Why Twisted is an Unexpected Masterpiece
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2024
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Remember when Team Starkid took a look at Aladdin and said "Let's do that but better?" Schaff sure remembers!
00:00 Intro
03:43 Part 1: The Parody Angle
06:37 Part 2: Ze Characters (and why they are funny)
12:08 Dropping my hot new Squarespace single
13:50 Part 3: The Songs are all Bangers
19:59 Part 4: This show hit me in the feels :'(
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Didn’t even talk about how Aladdin’s an orphan because he killed his parents
All because they wanted him to get a job
And how he had a split personality
Good, gives people a reason to check it out.
An orphan at 33
W h a t
@@Madisongs That song will forever make me laugh my ass off.
“Prince Achmed, anyone remember him? That’s ok the live action remake didn’t either”
and thank god for that, prince achmed is sacred to me as the one and only tigerfucker
@@maybepolly_ "I DID NOT--"
Why are you here
@@beedrinkinghoney ...
No one remembers Achmed
My personal headcanon is that the Princess' name isn't even Jasmine. Aladdin didn't care enough to learn it, and he just made up a name that sounded convincing enough to tell his side of the story.
He panics when someone asks for her name. He looks around for something and the first thing he sees is a stall selling jasmine rice grains.
It fits, he misremembered that other girls name in I Steal Anything
Excuse me as I steal this headcannon
‘Intellectual property, whatever that means.’
This is my new headcanon
another 10/10 part is when the princess goes to the camera “oh no you guys! you don’t think jafar was right about aladdin?” and the whole audience goes “YES!” and then you hear darren criss say “nah” and she says “ME NEITHER!!” gold
darren criss still wanted to be included even if he wasn't in the show
and the camera also nods yes
that was darren??? that makes it so much better hahahaha
@@danafah9539 yea i first realized when i watched it with subtitles with a friend so she could sing along and kinna lost is
Omg I have never heard him say that! I just thought she completely ignored the audience. I have to go back and find that now
Aladdin’s “oh right, I’m a thief, I TAKE what I want” at the end when he’s going crazy genuinely terrified me lol, like he’s no longer a silly antagonist but an all too real threat to the princess
That whole scene is probably my favorite of all Jeff's performances (and that's saying a lot). We all know he is good at playing crazy and chaotic characters, but that takes it to a whole new level.
@@trezalkapeliskova2121 You could say... a whole new world?
@@howlette Damn, I see what you did there
Went from trying to pressure her into sex to threatening worse
IKR IT WAS LEGIT SCARY!! I was like oh shit hes actually going there
My favorite line from the whole show is when the camera slowly pans over to Jaffar and he says “Jesus Christ I don’t know what’s going on here”
it makes me burst out laughing every time, and ive watched this so often that i can recite the first couple scenes from memory
The funniest thing is that before that he mentiond only Allah
And now he mentions Jesus Christ
Like Aladdin was so creepy that he changed religion on sight
@@tisthecat Well, Jesus IS a prophet in Islam, so... It still kinda works.
When in the show is that
@@le_petit_lutin It's near the end. Just before Jafar wishes to become a genie.
princess having a personal sweatshop and accusing a worker for contributing to a corrupt system????? firstly, GENIUS, but also......... too real
Lol
Also, how have I not seen any comments about how baffling it is that a nut fingering joke that just felt like shock humor ( 23:34 ) actually worked as a form of foreshadowing/whatever for a legit twist?? HOW TF??
I also love the Slaves face after
I like painting this out. At the beginning of the musical, Shirazard told Jafar that she knew one thousand tales. The original Shirazard knew one thousand and one. She’s telling the story. This is the one thousandth and first tale
OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT
THIS COMMENT REWROTE MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY
I’m late but if Aladdin retold the whole story, the Genie sings that “Shaharazade had A THOUSAND tales”, so he effectively erased this story!
@@elizabethsoares6253 wow that is so cool I never noticed that!
@@cottoncandyhairamitystan8389 I love seeing all of these modern Starkid fans because it is so hard to find people still uploading vids and talking about them! Makes me sad and hungry for more content talking about the old and new shows alike.
“I only wished for a coat made of puppies!”
Unfortunately relevant.
Cruella is actually pretty good.
@@turner15 great amazing execution, terrible fucking idea
As another rich tyrant would sing
"See, my, vest! See my vest! Made from real gorilla chest!
Feel this sweater, there's no better
Than authentic Irish setter.
See this hat, 'twas my cat,
My evening wear - vampire bat,
These white slippers are albino
African endangered rhino.
Grizzly bear underwear,
Turtles' necks, I've got my share,
Beret of poodle, on my noodle
It shall rest.
Try my red robin suit,
It comes one breast or two,
See my vest, see my vest,
See my vest.
Like my loafers? Former gophers -
It was that or skin my chauffeurs,
But a greyhound fur tuxedo
Would be best,
So let's prepare these dogs,
Kill two for matching clogs.
See my vest, see my vest,
Oh please, won't you see my vest!
As soon as i saw the trailer that line popped into my mind
@@sivvinod3187 Exactly my thoughts. No single person on this planet asked, needed or desired a Cruella origin flick. Fortunately, it seems Disney's decided to crank out a single decent live action reboot before their inevitable near future descent back into creative irrelevancy.
You know something's wrong when a parody musical group does the "What if the villain was actually good" story better than a multi billion dollar company....
You know something's wrong when a "What if a villain was actually good" parody is better than the official made by a multi-billion company
Because a parody can play with the idea of attempting to make you feel happy for the villain is generally a silly idea
Disney doesn't *actually care* about improving the originals, or writting redemption arcs. They just want easy cash flow, and whatever short sighted trends they want to latch onto at the time.
