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Fridge Brilliance
- Why are Daddy Dearest's songs (parts) easier to follow than his wife's? Because if he was a rockstar, his songs were probably slower but heftier while Mommy Mearest's pop songs certainly have to be more frenetic.
- Week 6 feels like a return to basics, with two of the three songs consisting almost entirely of copying the Senpai and having little to no harmonizing. This makes more sense, however, when you realize that Week 6 is practically an inversion of previous weeks. Instead of gradually harmonizing more as your opponent warms up to you (as in Weeks 1 and 4) or harmonizing from the start in a friendly competition (as in Weeks 2, 3, and 5), the Senpai starts out friendly but gets progressively nastier with each song. In other words, the Senpai doesn't harmonize because he doesn't want to.
- Compared to the game's other antagonists, who are either directly or indirectly connected to the Dearests, Skid and Pump aren't connected to them at all and are there just because. This actually stays in tune with their home series, where they run from place-to-place without any rhyme or reason.
- The lead-up cutscene to "Roses" begins out with Senpai insulting Boyfriend and his fans looking greatly ashamed at him for doing so, and his sprites depict him as rather nervous and disgruntled. "Roses" itself starts out easy before gradually increasing in note density to the point it becomes near-impossible to not mess up for average players; Senpai is such a Sore Loser compared to the other rivals that his last resort was to try make Boyfriend lose with a Desperation Attack.
- "Thorns" still sounds like a 16 bit song, but it feels more manic. That's because it's 16 bit boss music, a la Final Fantasy.
- Week 7 having Pico gun down Tankman's men in his Big Damn Heroes moment isn't just a cheeky nod to how both are seen as the mascots of Newgrounds, but also a nod to what they represent, as Tom Fulp has said he sees Pico as a representation of the site's user base and the Tankmen being the site itself. Considering how rowdy and unfiltered Newgrounds used to be (and still kind of is), the whole thing can be seen as an allegory of sorts.
- The cutscene to "Stress" hints that Girlfriend can teleport. If she can, then her Dissonant Serenity throughout the series makes a lot more sense: hard to scare someone who can just leave whenever she wants.
- You know how it's joked that this game was released on the Playstation 1, and an actual PS1 Port is a stretch goal? Well, guess what set of famous buttons the Arrows match the color of.
- Word of God states that BF knows how to patch a bullet wound. Makes sense, he probably patched up more than a few back when he and Pico were dating.
Fridge Horror
- When you think about it, the Boyfriend's life here is a nightmare. His girlfriend's parents hate him so much they hire an assassin to kill him, get a plane to crash for similar reasons, and trapped their daughter's previous boyfriend in a dating simulator. And it's implied they've done similar to others as well. The BF can't even enjoy Christmas without the two taking over a mall to get rid of him, and on top of that, a monster wants to eat his girlfriend, and by extension, him. Is a girl really worth all that?
- Not only that, the Dearests even go as far as to put other people in danger despite not being involved with whatever is going on, point in case, Daddy Dearest holding a Mall Santa at gunpoint for no real reason other than so that he wouldn't snitch according to Word of God.
- Alternatively, given his unphazed reaction to all this horrible stuff, he very possibly deserves whatever fate he gets out of all this, better or worse.
- The fact that the Dearests have no qualms about getting their daughter's boyfriend killed right in front of her speaks volumes about what wonderful parents they are.
