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Ever since the inception of the "Hatchetfield universe", consisting of the stage musicals ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' and ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' and the Web video series ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'', Creator/TeamStarkid fans have been clamoring for details on the timeline of the massively expanded backstory for the sake of EpilepticTrees, WildMassGuessing and writing FanFic. This is an attempt to collect information from dialogue in the shows, WordOfGod from [[Creator/LangBrothers Nick Lang]]'s Twitter account and other sources to make as consistent a timeline as possible.
Currently, this timeline includes information going up to ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Episode 1, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man and Watcher World". The rest of ''Nightmare Time'' will be added when those episodes are publicly released on [=YouTube=].
Since Hatchetfield explicitly is a universe with {{Alternate Timeline}}s, this timeline is organized to try to cover all the possible events depicted onscreen/onstage while [[OccamsRazor minimizing the total number of timelines]] as much as possible.
'''SPOILERS AHEAD!'''
! 1824
* The town of Hatchetfield, Michigan is established on the eponymous Hatchetfield Island in the Great Lakes (according to the Hatchetfield Welcome Sign shown in the intro of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' and ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''). It is apparently named for the hatchets used to clear a space for the town in the thick forest that covers the island, which later becomes known as "the Witchwood".
! 1870
* Hatchetfield's beaches become a popular tourist destination, and an amusement park is founded on the uninhabited north shore of Hatchetfield Island, on the opposite end of the island from the town. Over the next century and a half, this park evolves into a fully-fledged theme park known as "Watcher World", using the advertising mascot "Blinky" (a cutesy {{Cyclops}} figure) to brand itself. (This date is not specifically given in "Watcher World", but Watcher World has a "storied history" and is clearly based on the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point Cedar Point]].)
! 1920s
* Legends of local cryptids become very popular around Hatchetfield, including an artist recording a popular novelty song, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", about the town's mascot BigfootSasquatchAndYeti "Woolly-foot".
! 1950s-60s
* Henry Hidgens is born. (He's in his 50s or 60s in 2018.) He spends most of his early life obsessed with musical theatre.
! 1970s
* John [=MacNamara=] is born. (He's in his 40s in 2018.)
! 1973
* Bill is born. (He's "at least 45" in 2018.)
! 1980-1982
* Jane Perkins is born. ("A few years older than Tom")
! 1982-1984
* Linda Monroe is born sometime after Jane. ("In between Jane and Tom", and overlapped with Tom in high school.) Note: Her actual birth name is unknown, since "Monroe" is a name that comes from her husband Gerald.
! 1984
* Tom Houston is born. ("A year older than Becky", and was a senior when Emma was a freshman. Confirmed directly on Twitter.)
* Ted and Charlotte are born (WordOfGod says they're the same age as Tom).
! 1985
* Becky Barnes is born. (Confirmed on Twitter.)
! 1986
* Model year of the red Fox-Body Mustang purchased by Tom's parents that he eventually inherits in high school.
! 1987
* Emma Perkins and Paul Matthews are born. (Confirmed on Twitter.)
! 1980s-1990s
* Lucy Stockworth, the future Duchess of Stockworth, is born (she's presumably in her 20s or 30s by the "present day" of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", since she's considered an eligible bachelorette). Her parents regularly take holidays in the resort areas of Hatchetfield to see the local scenery and wildlife, which leads to her almost dying falling out of a tree when she's nine or ten, only to be saved by the Ape-Man.
! 1991
* Professor Henry Hidgens, having abandoned his "first love" of musical theatre for a new career as a biologist, develops a bizarre theory that said "first love" will someday destroy the human race, in the form of an alien HiveMind that ends human free will by turning everyone into [[MusicalWorldHypotheses singing and dancing characters from a musical]]. He withdraws into his home, turning it into a shelter where he stockpiles supplies to prepare for the musical apocalypse. (He's been preparing for "twenty", "thirty" or "twenty-seven years" in 2018. The latter quote, being the least "round" and most specific, is assumed to be accurate.)
! 1992-94
* Jane Perkins is twelve years old, and makes a Lisa Frank binder with a comprehensive plan for the rest of her life -- where she'll go to school, where she'll work, when she'll get married and have kids -- that she'll actually successfully stick to as an adult. This will make Emma feel inferior for as far back as she can remember.
! 1994
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' is released, and is apparently the last Disney movie Bill has clear memories of.
* Tom Houston turns nine years old; he wants a popgun from the 99-cent store, but his dad buys him a cheaper toy knife instead.
! 1995-97
* Zoey is born. (Emma says she's "ten years younger", but if she "majored in theatre" and is a college graduate she probably has to be at least 22 in 2018.)
! 2000s
* Lucy Stockworth's father, the old Duke of Stockworth, dies, and she inherits his title and his fortune. She goes on to spend the next several years in an obsessive search for proof the Hatchetfield Ape-Man exists, including making a personal pilgrimage to Hatchetfield every year around the anniversary of the first time he saved her life.
! 2000
* Alice, Deb, Grace Chastity, Lex Foster, Ethan Green, and Hot Chocolate Boy are all born. (They seem to all be in the same high school class and are seniors by 2018.) Alice is born to Bill and his wife sometime in late October or early November. Little has been revealed about Lex's family situation, but her mother and father are both still present at this point.
! 2001
* Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11 lead to the declaration of Operation Enduring Freedom and the invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7. (Sherman Young later confuses this invasion for the one Tom was involved in.)
! 2003
* When Paul is 15 and a freshman or sophomore at Sycamore High, he travels to Hatchetfield High to see a production of ''{{Theatre/Brigadoon}}'', where Emma played Bonnie Jean. He hates it, and decides from that point forward that he doesn't like musicals.
* Operation Iraqi Freedom begins on March 20 as an expansion of the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror.
* Tom Houston's senior year at Hatchetfield High, his girlfriend Becky's junior year. Tom is the beloved quarterback of the football team and Becky is the cheer captain, and most of their peers consider them a SuperCouple. Tom graduates, and joins the military in order to participate in the recently-launched invasion of Iraq. Becky falls into the orbit of Stanley, a sketchy older guy who flirts with high school girls by buying them cigarettes and booze. She casually dates him for five months, before, in the fall of 2003, Stanley becomes physically abusive and forces her into a committed relationship with him.
* The Tear-Jerker, the "tallest roller coaster in the Midwest", opens at Watcher World. (Assuming it was built at the same time as its real-life counterpart, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Thrill_Dragster Top Thrill Dragster]] at Cedar Point.)
! 2004
* Becky graduates from high school. Stanley and Becky get married once Becky turns 18. (They're married by the time Tom gets back from Iraq.) Stanley pressures Becky into enrolling in nursing school rather than going away to a four-year college.
! 2005
* Special Unit PEIP builds their experimental portal into the Black and White ("13 years ago"). John [=MacNamara=]'s mentor, Wilbur Cross, volunteers to test it and explore the newly discovered extradimensional reality, and emerges having been driven mad. He proclaims his allegiance to the mysterious entity who rules the Black and White and his enmity with all mankind, escapes and vanishes. PEIP begins to attempt to study this entity -- "the Devil", "the Lord of Despair" -- and develop a plan to oppose it. John [=MacNamara=] takes over where Cross left off and rises to the rank of General.
* Hannah Foster is born. (She's 13 in 2018.) Seemingly from birth, she's plagued with an AmbiguousDisorder that affects her emotional and social development, and comes with strange visions and the delusion she's being spoken to by an ImaginaryFriend, a "spider from outer space" named Webby.
* Hannah's father (unclear if he's also Lex's father) leaves their mother before Hannah is old enough to remember him. Lex and Hannah's mother goes into a downward spiral into alcoholism and depression.
! 2005-2006
* Tom Houston returns after "two tours" in Iraq (one tour for a typical combat veteran in Iraq was between 9-15 months), and is given a diagnosis of PTSD. He's heartbroken by Becky having met someone else and gotten married while he was gone.
! 2006
* Emma and Paul graduate from high school. Paul is implied to go to college nearby, continuing to live in Hatchetfield, after which he gets a respectable office job at CCRP Technical. At some point Paul meets Becky, although he remains unfamiliar with her circle of acquaintances from Hatchetfield High. Paul develops a circle of acquaintances among his CCRP coworkers, and becomes best friends with his coworker Bill, often babysitting and giving rides to his daughter Alice. Emma leaves home and begins traveling the world taking odd jobs, eventually ending up living in Guatemala.
* Becky graduates from nursing school (two years is considered the normal minimum amount of time to become an RN).
! 2006-2009
* Tom at some point meets and starts dating Jane, who coaxes him out of his shell and gets him back on his feet. He becomes the shop teacher at Hatchetfield High, and they get married. Emma gets an invitation to the wedding but doesn't come. (This happens after Emma turns 18 and leaves home and before Tim's birth in 2009.)
! 2009
* Tim Houston is born to Tom and Jane. (He's nine in 2018.) Emma is invited to the baby shower, and again does not come.
! 2012-2018
* In either 2012 or 2016 (depending on whether he's serving his first or second term in ''Black Friday''), Howard Goodman, a Harvard Law School-educated community organizer, is elected President as a "status quo Democrat", establishing this as an AlternateUniverse from RealLife that diverges at least at this point. (The fact that an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/BarackObama exists, named Bob Morris, who is not the President, implies that Obama does not exist in this timeline.) He allows the trend of increasing levels of student and household debt that characterizes middle-class finances in TheNewTens to continue, and resists calls for radical healthcare reform and expanding the social safety net. Although this causes rates of stress and mental illness among the population to also steadily rise, the economy is doing well and Goodman is considered a popular, successful president.
* Colorado and Washington are the first two states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis on November 6, 2012, followed by Alaska, Oregon and DC on Nov. 4, 2014, California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine on Nov. 8, 2016, and Vermont on Jan. 22, 2018.
! 2014
* The Amazon Echo device, which hosts the AI virtual assistant, Alexa, is released. Alexa becomes Prof. Hidgens' "only companion" and he comes to love "her" "just as much as any woman of flesh and bone."
! 2015-18
* Alice begins attending Hatchetfield High and starts dating Deb. Alice, Deb and Grace Chastity move in the same circles, since Grace's family attends her family's church. Lex and Ethan are in their class but as {{Delinquent}}s don't interact with them much.
! 2016
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}'' is released. Ted sees it and doesn't like it. Alice, who apparently has a soft spot for Disney movies at the age of 16, goes to see it with Paul. Prof. Hidgens apparently sees it at some point despite being a childless shut-in. Bill doesn't see it at all.
* Lex Foster starts her crappy part-time job at the age of 16 working for Frank Pricely, the owner of Toy Zone at the Hatchetfield Lakeside Mall.
! 2017
* Bill and his wife get divorced. Bill caves in to most of his wife's demands at family court, getting only one week out of every month as custody, forcing Alice to withdraw from Hatchetfield High and enroll in a new school near her mother's new home in Clivesdale across the bridge.
* In the summer, a local community theater does a production of ''{{Theatre/Godspell}}'' starring Zoey and her friends, which both Paul and Emma see out of a sense of obligation, despite finding it "God-awful" and "God-damn that was bad."
* Lex, a senior at Hatchetfield High and a struggling student thanks to her difficult home life, starts making an effort to get better grades in order to get a chance at going to college after she graduates, encouraged by her favorite teacher Tom.
* ''' December, 2017''': Sometime around Christmas, Tom is driving with Jane in the passenger seat and Tim in the back. He fails to notice a car losing control and sliding toward him from his right while driving through an intersection, and suffers a side-impact collision, leading to Jane's death. Tom and Tim both live but are badly traumatized.
** Tom enters an indefinite leave of absence from his teaching duties as his PTSD after Jane's death escalates to the point where he can no longer function.
** Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in twelve years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
** Becky receives an invitation to Jane's funeral. Stanley forbids her from attending, since he knows she still has feelings for Tom. She defies him to his face, starting a physical fight and leading to him chasing her out of the house into the woods with a knife, where she overcomes him, stabs him in the femoral artery and leaves him for dead. She spends the next several weeks terrified of going to prison or of him coming back for revenge, but neither happens, and the town gossips assume he ran off to the mainland with another woman.
! 2017-2018
* Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel becomes a local news story -- a baby squirrel who falls out of a tree and almost dies of his injuries, before being taken in and painstakingly nursed back to health by a local woodworker and military veteran named Ed ("Papa Ed") who lets Peanuts live in his pocket. (It takes less than a year for a squirrel to grow to full maturity.)
! 2018
* Emma and Zoey both get jobs at Beanie's, an independent coffeeshop owned by Nora near CCRP Technical, but Zoey is quickly promoted over Emma despite her age because of Zoey's connection to Nora through the local theatre community. Ted has a crush on Zoey and calls her the "latte hotté". Paul starts going to Beanie's because of this and thinks Ted means Emma, developing a crush on her and becoming a regular.
* Emma enrolls in community college starting in the spring semester, with the goal of getting an associate's degree in botany or agriculture so she can pursue her dream of buying a pot farm as soon as cannabis is legalized nationwide.
* Emma begins taking Prof. Hidgens' biology class, and becomes his favorite student after volunteering to deliver groceries to his house.
* With shop class canceled, Lex's GPA takes a nosedive in the spring semester, and she fails her junior year. Rather than repeat the school year, she elects to drop out and focus on her retail job at Toy Zone to help her family's struggling finances, while also dealing weed on the side.
* Zoey graduates from college with a degree in theatre.
* Lex turns 18 and takes up smoking cigarettes, as does her boyfriend Ethan.
* Lex begins hiding money from her mother and planning to run away to California with Ethan and Hannah to start a new life as an actress.
* Charlotte's loveless marriage with Sam comes to a head and they begin attending counseling sessions. Sam, meanwhile, begins an affair (not his first one) with Zoey. Charlotte likewise begins sleeping with Ted.
* The plant closes, putting a large number of blue-collar Hatchetfield residents out of work, including the Man in a Baseball Cap.
* The family-friendly holiday comedy ''Santa Claus is Goin' to High School'' is announced for a Thanksgiving weekend release.
* Over the summer, Alice's mother takes her on a trip to New York where they see ''{{Theatre/Hamilton}}'', which she can't stop talking about.
* Sometime in the fall, Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel reaches the weight of ten ounces and can no longer be easily carried in Papa Ed's pocket. Papa Ed sets up a [=GoFundMe=] to build Peanuts a house.
* A touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' announces it will arrive in Hatchetfield in October. (This is also AlternateHistory, since the last RealLife tour of this show in North America closed in 2017.)
* On the weekend of October 6-7, Nora visits a Coldstone Creamery and is inspired to make her employees perform with a little song and dance any time someone puts a tip in the jar. Everyone is enthusiastic about this idea except Emma.
* During the week starting Monday, Oct. 8, when Bill has custody of Alice at his house, Bill and Alice begin to fight over the fact that Alice's 18th birthday is coming up soon and he still treats her like a child. He makes big plans to celebrate her birthday early while he has her to try to win her back over. (WordOfGod says Bill "rounds up" Alice's age to 18 in Act 1 of TGWDLM because of this but Alice's later reference to herself being currently 17 is actually accurate.)
! ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals'' (Timeline A)
* (Note: This timeline assumes ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals'' begins on the same day as its opening night in RealLife.)
* '''Thursday, Oct. 11, afternoon''': Paul is having printer problems at work, and steps out for a cup of coffee from Beanie's, where he finally gets the courage to approach Emma and have a brief conversation with her. Bill, seeing Alice's newfound interest in musicals, buys rush tickets for Alice and Deb to come with him to the evening's performance of the touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' at the Starlight Theater downtown. Sam blows off the scheduled "cuddle night" recommended to him and Charlotte by their counselor, also to attend ''Mamma Mia!'' with Zoey.
* '''Evening''': PointOfDivergence. '''A meteor carrying the alien hivemind virus strikes the Starlight Theater shortly before curtain''', killing everyone inside. Sam and Zoey, who were already seated, are killed and assimilated, rising as singing zombies. Bill, Alice and Deb, who were running late, show up and find the theater ruined and the area blocked off, and as a result abruptly cancel their plans. Charlotte invites Ted over to "comfort" her over Sam abandoning her, and he ends up staying the night while Sam never returns.
* '''Night''': Sam goes back to the Hatchetfield PD station and infects everyone else on the night shift -- by morning, the whole police force is assimilated. Zoey finds Nora and assimilates her, setting in motion a plan to use Beanie's as an infection site. The infection continues to spread throughout Hatchetfield.
* '''Friday, Oct. 12, 6:00 am''': Ted leaves for work early to avoid getting caught by Sam, who "rolls in around 6". He sings in the shower as he gets home, and his "voice like an angel" spooks Charlotte enough that she flees the house without confronting him (avoiding infection).
