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Reefer Madness: The Musical
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In 1998, writing partners Dan Studney and Kevin Murphy (no, not that one) took a road trip from Oakland to Los Angeles and came up with the idea for a musical adaptation of the 1936 propaganda film Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children!). By the time they arrived in LA, they had written the first song.As you might expect, the project eschewed that unintentional satire of the original for very intentional satire. It enjoyed several successful stints on stage, and Studney and Murphy adapted their book into a Made-for-TV Movie, directed by Andy Fickman. Premiering on Showtime on April 20, 2005, the ensemble features Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Steven Weber, Ana Gasteyer, Neve Campbell and John Kassir.The stage production and film use the original's framework, opening with a group of concerned parents congregating for a film presentation, proffered by a man who just oozes ulterior motive. The movie he shows tells the story of Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane, two upstanding, innocent teenagers, whose lives devolve into a twisted spiral of sex, violence and snack food, courtesy of the evils of marihuana. All the while, the original audience reacts with revulsion, shock and the occasional incredulity. | |
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Angelic Beauty | |
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Angelic Beauty: In the song "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy!", Jesus is joined by a dozen backup singers/showgirls dressed in sexy angel outfits. | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier: The original was already considered an exploitation film, but due to being on cable seventy years later it's taken up several notches. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Mary seems to be singing about something else during "Lonely Pew". | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: An unnamed Lecturer (implied to be a government official) is showing a small town PTA a "presentation" on the dangers of marijuana. In the film, the framing device is shot in black and white while the presentation is in colour. That is, until the very end, when the framing device suddenly turns to colour and the PTA are interacting with characters within the presentation (including those who died). | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Ralph when he gets the 'munchies'. The Chinese in the movie are also suggested to be this. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: A lot of humor is gotten out of drug addiction, infidelity, rape, murder and cannibalism. | |
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Between My Legs | |
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Between My Legs: Jesus crawls through a tunnel of legs in "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" in the film. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Jack using more than one bullet to kill Ralph may seem like a joke at first, but he's out of bullets when Mae tries to kill him. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: In the stage show, Mae's summoning of FDR is laughed off under Rule of Funny as "It's a funny story," and dropped. In the film, FDR is established as being in town earlier, and even contains a sequence of her fighting through his guards to talk to him. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Mr. Kochinski is the only person in the audience to question the Narrator's propaganda. Interestingly, the trope appears to be deconstructed since by the end, Mr Kochinski is enthusiastically taking part in the conservative rally/book-burning and is completely convinced by the story despite repeatedly questioning it earlier. In a twist, it turns out the real Only Sane Man is actually the Lecturer, who is the only one fully aware that what he's presenting is pure propaganda and it's heavily implied at the end that he doesn't fully believe it himself. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: In the Triumphant Reprise that is The "Stuff" during Mae’s Heel–Face Turn, she delivers this to Jack with a garden hoe. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: There are dozens scattered throughout, but the most clear example is Shakespeare himself officiating the wedding between Romeo!Jimmy and Juliet!Mary in their fantasy. While they go off on a tangent about the happy ending Romeo and Juliet probably have, Shakespeare looks increasingly worried and even shakes his head a few times before just giving up. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Ralph only ever wears a tattered fraternity sweater from his old college. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Mary Lane. She's a sixteen year-old girl who loves babies, considers 9pm the middle of the night, and apologizes to God for the mortal sin of lying about a seat being taken. She even provides the page quote. | |
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Bondage Is Bad | |
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Bondage Is Bad: Played for Laughs. After Mary takes one hit of that evil reefer, she fantasizes about being a dominatrix to show her descent into debauchery! | |
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Head-Turning Beauty | |
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Head-Turning Beauty: Sally. If she can’t turn you on, you ain't got switches. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Ralph goes completely off the deep end in the second act... it's no help, however, that (at least in the movie musical) he's plagued by visions of Jimmy and Mary being terrorized and sodomized by Satan. | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure | |
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In-Universe Factoid Failure: With Romeo and Juliet. It's one of the most well-known tragic endings in history, but the two teenage leads seem to think it's an idyllic love story. The musical itself makes a point to give us the true aesop. After a brief kerfuffle that ends with Mary getting shot, Jimmy looks to Jack & Mae, who shake their heads at Mary's inquiry of "did they love until they grow old?" So he proceeds to lie about the original play's ending as he comforts a dying Mary in his arms, letting Mary at least pass on peacefully. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flip: The owner of the Five and Dime is changed from male in the original film and play to female in the 2005 film version. This was done to create a role for Neve Campbell. | |
