Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Wizard City – The Pet Shoppe Boys

Pop Culture References of Wizard101

The Pet Shoppe Boys: Tennant Wastelander & Lowe Springfield
Pet Shop Boys: Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Location:Pet_Shoppe_Boys_Pet_Shop#axzz7VBDbx4mT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Shop_Boys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Girls

The Pet Shop in the Pet Pavilion is run by two boys: Tennant Wastelander, who sells Pets, and Lowe Springfield, who sells both Pet Jewels and Pet Jewel Recipes.

Also in the Pet Pavilion is the West Ende Girls Snack Shop, which is run by two girls: Dusty Shadowcloud, who sells Pet Snacks, and Jackie Whisperflame, who sells Recipes for Wizards to craft their own Pet Snacks.

Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981. Consisting of primary vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe, they have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records. Their first album Please was released in 1986, their fourteenth studio album Hotspot was released January of 2020

Their song “West End Girls” hit #1 on the charts in both the UK and USA in 1986.

“What Have I Done to Deserve This?” the first track on their second album featured vocals by female artist Dusty Springfield.

I have always loved the pop culture references in Wizard (and Pirate) 101. This series was inspired by a series I did featuring the Heroes of Lemuria and their ties to early 20th Cent. pulp heroes. This is the fifth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City. The current list of all the (known) Wizard City references can be found here. These articles were originally put together for a Facebook group I belong to. Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Pet Shoppe Boys and West Ende Girls images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
They are being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

The cover from the Pet Shop Boys first album “Please” was released in 1986 by Parlorphone Records