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* ChocolateOfLove: Jase and Judith enjoy some Toblerone in during the motel scene. [[spoiler:Subverted in that this is where Jase leaves Judith]].

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* ChocolateOfLove: ChocolateOfRomance: Jase and Judith enjoy some Toblerone in during the motel scene. [[spoiler:Subverted in that this is where Jase leaves Judith]].
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* ChocolateOfLove: Jase and Judith enjoy some Toblerone in during the motel scene. [[spoiler:Subverted in that this is where Jase leaves Judith]].
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* CaughtInTheRain: Happens to Jase and Judith near the end of Act 1. Played for laughs when Jase asks if Judith was invoking the trope.
--> '''Jase:''' Wait. Was this part of your plan?\\
'''Judith:''' [[Sarcasm Mode Yeah, Jase]]. I made this storm happen, because I’m an [[ComicBook/{{Storm}} X-Man]] now.
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* IronicName: Judith, who spends two years living a lie, does so under the fake name Natalie (Not-a-lie).
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* HasTwoMommies: Jase occasionally mentions his mothers.
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** When Judith uses the phone charger in Jase's closet, she briefly sings Music/TrappedInTheCloset by Music/RKelly.
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* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Jase just finds a duck outside his house, and proceeds to keep it as pet. The ending implies that [[spoiler:Henry is ''still'' Jase's pet after almost a decade]].

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* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Jase just finds a duck outside his house, and proceeds to keep it as pet. The ending implies Some of the last scenes imply that [[spoiler:Henry is ''still'' Jase's pet after almost a decade]].
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** In ''We Both'', Judith sings that she and Jase both are "Great at ''TabletopGame/SettlersOfCatan''", and that they both "check Website/{{Twitter}} for our news."
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Judith's life flashed before her eyes when Jase left her, but not when she was dead for three minutes.
--> '''Jase:''' Okay, Question 18: "What is your most terrible memory?"\\
'''Judith:''' Uh, dying. That was pretty bad. [...] Finding out you skipped town without telling me where you were going super sucked.\\
'''Jase:''' Okay, gotta pick one.\\
'''Judith:''' You leaving, then.
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** When asked "What is your greatest accomplishment", Judith responds "winning two episodes of ''Series/WheelofFortune''".

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** When asked "What is your greatest accomplishment", Judith responds "winning two episodes of ''Series/WheelofFortune''".''Series/WheelOfFortune''".
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** When asked "What is your greatest accomplishment", Judith responds "winning two episodes of ''Series/WheelofFortune''".
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* ShoutOut:
** Judith says the noise from the storm sounded like "some Film/{{Cloverfield}} shit".
** Upon seeing a duck in Jase's house, Judith asks if they are in the fourth season of ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
** Jase spends the beginning of the motel scene trying to prove that ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' is playing on TV.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In ''A Better Version'', Judith claims she heard "Music in the words you were saying/Melodies with no band playing", possibly a nod to the show being a musical.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: The fact that Judith spent two years living a lie makes a lot more sense after she explains that her parents literally taught her to lie to get out of trouble.

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* LikeFatherLikeSon: LikeMotherLikeDaughter: The fact that Judith spent two years living a lie makes a lot more sense after she explains that her parents mother literally taught her to lie to get out of trouble.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: The fact that Judith spent two years living a lie makes a lot more sense after she explains that her parents literally taught her to lie to get out of trouble.
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* BiTheWay: In ''We Both'', Judith says she and Natalie are both "not totally straight".
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* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Jase just finds a duck outside his house, and proceeds to keep it as pet. The ending implies that [[spoiler:Henry is ''still'' Jase's pet after almost a decade]].
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The musical follows the story of Judith Ford, who is trying to fix her relationship with her husband after he found out her life was a lie. Her plan to do so involves getting him to answer the "36 Questions" that are designed to bring two strangers closer together.

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The musical follows the story of Judith Ford, who is trying to fix her relationship with her estranged husband after he found out her life was a lie. Her plan to do so involves getting him to answer the "36 Questions" that are designed to bring two strangers closer together.

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The story is framed as if it is all just being recorded on Judith's mobile phone.

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The story does not have a traditional narrator - instead, the musical is framed as if it is it's all just being recorded on Judith's mobile phone.
phone, and characters will occasionally start NarratingThePresent for the sake of the recording.


