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* ScreenShake: This starts happening to the camera as reality starts breaking down toward the end of the video.
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* BishonenLine: The SurrealMusicVideo TitleSequence has an ambiguous example, with an androgynous, gracile nude humanoid figure covered in shining gold holding the Bastard's Box [[PowerFloats levitating above its hand]]. It's not clear if this is one of Tinky's servitor, an illusion (like the illusion of Jenny that gives Ted the Box in the story proper) or Tinky's OneWingedAngel form beneath his fursuit and mask.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: "Peanuts!" The exclamation point may be a CallBack to the mild RunningGag in ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' where every time Peanuts is mentioned in a newscast someone in the room smiles and responds, "Peanuts!"
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As the credits roll, we watch a newscast from a mysterious alternate future, where Dan Reynolds and Donna Daggitt sing the praises of everyone's favorite celebrity animal, Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel, and describe how thoroughly he's captured the tiny town of Hatchetfield's hearts...
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* SoleSurvivor: Dan's line "If there's an apocalypse, he'll survive it!" lampshades how Peanuts miraculously survived to the end of both ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' and ''Theatre/BlackFriday''.
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* ConductingTheCarnage: When the stage directions end Tinky's final encounter with Ted by saying "Tinky laughs, and laughs, and then... silence", Creator/NickLang actually makes an orchestra conductor's pinching gesture to indicate "silence", before going on to narrate, with relish in his voice, Robot Emma and Paul 23's appearance with knives in their hands.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: The burning question that Real Emma has for Emma 2 about her marriage to Paul. Complicated because, for all intents and purposes, Emma 2 has an exact copy of Emma's personality and she's really asking this about ''herself''.
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* TheVillainSucksSong: "Time Bastard" is one of these, combined with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, from the POV of Jenny, a woman the Time Bastard has wronged.
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* BraggingThemeTune: The song is one for Hatchetfield's most beloved animal celebrity.
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* DistantDuet: The SurrealMusicVideo for "Forever & Always" gives several hints that the SplitScreen between Robert and Mariah indicates their duet is actually separated by significant time and space, ending with the implication that Mariah is the LostLenore and may have died some time ago.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason for a MusicVideo focusing on Dan and Donna, of all the {{Bit Character}}s, is that Creator/LaurenLopez and Creator/JoeyRichter were one of the only sets of two actors who were living together and could film together during the pandemic, and Dan and Donna were the only Hatchetfield characters they played who had a pre-established relationship.
** Similarly, the reason the Man in a Hurry of all people shows up in the VoxPops is that songwriter Creator/JeffBlim was the one working on the video with them, and he's the only person who could shoot pickups of his own face to splice into the video without having to loop another cast member in (and of all the characters he plays the Man in a Hurry is the [[RuleOfFunny funniest one]] to have show up).
** Similarly, the reason the Man in a Hurry of all people shows up in the VoxPops is that songwriter Creator/JeffBlim was the one working on the video with them, and he's the only person who could shoot pickups of his own face to splice into the video without having to loop another cast member in (and of all the characters he plays the Man in a Hurry is the [[RuleOfFunny funniest one]] to have show up).
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* SplitScreen: The "Forever & Always" SurrealMusicVideo had to be filmed this way because of COVID-19, but the video makes an intentional artistic choice to highlight this rather than hiding it -- eventually making it clear the two lovers aren't physically together, and Mariah's character may only be a memory in Robert's character's mind.
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Peanuts!" is ''wildly'' different from even the silliest ''Nightmare Time'' story proper.
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* AbsenteeActor: Curt Mega, who played Peanuts' owner Papa Ed in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', couldn't actually be in this video, hence Papa Ed only appearing as part of Peanuts' backstory as a still photo in the newscast.
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* MoodWhiplash: An intentionally ''massive'' one from the horrifying DownerEnding of "Time Bastard" to a jaunty cartoonish song about Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel, which then suddenly whiplashes us ''again'' into confronting the idea this adorable squirrel may somehow be responsible for Hatchetfield's [[WatchingTroyBurn fiery destruction]].
