Pod Insights Office Ladies Office Ladies Do: Grease 2! About this episode This week on Office Ladies 6.0, grab your pink satin jackets, because the ladies are taking on the cult classic Grease 2! Back at Rydell High, there’s a new class of Pink Ladies and T-Birds, a mysterious biker known as the Cool Rider, and a whole lot of songs, dances, and double entendres. Jenna and Angela dig into the wild world of Grease 2, from iconic looks and over-the-top musical numbers to behind-the-scenes stories about the film’s making, casting, and surprising legacy. They also share their own history with the movie, debate its most unforgettable moments (and dance moves), and fully embrace the chaos that has made it a fan favorite. So rev up your engine, pop your collar… and enjoy!
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0:04 Speaker 00 I'm Jenna Fisher.
0:05 Speaker 01 And I'm Angela Kinsey.
0:06 Speaker 00 We were on The Office together.
0:08 Speaker 01 And we're best friends.
0:09 Speaker 00 And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you. Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind the scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're the Office Ladies 6.0.
0:25 Speaker 00 Hello.
0:26 Speaker 01 Hi.
0:27 Speaker 00 We are very excited today because today, we are breaking down the fabulous musical movie Grease 2.
0:37 Speaker 01 I had no idea what I was in for. But before we get into it, I think I need a wardrobe change.
0:43 Speaker 00 Well, maybe I need a wardrobe change, too.
0:45 Speaker 01 Oh, no, you did it, too?
0:48 Speaker 00 I did something.
0:49 Speaker 01 OK, let's see what you did. Did you go Cool Rider?
0:52 Speaker 00 I went T-Birds.
0:53 Speaker 01 Oh, you went T-Birds? OK, Jenna has on a black leather jacket. She's going on a black scarf, neck scarf. You've got to get that collar up, lady.
1:02 Speaker 00 I got my black leather jacket and my white shirt, my skinny jeans. And I know the T-Birds wouldn't wear a neck scarf, but I have a rash on my neck today. So I thought, let's cover it up with a silky neck scarf and just kind of go lady T-Birds.
1:16 Speaker 01 You're right on point because neck scarf is all throughout this movie. One more thing, Jenna. Ready? I actually owned this. Don't ask me why.
1:26 Speaker 00 You have like a pink satin jacket. Hello.
1:31 Speaker 01 I tried to do like the little scoopy ponytail.
1:34 Speaker 00 Oh, and the glasses. Oh, yeah.
1:37 Speaker 01 Sunglasses. Also, you wear sunglasses inside in this movie.
1:40 Speaker 00 Yes, ma'am.
1:41 Speaker 01 The only thing we're missing is bubble gum.
1:43 Speaker 00 And cigarettes.
1:44 Speaker 01 And cigarettes. Because guess what, guys? We want to see O-O-L-N-R-I-D-E-R.
1:53 Speaker 00 Well, we owe someone a very big thank you, and that person is Nathan B. from New Jersey. Because when I was in the general mailbox recently, I saw that Nathan wrote this. Please, please do a movie breakdown of Grease 2.
2:08 Speaker 01 Oh, my goodness, Nathan.
2:10 Speaker 00 We're here for you. We can't wait. So Lady, I can't remember when it was. It was a while ago. We talked about Grease 2 on this podcast about how I had seen it and you had not. And I don't even remember this conversation, but it resonated and people started sending us comments and mail, like Nathan, asking us to watch it.
2:31 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's true. I'd never seen it. I mean, I'd seen clips of like the Cool Rider video, but I had never seen the whole movie.
2:37 Speaker 00 Well, now you have, Ange.
2:39 Speaker 01 I know.
2:39 Speaker 00 And how'd that go for you?
2:43 Speaker 01 I mean, it is a visual feast.
2:46 Speaker 00 That's a good description.
2:47 Speaker 01 I think some of the songs are great. I think some of them are cringey. I don't know. Okay, where were you in the world when you first saw this movie?
2:55 Speaker 00 Lady, I don't remember exactly when I saw it. I don't know if I saw it when it came out or if I saw it later. All I know is that my childhood, my sister and I loved watching Grease and we loved watching Grease 2 and we watched them both on repeat and we would recreate the dances and we would do all the songs. We would have my dad get out a stepladder so that we could climb the ladder like
3:19 Speaker 01 Cool Rider?
3:20 Speaker 00 Stephanie and Cool Rider, yes.
3:23 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh. You and your sister were kind of like how like Isabel and her friends were with Frozen.
3:28 Speaker 00 Yes.
3:28 Speaker 01 Although there wasn't a song about reproduction.
3:31 Speaker 00 No. No, or Grease Lightning and Grease has some, you know,
3:37 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
3:37 Speaker 00 innuendo.