* '''7:00-9:00 am''': Bill drives Alice to the bus station to travel back over the bridge to her school in Clivesdale. Along the way they have an argument, which makes her decide to get off the bus early and cut school with Deb instead. The Hatchetfield Action News delivers a news report at 8:00 about Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel and mentioning the incident with the meteor. Everyone who was outdoors overnight or in the early morning -- the Crazy Homeless Man, the Greenpeace Canvasser, etc. -- is infected, and begins singing a CrowdSong to infect anyone passing through the streets. Mr. Davidson passes through this crowd on the way to work and gets infected; Paul passes by shortly afterwards and manages to escape unscathed ("La Dee Dah Dah Day"). Emma shows up for her shift at Beanie's, unaware that Nora and Zoey are infected and have contaminated the coffee with blue goo.
* '''9:00 am-11:00 am''': Mr. Davidson begins ordering employees into his office one by one and forcing them to sing an IWantSong, triggering their infection. Paul manages to escape from this and flees the office ("What Do You Want, Paul?") Ted, Charlotte and Bill twig to what's happening and manage to escape shortly afterwards, fleeing downtown and hiding inside a bunch of trashcans as the streets begin to swell with singing zombie hordes. Emma spends the whole morning being trained on the mandatory new tip song and dance ("Cup of Roasted Coffee"). Paul shows up at Beanie's and reveals what's going on to Emma, upon which Nora and Zoey turn on them ("Cup of Poisoned Coffee") and they flee. They manage to meet up with Paul's coworkers, where they're ambushed by Sam and the other infected cops ("Show Me Your Hands"). Ted overcomes Sam and knocks his brains out with a trash can lid, revealing his organs have been replaced by "blue shit". The group pick up Sam's body and make their way to Prof. Hidgens' house. The Hatchetfield Action News gives an 11:00 am update indicating that in response to the "musical riots", the town of Clivesdale has raised the Nantucket Bridge, trapping everyone on the island. Hidgens rants about the naivete of the authorities upon hearing this, only for the group to arrive at his doorstep.
* '''11:00 am-7:00 pm''': Hidgens takes samples from Sam to study in the lab. Sam revives and tricks Charlotte into releasing his body from his restraints ("You Tied Up My Heart"), killing and assimilating her. Meanwhile Bill, Ted, Paul and Emma spend the afternoon making use of Hidgens' bar and getting drunk. Ted and Bill start sniping at each other, while Paul and Emma withdraw and begin pouring their hearts out to each other, only for their conversation to be suddenly interrupted by the zombified Charlotte and Sam attacking them, announcing the zombies have given up peaceful assimilation through song and are now resorting to violence ("Join Us (And Die)"), only for Hidgens to put them down with his shotgun and reveal what he's learned about the virus. Alice's unseen escapades with Deb that afternoon and evening are brought short by their encounter with the singing zombies -- Alice and Deb evade them on their own as long as they can, fleeing to the campus of Hatchetfield High, but when Deb herself starts showing signs of infection Alice abandons her and barricades herself in the choir room. She calls Bill around sunset begging for help; Ted tells Bill venturing outdoors after dark is suicide. Bill insists he's going anyway, and Paul goes with him.
* '''7:00 pm-9:00 pm''': Bill and Paul make it to Hatchetfield High only to discover Alice is already assimilated ("Not Your Seed"). Alice and the other zombies kill Bill and are about to kill Paul when PEIP's strike team arrives and slaughters them. Unfortunately, they don't believe Paul when he says he's uninfected and knock him unconscious with a TapOnTheHead. Hidgens and Emma continue studying the virus in the lab and come to the conclusion the zombies form a single HiveMind controlled by the meteor. Hidgens pulls a FaceHeelTurn and decides it would be better for humanity to be assimilated, drugs Emma and ties her and Ted up. Paul takes an hour or so to recover from unconsciousness -- when Paul awakens, Gen. [=MacNamara=] briefs him on the rescue chopper arriving at 11:00 pm and tells him he has two hours to save Emma and get off the island.
* '''9:00 pm-11:00 pm''': Emma finally awakens from her drugged sleep. Hidgens has gone fully mad, deactivates his house's defenses and performs his own musical for Emma and Ted ("Showstoppin' Number"). Paul arrives just in the nick of time to save Emma and Ted and they flee the compound as Hidgens is assimilated. Ted betrays Emma and Paul, leaving them to be taken by zombies while he gets on the chopper himself, only to run into [=MacNamara=] and his team and find they've been assimilated, soon thereafter being assimilated himself. Emma and Paul manage to escape the zombies at Hidgens' house only to find [=MacNamara=]'s team and Ted waiting for them, and have to fight their way through ("America Is Great Again"). They manage to make it to the helicopter landing site before 11:00, and get on, only to find that the helicopter mission was somehow sabotaged by the assimilated [=MacNamara=] and the pilot is actually Zoey, who tries to kill them. Paul manages to kick the gun out of her hand and force her to down the chopper. The chopper crashes, Zoey is killed, and Emma is badly wounded.
* '''11:00 pm-midnight''': Emma tells Paul what she learned about the HiveMind and that the only way to stop the zombies is to destroy the meteor. The zombies gather at the meteor crash site in the Starlight Theater to make their last stand ("Let Him Come"). Paul grabs a belt of grenades and heads down to the crash site only to be almost overwhelmed by the meteor's influence, but just barely manages to pull the pin on a grenade and blow up the whole building before being assimilated ("Let It Out").
* '''Saturday, Oct. 13, 12:00 am-morning''': PEIP's cleanup crew comes and torches all of Hatchetfield. Emma is found and taken to Clivesdale for medical treatment. Peanuts is also found, burrowed into the corpse of Papa Ed, and presented to the public as the only survivor.
* '''Oct. 13-27''': Unfortunately, Emma's theory was wrong, and Paul destroying the meteor was AllForNothing -- the HiveMind survives, and slowly regenerates the corpses of the zombified residents of Hatchetfield, who begin infiltrating PEIP's forces and assimilating them. Paul regenerates, and presents himself to PEIP agents as having "miraculously survived", and is taken in by them and given a new identity of "Ben Bridges".
* '''Oct. 27''': The Morning Clivesdale News reports on the two-week anniversary of the destruction of Hatchetfield. PEIP's Col. Schaeffer briefs Emma on her new life and identity as "Kelly" and the pot farm that's been purchased for her in Colorado. She then surprises her by bringing in "Ben Bridges" to meet her... only for Paul to reveal this whole series of events was a setup just to emotionally torture Emma before finally killing her. Which they do ("Inevitable").
* '''Oct. 27-Nov. 13''': According to WordOfGod, after Emma is horribly killed, the zombie virus spreads uncontrollably at an exponential rate across the mainland United States and from there to the world, with the last free humans becoming extinct after "two and a half weeks".
! ''Black Friday'' (Timeline B)
* '''Thursday, Oct. 11, afternoon''': Paul is having printer problems at work, and steps out for a cup of coffee from Beanie's, where he finally gets the courage to approach Emma and have a brief conversation with her. Bill, seeing Alice's newfound interest in musicals, buys rush tickets for Alice and Deb to come with him to the evening's performance of the touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' at the Starlight Theater downtown. Sam blows off the scheduled "cuddle night" recommended to him and Charlotte by their counselor, also to attend ''Mamma Mia!'' with Zoey.
* '''Evening''': PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing falls from the sky at all, which remains perfectly clear'''. The evening's showing of ''Mamma Mia!'' goes well, and Sam and Zoey have a fun date night, as do Bill, Alice and Deb. Charlotte invites Ted over to "comfort" her over Sam abandoning her, and he ends up ducking out when Sam comes home for the evening after having sex with Zoey.
* '''Friday, Oct. 12''': Sam's morning singing in the shower is as flat and nasal as ever; Charlotte notices nothing special about it. Bill drives Alice to the bus station to travel back over the bridge to her school in Clivesdale. Along the way they have an argument, which makes her decide to get off the bus early and cut school with Deb instead -- their ditch day goes off without a hitch. The Hatchetfield Action News delivers a news report at 8:00 about Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel, and nothing else. CCRP Technical and Beanie's both have uneventful workdays.
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. '''The company "Uncle Wiley Toys" suddenly appears out of nowhere and their advertisements for a toy called the "Tickle-Me-Wiggly" begin appearing all over the media.''' Thanks to MindManipulation, no one questions this and everyone just accepts that there's a sudden and overwhelming FlashInThePanFad for this toy, except for Gen. [=MacNamara=] and the operatives of PEIP, who quickly figure out that the Ruler of the Black and White and the entity known as Wiggly are one and the same, discover the dolls are a vector for Wiggly's mind control, and begin working on countermeasures. Bill tries to order a Wiggly doll for Alice but is too late -- online orders for the toy run out almost instantly as soon as it becomes available and the estimated backlog is over a year. Uncle Wiley Toys begins cutting deals with local brick-and-mortar retailers to have ''very'' limited quantities made exclusively available to them for sale on Black Friday. Frank Pricely of Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall jumps at this opportunity and begins heavily advertising it. Lex decides to piggyback on this opportunity to steal one of Frank's Wigglies and resell it online to finance her trip to California. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Oct. 29''': Lex solidifies what she thinks is a foolproof plan to sneak a Wiggly doll out of Toy Zone under Frank's nose by using her sister Hannah to take it out of the store. She keeps on going over the plan with Ethan for the next four weeks to make sure he's there with Hannah well before the store opens at 7:00 am.
* '''Friday, Nov. 16''': Sherman Young arrives in front of the Lakeside Mall in the evening -- with no one else there -- and sets up camp to make sure he's the first one in line for a Wiggly doll. Thanks to him being the only one with no day job, nowhere else to be for Thanksgiving and no compunction pooping in a bucket, he's alone for the next six days.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Ethan, running the online side of the caper for Lex, starts looking around for buyers and finds that as Black Friday approaches interest spikes, until the bids go up from a few hundred to $7,000. He decides to take his own life savings -- $1,000 -- and spend them all on getting his car tuned up for the trip to California. Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and becomes determined to get a Wiggly so she can be a hero and save Christmas for the kids stuck in the hospital over the holidays.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. Tom, seeing how unhappy Tim still is, gets obsessed with the idea that buying a Wiggly doll will fix everything. As evening sets in, the Man in the Scarf is the first person to arrive to stand in line behind Sherman, followed by Becky, the Man in a Baseball Cap (whose need for a Wiggly is somehow tied to his unemployment), the Crazy Homeless Man, the Man in a Hurry (who's decided to sacrifice his night waiting in line so he can get out with a Wiggly first thing in the morning and get to the places he needs to be on Friday), and Gary Goldstein. Before he goes to bed, Tom impulsively texts Emma for her to come over tomorrow morning at 6:00 am, which she interprets as an invitation to spend the holiday together. By the morning of Black Friday the line is hundreds of people long (and includes Charlotte, Ted, Mr. Davidson, Bill, Papa Ed and Peanuts, and the Hot Chocolate Boy.)
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23, 6:00-7:00 am''': Lex arrives at work, having been assigned to the morning shift (6:00 am to 12:00 noon) to set up the store for their big opening at 7:00. Paul and Emma stop at Starbucks on their way to Tom's house with supplies for a day of family fun, arriving at 6:30, only for Tom to chew them out for being late and let them know they're babysitting while he heads to Toy Zone ("What Tim Wants"). Tom makes it to Toy Zone at 6:50, with the line now all the way down the street, and meets up with Lex, who refuses to help him because she already has her own plan to steal a Wiggly. Uncle Wiley delivers the shipment of 850 Wiggly dolls to Frank, who orders Lex to unpack and shelve them. Ethan arrives with Hannah in tow, and they celebrate the imminent success of their plan ("[=CaliforMIA=]"). Lex hides the Wiggly doll in her backpack and leaves it with Hannah, telling Ethan to keep Hannah safe and out of the way until her shift ends at noon. Linda Monroe arrives just before the store opens, dropped off by her husband Gerald, and bribes her way into the line by writing the Man in a Scarf a check. Becky Barnes loudly objects to this and ends up in a public argument with Linda, only to be interrupted by Tom's arrival -- she's so shocked to see him again for the first time in years she lets him in behind her, and the gossipy townsfolk let it slide because they're so interested in seeing their reunion ("What Do You Say?").
* '''7:00 am-11:00 am''': Frank Pricely opens Toy Zone in a grand ceremony ("Our Doors Are Open"). Sherman Young reveals he camped out to get the #1 spot in line so he could buy ''all'' the Wigglies at once. Frank flip-flops over whether this is allowed by store policy, triggering a cash bidding war over the Wiggly dolls, which escalates into riots ("Feast or Famine"). Lex and Frank desperately try to protect the stock of Wiggly dolls but are quickly overwhelmed, subdued and tied up.
* '''10:00 am-noon''': Around 10:30 or 11:00 am (it is very rare for movie theaters to open any earlier than this) Ethan and Hannah get bored waiting around in the food court and Ethan decides to treat Hannah to a matinee showing of ''Santa Claus is Goin' to High School'', but doesn't have enough money. A mall security guard almost kicks him out for being a troublemaker, only to get a radio calling all hands down to Toy Zone to try to contain the riots, which have exceeded "normal" Black Friday levels and are totally out of control. The rioters overcome the security forces and begin to spread through the mall, interrupting a heart-to-heart Ethan and Hannah are having outside the cineplex. The Man in a Baseball Cap and Gary Goldstein begin viciously beating Ethan, who shouts for Hannah to flee to the tunnel in the mall playplace. Tom and Becky find Ethan just in time to watch him die of his wounds. Tom gets ambushed and stabbed by the Man in a Hurry. Linda finds herself accosted by Uncle Wiley, who reveals Wiggly's evil plan and inducts her as Wiggly's new prophet.
* '''Noon-evening''': Around noon (1:00 pm, Eastern time) the national press out of New York reports the President is convening a Cabinet meeting at the Oval Office to address the Black Friday riots, which are now nationwide. The meeting itself dissolves into chaos when Bob Morris brings a Wiggly doll in and infects everyone with Wiggly fever. They're saved by Gen. John [=MacNamara=], who shoots the Wiggly doll, reveals the existence of PEIP and tells President Goodman they need his help ("Monsters and Men"). The riots die down as the rioters realize all the Wiggly dolls have now been claimed and their holders have successfully escaped. The remaining rioters, in their frustration, block off the exits and begin scouring the mall for any Wigglies that have been hidden. Linda's cult begins to spread among them. Becky raids the office for a first aid kit and drags a bleeding and unconscious Tom into one of the theaters to treat his wounds, arriving in the middle of the showing of ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' ("Deck the Halls (Of Northville High)"). Tom awakens, and he and Becky have a quiet conversation and rekindle their romantic relationship ("Take Me Back"). [=MacNamara=] and Goodman arrive at PEIP's hidden HQ in Washington DC, where [=MacNamara=] and Xander Lee begin briefing the President on the Black and White, Wiggly, and the interdimensional portal they want to send him through to negotiate with the entity. At some point as evening sets in -- "exactly 168 hours" after Sherman first arrived at the mall -- the cult convenes their first ritual service in which Linda announces there's one doll left in the mall, sends her followers to hunt down Hannah, and sacrifices Frank ("Adore Me"). Wiggly sends an illusion of Ethan to try to coax Hannah out of hiding, and when she sees through it the voice of Wiggly begins berating her directly, causing her to FreakOut and leave her hiding place. Becky and Tom eventually leave the theater, with both of them still intent on finding a Wiggly doll, only to run into Hannah; Wiggly's influence overwhelms them and they attack her ("Do You Want to Play?") Becky tries to drug her with a syringe only to accidentally stab herself and fall unconscious; Tom overpowers her, grabs the Wiggly and runs for the exits. Linda's cult finds Becky and Hannah and drag them both to Linda.
* '''Evening-night''': PEIP finishes preparing Goodman for his incursion into the Black and White. He travels through the portal only to be surrounded and almost overwhelmed by Uncle Wiley and the Sniggles. Wiggly reveals his true face and gloats to Goodman that his policies were what weakened America enough for his influence to break through ("Made In America"). [=MacNamara=] follows Goodman into the Black and White and manages to save him, only to sacrifice his own life as his body dissolves thanks to his lack of a protective suit. Goodman makes it back to Earth and demands that PEIP launch the nuclear warhead into the Black and White, only for Wiggly to divert the bomb through a second portal to Russia, destroying Moscow and triggering World War III. PEIP drags a hysterical Goodman to Marine One to prepare for the upcoming apocalypse. Sherman takes Lex aside to murder her, and she contemplates her wasted life as he slowly strangles her ("Black Friday"), only for [=MacNamara=]'s disembodied spirit to manifest from the Black and White and save her life by teaching her how to use her powers to pull his gun into her reality ("Monsters and Men (reprise))". Lex kills Sherman and confronts Tom at gunpoint just as he manages to find an unguarded route out of the mall, and her explanation of how Wiggly's voice has lied to him about the doll getting his son back wakes him up from his trance ("If I Fail You"). Lex and Tom go to confront Linda and save Hannah. Lex manages to distract the cultists with the Wiggly doll long enough for Tom to get the drop on Linda and hold her at gunpoint, but in a burst of rage Linda is able to overpower him and snatch the doll from Lex's hands, and celebrates that her plan is finished and Wiggly will arrive in the flesh soon ("Wiggle"), only for Becky to wake up from unconsciousness, grab Tom's gun and shoot Linda in the head. Tom, Becky, Lex and Hannah reunite, and before they leave Lex sets the Wiggly doll on fire and the flames begin to spread to consume the cultists and the whole mall.