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Beat Still, My Heart | |
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Beat Still, My Heart: Mae, after beating Jack to death, rips out his heart at the end of "The Stuff" reprise. | |
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Good Hair, Evil Hair | |
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Good Hair, Evil Hair: Jack's mustache falls squarely in the evil "pencil mustache" category. | |
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Karmic Rape | |
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Karmic Rape: This happens during "Little Mary Sunshine", in which Ralph's marijuana-facilitated attempted seduction of Mary works a little TOO well. | |
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DirtyCommunist | |
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The Narrator mistakes Mr. Kochinski's name as Russian rather than Polish, and implies that either way this makes him a Dirty Communist. | |
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NoKillLikeOverKill | |
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No Kill like Overkill: In the movie, this happens to both Ralph, who gets shot 6 times before finally dying after getting impaled and Jack, whom Mae beats to death with a garden hoe before ripping out his heart. | |
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A Saint Named Mary | |
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A Saint Named Mary: Mary Lane, who is not only kind and innocent, but is also stated to "love babies" and is sincerely religious. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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The original play does this twice in a row. First, when Jimmy is about to be executed for Mary's death Jesus interrupts in a literal Deus ex Machina, but he quickly reveals that he’s just there to gloat for not taking his advice. Just when Jimmy thinks he’s truly done for, Mae interrupts with a presidential pardon, but after everyone celebrates, Jimmy , still in the electric chair, is accidentally electrocuted. | |
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Blatant Lies: | |
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Disney Acid Sequence | |
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Disney Acid Sequence: "The Brownie Song" in the film. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: "Mary Jane/Mary Lane", Lampshaded by Mary. | |
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In-Universe | |
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In-Universe: "A madam runs a different kind of house." | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: If the audience sticks around after the credits, they are rewarded with Satan laughing in their face. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: After Ralph goes insane, he's shot instead of being institutionalized. Sally dies earlier than her 1936 counterpart. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the stage show, everyone from the Lecturer to Jesus will directly address the audience. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: Unlike the 1936 film it was based on. | |
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"Everybody Dies" Ending | |
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"Everybody Dies" Ending: The original version of the show ended with Mary getting shot and ending up in Hell, Sally being eaten by Ralph, Ralph being taken out by Jack, Jack being beaten to death by Mae, Jimmy being forsaken by God and executed, and Mae committing suicide. Even the Placard Girl gets killed after Mae lands on her. The movie and later productions avert this by sparing some characters. | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Jimmy tries to speak Shakespearean English to Mary. | |
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NietzscheWannabe | |
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Nietzsche Wannabe: Easy to miss (as it's during the climax of "Murder") but Jack is of the opinion that 'the winner is the last one left alive.' | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: Near the end, FDR declares that they can fight the scourge of marijuana through the papers of William Randolph Hearst. The real FDR would never say that, given that Hearst was outspoken about his absolute hatred of the second Roosevelt administration. | |
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole | |
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Adaptation Induced Plothole: Both stage and screen end with FDR saving Jimmy's life by giving him a presidential pardon. However, in the movie, the Lecturer calls him a reckless lunatic, so his heroic role in the propaganda film makes much less sense. The play took place loosely over a few months, but the film adaptation added a plot point about FDR arriving in town for a dance competition two weeks after the beginning of the film-within-a-film, meaning that it took less than two weeks for Jimmy to be convicted of murder and sent to the electric chair. | |
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Creepy Jazz Music | |
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In the movie, the Lecturer also explains the link between reefer and jazz... calling jazz musicians "weed-blowing" and "ginger-coloured" in the process. | |
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Triumphant Reprise | |
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Triumphant Reprise: Mae's reprise of "The Stuff." In the stage version Jesus reprises "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" at Jimmy's execution to mock him for not listening to him. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: A most triumphant example, as some changes made for the movie, like "Dead Old Man" being replaced by "Mary Jane/Mary Lane" and "The Truth" replacing the reprise of "Reefer Madness," were so popular that most stage productions now include those changes. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Jimmy during the final song. | |
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Marijuana Is LSD | |
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Marijuana Is LSD: Just like in the original, but this time it's played for laughs. Actors appearing in the stage show are instructed to act like they're on crack, rather than pot. | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: Evidently Satan did not expect Jimmy to turn Jesus down on his sales pitch. | |