3:39 Speaker 01 At the time when I watched Grease growing up, it went over my head, but I watched Grease 2 as a 54-year-old woman and I was like, holy crap, the number of sexual innuendo songs.
3:50 Speaker 00 It's double entendres for 114 minutes.
3:54 Speaker 01 Exactly.
3:55 Speaker 00 Basically. All right. Well, let me kick you off with a summary and then we're going to get into some facts and stats.
4:02 Speaker 01 Yeah.
4:02 Speaker 00 Here's your summary. Two years after the events of Grease, we are back at Rydell High. There is a new bunch of pink ladies, ante birds, and a new kid in school. It's Michael.
4:15 Speaker 01 Michael.
4:16 Speaker 00 Sandy's sweet, straight-laced cousin from England.
4:20 Speaker 00 But when Michael falls for Stephanie, the tough leader of the Pink Ladies, he quickly learns that she only has eyes for dangerous guys on motorcycles.
4:31 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
4:32 Speaker 00 So, Michael hatches a secret plan to transform himself into Rydell's mysterious new biker, The Cool Rider. But Grease is still the word.
4:43 Speaker 01 Grease is the word.
4:44 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. All right, here's some facts and stats. The runtime of this movie is 114 minutes. It was released on June 11, 1982, the same day as E.T.
4:58 Speaker 01 I read that and I thought, that's a tough day to come out. I mean, E.T.
5:03 Speaker 00 I know.
5:03 Speaker 01 Wow.
5:05 Speaker 00 Grease was first a musical that debuted in 1971, then a film in 1978, and now we have Grease 2, three years later in 1982. This movie stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield. They were both basically complete unknowns, except that Maxwell Caulfield was an up and coming, successful theater actor. Guess what this movie did to his career?
5:29 Speaker 01 Some of the interviews made me sad.
5:31 Speaker 00 It's not great, this poor guy.
5:33 Speaker 01 He said it took him years to like, kind of find his way back.
5:37 Speaker 00 Yeah, it kind of launched Michelle Pfeiffer and it tanked Maxwell Caulfield, but not in the hearts of people who love this movie.
5:45 Speaker 01 No, because people that love Grease 2, it is like a cult classic.
5:49 Speaker 00 We love him.
5:50 Speaker 01 Yes, we love him.
5:51 Speaker 00 Yes.
5:52 Speaker 01 And he's fine. He's doing just fine now.
5:54 Speaker 00 He's doing great.
5:54 Speaker 01 But it was a little bit of a rough patch thereafter.
5:57 Speaker 00 It was. This movie was written by Ken Finkelmann. It was directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch. And this is kind of cool. Patricia Birch was the choreographer for the original musical Grease and also for the first movie.
6:13 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
6:14 Speaker 00 And this was the first time a female choreographer had become a film director. It was also her directorial debut. It is also her only theatrical film directing credit. I think this was a tough one for her.
6:28 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:28 Speaker 00 She said that the script wasn't finished by the time they started filming.
6:33 Speaker 01 She had to start a whole movie production with an incomplete script. She didn't even know where scenes were going.
6:41 Speaker 00 Angela, how was this movie received at the box office?
6:45 Speaker 01 Well, let's just set the stage for how much pressure this movie was under. First of all, the original Grease had a budget of $6 million. Do you know how much money it made, lady?
6:56 Speaker 00 I don't.
6:57 Speaker 01 Almost $400 million.
6:59 Speaker 00 Oh, my gosh, back then.
7:00 Speaker 01 Back then. $396 million and change.
7:06 Speaker 00 Wow.
7:07 Speaker 01 Yeah. So now here's Grease 2. People have high expectations.
7:12 Speaker 00 Yeah.
7:12 Speaker 01 Their budget was $11.2 million.
7:15 Speaker 00 More than Grease.
7:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:17 Speaker 00 Where did the money go?
7:19 Speaker 01 I think in costumes. Guess how much it made?
7:22 Speaker 00 I'm afraid to ask.
7:24 Speaker 01 $15.2 million.
7:25 Speaker 00 No.
7:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:27 Speaker 00 It only made $4 million more than what it cost?
7:29 Speaker 01 It barely broke even, lady. $15 million versus $400 million.
7:35 Speaker 00 Wow.
7:36 Speaker 01 That's tough to come back from.
7:37 Speaker 00 Well, you know, Grease 2 was supposed to be the second film in a four-film franchise.
7:44 Speaker 01 That didn't happen.
7:45 Speaker 00 No. I guess the third and fourth film were going to take place in the late 1960s in the counterculture era. It was also going to be a TV series.
7:54 Speaker 01 They had big plans.
7:55 Speaker 00 They did. Well, there was an idea for this movie that didn't happen, that I think would have been kind of cool.
8:00 Speaker 01 What's that?