Oh and also, Starkid is just awesome lol
*cough cough* Cruella
the Princess is the actual embodiment of “he’s a little confused but he got the spirit”
So True!
“You’re part of the problem!”
@@thebrutusmars
😳 Yes, Princess! 😁
I also like the Captain! “It’s all your fault Jafar” :I
@@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347 he should have fixed the socioeconomic inequality like he promised. 😳🤔
The fact that goes far too unrecognized is that this whole cast is literally 10 people. The show feels massive.... and there are less than a dozen people up there.
10 ?#!#?
Excuse me
w h a t
👁 👁
👃🏼
👄
only 10 people playing like 50 characters
@@scorpodile9649
Chill bro.
@@salem-01 Damn, how much time did you spent on that?
"Achmed really DID f*ck that tiger!"
"WHAT-"
I LAUGHED MORE THAN I SHOULD HAVE
THE JOKE WAS SO FKIN CONSISTENT THAT I KEPT LAUGHING THAT I CHO K E D
27:48 for your viewing pleasure.
@@declantecho1717 *thank you*
@@declantecho1717 LMAOOO
The best part is the fact that they show minor justifications for everyone in the titular number, even if they did get kinda… _Twisted…_ but they still say that nothing Cruella does is justified.
Yet Disney thinks the opposite unfourtunatly
Funniest part of the show
"I only wish to have a coat made out of puppies!"
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!"
@@JV571 "That's insane! Leave! You're not helping"
If you want a really good Cruella you should watch season 4 of Once Upon a Time because she is honestly my favorite version of her.
when jafar says "let them bury the side of the story they'll never learn" I felt that
What's Up Gamer
That doesn't make sense
@@smutnejajo5149 It does. Every story has multiple viewpoints. usually we narrow them down to the hero and villain's point of views. Jafar saying "Let them bury the side of the story they'll never learn" implies we (the audience) will not see his viewpoint. We will never learn that the villain of the story is actually trying to do the right thing.
@@dragon1130 I thought the pronouns implied the same "them". Can't really bury something you never learned.
@@dragon1130 That and the fact this is literally shown when they bury his lamp back in the cave at the end
jeff blim doing the "you're the guy who killed my parents" bit is genuinely really creepy and terrifying and the "okay jesus christ i dont know whats going on here" from jafar is so well timed and hilarious like this musical is a masterclass in balancing tone
Oh my GOD. I never realised how deep the decision to have Aladdin end up as the merchant was.
I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS
OH MY GOD YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT
ARE YOU FRIGHTENED
WHY ARE WE SCREAMING IN CAPS???
@@Cinnabun9 BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS!!
@@ezelfrancisco1349 OOF, F IN THE CHAT
Ever since Cruella came out, people kept making jokes about Disney making a Jafar movie and I just wanted to shake them and say they couldn't live up to the original
I want a scar movie. Or maybe the bad guy in princess and the phrog
@@mistyfox2078 Dr. Facillier is the name you’re looking for, I’d actually love to watch that
@@HeatherChandlerBQ I want a movie about Dr Facillier, where he's just going around causing problems on purpose until he ends up learning dark magic
@@genericname2747 YESSSS
Rourke from Atlantis probably has a really interesting backstory
Another cool thing that didnt get mentioned is the contrast between Achmed and Jafar in their songs. Both of them have made accomplishments that arent recognized by their people. However Achmed is concerned with how people remember him and is willing to do bad things to make sure he is remembered well, while Jafar accepts that he will be remembered badly and chooses to do the right thing.
THIS IS GOOD
I dont know, i felt the contrast being that Achmed is loved by his people while being a warlord, while Jafar was hated while trying to achieve peace
jafar and achmed are foils of each other, but also aladdin and the princess. the princess sees that life is unfair, and while she was indeed selfish at the beginning, she learns to care about people other than herself and improve everyone's lives. meanwhile aladdin literally killed his parents and decides to just steal what he wants because he saw the threat of getting kicked out of the house because he doesn't have a job at 33 as unfair. aladdin is the worst parts of jasmine exaggerated tenfold, and the contrast between the two at the end shows just how much jasmine's grown as a character.
True
Also, people appreciate Achmed and tell him how great he is all the time. The only exception is the woman he loves. Completely opposite to how Jafar is treated.
I feel like the parody of Disney's corporate sellout phase has been made even better with time, given the current trend for doing villain origin stories and saying "but actually this villain was good!!!". Now Twisted is not just a parody of a Disney musical or the company itself, but the whole weird prequel trend. Incredible staying power
And honestly, unlike Cruella, Ja'far was a good guy in1001 night. The show references his actual role as man of science, not an evil wizard of Aladdin.
Twisted is at least 7-8 years old and Disney created at least 5 remakes during that, all which aged like milk. Twisted is like a high-quality wine, aged beautifully well every year
Even Jafar said "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!" In the musical when Cruella chimes in trying to be sympathetic while saying she _just_ wanted to skin puppies
this musical really became 4 satires in one
Yeah the cruella part aged like fine wine
In the ending when Jafar asks Scheherezade how their story ends and she replies "It doesn't" I CRY EVERYTIME, I CANNOT WATCH THIS MASTERPIECE WITHOUT CRYING IT'S TOO GOOD
oh god same here i’m pretty much a wreck by the time she says that AND THEN THE MUSIC SWELLS and i lose my shit 😭
it’s so goddamn good i get chills every single time
That gets me, but I’m already drowning in my tears after this:
🎶 “I wish you didn’t have to go when our story’s just begun...”🎶
“I’m sorry, there are a couple of provisos, a few quid pro quos... This is a wish I cannot grant.”