* TeamPet: The song starts out singing Peanuts' praises as one for the entire town of Hatchetfield, and then goes meta, telling you that if you're in some kind of stereotypical KidsWildernessEpic adventure you should consider making Peanuts the TeamPet of your story.
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* WatchingTroyBurn: We get a TimeSkip after TheReveal of Peanuts' sapience to Dan and Donna broadcasting with Hatchetfield in the process of burning down in the background, followed by a second one to a broadcast in Hatchetfield's ruined, burnt-out husk.
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* AdorableAbomination: This sequence serves as a hilarious ambiguous {{reveal}} that poor adorable little Peanuts was also one of these all along.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear how much of what we see in "Peanuts!" is actually happening, how much of it may be [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness delusion]] or {{propaganda| machine}} on the part of Dan and Donna, and if it all ''did'' literally happen, ''how'' exactly it happened.
** This story has launched quite the debate among fans over whether Peanuts somehow actually is an EldritchAbomination of some kind or if this is a TrendAesop about how Dan and Donna's [[OldMediaAreEvil media-driven groupthink]] ended up taking on a life of its own. (Note that in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', which had a very similar {{Aesop}}, the real truth was still ''both''.)
* ApocalypseCult: Peanuts ambiguously becomes the center of one when his FlashInThePanFad hits critical mass, with Dan and Donna ambiguously at the center of it.
* ApocalypseHow: The ending of "Peanuts!" shows Hatchetfield -- and possibly the whole world -- in ruins, although we don't know exactly ''how'' this happened or how far the damage went, just that it was the result of some kind of societal breakdown in response to Peanuts attaining sapience.
* CheapCostume: Joey and Lauren's ''costumes'' as Dan and Donna are fairly convincing, but the "handheld mics" they use for their VoxPops are clearly actually TV remote controls.
* CreativeClosingCredits: More creative than the ClosingCredits of either of the other Season One episodes -- the Episode Two ClosingCredits are a MusicVideo that tells a self-contained story with no relationship whatsoever to the events of the preceding episode. (For this reason, the video is shown as a SplitScreen with the actual credits scroll, as opposed to the credits being superimposed as with "A Thousand Eyes" in Episode One or interspersed as with "The Web I Spin for You" in Episode Three.) It therefore makes more sense to treat "Peanuts!" as a separate mini-story rather than an actual part of "Time Bastard".
* ADayInTheLimelight: For Creator/JoeyRichter and Creator/LaurenLopez as newscasters Dan and Donna, this being the first time we've actually seen them fully embodied onscreen rather than in the form of voiceovers.
* DeadlineNews: "Peanuts!" implies it's some combination of this and ApocalypticLog -- it's a recording of a newscast (or compilation of newscasts) being played for us to show us how the world {{ambiguous|situation}}ly ended in this timeline.
* ExistentialHorror: The fact that Peanuts is a sapient person capable of speech sends Dan and Donna tumbling down a hilarious rabbit hole of existential questions about the nature of the universe they live in.
* FlashInThePanFad: The plot of "Peanuts!" is about the existing HumanInterestStory we all remember from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', an inspiring YetAnotherBabyPanda story about a baby ''squirrel'' named "Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel", steadily growing and growing in importance to the people of Hatchetfield (or at least to Dan and Donna) until he dominates all their news coverage. [[ApocalypseHow And then things start getting weird.]]
* GiantAnimalWorship: We're given a flash of a scene of people worshiping Peanuts this way, although it's ''probably'' just an artistic rendition and Peanuts didn't actually grow in size when people started worshiping him.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: It's hard to say what Peanuts' motivations, if any, are during this sequence, but it doesn't ''seem'' like he would've wanted to destroy the world on purpose.
