I haven't read the book or know half of the damn musical, but from what I'm hearing: the book- Everyone is a dick except the Squip the play- Everyone is ok except the Squip seems reasonable

The Book: Michael is not gay The Musical: Michael is gay

I think Michael is everyone's favorite character so you're not alone lmao

He swallowed the smart tictac

ITS A GRAY OBLONG PILL, QUANTUM NANO-TECHNOLOGY CPU.

So i kinda can compare a bit (i guess) Musical Christine- adorable, likeable, theather dork, ADD. Book Christine- basically Chloe combined with Brooke.

Best possible universe: book squip and musical everyone else

People who dont watch anime: Why is anime so popular? Me:*Bursts in* ITS FROM JAPANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

The only thing I dislike about the musical is that rich didn't wear a marijuana costume

I kind of preferred the Squip in the book. He was a metaphor for different medications for dealing with mental illness. It's a side of mental health you almost never see and I'm not as fond of the way they just made him represent low self esteem as a concept.

I love book squip he's so precious tbh

I love BMC because Michael

Book Michael is the wooorst and book Jeremy needs musical squip to roast him like boiiii

the squip is a literal chill pill

“Rich is the most major of the minor characters...” Which is like being the tallest dwarf

I've read and listened. I cried when Squippy had to leave or "die" in the book. I really do like how he was petrayed in the musical despite him not being as the one in the book. Over all it was such an amazing story cause it has never been done in this Zany fashion💜

Musical Brooke is my spirit animal. Get inside my mother's car

WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT YOU READ THE BOOK IN LIKE, THIRD GRADE AND DIDNT REMEMBER BUT NOW AND YOURE SHOOOOK

I actually like musical squip more, and I find it hard to paint him as the villain, because he's only doing what he's been programmed to do. Except this time, he acts like he knows what he's doing and needs to do it or else

Both versions seem appropriate for what they are trying to do. The musical version of the show would have been too "dramatic" and all over the place for a book, but the book version would have been anticlimactic and underdeveloped. Either way it's a genuinely interesting story and I am loving the musical, even though some of the songs are inherently very sad or sinister the show manages to make all of them catchy and/or fun, which isn't an easy thing to pull off. Also Michael in a Bathroom makes me cry everytime.

Musical Squip is absolute fanfic material

This is why you don’t swallow tic tacs children

I wonder what Ned Vizzini would've thought of the musical. I hope he would've liked it. I hope he would've been happy that so many people are into it now, and are reading his book now because of it.

Kind of an unpopular opinion but Jake is my favorite character in the musical. I don't know *why* he's my favorite I just really like him. I also feel really bad for him, 'cause his parents abandoned him.

in the book michael is a straight white dude #notmymichael

In my opinion, i like both the musical and the book. the only thing i really don't like is the book michael. He's just.... it's not my michael. I also have a love for both the musical and book ending and tbh i can never choose between the two; though, i love the SQUIP being the villan and i love love love eric morris william, i also believe the SQUIP is just doing that it's prgrammed to do and it's... not the villan if this makes sense? (Forgive my spelling mistakes it's midnight here). So yeah. I love the musical, yet i love the book. I don't think I can choose a favourite. But, I would say I lean more towards the musical because it's what got me into be more chill in the first place.

Chloe and Jeremy at the party (Book) Jeremy: "O FUK YE ChLOE" Chloe and Jeremy at the party (Show) Chloe:"CAN U HEAR ME I AM HAVING HOT $EX WITH JEREMYYY" Jeremy: "NO"

2:18 and he has a thing for Asian girls. Me: YES IT WAS MEANT TO BE

I currently am waiting to get the book (I have it on hold at my local library) and I'm super excited to read it. I do think I'm a little biased though, since I'm obsessed with the musical 😂

Book SQUIP: who're you? Musical SQUIP: I'm you but with more sex appeal

He takes a chill pill 😂 i love bmc

Hamilton: Before: why is everybody obsessed? wat iz dis? After: this is aaaaawesome! Heathers: Before: not that great, too old. Meh After: Yo! Be more chill: Before: not that popular, not gonna listen to it. After: AGAIN? Seriously?! You are a human-musical matchmaker! lol

Reading the book because I’ve been obsessed with the musical. Basically, I use the characters’ likenesses and voices from the show in my head as I read. However, I imagine them being separate characters and a totally separate story from the musical.