8:01 Speaker 00 This is according to Wikipedia. Early plans for Grease 2 had Jeff Conway and Stoker Channing's characters, Kaneki and Rizzo, as the main characters. And this was going to be while they attended summer school.
8:14 Speaker 01 Because they flunked out.
8:15 Speaker 00 I guess. And then it was going to end with the two of them getting married.
8:19 Speaker 01 Okay.
8:20 Speaker 00 Didn't happen.
8:21 Speaker 01 Didn't happen.
8:22 Speaker 00 Would that have been better?
8:24 Speaker 01 I don't know.
8:25 Speaker 00 I don't know.
8:25 Speaker 01 Well, now I'm sort of part of the cult following, you know?
8:28 Speaker 00 I love to hear it.
8:29 Speaker 01 Yeah. I just can't see anyone else but Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield now.
8:34 Speaker 00 Yeah.
8:34 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:36 Speaker 00 Do you want to know what the critics thought of this movie?
8:38 Speaker 01 Oh, no.
8:39 Speaker 00 Well, it has a 37% on Rotten Tomatoes.
8:42 Speaker 01 Okay.
8:43 Speaker 00 And Roger Ebert wrote this little gem, quote, "The movie seems assembled off the shelf."
8:49 Speaker 01 He's not wrong.
8:50 Speaker 00 "There are no inspired songs in it."
8:53 Speaker 01 Oh, I disagree.
8:54 Speaker 00 Disagree. "The big dance numbers seem to be exercises in crowd control." That did make me laugh. There are like literally hundreds of people dancing at all times. And the story is this idiotic. It depends on how long it will take Michelle Pfeiffer to figure out that Caulfield is the guy behind the mask. This movie just recycles Grease without the stars, without the energy, without the freshness, and without the grease.
9:20 Speaker 01 Oh, that's brutal.
9:23 Speaker 00 I also, I take issue with one of his criticisms. I'm sorry, the entire Superman franchise is based on everyone not realizing that Clark Kent-
9:33 Speaker 01 With a pair of glasses.
9:35 Speaker 00 Is not Superman.
9:36 Speaker 01 Just because of a pair of glasses. I would say it was, you know, kind of hard to figure out who he was. His helmet is big, it covers most of his whole head, and his goggles are enormous.
9:46 Speaker 00 And did you notice he does a fakey American accent?
9:49 Speaker 01 That's right. This is way more camouflage than Superman.
9:52 Speaker 00 Way more.
9:53 Speaker 01 Well, they also wanted a catchier title than Grease 2. I'm not sure it would have helped because these two are not great options. Ready?
10:00 Speaker 00 What are they?
10:00 Speaker 01 According to the internet, one was More Grease.
10:04 Speaker 00 I don't like that.
10:05 Speaker 01 No.
10:05 Speaker 00 That's making me uncomfortable.
10:07 Speaker 01 No.
10:07 Speaker 00 It gives me the ick.
10:08 Speaker 01 No one wants More Grease. The other one was Son of Grease.
10:12 Speaker 00 Oh, that feels like a Monty Python spoof of Grease.
10:16 Speaker 01 It doesn't even make sense. Like, I don't get it.
10:19 Speaker 00 Also because their son isn't in it.
10:22 Speaker 01 I know. Okay.
10:24 Speaker 00 Okay.
10:25 Speaker 01 Here would be my alt title.
10:27 Speaker 00 What is it?
10:27 Speaker 01 Collar up, cigarettes, and sunglasses.
10:31 Speaker 00 I mean, that's a great tagline. That would have been great on the poster. They should have put you on the marketing team.
10:38 Speaker 01 Do you want to know what's on the actual Grease 2 poster?
10:40 Speaker 00 What?
10:41 Speaker 01 "The music and feeling go on forever."
10:43 Speaker 00 I like yours way better.
10:45 Speaker 01 Yeah, mine is spicier.
10:47 Speaker 00 Yeah.
10:47 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
10:48 Speaker 00 It invokes more of the tone of the movie.
10:51 Speaker 01 Yeah.
10:52 Speaker 00 For sure.
10:52 Speaker 01 All right, well, I think we should go to break. And when we come back, we've got an enormous opening number.
10:58 Speaker 00 Huge.
10:59 Speaker 01 That's what she said.
11:10 Speaker 01 All right, the movie opens up. It's the early 60s. We have a huge establishing shot of Rydell High School.
11:17 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. Principal Miss McGee and Blanche, the assistant principal, they are walking out and they're gonna put up the school flag. It reads Rydell High School, 1961. First day of school.
11:30 Speaker 01 First day of school, and these are flashback characters from original Grease.
11:34 Speaker 00 Yes.
11:34 Speaker 01 Already, I'm happy.
