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* JesusWasWayCool: Even though he supports the anti-marijuana stance that the musical parodies, Jesus makes up for it with an awesome song, a WalkingShirtlessScene, and a troupe of sexy, angelic backup singers.
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* JesusWasWayCool: Even though he supports the anti-marijuana stance that the musical parodies, Jesus makes up for it with an awesome song, a WalkingShirtlessScene, and a troupe of sexy, angelic backup singers. He also offers TheMoralSubstitute of getting high off God.
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* TheMoralSubstitute: In-univese In-universe example: in the film version, at the end of "Listen To Jesus, Jimmy," Jesus challenges Jimmy to "take a hit of God" and see if he can "handle the high". Jimmy refuses, saying, "I've got a new god now!"
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* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: In the film version, at the end of "Listen To Jesus, Jimmy," Jesus challenges Jimmy to "take a hit of God" and see if he can "handle the high". Jimmy refuses, saying, "I've got a new god now!"
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* WidowedAtTheWedding: In the film version, Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane imagine themselves at their wedding when Mary was shot during the gun struggle between Jimmy and Jack the dope dealer, singing the reprise of "Romeo And Juliet" while Mary dies in Jimmy's arms.
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* BeatStillMyHeart: Mae, after beating Jack to death, rips out his heart at the end of her musical number.
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* AnthropomorphicFood: The pot-brownie-as-prostitute that Jimmy has sex with in the cartoon segment.
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* BlackComedy: A lot of humor is gotten out of drug addiction, infedelity, rape, murder, and cannibalism.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Two of 'em! One right after the other:
** "Mary Jane/Mary Lane", which parodies ThePowerOfLove by [[spoiler:having every single person in the film--including satan, Jesus, the Chinese restauraunteur and the 1930s parents--break character to sing a dewy-eyed love song. Even a dead hobo comes back to life just for this number.]]
** "The Brownie Song", told through animation, in which [[spoiler:Jimmy is lured back to the reefer den by offer of "the greatest brownie known to man".]] Highlights include [[spoiler:the inhabitants of the reefer den singing as Little Mermaid-style fish.]]
** "Mary Jane/Mary Lane", which parodies ThePowerOfLove by [[spoiler:having every single person in the film--including satan, Jesus, the Chinese restauraunteur and the 1930s parents--break character to sing a dewy-eyed love song. Even a dead hobo comes back to life just for this number.]]
** "The Brownie Song", told through animation, in which [[spoiler:Jimmy is lured back to the reefer den by offer of "the greatest brownie known to man".]] Highlights include [[spoiler:the inhabitants of the reefer den singing as Little Mermaid-style fish.]]
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** "The Brownie Song", told through animation, in which [[spoiler:Jimmy is lured back to the reefer den by offer of "the greatest brownie known to man".]] Highlights include [[spoiler:the inhabitants of the reefer den singing as Little Mermaid-style fish.]]
** "Mary Jane/Mary Lane", which parodies ThePowerOfLove by [[spoiler:having every single person in the film--including satan, Jesus, the Chinese restauraunteur and the 1930s parents--break character to sing a dewy-eyed love song. Even a dead hobo comes back to life just for this number.]]
** "The Brownie Song", told through animation, in which [[spoiler:Jimmy is lured back to the reefer den by offer of "the greatest brownie known to man".]] Highlights include [[spoiler:the inhabitants of the reefer den singing as Little Mermaid-style fish.]]
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* TenorBoy : Jimmy fits this to a T until later in the show(He does retain that tenor though)
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* RefugeInAudacity
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** The musical itself [[InvokedTrope makes a point of it]] to give us the true {{Aesop}}.
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* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Parodied. In the final song [[spoiler:Mary is released from Hell and Jimmy tells her to wait for him. '"One day I'll get cancer, or hit by a train!"]]
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* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Parodied. In the final song [[spoiler:Mary is released from Hell Purgatory and Jimmy tells her to wait for him. '"One day I'll get cancer, or hit by a train!"]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Lecturer is [[Film/XMen Nightcrawler]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Lecturer is [[Film/XMen [[Film/X2XMenUnited Nightcrawler]]
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* AdaptationExpansion: In the stage show, [[spoiler: Mae's]] summoning of FDR is laughed off under RuleOfFunny as 'It's a funny story,' and dropped. In the movie, FDR is established as being in town earlier and even contains a sequence of her fighting through his guards to talk to him.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "''My innocence ravaged! / My virtue devoured! / I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!''"
* BastardGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Mary]], under the influence of reefer.
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* BlackComedy: A lot of humor is gotten out of drug addiction, infedelity, rape, murder, and cannibalism.
* BlackComedyRape: Unlike [[RapeAsDrama the 1936 film it was based on]].
* BlatantLies:
--> I'm not addicted no, I just enjoy the glow
* ChekhovsGun: Jack using more than one bullet to kill [[spoiler:Ralph]] may seem like a joke at first, but he's out of bullets when [[spoiler:Mae tries to kill him]].
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Essentially the joke behind "Romeo & Juliet."
