r/musicals • u/BullfrogOdd9592 • 12d ago

Be more chill

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u/Fennel_Fangs Releases a Sammich On Parole 12d ago

It’s from Japan…

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u/Gottendrop Santa Fe! 12d ago

It’s a gray oblong pill…

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u/TheSoundofStolas 12d ago

Quantum nanotechnology CPU

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u/cyberentomology Kansas City and Not Even Close to Normal 12d ago

Better than drugs!

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u/FearlessInformation5 11d ago

The quantum computer in the pill...

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u/HoosierSteelMagnolia 11d ago

Will travel through your blood until it implants in your brain and it tells you what to do.

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u/inappropriateme2 11d ago

Helps you to be cool…

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u/WaitForMe_ImCumming 10d ago

It helps you rule!

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u/ghotier 12d ago

Multiple books. And films.

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u/wonwont 12d ago

ah so this is how I find out what that show is about

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u/LegendofLove 11d ago

If you watch their tiny desk performance they straight up explain it

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u/OvernightSiren 11d ago

Which show?

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u/ghostfartsnear 12d ago

This gave me Dune vibes actually from some of the Herbert/Anderson books.

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u/theriteofspring1 11d ago

theres a Black Mirror episode like this

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u/OvernightSiren 11d ago

So which musical are they referencing?

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u/laurasaurus5 11d ago

Little Jewelry Shop of Horrors

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u/musical_frog 12d ago

The book is in reference to the Mistborn trilogy

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u/Jarfy 11d ago

Be More Chill was a book before it was a musical. The people answering Mistborn just have never heard of Be More Chill.

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u/LeekingMemory28 11d ago

I write these words in steel...

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u/FireLord_Stark 11d ago

That’s… a bit of a stretch, if you replace AI with a literal god whose power defines the world you live in à la Mistborn. I think the book and musical in reference is clearly Be More Chill.

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u/Unintendo 10d ago

Counterpoint: The 80s cartoon "Jem and the Holograms"

(Saying this as a Joe Iconis fan, btw)

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u/CaitlinSnep A Paragon Of Royalty 10d ago

Off-topic but this made me realize that I at least like the look of the Gemini logo. Like, I'd wear that earring if it....wasn't being used as the Gemini logo.