Should point out that according to Jon, Gary Goldstein's actor, he believes that Gary wasn't actually enthralled by Wiggly, but was just excited to be a part of something. Which I'm going to take as true because it's the funnier way to look at it.

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I'm a big sucker for The Rose. I don't remember who wrote it, but it's the one that starts like "Sometimes love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed..." 💜

At 23:12, I don’t think it’s a good example of mourning for Ethan, because she has no idea where he is. The last she saw of Ethan and Hannah is when they were going to the cineplex. The only thing that she knows about them is that there has been no new information on Ethan, and that the cult has Hannah and they were going to kill her. She had no idea Ethan was dead and I think that makes it even more sad

NPMD video when

i kinda feel like ethan was a slight parody on the mentor that dies in stories. not a particulally funny one. but i feel like that was meant to be like... kinda the point, that hes written out??

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Personally, I think the hatchefield trilogy is hard to rank just because they're all better than each other in certain ways and worse in others. I think TGWDLM has the best and most cohesive overall story, while Black Friday has the best solo songs, and NPMD has the best duets and group numbers. I think TGWDLM has probably the weakest songs overall, black friday has the weakest overall story, and NPMD has the weakest romance/leads (specifically the two in that romance)

Casual

In regards to the individuality vs collective mind discussion, I saw an interesting theory that Inevitable is infected Paul still trying to save Emma. He tells her she "has to sing to survive," so the argument was that the remaining individual of Paul is trying to keep Emma from dying by telling her to just play along with the aliens.

I always thought that they did a bait and switch with "the warrior in a deep slumber", it seems like it's Tom who needed waking up, but she was a warrior who fought back from her abusers and had to wake up from the harm she had literally and metaphorically caused herself (the doormat -isms and the legit knock out drugs)

I loves this explanation of Paul’s character I feel like I understand him better now.

Wasn't expecting the Central Park cameo lol

“And omg Paul’s here” is the realest reaction to Paul being in Black Friday

I thought Starkid could make a musical about Hannah herself. The character is interesting, and making a show about her would bring more dimension to her character, or it could complicate her even more.

i beg you do npmd and nightmare time 1&2 and workin boys

Something I just realised is that in what if tomorrow comes, right near the end, ted holds hot chocolate kids hand. And we now know that that’s Richie. His BROTHER 😭

This is without question the #1 episode. But I would not introduce this episode for someone who has never seen MITM. But instead have them warm up several episodes first, then have them watch this masterpiece. Or start them from the very beginning.

True, that's why I want Cars 4 to be Cars 2 again.

I came from your TGWDLM vid, and loved this video. If you wanna make another video on Malcolm in the Middle, I'd LOVE to watch it :>

you gotta go (Grandpa)

My favourite outta the trilogy. I watched the musicals in reverse order and it made me appreciate the earlier ones all the better. But black friday just holds a special place in my heart

4:54 Wow, that was a smooth transition.

U should totallllyyyy make one of these but prob shorter for each nightmare timeeee

Though like your idea of WHY he hates musicals, I despise the idea that that’s when he’s finally happy, I think one of the reasons he doesn’t really have a “want” is that he’s already happy, like he said, he likes hatchet field, he never wanted to leave, he’s content with his life, obviously he wants to get with Emma but, he doesn’t have some drive, he’s happy with his life, I also kinda head cannon that the reason the aliens act like the people and do stuff like that isn’t the people still being there and conscious, it’s just the aliens sorta taking their memories, and using that to manipulate those around them, and the reason they don’t do that with Paul during inevitable is because, they will overpower Emma, they’ve already won, she’s lost, and Pokotho/Pokey/The Alien hive mind, is just so gleeful that they finally gained control of him. Don’t know if my grammars bad or if I said things more then once, to lazy to check

This is an old video but one thing that I’ve never seen discussed is that the intruders that come in during “Show stopin’ number”from both sides where as Paul only comes in and leaves from one side. This caused a few people to say that Hidgens got this EXACT scenario because he saw it before and that “working boys” was about real friends and some real events. The real events could be that he has locked his dead alien friend in the basement hence the “you haven’t aged a day” comment. That’s my English Alevel at work

Now I’m curious: What is the best critique of capitalism you have seen in a musical? If Black Friday is the second

15:57 thought they were the real ones and it’s sadder that his friends killed him

I loved the characters so much I hated the ending with Paul turning

I still find the ending of the show incredibly sad. Even if there’s still parts of the people in there, the infected people aren’t really themselves in my opinion. They’re a hive mind and can never fully be individuals again. The thought of that inevitably happening to everyone on earth is awful! Great show though lol

Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Musical

I really love that you did this! Black Friday might be my least favorite HF entry, but that's not because it isn't good (it is really good, actually) but because the other entries were way more fleshed out. The fact that it was too ambitious is by no means the worst problem that it could have had. The fact that it didn't get the rewrite it desperately needed is sad actually but I like how it did what it did!

hi. that section on paul gutted me like a fish. god. god. poor poor paul matthews.

are you going to talk about nerdy prudes?

Undertail music!!! I try and i try, but i continue to fail at escaping you!!!!!

Wow, I found this vid from some twitter thread and I gotta say, really good stuff. You got a new sub

Small but favorite detail... Emma repeating "okay" after hearing/seeing something absurd like how Paul did in TGWDLM, I think they're my favorite characters

pokey really aint need to do all that

It's weird how even if Parappa doesn't have the deepest and darkest stories they still managed to be nuanced. Honestly thanks to Parappa 2's story specifically I now have the courage to get a job, do fandubs, go out on dates and most importantly BELIEVE IN MYSELF! Edit: I even started rapping, because of how Parappa influenced my life and this is special video to me❤

we find out in the 'nightmare time' episode 'watcher world' that alice does actually feel that way about bill but still wants to him to be in her life despite how poor of a father hed been to her before. their relationship is my roman empire i think about them way too often. 'queer kid with father issues' is a trope that speaks so much to me... also, during 'join us and die' charlotte also says "your own body is your front-row seat" basically just telling us that the person infected is fully conscious but is trapped n has no control over what they do or say

LOVE this, such a good analysis of such a good scene!

Man i gotta watch malcom and the middle one of these days

I don't like Black Friday. I like a lot of parts, but as a whole, it didn't really come together that well in my opinion. There were some great songs and also some incredibly boring ones. Honestly, in my opinion, it felt like they were doing too much at once with this one. It also felt to me, like it was a little pretentious? The whole materialism thing just kinda feels like making the whole thing about a kind of half-baked "message." Which is fine, if the message was as deep as they thought it was. Even the best songs had parts that kinda ruined them, and overall, its just one of my least favorites. I think in the development of this one, they were trying to intentionally manufacture a "magnum opus", and it really just doesn't have that same star kid feel, in my opinion. Also, am I the only one that wants the whole hatchet field thing to end already? I just want some new funny musicals that don't have all this interconnected lore and can just tell a nice story.

Dang, never really looked at the characteristics of the family members individually, you kinda opened my eyes to that, nice vid!

Another great video, always nice to hear your more nuanced reads of what might just be written off as goofy comedy

Great character analysis in this one

10/10 video, please don’t play background music

1:03 What is the best critique of capitalism you've seen in a musical???

Brick, by the front bottoms