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{{quote|''"Feed me! Feed me!... [[Chewing the Scenery|Feed me]], Seymour!"''}}
The story revolves around Mushnik's Skid Row Florists and the three people who work there: Mr Mushnik, the proprietor, and his two assistants, Seymour and Audrey. Seymour loves Audrey, but hasn't told her because he's a poor orphan with no future to offer her. Audrey is dating a rich but thoroughly unpleasant guy and dreams of meeting a nice man who'll love her for herself, but believes it will never happen. The shop is on its last legs: there's nothing in the till but cobwebs and dust.
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But there's a catch: The plant thrives on [[Blood Lust|human blood]], and will [[Horror Hunger|die without it]]. At first, Seymour can keep it satisfied with his own blood, but as it grows larger it demands more than a person can give and live. But, you know, there's that repulsive boyfriend of Audrey's -- surely nobody would miss him if he were to... disappear...
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The musical jettisons several incidental characters, tightens the plot and gives Seymour's struggle with the carnivorous Audrey II a proper narrative arc.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]] through [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The subplot about Mr. Mushnik adopting Seymour is dropped, along with a few incidental songs, to make a tight 90-minute narrative. Also worth noting, the scene with [[Bill Murray]] as a masochistic dental patient did not appear in the stage version. It derives from a [[One-Scene Wonder|famous scene]] in [[The Little Shop of Horrors|the 1960 movie]] which originally featured [[Jack Nicholson]] in this role.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Audrey is traditionally platinum blonde (the acting script refers to her as such). In the original film, she was brunette.
* [[Adorkable]]: Seymour and Audrey.
* [[Alter Kocker]]: Mr. Mushnik.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Audrey II—a plant who acts and sounds male, but has a female name and gets referred to by feminine pronouns (admittedly, when Seymour states that "the Audrey II is not a healthy girl", the Audrey II hasn't revealed itself as sentient yet, so he's speaking pretty loosely).
* [[And You Were There]]: After Audrey II starts growing, Seymour is approached by a series of people offering him fame and fortune (three in the musical number "The Meek Shall Inherit", and one more in the final scene); all four are played by a single actor. The same actor also plays the plant's first victim. <small>(As well as various one-off characters with less metaphorical resonance.)</small>
* [[Apocalypse How]]: The Audrey II invasion as depicted in the original ending could potentially range anywhere from Class 0 to Class 5.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Orin.
** {{spoiler|Seymour}} also counts, it being his [[Karmic Death]].
*** Possibly also {{spoiler|Mr. Mushnik}}, depending on how the actor and director play it.
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "Dentist!" ends by becoming this. "Say ''ahhhhh!" "Ahhhhh!"''
* [[Award Bait Song]]: "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" is not present in the stage version, although it has been added in some revivals. It was added to the screenplay so the film could receive an Oscar nomination for "Best Original Song". It lost, sadly (it should be noted that "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" is definitely not your typical [[Award Bait Song]]).
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Orin Scrivello.
* [[B-Movie]]: A parody thereof.
* [[Badass Biker]]: "What kind of 'professional' rides a motorcycle and [[Hell-Bent for Leather|wears a black leather jacket]]?" (Orin Scrivello, D.D.S., that's what kind.)
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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: All over the place.
* [[The Berserker]]: Seymour in the final scene. ''"Now!"''
* [[Better Living Through Evil]]: Audrey II uses this method to convince Seymour to feed it Orin and Mesnick by bringing up the fact that it could make Seymour rich. It eventually works once Seymour realizes what he could buy with the insane amount of money Audrey II is capable of bringing in.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Seymour.
* [[Blood Lust]]: ''"Don't need no twist of lime..."''
* [[Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress]]: {{spoiler|You can tell when the [[Focus Group Ending]] kicks in when the dress becomes a lot less blood stained}}.
* [[Boredom Montage]]
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Audrey II steals Seymour's tiny six-shooter pistol during "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" and proceeds to fire about twelve shots at him.