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Jesus Was Way Cool | |
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Jesus Was Way Cool: Even though he supports the anti-marijuana stance that the musical parodies, Jesus makes up for it with an awesome song, a Walking Shirtless Scene, and a troupe of sexy, angelic backup singers. He also offers The Moral Substitute of getting high off God. | |
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Pink Girl, Blue Boy | |
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Pink Girl, Blue Boy: In the movie, Mary wears pink with the exception of a blue skirt and Jimmy always wears blue. This emphasizes their nature as a perfect couple to the conservative in-universe audience. | |
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Last-Minute Reprieve | |
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Last-Minute Reprieve: Jimmy is about to be executed after being framed for murder, but he's saved in the nick of time by Mae and FDR. | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations | |
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All Musicals Are Adaptations: A film version of a stage musical adaptation of a cult classic 1930s exploitation film. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: In the original stage version, Mae throws herself off a building after she's unable to prevent Jimmy from being executed. Averted in the movie and current stage show. | |
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Angry Mob Song | |
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Angry Mob Song: The very end of the film, complete with book-burning bonfire. Considering the motives of the Narrator, it must mean his lecture was a rousing success. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: While the original play ended with every major character dead, the 2005 movie and subsequent productions of the play keep Jimmy and Mae alive as per the 1936 original. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Onstage, anytime one of the downfalls of weed is shown, the actors will briefly freeze in a tableau as the phrase "reefer madness" is sung over the scene. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "My innocence ravaged! / My virtue devoured! / I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!" | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: The Narrator asks Principal Short "What is the human condition so powerful it can stave off all that is black and evil in these confusing times?" and taps a bulletin board filled with a collage illustrating The Power of Love. When Principal Short tentatively answers "Love?" The Narrator launches into an "In a time..." tirade berating the principal and the idea "that love will carry the day". | |
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Died Happily Ever After | |
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Died Happily Ever After: In the final song, Mary is released from Purgatory and Jimmy tells her to wait for him. "One day I'll get cancer, or hit by a train!" Some stage productions like to make up new ways for him to die, such as "eaten by wild bears." | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Both Mary and Sally in the film. Mary is the sweet but hopelessly naive kind, while Sally is promiscuous and constantly bumping into things. | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: 420note a number/phrase associated with pot culture due to Memetic Mutation appears throughout the film, including a time on a clock, the street address of the hash house, and the hymn board in the church. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Mary and Jimmy are studying Romeo and Juliet, starting with the "proo-low-gwee". | |
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Let Them Die Happy | |
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Let Them Die Happy: In the Dark Reprise of "Romeo and Juliet", Jimmy lies about the ending of the original play in order to let Mary pass on peacefully after he accidentally (and fatally) shoots her. | |
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Counting Bullets | |
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Counting Bullets: Jack fails to keep track of how many shots it took to take down Ralph, so when he threatens Mae with his revolver, it's empty. | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: "Mary Jane/Mary Lane", where Mary Lane and Jimmy wax eloquent about how The Power of Love will save him. Every other character in the film even joins them, some by breaking character or coming back from the dead. | |
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Humble Goal | |
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Humble Goal: | |
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The Moral Substitute | |
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The Moral Substitute: In-universe example: in the film version, at the end of "Listen To Jesus, Jimmy," Jesus challenges Jimmy to "take a hit of God" and see if he can "handle the high". Jimmy refuses, saying, "I've got a new god now!" | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: A parent at the assembly has trouble pronouncing "marijuana", and repeats "merry Jew?' several times. The Narrator mistakes Mr. Kochinski's name as Russian rather than Polish, and implies that either way this makes him a Dirty Communist. In the movie, the Lecturer also explains the link between reefer and jazz... calling jazz musicians "weed-blowing" and "ginger-coloured" in the process. In a song cut early in the show's run, Jimmy's parents educate him on: oversexed, pot-smoking "darkies", the wily, opium-fuelled Chinese, and lazy, heroin-addicted Mexicans. Sally gets rid of her baby by giving it to a Chinese restaurant owner, with the heavy implication that he's going to put the infant to good use in his business... "Tell 'Em The Truth" puts Communists and queers on the mob's hitlist after Darwin, Freud, and smut. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Jimmy and Mary... after one puff of marijuana. | |
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Foot Popping | |
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Foot Popping: Jimmy and Mary both do this at one point during "Romeo and Juliet". | |
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Widowed at the Wedding | |