* OrWasItADream: The final MindScrew of this video is how the ruined, apocalyptic studio is suddenly restored to its original state at the end as though none of the previous events happened (except for Peanuts creepily lurking in the background).
* RealityEnsues: Dan and Donna's hilarious FreakOut is a nice reality check that if a genuinely sapient TalkingAnimal actually existed in RealLife they would in fact be treated as an EldritchAbomination whose existence would overturn most of the assumptions our society is based on.
* SanitySlippage: Dan and Donna are clearly undergoing this throughout the course of the story, until they finally hit full HeroicBSOD status when Peanuts starts talking.
* ShowWithinAShow: All of "Peanuts!" purports to be an episode of the Hatchetfield Morning Cup O' News (or several such episodes spliced together) with Dan and Donna.
* StockFootage: All the footage of Peanuts is obviously just stock footage of squirrels taken from the Internet.
* SurrealMusicVideo: It doesn't ''start out'' obviously surreal like other videos in ''Nightmare Time'' but soon becomes so.
* TalkingAnimal: Dan and Donna spend the first half of the video ''wishing'' Peanuts were one of these, only to have a massive FreakOut when [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it turns out he is]].
* VoxPops: Dan and Donna do one with none other than the Man in a Hurry, who surprisingly seems to be the OnlySaneMan in this scenario (totally nonplussed by both their questions about Peanuts and the intensity with which they ask them).
[[folder: Peanuts!]]
* AdorableAbomination: This sequence serves as a hilarious ambiguous {{reveal}} that poor adorable little Peanuts was also one of these all along.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear how much of what we see in "Peanuts!" is actually happening, how much of it may be [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness delusion]] or {{propaganda| machine}} on the part of Dan and Donna, and if it all ''did'' literally happen, ''how'' exactly it happened.
** This story has launched quite the debate among fans over whether Peanuts somehow actually is an EldritchAbomination of some kind or if this is a TrendAesop about how Dan and Donna's [[OldMediaAreEvil media-driven groupthink]] ended up taking on a life of its own. (Note that in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', which had a very similar {{Aesop}}, the real truth was still ''both''.)
* ApocalypseCult: Peanuts ambiguously becomes the center of one when his FlashInThePanFad hits critical mass, with Dan and Donna ambiguously at the center of it.
* ApocalypseHow: The ending of "Peanuts!" shows Hatchetfield -- and possibly the whole world -- in ruins, although we don't know exactly ''how'' this happened or how far the damage went, just that it was the result of some kind of societal breakdown in response to Peanuts attaining sapience.
* CheapCostume: Joey and Lauren's ''costumes'' as Dan and Donna are fairly convincing, but the "handheld mics" they use for their VoxPops are clearly actually TV remote controls.
* CreativeClosingCredits: More creative than the ClosingCredits of either of the other Season One episodes -- the Episode Two ClosingCredits are a MusicVideo that tells a self-contained story with no relationship whatsoever to the events of the preceding episode. (For this reason, the video is shown as a SplitScreen with the actual credits scroll, as opposed to the credits being superimposed as with "A Thousand Eyes" in Episode One or interspersed as with "The Web I Spin for You" in Episode Three.) It therefore makes more sense to treat "Peanuts!" as a separate mini-story rather than an actual part of "Time Bastard".
* ADayInTheLimelight: For Creator/JoeyRichter and Creator/LaurenLopez as newscasters Dan and Donna, this being the first time we've actually seen them fully embodied onscreen rather than in the form of voiceovers.
* DeadlineNews: "Peanuts!" implies it's some combination of this and ApocalypticLog -- it's a recording of a newscast (or compilation of newscasts) being played for us to show us how the world {{ambiguous|situation}}ly ended in this timeline.
* ExistentialHorror: The fact that Peanuts is a sapient person capable of speech sends Dan and Donna tumbling down a hilarious rabbit hole of existential questions about the nature of the universe they live in.
