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Line 1: {{work}} ''Back to the Eighties'' is a strange variation on the [[Jukebox Musical]] by Neil Gooding where instead of using all songs from one band, only songs from one decade ([[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin\|the 80s]]) are used. The musical focuses on the senior year of fictional American high school William Ocean High, particularly an uncool kid named Corey Palmer with a crush on popular girl Tiffany Houston, a hatred of popular guy Micheal Feldman and rather unfair feelings of superiority towards loveable nerd Feargal McFerrin III. The show is subtitled "The Totally Awesome Musical", and it doesn't really get any less cheesy from that point on... ---- {{tropelist}} ~~This work provides examples of:~~ * [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Alf Bueller is described as "destined to remain a bachelor" and also blows Corey a kiss at one point. * [[Butt Monkey]]: Feargal, initially. Line 16 ⟶ 17: * [[Minored in Asskicking]]: Feargal, almost literally - he takes extra-curricular martial arts lessons. * [[Musical Theme Naming]]: ''Everyone''. * [[Shout -Out]]: Oh boy. For starters, every single character (even ones we don't see on-stage) is named after a famous 80s personage. Then there are on-stage conversations about [[~~The A-Team (TV)\|~~The A-Team]], the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], [[~~Pacman~~Pac-Man]], [[Space Invaders]], [[Star Wars]] etc. And some scenes are clearly an [[Affectionate Parody]] of similar scenes from [[Ferris ~~Buellers~~Bueller's Day Off ~~(Film)~~\|Ferris Buellers Day Off]] and [[The Karate Kid]]. * [[This Loser Is You]]: The audience is clearly supposed to relate to Corey, despite his being very low down the high-school food-chain. * [[Those Two Guys]]: Alf and Kirk, Corey's best friends. Laura and Debbie could be seen as a female variant, as could Mel and Kim. * [[Verb This]]: {{quote\| '''Feargal''': These are not just hands; they are defensive weapons!~~<br />~~ '''Micheal''': Oh yeah? Then defend ''this''! }} * [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Micheal leaves fake love letters in Eileen's locker, all of which are made up of lines from famous songs put together. Line 27 ⟶ 28: [[Category:The Musical]] [[Category:Back To The Eighties]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Theatrical Productions]]