It’s been almost five years since Rebecca Bunch chose herself, but Crazy ex-girlfriendHis presence is constant in the life of co-creator and star Rachel Bloom.
“There’s a group message. We’re still in touch,” Bloom tells PEOPLE of her 2015-2019 musical-comedy co-stars. IN Crazy ex-girlfriendBloom’s group uproots their lives—and gives up their jobs at a prestigious law firm—to move to West Covina, California, in an effort to be closer to a potential love of their youth.
Actually, Crazy ex alum David Hull now appears in Bloom’s one-woman musical comedy, Death, let me do my actwhich runs Off-Broadway through January 6. “One of the cast members is obviously in my play,” Bloom, 46, says, adding that “a lot of people have come out. So yeah, we’re still pretty close.”
The cast of the first season Crazy ex-girlfriend.
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In addition to lasting friendships, Crazy ex also lived through his unforgettable melodies. Songs like “I Have Friends” and “You Stupid B—-” have found new life on TikTok as sounds that users often use to soundtrack their videos.
“I love it because it just goes to show that you can never push something into virality,” Bloom tells PEOPLE. “Definitely some of the songs that we did on the show five, six, seven years ago now have a bigger life on TikTok, and it has nothing to do with us posting on my Instagram or tweeting or live-tweeting the episode. It’s just people.”
She sees the adoption of TikTok as a kind of “lesson”: “All you can do is do your best work and put it out into the world, and you can do your best to promote and bring something to life in the zeitgeist, but at the end of the day, well , it’s kind of out of your control.”
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Rachel Bloom (left) and Donna Lynne Champlin inside Crazy ex-girlfriend.
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When asked which of the songs from Crazy exRunning is her personal favorite, countered Bloom. “There’s too much to choose from because even the songs I didn’t have a hand in writing, I wrote the script for every song that was on the show,” she explains. “So any song you could name, I have a story about that song, how it was written.”
Bloom says, “We wrote 157 songs. I could tell you 157 stories.”
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