Why WORKIN' BOYS Works So Well
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- It just works!
#starkid #hatchetfield #workinboys #10niversary #cinderella #cinderellacastle #nightmaretime #theguywhodidntlikemusicals #blackfriday #nerdyprudesmustdie #jeffblim #musical #shortfilm #film #review #funny #comedy #undeniably #idiotic #undeniablyidiotic - Hry
My first take on the Chad situation was that Higgins loved Chad the most. The boys use him as a cudgel to get their surviving friend to do "the right thing for the show"
that is a very interesting take, wonder what the meeting between him and Chad would've looked like
yeah I was a bit confused by Chad being interpreted as a looming threat in this video, it rly just seemed like another tune in the siren's call already taking place with the boys being there.
Pokey knows how to work up a crowd, after all.
Just so you know, Robert Manion sexually harassed a member of the band during Black Friday, then went on to burn his bridges with Team Starkid by insulting them and saying very racist and transphobic things on social media.
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wait is this actually true or is this a joke i havent watched the vid yet
@HelloThere-dl5dl It's true. We don't really talk about him in the Starkid fandom anymore.
Ironically, sounds like something Hitchens would have done.
as someone who saw the whole situation unfold in real time, i think starkid handled it pretty well. they just immediately fired the guy, ignored his comments and they just dont mention him anymore. pretty sure all the actors cut ties with him too.
you know i'm glad working boys got delayed for like 3 years because we got Jeff as Hidgens because of it. also shoutout to starkid for actually putting in effort to make the character look different than the actor, Hidgens actually looks old here
When Jeff Blim is given a target, he never misses, also the costume design in this was incredible considering they reuse already developed Hatchetfield characters in the audience
@@Undeniably_Idiotic nick lang did the costumes, that man is a great designer. nick also did the costumes for trail to oregon, which is my favorite starkid show. have you watched it? its basically "Jeff Blim: The Musical "
Workin' Boys was fucking transcendent! I'd love to see Starkid do more projects in this style
they did so well with this and Nightmare Time music videos that I'd love to see more off-stage projects from them
They actually want to make a Hatchetfield movie, the current idea is that it's set around the Hatchetfield Community Players (Zoey and co), and a murder mystery at a cast party!!
In the one timeline where his musical actually gets produced in any form, it's Hidgens himself that destroys it, and that is the perfect capstone to this joke that's been running for over 5 years now.
After what was shown in Honey Queen I believe Workin' Boys is always destined to be changed to Workin' Girls
@@Undeniably_Idiotic You know what? I bet some time years after Hidgens is dead a Broadway producer rediscovers the script for Workin' Girls and the critics describe it as, like, "A brilliant satire of patriarchy, highlighting the absurdity of how men perceive both the opposite sex and their own, and simultaneously a biting rejection of the 'Girlboss' who steps into a leadership role but enforces the exact same hierarchies a man would in the same position."
I hope Hidgens is awarded a posthumous Tony Award, specifically by a panel of judges that consider the inverted gender dynamics to be the heart of the whole show.
@@booxmowo2684
The final insult upon his dream
@@booxmowo2684 Knowing Hidgens, he would probably consider it the biggest insult to his very existence
The very early scrapped version of the workin boys script was insane.
Matt talked about this during Cinderella's Castle final live stream and it was originally about Emma and Becky, Emma being a stage director and doing a Workin' Boys show, Becky was cast as Henry, and the producer of this show was Wilbur Cross.
So the whole point of Workin' Boys was actually Wilbur's plan to summon Lords in Black and the show itself was a ritual.
And Wilbur gives his version of the script to Hidgens and Hidgens has to use that script for his show, which included Becky getting stabbed by the Black Blade.
And apparently, Stanely (Becky's awful husband) was in it too, and they were going to show what the inside of Black and White looks like.
So Stanely was trying to stop Becky from being in Workin' Girls because he is just that awful, very controlling, while Becky secretly did Workin' Girls behind him, but eventually he finds out, and he tries to kill Becky.