🎶 ”Then I wish you every happiness...” 🎶
🎶 “It is done.” 🎶
@@djwilson1993 EVERY DAMN TIME
Same
I think they call the genie "the jinn" because that's what he's called in the original 1001 arabian nights, which twisted references a lot more and a lot more accurately than Aladdin!
It's spelled djinn, but genie is just a westernized name of djinn
@@oc4025 Hell, DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS gets the name closer to the westernized version!
@G A huh, thanks for the info! That's really cool.
Djinn is just fun and accurate localization. Like how they pray to Allah throughout the whole thing.
@@jordandavenport5784 Other than that bit where Ja'far is like "Okay jeesus christ what is going on"
And him NOT referencing Allah helps with the punchline.
Science says you're dead and gone forever
Reason says I'm talking to the air
But something in my heart
Some secret hidden part
Illogically insists that you are there
Somewhere
This part hits me so hard
Yes. YES!
yeah, this part hit me really hard. This was the only line from this musical to make me genuinely sob.
Can't stop thinking about this line
Schaff finally doing a starkid review?
*This is all Jafars fault*
Praise the Ducc
Lol
@@Ballin4Vengeance Duck is lord.
@@ZimLikesPastaAnimation THE DUCK IS LOOOORD
@@bixle2741 THE DUCK IS LORDDDDD
I actually never noticed how they just called Jasmine “princess” until you mentioned it
Same, and that kind of makes the joke where she keeps forgetting Aladdin's name even funnier
It gets funnier. Jafar's name is actually spelled as "Ja'far" in the credits because of copyright reasons too.
Also because Ja’far is more historically accurate
Granted, Ja’far *is* a legitimate spelling of the name.
Same
"Jeff blim plays a really good manbaby sociopath" you've done it you've summed up his entire career /j
Pretty much
Well he forgot "feral, unhinged" at the front
honestly he’s just the villain of starkid in general and I love him for it
@@abigailw7146 He filled the hole that Joe left behind.
I SEE YOU EVERYWHEREE
Watching this again, after also watching Big Joel's review of the live action Aladdin... I just realized... _Twisted_ actually _does_ fix a dumb plot hole, possibly by accident, in a really clever and subtle way that the official version couldn't _dream_ of achieving.
See, Jafar - in all versions - wishes to be the Sultan, and despite whatever "magic" was used, everyone just kind of... doesn't care after he gets lamp'd, and the old Sultan just goes back to ruling and Jasmine is still the princess because... reasons, I guess. But in _Twisted,_ this weird idiosyncrasy and seeming failure of the magic is actually resolved - Ja'far wishes to become the Sultan, and when he "dies", the Princess takes over as rightful ruler... but per the twist, she was never _actually_ a princess before Jafar made the wish, but once he does, she becomes the rightful heir by blood-right and takes the throne when he's gone. To the townspeople it's functionally the same as what they expected, so they don't need to question it, but as the audience it adds a whole other powerful, yet very subtle layer to the story.
God _damn,_ the writing in this silly play is so good!
It's also a fun parallel to the original, where Aladdin's wish to be "made a prince" is only actually granted when he marries Jasmine!
There's more than one plot hole this version fills. The sultan being depicted as one of the good guys when the main character is literally so down on his luck because of Agrabah's shit economy that he's stealing for the sake of survival. Granted, THIS Aladdin is stealing because he's too lazy to work, but in the original, where the sultan is 'good', Agrabah is clearly a horrible place to live. Shopkeepers have the right to permanently maim people without trial, the number of child beggars is definitely abnormal, and to top it off, kids can be run over or whipped on the street and people just watch. The sultan is clearly an incompetent ruler, and with Aladdin having absolutely no training, he will be just as incompetent if not worse when he takes his place, because in an extremely male-dominated society, Jasmine won't be able to take the throne herself (as much as the live action version made it out like she could). Agrabah is screwed if we go by the Disney films.
@@ichigoeater That's all Jafar's fault!
@@World-Bass_Mapper nope
@@hannahleigh6152 That was a musical reference, a joke. It's a running gag in Twisted.
My favorite part of the whole play was the “You’re the guy that killed my parents” scene and I’m kinda sad schaff didn’t cover it
Although, that's a pretty big plot twist,,, which might not be preferable for an introductory video to Twisted
That scene seems so weird and out of the blue imo. I think that's the point, but it's just so weird how it stops the climax for this batshit monologue Aladdin has with himself. When he finishes and Jafar's like "Okay what the fuck" I'm always like "YEAH WHAT THE FUCK INDEED"
@@meanya4687 That's how I felt too initially, but then you rewatch the musical (for the millionth time) and notice the signs were always there. How easily Aladdin threatens to kill the man selling bread, these sudden moodshifts when things don't go his way, it's literally all there from the beginning!
@@Ombby yep, every time he talks to the monkey it's actual Evilladin
"Okay Jesus Christ I don't know what's going on here"
" Science says you're dead and gone forever, Reason says you're talking to the air "
Dude, do you WANT me to cry today?!
“But something in my heart- some secret hidden part- illogically insists that you are there.... somewhere...” 😭
I got chills just reading your comment hajdhsg
bird-making machine same uwhdhdch
"if i believed" brings me to tears every time i listen to it, the emotional songs from twisted make for a good cry playlist
That somewhere always gets me
The irony that twisted says cruella is unredeemable and Disney clearly thinks otherwise 😅
And you clearly didn't even watch Cruella
@@georgeuferov1497 I did. Yeah, still unredeemable.