* [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]]: One of the patients in Scrivello's office.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Seymour. Audrey was broken long before the musical started.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Bill Murray as the masochistic patient shows some inclinations.
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Feed me!" and variants thereof.
** A more subtle one is Audrey's "Sure!", which even gets referenced in "Suddenly, Seymour" ("I'd meet a man and I'd follow him blindly/He'd snap his fingers/Me, I'd say 'sure'!"). In the film of the musical, she even says "Sure!" through a film of happy tears when {{spoiler|Seymour proposes}}.
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* [[Cephalothorax]]: Audrey II. When it swallows you, where do you go?
** The carnivorous pitcher-plant dissolves its prey in its juices. Audrey II must work on this principle, and its teeth just make the process a little more, ah, ''digestible''.
* [[Cow Tools]]: Orin's medieval-looking dental appliances.
{{quote|'''Seymour:''' It's rusty!
'''Orin:''' It's an antique.}}
:Amusingly, they were recycled as the instruments used by the back-alley doctor when he operated on Jack Napier in [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Skid Row. More like a beer-bottle in a paper bag world.
* [[Creepy Physical]]
* [[Crosscast Role]]: Mrs. Luce, usually, since the tradition is for all the characters who offer Seymour fame and fortune to be played by a single (male) actor.
* [[Crowd Song]]: "Skid Row" and "Don't Feed the Plants".
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "[[Oh Crap|OH SHI]]--" It should be noted, though, that elsewhere Audrey II is allowed to curse quite freely.
* [[Cut and Paste Suburb]]: Audrey reveals her greatest dream is a simple life in a tract house in "Somewhere That's Green".
{{quote|'''Audrey:''' I'll cook like / Betty Crocker... and I'll look like / Donna Reed!}}
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** Audrey, a happy-go-lucky [[The Ditz|ditz]] in the film, becomes the product of a broken home who's been in one bad relationship after another, suffers from low self-esteem, and is regularly abused by her sadistic boyfriend. {{spoiler|She also dies in the end}}.
** The plant goes from being a somewhat sarcastic, [[Horror Hunger|ever-hungry]] presence to a [[Magnificent Bastard]] plotting {{spoiler|world domination}}.
** The dentist goes from merely being crazy to being a sadistic monster who proudly boasts about the childhood he spent murdering animals in horrific ways.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: Of "Somewhere That's Green".
** Not just that. See the trope page.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Even referred to as such in the acting script (the precise wording is "pact with the devil"). The introduction references the [[Faust]] legend as well.
* [[Death by Adaptation]]:
** {{spoiler|Mushnik}} and {{spoiler|Audrey}} don't die in the original movie.
** {{spoiler|Audrey II}} in the [[Focus Group Ending]].
* [[Death by Cameo]]: In the original workprint ending, director Frank Oz is seen {{spoiler|1=being eaten by the Audrey IIs invading New York}}.
* [[Death Song]]: "Now (It's Just the Gas)" for Orin and {{spoiler|"Somewhere That's Green (reprise)"}} for {{spoiler|Audrey}}.
* [[Defeat by Modesty]]: In both versions of the film, Audrey II thwarts Seymour's attempt to axe it by pantsing him, prompting Seymour to drop the axe and duck behind a counter.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: No matter what its gender, Audrey II acts rather seductively toward both Seymour and Audrey.
* [[Depraved Dentist]]
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''And he tells me, "Gee, I'm not sure,''
''Sweep that floor, kid!"''}}
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Completely inverted with the [[Focus Group Ending]].
* [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?]]: Seymour's relationship with the plant, especially in "Feed Me (Git It)".
* [[Did You Get a New Haircut?]]: "Is that new eye makeup?"
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The [[Focus Group Ending]] closes "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" (wherein Audrey II reveals himself in all his unstoppable glory) with Seymour {{spoiler|electrocuting him}}.
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|Audrey, in Seymour's arms}}.
* [[Die Laughing]]: "Now (It's Just the Gas)".
