#mr. mushnik

[scriv3lloirl]

HAPPY LSOH DAY‼️

[bag-0f-b0nes]

Some of my fav highlights from the Lsoh script (not in order)

Yeah, i too would think "uh oh" when i found out my plant ate blood

The sillies

No caption needed.

Me too bro me too

Twoey does not give a singular fuck (:

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I'll be reblogging with more!

[gangles-toybox]

Learning that lsoh had a cartoon in the early 90s that lasted for a whole 13 episodes is kinda buckwild to me personally. Now, to be fair, it is based on the 1960 film *and* the 1986 film, and I haven't watched the 1960 film, so please any of yall inform me if what I point out is from the 1960 movie or something.

Firstly, why is Audrey Mr. Mushnik's daughter? Idk it just seems weird to me cuz in the 86 film, Seymour is more of a son to Mushnik than anybody. Maybe they didn't want to make it clear that Seymour was an orphan or something by him being around Mr. Mushnik I guess??(even tho they coulda just made Mr. Mushnik his dad but whatevs) and it's even weirder to me they gave him a health nut mom that neglects him?? Like..what..

Also, ok, Seymour & Audrey are 13(even tho their character designs make em look like 8 but whatever it's fine), which I don't mind since usually kids cartoons have child protagonists. But..they didn't make..Orin a child?? They had his equivalent in the show have a son, who serves as a bully to Seymour and like Audrey. I get it *would* be a little..dark..to have Orin as entirely himself because of how much he loves torturing ppl and to show him when his love for Audrey was still not abusive(i assume they wouldnt show it abusive cuz yk kids cartoon and all)..but you could just alter his personality..idk it's weird to make him reproduce!!!

Also, why does Orin's equivalent(Dr. Driller) & his son(Paine Driller) look like a weird ass combo of like somebody drunkenly trying to draw Dilbert? I don't mean this in an entirely bad way, I do like Paine's design, it's just weird to have these..guys I guess next to regular human characters like Seymour and Audrey.

Idk I think it would be funny to watch this eventually tho(psst i heard all the eps are on yt, the show itself is called "Little Shop")

[greenesmyfavcolor]

In the stage version during Don’t Feed the Plants, Audrey 2 eventually becomes the people that it previously killed in the form of their faces on Audrey 2’s buds.

Seymour in a way also does the same thing, minus the faces on plants thing lol.

After he kills Orin, he becomes Audrey’s boyfriend and even wears Orin’s leather jacket to impress Audrey and after he kills Mushnik, he takes over his job as the shops owner.

[cishetseymourkrelborn]

It doesn't really make sense to me that Mushnik somehow managed to get Seymour from an orphanage without legally adopting him. Like sure I can easily imagine that record keeping in Skid Row in the 60s isn't the best but I still don't know how he was allowed to take in a child without becoming that child's legal guardian? That's how I came up with this idea that I think makes a lot more sense and is really funny in a dark comedy way where Mushnik acquired Seymour through a stereotypical 'kid being left in a basket outside a doorstep' situation. Mushnik's resentment towards him also makes more sense this way, since he wouldn't have literally chosen him over all the other kids at an orphanage, he was basically forced on him.

This also makes Seymour's social isolation before Audrey even more tragic, since he wasn't even chosen by Mushnik and his parents apparently didn't care enough to get him to an orphanage rather than risking his life leaving him at a random doorstep. Audrey is the first person to choose to have him in her life. I also have this /hj post theatrical cut ending idea that I wouldn't actually add to the story but is extremely funny to me where when Seymour and Audrey go to get married they discover that Mushnik never got Seymour legally registered and now he is not legally a person that exists. He never worked a job outside the store and kept using the bank account Mushnik set up for him after his death, so his lack of anything like a social security number didn't become apparent until he tried to get married. And then his first act as a person that legally exists is becoming hers <3

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

[sombrathedragon]

Little Shop of Horrors but they're Wings of Fire dragons (Specifically the Arc 3 protags)

[incorrectmusicaltheatre]

Seymour: I wanna be a reverse tooth fairy that robs people and then scatters teeth on their bed. Audrey: A dentist. Mushnik: I don’t know what your dentist is doing to you but I think you need to go to the police.