* '''Night-midnight''': The main characters flee the mall and watch in the parking lot as it burns down, and the cult fractures between those insistent on staying inside praying for Wiggly's deliverance and those who snap out of the spell and escape. An unknown amount of time passes as the Hatchetfield news media reports on the mall's destruction only to be interrupted by the news of the imminent nuclear war, followed by a media blackout, the downing of the cell phone network and Internet, and a power outage, leaving Paul unable to use his phone. Emma and Paul try to make plans to flee Hatchetfield in her car, but Tim insists on going to the mall to search for Tom first. Emma and Paul finally find Tom at the gathering of the other survivors, and Emma proposes heading to Prof. Hidgens' house to wait out the upcoming war there. Tom glances at his watch and realizes it's now 11:57 pm, and says he feels like if Black Friday ends with them still alive they can survive anything. Hannah sings a song about the uncertain future ("What If Tomorrow Comes?") as the survivors wait the remaining three minutes for midnight, when they suddenly hear something streaking overhead in the sky.
! ''Nightmare Time'', The Hatchetfield Ape-Man (Timeline C)
* (Note: Most episodes of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 1 explicitly state they take place in 2019; "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" doesn't specify, but this timeline assumes it also does.)
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing unusual happens this holiday season.''' Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall continues to go through the struggle and slow decline of a brick-and-mortar retailer in an online shopping era. Lex, having no readily apparent way to make a lot of money fast, continues to think of her trip to California as a pipe dream. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and feels awful about it, but there's nothing she can do.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' releases in theaters; nobody goes to see it.
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23''': Lex has a predictably shitty day, having to deal with monster crowds the day after Thanksgiving, but not anything she can't handle.
* '''2019''': '''The events of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" occur.''' Lucy Stockworth records an interview with Dan and Donna about her lifelong obsession with the Ape-Man. Prof. Hidgens, driven mad with frustration that ''Workin' Boys'' will never see the light of day, watches this segment on TV and is inspired to use his knowledge of biology and Hatchetfield's local cryptid lore to pull a con to steal Lucy's family fortune. He hires Ted to grow out his beard and pose as the Ape-Man, hoping to trick Lucy into marrying him so he can murder her and the two of them can split the inheritance. After Lucy spends two weeks falling in love with the Ape-Man, her fiancée Jonathan Brisby shows up trying to get her to come back to England, and attempts to expose Prof. Hidgens and Ted as charlatans. The aftermath of this confrontation leads to the death of Jonathan, Ted and Prof. Hidgens, and to Lucy vanishing forever as the bride of the true Ape-Man.
! ''Nightmare Time'', Watcher World (Timeline D)
* '''2019''': PointOfDivergence. '''Lucy Stockworth goes home after her latest attempt to find the Ape-Man without incident'''. Presumably she goes through with her loveless but mutually beneficial arrangement to marry Jonathan Brisby, and continues to use his money to pursue the Ape-Man over his objections.
* '''Spring 2019''': Alice and Deb are accepted to different colleges; Alice becomes insecure Deb will break up with her after going to her "fancy art school" and starting a new life. Alice writes a play that wins her a scholarship at the theater department of her new school, although Bill still hopes she'll pursue a more practical career.
* '''August 17, 2019''': '''The events of "Watcher World" occur.''' (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
Currently, this timeline includes information going up to ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Episode 1, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man and Watcher World". The rest of ''Nightmare Time'' will be added when those episodes are publicly released on [=YouTube=].
Since Hatchetfield explicitly is a universe with {{Alternate Timeline}}s, this timeline is organized to try to cover all the possible events depicted onscreen/onstage while [[OccamsRazor minimizing the total number of timelines]] as much as possible.
'''SPOILERS AHEAD!'''
! 1824
* The town of Hatchetfield, Michigan is established on the eponymous Hatchetfield Island in the Great Lakes (according to the Hatchetfield Welcome Sign shown in the intro of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' and ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''). It is apparently named for the hatchets used to clear a space for the town in the thick forest that covers the island, which later becomes known as "the Witchwood".
! 1870
* Hatchetfield's beaches become a popular tourist destination, and an amusement park is founded on the uninhabited north shore of Hatchetfield Island, on the opposite end of the island from the town. Over the next century and a half, this park evolves into a fully-fledged theme park known as "Watcher World", using the advertising mascot "Blinky" (a cutesy {{Cyclops}} figure) to brand itself. (This date is not specifically given in "Watcher World", but Watcher World has a "storied history" and is clearly based on the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point Cedar Point]].)
! 1920s
* Legends of local cryptids become very popular around Hatchetfield, including an artist recording a popular novelty song, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", about the town's mascot BigfootSasquatchAndYeti "Woolly-foot".
! 1950s-60s
* Henry Hidgens is born. (He's in his 50s or 60s in 2018.) He spends most of his early life obsessed with musical theatre.
! 1970s
* John [=MacNamara=] is born. (He's in his 40s in 2018.)
! 1973
* Bill is born. (He's "at least 45" in 2018.)
! 1980-1982
* Jane Perkins is born. ("A few years older than Tom")
! 1982-1984
* Linda Monroe is born sometime after Jane. ("In between Jane and Tom", and overlapped with Tom in high school.) Note: Her actual birth name is unknown, since "Monroe" is a name that comes from her husband Gerald.
! 1984
* Tom Houston is born. ("A year older than Becky", and was a senior when Emma was a freshman. Confirmed directly on Twitter.)
* Ted and Charlotte are born (WordOfGod says they're the same age as Tom).
! 1985
* Becky Barnes is born. (Confirmed on Twitter.)
! 1986
* Model year of the red Fox-Body Mustang purchased by Tom's parents that he eventually inherits in high school.
! 1987
* Emma Perkins and Paul Matthews are born. (Confirmed on Twitter.)
! 1980s-1990s
* Lucy Stockworth, the future Duchess of Stockworth, is born (she's presumably in her 20s or 30s by the "present day" of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", since she's considered an eligible bachelorette). Her parents regularly take holidays in the resort areas of Hatchetfield to see the local scenery and wildlife, which leads to her almost dying falling out of a tree when she's nine or ten, only to be saved by the Ape-Man.
! 1991
* Professor Henry Hidgens, having abandoned his "first love" of musical theatre for a new career as a biologist, develops a bizarre theory that said "first love" will someday destroy the human race, in the form of an alien HiveMind that ends human free will by turning everyone into [[MusicalWorldHypotheses singing and dancing characters from a musical]]. He withdraws into his home, turning it into a shelter where he stockpiles supplies to prepare for the musical apocalypse. (He's been preparing for "twenty", "thirty" or "twenty-seven years" in 2018. The latter quote, being the least "round" and most specific, is assumed to be accurate.)
! 1992-94
* Jane Perkins is twelve years old, and makes a Lisa Frank binder with a comprehensive plan for the rest of her life -- where she'll go to school, where she'll work, when she'll get married and have kids -- that she'll actually successfully stick to as an adult. This will make Emma feel inferior for as far back as she can remember.
! 1994
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' is released, and is apparently the last Disney movie Bill has clear memories of.
* Tom Houston turns nine years old; he wants a popgun from the 99-cent store, but his dad buys him a cheaper toy knife instead.
! 1995-97
* Zoey is born. (Emma says she's "ten years younger", but if she "majored in theatre" and is a college graduate she probably has to be at least 22 in 2018.)
! 2000s
* Lucy Stockworth's father, the old Duke of Stockworth, dies, and she inherits his title and his fortune. She goes on to spend the next several years in an obsessive search for proof the Hatchetfield Ape-Man exists, including making a personal pilgrimage to Hatchetfield every year around the anniversary of the first time he saved her life.
! 2000
* Alice, Deb, Grace Chastity, Lex Foster, Ethan Green, and Hot Chocolate Boy are all born. (They seem to all be in the same high school class and are seniors by 2018.) Alice is born to Bill and his wife sometime in late October or early November. Little has been revealed about Lex's family situation, but her mother and father are both still present at this point.
! 2001
* Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11 lead to the declaration of Operation Enduring Freedom and the invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7. (Sherman Young later confuses this invasion for the one Tom was involved in.)
! 2003
* When Paul is 15 and a freshman or sophomore at Sycamore High, he travels to Hatchetfield High to see a production of ''{{Theatre/Brigadoon}}'', where Emma played Bonnie Jean. He hates it, and decides from that point forward that he doesn't like musicals.
* Operation Iraqi Freedom begins on March 20 as an expansion of the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror.
* Tom Houston's senior year at Hatchetfield High, his girlfriend Becky's junior year. Tom is the beloved quarterback of the football team and Becky is the cheer captain, and most of their peers consider them a SuperCouple. Tom graduates, and joins the military in order to participate in the recently-launched invasion of Iraq. Becky falls into the orbit of Stanley, a sketchy older guy who flirts with high school girls by buying them cigarettes and booze. She casually dates him for five months, before, in the fall of 2003, Stanley becomes physically abusive and forces her into a committed relationship with him.
* The Tear-Jerker, the "tallest roller coaster in the Midwest", opens at Watcher World. (Assuming it was built at the same time as its real-life counterpart, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Thrill_Dragster Top Thrill Dragster]] at Cedar Point.)
! 2004
* Becky graduates from high school. Stanley and Becky get married once Becky turns 18. (They're married by the time Tom gets back from Iraq.) Stanley pressures Becky into enrolling in nursing school rather than going away to a four-year college.
! 2005
* Special Unit PEIP builds their experimental portal into the Black and White ("13 years ago"). John [=MacNamara=]'s mentor, Wilbur Cross, volunteers to test it and explore the newly discovered extradimensional reality, and emerges having been driven mad. He proclaims his allegiance to the mysterious entity who rules the Black and White and his enmity with all mankind, escapes and vanishes. PEIP begins to attempt to study this entity -- "the Devil", "the Lord of Despair" -- and develop a plan to oppose it. John [=MacNamara=] takes over where Cross left off and rises to the rank of General.
* Hannah Foster is born. (She's 13 in 2018.) Seemingly from birth, she's plagued with an AmbiguousDisorder that affects her emotional and social development, and comes with strange visions and the delusion she's being spoken to by an ImaginaryFriend, a "spider from outer space" named Webby.
* Hannah's father (unclear if he's also Lex's father) leaves their mother before Hannah is old enough to remember him. Lex and Hannah's mother goes into a downward spiral into alcoholism and depression.
! 2005-2006
* Tom Houston returns after "two tours" in Iraq (one tour for a typical combat veteran in Iraq was between 9-15 months), and is given a diagnosis of PTSD. He's heartbroken by Becky having met someone else and gotten married while he was gone.
! 2006
* Emma and Paul graduate from high school. Paul is implied to go to college nearby, continuing to live in Hatchetfield, after which he gets a respectable office job at CCRP Technical. At some point Paul meets Becky, although he remains unfamiliar with her circle of acquaintances from Hatchetfield High. Paul develops a circle of acquaintances among his CCRP coworkers, and becomes best friends with his coworker Bill, often babysitting and giving rides to his daughter Alice. Emma leaves home and begins traveling the world taking odd jobs, eventually ending up living in Guatemala.
* Becky graduates from nursing school (two years is considered the normal minimum amount of time to become an RN).
! 2006-2009
* Tom at some point meets and starts dating Jane, who coaxes him out of his shell and gets him back on his feet. He becomes the shop teacher at Hatchetfield High, and they get married. Emma gets an invitation to the wedding but doesn't come. (This happens after Emma turns 18 and leaves home and before Tim's birth in 2009.)
! 2009
* Tim Houston is born to Tom and Jane. (He's nine in 2018.) Emma is invited to the baby shower, and again does not come.
! 2012-2018
* In either 2012 or 2016 (depending on whether he's serving his first or second term in ''Black Friday''), Howard Goodman, a Harvard Law School-educated community organizer, is elected President as a "status quo Democrat", establishing this as an AlternateUniverse from RealLife that diverges at least at this point. (The fact that an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/BarackObama exists, named Bob Morris, who is not the President, implies that Obama does not exist in this timeline.) He allows the trend of increasing levels of student and household debt that characterizes middle-class finances in TheNewTens to continue, and resists calls for radical healthcare reform and expanding the social safety net. Although this causes rates of stress and mental illness among the population to also steadily rise, the economy is doing well and Goodman is considered a popular, successful president.
* Colorado and Washington are the first two states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis on November 6, 2012, followed by Alaska, Oregon and DC on Nov. 4, 2014, California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine on Nov. 8, 2016, and Vermont on Jan. 22, 2018.
! 2014
* The Amazon Echo device, which hosts the AI virtual assistant, Alexa, is released. Alexa becomes Prof. Hidgens' "only companion" and he comes to love "her" "just as much as any woman of flesh and bone."
! 2015-18
* Alice begins attending Hatchetfield High and starts dating Deb. Alice, Deb and Grace Chastity move in the same circles, since Grace's family attends her family's church. Lex and Ethan are in their class but as {{Delinquent}}s don't interact with them much.
! 2016
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}'' is released. Ted sees it and doesn't like it. Alice, who apparently has a soft spot for Disney movies at the age of 16, goes to see it with Paul. Prof. Hidgens apparently sees it at some point despite being a childless shut-in. Bill doesn't see it at all.
* Lex Foster starts her crappy part-time job at the age of 16 working for Frank Pricely, the owner of Toy Zone at the Hatchetfield Lakeside Mall.
! 2017
* Bill and his wife get divorced. Bill caves in to most of his wife's demands at family court, getting only one week out of every month as custody, forcing Alice to withdraw from Hatchetfield High and enroll in a new school near her mother's new home in Clivesdale across the bridge.
* In the summer, a local community theater does a production of ''{{Theatre/Godspell}}'' starring Zoey and her friends, which both Paul and Emma see out of a sense of obligation, despite finding it "God-awful" and "God-damn that was bad."
* Lex, a senior at Hatchetfield High and a struggling student thanks to her difficult home life, starts making an effort to get better grades in order to get a chance at going to college after she graduates, encouraged by her favorite teacher Tom.
* ''' December, 2017''': Sometime around Christmas, Tom is driving with Jane in the passenger seat and Tim in the back. He fails to notice a car losing control and sliding toward him from his right while driving through an intersection, and suffers a side-impact collision, leading to Jane's death. Tom and Tim both live but are badly traumatized.
** Tom enters an indefinite leave of absence from his teaching duties as his PTSD after Jane's death escalates to the point where he can no longer function.
** Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in twelve years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
** Becky receives an invitation to Jane's funeral. Stanley forbids her from attending, since he knows she still has feelings for Tom. She defies him to his face, starting a physical fight and leading to him chasing her out of the house into the woods with a knife, where she overcomes him, stabs him in the femoral artery and leaves him for dead. She spends the next several weeks terrified of going to prison or of him coming back for revenge, but neither happens, and the town gossips assume he ran off to the mainland with another woman.
! 2017-2018
* Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel becomes a local news story -- a baby squirrel who falls out of a tree and almost dies of his injuries, before being taken in and painstakingly nursed back to health by a local woodworker and military veteran named Ed ("Papa Ed") who lets Peanuts live in his pocket. (It takes less than a year for a squirrel to grow to full maturity.)
! 2018
* Emma and Zoey both get jobs at Beanie's, an independent coffeeshop owned by Nora near CCRP Technical, but Zoey is quickly promoted over Emma despite her age because of Zoey's connection to Nora through the local theatre community. Ted has a crush on Zoey and calls her the "latte hotté". Paul starts going to Beanie's because of this and thinks Ted means Emma, developing a crush on her and becoming a regular.
* Emma enrolls in community college starting in the spring semester, with the goal of getting an associate's degree in botany or agriculture so she can pursue her dream of buying a pot farm as soon as cannabis is legalized nationwide.
* Emma begins taking Prof. Hidgens' biology class, and becomes his favorite student after volunteering to deliver groceries to his house.
* With shop class canceled, Lex's GPA takes a nosedive in the spring semester, and she fails her junior year. Rather than repeat the school year, she elects to drop out and focus on her retail job at Toy Zone to help her family's struggling finances, while also dealing weed on the side.
* Zoey graduates from college with a degree in theatre.
* Lex turns 18 and takes up smoking cigarettes, as does her boyfriend Ethan.
* Lex begins hiding money from her mother and planning to run away to California with Ethan and Hannah to start a new life as an actress.
* Charlotte's loveless marriage with Sam comes to a head and they begin attending counseling sessions. Sam, meanwhile, begins an affair (not his first one) with Zoey. Charlotte likewise begins sleeping with Ted.
* The plant closes, putting a large number of blue-collar Hatchetfield residents out of work, including the Man in a Baseball Cap.
* The family-friendly holiday comedy ''Santa Claus is Goin' to High School'' is announced for a Thanksgiving weekend release.
* Over the summer, Alice's mother takes her on a trip to New York where they see ''{{Theatre/Hamilton}}'', which she can't stop talking about.
