The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee/YMMV

"Olive: I think Dad is angry, Ma / And I do not know what to do ...I think he takes out on me / What he wants to take out on you"
 * Fanon: Pairings Leaf/Logainne and Chip/Marcy. As they only have brief exchanges during the play, they're also Ships That Pass in The Night.
 * Tear Jerker: "The I Love You Song." Especially to tropers who grew up with divorced parents:


 * On the topic of Olive, her original segment of the Where Are They Now? Epilogue definitely counts: Note that this also would have been the last line of the play. Fortunately, this was soon changed to a much, much more upbeat segment in which
 * IMO, this is not an improvement. I like the twinge of depression, and you can't even call it exceptionally dark-it's still hopeful.
 * Also, Dark Reprise.
 * Barfee has quite a few lines in that bring on the tears. The saddest ones: "People are scared of me and no one really likes me" and
 * Mary Sue: Marcy Park is this.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?: Any number of school productions don't seem to grasp that, if they need to Bowdlerize an entire musical number, they may have picked the wrong play.
 * The Woobie: Try to name one character who doesn't have at least shades of this.
 * Wanna bet?
 * Considering that the audience spellers are given new words if they spell theirs right, and that the remaining spellers cheer when the last of them is eliminated, they should probably count too.