Reacting to *Nerdy Prudes Must Die*

[@jacksongreen4107]

Ah yes, my favorite Hatchetfield show: *Local Girl has 1 (one) sexual fantasy. 6 dead, 2 injured, 3 traumatized.*

[@rowangoodwin9273]

And counting!

[@pennyw2226]

4 traumatized counting the viewer

[@purpleleemon7177]

technically 6 dead but yes

[@jacksongreen4107]

@@purpleleemon7177 Ah. Right. I forgot about Ms. Tessburger.

[@twist_ending7545]

6? Only five people died wdym

[@matthewhearn9910]

Dropping "Oh by the way the Homeless Guy is actually a time traveling Ted" as a bit of trivia from Nightmare Time is so fucking wild and also exactly as chaotic as the overall Hatchetfield lore.

[@maryjbooks13]

fun fact: the sparkles on Max' jacket after he comes back is the light reflecting on the plastic they wrapped his body in

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

This episode of Hayley & Stella is brought to you by Dirty Girl Soup. Dirty Girl Soup: You'll be hungry for more!

[@No-zj1fr]

47:16 When Grace says “human sacrifices, demonic rituals, sex magic.” It is foreshadowing, she looks at each of the nerds. Ruth’s is obviously an elation to her whole demeanour but it could also relate to Grace in the last song ‘Dirty Dudes Must Die’. Peter and Richie’s are slightly less noticeable, especially if you haven’t seen it before. Peter would have been sacrificed to get rid of Max’s ghost if Max hadn’t stopped the bullet, after the ‘If I Loved You Redux’. Richie’s could be relating to either Max who came back as a ghost or demon or, the one I thought of first, ‘The Summoning’, this could be because Richie is played by Jon Matterson just as the leader of ‘The Lords In Black’, Wiggly, is, but it could also be unrelated.

[@HelloXrancidkitteh]

my take on the ending is Grace is "partially" possessed. she's now indebted to the Lord in Black for the rest of her life to gather souls for them. their song to Grace, Steph, and Pete literally warns them that whomever were to fulfill their half of the deal would also be "forever in their debt" - hence why Grace is like that in the end there. she didn't give up God or her beliefs. that was just the possession coming out to play and fulfill the Lords of Black's demands.

[@GazzaTF]

My personal headcanon is that now that she's had pre-marital sex, she sees herself as lost in God's eyes and thus turns to worshiping the Lords in Black to get in to their good graces to spare her soul from Hell. Picking victims that she can justifiably sacrifice. But yours is a good interpretation too!

[@TheNitpickChick]

I saw another interpretation in a video essay that said when Max died, Grace saw that as an act of God. But when the police were about to arrest her, she said herself that God was hanging her out to dry for something she believed God brought about. She felt abandoned by her old god in that moment and started to doubt. Then, the Lords in Black were summoned. New gods that Grace could actually see and talk to, and who gave her clear instructions on how to smite Max, for good. Her sacrifice was a way of essentially converting to serving her new gods, in order to continue smiting more people who Grace deemed as evil. It was less possession and more corruption of morals and gaining praise/power for doing the Lords’ bidding.

[@boomfanfic-a-latta8996]

@@TheNitpickChick eyyyy I think I know which video you mean!

[@TheNitpickChick]

@@boomfanfic-a-latta8996 Awesome! 😁 “Grace Chasity & the Horrors of Purity” by fencecollapsed, right? It’s such a fantastic analysis of Grace’s character, and I’ve watched it through several times at this point. 😅

[@boomfanfic-a-latta8996]

@ YES! That’s the one! It really is so good.

[@ThePonderer]

I’ve recently become pretty obsessed with this show. It’s a hoot, and I love the characters so much (especially Grace).

[@RobertDPore]

CHASITY WILL RISE

[@olgarivera9315]

Same ThePonderer. I've Watched It I Don't Know How Many Times. Yep. Same. (Except Grace). Sorry ThePonderer. And Sorry Angela. But You're Awesome On Smosh. I Especially Love The Reddit Stories. I Watch It Every Saturday.

[@RobertDPore]

To answer your question at 1:04:11, "Skidoo" is a 1968 comedy where every last word of the end credits, all the way to the copyright, are sung by a swing chorus. (It's also a kind of jetski snowmobile)

[@junegeeitisahardgfulmer7911]

This is kind of a full circle moment, honestly, because I found White Noise by looking for StarKid reactions, and that's how I found you guys! So happy to see this one get a video.

