Omg, I only just now fully registered that Paul and Emma are played by Richie and Ruth. Ive been a long time starkid fan so am more familiar with the actors than characters during my first watch. But my brain didn't kick in on this 😂 They're just so good that I didn't think about it before.

Oh that lighting during Dirty Dudes Must Die.

I said it elsewhere, but an October Surprise is a political term. Elections are held in November, so events that happen in October are more influential. Iran-Contra scandal, the 2008 stock market crash, and the Access Hollywood tape are some examples. Mayor Lauter is using metonymy to call Stephanie’s hi-jinx this close to the election an October Surprise

i think the reason grace covers her mouth in the first song is because she can't swear, yk because she's christian, throughout the musical she always uses different words but doesn't curse ever

peter is my absolute faverite lol

11:17 peters little cries im gonna be sick

does anyone else think this show could work amazingly as a movie?

When Stephanie & Pete are singing in the beginning the light is on them both, and is also illuminating Grace from behind them because she’s listening in ;)

I know that there have been 3 people who have played Peter and I think that Joey is my favorite.

Technically Max did stop his killing after tasting Grace’s peach 😭

Gente FDS vou explicar em português. Na música The Summoning pelo menos a dança que o wiggle faz no começo os movimentos deles (e de tds ne) representam um dos LiB mass o fato que a ordem que eles estão posicionados e a ordem que o Wiggle faz forma um pentagrama. Tentem. (Pls translate it )

Fact that my school is also the home of the nighthawks 😭🫡

23:04 Grace is right behind Max. She’s next to play the monster after him.

12:48 ok ik its a joke but if I had to give a legit answer to number 2: He's just grasping at straws to try and make Max not kill him, hence why he's being so nice. Yeah this is PAINFUL levels of obvious but it would've bugged me if I didn't say anything about it lol.

Not including the entire audience erupting into cheers when Will took his jacket off is criminal.

Also also also!!! 00:54 uses the “I’m not a loser” motif for the first time!

Max also nodding at 6:48 💀

17:58 I think he can't "show" it at the moment, because that would mean killing her, therefore "showing" that he does love her by proving she's the thing he cares the most about. At least that was my interpretation of that line

11:50 im in love with their facial expressions throughout the show!! they are so incredible i just can not get over it, especially during the summoning!

4:27 genuinely hatchet town is the feast or famine of npmd to me

Also what I like is that the I'm in a hurry! guy in the Hatchet Town song is the same guy who was in a hurry when ordering at the coffeeshop Emma worked at in TGWDLM where she went oh my god so mean and flipped him off lol Also, Max's puns are so good lol

I wanted to know why Peter looked so familiar but this was my first StarKid musical… it’s cuz he literally played in Jessie. he played Sheriff Petey on Jessie and I just needed to share this information cuz it seems like no one else talks about this

When Peter does the little spider man hands Richie does the Kirishima pose and I love that

8:18 i want to STRONGLY disagree with Ruth having the "worst death" i mean it was BAD but i think Richie truly had it worst. Ruth, The Mayor and Miss Tessburger's deaths are quick but Richie had twisted nipples, lacerations (=CUTS) in his head and chest and if you listen carefully to the police at the beggining he also says Max FINISHES the job by drowning him in the toilet, which could mean Richie was still alive when he had already been cutten on his head and chest, so... yeah, i think he had it the worst Also, completaly unrelated but 23:12 Jon dancing it's so cute?? i love him.

Something i also noticed!! While Pete is on the phone and Ruth and Richie are listening in, its funny how Ruth is more touchy with Pete than Richie, who just stays on his arm/ shoulder. it makes sense since Ruth would be more of the touchy type, but its also funny how it could also be bc Lauren and Joey are literally married, so I think she would get a pass for that lol

7:48 for those that don't know an "October Surprise" is a political superstition that some unexpected crisis always occurs in the last month before the November elections that redefines the race. The joke is that his daughter was either unplanned pregnancy born in October, or her "troublemaking" is the major crisis of his campaign. I think probably both :)

I think the brilliance of the ‘lockdown’ breakdown in Hatchet Town is it lets a performer connect to the actual lockdown we all experienced in the middle of a comedic bit while still being about that comedic bit. I can’t say that’s where Bryce went, but that’s where I went when I heard ‘lockdown’ even in the context of that number.

7:36 or mine, max. just saying.

5:01 THE ZOOM IN LMAOOO

3:40 I think they talk about a gun (+ other lines in the song) to show how there is much misinformation and gossip going around

I love the detail of Grace being in the bath with a bathing suit. It was set up in Nightmare Time that she is waiting to see herself naked until she is married.

I don’t know if it’s true but I think her last name is Chasity because of something called a Chasity belt and that is Grace’s most treasured item her Chasity

(Ruth didn’t actually have the worst death, but a pretty bad one, Richie had the worst one, someone has a video explaining his death, poor dudes death lasted 2 hours and nobody could hear him scream because of the game and his asthma😢)

Angela <3

Also the yellow one has a 'set of spankoffski's" I need a musical on that. maybe it takes place around the time of the mayor's possesion of the book.

The mayor might of sacrificed his wife. like Late night with the devil.

the october surprise might of meant she was born in October. but his country accent is weird considering this is set in Michigan.

11:48 didn't realise until this video that he appears with a horror movie sting sound

I cant unsee the bully as jerma and its slaying me

11:50 angela is my favourite girl ever 😭

I think about the line at the end of "darkness will spare my soul" like. that's probably exactly why grace turned to the lords in black. She already "sinned" too much to be forgiven in her mind, so if she just goes full send and goes with the lords in black, the darkness, at least she won't go to hell

i feel like there's something to be said about max and Steph's offscreen relationship, being that its weird she doesn't seem to have one with him AT ALL. She asks "who are you running from" when anyone who knows ANYTHING about Max Jagerman would know he's running from max. Max controls every single kid at hatchetfield high INCLUDING popular kids like Brenda, Jason, Kyle, and Stacy. and yet Steph is above it all. likely because she's the mayors daughter, theres nothing that could possibly make her uncool or to even bully her at all.

At 12:22 "Who or what did you sacrifice old man?" I headcanon that he sacrificed his wife and that's why she's never mentioned

7:01 "Will's vocals are godly" "I AM JAGERMAN! I AM GOD!"

The fact that Bill wanted Alice to date someone like Grace is so much funnier now that we know Grace is both homophobic but also a murderer in multiple timelines

the 😳 on the lover man is so real

I need this on spotify asap!!!!

The thing that gets me about the initial questioning of the police is - why the fuck did they say it that way?! Lile, they have been told that this group of people were his friends and then then they continue to fuck around with actually telling them their friend is dead? Like, I get that the way they're talking is to make us think they're talking about Max, but also they way they're talking just sounds like max even if the kids didn't know anything about his disappearance at all.

Nibbly is my fav costume to. If I were an elder god assuming human form, I, too, would go girly-pop

7:50 October surprise hints that Steph’s birth was most likely just the result of a hookup on Valentine’s Day (at least that’s my theory)