* FlashInThePanFad: The plot of "Peanuts!" is about the existing HumanInterestStory we all remember from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', an inspiring YetAnotherBabyPanda story about a baby ''squirrel'' named "Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel", steadily growing and growing in importance to the people of Hatchetfield (or at least to Dan and Donna) until he dominates all their news coverage. [[ApocalypseHow And then things start getting weird.]]
* GiantAnimalWorship: We're given a flash of a scene of people worshiping Peanuts this way, although it's ''probably'' just an artistic rendition and Peanuts didn't actually grow in size when people started worshiping him.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: It's hard to say what Peanuts' motivations, if any, are during this sequence, but it doesn't ''seem'' like he would've wanted to destroy the world on purpose.
* OrWasItADream: The final MindScrew of this video is how the ruined, apocalyptic studio is suddenly restored to its original state at the end as though none of the previous events happened (except for Peanuts creepily lurking in the background).
* RealityEnsues: Dan and Donna's hilarious FreakOut is a nice reality check that if a genuinely sapient TalkingAnimal actually existed in RealLife they would in fact be treated as an EldritchAbomination whose existence would overturn most of the assumptions our society is based on.
* SanitySlippage: Dan and Donna are clearly undergoing this throughout the course of the story, until they finally hit full HeroicBSOD status when Peanuts starts talking.
* ShowWithinAShow: All of "Peanuts!" purports to be an episode of the Hatchetfield Morning Cup O' News (or several such episodes spliced together) with Dan and Donna.
* StockFootage: All the footage of Peanuts is obviously just stock footage of squirrels taken from the Internet.
* SurrealMusicVideo: It doesn't ''start out'' obviously surreal like other videos in ''Nightmare Time'' but soon becomes so.
* TalkingAnimal: Dan and Donna spend the first half of the video ''wishing'' Peanuts were one of these, only to have a massive FreakOut when [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it turns out he is]].
* VoxPops: Dan and Donna do one with none other than the Man in a Hurry, who surprisingly seems to be the OnlySaneMan in this scenario (totally nonplussed by both their questions about Peanuts and the intensity with which they ask them).
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* MagnificentBastard: Played with, given the direct link between the trope name and the title of this episode -- the TitleThemeTune makes it sound like the "Time Bastard" fits neatly into this trope, and Ted certainly ''thinks'' of himself as a magnificent bastard when he accepts the title, but his actions [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist fall far short of magnificence]] even from this trope's amoral POV.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The whole fun of this story is doing this to the audience ''multiple times'' -- first luring everyone in hoping to see Paul and Emma's wedding, then revealing that Emma isn't who she says she is and is just an IdenticalStranger who stole the real Emma's life -- then revealing that this story can't be the whole truth because the real Emma is alive and has come back to Hatchetfield and is actually ''completely'' identical to the woman Paul married, and finally confronting us with the sheer absurdity of a TerminatorImpersonator plot. And just when you thought you'd been through all the twists and turns the story had in store comes one last WhamLine that ''Paul'' was ''also'' an impostor all along.
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* WalkingSpoiler: Any discussion of the ending of this story is a major one for the Hatchetfield universe as a whole.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: Not just of this story, but of the past Hatchetfield shows ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' and ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', with our knowledge of the true nature of the Homeless Man retroactively adding a huge layer of pathos to every scene he's in.
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* SurrealMusicVideo: The TitleSequence for "Time Bastard" is a doozy of one, featuring Kim Whalen as Jenny in an EtherealWhiteDress singing an Music/{{Adele}}-esque song about revenge against the "bastard" who wronged her, against a backdrop of timepieces being destroyed (a clock drowned in a pool of water, golden watches dissolving slowly into gold dust) and an ambiguous shot of a golden figure holding the Bastard's Box, with gratuitous dancing {{Sexy Silhouette}}s to boot. An homage to similarly surreal Franchise/JamesBond opening sequences from the past, and one designed to kick off tons of EpilepticTrees debate over what it all means.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Even ''Ted'' starts getting uncomfortable when Prof. Hidgens starts waxing lyrical about his sexual encounters with his "girlfriends" Siri and Alexa.
