."

* BaldOfAwesome

* IconicSongRequest: See TheMole below.

* {{Numerological Motif}}[=/=]{{Rule of Three}}: Except for the original Blue Man Group performance, "The Funeral for the Eighties", there have always been three Blue Men. This is because this is the smallest number for minorities and majorities to form, which many of their acts and sketches revolve around. This does not include [[spoiler:the other performers behind stage who use their limbs for some impossible stretching or bodies to fake teleportation]] or the musicians in a dark corner of the stage who wear completely black clothes with some glow-in-the-dark green straps on them.

* SilentSnarker

--> Each of your eyes has over 3 million photoreceptors called rods and cones. These receptors convert light into electrochemical signals that travel through the optic nerve and into the brain. Here, these signals trigger the neurological process scientists call, "the hellawhack shiznit that happens inside your brizzle."

* {{Trash Can Band}}/{{Everything is an Instrument}}: One of the band's trademarks is their self-invented instruments made out of unusual materials, their two most famous being the PVC pipes struck with foam paddles or drumsticks and boat antennas which are waved about to create rhythmic "swooshing" sounds.
* {{Unreadably Fast Text}}: All three Blue Men simultaneously flash cue cards filled with lots of text to the audience, waiting just a few seconds before moving to the next one. One of the cards says you can't read all of them and should just pick one Blue Man and stick with him.

* {{Unusual Euphemism}}: The song used in the finale of the current show rattles off a lengthy list of pretty much every (reasonably family-friendly) euphemism for the human posterior that one can possibly think of. Toward the end, most of these get to be a bit of a stretch...

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Blue Man Group is a creative organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring music, comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows such as ''The Tonight Show'', ''Las Vegas'', ''Scrubs'', ''FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman'' and ''Arrested Development'', and a children's museum exhibit, "Making Waves".

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* TheMole: In the audience! During some concerts, a member of the BMG's crew will be planted into the audience with the express purpose of shouting "[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd FREEBIRD!]]" during the concert. The band will then start playing the beginning guitar riffs of "Freebird".

-->"Rock concert movement #6: The double upward fist pump with yell. Ready? Go."

* AudienceParticipation: "Time to Start" again.

* {{Numerological Motif}}[=/=]{{Rule of Three}}: Except for the original Blue Man Group performance, "The Funeral for the Eighties", there have always been three Blue Men. This is because this is the smallest number for a group to have an outsider, which many of their acts and sketches revolve around. [[spoiler:They do have others behind stage to use their limbs for some impossible stretching or bodies to fake teleportation]] and there are three dudes hidden in a dark balcony that wear completely black clothes with some glow-in-the-dark green straps on them.
* OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers:

* ThePowerOfFriendship: The entire "Drumbone" routine is a subtle version of this: two Blue Men have tubes, another has sticks. Alone, they have nothing, but when the one with sticks plays on the tubes individually, he gets a simple melody. However, it isn't until the tubes are connected and and all three Men work to play it does the song fully form.

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