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* {{Blooper}}: The high level of {{Improv}}, AudienceParticipation and Joey Richter's LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles created many opportunities for these, some of which were posted on the Website/YouTube channel. (This is even lampshaded in "Gone to Oregon", with the lyrics asking "Who will forget their name?/And who will get the [=YouTube=] fame?") Notable ones include:
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* {{Blooper}}: The high level of {{Improv}}, AudienceParticipation and Joey Richter's LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles multiple roles created many opportunities for these, some of which were posted on the Website/YouTube channel. (This is even lampshaded in "Gone to Oregon", with the lyrics asking "Who will forget their name?/And who will get the [=YouTube=] fame?") Notable ones include:
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* NoBudget: A prime example of success through adversity, this is one of Starkid's most successful shows despite having extremely conspicuous limitations on their costume and prop budget ''and'' having a cast of only six, being the lower-budget sister show to Theatre/{{Ani}}. (The Langs have remarked on how this is actually a greater constraint than they had in college during the Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical days, when the one thing they could get for little money was large casts of actors willing to work for fun and exposure.) Many of the things about the show that are most beloved come from the low budget, like the sight gag of the Bandit King's "horse", the DIY sound effects made by Joey Richter's mouth sounds, or just the fact that Joey Richter plays "[[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles Everyone Else]]". As a bonus, these factors have made the show easy to license out to other theatre companies, greatly extending the longevity of the show's brand.
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* NoBudget: A prime example of success through adversity, this is one of Starkid's most successful shows despite having extremely conspicuous limitations on their costume and prop budget ''and'' having a cast of only six, being the lower-budget sister show to Theatre/{{Ani}}. (The Langs have remarked on how this is actually a greater constraint than they had in college during the Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical days, when the one thing they could get for little money was large casts of actors willing to work for fun and exposure.) Many of the things about the show that are most beloved come from the low budget, like the sight gag of the Bandit King's "horse", the DIY sound effects made by Joey Richter's mouth sounds, or just the fact that Joey Richter plays "[[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles "[[ActingForTwo Everyone Else]]". As a bonus, these factors have made the show easy to license out to other theatre companies, greatly extending the longevity of the show's brand.
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* ActingForTwo: Joey Richter as "Everyone Else" outside the main family, i.e. all of the {{Non Player Character}}s of the game. Essentially the GameMaster of this story.
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** Corey Dorris' beard coming off during "Sometimes It Pays to be an Animal" leading to him [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments frantically trying to get it back on]] begging the kids [[DarkSecret "Don't tell nobody!"]] and Jaime Lyn Beatty commenting, [[LampshadeHanging "There sure are a lot of dark secrets in this family!"]]
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** Corey Dorris' beard coming off during "Sometimes It Pays to be an Animal" leading to him [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments frantically trying to get it back on]] begging the kids [[DarkSecret "Don't tell nobody!"]] and Jaime Lyn Beatty commenting, [[LampshadeHanging "There sure are "Man, this family's got a lot of dark secrets in this family!"]]secrets!"]]
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* DawsonCasting: Obviously, for the Daughter and the Son, with all the actors being around the same age in RealLife. Interestingly, PlayingGertrude is averted for the Mother -- Rachael Soglin seems young for someone who has a teenage daughter, until we find out the Daughter was a TeenPregnancy.
