goosco REACTS to Nerdy Prudes Must Die // VOD 

I was lucky enough to see this live, and one little detail that didn't make it into the recording was during Literal Monster, Max's football buddies came down the aisles and randomly shouted at people in the audience. It was awesome!

Jeff wasn't in the full show because he was busy with Rent (cast as Roger). He was able to make it for a cameo in that song.

Will (Max) played this and then went to go preform on broadway! What a man! Love him, this was his StarKids debut andheate so hard

No spoiler summary. Grace Chastity has one (1) sexual fantasy, three dead, six traumatized

The theme that plays at 2:30:55 (of this video) when they dig up the book is actually not one of Wiggly's musical themes but Pokey's. You first hear the theme in The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals when Alice is singing "Not Your Seed". It's the line "Look what happens, Nightmare Time" and is sort of now the reveal theme for anything dealing with the Lords in Black and their lore. Nick Lang revealed this next bit in a live stream but it was canonized in Nightmare Time: Pokey is Pokotho and is revealed in Nightmare Time to be the Lord in Black responsible for the events of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals. In this musical, Pokey is played by Corey and he's the blue Lord furthest on the left ("Don't frighten them, Pokey, you nasty boy!"). That's why he sings "what do you want, Steph," because that is also one of the musical themes associated with him. That's also why everyone turns blue when they are infected in TGWDLM.

I've been obsessively looking for NPMD reactions just so I can experience that first watch-experience again lmao. Highly recommend Nightmare Time (they're not really in any order as they're standalone stories, so if you can't get into one you can just pick another!) Also, I think Jeff Blim had a scheduling conflict, that's why he's only edited in as the man in a hurry. I actually thought Max was a very Jeff Blim coded character, but Will absolutely smashed it too!!!

I would give anything to do a production of this musical if they ever do licensing but the tragedy is Im a girl and would wanna play Max SO FREAKING BAD MAN. Like I would be anyone but Max I just feel is one of those roles that would feel incredible to play

The Hatchet Town song has a bunch of cameos from Nightmare Time, with all the people accused being characters from various stories.

It's always funny to me when people who are not hyper aware/have been around fundie christians (especially the American variety) see Grace's character and are just so confused about her motivations. For one I'm like "good, I'm glad you haven't had to deal with this" and on the other hand I'm always like "yeah, no, this makes perfect sense". When you asked about her phrasing it as "touched myself and lied to the cops" with priority obviously being putting on the first one... that's literally how fundies think. Breaking the law isn't a huge deal because to them, god's law supercedes it anyways. But touching herself, being lustful and 'impure'- especially as an unwed woman? She'd have been taught from like age 3 that this was unholy and the highest condemnable offense (just like in a lot of groups she would've been taught from that same age that her body is a temptation and sin magnet that forces men to go against god, and it's her duty to protect them from herself). Grace's character is a little too true, given what so many fanatical religious folks have done- even the ones who didn't go into it planning to be malicious.

I laugh so hard at the bath scene, lol. Director and props guy are like "we gotta order a bunch of blue plastic balls for this scene."

I think Stephanie has phone anxiety because she has no support at home. As an actual Gen Z who's experienced the same thing.

Shoutout to Cas in the chat having a whole breakdown during If I Loved You…

You NEED to watch nightmare time, it gives a lot of depth to the hatchetfield lore and even features some of the characters in nerdy prudes. Theres a whole episode with Grace, Pete and Stephanie. It also gives a lot more information on the lords in black. And theres this huge lore around Hannah and Lex from black friday thats in one of the last episodes that explains a lot about not only hannah but lex as well. And we meet amazing characters like Mrs Halloway and Ziggy (who featured in hatchet town), and even Gerald who you know from black friday theres a whole episode of nightmare time we get to see him and linda and their kids lol. OH AND THE BIGGEST TWIST IS FINDING OUT WHO THE HOMELESS GUY IS!!!!! Also is the introduction of the black book that they use here. Anyway quick description of the lords in black! Wiggly: we know who he is from black friday, so ill keep it simple. Basically is the self appointed leader of the lords in black. Also why if you look at his outfit he is the jock with a crown. He also has tentacles in his true form which is why he keeps doing the little hand movements to symbolize it lmao. Jon absolutely goes feral when he becomes wiggly and its soooo good. Pokey/Pokotho: Is the being behind the meteor/the events of the guy who didn't like musicals. He is all about control. Anytime you see any blue goo its related to pokey as thats his color. He is represented as a theater kid because thats what started off the whole event of the guy who didnt like musicals, a meteor hit the starlight theater which is one of the locations of the black altars grace mentions, and they all start singing a musical, thus pokey is a theater kid. After watching nightmare time i'd say pokotho is actually really freaking terrifying, especially in the last episode Yellow Jacket. Blinky/Bliklotep: The one who sees all. The way i like to interpret this outfit/stereotype is being someone whos kind of maybe a loner/antisocial person who wears dark clothes but sees everything. The glasses are obviously bringing home the point that blinky sees all. Blinky is a giant eyeball in most forms. He likes to cause mayhem and watch. TInky/T'noy Karaxis: is one of the wildest lords, trust me, he's a bastard. He is represented by someone perhaps whos a class clown because he is a menace. He is all about fucking with people using time itself. He is probably the "craziest" lord in black right up there with nibbly. Nibbly/Nibblelinephym: The hungriest of the lords in black. The whole thing about nibbly is that its just supposed to be a giant, hungry mouth. So the design they chose for this is marvelous and the way Kim whalen does the little mouth expressions to represent nibbly is just so great. These are the episodes of nightmare time that are like "about" the lords in black, and thats not to say they aren't in the other ones these are just the prominent episodes where they are the most: Blinky - Watcher World Tinky - Time Bastard Nibbly - Honey Queen Pokey - Yellow Jacket Wiggly - Witch in the web i would say although its more about hannah and the witch then wiggly himself but he does appear!

