#npmd 2020

[vesperione]

There isn’t a precise date, but it’s the summer of 2020, like all of nightmare time 2 (minus yellow jacket, which is October 2020) :))

Yo does anyone know when Honey Queen is set?

[mariusslonelysoul]

It was actually awesome to binge/rewatch tgwdlm and bf right before npmd and see the improvement in quality! I mean obviously the music and acting always slapped but the sets, the editing, the costumes, the camera work, you can see the evolution and it is a m a z i n g

[yeaimsmokingpot]

GUYS I WAS WATCHING A OLD COMP OF LIKE LINDA MONROE SCENES WHICH CAUSED ME TO THINK ABOUT WHO EVERYONE IN LINE WAS TRYING TO GET A WIGGLY FOR AND DO YOU THINK HOMELESS MAN'S WAS GOING TO BE FOR PETEY ?????

[fnife]

guys i think i fucked up, richie lipschitz is emotionally destroying me

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

I read your Lautski fic (Locked and Loaded (oh so devoted) ) and I need to eat it, I need it imprinted in my mind it’s so good i love it

ahhhhh thank you so much!!! I'm so glad you liked it! they're simply just my two favorite guys!

As a gift because I'm honored here's the stupidest thing I've ever written from the wip second chapter:

10.15.20 - 1:12 AM Hatchetfield Memorial Hospital She considers (maybe somewhat hysterically now that she’s really thinking about it) making a TikTok.  It’d be funny, in a really fucked up way: when you keep telling yourself you don’t have a crush 🤪🤪🤪 but an eldritch god calls you out on it and makes you shoot him 💀💀💀 What audio could possibly go with that?

[femslashspuffy]

Wait if they're the class of 2021 then the musical would take place during 2020 because they have homecoming

Except that it can't take place during fall 2020 because they mention the lockdown

[starkid-heritage-posts]

Starkid Heritage Post (Date of origin: March 27, 2020)

consider: general mcnamara with his hair half-up in Nerdy Prudes must Die

[vesperione]

This did numbers on a repost and the og script I posted last feb did numbers to so introducing:

Gatekeeping Is Lame, Here’s The Current Three HF Musicals Scripts:

https://1drv.ms/w/s!AvjBc6iHXWHDzQrMLYZt1J2_UsZh

(The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals) (no clue how long this took, I wrote it after the Black Friday one)

https://1drv.ms/w/s!AvjBc6iHXWHDzDMT_5V-rRdg0ZMp

(Black Friday - this took me over a week to type up in 2020)

https://1drv.ms/w/s!AvjBc6iHXWHD0nMc9gaBPnamu2Vq

(NPMD Pro Shot script - this took me two days + 1 to edit. The 2 days was the OG digital ticket script, rest in peace women’s show. The +1 was when the digital download dropped, I went through and made it more accurate)

So yes, I am insane, and now I get to share my insanity with you!

[gnomeantics]

for those unable to attend the livestream i present:

NOTES FROM THE HATCHETFIELD HALLOWEEN PARTY 14th October 2023, 01:00 BST (my time!) / 13th October 2023, 17:00 PDT (their time!)

Note: These notes are at times a little nonsensical and useless and just quotes. This is because it lasted from 01:00-04:00 for me meaning I was incredibly tired. Please bear with <3

Section 1: Nerdy Prudes Must Die talkback

Started with chiptune of Feast or Famine and then chiptune of Jane’s A Car

Steph’s dad may be dead but at least she has a boyfriend <3

Joey was eating beef and potato stew for most of the first segment

When Jeff was asked for the inspiration for The Summoning: “[…] I don’t know. That just popped in my head. It could be true.”  (His answer was Wizard of Oz.)

Section 2: Hatchet Town Trivia Challenge

I tried to keep track of “chat vs cast” points but lost count and failed rather miserably

Nora’s last name is Beanie. Nora Beanie

Jeff is “an avid lover of baby-water” (water pure enough for babies to drink) and “widely known as Doctor Spreadsheets” (my notes just say “baseball game”)

Every time the world destroys, Ted dies twice: once as Ted, once as homeless guy

Lex helped deliver Hannah by teleporting her out of the womb through the Black and White

Greenpeace Girl’s name is Harmony Jones!

Wilbur Cross murdered Duke Senior (Duke Keane’s dad) this may be explored in future.

Section 3: Workin’ Boys

All of my “notes” here are just gushing about the characters. I have written nothing useful enough to be put here

Section 4: Workin’ Boys talkback

Chad was not included in WB because it was deemed that nobody could live up to the legend. This spawned the “Darren 4 Chad” movement in chat

The Workin’ Boys album will be out around next week if all goes to plan. It is 5 tracks and would include Mariah’s version of the Show Stoppin’ Number monologue as well as at least some of her singing it (as seen in the show; hoping for a full version!!)