@@kelsedraws5141 they didn't even tried to redeem her
@@georgeuferov1497 yeah they did. What with making her seem like some sort of an underdog when she's been clearly portrayed as an umempathetic, a puppy skinning, capitalistic woman. She isn't meant to the rebel or the punk of the story, Disney just decided to change everything about her character and keep the hair because 2 toned hair pretty.
@@gothofgapefuitton8252 It's retelling
The fact that they made the genie that one kid in middle school is honestly one of the best ideas I've ever seen
I love the detail of how Aladdin assumes that Jafar is in love with the Princess which therefore explains why his retelling (the original movie) has Jafar attracted to her.
Twisted does what Disney _wishes_ it could do with all it's "villain origin story" movies. I love it so much
Are we going to ignore the reveal that Aladdin killed his parents....
Schaff didn’t want to spoil that plot twist to people who haven’t seen the musical
Jeff Blim’s entire dialogue with HIMSELF is my favorite thing ever
And that he’s at least 33
What's funny is that in the original script for Aladdin. Aladdin's mom would have been a character.
yes,yes we are
Looking back, the plot twist that Jafar was Jasmine’s father really improves their interactions beforehand with foresight. Especially when he tried to give her ‘the talk’ about boys, or how he visibly goes into ‘dad-mode’ when Aladdin talks about his…intentions.
8:07
Fun fact: here in the middle east, people RARELY name their kids Aladdin or Jafaar, and yet Jasmine (Yasmine in Arabic) is a very popular female name! I have plenty of cousins of the same name.
Ahmed is a popular name too!
10:10
Jin is actually just genie in arabic :)
I think Disney copyrighted 'Princess Jasmine'.
@@rinastar1952 they tried to copyright day of the dead, so that doesnt suprise me
Jafaar is kinda normal in Iraq, but you’re right lol. I have a couple aunts with the name Yasmine 😅
@@ItsAki-uh4rj I'm Iraqi too! I do know some people called Jafar but they're very little, it might be different in my case because I don't actually live in Iraq.
I'm Syrian and I know plenty of Jafars lol I think it's just a reigonal thing
I cannot believe that you heard 'Hermione can't draw' and didn't sing it the rest of the week
to be fair it’s not very long
@@katelynknopp8397
which makes it even more memorable!
@@katelynknopp8397 things don’t need to be long to be memorable I’m sure my ex girlfriend remembers her first time with me
@@rosesgarden8622 bruh
One day, Schaffriallas will run out of musicals, and will be forced to cover Shrek the Musical.
You can't hide from it forever.
Is it good or 😶🔫
@@ahardworker2154 It definitely doesn't reach the quality of Spongebob. But it’s a lot of fun, especially as a regional/community production. ("Who I'd Be" is such a wonderful song.)
My family personally enjoys it better than the original movie. I Know It's Today chokes me up EVERY time I watch it because it dredges up all the pain Fiona had in Shrek Forever After.
@@ahardworker2154 personally I really like it, but the biggest criticism of people who don’t like it is that it doesn’t capture the humor or satire of the movie. I do totally agree with that, but I still like it because I’m just a sucker for any type of fairy tale thing lol.
Na he will end up making musicals to review
one of my favorite details from the show is that towards the beginning, Jafar says something along the lines of “sorcery is for fools and dreamers” and by the end of the show, he’s pretending to be a sorcerer to save everyone he cares about :,)
Not only that, but it's dreams that he recognizes as the true power by the end. He can't save the day because he lost his ability to truly believe in his dreams, so he has to pass the torch to the next generation, who hasn't had their optimism beaten out of them yet.
TFW your musical becomes so popular that Evanna Lynch actually joins your cast to play Luna Lovegood in A Very Potter Senior Year.
Nooooooo seriously???
Yup! The whole performance was recorded, you can look it up, she’s in the very first scene so you will not have a hard time finding her ahah
"Someone cut off my ear.... because they didn't like my face!"
"That's Barbaric!"
"Hey, it's home."
HahaHahAHaha! That line made me laugh SO hard when I first watched it 😂
Oh my god I just remembered that part of Arabian nights that is great
I see Disney's rampage of badly rewriting their own movies has chased people into the arms of an actually good musical about a villain. Starkid deserves all the recognition
How long til Disney buys StarKid to write their villain movies?
@@dillonwright13 that would be a desperate play on Disney’s part and “desperate” is not Disney in a long mile
@@smartstuf1026 where have you been? Disney is the most desperate company to ever exist my guy.
@@driftteamleader3470 with their large influence in almost every piece of media i imagine the big guys aren’t too worried about branching off to niche audiences. Just as long as they have their ip’s.
@@dillonwright13 Oh god, i hope that never happens
Jeff Blim is dangerously good at playing deranged and immoral assassins that are the funniest characters in their respective story
17:30 AND It takes Jafar's line from the original. "Haven't you heard of the golden rule? Whoever has the gold makes the rules!"
"You are kind and that's enough"
"You're a diamond in the rough!"
_B r u h_
?
"You are good and deserve good things"
"You have endless potential and deserve good things too"
@@cicadeus7741 Well what mainly blew my mind is that they used the phrase to describe Aladdin, a diamond in the rough, on Jafar. Great writing
why is this bruh
699th like pog
"omg this is so wholesome and so powerful"
Also twisted: "tiger fucker tiger fucker"
edit: came back and found 4k likes
"They'll remember Akmed, THE TIGER FU**ING MAN!" *Salutes*
Bring Achmed his tiger and no one gets hurt
@@luuuuux_ SHUT UP
**ACTUALLY DIES LAUGHING**
@@Quackervoltz "What I'm trying to say is that I'm going to destroy this fucking kingdom"
Oh dang, you know the pacing is good when "25 minute flashback sequence" genuinely surprised me, it felt like 10 at most.