11:35 Speaker 00 The first line of the movie. It's a voiceover by Principal McGee. This is how we're gonna kick off this movie. I found it interesting. Are you ready? A new school year, Blanche. A new era. If the Russians can put a man in space, just imagine what our young American minds can do at Rydell.
11:59 Speaker 01 It's amazing. It is a theme throughout the movie is Russia and nuclear.
12:04 Speaker 00 Possible nuclear attack.
12:06 Speaker 01 Shelters, sirens.
12:07 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
12:08 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:08 Speaker 00 Like you said, these gals are back from the original movie. Eve Arden plays Principal McGee. She is an absolute legend. She was nominated for an Academy Award. She won an Emmy Award. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
12:22 Speaker 01 Two?
12:23 Speaker 00 Yes, one for radio and one for TV. She was also a radio personality.
12:27 Speaker 01 Wow.
12:27 Speaker 00 And then Doody Goodman, who plays Blanche, she did a ton of theater. She was a regular comedic guest on The Tonight Show.
12:35 Speaker 01 Yep.
12:35 Speaker 00 And she was on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. And she was nominated for an Emmy for, listen to this category, best continuing performance in a series by a comedian, singer, hostess, dancer, emcee, announcer, narrator, panelist, or any person who essentially plays herself.
12:55 Speaker 01 Is that all etched on the trophy?
12:57 Speaker 00 I don't know.
13:00 Speaker 00 How do they fit that on the plaque?
13:01 Speaker 01 I don't know. I would watch that woman play the xylophone all day long.
13:08 Speaker 00 Lady, I kinda thought that if they remade this movie today,
13:10 Speaker 01 Yes!
13:11 Speaker 00 That you and Hyatt would play Miss McGee and Blanche.
13:14 Speaker 01 I wanna be Blanche so badly!
13:16 Speaker 00 I wanna be Miss McGee!
13:17 Speaker 01 And what you just swatted me as I continue playing the xylophone.
13:20 Speaker 00 I'll be so flummoxed!
13:21 Speaker 01 Ugh!
13:22 Speaker 00 Well, anyway, these two agree it's gonna be a great school year. And just as they agree, you hear the sound of screeching tires and a crash. And we cut to the pink ladies arriving in their pink car.
13:38 Speaker 01 Yeah, they're not good at driving, guys. They screech and come to a halt several times in the movie.
13:42 Speaker 00 But their leader is late.
13:44 Speaker 01 Yeah.
13:45 Speaker 00 Why didn't she ride with them? Why can't they pick her up?
13:48 Speaker 01 Maybe she didn't like to ride with them.
13:50 Speaker 00 I don't know.
13:51 Speaker 01 Maybe she doesn't trust their driving.
13:53 Speaker 00 Maybe not. But this is our first glimpse of Michelle Pfeiffer, who was 23 years old when they filmed Grease. And now, we're gonna have our big opening song and dance number, "Back to School" again.
14:05 Speaker 01 The choreography for this number is so impressive. The song is also really catchy. I read that there were 20 main dancers for all the numbers, but then to fill out the whole thing, there were almost 500 cast members.
14:18 Speaker 00 I believe it.
14:19 Speaker 01 It's unreal. I don't know how you direct something of that scope. I don't know how you dress everybody. This is an amazing feat for the casting crew. What asked what her favorite number was from the movie, the director and choreographer, Patricia Birch, said this.
14:34 Speaker 02 I think the opening of Grease 2 is one of the best things anybody's ever done. I imagine to do what a seven-minute, non-stop informational number. That's where you got to know them.
14:46 Speaker 03 I love that opening, yeah.
14:47 Speaker 02 It's a good opening. I know it's a good opening.
14:49 Speaker 01 I so agree with her.
14:51 Speaker 00 She is right. The opening of this movie is perfection.
14:54 Speaker 01 It's everything you want in a big musical number. And the song is called "Back to School." Let's hear a little bit of it.
15:29 Speaker 01 How catchy is that?
15:31 Speaker 00 It's so great. Well, like Patricia Birch said, during this whole dance number, we're meeting everybody. We're understanding the relationships.
15:39 Speaker 01 Lady, I have to tell you.
15:40 Speaker 00 What?
15:41 Speaker 01 Do you know who our first collar up moment is?
15:43 Speaker 00 Is it when all of the T-birds arrive?
15:45 Speaker 01 No, it's actually Stephanie.
15:48 Speaker 00 Oh, she puts her collar up?
15:49 Speaker 01 Yes. She's our first collar up. I will be tracking collars and sunglasses, just so you guys know.
15:56 Speaker 00 Well, she has both.
15:57 Speaker 01 She does. And at 3 minutes 48 seconds, we do meet the Thunderbirds. Here's what you need.
16:02 Speaker 00 The Thunderbirds?