Mariah’s character in the audience was called Woman.

Lauren’s character in the audience was Courtney, Thrash’s girlfriend from Killer Track

Paul Gabriel’s character was Paul Gabriel

Linda Monroe auditioned for Workin’ Girls and was the only one who didn’t get a part (Ruth was chosen over her). This is why she was happy to see it crash and burn

The programmes made for Workin’ Girls had very detailed bios, which hopefully when in full quality will be readable when paused. This may set up the potential for the Workin’ Girls actresses to be in future HF projects where this can be explored

Jaime will hopefully be in the next Starkid musical!!!!

The Black Book was originally supposed to debut in Workin’ Boys, in its original form in 2020

The 2020 version was planned as a feature-length film but eventually it was decided that it was confusing and remodelled.

The Summoning was supposed to be in Workin’ Boys – the producer would have tricked Hidgens into making the girls perform a ritual; it was realised that this didn’t make much sense so the song was transferred to NPMD

Section 5: The Future Of Hatchetfield

Hatchetfield was supposed to be finished by 2020

Starkid is not going to be exclusively Hatchetfield in the future; their next full-length musical will not be Hatchetfield

NMT3 is hopefully going to happen provided there is enough interest! It was supposed to happen in the same year as NMT2 but they take a long time to write (much longer than a full musical) so that couldn’t happen

NMT3 would conclude Lex and Hannah’s story after Yellow Jacket

It would be produced more face to face like a TV show – Nick said “less Zoom call-y”

It would include stories withheld from NMT1 and NMT2

It would entirely depend on how much interest, particularly views on NMT2.

It would be Halloween themed.

“More things akin to Workin’ Boys would be nice” - Nick

The episodes would be:

Bottle Imps

“Bill Woodward has been chosen to test CCRP’s latest and greatest product: Bottle Imps. These reality-bending buddies will bring their owner the one thing they desire most. When his new imp, Lovely, leads him to his soulmate, Bill decides to use his magical companion to play matchmaker. But to help Charlotte find the man of her dreams, Bill will have to bend the Imp’s rules. Rules he’s been warned, must never be broken…”

Frankenruth

“Desperate to see a naked body, Ruth Fleming and Richie Lipschitz volunteer at the morgue of St. Damian’s Hospital. Their terrible plan becomes exponentially more terrible, when they become unwitting subjects in the experiments of the body-snatching madman, Doctor Lazlo, who claims to have conquered death itself. If Hatchetfield thought Ruth was bad before, then they will cower before the unspeakable horror of… Frankenruth!”

Becky Barnes Climbed A Tree

“Becky Barnes is on top of the world! Not in a literal sense, of course. She’s deathly afraid of heights. After years of struggle, Becky’s life is finally everything she dreamed it would be. She’s engaged to her High School sweetheart, Tom Houston, and the two have a surprise baby on the way! But as the couple prepared for the arrival of Baby Marie, a shadow from Becky’s past returns to haunt them.”

Devil’s Night

“Tim Houston has a crush. Unfortunately, it’s on his older, mature, and totally cool babysitter, Grace Chasity, who he fears will never see him as anything but a snot-nosed little kid. But when a devilish maniac with murderous designs on Grace attacks Hatchetfield the night before Halloween, Tim must protect his beloved, or join the killer’s growing body count. It’s another slashing adventure on the night HE came home… Devil’s Night.”

Miss Holloween

“It’s Halloween in Hatchetfield once again, and Miss Holloway is celebrating the same way she’s done for decades, staving off the horrors that go bump in the night. But when Duke gives her an invitation to his wedding, the dejected Miss Holloway begins to chafe under the terms of a contract forged many years ago. She strikes a new bargain, but unfortunately her creditors are known for their tricks, not treats. Just as Miss Holloway gives up her powers in exchange for a mortal life, a monstrous new threat rears its ugly head. As All Hallows Eve descends, and all Hell breaks loose, Miss Holloway must save the town or die trying… for real this time.”

Orbweaver

“Lex Foster had a life once. A home. A boyfriend. Now there is only the road, and her sister, and the fear of the men who are hunting them. As Hannah Foster watches Lex sink deeper into despair, she is certain of only three things: Webby is gone. She cannot help them. They are alone. Elsewhere, an old soldier awakens from a catatonic state. Returned from some unimaginable Hell with a mission. He knows that somewhere two magical girls require immediate evac… then maybe some coffee.”

