The Zit Remedy

The band consists of Joey Jeremiah (Pat Mastroianni) on keyboards, Archie "Snake" Simpson (Stefan Brogren) on guitar, and Derek "Wheels" Wheeler (Neil Hope) on bass, with all three sharing lead vocals.

[ep 2] Early in the second season, Wheels' parents and Ms. Avery (Michelle Goodeve) decide he must concentrate on improving his marks, and he is forced to give up on the band in the meantime.

[ep 3] During this time, they replace him with new student Simon Dexter (Michael Carry),[1] who they discover playing bass in the school auditorium, though he is never seen performing with them.

Throughout the third season, Joey tries in vain to promote the tape, The Zit Remedy: LIVE!,[1] to other students and eventually the local radio station CRAZ.

Joey's girlfriend Caitlin Ryan, also owns a copy of the tape and listens to it, but throws it in the trash when he stands her up at the school dance.

[ep 3] Likewise, in the novel Exit Stage Left, they are described as performing another song titled "I Don't Want To Be A Porcupine With Anyone Else But You, Baby", which Joey claims will "revolutionize the pop music industry".

[7] In 2011, Sydney Morning Herald's Kylie Northover remarked that "a quick Google search reveals a wide affection for - and hundreds of covers of - their "hit" "Everybody Wants Something", and said that the Zit Remedy were "firmly imprinted on the cultural psyche of the decade".