[@alenakolarikova6078]

Woah, same here ❤

[@Btm10000]

Great reaction! You did a great job giving some pieces of context about Nightmare Time without over-explaining the musical! To answer your question towards the end, there could be be more Hatchetfield. They said that they didn't want to restrict themselves to a trilogy. There are already episodes written for a third season of Nightmare Time that might be produced one day. We had titles, summaries and quick readings for some of those in different livestreams. They also have a script for some kind of movie set in Hatchetfield that they don't know if they will be able to do someday. And they said the next musical, if it were to happen, would be centered around Miss Holloway which I am extremely hyped about.

[@EricWalker-p7e]

1:35:35 My “Just for Once” headcannon is that it’s not Ruth performing an actual song from ‘The Barbecue Monologues’, but rather it’s what a middle aged Ruth’s BBQ monologue would be. She dreams of being a cancer survivor in a loveless marriage with disappointing kids. But at least she had her moment as the center of attention when she had cancer. It’s so much more heartbreaking. 2:30:23 not necessarily the end of Hatchetfield. In addition to the “Workin’ Boys” short film, they have an entire season 3 of Nightmare Time written. It’s just a matter of time and money. Meanwhile they just did Cinderellas Castle which takes place in “The Lands that Are” with a whole bunch of other story/shows planned for that universe.

[@sprinkles06]

YESSSS so glad to see more NPMD reactions, even happier we have one of y'all as a fan and y'all have actually SEEN the other two hatchetfield installments bc it takes years off my life when people go out of order (excluding NT...I myself did an oopsie and fell out of my starkid obsession and then proceeded to watch NT2 AFTER NPMD whoops)

[@junegeeitisahardgfulmer7911]

Part of me really wants even more StarKid reactions on here, but I'm just so happy we have this.

[@CR-dq1ch]

I wanted to see if anyone I like had reacted to NPMD and I see you uploaded 16 minutes ago?! Let's GOOOO

[@bakingkitty1034]

Fun Fact about Bully/Bury the Bully! Jeff Blim said in his watch along with Jon Matteson that he wrote songs with the characters snapping on the wrong beats! They are snapping on 1 and 3 whereas you would usually snap on 2 and 4. If you’re someone who is really sensitive to musical rhythm, (like I am) you can feel that the music is just a little unbalanced and it was done on purpose!

[@martinanemcokova5203]

I've seen their musicals so many times that I know them all by heart, i play there songs all the time

[@elinedefaux]

You guys should do all of the hatchedfield musicals. If you haven't done them. Or just revist them. Idk if you all have watched Spies Are Forever cause that is so good as well

[@Rckitty]

So glad you guys were able to react to this. I hope you guys continue to watch more musicals in the future. You guys should check out Epic the Musical. Its based off the Odyssey and its amazing.

[@ThirdChildFilms]

Yessssss so excited to have more NPMD reactions!!!

[@JesusOfPaign]

Let’s goooooo Patreon exclusive, I subbed just to see this. I’m not the biggest musical fan in the world, but I adore Starkid musicals, and this one might be my absolute fav.

[@tinywitchfrogs_]

Omg ! this video popped up in my recommendations and I was like?? i know these faces !! how did i not know you had your own channel?! and reacting to one of my favorite musicals ! very exciting development in my day

[@sharqane]

Stella and Hayley: we're reacting to a horror musical! Me, who has seen White Noise: Yeah...for the next 3 plus years...l I can supply you with enough horror musicals to get you through to 2028 at least. Edit: I can't explain but there are things! ME: Oh I watched Heathers online...There are things!"

[@misterkite]

Christmas Horror Musical: Anna and the Apocalypse.

[@israelleon1949]

This was a wild, interesting play.

[@PartTimeSarah2]

I really enjoyed this show, but it will never eclipse VHSCCs or Twisted as my favorites. I hope you do videos for those some day!

[@firefly24601]

Not sure if you've reacted to "Repo: The Genetic Opera" or not. It's both a musical and creepy/horror!

[@nahiaraalarcon1845]

I watch every single reaction to NPMD cause is my favourite musical and there aren't many tbh, but i loved this one ❤❤

[@hannahwilson6778]

18:03 The light leaving stella's eyes at max calling grace a "dirty girl" is so fucking funny LMAO

[@OscarSolis-j1m]

I cant believe they created a channel and I'm only finding out now LETS GOOOOO

[@anirac1506]

I would love for you to watch Nightmare Time as well!😍

[@RobinDragonryder]

Hi you appeared on my feed randomly but I am HERE for Starkid reaction content. Also I see you did The Ring recently and that might be my way to see if that movie is still as horrifying as my scarred preteen brain remembers.....

[@kolajoabiola2790]

Ladies, are we ever getting a Dune Part 2 reaction... ever??? You reacted to Part 1 on the White Noise Reacts channel. Love your videos. Best wishes from Nigeria.

