N.K. OH PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

The progress made in the last 15 years by five once-young men toward being taken seriously as actors, singers, or dancers, for that matter—melted away this morning in Rockefeller Center under cloudy, rainy skies. New Kids On the Block were out on the plaza at the Today show.

Braving the drizzle were a fresh batch of screaming teens too young to appreciate the irony of a New Kids comeback (or their own DayGlo nu rave apparel, for that matter). Their moms, now roughly the same age as the band, do.

One has to wonder if Lou Pearlman gets NBC on the tube in the rec center of the Orange County jail.