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The episode where they perform "Our Town"

posted 9 years ago by SimbaSam
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Love this one, but why did Mike even care if he messed up? EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the whole freakin' play messed up! The play was a DISASTER! I know Mike was trying to impress the girl playing Emily, but she was WELL AWARE Mike wasn't prepared and didn't know his lines that well. Ben completely bombed, Boner had to use his tape recorder to remember his and it ended up blaring rock music,(and HOW did BONER end up with such a good part??? Mr. Webb is a supporting lead!) All the sound cues were off, Even Carol wasn't impressive (And from what it looked like, she played Rebecca Gibbs, which is a decent part, yet she kept saying her part was "Teeny Tiny)

If Mike screwed up no one would have even noticed! the play was ruined and a complete $hit storm before he even walked on stage! I guess he wanted to prove to his doubting parents that he could do it, but who cares? NO ONE could do it. It was cool that he did such a good job though.

Also, coach Lubbock said 1,000 people would be in the audience. For a high school play??? The auditorium looked miniscule! I've seen REAL theater shows that fit 600 people at most! And they only did the play ONE night, so it couldn't have been 1,000 total between several days.

[–] stevenackerman69 9 years ago

I think the Coach was exaggerating the amount of people that would be in the audience. He probably meant a lot of people would be there and used a big number as an example. People do that, you know.

As for the other stuff, I think Wilder would be turning in his grave over the way the play was done. But it was supposed to be funny to begin with.