Kick It Up a Notch is legitimately a fucking fantastic song and I am glad it was recognized even briefly
The Phineas and ferb song ?
@@Galvatronover Starkid made a song with the same name
Dude, Kick It Up a Notch is STILL one of personal get-hyped songs
And When the World's At Stake is such a powerful song about motherhood, from the musical Trail to Oregon. The musical is very wonky and silly, but dang, that song hits hard. (I like that the husband brings back the song in the second half as he realizes his responsibility of keeping his family together.)
The best part that the mother sings is:
_I could have walked out, left her for dead._
_Cut her out with my own hand._
_But something inside me was kicking and screaming to live._
Such powerful lyrics. The mother chose life for her child, and sacrificed so much to give her daughter a future full of of possibilities. The mother in Trail to Oregon is the absolute MVP of the entire musical!
@@Galvatronover lol what? Was Phineas and Ferb even mentioned in this video? They're talking about the song from Starship, the Starkid musical that's basically The Little Mermaid but with a science fiction twist. Kick It Up A Notch is the equivalent of Poor Unfortunate Souls, when the villain convinces the main character to give up their life for the chance to be human.
I love that Jafar’s dream in Happy Ending is to share an “itty bitty living space” with his wife, and that’s exactly what he gets with the “shitty shitty living space” callback at the end.
How did I not realize that. I should start analyzing things more now,
CAN WE JUST APORECIATE THE FACT THAT THEY PUT ALL OF THEIR MUSICALS UP FOR FREE
I KNOW RIGHT.
Their shows were honestly one of the biggest things that helped me get through the pandemic.
That is just amazing. They’re so understanding and nice.
And the second best thing about them is that they are still doing it today. Like, most theater companies would understandably stop working until the pandemic ends, but they just power through it and give us great content even in complete quarantine
@@daniellins4114 exactly! Nightmare Time was amazing. And they did it on zoom and gave it to us all. They’re saints, I’m telling you. Saints.
@@Chromaggia same
I know twisted is probably the best starkid musical, but The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, while not being as emotional, is SO funny, not to mention the pure genius songs (coughshowstoppingnumbercough). TGWDLM comes at a REALLY close second for me.
Yes yes yes!!! You are right and you should say it !
TGWDLM is above Twisted for me. I don't have a good reason for this, I just liked it more. But Twisted was still really fantastic.
a lot of things in twisted just did not hit it for me, I prefere the not as polished but homie very potter 1 and 2 out of nostalgia, starship for the lovestory, utalising Laura lopez well and well, one goes never wrong with joe walker and joey richter. Dylan slays both as the sweet dumbass and villain and brian holden does, what he does best, not getting taken seriously . . .
tgwdlm slays with mariah rose faith and robert and social critique
and not starkid but come one, spies are forever, mk is a queen . . .
I compleatly aknowlage that twistd s well ritten as hell, but a good portion is not up to my taste.
My top 5 starkid ranking is 1) Twisted 2) TGWDLM 3) AVPS 4) AVPM 5) Holy Musical B@tman
I really like horror, and the end of TGWDLM is genuinely amazing horror. Especially the credits when Emma is desperately screaming, begging for help, while the rest of the cast takes their bows and the audience applauds uproariously. That is true horror. TGWDLM might not be as conventionally scary as a slasher film or whatever, but it instills much more fear (and is more fun).
The duality of comedy and heart-wrenching emotional bits are prevalent throughout the entire show, even in the throwaway jokes. My favourite example is Abdul’s death, you can literally hear the audience laugh, and then ‘aww’, laugh again and ‘aww’ where he finally passes.
It’s at 8:40 in the Starkid full musical video
This is just a Starkid thing in general I notice it so much with Draco in A Very Potter Sequel
Starkid still makes better music than The Lion King 2019 remake though.
Well... that doesn't take much
Hum...no?
OOOOH!!
Like that's hard
Hey don’t you s- oh you said the remake
It’s so comforting to watch a big UA-camr praise Starkid. Starkid needs more recognition
Amen
The only thing I fangirl over, Joey Richter for lyfe
@@eta2670 Legit my only negative about this show is that Joey isn't in it, otherwise it's one of my tops.
I just watched this today and I am *still* dealing with the tonal whiplash of the Sultan taking Jafar’s wife. It was simultaneously one of funniest parts for me and the one that hit me hardest. That hit way too close to home for me to laugh as hard as I did.
Also, “Tiger Fucker” is sounds oddly metal when you don’t have the context.
So are you over it now?
@@BramLastname They will never be over it
@@NotSylvanUnfortunately I know that,
I just wanted to taunt them a bit.
"I wish you every happiness"
"It is done."
got me SO hard. jasmine saying well i cant wish what i want to for you. all i can do is wish you every happiness.
and jafar looking at her like :^) knowing you brings me every happiness. It is already done. And ofc it being the classic genie line was such good writing.