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* ExtremeLibido: A big theme of this story is making it clear just how much of a "horny bastard" Ted really is -- he can barely stop talking or thinking about sex for five minutes, including compulsively [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]] whenever he's briefly in private, no matter how inappropriate the venue.
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* HotterAndSexier: The "Time Bastard" music video deliberately plays with this, with {{Sexy Silhouette}}s everywhere serving as ornamentation for the ominous shots of timepieces being broken and destroyed -- appropriate imagery for the downfall of a "[[ExtremeLibido horny bastard]]" like Ted.
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** The lyrics of the song "Time Bastard" imply that ''Jenny'' wants this against Ted for what he did to her. Given that there's no indication in the story itself that Jenny underwent anything other than CessationOfExistence when she was disintegrated, the meaning of this has led to a lot of EpilepticTrees debates. (Most likely this is an imaginary version of Jenny that Tinky is using to torment Ted with guilt during his time as the Homeless Man.)
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* DespairEventHorizon: Ted is ''about'' to cross it when Jenny dies by disintegration, and is fully lost to it when his attempt to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fails utterly and he realizes he's lost his TimeTravel powers (thanks to havnig gone back too far) and is TrappedInThePast. It's vaguely implied that coming into full awareness of one's nature as a TimeParadox entails crossing the DespairEventHorizon completely and entering [[AndIMustScream the Bastard's Box]].
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* EtherealWhiteDress: "Time Bastard" opens with Kim Whalen embodying this trope -- wearing a simple white dress, carrying a bouquet and with flowers in her hair, singing about her undying vendetta against a man who wronged her. We later find out this is Ted's OldFlame Jenny and this outfit is her wedding dress from the (supposed) AlternateTimeline where they stayed together like they were supposed to, rather than Ted losing her to another man in college and ending up in a downward spiral of despair.
** Note that Jenny's dress averts FairytaleWeddingDress (in contrast with Mariah Rose Faith's dress in the "Forever & Always" video), being a much simpler design than Kim Whalen's actual wedding dress (visible on her Instagram).
** Note that Jenny's dress averts FairytaleWeddingDress (in contrast with Mariah Rose Faith's dress in the "Forever & Always" video), being a much simpler design than Kim Whalen's actual wedding dress (visible on her Instagram).
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* BadVibrations: Kilgore's immense bulk in his {{Cyborg}} form makes the ground shake -- represented by loud musical stings in the soundtrack -- whenever he moves.
* BishonenLine: The SurrealMusicVideo TitleSequence has an ambiguous example, with an androgynous, gracile nude humanoid figure covered in shining gold holding the Bastard's Box [[PowerFloats levitating above its hand]]. It's not clear if this is one of Tinky's servitor, an illusion (like the illusion of Jenny that gives Ted the Box in the story proper) or Tinky's OneWingedAngel form beneath his fursuit and mask.
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* CoconutSuperpowers: A hilarious example with the Bastard's Box, whose "canon" appearance is represented in the SurrealMusicVideo with StockFootage of a golden cube made of an impossibly complex ever-shifting pattern of smaller cubical blocks and voids, [[PowerFloats floating and rotating in place]]. The Bastard's Box we see in the livestream is... a commemorative Rubik's Cube with the (golden-colored) [=UMich=] logo on it, which presumably Creator/JoeyRichter already owned from his college days.
* CoconutSuperpowers: A hilarious example with the Bastard's Box, whose "canon" appearance is represented in the SurrealMusicVideo with StockFootage of a golden cube made of an impossibly complex ever-shifting pattern of smaller cubical blocks and voids, [[PowerFloats floating and rotating in place]]. The Bastard's Box we see in the livestream is... a commemorative Rubik's Cube with the (golden-colored) [=UMich=] logo on it, which presumably Creator/JoeyRichter already owned from his college days.
