bill spent time as an unintelligible rock star who sang and played "electric tongue" with his heavy metal band deathtöngue, later billy and the boingers. bill got rich when their song "u-stink-but-i-♥-u" became a jingle for wheat thins, but he did not share the wealth with his bandmates. although bill was the front-cat of billy and the boingers, the band excluded him and disbanded when it became public that he spent his nights staying up late, reading the bible with a nun. after this incident, bill became the televangelist "fundamentally oral bill", parodying (and, in the "bloom county" universe, rivaling) real-life televangelists such as jimmy swaggart, jim bakker and oral roberts.