Two great tastes that go great together

April 4, 2023 4:33 PM

Am I The Asshole, Musicals Edition (Reddit link) Because a lot of musical theater characters make.... poor...decisions. This is making me laugh and laugh.
posted by jenfullmoon (11 comments total)

This was a delight. I didn't truly recognize the comedy potential of the Reddit "house style" until this.
posted by abulafa at 4:57 PM on April 4, 2023 [2 favorites]

Surprised how far I had to scroll to find my boy Benjamin Coffin III! Just trying to collect back rent from his deadbeat ex-roommates and they make it into a whole thing
posted by potrzebie at 5:17 PM on April 4, 2023 [14 favorites]

I'm not sure whether to be proud or ashamed that I'm batting a thousand on recognizing these.
posted by humbug at 5:34 PM on April 4, 2023 [2 favorites]

What a rollicking barrel of fun. I'm so happy to have enjoyed these. Thanks for the link!
posted by brainwane at 6:30 PM on April 4, 2023 [3 favorites]

"NTA - they sound a bit unstable. I'd watch out for your akita."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:02 PM on April 4, 2023 [5 favorites]

Oh man, they’re gonna take my card away, I am missing most of these.
posted by sixswitch at 7:20 PM on April 4, 2023 [1 favorite]

OPE, okay, theeeeere was the one I had to look up. I bailed on it the one time a taped performance came up on PBS. Just did not like it.
posted by humbug at 7:21 PM on April 4, 2023

I have to admit I went into this expecting to see I guess the photonegative of this, actual AITAs presented in the form of musical theater.
posted by mhoye at 5:37 AM on April 5, 2023 [1 favorite]

I also wasn't sure which this was gonna be, mhoye. I do feel certain you could build a musical around some AITAs.

With reading the replies on many of them, especially for the huge, jacked man pun.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:52 AM on April 5, 2023 [2 favorites]

"I've (32M) been really close with this guy (33M) for ages, like I've practically been his right hand man, even though we have a pretty big group of friends. Recently he starting acting really weird, and doing things that aren't in line with the way we were living. I called him out on sleeping with this girl in our friend group but he got really defensive so I left.”

ha
posted by mrgrimm at 10:45 AM on April 6, 2023

Just under the wire, I found Badly Explain A Musical.
posted by jenfullmoon at 4:11 PM on May 3, 2023