That Boy Needs Therapy

About

That Boy Needs Therapy is a YTMND fad based upon the song Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches, off their 2000 album Since I Left You.

Song Background

In November of 2000, the Australian DJ collective The Avalanches released the album Since I Left You, which contained the hit Frontier Psychiatrist. The year after, a music video was made featuring a narrative, but it was replaced in a few months by another video that rather showed the odd content of the lyrics making it a lot crazier and incoherent:

The lyrics to the song can be found here. The song contained samples from a certain movie in which a character (possibly a doctor) says the phrase "That boy needs therapy", which is what this YTMND fad stems off of.

YTMND fad

On December 24, 2005, YTMND user syncan created the site Tom Cruise Needs Therapy, in which Cruise's face was photoshopped onto Jake Gyllenhaal's face from the popular movie Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal holds a knife during a thunderstorm in the gif used in the site, while Scientology crosses were photoshopped to flash in the background to reflect Cruise's beliefs. The loop from Frontier Psychiatrist (which can be heard at approximately 2:21 in the above video) is playing in the background, wherein the doctor states "That boy needs therapy" and another voice says "You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!" Many sites were made in the same format of the original, wherein the character who "needs therapy" is standing in the same position during a thunderstorm, while a logo representing the character flashes in the background, while others just used images of people who appear to be going mad.

Examples of fad sites

• Calvin needs therapy
• Gman needs therapy
• Lumbergh needs therapy
• We all need therapy
• Pee-wee needs therapy
• Joshcube needs therapy
• Brock needs therapy
• Calvin and Hobbes fans need therapy
• Conan needs therapy
• Rob needs therapy
• Wolfie needs therapy
• Stan Smith needs therapy
• Mario needs therapy
• House needs therapy
• Pierce Brosnan needs therapy

Search trend

The increased interest in the second half of 2005 seems to coincide with the video first appearing on YouTube as well as the start of the YTMND fad.