As NPMD was conceived of first, it was supposed to be a Nerdy Prudes series: Nerdy Prudes Must Die, Horny Campers Must Die… (this was turned into NMT2’s Abstinence Camp)

The next Hatchetfield full-length musical would probably be about Miss Holloway if there was enough interest.

There is the possibility of a full movie set in Hatchetfield if there is enough interest. (Workin’ Boys was like a trial for how Hatchetfield works in film)

It would be called Cast Party Massacre

“The Hatchetfield Community Players. You will never find a cattier troupe of two-faced thespians. But when the blood begins to flow at their latest show’s cast party, they must consider: is there a secret murderer in their midst? And more importantly, who amongst them is a good enough actor to pull off such a performance? Can they set aside their petty squabbles and tangled romances, or is it curtains for this ensemble? Who will survive… the Cast Party Massacre!”

It would possibly feature the girls from Workin’ Boys.

The licencing rights to TGWDLM will be available soon!

[kairithemang0]

It's always bothered me that the problematic pooch couldn't be the homophobic dog because the timing doesn't add up (npmd taking place in october 2020 and the homophobic dog meme being created in 2021 and being popular in 2022)

[vilnmelling]

do you have any more richie tidbits :D

Trust me, I have a LOT to say about Richard Lipschitz. As he's my current hyperfixation character, I have made it my mission to find out everything there is to know about him, and of course also to make as many headcanons as possible about him. Now LET'S GO, ALL SORTS OF RICHIE STUFF!

Canon/half canon facts and trivia (AKA things said/done either in NPMD, in track commentaries or in streams)

As he says a couple of times in NPMD, he has overactive sweat glands, meaning he sweats more than the average person, and that he doesn't smell very good.

He also has asthma, as Bury the Bully confirms.

Shapiro asks the nerds if they're sure they didn't see Richie in their AP calculus class, so we can assume Richie's good at math.

Richie's quite skilled with a camera, and he knows how to photoshop (whether or not he's good at it is up for debate *glances at Ruth's playbill headshot*).

His favorite anime is Attack on Titan.

He would absolutely dye his hair blue.

He cosplays, and if he could afford to, he would make ELABORATE cosplays.

Richie's bedroom: his walls are absolutely decked out in anime posters, he has tons and tons of plushes, and he has a glass case of Funko Pops. Then he also has his anime love pillows, of course.

He did some Twitch streaming in 2020.

Once, he tried to organize a Pokemon Go meet-up, but no one showed up.

He's not as brave as he would like to be.

He doesn't seem to be a big fan of parties.

Out of the nerds, he was the one who felt the worst about what they did to Max.

My personal observations and headcanons

Richie's a shorts guy, all year around. He only has one or two pairs of long pants in his closet. It doesn't matter how cold it gets during the winter; he still wears shorts. He would've worn shorts to Homecoming. He'd be one questionable decision away from wearing shorts at his own wedding.

He and Trevor are identical twins, and Trevor is eleven minutes older. Even though Trevor's barely interested in anime and Richie's hardly at all interested in musicals, they watch them together. It's a weekly thing that they sit down in the living room, argue for five minutes about whether to watch an anime or a musical ("We watched Newsies last time." "Bullshit, that was like a month ago, we've watched anime the last two times at least!" "And what pray tell may those animes be, Trevor?"), then settle on one but talk over it the entire time. One of them always gets annoyed at the other for not keeping up with the storyline, but if you think they're gonna stop talking over them, you're wrong.

Daniel's their younger brother by five years. Neither of them know about Daniel's abilities nor about the fact that he's part of a magical fighting ring. (Their uncle, Gary, takes Daniel in secret, and they've told the rest of the family that Gary's taking Daniel to some sports practice. Trevor and Richie have ongoing bets about where Daniel keeps getting loads and loads of money from, and they constantly make deals with him to earn some money for themselves (doing Daniel's chores, watching stupid superhero movies with him, etc..))

His full name is Richard Jonathan _____ Lipschitz. Jonathan as a middle name is a family name for all the men in the Matthews-Goldstein-Lipschitz-McNeil family, and then they all have their own second middle name.

Trevor and Richie's birthday is somewhere in June. Richie was just so fucking clearly born in June.

When they were kids (8-12), they would make shitty movies and movie trailers on iMovie on their iPad. Most often, Richie would film and Trevor would play all the roles. Sometimes they'd involve Daniel and their cousins from their father's side of the family, then they'd force all the adults to watch their movies. Their greatest hit films include 'The Children in the Drawers', 'The Green Plant', 'The Murderer in the Barn' and 'The Boy Who Went to the Bathroom and Disappeared' (definitely not named after the shitty iMovie trailers and movies my sister, cousins and I made when we were kids).