"Jeff Blim plays a really good man-baby sociopath"
Starkid in a nutshell
All of Jeff Blim's roles in a nutshell
Jeff Blim in a nutshell
Except for general McNamara of course
@@daniellins4114 does sam count
@@mankindsbadhabits3616 Well,considering the way he would treat someone who didn't approve of his liking of musicals... I'd say the description still fits
*"Starkid songs aren't memorable"*
Businees working boys and the entirety of TGWDLM: *✨i'm a hallucination.✨*
Guess he's just the guy who didn't like musicals
No one remembers ahmed and twisted are great
i regularly get tgwdlm songs stuck in my head. twisted too but idk tgwdlm songs just have this thing uknow
Honestly I thought that show’s music was pretty forgettable. Since it didn’t really tie into emotion or character arcs, given that they were all sung by aliens in those characters bodies and not the characters themselves, save for Show Stopping Number and Let It Out
I WAS LITERALLY SINGING THE CUP OF ROASTED COFFEE SONG RIGHT BEFORE I SAW THIS
I liked the part where Achmed jumped out of the screen and said "It's tiger fucking time." Truly an amazing musical.
I’m so glad that more people are being exposed to starkid. We’re pulling them to the dark side.
I've been telling all my friends 😁❤️🙏
I've been telling all of my friends 🙏❤️😁
I've indoctrinated my family already, we will soon take over (the apotheosis is upon us)
satan is a real man
And the words will come to you
We swear we will teach you
What it means to love
What it means to obey, Paul
The apotheosis is upon us!
Schaff: "The songs in Starkid aren't particularly memorable."
Me, who constantly got "Our Doors Are Open" stuck in my head: *Hmmm*
What is that song from?
@@IcyDiamond Black Friday
Corey Dorris was so good in that song
@@kieravermeal9127 Thanks for the info!
bro. every week it's another starkid song stuck in my head, particularly black friday. almost every song in every musical SLAPS SO HARD
What do you mean you can't remember songs who could forget.
"Hermione can't draw Hermione can't draw
Hermione cannot draw
She only reads books a cannot draw even if she's reading a how to draw book."
Or literally all the songs from tgwdlm
And *i don’t really wanna do the work today, I don’t really wanna do the world today, I don’t really wanna do the work today, i don’t wanna do the work today*
This show has my whole heart. Definitely makes me look at Ja'far differently. The lyric that really hit me tho was "After all, I must be pretty great if you believed in me".
One of my favorite things about Starkid is how a lot of jokes are customized to each time they preform. I think the best example of this is "Trail to Oregon" where pretty much EVERY SHOW is unique in the names of the family members, some of the jokes (like when the shop keep and the dad meet and the dad is robbing him because he scammed them, the thing he says right after failing to sing a reprise of "when the world's at stake" is different each musical).
And in Twisted, most of these moments are brought on by the Jinn.
Forget Disney’s crappy film “cruella”, you want a real story about the villain’s side of things watch “Twisted”.
Wait, Cruella was considered bad?
...do I have terrible tastes? Cuz I actually loved that movie.
@@lukadark9761 its not bad. Twisted is about 100 times better
@@lukadark9761 I haven’t seen it yet, I’ve seen some who love it and some who hate it
@@jensentaylor1384 just because somethings better doesn't make the other thing worse, I loved Cruella and adore Twisted
On the starkid reddit: when the Cruella trailer dropped and the response was bad, a ton of memes about it showed up ("Why would you do that?! That's insane! Leave! You're not helping!"
Also, Starkid’s musical Firebringer is the “I don’t wanna do the work today” vine
Thats how I found them
And The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals has the "God, i just want a black coffee! *Blaaaaack coffee, I'm your coffee gal* NOOOOO!" tiktok sound
And the "I wanna be your friend forever. *I wanna be a modern dancer!* What a super weird thing to say that came out of nowhere" tiktok sound is from holy musical b@man
@@mate12cf Same!! I thought the lead girl was pretty do i searched it up, now I'm in the fandom 🤠
@@jonnanino it also has “it’s a show-stopping number”
The lines that nearly bring me to tears every time are the duet:
"I want to know your story. I want to know your past.
I want to know your future too. Fill my days and nights with the tale of you."
Two things that didn't get mentioned:
- "Orphaned at 33" is similar to "Proud of your boy".
- For me the song with Jafar and the other disney's villains is relatable to "No Good Deed", from Wicked, since the main character decides to become "the unsung anti-hero they deserve", as the lyrics go.
Loved the video! I really learned a lot!
thank you for mentioning proud of your boy!! one of my favorite details and I rarely hear it talked about
“If I Believed” is arguably the best song Team StarKid has ever written
Is it though
It makes me cry, god I love it. Dylan Saunders is incredible.
If I believe is arguably one of the best songs ever written
"When The World's At Stake" can make it a pretty tough call....
"Squarespace" by Schaffrillas Productions is better imo
Imagine saying that you want to name your daughter jasmine and the next day you get a knock on the door from Mickey Mouse saying how much you will need to pay in royalties
*knock knock* "Ha ha! Open up pal! You better grab your credit card because you owe me everything you own!"
"Jasmine" is fine. "Princess Jasmine" will get you in trouble.
Even though the Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals is my favorite StarKid show, Twisted is a close second and it certainly is genius blend of comedic parody and genuine heart. Loved this video!
Now talk about TGWDLM please Schaffrilas I’ll love you forever
Schaffrillas is finally doing starkid. My life's complete.
I didn't actually know these guys existed until this video. But 2 mins in I was convinced and am now on a journey to binge their whole channel.
I'm so fucking happy right now
see its Not that Hard!
Schaffrillas: “i know thats why i was hesitant to do it”
Yessssss this is the best!!
@@glendarjj3991 same with me, but I only saw their HP parody
So glad Starkid and especially Twisted are getting the attention they deserve. I was lucky enough to get to see Twisted live back in 2013 and it was INCREDIBLE. Also the Starkids are so sweet in real life. After every show, they would come out and spend hours meeting fans.
i’m so jealous but that’s amazing!!!!