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* [[Dirty Communists]]: The original premise of the film the play was based on is obviously a commentary on appeasing Nazis and Communists (and other dictator types). It's even lampshaded in one of the songs.
{{quote|''"I've given you sunlight, I've given you rain, looks like you're not happy 'less I open a vein! I'll give you a few drops... if that'll appease..."''}}
* [[Disney Creatures of the Farce]]: In the "Somewhere That's Green" [[Imagine Spot]].
* [[Domestic Abuser]]: Audrey's boyfriend Orin Scrivello is a "semi-" sadist.
* [[Drama Queen]]: Audrey is meant to be played this way, though admittedly she's sincere about what she feels and goes through a lot more than most examples of the trope.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Seymour complains about how he has to keep feeding Audrey II, and Audrey (number I) wonders why he's so upset about the cost of plant food.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Audrey.
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* [[Eleven O Clock Number]]: "The Meek Shall Inherit".
* [[Empathic Environment]]: "Shang-a-lang, feel the sturm und drang in the air..." Besides that, the script calls for a "Wagnerian" sunset to heighten the over-the-top drama when {{spoiler|Seymour feeds Audrey to the plant}}.
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: The ending shows {{spoiler|a little Audrey II outside Seymour and Audrey's garden, with the unstated implication being that someone else passing by is bound to notice it (since it's "strange and interesting"), take it with them, and then here we go again....}}
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Orin.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:
** Audrey II looked just as pissed as Seymour was, when they watched Orin abuse Audrey. {{spoiler|Though that doesn't stop it from trying to eat her}}.
** The gleefully sadistic, completely heartless Orin Scrivello is so disgusted by his encounter with the masochist that he ends up kicking him out of doors.
{{quote|'''Orin:''' Get out of here! Go on, get out of here!...''Goddamn sicko!''}}
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Audrey II. Orin on Nitrous oxide.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Audrey II.
* [[Expy]]: [[Steve Martin]]'s role in this film has been compared to his feature film debut as Dr Maxwell Edison in 1978's ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. [[Bill Murray]]'s role as Arthur Denton is an expy of Wilbur Force, the [[Jack Nicholson]] character from [[The Little Shop of Horrors|the 1960 movie]].
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Seymour, and to a lesser extent Audrey.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: In the revised ending:
{{quote|{{spoiler|Audrey II}}: ''"Oh... SHIT!"'' *kaboom!*}}
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Orin and Audrey II (Orin doesn't even pretend to be nice to Audrey, but he acts friendly toward Seymour).
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* [[Final Love Duet]]
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]
* [[Focus Group Ending]]: The stage adaptation's [[Downer Ending]] {{spoiler|1=with our heroes being eaten and multiple Audrey IIs taking over the world}} was shot, but focus groups decided to change this in favor of the less confronting [[The End - or Is It?]] ending.
* [[Fur and Loathing]]: Stage directions indicate that the [[Crosscast Role|rather]] [[Terms of Endangerment|creepy]] Mrs. Luce wears a fox fur coat.
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: PG Rated, Not very.
{{quote|'''Ronette:''' Here he is folks, the leader of the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|plaque]]!
'''Chiffon:''' Watch him suck up that gas, Oh- my- God...!}}
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Audrey II has a feminine name but is traditionally played by a male actor and has a masculine personality (being a plant, and probably an alien, it's anybody's guess what gender Audrey II really is - if any).
* [[Gender Equals Breed]]: In the "Somewhere That's Green" dream sequence, which was one of the inspirations for the trope, Seymour and Audrey's kids are identical to their mother and father.
* [[The Ghost]]: Mrs. Shiva, who was an onscreen character in the original film.
* [[Ghost Song]]: "Don't Feed the Plants".
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]
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* [[Grass Is Greener]]
* [[Greedy Jew]]: Mushnik—though, to be fair, a ''lot'' of characters want to make money off that plant.
* [[Greek Chorus]]: The three Sassy Black Women (see below) Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon.