I wanna read the book....

Michael > Everyone 😤

I listened to the a show probably a million times. And read the book once. I adore and love every part of the book, but since I listened to musical first, I don't know if I should be disappointed in the book or the musical. The book was very anticlimactic, but the Squip made everything SO much better. I think the idea of the Squip and Jeremy (and maybe Michael?) having a mutual relationship and writing the book for Christine was very clever. And the fact that Michael was oblivious to everything Jeremy was doing was hilarious. But they never played Apocalypse of the Damned together... IM STILL PISSED. *BUT THIS IS WHY NED VIZZINI IS THE BEST AUTHOR. EVER.*

Michael Mell defense squad

My favorite character is actually Jeremy, followed closely by Rich. Still love Michael though. ~Warning: Really Fleckin' Long~ My reasoning (this is coming from someone who has only listened to the musical, not read the book. But I've read the script.. so... that counts?): Jeremy just seems so much more realistic with more realistic character traits and problems than Michael. I feel that when people say things like, "Oh, he's such a jerk! What a douche canoe!" I feel like they are forgetting some major things: 1) Jeremy was completely being bullied by Rich and Jake in the beginning, there's no argument there. 2) Jeremy had neither a mom nor a dad to lean on and get support from. The one that he DID have did literally nothing until the very end of the musical. 3) He was under immense pressure from the Squip and from basically everyone around him. I dunno about you, but personally I make really bad decisions under pressure, and I'm assuming Jeremy is too. 4) Jeremy was *almost raped* by Chloe. How do people just gloss over that?! Does "Do You Wanna Hang?" just not exist?! 5) The Squip was freaking brainwashing him. Can you honestly say you would not have done the same in Jeremy's position? It may seem greedy and stupid now, but he was given the choice to either keep being a 'loser' or get everything he's ever wanted in life. I'm not proud of it, but realistically I would have jumped at that chance. 6) Jeremy isn't psychic. How would he know how his actions would affect those around him, including Michael? Plus, he just seems so sweet to Christine and seems like a genuinely nice guy. Don't get me wrong, I freaking love Michael, but I he just doesn't seem like he could be *real*. Peer pressure doesn't affect him ("There's never been a better time in history to be a loser!") and honestly his character doesn't extend farther than 'Jeremy's friend'. Seriously, the only problem he ever faces revolves around Jeremy (thus creating the tearjerking "Michael in the Bathroom"). You might say, "Well, duh. Jeremy is the MAIN FREAKING CHARACTER." True, however, even other side characters have problems not revolving around Jeremy. Take Christine, for instance. Christine is unsure whether to go out with Jake or not because she doesn't know if he is committed to being in a relationship- after all, he is notoriously a player. This storyline doesn't intertwine with Jeremy's life initially, but all of Michael's problems are because of Jeremy. Also, Michael freaking has no flaws. Again, love the guy, but I find myself particularly liking those who are realistic characters (and let's be honest: everyone has a flaw, and Michael not really having one makes him seem OP, or the musical equivalent). This was never meant to be some kind of Michael hate-speech, I was only just stating my opinion... which nobody asked for and was extremely long. I'll let myself out. (Also I like Rich 'cuz Gerard Canonico is a gift from God, okay? I really don't know why he's my second favorite, only that he is).

