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The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (2018) KILL COUNT is the three hundred and ninety-third video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
A group of singing "zombies" addresses the audience, setting the scene in the small town of Hatchetfield and introducing the main character, unremarkable everyman Paul Matthews ("The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals").
At his office, Paul is invited to a production of Mamma Mia! by his coworker Bill, but he declines. While at the local coffee shop, Paul meets Emma Perkins, a barista who shares his dislike of musicals. As he leaves the shop, an approaching storm forces him to shelter. The various residents of Hatchetfield express dismay over the weather, while a strange meteor strikes the local theater.
The next day, Paul encounters a group of people singing and dancing in unison ("La Dee Dah Dah Day"). Paul, deeply disturbed, arrives at work. He is called into his boss's office but flees when his boss bursts into song ("What Do You Want, Paul?"). Rushing to the coffee shop, he tells Emma he thinks the world is becoming a musical. Emma, unconvinced, excuses herself to sing a tip song with her coworkers ("Cup of Roasted Coffee"). However, the customers collapse after drinking coffee infected by Emma's coworkers. The parasitized customers join the baristas in song ("Cup of Poisoned Coffee"), chasing Paul and Emma out of the shop.
Paul and Emma find Paul's coworkers in an alleyway, where they learn the entire town is affected. Paul's coworker Charlotte calls her husband Sam, a police officer, for help. An infected Sam attacks the group until he is knocked out ("Show Me Your Hands"). After discovering Sam's blood is now bright blue, Emma proposes that they seek help from her biology professor, doomsday survivalist Professor Hidgens.
The group arrives at Hidgens's fortified home, where he explains that Sam's blue blood and all the citizens' infection is the result of an alien invasion (arriving via the meteor that struck the theater), and restrains the unconscious Sam. When Sam wakes up, he convinces Charlotte to untie him ("You Tied Up My Heart"), then attacks and kills her.
Meanwhile, Emma and Paul become closer, where they discover Paul's hatred of musicals was inspired by seeing Emma perform in Brigadoon in high school. Their conversation is interrupted by a parasitized Charlotte and Sam, who attack the group ("Join Us (And Die)"). Professor Hidgens returns, shooting and killing both of them.
Bill receives a phone call from his daughter Alice that she is trapped at school. Paul joins Bill on his rescue mission.
At the high school, Paul and Bill search for Alice. They find a parasitized Alice, who claims Bill caused her death and he was never a good father ("Not Your Seed"). Bill, heartbroken, attempts to shoot himself but is instead killed by Alice. Right as she is about to attack Paul, the Army arrives, scaring her away and knocking Paul out.
Back at Professor Hidgens's compound, Hidgens explains the aliens are a hivemind that communicates through music. Although this helps Emma realize how to stop it, Hidgens becomes convinced a hivemind could create a peaceful world. He sedates Emma to prevent her from spreading the information. Meanwhile, Paul wakes up and is greeted by General McNamara, who works with a special unit of the US Army called PEIP (/ˈpiːp/ PEEP). McNamara tells him that if he can rescue Emma, the army will send a rescue helicopter.
Emma wakes up tied to a chair with Paul's coworker Ted. Hidgens deactivates his house's defenses and reveals he has a history in musical theatre. He intentionally attracts the aliens by singing the opening number of his musical Working Boys, a show glorifying his own undergrad experience (“Show Stopping Number”). The corrupted townsfolk arrive and Hidgens willingly joins them, convinced they're his college friends. They then tear him apart.
Paul arrives to rescue Emma and Ted and they head for the pickup site, but the corrupted townspeople drag off Paul. Ted abandons them and continues running, making it to the pickup site before being shot. PEIP, now infected, is led by a corrupted McNamara ("America Is Great Again"). Paul and Emma manage to escape to the helicopter, but they discover the pilot is infected. The resulting fight crashes the helicopter and pierces Emma's leg with rebar. She tells him to leave her and destroy the meteor, ending the invasion. Paul arms himself with grenades and reluctantly leaves.
The infected townspeople once again address the audience ("Let Him Come"). Paul enters the site of the meteor crash and is greeted by the reanimated bodies of the town residents. They claim they're happy and ask what he wants, to which he replies it does not matter. They begin to sing, telling him that he must express his feelings through song. To his horror, his close proximity to the meteor is quickly infecting him. Paul switches rapidly between singing and talking, fighting for control against the infection. He manages to pull the pin on a grenade and throw it at the meteor, screaming that he doesn't like musicals ("Let It Out").
A newscast from the neighboring town of Clivesdale states that it has been two weeks since the previous events. Emma is in a hospital in Clivesdale and is now in witness protection. She is told there were no other survivors (besides Peanuts, the Hatchefield Pocket Squirrel, who was mentioned in a news report before La Dee Dah Dah Day), but that she will be escorted to her new life by someone she knows. Paul enters, and Emma, overjoyed, embraces him. Paul begins to sing, telling her she lost. He is joined by other corrupted people and they sing a medley of previous songs in the show and implore her to join them, explaining that they have finally found happiness. They tell her the ending is "inevitable" and surround and drag her off-stage ("Inevitable").
