- Heartwarming Moments: Richie and Grace going to support Ruth in her acting debut.
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Professor Hidgens can be seen as this in regards to both his dissatisfaction to the changes made, and the audience’s reaction to, his self-written musical.
- The principled thing to do, if he felt this strongly about it, might have been to withdraw his submission to the local theatre workshop as soon as the powers that be refused to produce the all-male version. But with how personal the story is to him, and how deeply rooted it is in the dynamics of male bonding in particular, Hidgens does ultimately have a fair case that gender-swapping Workin' Boys is a deeply stupid idea which demonstrates that the judges hadn't actually understood what qualities Hidgens's script, for all its flaws, does possess. One is reminded of the Hollywood executives who told Terry Pratchett that they were completely sold on a Mort film adaptation… just so long as he lost the "death" angle.
- Likewise, it might not exactly warrant a literal Roaring Rampage of Revenge, but after Hidgens explains how the original script of Workin' Boys was his way of paying homage to his friends whom he lost overnight in deeply tragic circumstances, it's hard not to sympathise a little bit with Hidgens's disgust at the production being received as a Springtime for Hitler So Bad, It's Good comedy. Zoey can even come across as faintly callous for pointing out the audience's laughter to him; she really should know better by that point (though of course, Hidgens's constant verbal abuse of the cast in rehearsals stops her from sliding into Unintentionally Unsympathetic territory).
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