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The Pick of Destiny is a rock musical chronicalling the origins
of the band. In the film, young JB leaves home after a fight with his father (Meat Loaf) and an intense encounter with Dio
who emerges from a poster. Once JB gets to L.A. he meets Kyle Gass, a guy playing acoustic guitar on the beach for money. Later,
the two join forces and Kyle offers to take JB under his wing. After some time JB realizes that KG isn't who proports
to be and doesn't know "all the dudes from Black Sabbath" as he says he does.
The two form Tenacious D a combination of both of their buttcheek birthmarks
(Tenac and ious D). They need to win a battle of the bands to make rent, so they decide to go to the Rock &
Roll History Museum to find the Pick of Destiny, a guitar pick which supposedly gave Eddie Van Halen, among others, their
kick ass guitar skills. The band faces a break up and many other setbacks during their adventures in the film.
There are many references to Tenacious D's other work throughout the film.
Wikipedia.org provides a great list of these references:
- In the opening credits, the title graphic looks exactly identical to Tenacious
D's first self-titled album.
- "Tribute" - After the Beelzeboss scene, Black and Gass speculate that the
song which defeated the Devil was "the greatest song in the world". Afterwards they are unable to remember the song which
they played. Also, Dave Grohl plays Satan in the film; he played the unnamed "shiny demon" in the music video for "Tribute".
- "Dio" - Dio himself appears in the poster in Young Jack Black's room.
- "Tenacious D Theme Song" - After one of the tarot cards, their old TV show's
theme song plays.
- "One Note Song" - during the film's version of "History", Jack sings "we
know you're all robots but we don't care", referencing Kyle's musings on whether humanoid robots might be living amongst humanity
in secret.
- "Inward Singing" and "Kyle Quit the Band" - At one point, Kyle chooses a
college party over the Pick of Destiny, causing Jack to fire Kyle from the band. The short tune The Divide used during
the tarot card scene with the same name is also an excerpt from Kyle Quit The Band
- "Cock Pushups" - Kyle makes Jack try this almost impossible move during
his training.
- "Lee" - Lee is the name of the pizza delivery guy that Jack and Kyle befriend
and is played by Jason Reed, who played Lee in the Tenacious D TV series.
- "Friendship Test" and "City Hall" - During one of the tarot card scenes
after the theft of the Pick of Destiny, the caption on the card reads "Two Kings".
- "Drive-Thru" - At the diner that Black and Gass stop at, Black requests
a healthy glass of carrot juice, a drink that is mostly drank to help people watch their figure. In "Drive-Thru", Black keeps
ordering tweaked versions of the menu's food in order to watch his figure.
- "Rocket Sauce" - Said in the "Beezleboss" song. It references the original
Tenacious D TV series episodes and the original "Tribute" song.
- Tenacious D requests the open mic host to say something dirty and outlandish,
a running gag in the HBO series.
- "Kielbasa" - The after-credits scene is meant to be a lead-in to the first
track of the band's self titled album. Also, the rhythm of the song is similar to that of JB's singing parts in "Papagenu
(He's My Sassafrass)" ("My kielbasa sausage has just got to perform"/"Sasquatch is my daddy and he's going to protect [me]").
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