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Widowed at the Wedding: In the film version, Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane imagine themselves at their wedding when Mary was shot during the gun struggle between Jimmy and Jack the dope dealer, singing the reprise of "Romeo and Juliet" while Mary dies in Jimmy's arms. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
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Fiery Redhead: When Mae isn't being controlled by her addiction, she is strong-willed and easily a match for Jack. | |
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Dies Differently in Adaptation | |
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Dies Differently in Adaptation: Sally and Jack. In the original, he was killed by an insane Ralph, and she committed suicide after testifying against the dope ring. In the musical, Sally is given Jack's death and he manages to triumph over Ralph, but ends up dying in a similar matter anyway after Mae betrays him. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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The play took place loosely over a few months, but the film adaptation added a plot point about FDR arriving in town for a dance competition two weeks after the beginning of the film-within-a-film, meaning that it took less than two weeks for Jimmy to be convicted of murder and sent to the electric chair. | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Downplayed. While it's played as Black Comedy, Mary forcing herself on Ralph is shown to be clearly not "okay". Still, if it was reversed, it would be a huge case of Dude, Not Funny!. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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The film cuts both of these, removing the first scene entirely and softening the second into a straight happy ending. Meanwhile, the revised play reinserts the first Hope Spot, but keeps the happier ending. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
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Offscreen Teleportation: Jesus keeps doing this during the "Listen To Jesus, Jimmy" musical number. Seeing that he's Jesus, it's completely justified. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The song "Murder!" includes the line "Open the gate and abandon hope", a reference to the inscription over the Gate of Hell in The Divine Comedy. "A little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I suppressed the urge to laugh in her face." The Brownie's character design in the animated Brownie Song sequence bears a resemblance to Betty Boop | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "Shut up, bitch!" | |
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A Love to Dismember | |
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A Love to Dismember: Ralph decapitates Sally when he becomes Ax-Crazy and tries to eat her, then later kisses her severed head. | |
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Big Red Devil | |
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The Goat Man from "The Orgy" and the Big Red Devil are separate characters in the film and many productions, but some shows combine the two since the former's Baphomet-like appearance makes him something of a Satanic Archetype anyway. | |
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Delicious Distraction | |
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Delicious Distraction: The entire joke behind "The Brownie Song". | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: In the 1936 film, the character Sally is based on is named Blanche. | |
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Anthropomorphic Food | |
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Anthropomorphic Food: The pot-brownie-as-prostitute that Jimmy has sex with in "The Brownie Song" animated segment. | |
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Freudian Threat | |
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Freudian Threat: Jesus warns Jimmy that if he goes to hell for smoking marijuana, he might be forced to endure "separation from your family jewels". | |
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Fetishized Abuser | |
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Fetishized Abuser: Mary, under the influence of reefer. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Jimmy Harper is Jimmy Lane and Bill Harper from the original combined into one character. The Goat Man from "The Orgy" and the Big Red Devil are separate characters in the film and many productions, but some shows combine the two since the former's Baphomet-like appearance makes him something of a Satanic Archetype anyway. | |
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Bad Girl Song | |
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Bad Girl Song: "Little Mary Sunshine" combines the Face–Heel Turn of the innocent Mary, whose single run-in with marijuana leaves her fit to be tied. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: During the Dark Reprise of "Romeo and Juliet": | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: The reprise of "Romeo and Juliet", sung as Mary is dying, replaces the line "bubbling with love" with "haemorrhaging blood". Onstage, "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" receives one at Jimmy's execution, where he pleads to Jesus to save his soul from Hell, only for Jesus to say he's just there to gloat and watch the show, and it's too late for any sort of penitence. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: Onstage, a bikini-clad girl will occasionally cross the stage with a sign with a message on it. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: In-Universe: "A madam runs a different kind of house." "Don't get queer on me!" | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Essentially the joke behind "Romeo and Juliet". | |
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Movie Bonus Song | |
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Movie Bonus Song: "Mary Jane/Mary Lane" was written for the film as a replacement of both the more static Jimmy lamentation song "Dead Old Man" and the act break songs "Act One Finale" and "Jimmy on the Lam". This was done to make the story flow better in a movie format, but the song went over so well (and won an Emmy) that it was added to the stage show, replacing "Dead Old Man" there as well. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Subverted. The nice ones are the nice ones. But once they start smoking, they cause more trouble than the bad guys. | |
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