In the “if I loved you” reprise where he says, “I know.” That’s Han Solo’s line from the end of Episode 5, cause they alluded to him being a Star Wars nerd.

From what I have seen, the each story of the series is taking part in an alternative reality, controlled by the 5 lords in black. They have the power to control reality and make different realities to feed their needs. As long as the black book exists, they have a connection to that reality.

1:19:01 as a small town michigander, yes. word for word that is literally the joke 😂😂😂 the entirety of the town IS dependent on the high school football team, all the parents live vicariously through their children, and the kids have silly/pointless rivalries with other high schools

Fun fact I heard that idk if its true or not but im glad if it is true. The part where max goes for the bullet was apparently supposed to be Max going like "ch ch-ha ha ha" like friday the 13th but will the guy who plays max did the slow mo walk beatbox to the bullet instead and it just worked. Its such a good part because its basically a hamilton reference. Not one but two hamilton references in this musical. 10/10.

Such a great reaction! June Saito is one of the greatest costume designers of our time. I'm pretty sure she's been doing costumes with Team Starkid since AVPM days when they were still in college.

I’m always glad to see someone else react to this!

I think Stefan Urquelle is Steve Urkele's (from Family Matters) cool, sexy alter ego.

enjoyed the reaction! 💜💜💜 Also, the jokes about the football team's loss mattering more than some murders + the whole small town rivalry thing is definitely a little bit of an exageration, but not far off the mark for small towns in the US. when you're in a small town, you kinda naturally have a rivalry with the town next door, which is worse if you're also competing in the same sports divison. And small town sports is also a huge thing. Student athletes get all kinds of preference over other students for shit, and it only gets worse the more populous the area is (at least, in my experience. im from north east usa so it might be different in other areas)

Max's almost redemption arc makes me so sad 😭😭🥲

so a lot of this musical & lore was built up in the Nightmare Time seasons 1 and 2. Like the Lords in Black and all the cameos in Hatchet Town. i recommend watching Nightmare Time and then rewatching this it’s a really different experience

I can't lie I've been singing dirty girl when im cooking in the kitchen since i watched this musical a couple of weeks ago. It's such a catchy song like omg 😭😭

Drinking Game, sip every time you say “iconic” . Great reaction btw, I thought Will Branner (Max) killed it for his first StarKid show, but no one can top Grace as best character.

Hilarious moment. Right after Grace sings "h*ck all his limbs off" I got a pop-up for Star Wars Galaxies saying "EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE" 😂😂😂

Commenting for the algorithm in the name of our Ceaseless Watcher, Bliklotep. May their thousand eyes gaze upon this reaction video with favor, O' ancient eldritch audience, praise be the council of the Lords in Black!

OMFG, the CHEMISTRY on If I Loved You...

Any more StarKid reactions (even if you already saw the shows) would be AMAZING. You can include Tin Can Brothers and Shipwrecked and other random things as well.

The 'Stefan Urquell' was a Steve Urkel reference. Steve Urkel is a famous nerd character from an American sitcom Family Matters. Most Americans know him or at least know his catchphrase bc the show was huge.

i can’t lie, i spent half of the pauses saying “yeah, that’s the joke”.

i LOOOVe to see people react to this musical

im rewatching a bunch of these and Cas is down baaad the moment they entered chat LMAOO Streamer + chat reaction bonus

the fact that grace essentially decides to kill someone and hide their body just cause she was attracted to them is so iconic

The "If I Loved You (reprise)" is possibly the finest thing they've ever written.