* [[Grief Song]]: In the German version, Seymour responds to {{spoiler|Audrey's death}} with a [[Dark Reprise]] of "Suddenly, Seymour".
* [[Groin Attack]]:
{{quote|''I got killer buds, a power stem, nasty pods, and I'm using them!
''So better move 'em out, Nature calls! You got the point?
''I'm gonna '''bust your balls!'''}}
* [[Heel Realization]]: [[Not So Different|"You're a monster, and so am I!"]]
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: Seymour's reason for killing Mushnik.
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Orin wears a black leather jacket. The acting script calls for an insignia of a bleeding tooth across the back.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]:
{{quote|"He took me out of the Skid Row Home for Boys when I was just a little tyke. Gave me a warm place to sleep, under the counter. Nice things to eat like meatloaf and water. Floors to sweep and toilets to clean and every other Sunday off!"}}
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Mrs. Luce (in real life, Clare Booth Luce) really ''was'' the wife of the editor of Life Magazine. She was also a playwright, journalist, socialite, ambassador and congresswoman.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Seymour, eaten by his own giant plant}}, and Orin, who asphyxiates when the laughing gas mask gets stuck. In the stage show, Mushnik plays with this- he worries about money to the point of adopting Seymour just to keep the plant, and Seymour tells him he put the day's earnings in the plant during Suppertime, but considering A) how the shop had been doing before Audrey II, and B) the fact that it's apparently over a thousand dollars, his concern is more or less justified. {{spoiler|Audrey}} is the only victim who doesn't really have a [[Karmic Death]].
** {{spoiler|Audrey's}} death was karmic - {{spoiler|for Seymour instead of for her}}.
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* [[Horror Hunger]]
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: After we're treated to a seemingly nice and lovable guy getting seduced into repeat murder, the ending song tells us that the plants are doing the same thing all across America, offering "unsuspecting jerks" their wildest dreams in exchange for blood. The message of "Don't Feed the Plants" is obvious—with the right motivation, ''anyone'' could kill people to feed a plant. Including ''[[You Bastard|you]]''.
* [["I Am" Song]]:
** "I am your dentist!"
** "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space".
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Audrey II's behavior toward Audrey in "Suppertime (reprise)".
* [[I Lied]]: ''No shit, Sherlock!''
* [[Idiot Ball]]: After killing Orin, Seymour indulges in what has to rank among the worst murder coverups in the history of fiction. He leaves his baseball cap and his bag at the scene of the crime (the bag, by the way, has the ''name of the shop'' on it), stuffs Orin's uniform in the trash can outside the shop, and ''doesn't even bother to clean up the blood he spilled on the shop floor''. When questioned about it, he says, "I spilled some Hawaiian Punch and it stained."
* [[If We Get Through This]]: Used, and the focus of a [[Cut Song]].
* [[Ill Girl]]: Audrey doesn't have the usual [[Soap Opera Disease]], but she is not a healthy girl.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: "Somewhere That's Green".
* [[The Ingenue]]: Audrey (the human).
* [[Insecure Love Interest]]: This is why Audrey doesn't consider leaving the abusive "semi-sadist" Orin for her [[Adorkable]] [[Nice Guy]] coworker Seymour; she likes Seymour, but she considers herself too dirty and worthless to be with him.
** For his part, Seymour is convinced that he's not good enough for Audrey. When he finally realizes that she loves him back, he assumes that it's because he now has money and believes that he'll lose her if he loses his income from the plant. Tragedy ensues.
* [[Ironic Echo]]:
{{quote|'''Seymour:''' You're a monster, and so am I!
'''Audrey II:''' ''Feed me!''}}
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** "Skid Row", "Grow for Me" and "Mushnik and Son" also qualify—and, to a lesser degree, "Now (It's Just the Gas)" and "The Meek Shall Inherit".
* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: Audrey secretly wished Orin would disappear, and when he actually ''does'', she blames herself, worrying that it's her fault if he "met with foul play" ({{spoiler|although she doesn't know it, she ''is'' the reason Seymour killed him}}).