* Sometime in the fall, Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel reaches the weight of ten ounces and can no longer be easily carried in Papa Ed's pocket. Papa Ed sets up a [=GoFundMe=] to build Peanuts a house.
* A touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' announces it will arrive in Hatchetfield in October. (This is also AlternateHistory, since the last RealLife tour of this show in North America closed in 2017.)
* On the weekend of October 6-7, Nora visits a Coldstone Creamery and is inspired to make her employees perform with a little song and dance any time someone puts a tip in the jar. Everyone is enthusiastic about this idea except Emma.
* During the week starting Monday, Oct. 8, when Bill has custody of Alice at his house, Bill and Alice begin to fight over the fact that Alice's 18th birthday is coming up soon and he still treats her like a child. He makes big plans to celebrate her birthday early while he has her to try to win her back over. (WordOfGod says Bill "rounds up" Alice's age to 18 in Act 1 of TGWDLM because of this but Alice's later reference to herself being currently 17 is actually accurate.)
! ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals'' (Timeline A)
* (Note: This timeline assumes ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals'' begins on the same day as its opening night in RealLife.)
* '''Thursday, Oct. 11, afternoon''': Paul is having printer problems at work, and steps out for a cup of coffee from Beanie's, where he finally gets the courage to approach Emma and have a brief conversation with her. Bill, seeing Alice's newfound interest in musicals, buys rush tickets for Alice and Deb to come with him to the evening's performance of the touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' at the Starlight Theater downtown. Sam blows off the scheduled "cuddle night" recommended to him and Charlotte by their counselor, also to attend ''Mamma Mia!'' with Zoey.
* '''Evening''': PointOfDivergence. '''A meteor carrying the alien hivemind virus strikes the Starlight Theater shortly before curtain''', killing everyone inside. Sam and Zoey, who were already seated, are killed and assimilated, rising as singing zombies. Bill, Alice and Deb, who were running late, show up and find the theater ruined and the area blocked off, and as a result abruptly cancel their plans. Charlotte invites Ted over to "comfort" her over Sam abandoning her, and he ends up staying the night while Sam never returns.
* '''Night''': Sam goes back to the Hatchetfield PD station and infects everyone else on the night shift -- by morning, the whole police force is assimilated. Zoey finds Nora and assimilates her, setting in motion a plan to use Beanie's as an infection site. The infection continues to spread throughout Hatchetfield.
* '''Friday, Oct. 12, 6:00 am''': Ted leaves for work early to avoid getting caught by Sam, who "rolls in around 6". He sings in the shower as he gets home, and his "voice like an angel" spooks Charlotte enough that she flees the house without confronting him (avoiding infection).
* '''7:00-9:00 am''': Bill drives Alice to the bus station to travel back over the bridge to her school in Clivesdale. Along the way they have an argument, which makes her decide to get off the bus early and cut school with Deb instead. The Hatchetfield Action News delivers a news report at 8:00 about Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel and mentioning the incident with the meteor. Everyone who was outdoors overnight or in the early morning -- the Crazy Homeless Man, the Greenpeace Canvasser, etc. -- is infected, and begins singing a CrowdSong to infect anyone passing through the streets. Mr. Davidson passes through this crowd on the way to work and gets infected; Paul passes by shortly afterwards and manages to escape unscathed ("La Dee Dah Dah Day"). Emma shows up for her shift at Beanie's, unaware that Nora and Zoey are infected and have contaminated the coffee with blue goo.
* '''9:00 am-11:00 am''': Mr. Davidson begins ordering employees into his office one by one and forcing them to sing an IWantSong, triggering their infection. Paul manages to escape from this and flees the office ("What Do You Want, Paul?") Ted, Charlotte and Bill twig to what's happening and manage to escape shortly afterwards, fleeing downtown and hiding inside a bunch of trashcans as the streets begin to swell with singing zombie hordes. Emma spends the whole morning being trained on the mandatory new tip song and dance ("Cup of Roasted Coffee"). Paul shows up at Beanie's and reveals what's going on to Emma, upon which Nora and Zoey turn on them ("Cup of Poisoned Coffee") and they flee. They manage to meet up with Paul's coworkers, where they're ambushed by Sam and the other infected cops ("Show Me Your Hands"). Ted overcomes Sam and knocks his brains out with a trash can lid, revealing his organs have been replaced by "blue shit". The group pick up Sam's body and make their way to Prof. Hidgens' house. The Hatchetfield Action News gives an 11:00 am update indicating that in response to the "musical riots", the town of Clivesdale has raised the Nantucket Bridge, trapping everyone on the island. Hidgens rants about the naivete of the authorities upon hearing this, only for the group to arrive at his doorstep.
* '''11:00 am-7:00 pm''': Hidgens takes samples from Sam to study in the lab. Sam revives and tricks Charlotte into releasing his body from his restraints ("You Tied Up My Heart"), killing and assimilating her. Meanwhile Bill, Ted, Paul and Emma spend the afternoon making use of Hidgens' bar and getting drunk. Ted and Bill start sniping at each other, while Paul and Emma withdraw and begin pouring their hearts out to each other, only for their conversation to be suddenly interrupted by the zombified Charlotte and Sam attacking them, announcing the zombies have given up peaceful assimilation through song and are now resorting to violence ("Join Us (And Die)"), only for Hidgens to put them down with his shotgun and reveal what he's learned about the virus. Alice's unseen escapades with Deb that afternoon and evening are brought short by their encounter with the singing zombies -- Alice and Deb evade them on their own as long as they can, fleeing to the campus of Hatchetfield High, but when Deb herself starts showing signs of infection Alice abandons her and barricades herself in the choir room. She calls Bill around sunset begging for help; Ted tells Bill venturing outdoors after dark is suicide. Bill insists he's going anyway, and Paul goes with him.
* '''7:00 pm-9:00 pm''': Bill and Paul make it to Hatchetfield High only to discover Alice is already assimilated ("Not Your Seed"). Alice and the other zombies kill Bill and are about to kill Paul when PEIP's strike team arrives and slaughters them. Unfortunately, they don't believe Paul when he says he's uninfected and knock him unconscious with a TapOnTheHead. Hidgens and Emma continue studying the virus in the lab and come to the conclusion the zombies form a single HiveMind controlled by the meteor. Hidgens pulls a FaceHeelTurn and decides it would be better for humanity to be assimilated, drugs Emma and ties her and Ted up. Paul takes an hour or so to recover from unconsciousness -- when Paul awakens, Gen. [=MacNamara=] briefs him on the rescue chopper arriving at 11:00 pm and tells him he has two hours to save Emma and get off the island.
* '''9:00 pm-11:00 pm''': Emma finally awakens from her drugged sleep. Hidgens has gone fully mad, deactivates his house's defenses and performs his own musical for Emma and Ted ("Showstoppin' Number"). Paul arrives just in the nick of time to save Emma and Ted and they flee the compound as Hidgens is assimilated. Ted betrays Emma and Paul, leaving them to be taken by zombies while he gets on the chopper himself, only to run into [=MacNamara=] and his team and find they've been assimilated, soon thereafter being assimilated himself. Emma and Paul manage to escape the zombies at Hidgens' house only to find [=MacNamara=]'s team and Ted waiting for them, and have to fight their way through ("America Is Great Again"). They manage to make it to the helicopter landing site before 11:00, and get on, only to find that the helicopter mission was somehow sabotaged by the assimilated [=MacNamara=] and the pilot is actually Zoey, who tries to kill them. Paul manages to kick the gun out of her hand and force her to down the chopper. The chopper crashes, Zoey is killed, and Emma is badly wounded.
* '''11:00 pm-midnight''': Emma tells Paul what she learned about the HiveMind and that the only way to stop the zombies is to destroy the meteor. The zombies gather at the meteor crash site in the Starlight Theater to make their last stand ("Let Him Come"). Paul grabs a belt of grenades and heads down to the crash site only to be almost overwhelmed by the meteor's influence, but just barely manages to pull the pin on a grenade and blow up the whole building before being assimilated ("Let It Out").
* '''Saturday, Oct. 13, 12:00 am-morning''': PEIP's cleanup crew comes and torches all of Hatchetfield. Emma is found and taken to Clivesdale for medical treatment. Peanuts is also found, burrowed into the corpse of Papa Ed, and presented to the public as the only survivor.
* '''Oct. 13-27''': Unfortunately, Emma's theory was wrong, and Paul destroying the meteor was AllForNothing -- the HiveMind survives, and slowly regenerates the corpses of the zombified residents of Hatchetfield, who begin infiltrating PEIP's forces and assimilating them. Paul regenerates, and presents himself to PEIP agents as having "miraculously survived", and is taken in by them and given a new identity of "Ben Bridges".
* '''Oct. 27''': The Morning Clivesdale News reports on the two-week anniversary of the destruction of Hatchetfield. PEIP's Col. Schaeffer briefs Emma on her new life and identity as "Kelly" and the pot farm that's been purchased for her in Colorado. She then surprises her by bringing in "Ben Bridges" to meet her... only for Paul to reveal this whole series of events was a setup just to emotionally torture Emma before finally killing her. Which they do ("Inevitable").
* '''Oct. 27-Nov. 13''': According to WordOfGod, after Emma is horribly killed, the zombie virus spreads uncontrollably at an exponential rate across the mainland United States and from there to the world, with the last free humans becoming extinct after "two and a half weeks".
! ''Black Friday'' (Timeline B)
* '''Thursday, Oct. 11, afternoon''': Paul is having printer problems at work, and steps out for a cup of coffee from Beanie's, where he finally gets the courage to approach Emma and have a brief conversation with her. Bill, seeing Alice's newfound interest in musicals, buys rush tickets for Alice and Deb to come with him to the evening's performance of the touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' at the Starlight Theater downtown. Sam blows off the scheduled "cuddle night" recommended to him and Charlotte by their counselor, also to attend ''Mamma Mia!'' with Zoey.
* '''Evening''': PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing falls from the sky at all, which remains perfectly clear'''. The evening's showing of ''Mamma Mia!'' goes well, and Sam and Zoey have a fun date night, as do Bill, Alice and Deb. Charlotte invites Ted over to "comfort" her over Sam abandoning her, and he ends up ducking out when Sam comes home for the evening after having sex with Zoey.
* '''Friday, Oct. 12''': Sam's morning singing in the shower is as flat and nasal as ever; Charlotte notices nothing special about it. Bill drives Alice to the bus station to travel back over the bridge to her school in Clivesdale. Along the way they have an argument, which makes her decide to get off the bus early and cut school with Deb instead -- their ditch day goes off without a hitch. The Hatchetfield Action News delivers a news report at 8:00 about Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel, and nothing else. CCRP Technical and Beanie's both have uneventful workdays.
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. '''The company "Uncle Wiley Toys" suddenly appears out of nowhere and their advertisements for a toy called the "Tickle-Me-Wiggly" begin appearing all over the media.''' Thanks to MindManipulation, no one questions this and everyone just accepts that there's a sudden and overwhelming FlashInThePanFad for this toy, except for Gen. [=MacNamara=] and the operatives of PEIP, who quickly figure out that the Ruler of the Black and White and the entity known as Wiggly are one and the same, discover the dolls are a vector for Wiggly's mind control, and begin working on countermeasures. Bill tries to order a Wiggly doll for Alice but is too late -- online orders for the toy run out almost instantly as soon as it becomes available and the estimated backlog is over a year. Uncle Wiley Toys begins cutting deals with local brick-and-mortar retailers to have ''very'' limited quantities made exclusively available to them for sale on Black Friday. Frank Pricely of Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall jumps at this opportunity and begins heavily advertising it. Lex decides to piggyback on this opportunity to steal one of Frank's Wigglies and resell it online to finance her trip to California. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Oct. 29''': Lex solidifies what she thinks is a foolproof plan to sneak a Wiggly doll out of Toy Zone under Frank's nose by using her sister Hannah to take it out of the store. She keeps on going over the plan with Ethan for the next four weeks to make sure he's there with Hannah well before the store opens at 7:00 am.
* '''Friday, Nov. 16''': Sherman Young arrives in front of the Lakeside Mall in the evening -- with no one else there -- and sets up camp to make sure he's the first one in line for a Wiggly doll. Thanks to him being the only one with no day job, nowhere else to be for Thanksgiving and no compunction pooping in a bucket, he's alone for the next six days.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Ethan, running the online side of the caper for Lex, starts looking around for buyers and finds that as Black Friday approaches interest spikes, until the bids go up from a few hundred to $7,000. He decides to take his own life savings -- $1,000 -- and spend them all on getting his car tuned up for the trip to California. Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and becomes determined to get a Wiggly so she can be a hero and save Christmas for the kids stuck in the hospital over the holidays.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. Tom, seeing how unhappy Tim still is, gets obsessed with the idea that buying a Wiggly doll will fix everything. As evening sets in, the Man in the Scarf is the first person to arrive to stand in line behind Sherman, followed by Becky, the Man in a Baseball Cap (whose need for a Wiggly is somehow tied to his unemployment), the Crazy Homeless Man, the Man in a Hurry (who's decided to sacrifice his night waiting in line so he can get out with a Wiggly first thing in the morning and get to the places he needs to be on Friday), and Gary Goldstein. Before he goes to bed, Tom impulsively texts Emma for her to come over tomorrow morning at 6:00 am, which she interprets as an invitation to spend the holiday together. By the morning of Black Friday the line is hundreds of people long (and includes Charlotte, Ted, Mr. Davidson, Bill, Papa Ed and Peanuts, and the Hot Chocolate Boy.)
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23, 6:00-7:00 am''': Lex arrives at work, having been assigned to the morning shift (6:00 am to 12:00 noon) to set up the store for their big opening at 7:00. Paul and Emma stop at Starbucks on their way to Tom's house with supplies for a day of family fun, arriving at 6:30, only for Tom to chew them out for being late and let them know they're babysitting while he heads to Toy Zone ("What Tim Wants"). Tom makes it to Toy Zone at 6:50, with the line now all the way down the street, and meets up with Lex, who refuses to help him because she already has her own plan to steal a Wiggly. Uncle Wiley delivers the shipment of 850 Wiggly dolls to Frank, who orders Lex to unpack and shelve them. Ethan arrives with Hannah in tow, and they celebrate the imminent success of their plan ("[=CaliforMIA=]"). Lex hides the Wiggly doll in her backpack and leaves it with Hannah, telling Ethan to keep Hannah safe and out of the way until her shift ends at noon. Linda Monroe arrives just before the store opens, dropped off by her husband Gerald, and bribes her way into the line by writing the Man in a Scarf a check. Becky Barnes loudly objects to this and ends up in a public argument with Linda, only to be interrupted by Tom's arrival -- she's so shocked to see him again for the first time in years she lets him in behind her, and the gossipy townsfolk let it slide because they're so interested in seeing their reunion ("What Do You Say?").
* '''7:00 am-11:00 am''': Frank Pricely opens Toy Zone in a grand ceremony ("Our Doors Are Open"). Sherman Young reveals he camped out to get the #1 spot in line so he could buy ''all'' the Wigglies at once. Frank flip-flops over whether this is allowed by store policy, triggering a cash bidding war over the Wiggly dolls, which escalates into riots ("Feast or Famine"). Lex and Frank desperately try to protect the stock of Wiggly dolls but are quickly overwhelmed, subdued and tied up.
* '''10:00 am-noon''': Around 10:30 or 11:00 am (it is very rare for movie theaters to open any earlier than this) Ethan and Hannah get bored waiting around in the food court and Ethan decides to treat Hannah to a matinee showing of ''Santa Claus is Goin' to High School'', but doesn't have enough money. A mall security guard almost kicks him out for being a troublemaker, only to get a radio calling all hands down to Toy Zone to try to contain the riots, which have exceeded "normal" Black Friday levels and are totally out of control. The rioters overcome the security forces and begin to spread through the mall, interrupting a heart-to-heart Ethan and Hannah are having outside the cineplex. The Man in a Baseball Cap and Gary Goldstein begin viciously beating Ethan, who shouts for Hannah to flee to the tunnel in the mall playplace. Tom and Becky find Ethan just in time to watch him die of his wounds. Tom gets ambushed and stabbed by the Man in a Hurry. Linda finds herself accosted by Uncle Wiley, who reveals Wiggly's evil plan and inducts her as Wiggly's new prophet.