Richie and Ruth met for the first time on a playground the summer before their first year of school. They played together for an hour or two before Ruth had to go home, and parted as typical six-year-old strangers who played pirates on a playground once. When they started school a month and a half later, they ended up in the same class, and they immediately recognized each other, and since then they've been besties. (Ruth met Pete at tap class, and that was how Pete completed the trio).

Based on a whole fuck ton of things in both the proshot and the digital ticket, I have no choice but to think Richie's down bad for Ruth, and that she's equally whipped. Richie's 110% oblivious to how he's feeling. He's not in denial or anything, he just has no idea. I'm talking, "Seeing her smile makes my stomach do cartwheels, but that doesn't mean anything." "That dress she wore once made me speechless, but that's just because she's such a good friend." "Yes, I could imagine myself kissing her, but that doesn't have to mean anything." He gives her an almost Paul-level heart-eyes look, she's fucking constantly looking at him, he fully checks her out in the digital ticket (involving nodding and hand gestures), she giggles at every lame joke he makes like it's the funniest thing she's heard, how angry he is that Pete wouldn't want to be with her, she beelines for him after "arguing" with Steph, he hypes her up when Max compliments her skeleton bit, and they're pretty much incapable of standing more than three millimeters away from each other. I mean, come on.

Analyses are on the way!

I've spent a lot of my time delving into story analysis, and I'm about to make an analysis video focusing mainly on Max and Richie (Richie's death, in particular). The script is done, I just have to film and edit it, but then it'll be up on Youtube!

Another analysis video idea I have is to make a video purely dedicated to breaking down each of the main characters and unearthing their internal conflicts, goals, desires, fears and misbeliefs. I've already got a pretty good idea of Richie's motivations and fears, so I'm quite excited about this one...

And there ya go, a bunch of Richie stuff!

[royall-ass]

you ask for requests, i will always request more richie >:3

pls tell me ppl will know what this means

ik npmd takes place in 2020 but shhhhh let me live

[th3j4germe1ster]

[ He quietly sang a song as he kicked his legs forward]

[ the next morning Max was missing, he had woken up earlier with a anger that couldn’t be fixed unless he got his anger out. ]

“Shit..”

[ He muttered as he teleported back into the empty house he had been in with Richie. ]

[Richie hadn’t noticed, he’d been fast asleep, and still was when Max got back, sprawled out on the bed in a very uncomfortably-seeming position]

[swingingthehatchetnow]

So the way timelines work is that everything happens the same until one decision causes a branching timeline, creating a new universe. That’s how I see the Hatchetfield situation. In TGWDLM, the one branching event was the meteor crash. In BF, the branching event was the sale of the Wiggly dolls. In NPMD, it was Steph and Pete cheating on the test.

Initially I had a theory that the day we see Paul and Emma in NPMD is the day before the meteor hits in TGWDLM, it’s just that timeline was changed before that day and there was no meteor.

But apparently, NPMD takes place in 2020, and TGWDLM is canonically in 2018.

So following the logic of timelines being exactly the same until one divergent moment, what was different in the two timelines that caused Paul to introduce himself to Emma earlier in TGWDLM?

Of course my logic could be wrong about the timelines, but it’s what makes the most sense to me.

Is it possible to make the story of NPMD fit in to it being 2018? Maybe the Nerdy Prudes are in different grades? I don’t like it when there’s gaps in logic. I Will be thinking about this until I find a solution

Edit: I know the timeline split in 2005. I included a diagram of how I imagine it works (obviously just my opinion).

I think that it split in 2005, but until a moment of significance, such as Pete and Steph cheating or a meteor crashing, I think everything happens the same, if that makes sense. It’s sorta like Loki

[myheadphonesareneverloudenough]

i have no idea how the American education system works, but don't you usually graduate the same year you turn 18? so shouldn't the characters in NPMD be turning 18 in 2021?? Nick Lang specifically said that the show takes place in the fall of 2020, so that all of the characters are graduating later that school year ("there's nowhere to turn for the class of 2021"). But then Grace Chasity says that she and Max "are only 18", meaning they've already turned 18 in 2020 and therefore will be graduating at 19...? it doesn't make sense, but then again i don't know what age you start school in America so maybe that's correct.

so then let's say this Hatchetfield High graduating class of 2021 were all born in 2002, which would make them 18 when the show happens (2020). this is where i can implement one of two of my favourite headcanons; it's also implied that alongside Max and Grace, Steph is also 18 by the fall, but then she says to Pete in If I Loved You, "wake me up when you turn 18, looks like you've got to grow up". SO! either Peter Spankoffski is part of the super-late-birthday-squad (he's a scorpio for sure). OR Pete skipped a grade because he's just that much of a nerd that he had good enough grades to jump ahead in elementary school.