History YMMV / TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals

* ActorShipping: There was ''tremendous'' shipping for Mariah Rose Faith and Robert Manion after this show, ironically despite the fact that their characters almost never interact onstage (except for being the two backup cops in "Show Me Your Hands"). It's mainly due to Mariah and Robert being the two youngest sets of the cast with among the most powerful vocal ranges, as well as their flirtatious banter on social media and the multiple duets they've done together for Website/YouTube. (And it's notably all in jest because Mariah is quite public about having a boyfriend, who also frequently shows up in her videos.) Cue massive squeeing at the prospect of the two of them playing a couple in Theatre/BlackFriday, followed by massive tears at Mariah having to bow out after being cast in the touring production of Theatre/MeanGirls.

* MoodWhiplash: "Not Your Seed" is one of the few songs completely devoid of comedy and it ends with [[spoiler:the assimilated Alice shooting her father in the back]]...then immediately follows with a comedic scene of the assimilated trying to SpeakInUnison but failing to agree on what to say.
** A split-second one occurs right at the end. [[spoiler:After being convinced that Paul died in the destruction of the meteor, the sight of him alive and well and reunited with Emma is enough to send the audience into full [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] mode. But then he starts to sing and, in the taped recording, you can audibly hear the audience's mood switch to dread in an instant.]]

*** Does Paul try to like musicals? Or did he just listen to one and decided he would never like any? Supporting the former theory is that Paul is the one to know the most of Moana, and he's seen both Godspell and Mamma Mia in the past. A popular Youtube comment theory is that he tries to listen to musicals, just in case he ever finds one her likes.

* MoodWhiplash: "Not Your Seed" is one of the few songs completely devoid of comedy and it ends with [[spoiler:the assimilated Alice shooting her father in the back]]...then immediately follows with a comedic scene of the assimilated SpeakingInUnison but failing to agree on what to say.
** A split-second one occurs right at the end. [[spoiler:After being convinced that Paul died in the destruction of the meteor, the sight of him alive and well and reunited with Emma is enough to send the audience into full [[Squee squeeing]] mode. But then he starts to sing and, in the taped recording, you can audibly hear the audience's mood switch to dread in an instant.]]

* ActorShipping: There was ''tremendous'' shipping for Mariah Rose Faith and Robert Manion after this show, ironically despite the fact that their characters almost never interact onstage (except for being the two backup cops in "Show Me Your Hands"). It's mainly due to Mariah and Robert being the two youngest sets of the cast with among the most powerful vocal ranges, as well as their flirtatious banter on social media and the multiple duets they've done together for YouTube. (And it's notably all in jest because Mariah is quite public about having a boyfriend, who also frequently shows up in her videos.) Cue massive squeeing at the prospect of the two of them playing a couple in Theatre/BlackFriday, followed by massive tears at Mariah having to bow out after being cast in the touring production of Theatre/MeanGirls.

** Like with Sam up above, there is a moment during "What Do Want" where after Mr. Davidson calls his wife on the phone to tell her he wants her to choke him out during sex where he gets a bewildered look on his face and claims he forgot, before hanging up on her and getting back to singing. Was what was left of Mr. Davidson trying to save face in front of his employee and wife? Or perhaps trying to keep from her somehow being infected over the phone somehow? Given what Hidgens says about there being spores in the air and all it takes to be infected for some people are just hearing someone sing.

*** Does Paul try to like musicals? Or did he just listen to one and decided he would never like any? Supporting the former theory is that Paul is the one to know the most of Moana, and he's seen both Godspell and Mama Mia in the past. A popular Youtube comment theory is that he tries to listen to musicals, just in case he ever finds one her likes.

** Hot Chocolate Guy (the one who has very low blood sugar) has also proved ridiculously popular despite only appearing Paul's first scene with Emma.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: One of the songs is about cops boasting about how they can do whatever they want and if anyone disobeys they'll shoot them. Another, sung by villains currently posing as American military, is titled "America is Great Again".
** "America Is Great Again" elicited audibly uncomfortable laughter from the audience, first comparing the meteor to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and then comparing the HiveMind (and by extension the forces behind Trump's election) to a "[[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Final Solution"]] and "[[TheSingularity Singularity]] achieved through a [[ApocalypseCult predestined self-destruction]]". The metaphor behind the idea of a relentlessly destructive HiveMind became very clear very quickly.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: During "Show Me Your Hands", Charlotte faces her assimilated husband Sam, and there's just one moment where he lifts up his sunglasses and gasps, "Charlotte...?" Was this Sam genuinely breaking through for just a moment, or the alien just messing with Charlotte's head? For that matter, if it ''was'' really Sam, did that one gasp come out of joy and relief, showing that he did care about her to some degree, or was he just so discombobulated from being assimilated and just said the first thing that came to mind?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: During "Show Me Your Hands", Charlotte faces her assimilated husband Sam, and there's just one moment where he lifts up his sunglasses and gasps, "Charlotte...?" Was this Sam genuinely breaking through for just a moment, or the alien just messing with Charlott's head? For that matter, if it ''was'' really Sam, did that one gasp come out of joy and relief, showing that he did care about her to some degree, or was he just so discombobulated from being assimilated and just said the first thing that came to mind?

-->'''Greenpeace Girl: Do you want to save the planet?

** In particular, Jaime Lyn Beatty has been onstage lovers in Starkid shows with Creator/DarrenCriss, Joey Richter and Jeff Blim. It seems unlikely that Darren will come back for a full show anytime soon, but in the meantime we finally get to see her, Joey and Jeff in a LoveTriangle (with her as a maximally {{Woobie}} combination of [[Theatre/MeAndMyDick Sally]], [[Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman Candy]] and [[Theatre/TheTrailToOregon Mouthface]].

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: ''All'' of the musical numbers are fantastic, but to expand:
** The beginning of "Join Us And Die", where zombie Charlotte reveals herself by belting on the word "die." Jaime Lyn Beatty (pardon the pun) ''kills it.''
** "Show Stoppin' Number", where Professor Hidgins reveals his true intentions in a dazzling song-and-dance number that Robert Manion absolutely nails.
** When Paul is almost taken over by the plauge, he loudly declares "I Don't! Like! MUSICALS!" and blows up the meteor.
** A meta one for Jon Matteson. With it being his first Starkid production, people were naturally skeptical over how he'd compare with the others. Not only did he have to prove he could act first, as with most Starkids, it's the voices people praise before all of their undeniable acting talent, but when he does eventually sing, he absolutely kills it with his solos in "Let it Out" and "Inevitable."
** This whole show is an acting CMOA for all the actors involved. From Lauren’s astounding delivery of Emma’s monologue about her sister, to Joey’s [[PlayingAgainstType asshole-ish]] Ted, to Corey’s heartwrenching facial expressions during “Not Your Seed” as Bill, not to mention Jon’s incredible moments as Paul fighting against the alien spores infecting him, this show provided acting opportunities for everyone involved that were significantly different from a lot of Starkid’s previous material. And, as Emma herself said, they “fuckin killed it”.