Oh and jeremy is a furry XD lmao. Yeah michael is still my favorite character by far. The musical did have many great songs :3

There's a play, too- it's a lot closer to the book (and it's on youtube!) Also, although it's basically impossible to find a bootleg for the musical, I've got a script on Google Drive if anyone wants to read it =)

Spoilers I loved the book but hated the ending. I wanted something dramatic with all this buildup with writing the book to give to christine but all that happens is a simple "google it" I'm mad. The stage adaption was better in terms of the ending and overall I liked the way they portrayed the squip being the villain. In the book though the squip tries to do it's job but fails and accepts that he is flawed technology and asks for Jeremy to get rid of him instead of blowing the school mad shit crazy. My favorite character in the show would have to be either the squip and in the book Rich would have to be my favorite character.

MICHAEL MAKES AN ENTRANCE!!

I finally understand why everyone hates book Michael... and I agree 100%

The book ending made me cry, but I love book Squip so much, so them dying was sad. The whole dialogue where they are telling Jeremy to kill them. That made me sob my eyes out. Then my sister came in, saw what book I was reading, and asked if I was at Michael in The Bathroom.

I DIDN'T REALIZE I READ THE BOOK UNTIL SHE DREW THE COVER OF THE BOOK AHHHHHHHH

How does this not have more views?

I haven't read all the book, but what I did read, I hated. For me, the characters are the most important part of any story, and I didn't care about/disliked all the book characters. The females were portrayed as stereotypical popular high school "bitches", and the dudes were just all assholes. Jeremy's super fucking weird, and also superficial and sex crazed. Michael's the same way. In the show, all the characters get real development, Michael's adorable, sympathetic, and probably gay,.Jeremy is likeable and I understand and forgive his actions, Christine's an actual character, Rich is an actual character (and bi!!) and also I sympathize with him, they're all just so much better.

Your points are pretty good but I think the fact that everyone in the book is less feeling and less caring is a kind of commentary on what it feels like to be left out. In my experience, when you're alone all the time you tend to base your thoughts and actions toward other people on general stereotypes and what you collect of them through general interaction. In a way you kind of lose yourself as well, moving through your interactions in a kind of clunky, awkward way, not knowing what to expect from the other people because you don't care enough to find out. I remember completely losing my personality at one point and drifting through life aimlessly. I didn't care enough to find out about other people but i desperately wanted to be left out. Michael in the book actually supports my belief because he does act like my "best friend" did towards me for the longest time. He's just there so Jeremy has someone to talk to. He's Jeremy's link to being "normal" and "cool" so that's why he keeps Michael around. In a way, I feel like the show couldn't portray what I saw in the book and what made the book special for me personally and just made it more relatable to a larger audience. Sorry for the long comment and all lol I just relate to the book so so much more than the musical but I really like both anyway.

I’m reading the book rn, and I love Be More Chill bc it kind of helps me to realize that, although I don’t believe that SQUIPS actually take over a high school somewhere out there just yet, there r some people that have a way worse time in high school than I’ll ever have. Not only is Be More Chill relatable, it’s so far fetched it helps me see the world from a different perspective. I always thought things like “oh no I failed this test the world must be ending,” but Be More Chill reminds me that some high school kids have it a lot worse. Some high schools might not even have proper desks or blackboards or anything. My school is very privileged to have things like that that give the students the best education they can manage. It helps me remember to take a deep breath and keep things in perspective

I actually didn't like the book. I thought that the characters were underdeveloped and the ending was weak. The musical however I love. I think that the writers of the musical changed all the right things about the book and made it into something way better. I still appreciate the book though since it's the source material and all. I don't like how some people act like the book never existed.

I dunno why I fangirled over the fact that you said it was by one of your favorite authors, CAUSE SAME. His works were literally amazing may he rest in peace.

I would make book squip my dad... musical squip? Not so much.

Book Michael murdered my family

Thank you for this video! I love the way you speak and explain things with these cute drawings going on. I am a huge theatre nerd and I'm trying to put that into my youtube channel as well, so I always love seeing this kind of content.

I just wish they included the scene where he steals the Bennie Babies from his Aunt. I loved that part for some reason😂

The Humiliation sheets were also in the show and I really liked it too.