But then Wilbur shows up because his plan was to sacrifice Becky so he and Stanley get in a fight
And this is where interesting Wilbur's new ability is introduced where he..pushes Stanley's consciousness out of this reality and put that consciousness to other reality where Stanley is already dead.
So Stanley is stuck in his dead body while his conscious was still there, feeling all the worms eating his rotten body.
And this is how it ends.
That version seems absolutely wild! Glad they went for the more Hidgens centric story though, it does tie in with the Witch in the Web Nightmare Time story though, would've been a lot to keep up with in such a short amount of time
also one really cool scene that matt talked about was near the end, wilbur cross reaches into stanley’s guts, pulls out a bunch of maggots and says “you’re a daddy, stanley!! you’re the father of flies!!”, just felt like adding!!!
I'm not even gonna play, workin boys had me up to my ass in shit
What is this business?
Great video! Nick Lang spoke about why Chad wasn't in this in one of the Cinderella's Castle livestream, it's not because he's dangerous (thought that could be interesting) but because Hidgens's feelings for him weren't platonic like for the rest of the boys, so his opinion holds a lot more value than the others, and he couldn't let Chad see him sell out!
ah yes, Jeff Blim's eyes do convey fear and longing in the exact same way
Workin Boys is so much fun and so worth the wait! I’m somehow even more obsessed than I thought I would be. Jeff is fantastic, this is some of my favorite acting he’s ever done. The women also blew me away, the album is especially worth buying for them. Mariah as Hidgens was so satisfying.
“The imminent and unseen threat of Chad” is so funny, I still doubt he’ll ever show up but you never know!
Every time the clock strikes 5 o' clock... Chad could be right there ready to strike, and you'd never know...
I saw this on tumblr or reddit, but I think that it Hidgens should never played by the same actor twice in any future hatchetfield media, just for funsies
next would be Corey Dorris Hidgens (he literally sang SSN today at Starkid Innit), then Joey Hidgens, then Jon Hidgens, then maybe Mariah Hidgens (!!)
IDK it just sounds like a lot of fun
no reference or wink in universe about how he always looks different, everything proceeding as normal
I’ve seen a bunch of people saying this and I agree! Hidgens is such an interesting role that actors can interpret differently, even just for one performance of a song. The people I’ve seen mentioned that would excite me the most are James Tolbert and Jae Hughes
That sounds like so much fun, perhaps it may be some Lords in Black trickery as to why he keeps looking different
There is no way I’m this early when I literally just paused my StarKid playlist and opened CZcams to find THIS? I’m so ready
Some things are more than coincidence, they are meant to be! Hope you enjoy!
-music plays- lets go girls...
What I really liked was how they only put the horror at the end of the story just so we could see more of how Hidgens became the homicidal maniac at the end, it’s great. Most horror films don’t really do that, like, before the opening credits happen, there’s *MURDER!* I watched this show called “Murder Most Horrid” on Prime and in most episodes, they had the murder near the end of the episode, so we could see more of character development why the murderer (usually played by Dawn French) decided to murder someone. Great show, highly recommend!
having that sweet sweet character development always makes the killing spree more intriguing at the end
Hidgens after watching this: “Oh, thank you kind sir! You have been spared!”
I would definitely recommend looking at the watch party they did in the second part of the final Cinderella livestream! Lots of fun behind the scenes insights from the cast and Nick especially on how the concept developed over the years
Really hope they do more short film musicals like this, especially after also seeing the music videos they made for Nightmare Time!
Nick said that if they ever did nmt3 they’d make it in more of a short film sort of thing so they could use special effects and stuff which would be really cool!
I have to say yes this does need a lot of back watching to fully understand it but it's important to remember this was intended to be a reward for the Starkid 10th anniverary kickstarter only. They made it very clear back in 2019 that this would never be released to the public and I can believe even up to March 2023 when they shot this they felt the same. As such you'd have to expect most people engaging in it were already big Starkid fans who would know all the references.