16:03 Speaker 01 The Thunderbirds, that's what I said. I put in my, I've called them the Thunderbirds, the T-birds, sorry. We meet the T-birds. Here's what you need to be a member. You need a leather jacket that doesn't move with your body, right? It's so stiff. You need cigarettes, lots of them. You need sunglasses, and you need poofy hair that comes to a point in the middle of your forehead.
16:25 Speaker 00 Yep.
16:25 Speaker 01 You're ready.
16:26 Speaker 00 You got it. Do you want a T-bird breakdown?
16:29 Speaker 01 I sure do.
16:30 Speaker 00 Good, because I've got it for you. Adrian Zemed plays Johnny Nogorelli, the leader of the T-birds. He was 27 years old when he shot this movie. And incidentally, he played Danny Zuko in Grease on Broadway. So he actually, like, originated the role of Danny Zuko.
16:47 Speaker 01 Oh, what a full circle moment for him.
16:49 Speaker 00 I know.
16:49 Speaker 01 That's really cool.
16:50 Speaker 00 Demucci is played by Peter Frenchette. Goose is played by Christopher McDonald. You know him from Thelma and Louise, Happy Gilmore. And Davy is played by Leaf Green. Now, we're going to meet Miss Mason, the hot music teacher? She seems to teach a lot of classes.
17:08 Speaker 01 Well, she also teaches English.
17:09 Speaker 00 I know, this was, I was like, she also has time to go to Mr. Stewart's classes, apparently.
17:15 Speaker 01 Yes, she does, and sit in. And she also loves hairspray. She's carrying two cans of hairspray.
17:20 Speaker 00 Two, yes.
17:21 Speaker 01 And she's constantly spraying her hair, so don't get too close to her. You're going to breathe that in.
17:25 Speaker 00 Yes. Miss Mason was played by Connie Stevens, everyone.
17:29 Speaker 01 Connie Stevens, who once dated Elvis Presley.
17:32 Speaker 00 I read that.
17:33 Speaker 01 I know.
17:34 Speaker 00 Like, for a while, and she loved him.
17:37 Speaker 01 Yeah. And then, her second husband was once married to Elizabeth Taylor.
17:42 Speaker 00 Eddie Fisher. Her daughter is Jolie Fisher, the actress.
17:46 Speaker 01 That's wild.
17:47 Speaker 00 I know.
17:48 Speaker 01 Also, I do want to note, the Thunderbirds are very flirty.
17:51 Speaker 00 The T-Birds, lady. I don't know why you want to call them. They're the T-Birds. I don't know who the Thunderbirds are, but they're not in this movie.
17:59 Speaker 01 You know what's so funny? Is when I was watching this movie, I was babysitting my niece, who loves The Thundermans, and I think somehow The Thundermans made it into my brain.
18:10 Speaker 00 Okay.
18:11 Speaker 01 So, anyway, not the Thunderbirds.
18:13 Speaker 00 No.
18:14 Speaker 01 The T-Birds.
18:15 Speaker 00 Yep.
18:15 Speaker 01 Are very flirty with Miss Mason.
18:18 Speaker 00 Oh, yes.
18:19 Speaker 01 Miss Mason says, "I'd love to see you all in music appreciation." And Johnny, he says, "I'd like to see all of you in music appreciation." And Miss Mason says, "You just might."
18:29 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
18:30 Speaker 01 I mean, this is very spicy.
18:33 Speaker 00 Very spicy. They can also see her in English class, which she also teaches, by the way. All right, well, we're going to get to this credit sequence, and this is where we're going to meet Maxwell Caulfield, playing Michael. He was 22 years old. He gets first billing.
18:47 Speaker 01 Wow.
18:48 Speaker 00 Yeah. I would have thought that if they were sort of like of equal experience or status in the world of Hollywood, which it seemed like he and Michelle Pfeiffer were, I sort of see this as a little bit more of Stephanie's story. Do you see it as Michael's?
19:03 Speaker 01 I mean, I think it's the two of them, honestly.
19:06 Speaker 00 Yeah, it's a two-hander.
19:07 Speaker 01 It's a two-hander. I did see this very charming interview with Maxwell Caulfield. A few cast members also shared how supportive the original cast was of everyone in Grease 2.
19:18 Speaker 00 I love hearing that.
19:19 Speaker 01 They said it was like a family, like they were like the big brother, big sister, and they were like the little siblings, and that Olivia Newton-John, in particular, hosted a few parties and invited all the cast.
19:29 Speaker 00 Wow, way to go Olivia Newton-John.
19:31 Speaker 01 I know.
19:32 Speaker 00 Well, you know, her boyfriend was in the movie.
19:34 Speaker 01 I know.
19:35 Speaker 00 We'll get to it.
19:36 Speaker 01 We'll get to it.
19:37 Speaker 00 All right, we're gonna meet Michael. We're gonna learn he's Sandy's cousin and he's gonna run into Frenchie.
