I don't know that there's another example I can think of off the top of my head where that irony is so strong and so direct There's plenty of songs from musicals where you can say "Yeah in the actual show he's lying" and it adds maybe one more layer to it but not like this
It's what drives Evan in the play to almost kill himself, and then to build a ridiculous and doomed edifice of lies for the tiniest chance of realizing his mad dream of no longer being alone
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The TV episode that reminds me most of the feeling I'm describing is "Impossible Planet" from Electric Dreams And the word in the title is the main thing about it The hunger for the impossible
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The feeling of nostalgic longing and desire not only for something that didn't happen, but that you fully know did not happen and could not have happened, that was by its nature impossible The intolerability of this knowledge, the self-harming pain of dwelling about it
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