* AdaptationExpansion: In the stage show, [[spoiler: Mae's]] summoning of FDR is laughed off under RuleOfFunny as 'It's a funny story,' and dropped. In the movie, FDR is established as being in town earlier and even contains a sequence of her fighting through his guards to talk to him.
* AnAesop: Lampshaded in the anti-marijuana aesop, but played straight with the musical's actual point about censorship.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "''My innocence ravaged! / My virtue devoured! / I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!''"
* BastardGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Mary]], under the influence of reefer.
* BlackComedy: A lot of humor is gotten out of drug addiction, infedelity, rape, murder, and cannibalism.
* BlackComedyRape: Unlike [[RapeAsDrama the 1936 film it was based on]].
* BlatantLies:
--> I'm not addicted no, I just enjoy the glow
* ChekhovsGun: Jack using more than one bullet to kill [[spoiler:Ralph]] may seem like a joke at first, but he's out of bullets when [[spoiler:Mae tries to kill him]].
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Essentially the joke behind "Romeo & Juliet."
* CriticalResearchFailure: In universe. It's one of the most well known [[RomeoAndJuliet tragic endings]] in history. How do you not know this?
* DarkReprise: The reprise of "Romeo and Juliet."
* DeliciousDistraction: The entire joke behind "The Brownie Song."
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Parodied. In the final song [[spoiler:Mary is released from Hell and Jimmy tells her to wait for him. '"One day I'll get cancer, or hit by a train!"]]
** In stage productions, they seem to like making up new ways for him to die. When I saw it last year, one of them was "eaten by wild bears."
* DisneyAcidSequence: "The Brownie Song" in the film.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Mary seems to be singing about something else during "Lonely Pew."
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. While it's played as comedy, it's shown to be clearly not "okay," although to be fair if it WAS reversed, it would be a huge case of DudeNotFunny. Also, the scene role reverses that of the original 1936 version; in the musical, Mary tries to rape Ralph when she gets stoned, instead of the other way around.
** It's really more like he was trying to take advantage of her and got way more than he bargained for. You might say they tried to rape each other.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jimmy and [[spoiler:Mary]]...after one puff of marijuana.
* FanserviceExtra: In the stage version a girl in a bikini will occasionally walk through carrying a sign with a message on it.
* FootPopping: Jimmy and Mary both do this at one point during the "Romeo and Juliet" song.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Jimmy during the final song.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: The Lecturer is [[Film/XMen Nightcrawler]]
** And Mary is [[VeronicaMars Veronica Mars]]
** Not to mention the fact that Ralph is ''[[TalesFromTheCrypt the freaking Cryptkeeper!]]''
* HumbleGoal:
-->I've taken a life,\\
Been stripped to my essence,\\
And to think all I wanted was swing dancing lessons!
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Ralph]] when he gets the 'munchies.'
** The Chinese in the movie are also suggested to be this.
* JesusWasWayCool: Even though he supports the anti-marijuana stance that the musical parodies, Jesus makes up for it with an awesome song, a WalkingShirtlessScene, and a troupe of sexy, angelic backup singers.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the stage show, everyone from the Lecturer to Jesus will directly address the audience.
--> Mary Lane, Oh, Mary Lane\\
Will help you sing a new refrain.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: Played for laughs. Actors appearing in the stage show are instructed to act like they're on crack, rather than pot.
* NietzscheWannabe: 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.'
* NotUsingTheZWord: For a [[MoodWhiplash fairly light-hearted]] musical parodying old propaganda flicks and after-school specials, there are an awful lot of Zombies in it.
* PragmaticAdaptation: 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.
* RefugeInAudacity
* ShoutOut: [[Theatre/{{Annie}} "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."]]
* TriumphantReprise: May's reprise of "The Stuff."
** In the stage version Jesus reprises "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" at [[spoiler:Jimmy's execution]] to mock him for not listening to him.
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