* CriticalResearchFailure: In universe. It's one of the most well known [[RomeoAndJuliet tragic endings]] in history. How do you not know this?
* DarkReprise: The reprise of "Romeo and Juliet."
* DeliciousDistraction: The entire joke behind "The Brownie Song."
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Parodied. In the final song [[spoiler:Mary is released from Hell and Jimmy tells her to wait for him. '"One day I'll get cancer, or hit by a train!"]]
** In stage productions, they seem to like making up new ways for him to die. When I saw it last year, one of them was "eaten by wild bears."
* DisneyAcidSequence: "The Brownie Song" in the film.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Mary seems to be singing about something else during "Lonely Pew."
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. While it's played as comedy, it's shown to be clearly not "okay," although to be fair if it WAS reversed, it would be a huge case of DudeNotFunny. Also, the scene role reverses that of the original 1936 version; in the musical, Mary tries to rape Ralph when she gets stoned, instead of the other way around.
** It's really more like he was trying to take advantage of her and got way more than he bargained for. You might say they tried to rape each other.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jimmy and [[spoiler:Mary]]...after one puff of marijuana.
* FanserviceExtra: In the stage version a girl in a bikini will occasionally walk through carrying a sign with a message on it.
* FootPopping: Jimmy and Mary both do this at one point during the "Romeo and Juliet" song.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Jimmy during the final song.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: The Lecturer is [[Film/XMen Nightcrawler]]
** And Mary is [[VeronicaMars Veronica Mars]]
** Not to mention the fact that Ralph is ''[[TalesFromTheCrypt the freaking Cryptkeeper!]]''
* HumbleGoal:
-->I've taken a life,\\
Been stripped to my essence,\\
And to think all I wanted was swing dancing lessons!
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Ralph]] when he gets the 'munchies.'
** The Chinese in the movie are also suggested to be this.
* JesusWasWayCool: Even though he supports the anti-marijuana stance that the musical parodies, Jesus makes up for it with an awesome song, a WalkingShirtlessScene, and a troupe of sexy, angelic backup singers.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the stage show, everyone from the Lecturer to Jesus will directly address the audience.
--> Mary Lane, Oh, Mary Lane\\
Will help you sing a new refrain.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: Played for laughs. Actors appearing in the stage show are instructed to act like they're on crack, rather than pot.
* NietzscheWannabe: Easy to miss (as it's during the climax of Murder) but Jack is of the opinion that 'the winner is the last one left alive.'
* NotUsingTheZWord: For a [[MoodWhiplash fairly light-hearted]] musical parodying old propaganda flicks and after-school specials, there are an awful lot of Zombies in it.
* PragmaticAdaptation: A most triumphant example, as some changes made for the movie, like Dead Old Man being replaced by Mary Jane/Mary Lane and The Truth replacing the reprise of Reefer Madness, were so popular that most stage productions now include those changes.
* RefugeInAudacity
* ShoutOut: [[Theatre/{{Annie}} "A little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I suppressed the urge to laugh in her face."]]
* TriumphantReprise: May's reprise of "The Stuff."
** In the stage version Jesus reprises "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" at [[spoiler:Jimmy's execution]] to mock him for not listening to him
* BlackComedyRape: Unlike [[RapeAsDrama the 1936 film it was based on]].
* BlatantLies:
--> I'm not addicted no, I just enjoy the glow
* ChekhovsGun: Jack using more than one bullet to kill [[spoiler:Ralph]] may seem like a joke at first, but he's out of bullets when [[spoiler:Mae tries to kill him]].
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Essentially the joke behind "Romeo & Juliet."
* CriticalResearchFailure: In universe. It's one of the most well known [[RomeoAndJuliet tragic endings]] in history. How do you not know this?
* DarkReprise: The reprise of "Romeo and Juliet."
* DeliciousDistraction: The entire joke behind "The Brownie Song."
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Parodied. In the final song [[spoiler:Mary is released from Hell and Jimmy tells her to wait for him. '"One day I'll get cancer, or hit by a train!"]]
** In stage productions, they seem to like making up new ways for him to die. When I saw it last year, one of them was "eaten by wild bears."
* DisneyAcidSequence: "The Brownie Song" in the film.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Mary seems to be singing about something else during "Lonely Pew."
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. While it's played as comedy, it's shown to be clearly not "okay," although to be fair if it WAS reversed, it would be a huge case of DudeNotFunny. Also, the scene role reverses that of the original 1936 version; in the musical, Mary tries to rape Ralph when she gets stoned, instead of the other way around.
** It's really more like he was trying to take advantage of her and got way more than he bargained for. You might say they tried to rape each other.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jimmy and [[spoiler:Mary]]...after one puff of marijuana.
* FanserviceExtra: In the stage version a girl in a bikini will occasionally walk through carrying a sign with a message on it.
* FootPopping: Jimmy and Mary both do this at one point during the "Romeo and Juliet" song.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Jimmy during the final song.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: The Lecturer is [[Film/XMen Nightcrawler]]
** And Mary is [[VeronicaMars Veronica Mars]]
** Not to mention the fact that Ralph is ''[[TalesFromTheCrypt the freaking Cryptkeeper!]]''
* HumbleGoal:
-->I've taken a life,\\
Been stripped to my essence,\\
And to think all I wanted was swing dancing lessons!
