Glee vs. the Kings of Leon and Other (Imaginary) TV-Band Feuds - Vanity Fair

Glee creator Ryan Murphy is currently feuding with Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill. Last year, the band refused to let the television show adapt one of its songs, "Use Somebody." It is crucial, presumably, to safeguard the sanctity of the band's oeuvre, so as to preserve the artistic integrity of the Volkswagen commercials that use its music. "Fuck you, Kings of Leon," Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter this week. "They're self-centered assholes, and they missed the big picture. They missed that a 7-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song, which will maybe make them want to join a glee club or pick up a musical instrument." As a rejoinder, Followill tweeted, "Dear Ryan Murphy, let it go. See a therapist, get a manicure, buy a new bra. Zip your lip and focus on educating 7yr olds how to say 'fuck.'"

Earlier this summer, N.M.E. revealed that the band also refused an offer to appear on Ugly Betty. However, in the annals of ruinous band-television-show alliances, the Kings of Leon's enmity with Glee and Ugly Betty ranks among the most civil.

Observe, some examples of such collaborations, all of which are as fictional as they are catastrophic:

1960: The members of Dion and the Belmonts refuse to make cameo appearances on The Andy Griffith Show. At the time, a spokesperson for the band told star Don Knotts, "Go fuck yourself. And tell Opie to fuck himself. Everyone hates you both."

1965: Captain Kangaroo invites Herman's Hermits to perform "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter." Singer Keith Hopwood responds to Captain Kangaroo with a series of ribald Australian slurs.

1979: Series creator Garry Marshall taps Chicago to appear on the season finale of Mork & Mindy. The band arrives on set while under the influence and refuses to do a sound check. An unidentified band member spray-paints the words "Assholes, do you even care what time it is?" on a set wall.

1989: Tiffany was not long for an ill-fated Thanksgiving episode of Full House. What was supposed to be a surprise concert for Uncle Jesse turned into a behind-the-scenes legal catastrophe when the singer reneged on her promise to perform "I Saw Him Standing There." At the time, she told ABC executives, "The show is horrendous, and I'm not so intellectually bankrupt as to involve myself with such garbage." She added, "Fuck you for even thinking I would do this."