Of course now it's out publicly that becomes slightly different but I think I can support/understand this being more self indulgent on the references and inside jokes because of the nature of it's original release.
Edit: And of course riggght after I write this you get to the point in the video where you acknowledge this 😂
I'm glad that we agree before even knowing what the point was
Regarding the program easter eggs; wtf does Cassandra King's bio mean for the future of the series?!?
"Cassandra King (Eve) is elated to be present with you fellow vessels in these fleeting moments. Everything has transpired exactly as the lights in the sky foretold. Cassie had never been a believer in prophecy or the ethereal spaces between... but she's seen too much to deny their truth now. She no longer fears the visions, or the pain that comes with their descent. Pain is the price of knowledge. Pain is the language that unites the children of Az'zoksh, no matter which star they may hail from. Cassie wants to see what lies at the end of the cold hall. She's ready to see the face of the girl screaming in the dark. How did she find herself aboard? And what is the destination of such a magnificent ship? Is tonight the night Cassie departs? The lights give no answer. And so she waits for deliverance. Cassie would also like to thank her boyfriend, Chris."
I believe that's to do with the original plan for the Workin' Boys script where the performance was a ritual to summon the Lords in Black or something, it's very wild and I still can't get my head around that version of the script yet
I giggled and kicked my feet seeing bill and ted again
Sensei Bill and his student reunite once more
What if starkid made a bill and Ted's excellent adventure parody with Bill and Ted from the guy who didn't like musicals
@@selenamcmahan9234 a Time B@st@rd serquel? Bill tries to free Ted from the toy box
im sorry but for some reason the parts where some parts dont make sense in the musical, or just sound werid or like the scene where he goes "ALRIGHT BOYS!- Girls GO LONG!" (like the whole "football but for girls" shit) made me laugh so hard.
Though eh, is it just me or some time i wish virgina vass gets a bigger (like main or supporting) role in starkid. (since i think most of the stuff besides working girls, Shes a understuddy or a background character, Also i swear the outfits in this are just *chef kiss* (bryce charles outfit when the musical happends is my favorite one.)
Virginia Vass is one of those performers that is so good that it doesn't matter what role you put them in, their talent shines through, also all the "Workin' Bo- I mean girls" jokes were my favourite also
Holy shit i didn't even realize the bit about Grace until you mentioned it. And it isn't just Grace, it's also Lex.
The Hero of Hatchetfield
bro's facial hair makes him look like a younger Hidgens, Starkid needs to get you for the sequel, if your unhinged video essays weren't proof enough
being compared to Jeff Blim and Professor Hidgens is the highest honour, thank you very much!
I just realised this channel only has 2.3k subs, and I have to say that that is criminal. STARKIDS AND ALL OTHER PEOPLE HERE GET THIS MAN MORE ATTENTION NOWWWWW!!!
Thank you very much, it means so much to us to read comments like this!
YEEEEES THE WORKIN BOYS ANALYSIS WOOOOOO
The short film was so much fun to watch!
@@Undeniably_Idiotic I SAW IT BACK IN OCTOBER FOR THE HALLOWEEN STREAM I LOVED IT BACK THEN !!!!