* '''Noon-evening''': Around noon (1:00 pm, Eastern time) the national press out of New York reports the President is convening a Cabinet meeting at the Oval Office to address the Black Friday riots, which are now nationwide. The meeting itself dissolves into chaos when Bob Morris brings a Wiggly doll in and infects everyone with Wiggly fever. They're saved by Gen. John [=MacNamara=], who shoots the Wiggly doll, reveals the existence of PEIP and tells President Goodman they need his help ("Monsters and Men"). The riots die down as the rioters realize all the Wiggly dolls have now been claimed and their holders have successfully escaped. The remaining rioters, in their frustration, block off the exits and begin scouring the mall for any Wigglies that have been hidden. Linda's cult begins to spread among them. Becky raids the office for a first aid kit and drags a bleeding and unconscious Tom into one of the theaters to treat his wounds, arriving in the middle of the showing of ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' ("Deck the Halls (Of Northville High)"). Tom awakens, and he and Becky have a quiet conversation and rekindle their romantic relationship ("Take Me Back"). [=MacNamara=] and Goodman arrive at PEIP's hidden HQ in Washington DC, where [=MacNamara=] and Xander Lee begin briefing the President on the Black and White, Wiggly, and the interdimensional portal they want to send him through to negotiate with the entity. At some point as evening sets in -- "exactly 168 hours" after Sherman first arrived at the mall -- the cult convenes their first ritual service in which Linda announces there's one doll left in the mall, sends her followers to hunt down Hannah, and sacrifices Frank ("Adore Me"). Wiggly sends an illusion of Ethan to try to coax Hannah out of hiding, and when she sees through it the voice of Wiggly begins berating her directly, causing her to FreakOut and leave her hiding place. Becky and Tom eventually leave the theater, with both of them still intent on finding a Wiggly doll, only to run into Hannah; Wiggly's influence overwhelms them and they attack her ("Do You Want to Play?") Becky tries to drug her with a syringe only to accidentally stab herself and fall unconscious; Tom overpowers her, grabs the Wiggly and runs for the exits. Linda's cult finds Becky and Hannah and drag them both to Linda.
* '''Evening-night''': PEIP finishes preparing Goodman for his incursion into the Black and White. He travels through the portal only to be surrounded and almost overwhelmed by Uncle Wiley and the Sniggles. Wiggly reveals his true face and gloats to Goodman that his policies were what weakened America enough for his influence to break through ("Made In America"). [=MacNamara=] follows Goodman into the Black and White and manages to save him, only to sacrifice his own life as his body dissolves thanks to his lack of a protective suit. Goodman makes it back to Earth and demands that PEIP launch the nuclear warhead into the Black and White, only for Wiggly to divert the bomb through a second portal to Russia, destroying Moscow and triggering World War III. PEIP drags a hysterical Goodman to Marine One to prepare for the upcoming apocalypse. Sherman takes Lex aside to murder her, and she contemplates her wasted life as he slowly strangles her ("Black Friday"), only for [=MacNamara=]'s disembodied spirit to manifest from the Black and White and save her life by teaching her how to use her powers to pull his gun into her reality ("Monsters and Men (reprise))". Lex kills Sherman and confronts Tom at gunpoint just as he manages to find an unguarded route out of the mall, and her explanation of how Wiggly's voice has lied to him about the doll getting his son back wakes him up from his trance ("If I Fail You"). Lex and Tom go to confront Linda and save Hannah. Lex manages to distract the cultists with the Wiggly doll long enough for Tom to get the drop on Linda and hold her at gunpoint, but in a burst of rage Linda is able to overpower him and snatch the doll from Lex's hands, and celebrates that her plan is finished and Wiggly will arrive in the flesh soon ("Wiggle"), only for Becky to wake up from unconsciousness, grab Tom's gun and shoot Linda in the head. Tom, Becky, Lex and Hannah reunite, and before they leave Lex sets the Wiggly doll on fire and the flames begin to spread to consume the cultists and the whole mall.
* '''Night-midnight''': The main characters flee the mall and watch in the parking lot as it burns down, and the cult fractures between those insistent on staying inside praying for Wiggly's deliverance and those who snap out of the spell and escape. An unknown amount of time passes as the Hatchetfield news media reports on the mall's destruction only to be interrupted by the news of the imminent nuclear war, followed by a media blackout, the downing of the cell phone network and Internet, and a power outage, leaving Paul unable to use his phone. Emma and Paul try to make plans to flee Hatchetfield in her car, but Tim insists on going to the mall to search for Tom first. Emma and Paul finally find Tom at the gathering of the other survivors, and Emma proposes heading to Prof. Hidgens' house to wait out the upcoming war there. Tom glances at his watch and realizes it's now 11:57 pm, and says he feels like if Black Friday ends with them still alive they can survive anything. Hannah sings a song about the uncertain future ("What If Tomorrow Comes?") as the survivors wait the remaining three minutes for midnight, when they suddenly hear something streaking overhead in the sky.
! ''Nightmare Time'', The Hatchetfield Ape-Man (Timeline C)
* (Note: Most episodes of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 1 explicitly state they take place in 2019; "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" doesn't specify, but this timeline assumes it also does.)
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing unusual happens this holiday season.''' Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall continues to go through the struggle and slow decline of a brick-and-mortar retailer in an online shopping era. Lex, having no readily apparent way to make a lot of money fast, continues to think of her trip to California as a pipe dream. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and feels awful about it, but there's nothing she can do.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' releases in theaters; nobody goes to see it.
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23''': Lex has a predictably shitty day, having to deal with monster crowds the day after Thanksgiving, but not anything she can't handle.
* '''2019''': '''The events of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" occur.''' Lucy Stockworth records an interview with Dan and Donna about her lifelong obsession with the Ape-Man. Prof. Hidgens, driven mad with frustration that ''Workin' Boys'' will never see the light of day, watches this segment on TV and is inspired to use his knowledge of biology and Hatchetfield's local cryptid lore to pull a con to steal Lucy's family fortune. He hires Ted to grow out his beard and pose as the Ape-Man, hoping to trick Lucy into marrying him so he can murder her and the two of them can split the inheritance. After Lucy spends two weeks falling in love with the Ape-Man, her fiancée Jonathan Brisby shows up trying to get her to come back to England, and attempts to expose Prof. Hidgens and Ted as charlatans. The aftermath of this confrontation leads to the death of Jonathan, Ted and Prof. Hidgens, and to Lucy vanishing forever as the bride of the true Ape-Man.
! ''Nightmare Time'', Watcher World (Timeline D)
* '''2019''': PointOfDivergence. '''Lucy Stockworth goes home after her latest attempt to find the Ape-Man without incident'''. Presumably she goes through with her loveless but mutually beneficial arrangement to marry Jonathan Brisby, and continues to use his money to pursue the Ape-Man over his objections.
* '''Spring 2019''': Alice and Deb are accepted to different colleges; Alice becomes insecure Deb will break up with her after going to her "fancy art school" and starting a new life. Alice writes a play that wins her a scholarship at the theater department of her new school, although Bill still hopes she'll pursue a more practical career.
* '''August 17, 2019''': '''The events of "Watcher World" occur.''' (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
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Currently, this timeline includes information going up to ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Episode 1, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man and Watcher World". The rest of ''Nightmare Time'' will be added when those episodes are publicly released on [=YouTube=].
Since Hatchetfield explicitly is a universe with {{Alternate Timeline}}s, this timeline is organized to try to cover all the possible events depicted onscreen/onstage while [[OccamsRazor minimizing the total number of timelines]] as much as possible.
'''SPOILERS AHEAD!'''
! 1824
* The town of Hatchetfield, Michigan is established on the eponymous Hatchetfield Island in the Great Lakes (according to the Hatchetfield Welcome Sign shown in the intro of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' and ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''). It is apparently named for the hatchets used to clear a space for the town in the thick forest that covers the island, which later becomes known as "the Witchwood".
! 1870
* Hatchetfield's beaches become a popular tourist destination, and an amusement park is founded on the uninhabited north shore of Hatchetfield Island, on the opposite end of the island from the town. Over the next century and a half, this park evolves into a fully-fledged theme park known as "Watcher World", using the advertising mascot "Blinky" (a cutesy {{Cyclops}} figure) to brand itself. (This date is not specifically given in "Watcher World", but Watcher World has a "storied history" and is clearly based on the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point Cedar Point]].)
! 1920s
* Legends of local cryptids become very popular around Hatchetfield, including an artist recording a popular novelty song, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", about the town's mascot BigfootSasquatchAndYeti "Woolly-foot".
! 1950s-60s
* Henry Hidgens is born. (He's in his 50s or 60s in 2018.) He spends most of his early life obsessed with musical theatre.
! 1970s
* John [=MacNamara=] is born. (He's in his 40s in 2018.)
! 1973
* Bill is born. (He's "at least 45" in 2018.)
! 1980-1982
* Jane Perkins is born. ("A few years older than Tom")
! 1982-1984
* Linda Monroe is born sometime after Jane. ("In between Jane and Tom", and overlapped with Tom in high school.) Note: Her actual birth name is unknown, since "Monroe" is a name that comes from her husband Gerald.
! 1984
* Tom Houston is born. ("A year older than Becky", and was a senior when Emma was a freshman. Confirmed directly on Twitter.)
* Ted and Charlotte are born (WordOfGod says they're the same age as Tom).
! 1985
* Becky Barnes is born. (Confirmed on Twitter.)
! 1986
* Model year of the red Fox-Body Mustang purchased by Tom's parents that he eventually inherits in high school.
! 1987
* Emma Perkins and Paul Matthews are born. (Confirmed on Twitter.)
! 1980s-1990s
* Lucy Stockworth, the future Duchess of Stockworth, is born (she's presumably in her 20s or 30s by the "present day" of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", since she's considered an eligible bachelorette). Her parents regularly take holidays in the resort areas of Hatchetfield to see the local scenery and wildlife, which leads to her almost dying falling out of a tree when she's nine or ten, only to be saved by the Ape-Man.
! 1991
* Professor Henry Hidgens, having abandoned his "first love" of musical theatre for a new career as a biologist, develops a bizarre theory that said "first love" will someday destroy the human race, in the form of an alien HiveMind that ends human free will by turning everyone into [[MusicalWorldHypotheses singing and dancing characters from a musical]]. He withdraws into his home, turning it into a shelter where he stockpiles supplies to prepare for the musical apocalypse. (He's been preparing for "twenty", "thirty" or "twenty-seven years" in 2018. The latter quote, being the least "round" and most specific, is assumed to be accurate.)
! 1992-94
* Jane Perkins is twelve years old, and makes a Lisa Frank binder with a comprehensive plan for the rest of her life -- where she'll go to school, where she'll work, when she'll get married and have kids -- that she'll actually successfully stick to as an adult. This will make Emma feel inferior for as far back as she can remember.
! 1994
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' is released, and is apparently the last Disney movie Bill has clear memories of.
* Tom Houston turns nine years old; he wants a popgun from the 99-cent store, but his dad buys him a cheaper toy knife instead.
! 1995-97
* Zoey is born. (Emma says she's "ten years younger", but if she "majored in theatre" and is a college graduate she probably has to be at least 22 in 2018.)
! 2000s
* Lucy Stockworth's father, the old Duke of Stockworth, dies, and she inherits his title and his fortune. She goes on to spend the next several years in an obsessive search for proof the Hatchetfield Ape-Man exists, including making a personal pilgrimage to Hatchetfield every year around the anniversary of the first time he saved her life.
! 2000
* Alice, Deb, Grace Chastity, Lex Foster, Ethan Green, and Hot Chocolate Boy are all born. (They seem to all be in the same high school class and are seniors by 2018.) Alice is born to Bill and his wife sometime in late October or early November. Little has been revealed about Lex's family situation, but her mother and father are both still present at this point.
! 2001
* Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11 lead to the declaration of Operation Enduring Freedom and the invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7. (Sherman Young later confuses this invasion for the one Tom was involved in.)
! 2003
* When Paul is 15 and a freshman or sophomore at Sycamore High, he travels to Hatchetfield High to see a production of ''{{Theatre/Brigadoon}}'', where Emma played Bonnie Jean. He hates it, and decides from that point forward that he doesn't like musicals.
* Operation Iraqi Freedom begins on March 20 as an expansion of the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror.
* Tom Houston's senior year at Hatchetfield High, his girlfriend Becky's junior year. Tom is the beloved quarterback of the football team and Becky is the cheer captain, and most of their peers consider them a SuperCouple. Tom graduates, and joins the military in order to participate in the recently-launched invasion of Iraq. Becky falls into the orbit of Stanley, a sketchy older guy who flirts with high school girls by buying them cigarettes and booze. She casually dates him for five months, before, in the fall of 2003, Stanley becomes physically abusive and forces her into a committed relationship with him.
* The Tear-Jerker, the "tallest roller coaster in the Midwest", opens at Watcher World. (Assuming it was built at the same time as its real-life counterpart, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Thrill_Dragster Top Thrill Dragster]] at Cedar Point.)
! 2004
* Becky graduates from high school. Stanley and Becky get married once Becky turns 18. (They're married by the time Tom gets back from Iraq.) Stanley pressures Becky into enrolling in nursing school rather than going away to a four-year college.
! 2005
* Special Unit PEIP builds their experimental portal into the Black and White ("13 years ago"). John [=MacNamara=]'s mentor, Wilbur Cross, volunteers to test it and explore the newly discovered extradimensional reality, and emerges having been driven mad. He proclaims his allegiance to the mysterious entity who rules the Black and White and his enmity with all mankind, escapes and vanishes. PEIP begins to attempt to study this entity -- "the Devil", "the Lord of Despair" -- and develop a plan to oppose it. John [=MacNamara=] takes over where Cross left off and rises to the rank of General.
* Hannah Foster is born. (She's 13 in 2018.) Seemingly from birth, she's plagued with an AmbiguousDisorder that affects her emotional and social development, and comes with strange visions and the delusion she's being spoken to by an ImaginaryFriend, a "spider from outer space" named Webby.
* Hannah's father (unclear if he's also Lex's father) leaves their mother before Hannah is old enough to remember him. Lex and Hannah's mother goes into a downward spiral into alcoholism and depression.
! 2005-2006
* Tom Houston returns after "two tours" in Iraq (one tour for a typical combat veteran in Iraq was between 9-15 months), and is given a diagnosis of PTSD. He's heartbroken by Becky having met someone else and gotten married while he was gone.
! 2006
* Emma and Paul graduate from high school. Paul is implied to go to college nearby, continuing to live in Hatchetfield, after which he gets a respectable office job at CCRP Technical. At some point Paul meets Becky, although he remains unfamiliar with her circle of acquaintances from Hatchetfield High. Paul develops a circle of acquaintances among his CCRP coworkers, and becomes best friends with his coworker Bill, often babysitting and giving rides to his daughter Alice. Emma leaves home and begins traveling the world taking odd jobs, eventually ending up living in Guatemala.
* Becky graduates from nursing school (two years is considered the normal minimum amount of time to become an RN).
! 2006-2009
* Tom at some point meets and starts dating Jane, who coaxes him out of his shell and gets him back on his feet. He becomes the shop teacher at Hatchetfield High, and they get married. Emma gets an invitation to the wedding but doesn't come. (This happens after Emma turns 18 and leaves home and before Tim's birth in 2009.)
! 2009
* Tim Houston is born to Tom and Jane. (He's nine in 2018.) Emma is invited to the baby shower, and again does not come.
! 2012-2018
* In either 2012 or 2016 (depending on whether he's serving his first or second term in ''Black Friday''), Howard Goodman, a Harvard Law School-educated community organizer, is elected President as a "status quo Democrat", establishing this as an AlternateUniverse from RealLife that diverges at least at this point. (The fact that an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/BarackObama exists, named Bob Morris, who is not the President, implies that Obama does not exist in this timeline.) He allows the trend of increasing levels of student and household debt that characterizes middle-class finances in TheNewTens to continue, and resists calls for radical healthcare reform and expanding the social safety net. Although this causes rates of stress and mental illness among the population to also steadily rise, the economy is doing well and Goodman is considered a popular, successful president.
* Colorado and Washington are the first two states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis on November 6, 2012, followed by Alaska, Oregon and DC on Nov. 4, 2014, California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine on Nov. 8, 2016, and Vermont on Jan. 22, 2018.
! 2014
* The Amazon Echo device, which hosts the AI virtual assistant, Alexa, is released. Alexa becomes Prof. Hidgens' "only companion" and he comes to love "her" "just as much as any woman of flesh and bone."
! 2015-18
* Alice begins attending Hatchetfield High and starts dating Deb. Alice, Deb and Grace Chastity move in the same circles, since Grace's family attends her family's church. Lex and Ethan are in their class but as {{Delinquent}}s don't interact with them much.
! 2016
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}'' is released. Ted sees it and doesn't like it. Alice, who apparently has a soft spot for Disney movies at the age of 16, goes to see it with Paul. Prof. Hidgens apparently sees it at some point despite being a childless shut-in. Bill doesn't see it at all.
* Lex Foster starts her crappy part-time job at the age of 16 working for Frank Pricely, the owner of Toy Zone at the Hatchetfield Lakeside Mall.
! 2017
* Bill and his wife get divorced. Bill caves in to most of his wife's demands at family court, getting only one week out of every month as custody, forcing Alice to withdraw from Hatchetfield High and enroll in a new school near her mother's new home in Clivesdale across the bridge.
* In the summer, a local community theater does a production of ''{{Theatre/Godspell}}'' starring Zoey and her friends, which both Paul and Emma see out of a sense of obligation, despite finding it "God-awful" and "God-damn that was bad."
* Lex, a senior at Hatchetfield High and a struggling student thanks to her difficult home life, starts making an effort to get better grades in order to get a chance at going to college after she graduates, encouraged by her favorite teacher Tom.