You forgot that *Rich set a fire and he burned down the house*

I will stand by my belief that SQUIP is the best character in both the book and musical. FIGHT ME. (I'm just kidding. BUT HE'S STILL MY FAVORITE CHAR--- Oh yeah I freaking love Michael too)

I wish we could have a combination of musical squip and book squip. I like the kind of villain build up of the squip in just how its attempts to just follow its objectives which is to make Jer cooler and get him the girl he likes, just goes to the extreme but then I would have liked for the squip to come to the realization that he wasn’t really helping Jer and for him and Jer to kind of have a heart to heart talk as he is slowly deleted away.

Actually, Jenna Roland (or however you spell her surname, I dunno) put the Squips in the Pansy Serum, If that sounded offensive it really wasn't meant to!! Sorry if it did!!

I read the book cuz of the musical and I love them both equally. Though, when I read the book I was surprised cuz of the character changes but it didn't really bother me in the end. I really liked your comparison video and I can't stop fangirling about this franchise lolololol

tbh i liked the musical more than the book, mostly because in the musical, the characters were actually likeable (but book squip is still precious) and in the book christine was kind of an ass, but so was jeremy tbh

im mainly just distressed by how much paper you must go through making these videos, like, i would be way too sad to use my entire art pad for just a video

Musical vs book Did you mean boyf vs Asian fetish

*heavy breathing* iM gonna SCREaM Also, mIcHaEL Is loVe, mIcHaEl is beSt

I’m seeing the play in a few hours and I’m fucking excited!!

I actually met Ned Vizini a few years ago without knowledge of who he was and LOVED his books. So when be more chill was announced, I died a little. Honestly both are amazing. And separating them in my mind makes me love both equally. PS. Michael Mell is a amazing. We'd all agree~

Book - Sweet squipy Musical - E R I C W I L L I A M M O R R I S

I like both. And I agree. Michael is the best

I just wanted to say that Christine actually goes out with Jeremy which is sung in Voices in My Head

personally, I freaking love the musical adaption of the Squip and the book adaption of him. His portrayal in the book made you feel more attached to him and feel more sad of how he insists that he has to be shut off, though in the Musical it feels satisfying to see the villain get taken down. But if the Musical stuck with everything from the book I wouldn’t mind.

I got into BMC not even a month ago from writing this comment. The reason why I got into it was because it's part of that musical square where if you listen to one of them, KZfaq bugs you until you listen to all 4 (I started with Hamilton) and BMC was the last one. I didn't read the book. YES MICHAEL IS THE BEST!!! Michael In The Bathroom is the best song in my opinion. It's really sad, especially since Michael was introduced as a natural enthusiastic nonchalant guy. Glad he chose the high road and saved everyone (potentially the world too). Thanks for sharing!

Love your channel!!!

the musical was based off a play the play was based off the book the play had some things from the book and the musical didnt

3:03 So Your Telling Me... *SHES A HEATHER*

this may be old but heres a funfact: voices in my head was made in honor of Ned Vizzini (author of the book) as he died in 2013 (from what i heard, he took his life)

So a book accurate version wouldn’t have Michael in the bathroom, which is my favorite song on the soundtrack. Show Michael is definitely superior.

the play in the musical is so funny to me because imagine you have the pov of someone attending the school play. youre watching midsummer night's dream because your child is in it but in the middle of the play some twink bursts into the room screaming about mountain dew red and squips, whatever those are. and then everyone starts screaming. and youre just so confused

I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention Ned Vizzini's tragic suicide

When I had first heard of bmc they were talking about Michael in the Bathroom so I listened to it and I really liked it so I downloaded it to my phone long story short I had a 9 hour plane ride to Europe the next day and I listened to Michael in the Bathroom on loop the entire time so I fell in love with Michael before I even knew what the show was about once I landed and got WiFi I listened to the rest of the songs and completely fell in love with all the characters

Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to see the play ever, but I read the script, listened to the music, and really enjoyed it! The book obviously goes more into detail, but the personalities are way different

Yay ur left handed 😀

I actually like both versions of the squip equally, like, the “villain” squip is cool and just... a cool villain to the story, while the book squip is legit trying to help Jeremy, but messes up.