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* DawsonCasting: Obviously, for the Daughter and the Son, with all the actors being around the same age in RealLife. Interestingly, PlayingGertrude is averted for the Mother -- Rachael Soglin seems young for someone who has a teenage daughter, until we find out the Daughter was a TeenPregnancy.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Joey Richter and Jeff Blim suppress laughter when General Store Guy claims he played Tony in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', which was a ThrowItIn on Joey's part.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The "Unsung Starkid" show in 2014 performing {{Cut Song}}s from Starkid's back catalogue revealed that ''The Trail to Oregon'' went through huge changes throughout its ten-year existence as Jeff Blim's pet project before finally being produced. The show was originally -- if you can believe it -- DenserAndWackier than the finished show, with most of its earlier iterations involving an actual TimeTravel TheGameComeToLife plot, where children from the present day getting transported back to the actual Oregon Trail via playing the game at school. It turns out that the Father being named "Jack Bauer" in the recorded performance of the show was a sly reference to the fact that Jack Bauer from ''Series/{{24}}'' was a major character (thanks to one of the kids entering his name into the computer and causing him to come to life).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The "Unsung Starkid" show in 2014 performing {{Cut Song}}s from Starkid's back catalogue revealed that ''The Trail to Oregon'' went through huge changes throughout its ten-year existence as Jeff Blim's pet project before finally being produced. The show was originally -- if you can believe it -- DenserAndWackier than the finished show, with most of its earlier iterations involving an actual TimeTravel TheGameComeToLife plot, where children from the present day getting transported back to the actual Oregon Trail via playing the game at school. It turns out that the Father being named "Jack Bauer" in the recorded performance of the show was a sly reference to the fact that Jack Bauer from ''Series/{{24}}'' ''Series/TwentyFour'' was a major character (thanks to one of the kids entering his name into the computer and causing him to come to life).
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* TheCastShowoff: Jeff Blim, who cowrote the show, gives himself an opportunity to come out during the finale number, "Naked in a Lake", to perform a saxophone solo.
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* SleeperHit: When the decision was made to do this show and {{Theatre/Ani}} as sister repertory productions in Starkid's 2014 season it seemed like the parody of Star Wars was a far more likely hit than the parody of Oregon Trail, especially with the latter being a shorter, fluffier, DenserAndWackier show with intentionally very bare-bones set design and costumes. Contrary to those expectations, it's this show that ended up being the big phenomenon, with local productions as far away as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Ani that got remembered as a relative disappointment.
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* SleeperHit: When the decision was made to do this show and {{Theatre/Ani}} as sister repertory productions in Starkid's 2014 season it seemed like the parody of Star Wars was a far more likely hit than the parody of Oregon Trail, especially with the latter being a shorter, fluffier, DenserAndWackier show with intentionally very bare-bones set design and costumes. Contrary to those expectations, it's this show that ended up being the big phenomenon, with local productions as far away as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Ani that got remembered as a relative disappointment.disappointment.
** Jeff Blim later revealed that he'd been working on the script for this show for over ''ten years'' before it was finally made as a Starkid production, including having it rejected twice from the New York Musical Theatre Festival. (Although the older versions of the show were very, very different from what eventually got made -- see WhatCouldHaveBeen.)
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The "Unsung Starkid" show in 2014 performing {{Cut Song}}s from Starkid's back catalogue revealed that ''The Trail to Oregon'' went through huge changes throughout its ten-year existence as Jeff Blim's pet project before finally being produced. The show was originally -- if you can believe it -- DenserAndWackier than the finished show, with most of its earlier iterations involving an actual TimeTravel TheGameComeToLife plot, where children from the present day getting transported back to the actual Oregon Trail via playing the game at school. It turns out that the Father being named "Jack Bauer" in the recorded performance of the show was a sly reference to the fact that Jack Bauer from ''Series/{{24}}'' was a major character (thanks to one of the kids entering his name into the computer and causing him to come to life).
** Jeff Blim later revealed that he'd been working on the script for this show for over ''ten years'' before it was finally made as a Starkid production, including having it rejected twice from the New York Musical Theatre Festival. (Although the older versions of the show were very, very different from what eventually got made -- see WhatCouldHaveBeen.)
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The "Unsung Starkid" show in 2014 performing {{Cut Song}}s from Starkid's back catalogue revealed that ''The Trail to Oregon'' went through huge changes throughout its ten-year existence as Jeff Blim's pet project before finally being produced. The show was originally -- if you can believe it -- DenserAndWackier than the finished show, with most of its earlier iterations involving an actual TimeTravel TheGameComeToLife plot, where children from the present day getting transported back to the actual Oregon Trail via playing the game at school. It turns out that the Father being named "Jack Bauer" in the recorded performance of the show was a sly reference to the fact that Jack Bauer from ''Series/{{24}}'' was a major character (thanks to one of the kids entering his name into the computer and causing him to come to life).