19:43 Speaker 01 Yes, we love Frenchie. That's a flashback character.
19:46 Speaker 00 Played by Didi Khan. Frenchie explains everything that's happened since she left Rydell. We find out she flunked out of beauty school because in tinting class, her hair turned pink and that now the most important thing in her life is skincare. So she's back at Rydell to get her chemistry and to mix her own cosmetics. This is a lot of information about a character who is gonna disappear halfway through the film.
20:09 Speaker 01 She's just gotta establish why she's back at high school.
20:12 Speaker 00 I guess.
20:13 Speaker 01 But she probably could've done it in one sentence.
20:15 Speaker 00 Yeah, it's a lot.
20:16 Speaker 01 No judgment, just...
20:18 Speaker 00 Well, listen, through all of this, we're still dancing, we're still singing, and now we're gonna hear the Pink Ladies' pledge. And I thought we should hear it, cuz I love it and I can't get it out of my head.
20:30 Speaker 04 The Pink Ladies' pledge: to act cool, to look cool, and to be cool till death do us part, think pink.
20:43 Speaker 00 Yeah, that's the Pink Ladies' pledge.
20:45 Speaker 01 Do you feel like Victoria's Secrets kinda stole the Think Pink?
20:49 Speaker 00 I think they did.
20:50 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:50 Speaker 00 I've been thinking about that for days.
20:52 Speaker 01 Yeah, me too.
20:53 Speaker 00 I'm glad you said it.
20:54 Speaker 01 Well, there it is, it's on record.
20:56 Speaker 00 Here's your Pink Ladies' breakdown. Stephanie Zanoni, leader of the Pink Ladies, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. Paulette Rebchuk, played by Lorna Luft. Rhonda Ritter, played by Alison Price. Sharon Cooper, played by Maureen Teefy. And Dolores Rebchuk, who is Paulette's little sister, played by Pamela Adlon. And now we're gonna see the coach, played by Sid Caesar, another returning character.
21:21 Speaker 01 Yep, Coach Calhoun.
21:22 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. There's more dancing, so much dancing.
21:27 Speaker 00 Everyone dances inside. The T-Birds stop to comb their hair, though.
21:31 Speaker 01 That's very important to them. They have to fix their hair a lot.
21:34 Speaker 00 And then this whole thing ends, this is like a moment that is burned in my brain from my childhood. It ends with a guy running across
21:43 Speaker 01 The lawn and just diving through an open window
21:46 Speaker 00 Yeah.
21:47 Speaker 01 of the high school.
21:48 Speaker 00 And then that ends on like a downbeat. It's like boom. Yeah, and now we're, we've opened the movie.
21:53 Speaker 01 Yeah, and there's a cello hanging from the flagpole. A bunch of kids are hanging out the windows. This school is a little whackadoodle.
22:02 Speaker 00 Well, at the lockers, the pink ladies discuss nose jobs. They discuss who JFK would rather be with if it's Jackie O or Marilyn Monroe. Johnny, the head of the T-Birds, comes over and Stephanie has to remind him it's over, Johnny. We're over.
22:17 Speaker 01 Paulette clearly likes Johnny. Nine minutes, 13 seconds, we have another very big collar-up moment. Courtesy of Johnny in a stiff leather jacket.
22:26 Speaker 00 That's great. Louis is gonna come over and give Sharon a big old smooch at the lockers.
22:32 Speaker 01 I know.
22:32 Speaker 00 Real big kiss. These two are on.
22:35 Speaker 01 There's a lot of people kissing in close proximity to other people in this movie. So if you don't like PDA, this movie is a little bit of a cringe fest for you.
22:45 Speaker 00 This is not the high school for you.
22:47 Speaker 01 No.
22:48 Speaker 00 Well, Stephanie starts to go to class, but then she realizes she's wearing jeans. And so she goes to her locker to change into a skirt.
22:55 Speaker 01 Yeah, she's got like these little, like, what do they call them? Pedal pusher, like leggings, right?
22:59 Speaker 00 Yeah, like little cigarette pants.
23:00 Speaker 01 Cigarette pants.
23:01 Speaker 00 Well, I got to wondering, was this a real thing? That girls
23:06 Speaker 01 Yes.
23:07 Speaker 00 in the 60s couldn't wear pants to school, even public school?
23:11 Speaker 01 Yeah, I noticed Stephanie looks around and sees all the other girls in skirts and then quickly grabs her skirt.
23:17 Speaker 00 I deep dived it.
23:18 Speaker 01 What was the rule?
23:20 Speaker 00 I found this amazing Reddit thread called Ask Old People.
23:23 Speaker 01 Oh.
