History YMMV / BeMoreChill

** "I Love Play Rehearsal" is an {{Adorkable}}, Upbeat, catchy, song about how much Christine [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin Loves Play Rehearsal]] as it is the first lead song Christine has and it shows how endearing, loveable and dorky she is all in under 3 minutes.

** "I Love Play Rehearsal" is an {{Adorkable Adorkable}}, Upbeat, catchy, song about how much Christine [[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin Loves Play Rehearsal]] as it is the first lead song Christine has and it shows how endearing, loveable and dorky she is all in under 3 minutes.

** "I Love Play Rehearsal" is an *Adorkable*, Upbeat, catchy, song about how much Christine[[ExactlyWhatItSaysontheTin Loves Play Rehearsal]]as it is the first lead song Christine has and it shows how endearing, loveable and dorky she is all in under 3 minutes.

** "I Love Play Rehearsal" is an *Adorkable*, Upbeat, catchy, song about how much Christine[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin Loves Play Rehearsal]]as it is the first lead song Christine has and it shows how endearing, loveable and dorky she is all in under 3 minutes.

** "I Love Play Rehearsal" is an *Adorkable*, Upbeat, catchy, song about how much Christine (Exactly What It Says on the tin loves Play Rehearsal)as it is the first lead song Christine has and it shows how endearing, loveable and dorky she is all in under 3 minutes.

** "I Love Play Rehearsal" is an *Adorkable*, Upbeat, catchy, song about how much Christine {Exactly What It Says on the tin loves Play Rehearsal}as it is the first lead song Christine has and it shows how endearing, loveable and dorky she is all in under 3 minutes.

* BaseBreakingCharacter:

* SignatureSong: "Michael in the Bathroom."

* DesignatedLoveInterest: Jeremy doesn't seem to know anything about Christine aside from her name, not even realizing she's into theater, but he's obsessed with her to the point of spending six-hundred dollars on something that might help him get her. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that she gets a lot more development than your standard musical leading lady as the plot goes on. Jeremy's realization of her own vibrant internal life and personal struggles as an autonomous person is integral both to his character development (in learning everyone is struggling as much as he is, and to view her with greater respect) and the plot.
* DieForOurShip: Mostly averted, as even diehard Boyf Riends shippers don't actually hate Christine, or even dislike her. Most will either pair her off with someone else, or leave her alone but still portray her positively. [[TakeAThirdOption And some,]] of course, ship her [[OneTrueThreesome with both of the guys]].

** Related to the above, Michael is widely headcanoned to be gay. Many people who draw fanart of him include a pride patch on his left arm because of this.
*** Subsequent productions, such as the Exit 82 Theatre Company and Manly Musical Society productions, have adopted this, giving Michael some variation of a pride patch on his hoodie. [[AscendedFanon The Off-Broadway and Broadway productions adapted this into their production as well.]]

* MoralEventHorizon:
** The second the SQUIP [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil tries to force Jeremy]] to have sex with Chloe, he goes from a verbally abusive bully to ''evil''.
** Some also consider Chloe to cross it in the same scene, even without taking the SQUIP's influence into consideration, for trying to trick her best friend's boyfriend into having sex with her (and later lying about it to said best friend), especially if you assume she ''could'' tell that Jeremy wanted to leave and she wasn't that drunk.

* CompleteMonster: [[ManipulativeBastard The SQUIP]] is a sociopathic, brainwashing [[AIIsACrapshoot supercomputer]] in pill form designed to make the user popular. The second he uploads himself into high school student Jeremy Heere, he is excessively cruel, making cracks at Jeremy's self-esteem and forcing him to repeat suicidal remarks the SQUIP makes about him. However, he advances beyond simple bullying when he attempts to have another student rape Jeremy via puppeteering his body. From then on, he reveals that he desires to TakeOverTheWorld, and as he is rejected by Jeremy, in his last-ditch effort to achieve his goal, he offers up Jeremy's LoveInterest as a mind-controlled slave.

* AccidentalAesop:
** KnowWhenToFoldEm when love is involved. Michael is both encouraging of Jeremy to talk to Christine, while also telling him it's fine if he never gets his chance. The SQUIP later tells Jeremy accurately that Christine isn't interested in him, so he'd be better off moving on, with Jeremy admitting it's right. As we see, if Jeremy had given up on his pursuit of Christine, he would have avoided a lot of the play's problems.
** A real friend will know when to call you out for your bullshit, and it's in your best interest to listen to them. As the play goes on, Michael becomes the OnlySaneMan that becomes suspicious of the SQUIP, getting mad at Jeremy when the latter hurt his feelings and accuses him of being jealous of Jeremy's newfound popularity. Guess who ends up saving the day in the end, [[spoiler:while the SQUIP is taunting Jeremy that he alienated his only friend]]? That's right, Michael. Likewise, with Chloe and Brooke, [[spoiler:Brooke calls out Chloe for kissing her boyfriend behind her back and trying to sleep with him. She refuses to speak to her friend, despite being a BetaBitch to the latter's AlphaBitch. It motivates Chloe to abandon her catty ways and go MyGodWhatHaveIDone]].