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* DawsonCasting: Obviously, for the Daughter and the Son, with all the actors being around the same age in RealLife. Interestingly, PlayingGertrude is averted for the Mother -- Rachael Soglin seems young for someone who has a teenage daughter, until we find out the Daughter was a TeenPregnancy.
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* NoBudget: A prime example of success through adversity, this is one of Starkid's most successful shows despite having extremely conspicuous limitations on their costume and prop budget ''and'' having a cast of only six, being the lower-budget sister show to Theatre/{{Ani}}. (The Langs have remarked on how this is actually a greater constraint than they had in college during the Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical days, when the one thing they could get for little money was large casts of actors willing to work for fun and exposure.) Many of the things about the show that are most beloved come from the low budget, like the sight gag of the Bandit King's "horse", the DIY sound effects made by Joey Richter's mouth sounds, or just the fact that Joey Richter plays "[[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles Everyone Else]]". As a bonus, these factors have made the show easy to license out to other theatre companies, greatly extending the longevity of the show's brand.
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* RealitySubtext: The family is originally from Illinois, the same state in which the show was produced (in Chicago).
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* RealitySubtext: The family is originally from Illinois, the same state in which the show was produced (in Chicago). In the original run, the date the Father gave at the beginning of the show was the actual month and day at the time, transferred to 1848. (It helped that this run was through July and August, within the range of dates the game gave you as a possible time to set off on the trail.)
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* {{Blooper}}: The high level of {{Improv}}, AudienceParticipation and Joey Richter's LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles created many opportunities for these, some of which were posted on the YouTube channel. (This is even lampshaded in "Gone to Oregon", with the lyrics asking "Who will forget their name?/And who will get the YouTube fame?") Notable ones include:
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* {{Blooper}}: The high level of {{Improv}}, AudienceParticipation and Joey Richter's LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles created many opportunities for these, some of which were posted on the YouTube Website/YouTube channel. (This is even lampshaded in "Gone to Oregon", with the lyrics asking "Who will forget their name?/And who will get the YouTube [=YouTube=] fame?") Notable ones include:
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** During the marathon shoot of all the possible MultipleEndings for the YouTube version of the show -- which were still in front of a live audience -- at one point Joey Richter came back onstage as the Doctor instead of the Ox during the intro to "Naked in a Lake", prompting him to exclaim [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I didn't know we were going to the end!"]]
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** During the marathon shoot of all the possible MultipleEndings for the YouTube [=YouTube=] version of the show -- which were still in front of a live audience -- at one point Joey Richter came back onstage as the Doctor instead of the Ox during the intro to "Naked in a Lake", prompting him to exclaim [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I didn't know we were going to the end!"]]
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** A minor but somehow hilarious one in the YouTube version of the show, where [=McDoon=] flings a bucket offstage at the end of "Caulk Your Wagon" and it apparently accidentally rolls down a set of stairs, audibly, [[OverlyLongGag for an uncomfortably long time]]. Prompts him to casually remark, [[ThrowItIn "Didn't know there was a ridge there"]].
* DuelingShows: This show came a year after a production titled [[https://www.alligatorpearpublishing.com/oregon-trail-the-play Oregon Trail: The Play]] by the NOLA Project in New Orleans, with extremely similar structure and themes (although the latter veers much more into WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical). Thanks to Creator/TeamStarkid's existing fanbase and tradition of putting their shows on YouTube, ''The Trail to Oregon'' pretty much "won" this duel in terms of name recognition, though both shows have seen their fair share of regional productions.
* DuelingShows: This show came a year after a production titled [[https://www.alligatorpearpublishing.com/oregon-trail-the-play Oregon Trail: The Play]] by the NOLA Project in New Orleans, with extremely similar structure and themes (although the latter veers much more into WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical). Thanks to Creator/TeamStarkid's existing fanbase and tradition of putting their shows on YouTube, ''The Trail to Oregon'' pretty much "won" this duel in terms of name recognition, though both shows have seen their fair share of regional productions.