* [[Kaiju]]: In the original, unreleased ending, swarms of 50-foot plant-monsters rampage throughout New York in what may have been a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Godzilla]]'' (and ''[[King Kong]]'').
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Audrey II}}.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]:
** Orin
** {{spoiler|Audrey II}}
* [[Laughably Evil]]: Orin, Audrey II, and (depending on how he's played) Mushnik.
* [[Laughing Mad]]: ''Dr.'' Orin Scrivello during Seymour's dental exam. {{spoiler|Admittedly, it was due to a fatal overdose of laughing gas}}.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Quite a few. Just to name one example, the tune to Mushnik And Son appears three times, not counting in the song itself.
* [[Lonely
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: All of Seymour's evil deeds are done for Audrey's sake.
* [[Love Redeems]]: "Suddenly, Seymour" is about Audrey being redeemed by Seymour, which is ironic when you consider that she's [[The Ingenue]] and he's {{spoiler|a murderer}}.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Quite a lot: cheerful, rousing rock/motown numbers spliced with references to horror and bloodshed are the order of the day here.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Mr. Mushinik, who cares somewhat for Seymour (though more for money) and for Audrey, who he constantly advises to drop her abusive boyfriend.
* [[Jewish Complaining]]
* [[Jews Love to Argue]]
* [[The Klutz]]: Seymour's signature trait before the Audrey II plot takes off, at which point it disappears (unlike his counterpart in the original film, he's not a [[Lethal Klutz]]).
* [[Large Ham]]: [[World of Ham|Almost everyone]] in the 1986 film, but Levi Stubbs in particular sounds like he's having an absolute ''blast''.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: See [[Darker and Edgier]] and [[Dark Reprise]] in the play version. It manages to contain ''all these aspects'' in its songs, but somehow makes it lighthearted simply by changing the ending and some of the songs.
* [[Man-Eating Plant]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Audrey II.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** The dentist: Orin ("oral") Scrivello (a type of elephant tusk).
** Arthur ''Denton'' loves getting painful dental work done...
** Mrs. Shiva, the old yenta whose family is dropping off like flies. "Sitting shiva" is the Jewish tradition of mourning.
* [[Miracle-Gro Monster]]: Audrey II gradually gets bigger as it gets more blood.
* [[Money Song]]: Since money is a huge part of the plot, it's inevitable that some songs would revolve, at least partially, around it. Probably the best example is Mushnik's intro to "Ya Never Know".
* [[Mood Whiplash]]
* [[Mouth Cam]]: During "Dentist".
* [[Movie Bonus Song]]: "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space", and arguably "Some Fun Now" (which is a rewrite of the musical's "Ya Never Know").
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]
* [[The Musical]]
* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]
* [[Nightmare Sequence]]: "The Meek Shall Inherit" was going to be this, but the scene was cut down. [[What Could Have Been|You can still hear the rest of it on the soundtrack]].
* [[No Communities Were Harmed]]: <s>Manhattan in the 60s</s> <s>Downtown south of 14th</s> Skid Row.
* [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here]]: Lampshaded in the opening monologue. The narrator talks about how threats to Earth often happen in the most ordinary and unlikely of places.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: For a good part of the show, Seymour and Audrey are oblivious to each others' love. Each [[Insecure Love Interest|admires the other excessively and has about zero self-esteem]].
** [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]], as Seymour refuses to stop feeding the plant because he fears Audrey would stop caring about him if he was broke again {{spoiler|which leads to their deaths}}.
* [[Oh Crap]]: All of the main characters get this one at some point.
* [[Our Founder]]: A picture of Mr. Mushnik with the caption "Our Founder" appears in the shop in the scene following "The Meek Shall Inherit".
* [[Paparazzi]]:
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Mushnik would come off as a complete [[Jerkass]] if he didn't show concern for Audrey and urge her to break up with Orin.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: The fact that Audrey II is a "strange and interesting plant" is repeated by no fewer than five characters in the scene where Seymour puts it in Mushnik's display window. Strange and interesting indeed.
