It's been made clear that the Real Life short film Workin' Boys will not be an actual portrayal of the Show Within a Show from The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, which was invented to be an absurdly bad idea for a musical, and the description for the short film is that it's named after Workin' Boys because it's about Prof. Hidgens' quest to get Workin' Boys produced at the Starlight Theater.
However, Corey Dorris, on the Nightmare Time Season One talkback Livestream, let slip that "It's not really Workin' Boys" — something Nick Lang quickly shushed him about. This might just mean what was said above — that the film won't be a three-hour-long snoozefest that takes place in Real Time confined to the location of a football field — but it could have a deeper meaning.
It would be tough to pull off, but it wouldn't be surprising at this point, considering how much Nick Lang enjoys shocking plot twists and Wham Episodes, for Workin' Boys to suddenly swerve away from the ostensible plot about Prof. Hidgens' theatrical ambitions and reveal itself to be a major Wham Episode in the Hatchetfield Myth Arc, maybe even one involving some kind of meta twist that retroactively changes the title of the movie that it's in.
- Corey's remark about it not really being Workin' Boys is now, seemingly, an allusion to the fact that Hidgens is forced to change it to Workin' Girls.
It's already been made very clear, after his Face–Heel Turn in TGWDLM and his worse one in "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", that there's something not right with the lad. The plot we've been given about him trying to stage Workin' Boys with very little budget or experience or connections — finding a venue, hiring crew and casting actors, etc. — could turn into something both more supernatural and more sinister, especially as the frustration of Workin' Boys' impending failure turns him Ax-Crazy again. Dollars to donuts the final fate of the cast of Workin' Boys he's gathered is to be some kind of mass Human Sacrifice.
- Confirmed. While it's nothing so formal as a sacrifice, Hidgens does indeed snap, have some hallucinations, and massacre the cast.
Starlight Theater has been established as one of the five Black Altars, and the eerie blue lighting and Voice of the Legion effects are certainly emblematic of Pokotho.