* ''' December, 2017''': Sometime around Christmas, Tom is driving with Jane in the passenger seat and Tim in the back. He fails to notice a car losing control and sliding toward him from his right while driving through an intersection, and suffers a side-impact collision, leading to Jane's death. Tom and Tim both live but are badly traumatized.
** Tom enters an indefinite leave of absence from his teaching duties as his PTSD after Jane's death escalates to the point where he can no longer function.
** Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in twelve years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
** Becky receives an invitation to Jane's funeral. Stanley forbids her from attending, since he knows she still has feelings for Tom. She defies him to his face, starting a physical fight and leading to him chasing her out of the house into the woods with a knife, where she overcomes him, stabs him in the femoral artery and leaves him for dead. She spends the next several weeks terrified of going to prison or of him coming back for revenge, but neither happens, and the town gossips assume he ran off to the mainland with another woman.
! 2017-2018
* Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel becomes a local news story -- a baby squirrel who falls out of a tree and almost dies of his injuries, before being taken in and painstakingly nursed back to health by a local woodworker and military veteran named Ed ("Papa Ed") who lets Peanuts live in his pocket. (It takes less than a year for a squirrel to grow to full maturity.)
! 2018
* Emma and Zoey both get jobs at Beanie's, an independent coffeeshop owned by Nora near CCRP Technical, but Zoey is quickly promoted over Emma despite her age because of Zoey's connection to Nora through the local theatre community. Ted has a crush on Zoey and calls her the "latte hotté". Paul starts going to Beanie's because of this and thinks Ted means Emma, developing a crush on her and becoming a regular.
* Emma enrolls in community college starting in the spring semester, with the goal of getting an associate's degree in botany or agriculture so she can pursue her dream of buying a pot farm as soon as cannabis is legalized nationwide.
* Emma begins taking Prof. Hidgens' biology class, and becomes his favorite student after volunteering to deliver groceries to his house.
* With shop class canceled, Lex's GPA takes a nosedive in the spring semester, and she fails her junior year. Rather than repeat the school year, she elects to drop out and focus on her retail job at Toy Zone to help her family's struggling finances, while also dealing weed on the side.
* Zoey graduates from college with a degree in theatre.
* Lex turns 18 and takes up smoking cigarettes, as does her boyfriend Ethan.
* Lex begins hiding money from her mother and planning to run away to California with Ethan and Hannah to start a new life as an actress.
* Charlotte's loveless marriage with Sam comes to a head and they begin attending counseling sessions. Sam, meanwhile, begins an affair (not his first one) with Zoey. Charlotte likewise begins sleeping with Ted.
* The plant closes, putting a large number of blue-collar Hatchetfield residents out of work, including the Man in a Baseball Cap.
* The family-friendly holiday comedy ''Santa Claus is Goin' to High School'' is announced for a Thanksgiving weekend release.
* Over the summer, Alice's mother takes her on a trip to New York where they see ''{{Theatre/Hamilton}}'', which she can't stop talking about.
* Sometime in the fall, Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel reaches the weight of ten ounces and can no longer be easily carried in Papa Ed's pocket. Papa Ed sets up a [=GoFundMe=] to build Peanuts a house.
* A touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' announces it will arrive in Hatchetfield in October. (This is also AlternateHistory, since the last RealLife tour of this show in North America closed in 2017.)
* On the weekend of October 6-7, Nora visits a Coldstone Creamery and is inspired to make her employees perform with a little song and dance any time someone puts a tip in the jar. Everyone is enthusiastic about this idea except Emma.
* During the week starting Monday, Oct. 8, when Bill has custody of Alice at his house, Bill and Alice begin to fight over the fact that Alice's 18th birthday is coming up soon and he still treats her like a child. He makes big plans to celebrate her birthday early while he has her to try to win her back over. (WordOfGod says Bill "rounds up" Alice's age to 18 in Act 1 of TGWDLM because of this but Alice's later reference to herself being currently 17 is actually accurate.)
! ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals'' (Timeline A)
* (Note: This timeline assumes ''The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals'' begins on the same day as its opening night in RealLife.)
* '''Thursday, Oct. 11, afternoon''': Paul is having printer problems at work, and steps out for a cup of coffee from Beanie's, where he finally gets the courage to approach Emma and have a brief conversation with her. Bill, seeing Alice's newfound interest in musicals, buys rush tickets for Alice and Deb to come with him to the evening's performance of the touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' at the Starlight Theater downtown. Sam blows off the scheduled "cuddle night" recommended to him and Charlotte by their counselor, also to attend ''Mamma Mia!'' with Zoey.
* '''Evening''': PointOfDivergence. '''A meteor carrying the alien hivemind virus strikes the Starlight Theater shortly before curtain''', killing everyone inside. Sam and Zoey, who were already seated, are killed and assimilated, rising as singing zombies. Bill, Alice and Deb, who were running late, show up and find the theater ruined and the area blocked off, and as a result abruptly cancel their plans. Charlotte invites Ted over to "comfort" her over Sam abandoning her, and he ends up staying the night while Sam never returns.
* '''Night''': Sam goes back to the Hatchetfield PD station and infects everyone else on the night shift -- by morning, the whole police force is assimilated. Zoey finds Nora and assimilates her, setting in motion a plan to use Beanie's as an infection site. The infection continues to spread throughout Hatchetfield.
* '''Friday, Oct. 12, 6:00 am''': Ted leaves for work early to avoid getting caught by Sam, who "rolls in around 6". He sings in the shower as he gets home, and his "voice like an angel" spooks Charlotte enough that she flees the house without confronting him (avoiding infection).
* '''7:00-9:00 am''': Bill drives Alice to the bus station to travel back over the bridge to her school in Clivesdale. Along the way they have an argument, which makes her decide to get off the bus early and cut school with Deb instead. The Hatchetfield Action News delivers a news report at 8:00 about Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel and mentioning the incident with the meteor. Everyone who was outdoors overnight or in the early morning -- the Crazy Homeless Man, the Greenpeace Canvasser, etc. -- is infected, and begins singing a CrowdSong to infect anyone passing through the streets. Mr. Davidson passes through this crowd on the way to work and gets infected; Paul passes by shortly afterwards and manages to escape unscathed ("La Dee Dah Dah Day"). Emma shows up for her shift at Beanie's, unaware that Nora and Zoey are infected and have contaminated the coffee with blue goo.
* '''9:00 am-11:00 am''': Mr. Davidson begins ordering employees into his office one by one and forcing them to sing an IWantSong, triggering their infection. Paul manages to escape from this and flees the office ("What Do You Want, Paul?") Ted, Charlotte and Bill twig to what's happening and manage to escape shortly afterwards, fleeing downtown and hiding inside a bunch of trashcans as the streets begin to swell with singing zombie hordes. Emma spends the whole morning being trained on the mandatory new tip song and dance ("Cup of Roasted Coffee"). Paul shows up at Beanie's and reveals what's going on to Emma, upon which Nora and Zoey turn on them ("Cup of Poisoned Coffee") and they flee. They manage to meet up with Paul's coworkers, where they're ambushed by Sam and the other infected cops ("Show Me Your Hands"). Ted overcomes Sam and knocks his brains out with a trash can lid, revealing his organs have been replaced by "blue shit". The group pick up Sam's body and make their way to Prof. Hidgens' house. The Hatchetfield Action News gives an 11:00 am update indicating that in response to the "musical riots", the town of Clivesdale has raised the Nantucket Bridge, trapping everyone on the island. Hidgens rants about the naivete of the authorities upon hearing this, only for the group to arrive at his doorstep.
* '''11:00 am-7:00 pm''': Hidgens takes samples from Sam to study in the lab. Sam revives and tricks Charlotte into releasing his body from his restraints ("You Tied Up My Heart"), killing and assimilating her. Meanwhile Bill, Ted, Paul and Emma spend the afternoon making use of Hidgens' bar and getting drunk. Ted and Bill start sniping at each other, while Paul and Emma withdraw and begin pouring their hearts out to each other, only for their conversation to be suddenly interrupted by the zombified Charlotte and Sam attacking them, announcing the zombies have given up peaceful assimilation through song and are now resorting to violence ("Join Us (And Die)"), only for Hidgens to put them down with his shotgun and reveal what he's learned about the virus. Alice's unseen escapades with Deb that afternoon and evening are brought short by their encounter with the singing zombies -- Alice and Deb evade them on their own as long as they can, fleeing to the campus of Hatchetfield High, but when Deb herself starts showing signs of infection Alice abandons her and barricades herself in the choir room. She calls Bill around sunset begging for help; Ted tells Bill venturing outdoors after dark is suicide. Bill insists he's going anyway, and Paul goes with him.
* '''7:00 pm-9:00 pm''': Bill and Paul make it to Hatchetfield High only to discover Alice is already assimilated ("Not Your Seed"). Alice and the other zombies kill Bill and are about to kill Paul when PEIP's strike team arrives and slaughters them. Unfortunately, they don't believe Paul when he says he's uninfected and knock him unconscious with a TapOnTheHead. Hidgens and Emma continue studying the virus in the lab and come to the conclusion the zombies form a single HiveMind controlled by the meteor. Hidgens pulls a FaceHeelTurn and decides it would be better for humanity to be assimilated, drugs Emma and ties her and Ted up. Paul takes an hour or so to recover from unconsciousness -- when Paul awakens, Gen. [=MacNamara=] briefs him on the rescue chopper arriving at 11:00 pm and tells him he has two hours to save Emma and get off the island.
* '''9:00 pm-11:00 pm''': Emma finally awakens from her drugged sleep. Hidgens has gone fully mad, deactivates his house's defenses and performs his own musical for Emma and Ted ("Showstoppin' Number"). Paul arrives just in the nick of time to save Emma and Ted and they flee the compound as Hidgens is assimilated. Ted betrays Emma and Paul, leaving them to be taken by zombies while he gets on the chopper himself, only to run into [=MacNamara=] and his team and find they've been assimilated, soon thereafter being assimilated himself. Emma and Paul manage to escape the zombies at Hidgens' house only to find [=MacNamara=]'s team and Ted waiting for them, and have to fight their way through ("America Is Great Again"). They manage to make it to the helicopter landing site before 11:00, and get on, only to find that the helicopter mission was somehow sabotaged by the assimilated [=MacNamara=] and the pilot is actually Zoey, who tries to kill them. Paul manages to kick the gun out of her hand and force her to down the chopper. The chopper crashes, Zoey is killed, and Emma is badly wounded.
* '''11:00 pm-midnight''': Emma tells Paul what she learned about the HiveMind and that the only way to stop the zombies is to destroy the meteor. The zombies gather at the meteor crash site in the Starlight Theater to make their last stand ("Let Him Come"). Paul grabs a belt of grenades and heads down to the crash site only to be almost overwhelmed by the meteor's influence, but just barely manages to pull the pin on a grenade and blow up the whole building before being assimilated ("Let It Out").
* '''Saturday, Oct. 13, 12:00 am-morning''': PEIP's cleanup crew comes and torches all of Hatchetfield. Emma is found and taken to Clivesdale for medical treatment. Peanuts is also found, burrowed into the corpse of Papa Ed, and presented to the public as the only survivor.
* '''Oct. 13-27''': Unfortunately, Emma's theory was wrong, and Paul destroying the meteor was AllForNothing -- the HiveMind survives, and slowly regenerates the corpses of the zombified residents of Hatchetfield, who begin infiltrating PEIP's forces and assimilating them. Paul regenerates, and presents himself to PEIP agents as having "miraculously survived", and is taken in by them and given a new identity of "Ben Bridges".
* '''Oct. 27''': The Morning Clivesdale News reports on the two-week anniversary of the destruction of Hatchetfield. PEIP's Col. Schaeffer briefs Emma on her new life and identity as "Kelly" and the pot farm that's been purchased for her in Colorado. She then surprises her by bringing in "Ben Bridges" to meet her... only for Paul to reveal this whole series of events was a setup just to emotionally torture Emma before finally killing her. Which they do ("Inevitable").
* '''Oct. 27-Nov. 13''': According to WordOfGod, after Emma is horribly killed, the zombie virus spreads uncontrollably at an exponential rate across the mainland United States and from there to the world, with the last free humans becoming extinct after "two and a half weeks".
! ''Black Friday'' (Timeline B)
* '''Thursday, Oct. 11, afternoon''': Paul is having printer problems at work, and steps out for a cup of coffee from Beanie's, where he finally gets the courage to approach Emma and have a brief conversation with her. Bill, seeing Alice's newfound interest in musicals, buys rush tickets for Alice and Deb to come with him to the evening's performance of the touring production of ''{{Theatre/Mamma Mia}}'' at the Starlight Theater downtown. Sam blows off the scheduled "cuddle night" recommended to him and Charlotte by their counselor, also to attend ''Mamma Mia!'' with Zoey.
* '''Evening''': PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing falls from the sky at all, which remains perfectly clear'''. The evening's showing of ''Mamma Mia!'' goes well, and Sam and Zoey have a fun date night, as do Bill, Alice and Deb. Charlotte invites Ted over to "comfort" her over Sam abandoning her, and he ends up ducking out when Sam comes home for the evening after having sex with Zoey.
* '''Friday, Oct. 12''': Sam's morning singing in the shower is as flat and nasal as ever; Charlotte notices nothing special about it. Bill drives Alice to the bus station to travel back over the bridge to her school in Clivesdale. Along the way they have an argument, which makes her decide to get off the bus early and cut school with Deb instead -- their ditch day goes off without a hitch. The Hatchetfield Action News delivers a news report at 8:00 about Peanuts the Pocket Squirrel, and nothing else. CCRP Technical and Beanie's both have uneventful workdays.
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. '''The company "Uncle Wiley Toys" suddenly appears out of nowhere and their advertisements for a toy called the "Tickle-Me-Wiggly" begin appearing all over the media.''' Thanks to MindManipulation, no one questions this and everyone just accepts that there's a sudden and overwhelming FlashInThePanFad for this toy, except for Gen. [=MacNamara=] and the operatives of PEIP, who quickly figure out that the Ruler of the Black and White and the entity known as Wiggly are one and the same, discover the dolls are a vector for Wiggly's mind control, and begin working on countermeasures. Bill tries to order a Wiggly doll for Alice but is too late -- online orders for the toy run out almost instantly as soon as it becomes available and the estimated backlog is over a year. Uncle Wiley Toys begins cutting deals with local brick-and-mortar retailers to have ''very'' limited quantities made exclusively available to them for sale on Black Friday. Frank Pricely of Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall jumps at this opportunity and begins heavily advertising it. Lex decides to piggyback on this opportunity to steal one of Frank's Wigglies and resell it online to finance her trip to California. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Oct. 29''': Lex solidifies what she thinks is a foolproof plan to sneak a Wiggly doll out of Toy Zone under Frank's nose by using her sister Hannah to take it out of the store. She keeps on going over the plan with Ethan for the next four weeks to make sure he's there with Hannah well before the store opens at 7:00 am.
* '''Friday, Nov. 16''': Sherman Young arrives in front of the Lakeside Mall in the evening -- with no one else there -- and sets up camp to make sure he's the first one in line for a Wiggly doll. Thanks to him being the only one with no day job, nowhere else to be for Thanksgiving and no compunction pooping in a bucket, he's alone for the next six days.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Ethan, running the online side of the caper for Lex, starts looking around for buyers and finds that as Black Friday approaches interest spikes, until the bids go up from a few hundred to $7,000. He decides to take his own life savings -- $1,000 -- and spend them all on getting his car tuned up for the trip to California. Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and becomes determined to get a Wiggly so she can be a hero and save Christmas for the kids stuck in the hospital over the holidays.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. Tom, seeing how unhappy Tim still is, gets obsessed with the idea that buying a Wiggly doll will fix everything. As evening sets in, the Man in the Scarf is the first person to arrive to stand in line behind Sherman, followed by Becky, the Man in a Baseball Cap (whose need for a Wiggly is somehow tied to his unemployment), the Crazy Homeless Man, the Man in a Hurry (who's decided to sacrifice his night waiting in line so he can get out with a Wiggly first thing in the morning and get to the places he needs to be on Friday), and Gary Goldstein. Before he goes to bed, Tom impulsively texts Emma for her to come over tomorrow morning at 6:00 am, which she interprets as an invitation to spend the holiday together. By the morning of Black Friday the line is hundreds of people long (and includes Charlotte, Ted, Mr. Davidson, Bill, Papa Ed and Peanuts, and the Hot Chocolate Boy.)
