Nerdy Prudes Must Die, but I overanalyzed all of it

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  @JeffBlimsFalsetto · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  This video is 50% my analysis and 50% me really liking the songs and dances (and also a secret third thing, you&apos;ll never guess it though)<br><br>btw I have some extra things in the description I forgot to put in the video

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  @uncommon_nettle · 2 years ago

  Remember how Max specifically notes how ruth&apos;s skele-un was &quot;really special?&quot; He gives her a bow, she does a cute little curtsy in response. &nbsp;That was probably the first and only time Ruth got a complement on her acting. &nbsp;Then Revenent!Max tears her down again.

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  @superskh · 2 years ago

  Ooh...theory? Grace thought it was just her chastity she valued most, but the truth is it was her moral values as a whole. So she&apos;s become more a puppet of the Lords in Black because that was what she gave them, all her morality. Thus she becomes more a parody of those values by luring in &quot;dirty dudes&quot; with easy to fail tests of chastity because they&apos;re so over the top. Because the lights on her when she opens the book are the colors of the Lords seen during The Summoning.

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  @nova_cove · 2 years ago

  Something that has stuck with me is that both Richie and Ruth realized something before their deaths. Richie being that he’s not actually a loser, he really isn’t, and that Ruth can actually sing and preform well, even if she only realized it for a brief moment. And right before Max died, he was shown the first act of “compassion” towards him, that people would actually wanna do something for him. All of them were set up to probably have some good character development or growth, but then they were killed off or died :’)

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  @aude4747 · 2 years ago

  I just realised that one of the big &quot;theme&quot; or the biggest tragedy in NPMD is that young people always die right after they had found themselves (Max after feeling loved, Richie after feeling he belongs, Ruth after finding herself on stage ; Chastity after exorcising a ghost and embracing her sexual desires) - only the adult, the mayor, dies atfer being still an awful person

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  @LunaMoon372 · 2 years ago

  my favorite 100% overanalyzing detail is when steph first mentions cheating to pete in high school is killing me, the dance blocking shifts grace over into the spotlight. and it&apos;s implied through the lighting that she was present for the entirety of their conversation from that point onward. we love an eavesdropping queen

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  @jeferies2227 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m obsessed with how jon matteson falls in npmd, like he actually looks like he got pushed to the ground by telekinesis or smth and he falls SO hard I have no idea how his legs weren&apos;t bruised to shit, just commitment

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  @robwilliamson5082 · 2 years ago

  I don’t know if you watched Jon’s live stream with Jeff watching NPMD and a cool fun fact is that the song at homecoming is supposed to be canonically an in universe song, written by the band featured in Killer Track, &nbsp;that everyone would actually know so technically a diegetic song which is fun.

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  @DerpySquiddles4043 · 2 years ago

  I have my own interpretation of the haunted house scene. When the jig is up steph says &apos;We made this plan to scare the shit out of you, because you deserve it&apos; We&apos;re all aware that max has a god complex so in my mind him hearing steph say &apos;Because you deserve it&apos; max is literally incapable of thinking they meant for it to be negative reasons

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  @evermore-1574 · 2 years ago

  Okay but my favourite bit of the opening is that our two student victims are outright telling us that they die before going into &apos;haha jk&apos; and later being like &apos;no jk&apos;. Brilliant

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  @neotrix2009 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQc_PfcGIvc&amp;t=1566">26:06</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQc_PfcGIvc&amp;t=1568">26:08</a> One thing I&apos;ve noticed has gone unmentioned is the fact that when she turns around,the lighting on her face,mainly around her eyes,makes her look similar to Max after his death. In other words, <b>we&apos;re screwed.</b>

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  @wrenbirde · 2 years ago

  I think the reason Ruth doesn&apos;t have her retainer at the start is because she&apos;s already dead there. Richie says that he&apos;s dead and he and Ruth are the only ones on stage at the time, implying both of them are.

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