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** The Bastard's Box is clearly one for the Lament Configuration from ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', which makes Tinky a less AffablyEvil version of Pinhead. Tinky's appearance (obviously looking like a human being wearing a costume with an immobile mask, rather than an actual beast-man) and nature as Ted's NotSoImaginaryFriend is also very reminiscent of Frank from ''Film/DonnieDarko''.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: This story leans a little less heavily on identifiable leitmotifs than the previous one, but still includes plenty of {{Call Back}}s to earlier Hatchetfield music:
** The initial FailureMontage of Ted hitting on women at the wedding is a jazzy, uptempo version of "Inevitable" from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
** Ted DrowningHisSorrows with Prof. Hidgens is underscored with the tune from "Showstopping Number", switching to the tune of "Workin' Boys" when Hidgens starts reminiscing about his college days with Chad.
** The TitleThemeTune "Time Bastard" is associated with TimeTravel, and is the leitmotif that gets the most of a workout during the show:
*** A soft, major-key version of it plays as the "old love song" during Ted and Jenny's imaginary first dance at their wedding.
*** This then turns into the dark, depressing version of it during Ted's depressed stupor at Paul's office.
*** A characteristic high-pitched tinny version of it plays every time he actually passes through the TimePortal.
*** A hesitant, thoughtful version of it plays when Ted contrives his plan to go back to 2004 and change history so he ends up with Jenny.
*** This turns into a very dramatic, heroic version of the theme when he comes up with his (doomed) plan to go back in time again to prevent Jenny's death.
*** Finally, it gets its final DarkReprise as the "real" version of the tune when Ted finally becomes the Homeless Man, playing as the theme of the next 15 years of his awful life, culminating in a darkly triumphal fanfare announcing his soul entering the Bastard's Box.
** Tinky's "theme" is less an identifiable tune than a chaotic rush of discordant notes. There is a specific four-note motif associated with the Bastard's Box, which is also the opening notes of "Time Bastard".
** Jenny gets her own theme, a sweet and melancholy tune that we haven't heard before, which we hear the first time when Ted is describing her to Prof. Hidgens and again when we see her for real, which turns into a tormented DarkReprise when Future Ted and Jenny have their fight.
** The "surreal" theme from previous episodes comes back whenever Ted encounters something that seems illogical or impossible that makes him question his sanity.
** A very dramatic theme (based on the chord progression of "Time Bastard") plays to underscore Kilgore's death by DisintegratorRay, that comes back as an ''even worse'' DarkReprise when Jenny dies the same way.
** There's a jaunty '80s-style "computer tune" that plays to characterize the Future CCRP office, which then [[{{Irony}} ironically]] recurs as the tune for the Hatchetfield Gazette office in the past. A particularly upbeat version of it also plays the first time we see young Andy, as a hint to his future identity.
** Andrew Kilgore has just a ''bit'' of a {{Leitmotif}} in the form of the rhythmic piano chords that play to represent his [[BadVibrations footsteps that make the ground shake]].
** The initial FailureMontage of Ted hitting on women at the wedding is a jazzy, uptempo version of "Inevitable" from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals''.
** Ted DrowningHisSorrows with Prof. Hidgens is underscored with the tune from "Showstopping Number", switching to the tune of "Workin' Boys" when Hidgens starts reminiscing about his college days with Chad.
** The TitleThemeTune "Time Bastard" is associated with TimeTravel, and is the leitmotif that gets the most of a workout during the show:
*** A soft, major-key version of it plays as the "old love song" during Ted and Jenny's imaginary first dance at their wedding.
*** This then turns into the dark, depressing version of it during Ted's depressed stupor at Paul's office.
*** A characteristic high-pitched tinny version of it plays every time he actually passes through the TimePortal.
*** A hesitant, thoughtful version of it plays when Ted contrives his plan to go back to 2004 and change history so he ends up with Jenny.