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23, 6:00-7:00 am''': Lex arrives at work, having been assigned to the morning shift (6:00 am to 12:00 noon) to set up the store for their big opening at 7:00. Paul and Emma stop at Starbucks on their way to Tom's house with supplies for a day of family fun, arriving at 6:30, only for Tom to chew them out for being late and let them know they're babysitting while he heads to Toy Zone ("What Tim Wants"). Tom makes it to Toy Zone at 6:50, with the line now all the way down the street, and meets up with Lex, who refuses to help him because she already has her own plan to steal a Wiggly. Uncle Wiley delivers the shipment of 850 Wiggly dolls to Frank, who orders Lex to unpack and shelve them. Ethan arrives with Hannah in tow, and they celebrate the imminent success of their plan ("[=CaliforMIA=]"). Lex hides the Wiggly doll in her backpack and leaves it with Hannah, telling Ethan to keep Hannah safe and out of the way until her shift ends at noon. Linda Monroe arrives just before the store opens, dropped off by her husband Gerald, and bribes her way into the line by writing the Man in a Scarf a check. Becky Barnes loudly objects to this and ends up in a public argument with Linda, only to be interrupted by Tom's arrival -- she's so shocked to see him again for the first time in years she lets him in behind her, and the gossipy townsfolk let it slide because they're so interested in seeing their reunion ("What Do You Say?").
* '''7:00 am-11:00 am''': Frank Pricely opens Toy Zone in a grand ceremony ("Our Doors Are Open"). Sherman Young reveals he camped out to get the #1 spot in line so he could buy ''all'' the Wigglies at once. Frank flip-flops over whether this is allowed by store policy, triggering a cash bidding war over the Wiggly dolls, which escalates into riots ("Feast or Famine"). Lex and Frank desperately try to protect the stock of Wiggly dolls but are quickly overwhelmed, subdued and tied up.
* '''10:00 am-noon''': Around 10:30 or 11:00 am (it is very rare for movie theaters to open any earlier than this) Ethan and Hannah get bored waiting around in the food court and Ethan decides to treat Hannah to a matinee showing of ''Santa Claus is Goin' to High School'', but doesn't have enough money. A mall security guard almost kicks him out for being a troublemaker, only to get a radio calling all hands down to Toy Zone to try to contain the riots, which have exceeded "normal" Black Friday levels and are totally out of control. The rioters overcome the security forces and begin to spread through the mall, interrupting a heart-to-heart Ethan and Hannah are having outside the cineplex. The Man in a Baseball Cap and Gary Goldstein begin viciously beating Ethan, who shouts for Hannah to flee to the tunnel in the mall playplace. Tom and Becky find Ethan just in time to watch him die of his wounds. Tom gets ambushed and stabbed by the Man in a Hurry. Linda finds herself accosted by Uncle Wiley, who reveals Wiggly's evil plan and inducts her as Wiggly's new prophet.
* '''Noon-evening''': Around noon (1:00 pm, Eastern time) the national press out of New York reports the President is convening a Cabinet meeting at the Oval Office to address the Black Friday riots, which are now nationwide. The meeting itself dissolves into chaos when Bob Morris brings a Wiggly doll in and infects everyone with Wiggly fever. They're saved by Gen. John [=MacNamara=], who shoots the Wiggly doll, reveals the existence of PEIP and tells President Goodman they need his help ("Monsters and Men"). The riots die down as the rioters realize all the Wiggly dolls have now been claimed and their holders have successfully escaped. The remaining rioters, in their frustration, block off the exits and begin scouring the mall for any Wigglies that have been hidden. Linda's cult begins to spread among them. Becky raids the office for a first aid kit and drags a bleeding and unconscious Tom into one of the theaters to treat his wounds, arriving in the middle of the showing of ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' ("Deck the Halls (Of Northville High)"). Tom awakens, and he and Becky have a quiet conversation and rekindle their romantic relationship ("Take Me Back"). [=MacNamara=] and Goodman arrive at PEIP's hidden HQ in Washington DC, where [=MacNamara=] and Xander Lee begin briefing the President on the Black and White, Wiggly, and the interdimensional portal they want to send him through to negotiate with the entity. At some point as evening sets in -- "exactly 168 hours" after Sherman first arrived at the mall -- the cult convenes their first ritual service in which Linda announces there's one doll left in the mall, sends her followers to hunt down Hannah, and sacrifices Frank ("Adore Me"). Wiggly sends an illusion of Ethan to try to coax Hannah out of hiding, and when she sees through it the voice of Wiggly begins berating her directly, causing her to FreakOut and leave her hiding place. Becky and Tom eventually leave the theater, with both of them still intent on finding a Wiggly doll, only to run into Hannah; Wiggly's influence overwhelms them and they attack her ("Do You Want to Play?") Becky tries to drug her with a syringe only to accidentally stab herself and fall unconscious; Tom overpowers her, grabs the Wiggly and runs for the exits. Linda's cult finds Becky and Hannah and drag them both to Linda.
* '''Evening-night''': PEIP finishes preparing Goodman for his incursion into the Black and White. He travels through the portal only to be surrounded and almost overwhelmed by Uncle Wiley and the Sniggles. Wiggly reveals his true face and gloats to Goodman that his policies were what weakened America enough for his influence to break through ("Made In America"). [=MacNamara=] follows Goodman into the Black and White and manages to save him, only to sacrifice his own life as his body dissolves thanks to his lack of a protective suit. Goodman makes it back to Earth and demands that PEIP launch the nuclear warhead into the Black and White, only for Wiggly to divert the bomb through a second portal to Russia, destroying Moscow and triggering World War III. PEIP drags a hysterical Goodman to Marine One to prepare for the upcoming apocalypse. Sherman takes Lex aside to murder her, and she contemplates her wasted life as he slowly strangles her ("Black Friday"), only for [=MacNamara=]'s disembodied spirit to manifest from the Black and White and save her life by teaching her how to use her powers to pull his gun into her reality ("Monsters and Men (reprise))". Lex kills Sherman and confronts Tom at gunpoint just as he manages to find an unguarded route out of the mall, and her explanation of how Wiggly's voice has lied to him about the doll getting his son back wakes him up from his trance ("If I Fail You"). Lex and Tom go to confront Linda and save Hannah. Lex manages to distract the cultists with the Wiggly doll long enough for Tom to get the drop on Linda and hold her at gunpoint, but in a burst of rage Linda is able to overpower him and snatch the doll from Lex's hands, and celebrates that her plan is finished and Wiggly will arrive in the flesh soon ("Wiggle"), only for Becky to wake up from unconsciousness, grab Tom's gun and shoot Linda in the head. Tom, Becky, Lex and Hannah reunite, and before they leave Lex sets the Wiggly doll on fire and the flames begin to spread to consume the cultists and the whole mall.
* '''Night-midnight''': The main characters flee the mall and watch in the parking lot as it burns down, and the cult fractures between those insistent on staying inside praying for Wiggly's deliverance and those who snap out of the spell and escape. An unknown amount of time passes as the Hatchetfield news media reports on the mall's destruction only to be interrupted by the news of the imminent nuclear war, followed by a media blackout, the downing of the cell phone network and Internet, and a power outage, leaving Paul unable to use his phone. Emma and Paul try to make plans to flee Hatchetfield in her car, but Tim insists on going to the mall to search for Tom first. Emma and Paul finally find Tom at the gathering of the other survivors, and Emma proposes heading to Prof. Hidgens' house to wait out the upcoming war there. Tom glances at his watch and realizes it's now 11:57 pm, and says he feels like if Black Friday ends with them still alive they can survive anything. Hannah sings a song about the uncertain future ("What If Tomorrow Comes?") as the survivors wait the remaining three minutes for midnight, when they suddenly hear something streaking overhead in the sky.
! ''Nightmare Time'', The Hatchetfield Ape-Man (Timeline C)
* (Note: Most episodes of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 1 explicitly state they take place in 2019; "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" doesn't specify, but this timeline assumes it also does.)
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing unusual happens this holiday season.''' Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall continues to go through the struggle and slow decline of a brick-and-mortar retailer in an online shopping era. Lex, having no readily apparent way to make a lot of money fast, continues to think of her trip to California as a pipe dream. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and feels awful about it, but there's nothing she can do.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' releases in theaters; nobody goes to see it.
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23''': Lex has a predictably shitty day, having to deal with monster crowds the day after Thanksgiving, but not anything she can't handle.
* '''2019''': '''The events of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" occur.''' Lucy Stockworth records an interview with Dan and Donna about her lifelong obsession with the Ape-Man. Prof. Hidgens, driven mad with frustration that ''Workin' Boys'' will never see the light of day, watches this segment on TV and is inspired to use his knowledge of biology and Hatchetfield's local cryptid lore to pull a con to steal Lucy's family fortune. He hires Ted to grow out his beard and pose as the Ape-Man, hoping to trick Lucy into marrying him so he can murder her and the two of them can split the inheritance. After Lucy spends two weeks falling in love with the Ape-Man, her fiancée Jonathan Brisby shows up trying to get her to come back to England, and attempts to expose Prof. Hidgens and Ted as charlatans. The aftermath of this confrontation leads to the death of Jonathan, Ted and Prof. Hidgens, and to Lucy vanishing forever as the bride of the true Ape-Man.
! ''Nightmare Time'', Watcher World (Timeline D)
* '''2019''': PointOfDivergence. '''Lucy Stockworth goes home after her latest attempt to find the Ape-Man without incident'''. Presumably she goes through with her loveless but mutually beneficial arrangement to marry Jonathan Brisby, and continues to use his money to pursue the Ape-Man over his objections.
* '''Spring 2019''': Alice and Deb are accepted to different colleges; Alice becomes insecure Deb will break up with her after going to her "fancy art school" and starting a new life. Alice writes a play that wins her a scholarship at the theater department of her new school, although Bill still hopes she'll pursue a more practical career.
* '''August 17, 2019''': '''The events of "Watcher World" occur.''' (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
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* '''Spring 2019''': Alice and Deb are accepted to different colleges; Deb Alice becomes insecure Deb will break up with her after going to her "fancy art school" and starting a new life. Alice writes a play that wins her a scholarship at the theater department of her new school, although Bill still hopes she'll pursue a more practical career.
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* '''Spring 2019''': Alice and Deb are accepted to different colleges; Deb Alice becomes insecure Deb will break up with her after going to her "fancy art school" and starting a new life. Alice writes a play that wins her a scholarship at the theater department of her new school, although Bill still hopes she'll pursue a more practical career.
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! 1986
* Model year of the red Fox-Body Mustang purchased by Tom's parents that he eventually inherits in high school.
* Model year of the red Fox-Body Mustang purchased by Tom's parents that he eventually inherits in high school.
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* '''August 17, 2019''': The events of "Watcher World" occur. (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
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* '''August 17, 2019''': The '''The events of "Watcher World" occur. occur.''' (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
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* '''August 17, 2019''': The events of "Watcher World" occur. (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the surreal and baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
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* '''August 17, 2019''': The events of "Watcher World" occur. (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the surreal and baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
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* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. The company "Uncle Wiley Toys" suddenly appears out of nowhere and their advertisements for a toy called the "Tickle-Me-Wiggly" begin appearing all over the media. Thanks to MindManipulation, no one questions this and everyone just accepts that there's a sudden and overwhelming FlashInThePanFad for this toy, except for Gen. [=MacNamara=] and the operatives of PEIP, who quickly figure out that the Ruler of the Black and White and the entity known as Wiggly are one and the same, discover the dolls are a vector for Wiggly's mind control, and begin working on countermeasures. Bill tries to order a Wiggly doll for Alice but is too late -- online orders for the toy run out almost instantly as soon as it becomes available and the estimated backlog is over a year. Uncle Wiley Toys begins cutting deals with local brick-and-mortar retailers to have ''very'' limited quantities made exclusively available to them for sale on Black Friday. Frank Pricely of Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall jumps at this opportunity and begins heavily advertising it. Lex decides to piggyback on this opportunity to steal one of Frank's Wigglies and resell it online to finance her trip to California. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
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* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. The '''The company "Uncle Wiley Toys" suddenly appears out of nowhere and their advertisements for a toy called the "Tickle-Me-Wiggly" begin appearing all over the media. media.''' Thanks to MindManipulation, no one questions this and everyone just accepts that there's a sudden and overwhelming FlashInThePanFad for this toy, except for Gen. [=MacNamara=] and the operatives of PEIP, who quickly figure out that the Ruler of the Black and White and the entity known as Wiggly are one and the same, discover the dolls are a vector for Wiggly's mind control, and begin working on countermeasures. Bill tries to order a Wiggly doll for Alice but is too late -- online orders for the toy run out almost instantly as soon as it becomes available and the estimated backlog is over a year. Uncle Wiley Toys begins cutting deals with local brick-and-mortar retailers to have ''very'' limited quantities made exclusively available to them for sale on Black Friday. Frank Pricely of Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall jumps at this opportunity and begins heavily advertising it. Lex decides to piggyback on this opportunity to steal one of Frank's Wigglies and resell it online to finance her trip to California. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
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* '''2019''': The events of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" occur. Lucy Stockworth records an interview with Dan and Donna about her lifelong obsession with the Ape-Man. Prof. Hidgens, driven mad with frustration that ''Workin' Boys'' will never see the light of day, watches this segment on TV and is inspired to use his knowledge of biology and Hatchetfield's local cryptid lore to pull a con to steal Lucy's family fortune. He hires Ted to grow out his beard and pose as the Ape-Man, hoping to trick Lucy into marrying him so he can murder her and the two of them can split the inheritance. After Lucy spends two weeks falling in love with the Ape-Man, her fiancée Jonathan Brisby shows up trying to get her to come back to England, and attempts to expose Prof. Hidgens and Ted as charlatans. The aftermath of this confrontation leads to the death of Jonathan, Ted and Prof. Hidgens, and to Lucy vanishing forever as the bride of the true Ape-Man.
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* '''2019''': The '''The events of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" occur. occur.''' Lucy Stockworth records an interview with Dan and Donna about her lifelong obsession with the Ape-Man. Prof. Hidgens, driven mad with frustration that ''Workin' Boys'' will never see the light of day, watches this segment on TV and is inspired to use his knowledge of biology and Hatchetfield's local cryptid lore to pull a con to steal Lucy's family fortune. He hires Ted to grow out his beard and pose as the Ape-Man, hoping to trick Lucy into marrying him so he can murder her and the two of them can split the inheritance. After Lucy spends two weeks falling in love with the Ape-Man, her fiancée Jonathan Brisby shows up trying to get her to come back to England, and attempts to expose Prof. Hidgens and Ted as charlatans. The aftermath of this confrontation leads to the death of Jonathan, Ted and Prof. Hidgens, and to Lucy vanishing forever as the bride of the true Ape-Man.
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* Sometime around Christmas, Tom is driving with Jane in the passenger seat and Tim in the back. He fails to notice a car losing control and sliding toward him from his right while driving through an intersection, and suffers a side-impact collision, leading to Jane's death. Tom and Tim both live but are badly traumatized.
* Tom enters an indefinite leave of absence from his teaching duties as his PTSD after Jane's death escalates to the point where he can no longer function.
* Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in twelve years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
* Becky receives an invitation to Jane's funeral. Stanley forbids her from attending, since he knows she still has feelings for Tom. She defies him to his face, starting a physical fight and leading to him chasing her out of the house into the woods with a knife, where she overcomes him, stabs him in the femoral artery and leaves him for dead. She spends the next several weeks terrified of going to prison or of him coming back for revenge, but neither happens, and the town gossips assume he ran off to the mainland with another woman.
* Tom enters an indefinite leave of absence from his teaching duties as his PTSD after Jane's death escalates to the point where he can no longer function.
* Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in twelve years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
* Becky receives an invitation to Jane's funeral. Stanley forbids her from attending, since he knows she still has feelings for Tom. She defies him to his face, starting a physical fight and leading to him chasing her out of the house into the woods with a knife, where she overcomes him, stabs him in the femoral artery and leaves him for dead. She spends the next several weeks terrified of going to prison or of him coming back for revenge, but neither happens, and the town gossips assume he ran off to the mainland with another woman.
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* ''' December, 2017''': Sometime around Christmas, Tom is driving with Jane in the passenger seat and Tim in the back. He fails to notice a car losing control and sliding toward him from his right while driving through an intersection, and suffers a side-impact collision, leading to Jane's death. Tom and Tim both live but are badly traumatized.
* ** Tom enters an indefinite leave of absence from his teaching duties as his PTSD after Jane's death escalates to the point where he can no longer function.
* ** Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in twelve years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
* ** Becky receives an invitation to Jane's funeral. Stanley forbids her from attending, since he knows she still has feelings for Tom. She defies him to his face, starting a physical fight and leading to him chasing her out of the house into the woods with a knife, where she overcomes him, stabs him in the femoral artery and leaves him for dead. She spends the next several weeks terrified of going to prison or of him coming back for revenge, but neither happens, and the town gossips assume he ran off to the mainland with another woman.
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Although there's only two entries in the "Hatchetfield universe" so far, ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' and ''Theatre/BlackFriday'', ever since the latter came out, Creator/TeamStarkid fans have been clamoring for details on the timeline of the massively expanded backstory for the sake of EpilepticTrees, WildMassGuessing and writing FanFic. This is an attempt to collect information from dialogue in the shows, WordOfGod from [[Creator/LangBrothers Nick Lang]]'s Twitter account and other sources to make as consistent a timeline as possible.
