AHS: The True Story Behind Asylum's Weird Name Game Scene

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American Horror Story has a dark sense of humor, and while the series mostly focuses on a horror vibe, it has had some lighthearted and comedic scenes – but one of its weirdest ones was the “Name Game” musical number in American Horror Story: Asylum, and here’s the story behind it. The horror genre has regained popularity in recent years both on the big screen and on television, and one of the most successful titles from the latter is American Horror Story, an anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

Each season serves as a self-contained miniseries with a different horror theme at the core, though over the years, all seasons have created an American Horror Story universe thanks to references to characters and events from other seasons. It all began in 2011 with the season retroactively subtitled Murder House, and since then, AHS has explored a variety of horror themes and settings like witchcraft (Coven), circuses (Freak Show), different types of vampires, and more. AHS has been quite successful, but the season widely regarded as the show’s best is Asylum, which even though lived up to the series’ name and was terrifying, also had a very weird musical scene that doesn’t fit with the rest of the season.

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AHS: Asylum took the audience back to 1964, to the fictional mental institution Briarcliff Manor. There, it followed the stories of some of the staff and its most notable inmates, such as Sister Jude Martin (Jessica Lange), Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe), Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell), Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto), and Kit Walker (Evan Peters). Asylum was full of twists and turns, such as the revelation of the true