You should definitely watch Nightmare Time if not just for the banger songs but also you get to meet the best non-binary character (who had a cameo in this show)

I just love the exchange "Grace just be cool" "Never"

begging you to watch nightmare time there's so many references to it in this and there's so much lore!!!!! "potentially canon" IT IS SO CANON /SRS. "you kinda look like that homeless guy from downtown" THIS IS SAD WITH CONTEXT IF YOU WATCH TIME BASTARD!!!! also!!!!! pete is ted's brother!!!!!! from tgwdlm!!!!!!! WHEN TINKY (YELLOW LORD IN BLACK) SAYS "ANOTHER SPANKOFFSKI" HE'S TALKING ABOUT TED!!!!!!!! the people in hatchet town are nightmare time characters!!!!!!!!! there is so much lore with the lords in black and the black book and everything else!!!!!!!!! there's an episode about pete and grace and steph (abstinence camp)!!!! season 2 is a lot better quality than season 1 and you get used to the zoom format after watching for it a bit. and if not you can just listen to it like a podcast idk. i am so neurodivergent about hatchetfield i could infodump for so long. if people watch nightmare time there'll be a season 3 eventually and it is going to be so cool!!!!!!! both seasons of nightmare time have an episode about hannah from black friday!!!!!!!! also in honey queen linda monroe raps also. for clarification every hatchetfield story is a separate timeline (besides nightmare time season 2, that's all the same timeline)

since each musical is kind of one timeline/different universe, its unlikely we'll ever see the aftermath of grace's getting a hold of the black book and if they do well dang i guess id be wrong. In each timeline some big event happens involving one of the lords in black. TGWDLM: Pokotho/Pokey and the meteor taking control of everyone Black Friday: Wgog wgog y'rath/wiggly would just be the doll itself starting everything and taking control of everyone NPMD: Not really started by the lords in black themselves, but by their followers the waylons who were given power somehow by the lords in black probably through sacrifice. some other notable timelines happen in nightmare time, forever and always is a crazy one, time bastard, honey queen, and killer track are good ones that kind of go into differing timelines/the lore behind the dark magic.

One of the best theories I've heard... LAUTER: it all has a price, a terrible price... NO! I'm not touching that book ever again! What happened last time? Where is Steph's Mom? #HellOfAPrice

if you end up watching nightmare time (which I highly recommend, since it has super interesting stories and goes into the very cool lore nick and matt have for hatchetfield - I mean, my favorite hatchetfield character is only featured in nightmare time!) I would looove to see a reaction for it!

1:08:23 a little lore for you the homeless man is a time traveling Ted who lost his mind so that line has some family resemblance with it also Peter and Ted are brothers I know all the lore

Thank you! I love watching reactions to my favorite shows! I think nightmare time would provide more clarity around the Lords in Black but I'm glad it still played without that background. Any Starkid or TCB reactions I'm here for!

PETE: I DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE THE FIRST TIME! ME after my wife or kids actually laugh at my joke: me neither, Pete. Me, neither.

Dead Max is in fact an icon wnd he does in fact slay (because I know he'd hate me saying that lol).

You gotta watch Spies Are Forever by Tin Can Bros. It features a lot of Starkid’s in it and the story is amazing! I don’t want to spoil anything about it so I’ll just say……it’s about spies.

About Max being jacked the actor who played Richie(you were right his name is Jon) and the music producer watched this live on stream and every couple of seconds the would count Max's abs and go "one two three four five six seven eight"

I feel like the adbreak dance should've been an ad breakdance. Purely for the sake of the pun!

‘cas this is a public forum’ WHY ARE YOU BOOING THEM, THEYRE RIGHT!! /lhj

they're called the lords in black. because they come from the black..💔💔 not fuz their clothing... its where they come from ...💔💔

I think it’s interesting how Max’s god complex and behavior is attributed to the patriarchy, because the thought is “he’s a male and he obviously thinks he’s better than everyone because of that”, where the actual reason could be because of his father and his fathers treatment of him. We get the line when Max faces down the “ghost” and “skeleton, thinks about running away, and says; “Where Max? Back home so dad can call you a little cuck?!” It’s fascinating because in Max’s point of view, he IS afraid. He mentions that he’s been afraid of skeletons(or ghosts, I don’t remember) his entire life. He has fears, he has his own drive. It feels like his need of power and control, and even his god complex, comes from the lack of control he has at home. His father is obviously the leader of his house, he never mentions a mom and it’s easy to assume that the mother is either passed on, or doesn’t defend Max in the household. This, psychologically, could manifest in Max grasping at straws anywhere he can for power, especially in a high school setting where he can be strong, an athlete, and where he knows others can’t stand up to him. Yes, it’s ideal for his father or parents to “redirect his behavior”, but the line about his dad could insinuate that he simply doesn’t have that kind of household. He probably acted out as a kid, was told off or punished in some way, and then tossed off without a care. 43:29

I love all of this musical (well, maybe not the, uh, soup part), but I think The Summining is the best for me. I love all these references they put in, it's so fun. Also, yeah. Football in small towns is annoyingly intense.