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

GO NIGHTHAWKS!

[@jordancazzell5169]

Happy Halloween 👻 Hayley and Stella!

[@likethewillows]

im SO happy to see this

[@mythioss]

omg im so excited

[@WorldCupIS]

enjoyed this reaction

[@danceraged8026]

on topic of musicals, have you watched Ride the Cyclon?

[@Zakiel97]

interesting that you say you kinda bounced off black friday's songs but became obsessed with the ones in NPMD because I at first had the opposite reaction. I love TGWDLM to death but I really liked that Black Friday's soundtrack felt more sincere imo, any song Dylan sings went straight into my daily rotation for like 3 months. But with Nerdy Prudes I wasn't really feeling the music on first watch, maybe I just didn't connect with the material there or something. I liked the show overall, but kinda like with Firebringer I was enjoying the dialogue way more than the songs tbh - but then unlike Firebringer I came around on that with almost every track in the span of like maybe a week. Except for maybe Dirty Girl (I cringe too hard) and Just for Once (love Lauren but I also didn't like the songs in Company too much and I got that vibe there idk) almost all of the tracks became regular listens, so much so that I'd reckon I listen to way more NPMD songs now on average than any other star kid show except maybe twisted. I mean Hatchet Town I loved instantly but I didn't think I'd revisit Go Nighthawks or The Summoning at first but here we are lmao. Anyway, they've also just posted VHS Christmas charols to their channel, their adaptation of the Gift of the Magi, The Little Match Girl and of course a Christmas Carol (the last one was posted like 2 years back before), so if you haven't checked that out I can recommend that one aswell.

[@lexitabor4094]

Omg SO excited for this

[@dannykent6190]

I know this was probably a long time ago since this was a "patreon" exclusive, so perhaps you've already done this... but you mentioned that Black Fridays music didn't really stick with you. I'd say go back and watch it again, because I didn't love it the first time myself, but then I actually watched another reaction channel doing it and it kind of embedded itself a little deeper, and then I was drawn to it, and now I think it might be some of my favorite in the series.

[@sharqane]

NGL, you want to see something similar to this, watch Anna vs the apocalypse. still British but as a doomsday musical

[@ajmalaika1287]

YESSS RARE GEM, beautifully indie

[@AtomicWizz]

Hayley is so me lol

[@TheNightBadger]

I was fully cynical about this when I started watching, but I'm pleasantly surprised. This was very enjoyable. The main song 'Nerdy Prudes Must Die' sounds exactly like a re-written Iron Maiden song. The 'You Don't say' bit is part of a well-worn stand-up routine.

[@supertoxicgamer]

Anyone else watching this and slowly falling in love with these two ladies?

[@WheresWaldo05]

100% Stella is a nerdy prude

[@Hamantha]

As someone who’s gotten way too many wedgies up to this point. I felt for Ruth 🙃

[@twist_ending7545]

YOOO!!

[@flyingskyward2153]

I thought you were going to take a break for a while

[@chalupa5777]

I never made the Angela-Rachel Bloom connection before, but you are so right

[@EricWalker-p7e]

She’s the villain of her own story

[@bdbko]

I love it 😃 👍

[@15two]

if you guys havent seen them, the original evil dead movies are great. the first is straight horror, second is horror comedy, and the third is like a dark fantasy-comedy. the tv series ash vs. evil dead is also pretty funny. the originals + show star bruce campbell, and were directed by sam raimi, the guy who directed the tobey maguire spider man movies

[@martinbraun4753]

Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance on your channel.

[@WheresWaldo05]

No. Terrible

[@CMCustom112]

Not a fan of musicals, but I was skipping around the video, and I see alot of what looks to be Microphones Attached to these peoples foreheads. Dont know if you discuss this in the video, but what a WEIRD and distracting place to place audio equipment.

[@vowbosjk]

It's actually the best place to put it, the audio sounds way better and they don't have to worry about the costume interfering. It might looks a bit weird because we are seeing up close, but when you are in the audience you don't really see it

[@capn_toad]

yup! what vowbosjk said! these types of proshots aren't that common, so people usually don't notice the mics.

[@EurypteridFossil]

😬 embarrassing comment to post lol

[@Feyrae]

You not being a fan of musicals is why it looks strange to you -- it's actually extremely standard in theatre, and is used at the highest standards of musical theatre. The televised version of Hamilton even has almost all of the actors wearing forehead mics (with the exception of Leslie Odom Jr., who's bald and doesn't have a wig to shove it underneath). The chunkier ones tend to break immersion more, and it's great for audio quality.

[@CMCustom112]

@@EurypteridFossil Not for me. Seeking knowledge should never be embarrassing Chief.