Yup, I remember going to the SPACE tour in 2011(?) And not just getting all their autographs, but also hanging out with them as they packed up after the show.
I got to see it live, too! It’s the only show of theirs I’ve managed to catch live (other than their second tour), mostly because I’m not too far from Chicago. Just... unforgettable. I’d been a Starkid fan since AVPM and dragged my boyfriend to see it. He really wasn’t into musicals at the time, but that changed with Twisted. We were both laughing until our stomachs hurt through the whole thing.
Several months later, we scored tickets to see Book of Mormon, which he was super excited about because he’s a huge fan of Trey Parker/Matt Stone. The FIRST thing he said when it was over was, “Man, that Aladdin parody was way funnier, and a lot better.”
(I personally adore Book of Mormon, so this is not in any way a diss from me)
@@Kristyle187 Yeah, being a Starkid fan living in Chicago at the time was such a privilege lol.
It's the only show I ever cried tears of laughter and actual tears to. I was in the front row, but off to the side, so at the very end, Dylan Saunders was positioned to basically be looking right in my direction and I was crying my eyes out and just like DON'T LOOK AT ME DYLAN.
Let's just appreciate that Aladdin at least took the time and care to give Jafar's bird an entire character and NAME
It's official. Schaffrillas has to rank all the StarKid musicals!
Dylan really does put all of his emotions into his roles god seeing a tear roll down his cheek while he’s singing just chills man
sometimes it's tears, sometimes it's sweat.... but dylan's facial moisture always delivers the drama
@@fd6864 "Dylan's facial moisure" is a phrase that will live forever in my brain now. Thanks I hate it.
"If I Fail You" from Black Friday will never not make me cry. No one could match his performance as Tom in it. Hands down.
Actually, he's not actually crying. He's just making it look like he's crying. When you cry, you will compromise your singing because of all the tears in your throat. What you probably saw is sweat.
Sideways mentioned that in his Les Mis video. Check it out
@@sanityisrelative my name is dylan and I'm traumatised
Disney: Wouldn’t it be great if we could rewrite our villains as the main characters? Like make them sympathetic?
Starkid: ... Are you serious?
Disney: Let's do.... Cruella. Yeah! We'll turn her into the protagonist!
StarKid: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
@@sapphicrose8213 Starkid: Damn it, this is something we specifically told you not to do
@@ezelfrancisco1349 starkid: when we do it it’s good when yo do it it’s shit
The first time I watched this musical was when I was actually playing Jafar in my school's production of Aladdin. I thought this would be fun to be like "hey, this is a different twist (pun intended) on this character I'm going to be playing, so why not watch it?" and I didn't...mean to get obsessed with it in the way that I did. Then I made some of my closest friends on the Aladdin cast watch it too, and for the rest of the show, anytime I'd mess up during a rehearsal, do something stupid, or even say anything awkward, little things like that, there would always be someone to go, "It's all your fault Jafar." The person that was most consistent in saying this was our Iago, and I would always threaten to turn him into a bird since in the stage adaptation of Aladdin, the animals are replaced with people.
Sounds like somethin Iago would say tho
I loved the added touch that for the end credits they did a gorgeous pop song version of the core love song in the show. They really committed to the full blown parody of source material.
‘Perhaps the worst fate a character can have is living on in infamy when they only wanted to do was the right thing’ this may just be the most beautiful quote ever
When I saw this comment, I was at that part of the video
SO MUCH THIS. It's absolutely fantastic. The only downfall is that everything Starkid has done since Twisted has been "pretty good, but not as good as Twisted." I worry they won't reach such a pinnacle again.
Also, since Cruella is a thing now, I'm still going to defer to the Twisted take on her. While all the other villains try to justify their villainy (Ursula is granting wishes, Gaston is protecting a Stockholm Syndrome victim, etc.), Cruella comes out shouting "I only wished to have a coast made out of PUPPIES!" and everyone turns on her immediately going "What the hell is wrong with you!? Just leave!"
Even Twisted knew that Cruella was irredeemable. Should have told the Magic Kingdom, I guess.
Personally I saw Cruella 2021 as more of a prequel than a remake if I am being honest. Telling the story of how Cruella is getting up to the point of her villainy which sounds like it's gonna be a two parter. The ending obviously didn't leave it off on the right note, especially if they stop the Cruella story there, then it doesn't sound reasonable.
I feel like _Cruella_ is trying to tell why Cruella wants to have a coat of puppies... even though the ending which I was mind shocked about but then quick seconds of realization made me remember how much it screws the Disney canon. She does mention making a coat of puppies in the remake, so, the idea is still there.
Cruella is definitely gonna need a reasonable sequel for the confusing ending. I think Cruella 2021 is fun to watch... but Ima stick with Twisted Cruella.
@@rayplaysgamesrpg7233 I thought it was more of a less-obvious reimagining, sorta like Maleficent. She just seemed far from evil enough to kill puppies. I loved the movie though.
@@infjelphabasupporter8416 Yeah I also saw it as a reimagining too. There's no way 2021 Cruella becomes the classic Cruella since her evilness is toned down a lot. If you look at it like that instead of through nostalgia glasses the movie is amazing. She doesn't make a coat out of puppies but she's fine with people thinking she did. Also im pretty sure the movie is based off a book anyway?
@@moonstoneblues8512 In the book, she doesn't make a coat out of puppies either... she just really wanted to.
