History WMG / Schmigadoon

* The first season was a pastiche of the hits of the 1940s and 1950s. The second was the 1960s and 1970s. I'd say you should expect to see the 1980s and 1990s, next. So, theatre/Cats.

* The first season was a pastiche of the hits of the 1940s and 1950s. The second was the 1960s and 1970s. I'd say you should expect to see the 1980s and 1990s, next. So, [[theatre/Cats.]]

* The first season was a pastiche of the hits of the 1940s and 1950s. The second was the 1960s and 1970s. I'd say you should expect to see the 1980s and 1990s, next. So, theatre/Cats.

* The first season was a pastiche of the hits of the 1940s and 1950s. The second was the 1960s and 1970s. I'd say you should expect to see the 1980s and 1990s, next. So, {{theatre/Cats}}.

* The first season was a pastiche of the hits of the 1940s and 1950s. The second was the 1960s and 1970s. I'd say you should expect to see the 1980s and 1990s, next. So, {{Cats}}.

Josh and Melissa never attempted to cross the bridge. That combined with the people begging them to stay signifies that Schmicago didn't have the same method of keeping them in.

* A town based on historical musicals like Hamilton, Six, and The King and I.

* A town based on shows the likes of Hairspray and Grease.

Season 2 has Josh and Melissa go to a new town based on a different era of musicals. This could mean that there are countless other worlds out there that are also based on other eras. So, place your bets on what else could be out there.

There can be no guessing that Schmigadoon is supernatural, their town capable of functioning with no contact with the outside world and their weird anachronistic society existing with no one with wiser. Mothers Against the Future are derisively referred to as witches by the other townsfolk, but what if they ''are'' witches? What if all of the town's weirdness (the singing and dancing, the infinitely looping bridge, etc.) is due to their machinations?

How they accomplished this and why are both suspect. Odds are the Martin Short-Leprechaun has something to do with it, having enslaved him to create their HiddenElfVillage or had angered him in some way, Schmigadoon's weird reality an IronicHell he devised. Perhaps they did this out of a desire to "preserve" what they think of as a "pure" society, keeping everyone under an elaborate LotusEaterMachine and actively pruning anything they see as deviant in any way. They are ''literally'' against the future and they will destroy anything they think represents it.

Josh and Melissa barely interact after breaking up, and the townspeople are well aware of their split. It's implied in the beginning of Episode 5 that enough time has passed for them to genuinely be dating Doc Lopez and Emma, and could have been noticed by the townspeople. Emma appears determined to raise Carson alone, and never reveals any details about who his father is when retelling their story to Josh, as if avoiding the sunbject of him altogether, and implies that she only came to live in Schmigadoon in the last few years. Outside of his flirtation with Melissa, Danny's reputation is largely an InformedAttribute, and after they spend the night together, he immediately assumes that she's pregnant and worries about not being able to provide for his hypothetical child--as if he's been in the situation before. Danny, being a carnival worker, could have met her at some point before either of them came to town, and their relationship ended when she went to the "wayward girls' home". They both ended up in town and may have made an attempt at a relationship (he's seen doing maintenance on some carnival rides--he could've been the old handyman Josh is replacing), but circumstances or Emma's desire to raise Carson alone forced them apart, or at least pushed Danny away until he's able to be a provider.

Everyone in Schmigadoon ended up there for the same reason Josh and Melissa did: they were unhappy in life and love. Notably, for all its small-town idyll, no one appears to be in a happy romantic relationship: the Menloves are a bearding situation, Mildred keeps the Reverend on a tight leash, and there are a ton of single women who are all too happy to try and date Josh. No one ever leaves because no one has found true love.

Perhaps when someone ''does'' leave, the jig is up, and that may be why Mildred tries to make things hard for Josh and Melissa.

Should all of the above be true, the two will reconcile at the end of the series in the tradition of {{Last Minute|Hookup}} PairTheSpares seen in classic musicals, with them and Carson living as a family, and finally being accepted by the town.

How they accomplished this and why are both suspect. Odds are the Martin Short-Leprechaun has something to do with it, having enslaved him to create their HiddenElfVillage or had angered him in some way, Schmigadoon's weird reality an IronicHell he devised. Perhaps they did this out of a desire to "preserve" what they think of as a "pure" society, keeping everyone under an elaborate LotusEaterMachine and actively pruning anything they see as deviant in any way. They are ''literally'' against the future and they will destroy anything they think represents it.