*** This turns into a very dramatic, heroic version of the theme when he comes up with his (doomed) plan to go back in time again to prevent Jenny's death.
*** Finally, it gets its final DarkReprise as the "real" version of the tune when Ted finally becomes the Homeless Man, playing as the theme of the next 15 years of his awful life, culminating in a darkly triumphal fanfare announcing his soul entering the Bastard's Box.
** Tinky's "theme" is less an identifiable tune than a chaotic rush of discordant notes. There is a specific four-note motif associated with the Bastard's Box, which is also the opening notes of "Time Bastard".
** Jenny gets her own theme, a sweet and melancholy tune that we haven't heard before, which we hear the first time when Ted is describing her to Prof. Hidgens and again when we see her for real, which turns into a tormented DarkReprise when Future Ted and Jenny have their fight.
** The "surreal" theme from previous episodes comes back whenever Ted encounters something that seems illogical or impossible that makes him question his sanity.
** A very dramatic theme (based on the chord progression of "Time Bastard") plays to underscore Kilgore's death by DisintegratorRay, that comes back as an ''even worse'' DarkReprise when Jenny dies the same way.
** There's a jaunty '80s-style "computer tune" that plays to characterize the Future CCRP office, which then [[{{Irony}} ironically]] recurs as the tune for the Hatchetfield Gazette office in the past. A particularly upbeat version of it also plays the first time we see young Andy, as a hint to his future identity.
** Andrew Kilgore has just a ''bit'' of a {{Leitmotif}} in the form of the rhythmic piano chords that play to represent his [[BadVibrations footsteps that make the ground shake]].
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* DirtyCoward: The TitleThemeTune seems to call the "Time Bastard" one, possibly alluding to Ted's attempt to [[RepressedMemories forget his past]] once he becomes the Homeless Man:
-->'''Jenny''': Keep, keep running away, you bastard, you bastard...
-->'''Jenny''': Keep, keep running away, you bastard, you bastard...
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* ActorAllusion: Ted being the "Time Bastard" may be an allusion to Creator/JoeyRichter playing a supervillain named the "[[https://henrydanger.fandom.com/wiki/Time_Jerker Time Jerker]]" on ''[[Series/HenryDanger Henry Danger]]''.
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* ActorAllusion: Ted being the "Time Bastard" may be an allusion to Creator/JoeyRichter playing a supervillain named the "[[https://henrydanger.fandom.com/wiki/Time_Jerker Time Jerker]]" on ''[[Series/HenryDanger Henry Danger]]''. (Note that the Time-Jerker's ColorMotif, like Tinky's, is yellow.)
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* ChekhovsGun: A very literal example with the disintegrator device that Ted puts into his pocket to take with him back to the past after killing Executive Kilgore with it.
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* ChekhovsGun: A very literal example with the disintegrator device that Ted puts into his pocket to take with him back to the past after killing Executive Kilgore with it.\
* ColorMotifs: Just as Wiggly's associated color in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' was green and Blinky's in "Watcher World" was purple, Tinky's appears to be yellow. The SurrealMusicVideo for "Time Bastard" uses [[GoldIsYellow gold]] for its motif, with heavy use of gold clockworks, gold dust and a gold-painted silhouette.
* ColorMotifs: Just as Wiggly's associated color in ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' was green and Blinky's in "Watcher World" was purple, Tinky's appears to be yellow. The SurrealMusicVideo for "Time Bastard" uses [[GoldIsYellow gold]] for its motif, with heavy use of gold clockworks, gold dust and a gold-painted silhouette.
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* TimeParadox: This seems to be the true meaning of being a "Time Bastard" -- Executive Kilgore gives a long rant about how Ted's title means he's been "aborted from the flow of time and space" and the logic of normal causality no longer applies to him, allowing him to abuse TimeTravel freely. (Although, unfortunately, [[TrappedInThePast not as freely as he assumes]].)