I remember reading a post elsewhere regarding the lines in the last song, "I wish you every happiness/It is done." They posited that Jafar believed that his every happiness was fulfilled by the Princess living a full and happy life, which is why he is so surprised when Sherezade joins him in the lamp. He never considered his own wants into his happiness, he just thought he had done everything that would ever matter to him by setting the Princess up for success as he did by granting her first two wishes. Anyway, I'm gonna go cry now ✌
Twisted sounds a lot like Undertale in the sense that you think you're enjoying one big meme but then it hits you right in the feels.
You tricked us into becoming theater kids.
And I honestly don't mind.
I was already a theater kid, he only amplified it
HE DID
Welcome to the -cult- club
@@kiki8792 no, Gerald, I dislike that word “cult”. It’s a religion. That I started.
“I have devoted myself to the church of Starkid now.”
You mean, cult?
I dislike that word, cult. It's an exciting new religion!
He is looooord, he is loooooord, he is lord, lord, lord, Duck is lord...
@@mamaymay8259 Well, what is a religion but a cult with a franchise?
Satan is a real man
and honestly, every time i get up on stage-
I only wish that Chris Allen was available to play the Djinn like they intended because he was apparently very very good at impressions
im still glad nick gage was there ngl hes so funny
Adore Chris Allen, very happy he found success through tiktok
Honestly I love that it's like the exact opposite of aladdin. Aladdin mostly focuses on aladdin getting into the castle and getting the princess to fall in love with him, with a heavy focus on the magical angle, while twisted focuses more on the civilian angle, mourning of his lost wife, and jafar doing his best to overcome things with reasoning, only even touching on the magical aspects near the end when the situation is too dire to realistically fix without them.
"Intellectual property, whatever that means!"
You know since Pixar is it’s own world in the Twisted universe, does that mean The Muppets, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Fox, etc are also separate kingdoms in the Twisted universe that get bought out by Jasmine
Y’all I have a theory. Since Achmed is the prince of Pixar, what if, in this universe, he’s related to Merida?
@@IcyDiamond Imagine being in the Twisted universe and you live in the kingdom of Melppot
@@funtimemarioman I bet the rulers of that kingdom are Stalter and Waldorf (Those two old Muppets who laugh as they criticize everything)
@@grace5033 i meannnn, Joe IS a ginger??
It just hit me that they could’ve called the princess Yasmin instead of Jasmine and it would be more accurate 💀
"The Princess" is funny, but yeah, that would be clever
anyone else NEED to see schaff’s rating/ranking of all starkid shows? just me?
omg YES
Thank god someone’s finally talking about twisted.
It IS my top starkid show and unironically one of my favorite musicals. Some of those songs genuinely move me so much- the line “let them bury the side of the story they’ll never learn” always feels like a fucking knife to my chest. And the music itself?? Bespoke. Honestly you summed it all up perfectly, so thank you for this.
This is pretty much the perfect musical. If Into The Woods didn't exist, this would be legit my all time favorite musical, period.
"And what of our story? How does it end?"
"It doesn't"
a masterpiece
That line has me near tears. Even the DRUMS leading up to her answering his question. It's all SO GOOD
Watching the Djinn's performance is kinda like watching every celebrity in an animated movie try to be Robin William's Genie without adding anything. But he was actually funny. Especially the Adiqfor joke.
What's... Adiqfor? Is it something Candice has?
@@thetruegavinator No, it's a move for Waddle Dee.
@@austinfletchermusicis it like ligma?
I would LOVE to see you rank all the Starkid shows and give mini analyses of each of them
I really want this to happen!!
fun fact: jeff blim graduated from my high school and when i was a sophmore we did a production of trial to oregon and he came in to give feedback after one of the rehearsals.
Wow
Something occurs to me now that didn't when I watched it a few years ago: The people complain about Jafar not fixing literally everything in their lives while being unwilling to actually do anything to fix their own lives out of a misplaced belief that things should just work out well for them. They also place the blame solely on Jafar despite the fact that he's only a lone member of the palace, a single bureaucrat working within a much larger governing body... And even if he knew exactly how to fix society, as an advisor he wouldn't actually have the power to make the necessary changes on his own...
It may have just been an undertone at the time, but post-2016 and now post-2020, it's hard not to see a level of allegory baked into Twisted about the kind of political apathy that was quite common back when it was written...
"Was" quite common? Unfortunately it seems like there's still a lot of apathy
How Jafar is revealed to be Jasmine's father in this and the fact that he tried to marry her in the movie-
Aladdin mentions it, says "Ew, you love her, man? You're like twice her age" or something like that. Makes sense he would add it in his retelling.
@@ceebbees12345 It really does
@@ceebbees12345 We can interpret it as Aladdin projecting on to Ja’far
@@ezelfrancisco1349 - He absolutely is. I mean, he specifically mentions he's in his early 30's earlier in the show, and at this point says "you're like twice her age", when she's like, 16. Jafar is a lot older than Aladdin... who in turn is _actually_ twice the Princess' age...
Remember, the Disney Version is Aladdin’s Perspective of what (Supposedly) happened, while Ja’far’s take is the real story
As someone who’s seen both Aladdin and wicked in person, twisted triumphs over them in having consistency, comedy, AND well earned emotion, especially considering how much more scaled down it is in comparison to the two shows.
Not to mention musical Aladdins Jafar is not at all as great as Twisted Jafar.
19:40 "the one lyric that makes me cry every time" I thought was going to be 'then I wish you every happiness' because that one makes ME cry every time
there's something magical about the way the guy barely contains his laughter and the way he delivers the line "And who's this very funny blue man next to you?"
Funny Blue Man