The Naked Brothers Band

The show's title comes from an incident when the Wolff brothers were very young: they came out of the bathtub shouting, 'We're the naked brothers band!' Nat later renamed his band The Silver Boulders in preschool, but Polly Draper revived the original title as more fitting for the series.

The project began after Nat wanted to film his own sitcom, leading to a home video called Don't Eat Off My Plate, in which Polly Draper pretended to interview his friends in a documentary style; this inspired her to create a full mockumentary film about the band.

The original film was shot independently in mid-2004, largely inside the family's own apartment, and was financed in part by Polly Draper's brother Tim, a venture capitalist.

The film premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in late 2005, where it won the audience award for a family feature film; Nickelodeon executive Albie Hecht attended the screening, bought the film, and pitched turning it into a TV series after market research showed strong appeal with children.

Nearly all the young cast members play characters bearing their real names, including real-life friends Qaasim Middleton, David Levi, Joshua Kaye, Thomas Batuello, and Cooper Pillot, blurring the line between their real personalities and their fictional counterparts.

Several real family members appear on the show in fictionalized or self-playing roles: Polly Draper's niece Jesse Draper plays the babysitter, her nephews play the fictional 'Timmerman Brothers,' her brother plays the school principal, and Michael Wolff's real dog E.T. appears as David Levi's pet in the series.

Qaasim Middleton's real mother, actress and singer Toni Seawright, and his younger brother Kahlil appear as themselves in the second and third seasons, while Thomas Batuello's real younger brother John also recurs as himself.

During filming of the season 1 episode 'First Kiss (On the Lips, That is),' Nat Wolff accidentally kissed co-star Allie DiMeco on the lips because he misunderstood the director's instructions, not wanting to do so due to his real crush watching.

Principal photography took place at Kidzhouse Entertainment in Brooklyn during summers and early fall specifically so the young cast could keep attending private school for most of the year.

The series was cancelled after three seasons because Nickelodeon executives wanted the family to shoot thirty television movies for a fourth season, breaking an earlier agreement limiting production to about thirteen episodes per year to avoid conflicting with the boys' schooling; details of this dispute were kept private until Nat revealed them to the press in 2013.

An unreleased third-season soundtrack titled Throwbacks was made available as a free download on the band's website in October 2013, four years after the series ended in 2009.

The band's song 'Crazy Car' sold more than 100,000 downloads and spent seven weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while the show's premiere became Nickelodeon's highest-rated premiere in seven years, drawing 3.7 million viewers.