I have only heard the soundtrack and i LOVE the S.Q.U.I.P. but they make him the bad guy. He is just doing his job and helping Jeremy. I personally hate the ending of the musical. They deactivate the S.Q.U.I.P. but he still haunts Jeremy in his head as the villain. I haven't read the book yet but i will definitely try to

Michael in the book does not have a white afro. He's a white kid with an afro. There's a difference. Edit: Her name is Madeleine. Not Madeline.

IM JUST MICHALE IN THE BATHHHHHHRRROOOOMMMM

The author, Ned Vizzini, also wrote a book called Its Kind Of A Funny Story. Its really good. It truly makes me sad he killed himself. He did so much at such a young age, his book turned into a goddamn show!

“I’m a bit bias but MICHAEL DA BEST” I have only seen show and I agree bro

I saw the play before the musical and I've never read the book but from what I hear the play is very similar. I honestly prefer the play over the musical but I like musical Michael much more Edit: I would also like to say that although in the musical the squip is horrible, he is the most precious thing in the play

Thanks for this! Now I really want to read the book!

I read The book and I think my favorite moment was when Jeremy said that he and Michael used to have hair fights 😂😂

I typically don't like these types of videos but I've gotta say, This is awesome and your drawing skills are so good in a way that they're still simple yet you can easily tell who is who. Also yeah, I've definitely got a bias towards show Michael, George Salazar is such a great fit for Michaels character

See, a lot of these issues do come from a shift of narrative, Studying the differences of book and theatre is a fun thing to do, but also insainly difficult, Going from book to film then film to theatre would be much easier... An example of this would be the wizard of Oz (evidently this would still be impossible because of the shifts of media over the years) The point is the characters have changed because anti hero's are far more popular (pun intended) But id rather focus on HOW they're shown and why their arc is different, ok, book to film, (I'm gonna make this unspecific so it can apply to other situations) The book has time and more importantly direct narration to have you understand a characters angles, it can't have subtle hints as, the reader reads what is on the page, sure foreshadowing can be applied but it's not the effect I'm referring to, my point is, the writer has complete control over the story and can only really play with one source of media, The film, heres where subtly is introduced, things like facial expressions, a well placed prop and a background character can shift the whole atmosphere, thus things are left more up to perspective the story is more free and if a point is to be made (ironically) if you want subtly you need more exaggerated characters or they'll be lost in a million different perspectives, the same rules apply in theatre, except this time (in musicals) the writer has one more thing to play with, motifs, musical motifs and even better a media that can relate to its environment for instance, west side story, we all can recognise what would sound more jets than sharks because we've heard New Yorkish music, but this time things are harder to see and have to be fairly moveable (because scenes change in front of the audience) so characters and their arcs have to be vamped up even more, this gives even more room for subtly for instance you could watch BMC a million times and still not notice that a certain person was in a scene and said something that completely changed your perspective on them I find that ALL the time in musicals. Point is, unless you want your character to fade into nonexistence then the more subtle your media is the more exaggerated you have to be

My favorite character is Jeremy (don't attack)

The squip in book seemed like this. "I love you Jeremy but I don't know how to show it as a human." The musical squip is like: "I'm just trying to help you i don't really care about you

I loved be these type of videos but didn’t know it was a side of KZfaq! Thank you for showing me to it!

I have not read the book, but you can find the play on KZfaq and that seems to be closer in story than the musical.

Yay, I'm the 100th like 0': Also, I wish I could read the book- but I don't know where to get it and I'm pretty sure I don't have enough money for it.

I love the music because it’s fun and emotional and I can act it out on my room like a big dork!!

I love the animations that came out of the musical Be More Chill