* ClicheStorm: Many of the plot-beats have been done countless times before, with Jeremy being an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who makes a FriendVersusLover decision and a minor LoveTriangle between him, his LoveInterest Christine, and Jake. Then there's also the fact that Rich and Jake have a very close ThoseTwoGuys dynamic, Jake himself is the classical JerkJock who eventually gets his LaserGuidedKarma for treating Christine horribly at The Halloween Party, Chloe is the resident AlphaBitch and Brooke is her more sympathetic BetaBitch. However, the fact that a lot of these elements are deconstructed and the presence of the SQUIP adding some interesting Sci-Fi elements to the story helps smooth things over for the most part.

* ClicheStorm: Many of the plot-beats have been done countless times before, with Jeremy being an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who makes a FriendVersusLover decision and a minor LoveTriangle between him, his LoveInterest Christine, and Jake. Then there's also the fact that Rich and Jake have a very close ThoseTwoGuys dynamic, Jake himself is the classical *JerkJock who eventually gets his *LaserGuidedKarma* for treating Christine horribly at The Halloween Party, Chloe is the resident AlphaBitch and Brooke is her more sympathetic BetaBitch. However, the fact that a lot of these elements are deconstructed and the presence of the SQUIP adding some interesting Sci-Fi elements to the story helps smooth things over for the most part.

* ClicheStorm: Many of the plot-beats have been done countless times before, with Jeremy being an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who makes a FriendVersusLover decision and a minor LoveTriangle between him, his LoveInterest Christine and Jake. Then there's also the fact that Rich and Jake have a very close ThoseTwoGuys dynamic, Chloe is the resident AlphaBitch and Brooke is her more sympathetic BetaBitch. However, the fact that a lot of these elements are deconstructed and the presence of the SQUIP adding some interesting Sci-Fi elements to the story helps smooth things over for the most part.

* {{Narm}}:
** The SQUIP scatting in "The Pitiful Children" can be this for some, since it clashes with his sinister portrayal. Others think it comes off as NarmCharm.

* PanderingToTheBase: Given the show's LGBTFanbase, the revised Broadway version increased number of queer characters was almost certainly trying to appeal to this group.

* HypeBacklash: Fans of this show really, really built it up as the next big thing, but many who saw it were very underwhelmed, especially those who aren't in the teenage target audience. Even theater fans who thought it was just okay had a soured opinion of the show due to the sheer intensity of its fanbase.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Michael in the Bathroom" is already heartbreaking when Michael sings that he wishes he were dead or never born. Listening to that song knowing that the ''Be More Chill'' author Ned Vizzini died by suicide adds a layer of sadness and horror.

** After getting the SQUIP, Mr. Reyes says he doesn't want to stay in New Jersey teaching unappreciative students and that he could go all the way to Broadway. Since the show moved beyond New Jersey to Broadway in 2019, he's not wrong.

* HoYay: [[HeterosexualLifePartners Jeremy and Michael]], whose strained relationship during the show is more like a bad breakup. Almost all of their classmates as well, with Rich/Jake, Chloe/Brooke, and Jenna/Christine, being fairly popular, if not as popular as Jeremy/Michael.

* LGBTFanbase: Much of the fanbase belongs to the LGBT community, between the attractive boys (particularly Michael and the SQUIP) and the ever-present HoYay throughout the show. Some versions [[AscendedFanon (including the Off-Broadway and Broadway versions)]] actually embrace it by giving Michael a pride patch.

* AccidentalInnuendo: "Just let me inside you!" from the original version of "Upgrade".

** In the Broadway production, the SQUIP speaks in a SurferDude [[Franchise/BillAndTed Ted Logan]]-esque voice. While it is a reference to Creator/KeanuReeves, whom the SQUIP physically resembles, for many it utterly destroys all of the character's menace and is more laughable than scary. It's not a problem early in the show when the SQUIP is still PlayedForLaughs, but he still uses the voice for most of Act 2 when he becomes more abusive and swears to TakeOverTheWorld.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Some people have taken their pre-teens to see the musical, thinking that it's a silly teen musical like those played on Disney Channel. The show opens with a teenage boy in his underwear waiting for porn to download. And it gets worse from there: the show has multiple references to doing drugs, drinking, sex, self-harm and masturbation, as well as plot elements like a boy using the Squip to have sex with girls and sexy characters including a dog and a baby done in that style.

** In the Broadway production, the SQUIP speaks in a SurferDude [[Franchise/BillAndTed Ted Logan]]-esque voice. While it is a reference to Creator/KeanuReeves, whom the SQUIP physically resembles, for many it utterly destroys all of the character's menace and is more laughable than scary.