* [[Plant Aliens]]
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Seymour attempts one of these on Audrey II, but {{spoiler|ends up getting eaten}}.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Three of them, in the form of Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon, who also function as the show's [[Greek Chorus]] (see above).
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Audrey II
* [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]
* [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: Audrey counts as a subversion. She ''thinks'' she's one, but she's really [[The Ingenue]].
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Crystal, Ronette, Chiffon and Audrey II for Seymour/Audrey.
* [[Shrine to the Fallen]]: Played for laughs—Orin has a closet shrine [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|to his dearly departed mom]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: Comedy-dominant, though the line definitely gets blurred.
* [["Somewhere" Song]]
* [[The Song Before the Storm]]: The cut song "We'll Have Tomorrow" would have taken place in the shop shortly before "Sominex/Suppertime (reprise)".
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: In the [[Focus Group Ending]], {{spoiler|Audrey and Seymour}}. Note that {{spoiler|Audrey}} has a recursive case of this, as {{spoiler|she [[Death by Adaptation|didn't die in the original film that the musical itself was based on]]}}.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: In the film, {{spoiler|they escape}} Skid Row. But {{spoiler|1=one of the mini-Audrey IIs}} [[The End - or Is It?|comes with them!]]
* [[Take Over the World]]: {{spoiler|Audrey II's plan all along}}.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Several cases, as in the cut song "We'll Have Tomorrow". The best example has to be when Seymour first agrees to feed blood to the tiny plant: "Well, okay... as long as you don't make a ''habit'' of it or anything!"
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Several examples:
** Orin calls Seymour "stud".
** In "The Meek Shall Inherit", Bernstein, Mrs. Luce and Skip Snip address Seymour with increasingly uncomfortable pet names ("dollface", "my sweet, sweet thing" and "pussycat", to name a few).
** Audrey II [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|flirts with the human Audrey]] {{spoiler|moments before attempting to eat her}}.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon take their names from the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Chiffons; all 1960s New York African-American girl groups.
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{{quote|'''Audrey:''' A ''gun?''
'''Seymour:''' And bullets! And rat poison! And a machete!}}
* [[They Call Me
* [[This Is a Drill]]: Orin's drill isn't rusty, it's an antique.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: "Wait for me, Audrey--this is between me and the vegetable!"
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Audrey}}.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Arthur Denton.
* [[To Serve Man]]
* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]: [[Man-Eating Plant|Audrey II]] appears at a plant store in a solar eclipse.
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* [[Trial Balloon Question]]
* [[Twice Shy]]: Seymour and Audrey.
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: The [[Greek Chorus]] have a better dresser than Michelle Obama.
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: Seymour could be seen as a [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]]. He fits the description perfectly until {{spoiler|Audrey dies}}.
* [[Villain Love Song]]: "Feed Me (Git It)" and "Suppertime (reprise)".
* [[Villain Recruitment Song]]: "Mushnik and Son", which is followed immediately by "Feed Me (Git It)".
* [[Villain Song]]: "Dentist", "Feed Me" and "Suppertime".
** Depending on how it's played, "Mushnik and Son".
** "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space".
* [[Wanderlust Song]]
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]
* [[Where Do You Think You Are?]]:
{{quote|Better ourselves? You hear what he said, girls? ''Bet-ter'' ourselves? Mister, when you're from [[Crapsack World|Skid]] [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|Row]], ain't no such thing.}}
* [[Wife-Basher Basher]]: Seymour. He plans to ignore the plant and not feed it anything—until Orin abuses Audrey right in front of him. Audrey II is, of course, [[Magnificent Bastard|fully aware]] that this is Seymour's [[Berserk Button]].
{{quote|'''Seymour:''' ''He's so nasty, treatin' her rough!''
'''Audrey II:''' ''Smackin' her 'round, always talkin' so tough!''
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* [[You Bastard]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]
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