History Theatre / TheTrailToOregon

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The General Store Guy and his girlfriend both use the Yiddish term ''scheister'' to refer to his [[HonestJohnsDealership questionable business practices]]. This also leans him towards the GreedyJew archetype.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: In the Website/YouTube version, the father gets the name [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] and is clearly psyched. [[UnfortunateNames The rest of the family don't get off so lucky]].

''The Trail to Oregon!'' is a comedic musical parody of cult classic video game VideoGame/TheOregonTrail, performed by Creator/TeamStarkid as its ninth stage production.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The General Store Guy and his girlfriend both use the Yiddish term ''scheister'' (i.e. "shyster") to refer to his [[HonestJohnsDealership questionable business practices]]. This also leans him towards the GreedyJew archetype.

* MemeticHandGesture: Everyone crosses their face with an ominous two fingered hand gesture when they say the phrase "the Bandit King", including the Bandit King. [[spoiler: This leads to his SurprisinglySuddenDeath.]]

* DecompositeCharacter: The high school version of the play ''massively'' decomposes Joey Richter's LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles into actual separate bit parts for different actors, since the one thing high school productions can get far more cheaply than professional ones is actors. (In the one production of this script uploaded to [=YouTube=] there's even a reference in "When the World's At Stake (Reprise)" to the General Store Guy's Girlfriend having auditioned and failed to play the Daughter.)

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Joey Richter as "Everyone Else" outside the main family, i.e. all of the {{Non Player Character}}s of the game. Essentially the GameMaster of this story.

* ExcitedShowTitle: The Trail to Oregon!

* AteHisGun: The Son ''literally'' tries to eat a gun, and unfortunately does it by sticking the muzzle in his mouth with his finger on the trigger. (In his defense, he just told the Mother that he experiments with any new object he finds by putting it in his mouth, and she went and [[WhatAnIdiot handed him a loaded gun anyway]].)

-->'''Son''': Right. The father. The oldest son.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The General Store Guy and his girlfriend both use the Yiddish term ''scheister'' (i.e. "shyster") to refer to his [[HonestJohnsDealership questionable business practices]].

* SpeedRun: In the song "Speedrun", after [[spoiler: the daughter gets kidnapped by [=McDoon=]]], the mother uses this trope to catch up, even referring to the game mechanics for such a thing -- "We're setting our rations to Bare Bones and our pace to Grueling!" -- and saying "We're gonna do... [[NameDrop a Speed Run!]]"

* DeterminedHomesteadersChildren: Subverted and parodied. While Son is determined, he's also responsible for the loss of most of the family's supplies early on, either due to eating them or throwing them off the wagon when he was bored. Daughter, meanwhile, would rather run off with the first guy she meets than go to Oregon with the family. [[spoiler: At least at first.]]

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The General Store Guy and his girlfriend both use the Yiddish term ''scheister'' (i.e. "shyster") to refer to his [[HonestJohnsDealership questionable business practices]]. May be UnfortunateImplications.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Difficult as the original Oregon Trail was, at least all the store owners were honest and sold you goods for whatever the market price was at that point in the trail. This show takes the logical AdamSmithHatesYourGuts behavior of the stores raising their prices as you got further along the trail and more desperate and turns it UpToEleven -- this version of the "General Store Guy" won't give you anything close to a fair deal [[spoiler: unless you threaten him at gunpoint]].

* BumblingDad: UpToEleven and initially PlayedForLaughs but unexpectedly then PlayedForDrama when the Mother bitterly tells the Father that she's leaving him because his incompetence has cost her her daughter.

* {{Corpsing}}: Joey Richter and Jeff Blim suppress laughter when General Store Guy claims he played Tony in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', which was a ThrowItIn on Joey's part.

** There were also ''direct'' allusions based on naming the character after the wrong actor for laughs, like naming Grandpa "Jeff Blim" or the Daughter "Brian Holden" ([[AbsenteeActor who wasn't even in this show]]).

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The music in the show is a fusion of the Broadway show tunes you'd expect from a stage show, Western-style music you'd expect from the setting, and funk, typical of Jeff Blim's style.

* DeterminedHomesteadersChildren: Parodied. While Son is determined, he's also responsible for the loss of most of the family's supplies early on, either due to eating them or throwing them off the wagon when he was bored. Daughter, meanwhile, would rather run off with the first guy she meets than go to Oregon with the family. [[spoiler: At least at first.]]

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: It's a bit of a {{Shibboleth}} for people who live in Oregon that the proper pronunciation of last syllable of "Oregon" is pronounced "gun", NOT "gone". Perhaps riffing on this, the opening song "Gone to Oregon" defiantly rhymes "Oregon" with "gone", then keeps changing the last syllable of "Oregon" to match the rhyme of the previous line ("Ore-goon", "Ore-gap", [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers "Ore-shit"]].)
** Also, the Father repeatedly pronounces "Willamette Valley" incorrectly as [="WILLamette"=] rather than [="WillAMette"=], although to be fair [[TheDitz he also pronounces "educational" as "edumacational"]].