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Topic	THE Snake Ranks Anything Horror Related (Vol. 5) 5th Anniversary RANKINGS
Snake5555555555 10/21/20 1:41:47 AM #235:	55. Black Friday (musical) (17.5 points) Nominated by: Johnbobb (0/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqt4_tHLSB4 Importance: 3.5 Fear: 6 Snake: 8 We come to our second musical on our list, and one I enjoyed a little more than Guy, in part due to its more memorable musical numbers and greater emphasis on horror. With most of the same cast returning from Guy, I was expecting a little rehash of the first with a Thanksgiving theme, but despite this technically being a pseudo-sequel, there's very little focus on prior characters and instead focuses on a whole new group with quirks and characteristics of their own, but still portrayed by the same actors. The conceit here is that on Black Friday, a new toy, Tickle-Me Wiggly, is getting released, poised to be the sold-out craze of the holiday season. It's obviously a parody of Tickle Me Elmo, or Beebo for you Arrowverse fans out there, and yeah Black Friday horror stories have been kind of done to death, with comments on our shopping insanity and consumerist practices pushed to perfection on shows like South Park, but Starkid captures this craze from a unique angle, that of the more cosmic sense, while injecting their love of musical dramatism into it as well. In fact, I feel like characters are way more fleshed out here; while Guy used caricatures to frame the ridiculousness of its horror, Black Friday deals much more deftly with the the pressures of being a single parent, dead-end jobs with an escape rope seemingly just within reach, and high-school flames lost and rekindled. I don't mean to make it sound like Black Friday is all about dread and doom, there are some especially laugh out loud moments with a cheesy Christmas high school movie musical parody, and a snooty entitled woman who truly gets some of the best zingers in the entire production. However, this whole story being framed with this Cthulhu-like entity just adds a whole layer of seriousness that feels more mature and a step-up from Starkid's previous effort, as enjoyable as that was. Now, fill those cookie trays up and pass Kris Kringle the ball! (god how is that still stuck in my head?) --- And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright https://imgur.com/1e1e70S <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:946103212] in THE Snake ... [t:79012032]...</cite> <quote>55. Black Friday (musical) (17.5 points) Nominated by: Johnbobb (0/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqt4_tHLSB4 Importance: 3.5 Fear: 6 Snake: 8 We come to our second musical on our list, and one I enjoyed a little more than Guy, in part due to its more memorable musical numbers and greater emphasis on horror. With most of the same cast returning from Guy, I was expecting a little rehash of the first with a Thanksgiving theme, but despite this technically being a pseudo-sequel, there's very little focus on prior characters and instead focuses on a whole new group with quirks and characteristics of their own, but still portrayed by the same actors. The conceit here is that on Black Friday, a new toy, Tickle-Me Wiggly, is getting released, poised to be the sold-out craze of the holiday season. It's obviously a parody of Tickle Me Elmo, or Beebo for you Arrowverse fans out there, and yeah Black Friday horror stories have been kind of done to death, with comments on our shopping insanity and consumerist practices pushed to perfection on shows like South Park, but Starkid captures this craze from a unique angle, that of the more cosmic sense, while injecting their love of musical dramatism into it as well. In fact, I feel like characters are way more fleshed out here; while Guy used caricatures to frame the ridiculousness of its horror, Black Friday deals much more deftly with the the pressures of being a single parent, dead-end jobs with an escape rope seemingly just within reach, and high-school flames lost and rekindled. I don't mean to make it sound like Black Friday is all about dread and doom, there are some especially laugh out loud moments with a cheesy Christmas high school movie musical parody, and a snooty entitled woman who truly gets some of the best zingers in the entire production. However, this whole story being framed with this Cthulhu-like entity just adds a whole layer of seriousness that feels more mature and a step-up from Starkid's previous effort, as enjoyable as that was. Now, fill those cookie trays up and pass Kris Kringle the ball! (god how is that still stuck in my head?) --- And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright https://imgur.com/1e1e70S</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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