You would have appreciated this musical more if you had watched all the Nightmare Time content first

Watched this video for 2 reasons: 1. Absolutely love starkid 2. I wanted to feel like I was watching it with someone lol none of my friends or family watch starkid

Let me just say... your use of the word iconic is iconic :,D

Wait home come you knew dirty girl soup was coming? when the song hadn't played yet

When I heard Class of 2021, i immediately loved it. That's my graduating class at my high school, i absolutely loved it, my favorite show that StarKid has come out with, i hope that they return to Hatchetfield for another show in the future, i want to see more of Peter and Steph and also the Lords in Black, but also Grace, because you know she is up to weird things in Hatchetfield, that ending was an interesting one

I Love This Show. I Watched It So Many Times. And I Put The Music On My iPhone. I Also Love Joey Richter. And Lauren Lopez In This.

The way I watched this then binged Nightmare Time. I recommend simply because it has SO MUCH LORE especially on Lords of Black. Blinky(Bliklotep) is my fav

omg I love this! I'm so stoked to see what you think of all this (writing this while starting the video)

Very fun reaction... but I think I might never want to hear the word iconic again.

Your reactions give me life.

Have to say CassingAround's reaction during the song If I Loved You, is just the most relatable thing ever! Honestly woulnd't we all let Mariah step on us?

“Babes, ya fell.”

Okay first up wooo fellow Australian (also the newscaster voice made me look at the tv and I don't even watch the news as a general rule lol) Grace (and Steph) my beloved (and the irony my main fandom/ship obsession atm is Grace and Persephone, ironically nicknamed "Seph", from stray gods so when I hear Grace I'm still associating the name with the leather jacket and black boots and the very obvious bi energy from that Grace which is a fun juxtaposition with this Grace) The Grace song at the end though was really the nail in the "we really need to unpack that" coffin. I mean babes please as much as I love a villain arc I feel like immediately switching to satanism probably isn't the best coping mechanism, I mean you were never fully hinged but now the doors not even there (the switch from "Jason goes to my church sometimes 😊" to "Now DIE 😈" was wild)

rai in the chat is my favorite part of this JAJAJ

I mean Both Max and Chasitiy in Dirty Girl Soup are hot. XD As a bisexual who will be going to hell It is a good song. Pete in "Cool as I think I am": Why did she pick me? I hope I dont know the answer! Steph in "If I loved you": I'm a Sapiosexual, You're Intellectual. For anyone wondering, Sapiosexual means you are attracted to people who are smart, their genius is attractive.

I like seeing people watch Starkid. I just wish it was less ASMR audio...

1:01:38 This is 100 % what happens when one of my players gets a nat 20 history check or casts legend lore

Love how Stephanie is an amateur crypto bro Edit: omfg do you think the background in Dirty Girl Soup is purple because Blinky was watching? Edit 2: And a few other scenes where the lights went purple

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rewatching this before watching the other hatchetfield reactions, I started slightly later in the video and skipped some parts of the musical that make me uncomfortable, but I counted 21 "Iconic"s

And yes, football is how small American towns work.

You should watch Twisted! It’s really good

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...are there football scholarships... for high schools??

I'm confused at the plot twist? At the end

The thing with Max J is... He's not THAT good. He's aware HS is his peak. I think he had no college offers. He knows who he is.

Oooo, and this was right before the big controversy too. Man, I miss his unproblematic days.

Jesus Christ you are way younger than I thought (not saying you look older, I just have no capability to recognize how old people are)

Love your voice

Imo if max and Peter/or richie just kissed none of this would’ve happened /j /silly

sorry for spoiling shit like 5 seconds before they happen lmao it was a great stream

From a content perspective, this is far from my favorite Starkid show. The music is fine, there's only a few songs that I really love. The chorus for "nerdy prudes must die" sounds super rushed to me, personally. I still like it, and maybe it's just me being autistic. That being said, from a technical perspective-costuming, lighting, staging, all of that-this is an absolute masterpiece of a show. Edited to add that the guy playing Max deserves a damn Oscar, he STOLE this show during his damn entrance