In Will Wood's 2025 musical comedy special "Slouching Towards Branson", the comedic musician tells the story of how he and his girlfriend, who are together rat parents, decide to go to Branson, Missouri together to get coupons at this vacation place scam thingy.
And by the end, it's a deeply emotional realization that not only do you have to come up with disorder, but also how you should not only care about certain people, but also about the emotional connection between you and your art, your work, your passion, and how people perceive you from it. The Will Wood we fans know is not the Will Wood that personal acquaintances know. I know that's a derogatory term. I'm closing up. As well, how what he described was the most terrifying Irish men ever, next to my dad.
I also cried like one little bitch watching this. I mean, the last times he repeats the lyric "Could You Tell Me How," from the song "...well, better than the alternative" Filmed at the huge fucking Wind Chime part outside. I just started breaking down. I don't know why, but I already got very emotional, and at that moment I was bursting with tears. It broke me in a certain way. It reminded me of the time and place and mindset I was in while first getting introduced to Will Wood, like most, through The Normal Album, and now it's crazy to think I'm almost going to be a Will Wood fan for around 6 years. Fuck, time flies.
That certain time of my life, in similar terms, and trigger warning. I wanted to die. I'm not trying to sound edgy, but I didn't want to live. I had a plan and everything. I did stuff I'm not proud of. I hurt people that should've been respected and loved by me, and not thrown away because of my troubling times, and now, later, I don't talk to most of those people. But that song that Will sang beautifully made me think back to that time, and also see how much I've changed.
The reason I started having a breakdown is to see how much I've changed because of this man. Definitely, without this man's music, I don't think I could have even made it to the end of 2020, let alone another year. Now I'm older, got an apartment, got rats yes, because of Will. I also got spiders… oh, so edgy. Got a girlfriend. Got a roommate who is a lesbian, so I'm basically third-wheeling at this point. Is that fucked up to say? You tell me.
Just seeing Will tell jokes on stage and sing some of his best work, as well as some of the best iterations of his work I wasn't the biggest fan of like some versions of his songs I do think have been way better in this more raw way, with either a piano/keyboard or ukulele. Now I know I'll have more emotional value for this version of ...better than the alternative, because of the reflection.
I know this is a comedy special and I shouldn't sound all mopey and depressed on you, but I want to tell you how much this man's work, music, and also this show, new to me or not, changed me into a way better person. I know cheesy, right? But legitimately, I can't help but go all lovey-dovey on this dude.
Also, the editing in this is fucking incredible, like the whole scene with the old guy and his not-so-better ages, like lesbians' toolboxes and Jewish circumcision, as well as the whole scene with Dennis, just ohhh! Perfect.
Probably one of the loudest I've laughed and the hardest I've ever cried to. BRAVO!
As well as Christina having fabulous green hair in her pictures we see of her at the end credits.
Fly high, Peanut. Fly high!
In Will Wood's 2025 musical comedy special "Slouching Towards Branson", the comedic musician tells the story of how he and his girlfriend, who are together rat parents, decide to go to Branson, Missouri together to get coupons at this vacation place scam thingy.
And by the end, it's a deeply emotional realization that not only do you have to come up with disorder, but also how you should not only care about certain people, but also about the emotional connection between you and your art, your work, your passion, and how people perceive you from it. The Will Wood we fans know is not the Will Wood that personal acquaintances know. I know that's a derogatory term. I'm closing up. As well, how what he described was the most terrifying Irish men ever, next to my dad.
I also cried like one little bitch watching this. I mean, the last times he repeats the lyric "Could You Tell Me How," from the song "...well, better than the alternative" Filmed at the huge fucking Wind Chime part outside. I just started breaking down. I don't know why, but I already got very emotional, and at that moment I was bursting with tears. It broke me in a certain way. It reminded me of the time and place and mindset I was in while first getting introduced to Will Wood, like most, through The Normal Album, and now it's crazy to think I'm almost going to be a Will Wood fan for around 6 years. Fuck, time flies.
That certain time of my life, in similar terms, and trigger warning. I wanted to die. I'm not trying to sound edgy, but I didn't want to live. I had a plan and everything. I did stuff I'm not proud of. I hurt people that should've been respected and loved by me, and not thrown away because of my troubling times, and now, later, I don't talk to most of those people. But that song that Will sang beautifully made me think back to that time, and also see how much I've changed.
The reason I started having a breakdown is to see how much I've changed because of this man. Definitely, without this man's music, I don't think I could have even made it to the end of 2020, let alone another year. Now I'm older, got an apartment, got rats yes, because of Will. I also got spiders… oh, so edgy. Got a girlfriend. Got a roommate who is a lesbian, so I'm basically third-wheeling at this point. Is that fucked up to say? You tell me.
Just seeing Will tell jokes on stage and sing some of his best work, as well as some of the best iterations of his work I wasn't the biggest fan of like some versions of his songs I do think have been way better in this more raw way, with either a piano/keyboard or ukulele. Now I know I'll have more emotional value for this version of ...better than the alternative, because of the reflection.
I know this is a comedy special and I shouldn't sound all mopey and depressed on you, but I want to tell you how much this man's work, music, and also this show, new to me or not, changed me into a way better person. I know cheesy, right? But legitimately, I can't help but go all lovey-dovey on this dude.
Also, the editing in this is fucking incredible, like the whole scene with the old guy and his not-so-better ages, like lesbians' toolboxes and Jewish circumcision, as well as the whole scene with Dennis, just ohhh! Perfect.
Probably one of the loudest I've laughed and the hardest I've ever cried to. BRAVO!
As well as Christina having fabulous green hair in her pictures we see of her at the end credits.
Fly high, Peanut. Fly high!