Though the original plan for it sounded so good i wish there was a timeline where we could see that
@@Sillylilgrill will have to take a look back at how the idea developed and changed over time
@@Undeniably_Idiotic Ill give you a rough summary so you don’t have to scour the internet for it, so the original plan for working boys was a 1 hour 30 minute movie that would feature the characters Emma perkins, becky barnes, wilbur cross, hidgens of course and stanley becky’s husband who she killed in black friday. the films plot involved workin boys being changed to workin girls (like in the final product) which was a ploy by wilbur cross who was the producer in order to sacrifice someone to the lords in black, the summoning song from npmd was originally from workin boys which was changed as workin boys became a more self contained story. Also about stanley he would serve as a secondary antagonist mostly towards becky who he would torment becky due to him wanting control of her and not wanting her to do anything without him. In the movie Stanley has a breakdown the matt lang described as making hey mellisa look like “light fluff” which sounds so interesting. the ending was incredibly different with hidgens being rewarded for wrecking the show unintentionally saving becky from being sacrificed, for this he is rewarded by being sent to a reality where the working boys are alive and he got to spend time with his boyfriends im pretty sure webby sent him to this reality if im not mistaken. Matt and Nick said they changed this as “Hidgens had to ruin his own show” and hence the ending of hidgens going crazy. Oh and stanley would meet his demise by wilbur cross transporting him into a body that was dead so he was unable to move unable to do anything but feel his body getting devoured by maggots, throughout thr play stanley had been constantly talking about wanting to be a father and as his body is being eaten from the inside by maggotswilbur cross whispers in his ear “You got your with stanley you wanted to be a father and now you are, a father to flies”. sorry for rambling i just loved this version i got all this information from part 2 of the 12 hour Cinderella’s castle livestream
I didnt expect to love your videos as much as I love Quirrelmorts or even Starkid themselves, and yet here we are.
Loved as much as Quirrelmorts and Starkid? That is very high praise thank you so much!
oh my goodness! i would like to second this lol, what a great video!
7:19 still adopting the proper pronunciation of 'Linda Monroe' I see, love ittt 😂😆 Thanks for the vid, enjoyed it as usual. I hope you get more subs soon, you deserve 'em! Side note: the Two Weeks Notice song is on CZcams in full, by the way! I'd recommend it. Sublime vocals from Kim.
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou gonna go put Two Week's Notice on loop right now!
The mockumentary format worked super well! I almost want to see more of that with Hatchetfield.
a parody of the office that's filmed in the office from TGWDLM with Paul, Bill, Ted and the others would be the most incredible thing ever
@@Undeniably_Idiotic Drop Dead Gorgeous but it’s the Honey Queen pageant
I have been re-watching Workin Boys so many times now, so happy we managed to reach the donation goal to get this released to CZcams! Jeff always does a good maniac.
Aladdin and the Trail to Oregon father are also some of my favourites from him
The ghosts, and the deaths of the actresses and Hidgens are 100% Pokey's doing: He has a theatre theme, there was BLUE lighting around the ghosts, and canonically in the Hatchetfield universe the lords in Black have been summoned at one point so he'd have the power to do so. And, come on, He's Pokey, of course he'd do something like this. The Lords In Black just love to mess with people! Does anyone agree? :DDD
the ghosts also resemble Max Jagerman reanimated and the axeman from abstinence camp so perhaps there are other forces at play
DID SOMEONE MENTION WORKIN' BOYS?
Ahem... there's been some minor changes, it's been retitled as Workin' Girls
@@Undeniably_Idiotictop 10 most unespected changes 🦐
I just looked at when it was uploaded
Perfect timing! Hope you enjoy!
.. BUISNESS CALLS I'M UP TO MY A$$ IN SHI-
WHAT IS THIS BUSINESS?
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT WORKING BOYS!!! WHAT THE HELL
Sometimes we just know these things about people
@@Undeniably_Idiotic you a psychic bruh
Maybe it’s just me but I never really understood the complaint that enjoying watching one thing requires you to watch a previous thing. That’s just how a series works. Watching the previous installments usually helps you get more enjoyment out of the later ones. The Hatchetfield series still makes sense if you watch it out of order, and you’ll even get more enjoyment out of TGWDLM if you circle back to it after watching the other musicals, because you have more context.
that's a really good point, on one hand the mystery of what's going on can be enjoyed on its own and the other, being dropped in the middle of a pre established world causes you to delve into the rabbit hole of the series. However, that doesn't change the fact that it was written with the assumption that you already know the characters from previous musicals similar to marvel movies
im so glad to see a video about workin' boys its so cool🙏
Workin Boys was above all else, really fun to watch
Subscribing just because of StarCan content
Welcome, welcome, expect much more to come in the future!
really enjoyed this vid!
really glad that you enjoyed so much!