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Ralph]] when he gets the 'munchies.'
** The Chinese in the movie are also suggested to be this.
* JesusWasWayCool: Even though he supports the anti-marijuana stance that the musical parodies, Jesus makes up for it with an awesome song, a WalkingShirtlessScene, and a troupe of sexy, angelic backup singers.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the stage show, everyone from the Lecturer to Jesus will directly address the audience.
--> Mary Lane, Oh, Mary Lane\\
Will help you sing a new refrain.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: Played for laughs. Actors appearing in the stage show are instructed to act like they're on crack, rather than pot.
* NietzscheWannabe: Easy to miss (as it's during the climax of Murder) but Jack is of the opinion that 'the winner is the last one left alive.'
* NotUsingTheZWord: For a [[MoodWhiplash fairly light-hearted]] musical parodying old propaganda flicks and after-school specials, there are an awful lot of Zombies in it.
* PragmaticAdaptation: A most triumphant example, as some changes made for the movie, like Dead Old Man being replaced by Mary Jane/Mary Lane and The Truth replacing the reprise of Reefer Madness, were so popular that most stage productions now include those changes.
* RefugeInAudacity
* ShoutOut: [[Theatre/{{Annie}} "A little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I suppressed the urge to laugh in her face."]]
* TriumphantReprise: May's reprise of "The Stuff."
** In the stage version Jesus reprises "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" at [[spoiler:Jimmy's execution]] to mock him for not listening to him
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*ActingForTwo: Alan Cumming is introduced as the Narrator. However, over the course of the film, he also manages to play FDR and Satan. At the end of the film [[spoiler: FDR gets up, and [[TheReveal dramatically discards his outfit]], resuming his Narrator appearance.]] The overlap is [[TakeThat not an accident.]]
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*AngryMobSong: The very end of the film, complete with book-burning bonfire. Considering [[BatmanGambit the motives of the Narrator]], it must mean the film was a rousing success.
*{{Anvilicious}}: The original film was clearly an overblown attempt at anti-marijuana propaganda. The musical goes out of its way to demonize..... propaganda.
*BadGirlSong: Combines with the HeelFaceTurn of the innocent Mary Lane, whose single run-in with marijuana leaves her [[IncrediblyLamePun fit to be tied.]]
*ActingForTwo: Alan Cumming is introduced as the Narrator. However, over the course of the film, he also manages to play FDR and Satan. At the end of the film [[spoiler: FDR gets up, and [[TheReveal dramatically discards his outfit]], resuming his Narrator appearance.]] The overlap is [[TakeThat not an accident.]]
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*AngryMobSong: The very end of the film, complete with book-burning bonfire. Considering [[BatmanGambit the motives of the Narrator]], it must mean the film was a rousing success.
*{{Anvilicious}}: The original film was clearly an overblown attempt at anti-marijuana propaganda. The musical goes out of its way to demonize..... propaganda.
*BadGirlSong: Combines with the HeelFaceTurn of the innocent Mary Lane, whose single run-in with marijuana leaves her [[IncrediblyLamePun fit to be tied.]]
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It's lurking at our doors/
Turning all our children/
Into hooligans and whores/"
--> [[TitleDrop Reefer Madness]]
The 1998 musical adaptation of the 1936 propaganda film "Tell Your Children!" As you might expect, it eschewed that [[SoBadItsGood unintentional satire]] of the original for VERY intentional satire. The film uses the original's framework, opening with a group of concerned parents congregating for a film presentation, proffered by a man who just oozes ulterior motive. The [[FilmWithinAFilm movie he shows]] tells the story of Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane, two upstanding, innocent children, whose lives devolve into a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking twisted spiral of sex, violence, and snack food]] courtesy of the evils of marihuana. All the while, the original audience reacts with revulsion, shock, and the occasional incredulity.
The film stars Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Steven Weber, Ana Gasteyer, and the [[TalesFromTheCrypt dude who did the voice of the Crypt Keeper.]] It premiered on Showtime in 2005.
It's lurking at our doors/
Turning all our children/
Into hooligans and whores/"
--> [[TitleDrop Reefer Madness]]
The 1998 musical adaptation of the 1936 propaganda film "Tell Your Children!" As you might expect, it eschewed that [[SoBadItsGood unintentional satire]] of the original for VERY intentional satire. The film uses the original's framework, opening with a group of concerned parents congregating for a film presentation, proffered by a man who just oozes ulterior motive. The [[FilmWithinAFilm movie he shows]] tells the story of Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane, two upstanding, innocent children, whose lives devolve into a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking twisted spiral of sex, violence, and snack food]] courtesy of the evils of marihuana. All the while, the original audience reacts with revulsion, shock, and the occasional incredulity.
The film stars Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Steven Weber, Ana Gasteyer, and the [[TalesFromTheCrypt dude who did the voice of the Crypt Keeper.]] It premiered on Showtime in 2005.