[cloud-sitting]

THIS LITTLE DUDE’S EYEBROWS WALKED

SO THAT HERS COULD RUN

[drod-art]

Mr. Mushnik

[saltysunflowersugar]

WANNA HEAR THIS BATSHIT INSANE AU I CAME uP WITH A COUPLE DAYS AGO?!!

no? TOO BAD! I recently learned about the existence of THESE motherfuckers and my first thought when I saw them was “HOLY SHIT THEY LOOK LIKE AUDREY 2!” They’re called Predatory Tunicates, here ya go

Also I forgot their name briefly and searched up “Transparent crinoid that looks like a venus fly trap” and discovered that the Venus fly trap anenome exists, so maybe that could also be Twoey, either or this isn’t a complete au. 

ANyways, so a little before that my brain made ANOTHER connection between Little SHop Of Horrors and marine biology was that dolphins will sometimes beat up pufferfish simply to get high off their venom, aND IF THAT ISN’T EXACTLY WHAT ORIN SCRIVELLO WOULD DO AS A MERMAN THEN I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS!!! (yes, I am aware that Cleaner wrasses also exist, but the difference is that they’re supposed to be good at dentistry and they can’t just go around inflicting pain for funsies because if they do, they’ll get eaten so a dolphin was just more fitting) Also, should Orin be a bottlenose or an Orca? because both of them enjoy tormenting other sea creatures beyond what’s necessary for survival and Orcas are a type of dolphin and the black and white color scheme would be fitting, but I also fon’t know if Orcas can get high off pufferfish venom

Update: research still inconclusive, I’m just gonna say that in this AU where mermaids are real and crinoids make Faustian power bargains, that yes, Orcas can get high off pufferfish venom

With that part out of the way, I guess Seymour should be a pufferfish, and I’m imagining that he just sits there and lets Orin bite him until he ODs on tetrodotoxin instead of nitrous oxide. Alternatively, I could imagine him being a shrimp, would be really funny if somehow a shrimp managed to kill an orca, plus there could be some symbolism or whatever with the size of any given merfolk showing their status, IDK I’m just spitballing.

Mr. Mushnik is gonna be a crab, Because he’s basically already Mr. Krabs, the connection was too obvious.

I actually don’t know what species Audrey would be in this AU, I was maybe thinking Angelfish? 

Somehow, I decided to get Arthur Denton involved here just because I remembered that one Drawfee bit about the Kinky Christmas Carp and I just decided that Arthur is gonna be carp SOLELY as a reference to that

The muses are gonna be human Marine researchers who aren’t getting involved in the drama, but do have cameras set up on the ocean floor and commentate over everything they see in song form

[scriv3lloirl]

"Audrey, where'd you get that shiner?" "Uh.. shiner?"

Mushnik n Daughter, ev'ryone.

[gangles-toybox]

Tfw when ur partner eats ur other two partners and your dad:

[greenesmyfavcolor]

Mushnik has probably the most underrated lines in all of Little Shop. He has so many quick and funny one liners that I’ll just list them here:

“So, she finally decides to come to work.”

Audrey: I'll clean it up before any of the customers get here. “That should give you plenty of time.”

“I'm telling you, Audrey, you don't need a date with him, you need major medical.”

Seymour: The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl.“Strictly between us, neither is the Audrey One.”

“A date gives you a corsage, not a multiple fracture."

“So it seems the plot is thickening among my employees."

“Don't you "Mister Daddy" me, Krelborn!”

[cishetseymourkrelborn]

AO3 is so fucking based for including Audrey's last name in her character tag but excluding Mushnik's first name from his