History Fridge / BlackFriday

*** Firstly, Bill wanting to get a Wiggly for Alice doesn't ''have'' to make sense, he just has to be under the spell just like every other parent who's been exposed to Wiggly. Alice, being the same age as Lex, is likely neither interested in dolls nor under the spell, but there's no reason for Bill to have any more awareness of this than Tom does. Secondly, Bill is ''not'' present in the closing number of this show; the TGWDLM role Corey is reprising is that of a random passerby.

** Ted seems like the most unlikely member of the Wiggly cult, and he indeed doesn't actually show up as a cultist at any point (since Joey Richter was instead playing the Crazy Homeless Man). But his {{Jerkass}} tendencies would certainly motivate him to buy a Wiggly to try to resell it or just for [[BraggingRightsReward bragging rights]], he does seem to have HiddenDepths in the "Showstoppin' Number" scene, and perhaps the most interesting FanficFuel -- what if he ''knew'' Charlotte was shopping at Toy Zone that day, saw the news about the riots, and when he couldn't get in touch with her, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold went down to the mall to check if she was all right]]? (There's a ''major'' moment for Ted/Charlotte shippers where he tenderly puts his arms around her when they find each other during "What If Tomorrow Comes?")

* The appearance of Paul's coworkers from TGWDLM in the ending might seem shoehorned in, since the Tickle-Me-Wiggly is a children's toy and you'd expect most of the people shopping for one to be parents, and [[HideYourChildren no one seemed to have or mention small children]] in TGWDLM. (Bill is the only character explicitly stated to be a parent, and his daughter Alice is 18.) But even leaving aside the fact that Wiggly obsession is a supernatural compulsion, there's good reasons for all of them to be there:

* Technically, Lex, and Ethan are adults. Yet neither of them succumbs to the Tickle-Me-Wiggly. Why? Because, as Lex wisely puts it, they have "holes" they need to fill, but were riding on Ethan's unbridled optimism. Ethan was saying, even when it seemed things were bad, that their lives would get better. Thus, the Tickle-Me-Wiggly had no effect on him since he and Lex were going to sell it to the highest bidder.   

** Thankfully, this can't be the case. In the Tickle-Me-Wiggly Jingle, both the Sniggles and Uncle Wiley specify that the doll is hitting the shelves on Black Friday (in order to build up as much fervor around the doll as possible).

** Thankfully, this can't be the case. In the Tickle-Me-Wiggly Jingle, both the Sniggles and Uncle Wiley specify that the doll is hitting the shelves on Black Friday (in order to build up as much fervor around the doll as possible).

* The play seems to provide a downer ending— everyone looks up as we hear an engine from overhead, strongly insinuated to be a Russian bomb. Thing is, why would Russia bomb Hatchetfield? They have no reason to assume it's important, it's a small town near nowhere anything. It's far more likely that it was just a normal plane, and furthermore there doesn't seem to be anything overtly stopping them from surviving the night.
** Some people think it the meteor from the TGWDLM but it most still be the nuke but bombing a different place (like DC).