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Greenpeace Girl - Infected offscreen - 17 mins in
- 4 Townspeople - Infected offscreen - 17 mins in
- Mr. Davidson - Corporate takeover of his body - 25 mins in
- Nora - Infected offscreen - 31 mins in
- Zoey - Infected offscreen - 31 mins in
- 3 Coffee Shop Customers - Poisoned with blue milk substitute - 33 mins in
- Sam - Corrupted cop - 37 mins in
- Charlotte - Catgutted - 52 mins in
- Infected Sam - Shot by Hidgens with shotgun - 1 hr in
- Infected Charlotte - Shot by Hidgens with shotgun - 1 hr in
- Alice - Infected offscreen - 1 hr 8 mins in
- Deb - Infected offscreen - 1 hr 9 mins in
- Deb's Friend - Infected offscreen - 1 hr 9 mins in
- Bill - Shotgun patricide - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Professor Hidgens - Pigskinned alive - 1 hr 29 mins in
- General McNamara - Infected by alien parasite - 1 hr 31 mins in
- Ted - Shot - 1 hr 31 mins in
- Paul - The Guy Who Like Musicals Now - 1 hr 45 mins in
- Emma - Last on the call sheet - 1 hr 48 mins in
Non-counted Deaths[]
- Miss Holloway - Killed by Uncle Wily before the musical (mentioned in The Witch in the Web).
- 2 Townsfolk's, Doug, Cop, 2 PEIP members and a Nurse - Infected but we never met them pre-infection.
- Jane Perkins - Died before the musicals events (mentioned by Emma).
- Various Hatchetfield Residents (Lex Foster, Hannah Foster, Becky Barnes, Tom Houston, Linda Monroe, Stephanie Lauter, Grace Chasity, Ruth Fleming, Richie Lipschitz, Max Jägerman, Tim Houston, Pamela Foster, Dr. Gerald Monroe, River Monroe, Trent Monroe, Seaton Monroe, Jordan Monroe, Roman Murray, Mayor Solomon Lauter, Karen Chasity, Mark Chasity, Zach Chambers, Mima Chambers, Ethan Green, Tony Green, Bob Metzger, Louie Metzger, Carl Metzger, Lars Metzger, Sherman Young, Sheila Young, "Boy" Jerry, "Girl" Jerry, Melissa, Sylvia, Dan Reynolds, Donna Daggit, Rose, Thrash, Skud, Eddie Chiplucky, Charles, Spitfire, Stopwatch, The Starlight Producer, The Stage Manager, Hailey Dilmore, Courtney, Meg, Cassie King, Sue, Frank Pricely, Miss Tessburger, Duke Keane, Detective Shapiro, Officer Bailey, Ziggs, Obnoxious Teen, Gabe, Brad Callahan, Jason Jepson, Kyle Clauger, Brenda, Stacy, Miss Mulberry, Barry Swift (Jeff Blim's character from the first Beanie's scene), Gary Goldstein, Papa Ed, and Danny) - Presumably either infected or nuked.
- Infected Zoey - Killed in helicopter crash.
- Starlight Theatre Infected (Mr. Davidson, Nora, Professor Hidgens, Greenpeace Girl, Bill, Ted and the Hatchetfield Bee) - Blown up w/ grenade.
- Pokey - Meteor form blown up by Paul.
- Colonel Schaffer - Throat torn out by Nurse (Script Only)/Most likely infected.
- Xander Lee - Most likely infected.
- President Howard Goodman and 3 Cabinet Members (Including Bob Morris) - Infected after the events of the show.
- Lucy Stockworth - Infected after the events of the show.
- Jonathan Brisby - Most likely infected.
- Kale - Most likely infected.
Trivia[]
- This is the first stage musical covered on the Kill Count.
- This is the fifteenth Kill Count to have the set color changed.
- Paul Matthews, Ted Spankoffski and Emma Perkins are the twenty-first to twenty-third fictional characters to be featured in a Numbers Gag.
- This is the first Zombie Kill count since 28 Days Later to not have the Coolest Corpse award handed out
- Team StarKid (The production company behind TGWDLM) originated at The University of Michigan. GO BLUE!
- This is the second kill count with 24 kills, the first is Jason Goes to Hell.
- For unknown reasons, there is an unlisted version of this video.
- "The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals" can be viewed here.
- Out of all the Kill Counts that were part of the "Kill Count Gets Weird" era The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals is the 2nd lowest viewed out of all 15 Kill Counts and the 15th least viewed video overall, the least viewed being the Kill Count for Llamageddon.