YMMV / It's Curtains

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Yes, soup cakes like the one Astarte makes in Week 4 actually exist. They're a lot better than they sound, too, and far from the weirdest cakes out there (a few recipes from the early 1940s include salt pork).
• Ascended Meme: After Billy makes a Hook-having-syphilis remark to the Balladeer, the latter turns and mouths it to the audience during Hook's execution, at which point the joke had already spiralled into an out-of-universe meme.
• Awesome Music: So many linked songs. Some culprits, including the first, even retool the "Machine Gun Talk Battle" game mechanic into a song battle.
• Cargo Ship: One Crack Pairing people say they ship is between two inanimate objects, the Arm Thing and the Stunt Cow.
• Crack Pairing: A lot are joked about, often involving Hans, the Balladeer, or characters who aren't even in the game. Hansadeer used to be this, but then it stopped being a joke and became actual game canon.
• Fan Nickname: A few of them are there already.
  • Valjean: Bread Dad and French Jesus. These are mentioned in the epilogue.
  • Eliza: Founding Mom
  • Astarte's Superpowered Evil Side is called "Impostor-chan," "Stabby," or "Genocider Astarte."
  • "Billydeer" for the Balladeer became an In-Series Nickname.
  • Javert: Law Dad
  • The events of the game's unfolding backstory gained the nickname "Round 0."
  • "Bad Santa" for King Charlemagne.
  • Billy H. and Hans, of all people have become known as Team "Love Made Us Better People."
• Foe Yay Shipping: Aside from Hans/Balladeer, which actually became canon with Hans's Heel–Face Turn, the Leading Player is often shipped with one of the heroes for fun, generally set before she also turned good.
• Genius Bonus: The multiversal Denny's may seem fairly random, but besides being a theater kid hangout, the name "Denny's" derives from Dionysus, the Greek God of wine, madness...and theater.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Accusing Hook of having syphilis.^{Round 1} Billy Harris does it and Astarte doesn't understand that it was a joke. This led to syphilis jokes whenever the character was brought up.
  • Accidental Misnaming by the narration.^Explanation Since autocorrect keeps changing uncommon names, after enough weeks of every single phone-tagger calling characters things like Hands, Winston, and Home, it became an OOC joke that the mastermind was behind it and/or doesn't know the Cast's names.
  • Sometimes... you app the mastermind.^{Round 2 Spoilers} Turns out the in-universe reason Jeremy was chosen as The Mole is that he's the past self of the Phantom — or, that is, the parasitic program in his brain is. And no, his player didn't do that on purpose or have any idea of the plot beforehand. When this came to light, it became an injoke that spread not only through Curtains but the murdergame community at large.
• Mind Game Ship: Pairing the mastermind with the Balladeer has a following for this alone, specifically when LP erases B's memory for defying her.
• Player Punch: Players knew half the cast would die, but in Round 1, killing the Balladeer too, then bringing him back with Laser-Guided Amnesia, was done specifically to make them suffer.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: All the R1 canon ships got them eventually.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Seymour after he learns that he literally did help do that.

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