''Human Centipede: The Musical'' is a comedic adaptation of ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''. It can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gLagIYMHVE here.]]
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!! This musical provides examples of:
* AdaptedOut: Instead of Katsuro, we have Steve as the front piece of the centipede.
* AxCrazy: Voller.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Kranz and Voller begin the play wishing they could handle an exciting case again. Well, they get one, and it ends up [[spoiler:killing them]].
* BreakTheCutie: Steve.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Lindsay's actress "revolts" during the feeding scene. Later, she disgustedly asks why this is even a musical.
* BrickJoke: Butt cocktails.
* CallingYourAttacks: Steve cries out “Stab!” twice: once when he [[spoiler:stabs Heiter]], and again when he [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide kills himself.]]]]
* ContractualGenreBlindness: Lindsay and Jenny display [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] on numerous occasions, yet they never apply it.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Lindsay]]
* {{Determinator}}: Steve.
-->'''Steve:''' [[Film/GalaxyQuest Never give up! Never surrender!]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Steve.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Most of the main characters, especially [[ThePollyanna Steve]], have them.
* EvilIsHammy: Heiter.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Heiter, who explains [[BodyHorror how the human centipede will be created]] [[VillainSong in song.]]
* ForTheEvulz: The reason why Heiter kills the truck driver.
* GermanicEfficiency
-->'''Lindsay:''' I haven’t seen a street sign in a while.
-->'''Jenny:''' That’s so weird. I thought Germans were supposed to be, like, really efficient.
* InHarmsWay: Kranz and Voller.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: Kranz and Voller, during their introduction.
* {{Keet}}: Steve.
* LargeHam: Voller.
-->'''Voller:''' '''I smell''' '''''danger!''''' '''I want''' '''''more!'''''
* LosingHorns: Played after Lindsay's escape plan fails.
* LyricalDissonance: Dr. Heiter’s VillainSong, along with the penultimate number, an upbeat song about how [[spoiler:everyone dies.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Heiter interrupts Steve’s cheerful music number by drugging him and dragging him offstage.
* MusicalisInterruptus: Heiter does this to Steve and Lindsay on separate occasions.
* {{Narm}}: Lampshaded.[[invoked]]
-->'''Narrator:''' This would be sad if they didn’t look so amusing.
* NoDeadBodyPoops: Averted.
-->'''Narrator:''' Just so you know, everybody... you poop when you die!
* NoodleIncident: That time "when the whole damn town got rabies."
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Heiter, Kranz, and Voller.
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Kranz and Voller lament that they no longer get called on any interesting cases. Naturally, they immediately get called to investigate Lindsay and Jenny's screams after their musical number ends.
* OrphanedPunchline: During Kranz and Voller's introduction.
* PlotHole: One lyric states, "Steve smiled until his last teeth were gone", but Steve is at the front of the centipede.
* ThePollyanna: Steve retains his cheerful demeanor even when he wakes up tied to a bed and finds out that he’ll be part of a human centipede.
* RaceLift: In the movie, the male member of the centipede was a JapaneseTourist named Katsuro. Here, he's a white guy named Steve.
* RockBottom
-->'''Jenny:''' What are we gonna do? We blew a tire, and we don’t know where we are! This literally could not be any worse!
-->'''Narrator:''' Or could it!?
* SpoofAesop: The final song is all about this.
-->'''Everyone:''' Don’t sew your mouth to my butt, and I won’t sew my butt to you. If we all keep our butts to ourselves, we can change the world.
* ScreamingAtSquick: Kranz doesn't handle the sight of the centipede well.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Before bleeding to death, Kranz shoots Heiter in the head.]]
* ThatsWhatSheSaid
-->'''Jenny:''' We’re dangerously unprotected.
-->'''Lindsay:''' That’s what she said.
* ThisIsReality
-->'''Jenny:''' We don’t know where we are, and we don’t have phones, and we’re just two girls, and the horror movie really writes itself here!
-->'''Lindsay:''' Okay, relax. This is real life, not a horror movie.
* TitleTheAdaptation
* ToiletHumor: A cornerstone of the plot.
-->'''Narrator:''' Poop jokes! This is ''[[TrueArt art!]]''
* TranslationConvention: All of the dialogue is in English.
* ValleyGirl: Lindsay and Jenny.
* VillainSong: The means through which Dr. Heiter explains the [[BodyHorror procedure.]]
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