Waa Writing Wrats (trivia about writers and people who contributed inspiration to the development of the show) | Waa-t up with Thaa-t? (Rejected State of the Art Plot Points) | Waa-WHO???? (Name that Waa-Mu Historical entity) | Rejected Show Titles (these are real rejected show titles) | Name this WriCo |
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Who is Brandon Acosta
This writer and Waa-2 co-director was famously proclaimed to be the “Oracle of Waa-Mu” for his uncanny ability to predict plot points in the show before they would be written.
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What is the opening?
This moment had the most songs written for it.
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What is Waa-HU? (or waa-2 2015-2016)
This infamous iteration of Waa-2 was famously known for general debauchery, cocaine, show choir smackdown, and sexual experimentation.
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What is taint?
This word was in many rejected show titles due it rhyming with “paint” and being a popular word for the perineum.
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Who is Carly Mazer and Lauren Katz.
This is only the second year of the writing coordinator position, and these two people were the first two to inhabit the position with their show, For The Record.
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Who is Gustavo Carvalho?
This dramaturg famously proposed the acronym “WADER” as a plot device for the show, and was never seen again afterwards.
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What is Skeeter?
This urban dictionary term was the original name proposed for Ash, meaning “short of mosquito, typically used by Southerners”, or, “One who ejaqulates”.
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What is “Waa-2 eat our shit”?
This chant was famously established as the moniker of the Waa-2 2016-2017, involving the consumption of fecal matter.
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What is “Defaced?”
This rejected show title is what a stick-up person would call a wall or object that has been graffitied.
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Who is Ruchir Khazanchi?
This writing coordinator once told a story about punting an ear of corn into a field with the word “taint” written on it during high school in order to sell the leadership team on the title, “State of the Taint”.
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Who is Arianna Staton?
This Waa Mu writer famously submitted what Ruchir Khazanchi described as “The Single Best Application Piece I Have Ever Seen” for their piece about wanting to fuck Megamind.
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What is ATP? (Adenosine Triphosphate)
This plot point was replaced by DTC, described as a sort of energy drink designed to heighten performance.
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Who is Kaja Broadway Burke Williams?
This former co-chair famously disappeared when rehearsals for their respective Waa-Mu began, and had the honor of receiving the middle name “Broadway”.
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What is “No Trespassing”?
This rejected show title is what Clint Eastwood would say to me, a brown man, if he saw me on his lawn.
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Who is Matthew Threadgill
This writing coordinator famously did NOT know who Pete Buttigieg was in march of 2020
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Who is Morgan Buckley?
This senior waa mu writer performed at Dillo and was famously and shockingly not a freshman to writing coordinator Emmet Smith.
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What is Bitch?
When Patricia was the owner of an air purification factory, the title of her placeholder solo was “I’m a [what] For Fresh Air?”
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Who is Tynan Friend?
this former music director once received the “Leaderboard” superlative during team music dillo brunch for the amount of cast members that he HU’d during his time in Waa-Mu.
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What is “Writing on the Wall?”
This rejected show title referenced both graffiti AND a famous Biblical story wherein a floating hand relays a message to King Belshazzar after the destruction of the first temple AND a colloquial idiom that refers to an ominous message.
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Who are Ruchir and Emmet, (Amy and Rishi)
These WriCos famously wrote a pitch for the Waa Mu Show about Cupcake Wars and putting rocks in other people’s cupcakes. DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME THE FULL PITCH TEAM:
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Who is Tony Hawk?
This widely adored celebrity inspiration was infamously a part of an anti-graffiti campaign the 1980s but also was a key influence in determining the name of one of the cities in the “State of the Art” universe, and is the subject of his own self-titled video game.
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What is “cus we’re the fucking Underbrush”
This “The Other Ones” lyric got censored in order to make State of the Art more family-friendly.
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Who is Daniel Bunning?
This current super senior was in Waa-Mu for 3 straight years (and no other shows). He had one solo lyric in the finale of Manhattan Miracle, and somehow managed to fuck it up every single night.
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What is “Burrowing Mammals?”
This rejected show title involved mammalian hibernation and was also the name of an “unaffiliated” fundraiser party, or fundie, in fall.
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Who are Matthew and Mikey?
These WriCos met the summer of 2015 at Rutgers Summer Acting Conservatory.
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