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August 3

Skull Boys

I was watching an episode of NewsRadio recently (love that show!) and I saw something odd. In the episode, a character is hiding out at another character's boyhood home in Wisconsin. It's a typical teenager's room, with comics and Playboys under the bed and college pennants and movie posters on the wall. One of the posters, the only one you can clearly see, is apparently for a movie called "Skull Boys". The picture is hard to make out, but it looks like weird grinning heads. At the bottom, it says "Starring Joe Dibbs and Carl Fowler". There's nothing significant about the poster to the show, it's just part of the decoration, but I thought the picture looked neat, so I tried looking it up on IMDb and then on Google, with no success. It occurs to me that it might not be for a movie, but for a college play, but I would have thought that, if it were famous enough to have a poster made of it, it would also be famous enough to show up on Google somewhere. Any help? Matt Deres (talk) 13:31, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

I can't find it either. Possibly it may be fictional, as due to copyright or product placement rules, it may be difficult to use a real poster for a real film. KägeTorä - (^影_虎) (Chin Wag) 16:24, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

It could be a random invention, or a group too obscure to be found in google, or even some kind of inside joke. The show has been out of production for 15 years, but maybe you could contact someone connected with the show and see if they have any clue about it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:01, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Copyright free materials that have been made for use in TV/film tend to get heavily reused. If you search a bit, you can see stuff online about a newspaper that's been used dozens of times over more than a decade. Has anyone seen a poster such as the one I'm describing in the background elsewhere? Matt Deres (talk) 21:01, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Related to the fictional approach (which I personally believe, given your lack of evidence after a decent search): we have list of fictional books but sadly no list of fictional movies. We do have a list of fictional plays. Some other info on the topic at False document. SemanticMantis (talk) 21:50, 4 August 2014 (UTC)