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Hamlet is Shakespeare’s 1603 soap opera of unfortunate circumstances. Hamlet’s ghost dad tells him that he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, who is now Hamlet’s step dad. That’s family for you. Hamlet then vows to kill Claudius. Time to bring on the drama. Hamlet can’t just kill his uncle/step-dad. Nope. First he has to pretend to be insane, set up a dummy play, kill his girlfriend's dad, drive said girlfriend crazy, have a duel, be poisoned, then take his revenge. Yup, lots to do, and only five acts to do it.

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00:00

Thank you We sneak in hamlet allah Shmoop you think

00:07

your parents are a pain boo My dad literally comes

00:11

back from the grave to give me chores Avenge My

00:14

dad saved me from the flames of hell Be nice

00:17

to your mother of live above a block Oh and

00:20

my mom a month after my dad croaks she marries

00:24

his brother who is the one who killed my dad

00:27

in the first place So yeah we're a little twisted

00:30

family You know we're one paternity test away from being

00:36

like featured on maury povich Well i guess we all

00:42

have our baggage like when your dad picks a fight

00:45

with norway and leaves you to deal with the swarming

00:49

armies Or when your girlfriend's dad teams up with your

00:53

interfering mother to spy on you Come on mom You're

00:57

never going to get me so enough with that old

01:00

fogey polonius and stay out of my room Fortunately i

01:04

have a cunning plan to conceal my quest for revenge

01:08

Act like a nut job so far it's going great

01:12

ophelia sure is buying it anyway and how's this for

01:16

a genius I hired a bunch of actors to recreate

01:20

my father's murder Right in front of uncle claudius He's

01:27

gonna pee himself I know it seems like my life

01:33

is an endless parade of hilarious hijinks But i have

01:37

a dark side too I wear lots of black and

01:42

not just because of compliments My skin tone Plus i

01:45

kind of broke up with ophelia And by kind of

01:48

i mean called her approved and an idiot And i

01:51

told her i never loved you may also have made

01:55

fun of marriage and implied that all women were teases

01:57

and or flirts Who used too much makeup package for

02:01

hamlets And well if you think she's mad at me

02:06

Well at least the play gag work uncle claudius totally

02:10

free I got in a couple of gigs at mom

02:12

too but the real action went down After the show

02:17

claudius was by himself praying up a storm and ripe

02:20

for an ambush I was going to introduce him to

02:23

the business end of my sword but then i realized

02:27

i can't kill him Now when he's all spiritually and

02:30

communing with his maker the last thing i want is

02:32

for that slug can go to heaven Great Now i

02:35

have to wait for him to sin again So instead

02:41

of murdering my step dad i went to see my

02:43

mom and when i got there some dude was hiding

02:46

behind the curtain So of course i stabbed first and

02:51

ask questions later Yeah turns out it was that jerk

02:55

Polonius Why do i get the feeling all philly is

02:57

not gonna like this Another package handler On a funny

03:02

or note mom saw me chatting with my ghost dad

03:05

and she couldn't even see him What the heck but

03:09

she was dialing the therapist the minute i left I

03:14

decided to have a little more fun with claudia So

03:16

i arranged a game of hide and seek with polonius

03:18

body Naturally claudius overreacted and sent me to england Cool

03:26

road trip Well on the way though i saw forty

03:31

ross army attacking poland I didn't really see the point

03:35

but if a guy whose name contains the word brock

03:37

and attack a whole country eh come on Why can't

03:40

i bump off one measly stepfather Yeah So i headed

03:46

back full of righteous anger And my welcome back party

03:49

consisted of a funeral for my girlfriend hoops and in

03:53

date for a duel with her Seriously cheesed off brother

03:56

layer tease Hello my name is charities You killed my

03:59

father tonight At this point i just wanted a nap

04:04

But whatever let's fight we both got in a couple

04:08

of hits I even hit him with his own sword

04:11

Take that fancy pants But then my mom started looking

04:14

a little green prints out good old step dad poison

04:17

in my wine And she drank it Then i noticed

04:21

that i was feeling a little squirrely too And larry

04:23

ty's told me that the sword was poisoned by you

04:25

know who No not that one Uh so we meet

04:31

again mr hamlet and we were both going to die

04:34

I knew i should have stayed in bed Well there's

04:36

no way I was dying without taking bodies with me

04:39

so i stabbed him and made him drink the wine

04:42

just to make sure I guess now denmark's going to

04:47

be stuck with king lingerie Somebody tell him to bring

04:51

a mop die to sleep sleep our chance to shmoop

04:56

You know how that go I

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