23:24 Speaker 00 One of the threads was about this very subject. People asking, was it a rule that girls had to wear skirts to school? And according to the old people, the answer is yes. Prior to 1970, girls had to wear dresses or skirts that went down to their knees.
23:40 Speaker 01 Hmm.
23:41 Speaker 00 One person said the hem of the dress had to touch the floor if you were kneeling.
23:45 Speaker 01 Okay.
23:45 Speaker 00 That's how you knew if it was the right length. Girls could not wear pants, jeans, shorts, and also no open-toed shoes. One woman said she had to wear pantyhose, quote, "in an un-air-conditioned classroom in Texas." And then I found this comment in the thread, and I loved it. This old person said, "I graduated from high school in 1970, and it was only during the last few months of that year that I ever wore pants to school. A girl named Nancy just showed up one day in pants."
24:16 Speaker 01 Go Nancy!
24:17 Speaker 00 And when she got sent to the principal's office, she calmly made her case. At some point, he, of course it was a he, was persuaded. "I never knew what she said exactly, but I know she was a smart, even-tempered girl who had an older sister. They were being raised by their dad because their mom had died, which gave them both a sort of gravity. After this conversation with the principal, she went back to class and finished her day, and they made an announcement that girls could now wear pants."
24:47 Speaker 01 Wow.
24:49 Speaker 00 "I can't really describe what an impact that event had on all of us, but me in particular. You could ask why, you could make an argument, you could persuade people with power over you to change. That girl was a legend. Wherever you are, Nancy, thanks."
25:07 Speaker 01 That's awesome.
25:08 Speaker 00 Pretty cool. Incidentally, this thread also said that boys had to wear shirts with collars, they had to be tucked in, and their hair couldn't be longer than the tops of their ears. Maybe that's why the T-Birds put all their hair up so high.
25:22 Speaker 01 And then let it droop down their forehead.
25:24 Speaker 00 Right. There was no rule about forehead hair.
25:27 Speaker 01 They could compensate in the front.
25:29 Speaker 00 Yeah, mhm. They weren't allowed to have facial hair, either. Well, now, Michael is trying to find a locker, and he's chosen one of the T-Birds lockers, and they are gonna intimidate him by harmonizing.
25:42 Speaker 01 Yes.
25:42 Speaker 00 They harmonize at him.
25:43 Speaker 01 They do.
25:45 Speaker 00 Well, Stephanie sees all this, and she looks at Michael, and she says, "It's okay. It's gonna be all right." And now he's done for. He's totally smitten.
25:53 Speaker 01 I mean, he's gonna get even more smitten, but he had a lightning bolt moment with her.
25:59 Speaker 00 Yeah, it was immediate.
26:00 Speaker 01 Yeah. Well, now we are in one of Ms. Mason's classrooms, if she has many. Or does she use one and she just rotates?
26:07 Speaker 00 I don't know, but she, of course, it's her class.
26:10 Speaker 01 It's her class. And we hear over the intercom, Principal McGee, you know, she's making an announcement. Blanche is playing the xylophone. And she says, listen, everyone, there's lots of extracurriculars, and we want you all to try out for things. And then she says, and we'd like to welcome a new straight A student, Michael Carrington. And then Ms. Mason has the whole entire class be like, hi, Michael. I had this happen to me.
26:36 Speaker 00 You did?
26:37 Speaker 01 It's horrifying.
26:38 Speaker 00 Yeah.
26:38 Speaker 01 So, teachers out there, don't single out the new kid like that. I was new, moved from Indonesia to Dallas in the 80s. And the teacher was like, we have a new student today, all the way from Indonesia. And everyone was like, who is the freak show? And I was like, hi.
26:58 Speaker 00 Yeah.
26:59 Speaker 01 No, don't, please don't call attention to me. Just let me be the new kid on my own terms.
27:03 Speaker 00 Yeah, I get it. Well, now we're gonna go out to the fields. I guess it's track practice, it's band practice, it's football practice.
27:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
27:13 Speaker 00 The twin cheerleaders want Michael to play piano for their talent show auditions.
27:18 Speaker 01 So lady, there's a pretty big wardrobe malfunction that happens during that conversation behind Michael and the cheerleaders.
27:26 Speaker 00 What? In the background? What happens?
27:29 Speaker 01 In the background, at around 14 minutes, there are some dudes running on the track and jumping over hurdles. And on the left side of the screen, one of the hurdlers.
27:42 Speaker 00 What? Happens?
27:44 Speaker 01 His wiener pops up.
27:45 Speaker 00 No, it doesn't. What are you saying?
27:48 Speaker 01 He quickly tucks it back in.
27:49 Speaker 00 No.
27:50 Speaker 01 Yes.
27:51 Speaker 00 Is this?
27:51 Speaker 01 There's a lot of scuttlebutt online about it. People have put it in a, like, a meme, a TikTok. It's on Twitter. It's all over the place.