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Currently, this timeline includes information going up to ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'' Episode 1, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man and Watcher World". The rest of ''Nightmare Time'' will be added when those episodes are publicly released on [=YouTube=].
Since Hatchetfield explicitly is a universe with {{Alternate Timeline}}s, this timeline is organized to try to cover all the possible events depicted onscreen/onstage while [[OccamsRazor minimizing the total number of timelines]] as much as possible.
! 1824
* The town of Hatchetfield, Michigan is established on the eponymous Hatchetfield Island in the Great Lakes (according to the Hatchetfield Welcome Sign shown in the intro of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' and ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''). It is apparently named for the hatchets used to clear a space for the town in the thick forest that covers the island, which later becomes known as "the Witchwood".
! 1870
* Hatchetfield's beaches become a popular tourist destination, and an amusement park is founded on the uninhabited north shore of Hatchetfield Island, on the opposite end of the island from the town. Over the next century and a half, this park evolves into a fully-fledged theme park known as "Watcher World", using the advertising mascot "Blinky" (a cutesy {{Cyclops}} figure) to brand itself. (This date is not specifically given in "Watcher World", but Watcher World has a "storied history" and is clearly based on the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point Cedar Point]].)
! 1920s
* Legends of local cryptids become very popular around Hatchetfield, including an artist recording a popular novelty song, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", about the town's mascot BigfootSasquatchAndYeti "Woolly-foot".
* The town of Hatchetfield, Michigan is established on the eponymous Hatchetfield Island in the Great Lakes (according to the Hatchetfield Welcome Sign shown in the intro of ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' and ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''). It is apparently named for the hatchets used to clear a space for the town in the thick forest that covers the island, which later becomes known as "the Witchwood".
! 1870
* Hatchetfield's beaches become a popular tourist destination, and an amusement park is founded on the uninhabited north shore of Hatchetfield Island, on the opposite end of the island from the town. Over the next century and a half, this park evolves into a fully-fledged theme park known as "Watcher World", using the advertising mascot "Blinky" (a cutesy {{Cyclops}} figure) to brand itself. (This date is not specifically given in "Watcher World", but Watcher World has a "storied history" and is clearly based on the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point Cedar Point]].)
! 1920s
* Legends of local cryptids become very popular around Hatchetfield, including an artist recording a popular novelty song, "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", about the town's mascot BigfootSasquatchAndYeti "Woolly-foot".
! 1980s-1990s
* Lucy Stockworth, the future Duchess of Stockworth, is born (she's presumably in her 20s or 30s by the "present day" of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", since she's considered an eligible bachelorette). Her parents regularly take holidays in the resort areas of Hatchetfield to see the local scenery and wildlife, which leads to her almost dying falling out of a tree when she's nine or ten, only to be saved by the Ape-Man.
* Lucy Stockworth, the future Duchess of Stockworth, is born (she's presumably in her 20s or 30s by the "present day" of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man", since she's considered an eligible bachelorette). Her parents regularly take holidays in the resort areas of Hatchetfield to see the local scenery and wildlife, which leads to her almost dying falling out of a tree when she's nine or ten, only to be saved by the Ape-Man.
! 2000s
* Lucy Stockworth's father, the old Duke of Stockworth, dies, and she inherits his title and his fortune. She goes on to spend the next several years in an obsessive search for proof the Hatchetfield Ape-Man exists, including making a personal pilgrimage to Hatchetfield every year around the anniversary of the first time he saved her life.
* Lucy Stockworth's father, the old Duke of Stockworth, dies, and she inherits his title and his fortune. She goes on to spend the next several years in an obsessive search for proof the Hatchetfield Ape-Man exists, including making a personal pilgrimage to Hatchetfield every year around the anniversary of the first time he saved her life.
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* The Tear-Jerker, the "tallest roller coaster in the Midwest", opens at Watcher World. (Assuming it was built at the same time as its real-life counterpart, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Thrill_Dragster Top Thrill Dragster]] at Cedar Point.)
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* '''Night-midnight''': The main characters flee the mall and watch in the parking lot as it burns down, and the cult fractures between those insistent on staying inside praying for Wiggly's deliverance and those who snap out of the spell and escape. An unknown amount of time passes as the Hatchetfield news media reports on the mall's destruction only to be interrupted by the news of the imminent nuclear war, followed by a media blackout, the downing of the cell phone network and Internet, and a power outage, leaving Paul unable to use his phone. Emma and Paul try to make plans to flee Hatchetfield in her car, but Tim insists on going to the mall to search for Tom first. Emma and Paul finally find Tom at the gathering of the other survivors, and Emma proposes heading to Prof. Hidgens' house to wait out the upcoming war there. Tom glances at his watch and realizes it's now 11:57 pm, and says he feels like if Black Friday ends with them still alive they can survive anything. Hannah sings a song about the uncertain future ("What If Tomorrow Comes?") as the survivors wait the remaining three minutes for midnight, when they suddenly hear something streaking overhead in the sky.
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* '''Night-midnight''': The main characters flee the mall and watch in the parking lot as it burns down, and the cult fractures between those insistent on staying inside praying for Wiggly's deliverance and those who snap out of the spell and escape. An unknown amount of time passes as the Hatchetfield news media reports on the mall's destruction only to be interrupted by the news of the imminent nuclear war, followed by a media blackout, the downing of the cell phone network and Internet, and a power outage, leaving Paul unable to use his phone. Emma and Paul try to make plans to flee Hatchetfield in her car, but Tim insists on going to the mall to search for Tom first. Emma and Paul finally find Tom at the gathering of the other survivors, and Emma proposes heading to Prof. Hidgens' house to wait out the upcoming war there. Tom glances at his watch and realizes it's now 11:57 pm, and says he feels like if Black Friday ends with them still alive they can survive anything. Hannah sings a song about the uncertain future ("What If Tomorrow Comes?") as the survivors wait the remaining three minutes for midnight, when they suddenly hear something streaking overhead in the sky.sky.
! ''Nightmare Time'', The Hatchetfield Ape-Man (Timeline C)
* (Note: Most episodes of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 1 explicitly state they take place in 2019; "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" doesn't specify, but this timeline assumes it also does.)
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing unusual happens this holiday season.''' Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall continues to go through the struggle and slow decline of a brick-and-mortar retailer in an online shopping era. Lex, having no readily apparent way to make a lot of money fast, continues to think of her trip to California as a pipe dream. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and feels awful about it, but there's nothing she can do.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' releases in theaters; nobody goes to see it.
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23''': Lex has a predictably shitty day, having to deal with monster crowds the day after Thanksgiving, but not anything she can't handle.
* '''2019''': The events of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" occur. Lucy Stockworth records an interview with Dan and Donna about her lifelong obsession with the Ape-Man. Prof. Hidgens, driven mad with frustration that ''Workin' Boys'' will never see the light of day, watches this segment on TV and is inspired to use his knowledge of biology and Hatchetfield's local cryptid lore to pull a con to steal Lucy's family fortune. He hires Ted to grow out his beard and pose as the Ape-Man, hoping to trick Lucy into marrying him so he can murder her and the two of them can split the inheritance. After Lucy spends two weeks falling in love with the Ape-Man, her fiancée Jonathan Brisby shows up trying to get her to come back to England, and attempts to expose Prof. Hidgens and Ted as charlatans. The aftermath of this confrontation leads to the death of Jonathan, Ted and Prof. Hidgens, and to Lucy vanishing forever as the bride of the true Ape-Man.
! ''Nightmare Time'', Watcher World (Timeline D)
* '''2019''': PointOfDivergence. '''Lucy Stockworth goes home after her latest attempt to find the Ape-Man without incident'''. Presumably she goes through with her loveless but mutually beneficial arrangement to marry Jonathan Brisby, and continues to use his money to pursue the Ape-Man over his objections.
* '''Spring 2019''': Alice and Deb are accepted to different colleges; Deb Alice becomes insecure Deb will break up with her after going to her "fancy art school" and starting a new life. Alice writes a play that wins her a scholarship at the theater department of her new school, although Bill still hopes she'll pursue a more practical career.
* '''August 17, 2019''': The events of "Watcher World" occur. (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the surreal and baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
! ''Nightmare Time'', The Hatchetfield Ape-Man (Timeline C)
* (Note: Most episodes of ''Nightmare Time'' Season 1 explicitly state they take place in 2019; "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" doesn't specify, but this timeline assumes it also does.)
* '''Oct. 13-Nov. 16''': Paul plucks up his courage to actually ask Emma out the next time he's at Beanie's. They hit it off, and begin dating. Alice turns 18 while staying with her mom in Clivesdale and probably has a much cooler "official" birthday celebration than going to see ''Mamma Mia!'' with her dad. PointOfDivergence. '''Nothing unusual happens this holiday season.''' Hatchetfield's Toy Zone at the Lakeside Mall continues to go through the struggle and slow decline of a brick-and-mortar retailer in an online shopping era. Lex, having no readily apparent way to make a lot of money fast, continues to think of her trip to California as a pipe dream. Tom Houston's PTSD begins flaring up worse than usual as he approaches the anniversary of Jane's death.
* '''Nov. 16-Nov. 21''': Becky, working at the pediatric ward at St. Damien's, sees a girl come in named Bridget who lost her eyesight in an accident, and feels awful about it, but there's nothing she can do.
* '''Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22''': Grace Chastity, Tom's regular babysitter, leaves town with her family to celebrate Thanksgiving with relatives. Emma and Paul enjoy a quiet Thanksgiving dinner at home. Tom takes his son Tim to Pizza Pete's for the day, but it's ruined by Tom's obsession with trying to win Tim a prize instead of spending time playing the games he wants to. ''Santa Claus Is Goin' to High School'' releases in theaters; nobody goes to see it.
* '''Black Friday, Nov. 23''': Lex has a predictably shitty day, having to deal with monster crowds the day after Thanksgiving, but not anything she can't handle.
* '''2019''': The events of "The Hatchetfield Ape-Man" occur. Lucy Stockworth records an interview with Dan and Donna about her lifelong obsession with the Ape-Man. Prof. Hidgens, driven mad with frustration that ''Workin' Boys'' will never see the light of day, watches this segment on TV and is inspired to use his knowledge of biology and Hatchetfield's local cryptid lore to pull a con to steal Lucy's family fortune. He hires Ted to grow out his beard and pose as the Ape-Man, hoping to trick Lucy into marrying him so he can murder her and the two of them can split the inheritance. After Lucy spends two weeks falling in love with the Ape-Man, her fiancée Jonathan Brisby shows up trying to get her to come back to England, and attempts to expose Prof. Hidgens and Ted as charlatans. The aftermath of this confrontation leads to the death of Jonathan, Ted and Prof. Hidgens, and to Lucy vanishing forever as the bride of the true Ape-Man.
! ''Nightmare Time'', Watcher World (Timeline D)
* '''2019''': PointOfDivergence. '''Lucy Stockworth goes home after her latest attempt to find the Ape-Man without incident'''. Presumably she goes through with her loveless but mutually beneficial arrangement to marry Jonathan Brisby, and continues to use his money to pursue the Ape-Man over his objections.
* '''Spring 2019''': Alice and Deb are accepted to different colleges; Deb Alice becomes insecure Deb will break up with her after going to her "fancy art school" and starting a new life. Alice writes a play that wins her a scholarship at the theater department of her new school, although Bill still hopes she'll pursue a more practical career.
* '''August 17, 2019''': The events of "Watcher World" occur. (Presumably Alice and Bill are at Watcher World on a Saturday; Alice says she's missing her last chance to see Deb because Deb is leaving for a trip to Amsterdam with her grandmother on Monday, followed immediately by early orientation at her college, which means this is probably the second-to-last weekend of August.) Alice is stuck on a trip to Watcher World with her father Bill even though this is the night of Deb's last-hurrah WildTeenParty before college. Her and Bill's bubbling resentments and insecurities over this boil over into violence thanks to the surreal and baleful influence of the entity behind Watcher World and its mascot "Blinky", although they end up overcoming it by ThePowerOfLove.
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* With shop class canceled, Lex's GPA takes a nosedive in the spring semester, and she fails her senior year. Rather than repeat the school year, she elects to drop out and focus on her retail job at Toy Zone to help her family's struggling finances, while also dealing weed on the side.
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* With shop class canceled, Lex's GPA takes a nosedive in the spring semester, and she fails her senior junior year. Rather than repeat the school year, she elects to drop out and focus on her retail job at Toy Zone to help her family's struggling finances, while also dealing weed on the side.
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! 1980s
* Bill, Ted, Sam and Charlotte (who are all in their 30s in 2018) are born.
* Bill, Ted, Sam and Charlotte (who are all in their 30s in 2018) are born.
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1973
*Bill, Ted, Sam and Charlotte (who are all Bill is born. (He's "at least 45" in their 30s in 2018) are born.
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* Lex, a junior at Hatchetfield High and a struggling student thanks to her difficult home life, starts making an effort to get better grades, encouraged by her favorite teacher Tom.
* Lex, a senior at Hatchetfield High and a struggling student thanks to her difficult home life, starts making an effort to get better grades in order to get a chance at going to college after she graduates, encouraged by her favorite teacher Tom.
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* With shop class canceled, Lex's GPA takes a nosedive in the spring semester, and she fails her junior senior year. Rather than repeat the school year, she elects to drop out and focus on her retail job at Toy Zone to help her family's struggling finances, while also dealing weed on the side.
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* Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in eleven years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
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* Jane's funeral is held. Emma is invited, and this time does come, returning to Hatchetfield for the first time in eleven twelve years. Emma takes stock of her life and decides she's done wandering and will stay in Hatchetfield to make something better of herself. She decides the recent wave of cannabis legalization presents an economic opportunity she can get in on the ground floor of.
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* Lex Foster starts her crappy part-time job at the age of 16 working for Frank Pricely, the owner of Toy Zone at the Hatchetfield Lakeside Mall.
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* With shop class canceled, Lex's GPA takes a nosedive in the spring semester, and she fails her junior year. Rather than repeat the school year, she elects to drop out and take a focus on her retail job at Toy Zone to help her family's struggling finances, while also dealing weed on the side.
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* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' is released, and is apparently the last Disney movie Bill has clear memories of.
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* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' is released, and is apparently the last Disney movie Bill has clear memories of.
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* ''{{Disney/Moana}}'' is released. Ted sees it and doesn't like it. Alice, who apparently has a soft spot for Disney movies at the age of 16, goes to see it with Paul. Prof. Hidgens apparently sees it at some point despite being a childless shut-in. Bill doesn't see it at all.
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* ''{{Disney/Moana}}'' ''{{WesternAnimation/Moana}}'' is released. Ted sees it and doesn't like it. Alice, who apparently has a soft spot for Disney movies at the age of 16, goes to see it with Paul. Prof. Hidgens apparently sees it at some point despite being a childless shut-in. Bill doesn't see it at all.
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* Tom Houston is born. ("A year older than Becky", and was a senior when Emma was a freshman. Confirmed directly on Twitter.)
* Tom Houston is born. ("A year older than Becky", and was a senior when Emma was a freshman. Confirmed directly on Twitter.)
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* Tom Houston is born. ("A year older than Becky", and was a senior when Emma was a freshman.)
! 1986
* Becky Barnes is born. (Emma is "a couple years behind Becky" in high school.) Note that this is also Nick Lang's birth year and the birth year of much of Team Starkid, who were in Nick's graduating class at [=UMich=].
! 1988
* Emma Perkins and Paul Matthews are born. (She's thirty in 2018 and they're the same age.)
! 1986
* Becky Barnes is born. (Emma is "a couple years behind Becky" in high school.) Note that this is also Nick Lang's birth year and the birth year of much of Team Starkid, who were in Nick's graduating class at [=UMich=].
! 1988
* Emma Perkins and Paul Matthews are born. (She's thirty in 2018 and they're the same age.)
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* Emma Perkins and Paul Matthews are born.
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* Tom at some points meets and starts dating Jane, who coaxes him out of his shell and gets him back on his feet. He becomes the shop teacher at Hatchetfield High, and they get married. Emma gets an invitation to the wedding but doesn't come. (This happens after Emma turns 18 and leaves home and before Tim's birth in 2009.)
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* Tom at some points point meets and starts dating Jane, who coaxes him out of his shell and gets him back on his feet. He becomes the shop teacher at Hatchetfield High, and they get married. Emma gets an invitation to the wedding but doesn't come. (This happens after Emma turns 18 and leaves home and before Tim's birth in 2009.)
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* Jane Perkins is twelve years old, and makes a Lisa Frank binder with a comprehensive plan for the rest of her life -- where she'll go to school, where she'll work, when she'll get married and have kids -- that she'll actually successfully stick to as an adult. This will make Emma feel inferior for as far back as she can remember.
* Jane Perkins is twelve years old, and makes a Lisa Frank binder with a comprehensive plan for the rest of her life -- where she'll go to school, where she'll work, when she'll get married and have kids -- that she'll actually successfully stick to as an adult. This will make Emma feel inferior for as far back as she can remember.
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* Tom Houston turns nine years old; he wants a popgun from the 99-cent store, but his dad buys him a cheaper toy knife instead.