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** A minor but somehow hilarious one in the YouTube [=YouTube=] version of the show, where [=McDoon=] flings a bucket offstage at the end of "Caulk Your Wagon" and it apparently accidentally rolls down a set of stairs, audibly, [[OverlyLongGag for an uncomfortably long time]]. Prompts him to casually remark, [[ThrowItIn "Didn't know there was a ridge there"]].
* DuelingShows: This show came a year after a production titled [[https://www.alligatorpearpublishing.com/oregon-trail-the-play Oregon Trail: The Play]] by the NOLA Project in New Orleans, with extremely similar structure and themes (although the latter veers much more into WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical). Thanks to Creator/TeamStarkid's existing fanbase and tradition of putting their shows onYouTube, [=YouTube=], ''The Trail to Oregon'' pretty much "won" this duel in terms of name recognition, though both shows have seen their fair share of regional productions.
* DuelingShows: This show came a year after a production titled [[https://www.alligatorpearpublishing.com/oregon-trail-the-play Oregon Trail: The Play]] by the NOLA Project in New Orleans, with extremely similar structure and themes (although the latter veers much more into WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical). Thanks to Creator/TeamStarkid's existing fanbase and tradition of putting their shows on
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** Corey Dorris' beard coming off during "Sometimes It Pays to be an Animal" leading to him [[CrowningMomentOfFunny frantically trying to get it back on]] begging the kids [[DarkSecret "Don't tell nobody!"]] and Jaime Lyn Beatty commenting, [[LampshadeHanging "There sure are a lot of dark secrets in this family!"]]
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** Corey Dorris' beard coming off during "Sometimes It Pays to be an Animal" leading to him [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments frantically trying to get it back on]] begging the kids [[DarkSecret "Don't tell nobody!"]] and Jaime Lyn Beatty commenting, [[LampshadeHanging "There sure are a lot of dark secrets in this family!"]]
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* ActorAllusion: At the end of the show the Father considers that, since robbing the General Store Guy was much more successful than his career as a farmer, he may take up a life of crime. Both of Jeff Blim's previous major roles for Creator/TeamStarkid, [[Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman Sweet Tooth]] and [[Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier Aladdin]], were sociopathic criminals.
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** Corey Dorris' beard coming off during "Sometimes It Pays to be an Animal" leading to him [[CrowningMomentOfFunny frantically trying to get it back on]] beg begging the kids [[DarkSecret "Don't tell nobody!"]] and Jaime Lyn Beatty commenting, [[LampshadeHanging "There sure are a lot of dark secrets in this family!"]]
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** Starkid denies any intentional FollowTheLeader here, saying Jeff Blim has had the idea for a stage play based on VideoGame/TheOregonTrail since childhood (as have no doubt many people).
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** A minor but somehow hilarious one in the YouTube version of the show, where [=McDoon=] flings a bucket offstage at the end of "Caulk Your Wagon" and it apparently accidentally rolls down a set of stairs, audibly, [[OverlyLongGag for an uncomfortably long time]]. Prompts him to casually remark, [[ThrowItIn "Didn't know there was a ridge there"]].
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* {{Blooper}}: The high level of {{Improv}}, AudienceParticipation and Joey Richter's LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles created many opportunities for these, some of which were posted on the YouTube channel. (This is even lampshaded in "Gone to Oregon", with the lyrics asking "Who will forget their name?/And who will get the YouTube fame?") Notable ones include:
** Joey ''multiple times'' simply forgetting a whole stanza of the PatterSong "Independence" and either replacing it with "ho-ho-ho-ho" or just dancing in awkward silence.
** Corey Dorris' beard coming off during "Sometimes It Pays to be an Animal" leading to him [[CrowningMomentOfFunny frantically trying to get it back on]] beg the kids [[DarkSecret "Don't tell nobody!"]] and Jaime Lyn Beatty commenting, [[LampshadeHanging "There sure are a lot of dark secrets in this family!"]]