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* NarratingThePresent: One of the main ways the show portrays visual elements is to just have someone say "For The Record", and describe whatever is happening.
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''*popping noises*''

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''*popping noises*''noises*''\\
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: At the end of ''One Thing'', the music continues until Jase asks Judith to stop the record player.
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-->'''Judith:''' What was that?\\
'''Jase:''' That was the sound of the shelf I just installed, buckling under the weight of a hundred books. Knew I was -\\
''*crashing noise*''\\
'''Jase:''' And, there goes my grandmothers urn.\\
''*popping noises*''
'''Jase:''' And - uh, I actually have no idea what that is...
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/36questions.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I am going on the record here to make this right"]]

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The story is framed as if it is all just being recorded on Judith's mobile phone

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The story is framed as if it is all just being recorded on Judith's mobile phone
phone.

The show can be listened to on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Bandcamp.com

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* TheAllegedHouse: Jase's childhood home does not stand up well to the storm. ''One Thing'' explains how Jase's list of thing's to fix just keeps growing.

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* TheAllegedHouse: Jase's childhood home does not stand up well to the storm. ''One Thing'' explains how Jase's list of thing's things to fix just keeps growing.



* HollywoodFire: Averted - after burning "Natalie's" fake [=IDs=], you can hear the Judith and Jase coughing due to the smoke.

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* HollywoodFire: Averted - after burning "Natalie's" fake [=IDs=], you can hear the Judith and Jase coughing due to the smoke.smoke.
* ListSong: ''One Thing'' gradually becomes this as the list of things Jase needs to do grows.



* TooMuchAlike: [[spoiler:Lisa and Jase end up separating because they're too similar]], and this meant that their arguments just went around in circles.

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* TooMuchAlike: [[spoiler:Lisa and Jase end up separating because they're too similar]], and this meant that their arguments just went around in circles.circles.
* UnexplainedRecovery: It's never explained who or what saved Judith when she drowned.
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* HollywoodFire: Averted - after burning "Natalie's" fake IDs, you can hear the Judith and Jase coughing due to the smoke.

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* HollywoodFire: Averted - after burning "Natalie's" fake IDs, [=IDs=], you can hear the Judith and Jase coughing due to the smoke.

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* TheAllegedHouse: Jase's childhood home does not stand up well to the storm.

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* TheAllegedHouse: Jase's childhood home does not stand up well to the storm. ''One Thing'' explains how Jase's list of thing's to fix just keeps growing.


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* BurnBabyBurn: Judith gets Jase to burn all of her fake documents as the first stage of erasing her past life.


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* HollywoodFire: Averted - after burning "Natalie's" fake IDs, you can hear the Judith and Jase coughing due to the smoke.
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* SnowballLie: Judith only intended that live a lie for the span of "one cup of coffee"... only to end up continuing to lie once it was "Too late to backpedal, too good not to keep going".

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''36 Questions - The Podcast Musical'' is a 3-Act AudioPlay created by Ellen Winter and Chris Littler.

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''36 Questions - The Podcast Musical'' is a 3-Act AudioPlay created by Ellen Winter and Chris Littler.
Littler, starring Jessie Shelton and Creator/JonathanGroff



* TheNothingAfterDeath: At the end of ''Our Word'', Judith dies for three minutes. She claims that death is "An endless void of nothingness".

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* FreudianExcuse: Subverted - Judith explains that her parents explicitly showed her you could tell lies to get out of most situations, but in spite of this, she never tries to blame her lying nature on them.
* MusicalWorldHypothesis: The show fits the ''Adaptation'' hypothesis, as the songs they sing are clearly part of their conversations, but neither person includes the songs they've sung when answering the 36 questions.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: At the end of ''Our Word'', Judith dies is rendered dead for three minutes. She claims that death is "An endless void of nothingness".
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''36 Questions - The Podcast Musical'' is a 3-Act AudioPlay created by Ellen Winter and Chris Littler.

The musical follows the story of Judith Ford, who is trying to fix her relationship with her husband after he found out her life was a lie. Her plan to do so involves getting him to answer the "36 Questions" that are designed to bring two strangers closer together.

The story is framed as if it is all just being recorded on Judith's mobile phone

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* TheAllegedHouse: Jase's childhood home does not stand up well to the storm.
* ArcWords:
** "That's not the question".
** "For the Record" is usually said whenever someone is narrating for the sake of the recording.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: At the end of ''Our Word'', Judith dies for three minutes. She claims that death is "An endless void of nothingness".
* OppositesAttract: Jase tells the truth even when he has no real obligation, e.g. explaining that the dog he was walking didn't belong to him, even though Judith didn't ask if it was his. Judith, on the other hand, spends two years telling total lies.
* TooMuchAlike: [[spoiler:Lisa and Jase end up separating because they're too similar]], and this meant that their arguments just went around in circles.

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