Backwards Compatible

Backwards Compatible is the seventh episode of season 2 of Play It By Ear, a Dropout exclusive show. Framed in the same narrative device as Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, the plot is given to the audience in reverse chronological order.
==Episode Description==
Nothing ages more fine than friendship through time. Dropout Episode Description
==Musical Cast==
===Jess McKenna===
*Mary
*Clarice
*Sarah
*Sandy
===Zach Reino===
*Duncan
*Smee
*Jenna
===Zeke Nicholson===
*Donuts
*Captain Jameson
==Songs and Prompts==
Opening scene (really the end) takes place at a fancy gala and the final number (really the beginning) takes place at a Friendsgiving
*"Nothing Ages More Fine than Friendship Through Time" (3:14)
Product placement of a made-up product
*"Shortcake Stack" (9:54)
Song on Steamboat should involve as much whistling as possible
*"If we went up the river" (15:58)
*"Mary can't say huge"(18:40)
Scene with a lot of Down Under Dialects
Song with an ABAB rhyme scheme
*"Love is the Same Down Under or Above" (22:42)
One character looks physically different now that we're back in time
*Donuts cuts off his defining characteristic 12 foot long hair
Song that will "bring on the funk"
*"Let Me Inside (Your Hair)" (27:16)
Song with as much scientific terminology as possible
*"Mushrooms and Rocks" (33:18)
First Scene
*"Here's to our friend Chelsea" (38:431)
==Shortcake Stack Facts==
*Low in Calories
*High in Fiber
*Made with sugar sucralose
*Strawberry Shortcake Flavored
*Comes in a can (like the one with the pringles man)
*Also comes in Steak with Bernaise
==Plot Points from Opening Number (and if they happened)==
 
Plot Point 	Actual Event
Donut's drink of choice: whiskey sour in a champagne flute 	38:04
Friendsgiving 	37:12, the closing scene where they all met at Chelsea's
Mary wins a lifetime achievement award 	3:14 The opening scene
Years where they didn't talk 	Mary and Duncan have no contact after Donuts jumps off the boat
Ordeal on the steam boat 	The 3 friends feel sick after eating magical healthy mushrooms and go on the steam boat, then Donuts jumps off the boat
Funny time by the big rock 	32:10
The other thing we all remember that happened last November (not December)	Duncan returns to the lab for the first time since the steam boat
Mary can't pronounce the word huge 	18:40, 32:18, 38:00
Australian Backpacking 	Down Under Scene, eating s'mores
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==References==