** Jeff Blim forgetting to wear his long underwear under his clothes in one show, leading to him almost ''actually'' stripping onstage during "Naked In A Lake".
** During the marathon shoot of all the possible MultipleEndings for the YouTube version of the show -- which were still in front of a live audience -- at one point Joey Richter came back onstage as the Doctor instead of the Ox during the intro to "Naked in a Lake", prompting him to exclaim [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I didn't know we were going to the end!"]]
** An intentional prank, where instead of Rachael Soglin as the Mother seductively approaching the Father giving her final line of the play, "Come on, honey, the water's just right" the ''Ox'' does it, causing Jeff Blim [[EnforcedMethodActing to actually recoil in horror]].
** Joey ''multiple times'' simply forgetting a whole stanza of the PatterSong "Independence" and either replacing it with "ho-ho-ho-ho" or just dancing in awkward silence.
** Corey Dorris' beard coming off during "Sometimes It Pays to be an Animal" leading to him [[CrowningMomentOfFunny frantically trying to get it back on]] beg the kids [[DarkSecret "Don't tell nobody!"]] and Jaime Lyn Beatty commenting, [[LampshadeHanging "There sure are a lot of dark secrets in this family!"]]
** Jeff Blim forgetting to wear his long underwear under his clothes in one show, leading to him almost ''actually'' stripping onstage during "Naked In A Lake".
** During the marathon shoot of all the possible MultipleEndings for the YouTube version of the show -- which were still in front of a live audience -- at one point Joey Richter came back onstage as the Doctor instead of the Ox during the intro to "Naked in a Lake", prompting him to exclaim [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I didn't know we were going to the end!"]]
** An intentional prank, where instead of Rachael Soglin as the Mother seductively approaching the Father giving her final line of the play, "Come on, honey, the water's just right" the ''Ox'' does it, causing Jeff Blim [[EnforcedMethodActing to actually recoil in horror]].
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* RealitySubtext: The family is originally from Illinois, the same state in which the show was produced (in Chicago).
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* RealitySubtext: The family is originally from Illinois, the same state in which the show was produced (in Chicago).Chicago).
* SleeperHit: When the decision was made to do this show and {{Theatre/Ani}} as sister repertory productions in Starkid's 2014 season it seemed like the parody of Star Wars was a far more likely hit than the parody of Oregon Trail, especially with the latter being a shorter, fluffier, DenserAndWackier show with intentionally very bare-bones set design and costumes. Contrary to those expectations, it's this show that ended up being the big phenomenon, with local productions as far away as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Ani that got remembered as a relative disappointment.
* SleeperHit: When the decision was made to do this show and {{Theatre/Ani}} as sister repertory productions in Starkid's 2014 season it seemed like the parody of Star Wars was a far more likely hit than the parody of Oregon Trail, especially with the latter being a shorter, fluffier, DenserAndWackier show with intentionally very bare-bones set design and costumes. Contrary to those expectations, it's this show that ended up being the big phenomenon, with local productions as far away as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Ani that got remembered as a relative disappointment.
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* DuelingShows: This show came a year after a production titled [[https://www.alligatorpearpublishing.com/oregon-trail-the-play Oregon Trail: The Play]] by the NOLA Project in New Orleans, with extremely similar structure and themes (although the latter veers much more into WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical). Thanks to Creator/TeamStarkid's existing fanbase and tradition of putting their shows on YouTube, ''The Trail to Oregon'' pretty much "won" this duel in terms of name recognition, though both shows have seen their fair share of regional productions.
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* ActorAllusion: At the end of the show the Father considers that, since robbing the General Store Guy was much more successful than his career as a farmer, he may take up a life of crime. Both of Jeff Blim's previous major roles for Creator/TeamStarkid, [[Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman Sweet Tooth]] and [[Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier Aladdin]], were sociopathic criminals.
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* RealitySubtext: The family is originally from Illinois, the same state in which the show was produced (in Chicago).
