<P> TMBG have released 19 studio albums . Flood has been certified platinum and their children's music albums Here Come the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and Here Comes Science have all been certified gold . The band has won two Grammy Awards, one in 2002 for their song "Boss of Me", which is most known as the theme song of the television series Malcolm in the Middle . They won their second in 2009 for Here Come the 123s . The band has sold over 4 million records . </P> <P> Linnell and Flansburgh first met as teenagers growing up in Lincoln, Massachusetts . They began writing songs together while attending Lincoln - Sudbury Regional High School but did not form a band at that time . The two attended separate colleges after high school and Linnell joined The Mundanes, a new wave group from Rhode Island . The two reunited in 1981 after moving to Brooklyn (to the same apartment building on the same day) to continue their career . </P> <P> At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll (Spanglish for "Rock and Roll Group"), because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and a majority of the audience members spoke Spanish . Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants (starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants, which itself was taken from Dante's Inferno Canto 34 . According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act . The name was then adopted by the band, who had been searching for a suitable name . </P> <P> A common misconception is that the name of the band is a reference to themselves and an allusion to future success . In an interview, John Flansburgh said that the words "they might be giants" are just a very outward - looking forward thing which they liked . He clarified this in the documentary movie Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) by explaining that the name refers to the outside world of possibilities that they saw as a fledgling band . In an earlier radio interview, John Linnell described the phrase as "something very paranoid sounding". </P>

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