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- The choreography is really impressive on another level for this show, especially "Feast or Famine" capturing the chaotic violence of a riot, or the intricate abstract dances that characterize "Monsters and Men", "Made In America" (especially the Dream Ballet sequence) and "What If Tomorrow Comes?" And there's a special Shout-Out to "Deck the Halls (Of Northville High)" for going absurdly hard and having a dead-on impersonation of High School Musical's feel-good massive dancing crowd scenes that ends up being one of the most memorable scenes in the show, just for what amounts to a silly throwaway gag. (In fact, one of the complaints about the YouTube version of the show is the reliance on closeups means you don't get to see just how intricate the choreography is.)
- In hindsight, Lex's first conversation with the Wiggly. She tickles its belly, admits it's cute...and then tucks it into her backpack to give to Hannah. Lex is technically an adult while calling herself a kid, but she resisted the Wiggly's thrall without knowing it. During the rest of the musical, she remains the Only Sane Woman as chaos descends upon the mall.
- Ethan giving Hannah the lucky hat, with a lot of hindsight. Hannah believed him when he promised that nothing would hurt her while she was wearing it, and he was right. She evaded the first round of riots, resisted Wiggly's Breaking Speech, and evaded sedation via a brainwashed Becky and Tom. Even when Linda takes it off scornfully and tosses it away, Hannah evades death and torture. Ethan saved Hannah's life, multiple times over, with that little act of kindness.
- Ethan paid for it with his life but he did buy time when the rioters attacked him for Hannah to run and hide. He then spent his last moments promising Lex he'd get her and Hannah to California. Even his death seemed to snap Tom and Becky out of their Wiggly obsession, as they knelt by him and Tom begged his former student to stay with him.
- Gen. MacNamara, who didn't actually accomplish much during his appearance in The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals but became a Memetic Badass among the fandom, gets to live up to that reputation in this show with some extreme moments of Fanservice:
- Stopping the Oval Office from devolving into Brainwashed and Crazy chaos and being the first "adult" human being we see able to defy Wiggly's will, shooting the Wiggly doll right out of Bob Morris' hand with a casual one-handed pistol shot, and having the biggest applause for his entrance a Starkid show has had in ages.
- Bursting into the Black and White at President Goodman's Darkest Hour and being able to somehow use the "Blade of Truth" to psychically break Wiggly's power on his home turf. He also did this knowing that he wouldn't survive the encounter.
- Appearing to give Lex Foster her 11th-Hour Superpower awakening. He manages to give her a gun and tells her how to use the Black and White to teleport it into her hand. Then the General promotes her on the spot to a commanding officer.
- Hannah is obviously scared and traumatized after seeing Ethan die, curled in a Troubled Fetal Position while hiding in the kid's play zone. Ethan seems to reappear, encouraging her to give into despair. What does Hannah say? That he's not Ethan! She ends up being right. Then the Wiggly starts talking to her, tempting her to succumb to its influence. Hannah not only says no, but she also says she's not letting the doll affect anyone again. Then she manages to avoid a brainwashed Tom and Becky for a fairly long time. This is while being terrified and knowing that the cultists will be gunning for her.
- How Lex gets through to Tom just as he's about to leave the mall with a Wiggly doll; she holds him at gunpoint and asks him an Armor-Piercing Question: "Did Tim [Tom's son] ever say that he wanted the doll?" This makes him start to question it; Lex then reveals that she's been working at Toy Zone for several years, and no kid said they wanted a Wiggly. Even on Thanksgiving break, only adults showed up in line. Lex proceeds to say that she knows Tom is trying to make up for killing Jane by accident, but a toy won't solve the problems with him and his son. Tom thinks about it, and realizes she's right! What the hell is he doing?Tom: "You're not that cute, are you? In fact, you're real fuckin' ugly."
- Cue Tom tossing the doll, and telling Lex it's his fault Becky and Hannah are in trouble because the cult has them. He's going to make it right, however; first, he shows her how to hold the gun properly. Then he leads the way, armed to the teeth. Lex gives a "FUCK YES!" that her favorite teacher is back.
- Linda Monroe is awesome just for being so unapologetically narcissistic and sadistic of a villain, but we do have to give her credit for being so unused to ever not getting her way that she out-wrestles a military veteran three times her size and wrenches the gun right out of his hand.
- For people who love arrogant villains, the way she has the cultists literally carry her around like she's in a human sedan chair and kiss her feet is pretty damn awesome.
- "I've met God. He had nothing nice to say about you."
- The sheer power and eloquence of Uncle Wiley's Breaking Speech against President Goodman hit with overwhelming force — every moment of Joey Richter's performance here is everything it needs to be.
- Dylan Saunders as Tom and Kim Whalen as Becky absolutely crush their big scene "Take Me Back" with the raw emotion of their characters melding with nailing the powerful high notes Jeff Blim gave them to sing.
- It's very satisfying, after all the abuse Becky has taken from Linda, for her to give a casual Bond One-Liner before tagging her with a Boom, Headshot!. She then hugs Lex and Hannah as an apology for hunting down the latter, which they're graceful enough to accept.
- Paul and Emma came as soon as they could when Tim begged them to save his dad rather than take him to a safe place. It may not have done much, given the mall riots overwhelmed most of the people trapped inside, but they both look ready to fight for Emma's brother-in-law and save him for Tim's sake.
- The musical ends with the mall survivors, Paul, Emma, and Tim planning to go to Professor Hidgens's house to wait out a potential nuclear war; if anyone is paranoid enough to build a radiation-proof bunker, it's Professor Hidgens. First, however, they're going to wait for midnight to strike, to see if tomorrow will come, and huddle together while Tom looks at his watch. Hannah then sings that she can see a possible tomorrow, that it may or may not come, so what now? What are they supposed to do with a possibility? Tom asserts that he believes there will be a tomorrow because he has his friends and family with him. They all start counting down the minutes...and the show ends with the sound of a plane and a cut to black. Not on a despairing note like its predecessor, but one of hope, that they can handle whatever happens after surviving one hell of a day.