27:59 Speaker 00 This poor guy.
28:00 Speaker 01 This poor guy. And I did go and watch to see if it's true. And I, you do see something find its way out.
28:09 Speaker 00 Flushy?
28:09 Speaker 01 And then he quickly tucks it back in. Oh, here, Matt just sent us a picture of it.
28:14 Speaker 00 Wait.
28:15 Speaker 01 Oh, my God.
28:17 Speaker 00 Oh, it's a nut.
28:20 Speaker 01 It's, I think, a little bit of Beans and Franks. A little bit.
28:24 Speaker 00 It's definitely, it's
28:26 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:26 Speaker 00 Definitely the beans.
28:27 Speaker 01 Yeah.
28:28 Speaker 00 Beans are out.
28:29 Speaker 01 I, yes, so.
28:31 Speaker 00 Wow.
28:31 Speaker 01 That happened.
28:32 Speaker 00 This poor guy.
28:34 Speaker 01 I know.
28:35 Speaker 00 How did they not see that in the editing?
28:38 Speaker 01 I mean, there's so many continuity errors in this movie. Don't even get me started to like, who's in the pool, who's out of the pool later on.
28:46 Speaker 00 Okay.
28:50 Speaker 00 All right, well, listen. Now, after he agrees to.
28:56 Speaker 01 Play piano at the talent auditions, right?
28:59 Speaker 00 Yes, Michael asked Frenchie about Stephanie, but she says you can only date Stephanie if you're a T-bird, and he says, how do you become a T-bird?
29:07 Speaker 01 And then as if enough isn't happening on this field, a rival biker gang shows up.
29:12 Speaker 00 Yes, led by Leo Balmudo, AKA Crater Face, played by Dennis Stewart, who is the same guy from Grease that used to bother the T-birds.
29:23 Speaker 01 Right. In Grease, he drove a car and he was leader of the Scorpions gang. But now in Grease 2, he's the leader of the motorcycle gang called, wait for it.
29:34 Speaker 00 It's so bad.
29:35 Speaker 01 Cycle Lords.
29:36 Speaker 00 The Cycle Lords. It's not an intimidating name. The Scorpions was a better name, I think.
29:42 Speaker 01 Get out of the way, the Cycle Lords are coming.
29:45 Speaker 00 Well, the T-birds, they throw their leather jackets on top of their gym shirts. They light a cigarette.
29:51 Speaker 01 Yeah.
29:52 Speaker 00 And they walk over and they're like, we can't rumble with you tonight because tonight we bowl.
29:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
29:57 Speaker 00 We're bowling tonight. And the Cycle Lords are like, oh, I guess they're busy bowling.
30:01 Speaker 01 We're not gonna fight them now.
30:03 Speaker 00 Yeah.
30:03 Speaker 01 Respect for the bowling.
30:04 Speaker 00 Yeah. And then Johnny says to Paulette, he wants her to, quote, "look special tonight." He's flirting with Paulette. He does this whole thing through this whole movie where he flirts with Paulette, and then he flirts with Stephanie, and then he flirts with Paulette, and then he flirts with Stephanie.
30:20 Speaker 01 He full-on kisses Paulette in front of Stephanie, and then is like, Stephanie, why don't you want to be with me? Like. What?
30:28 Speaker 00 Yeah, this guy's all over the place. All right, should we go to the bowling alley? Because this is the pièce de résistance of this film, in my opinion.
30:37 Speaker 01 This is just an amazing moment in cinema. It was also Patricia Birch's second favorite number, because the musical number and the dancing are, again, phenomenal. The song is called "Score Tonight." It's our first real sexual innuendo song.
30:54 Speaker 00 Yes.
30:55 Speaker 01 Because bowling leads to a little "wee-hoo" in the sack, apparently.
30:59 Speaker 00 The scoring.
31:00 Speaker 01 The scoring.
31:00 Speaker 00 Right. So, there's a bunch of students there bowling. There are also some nuns in full habits bowling.
31:07 Speaker 01 Yes, the nuns are bowling, and they have beef with the team they're bowling against. I zoomed in on their outfits. They like shake their fists at each other. And I'm like, who did the nuns not like? Who are they bowling against? And they're wearing like sort of these brown gingham tops, and they have like this little emblem, looks like of some kind of Roman helmet. I don't know who they are.
31:29 Speaker 00 Well, they're not getting along, I guess.
31:31 Speaker 01 No.
31:32 Speaker 00 That's amazing.
31:34 Speaker 01 Speaking of these costumes, I would love to give a shout out to the costume department headed by Robert de Mora. I cannot imagine dressing this many people for a movie. I'm gonna be highlighting a few costumes throughout. I would say the best dress for this particular number goes to Paulette.
31:51 Speaker 00 100%, those gold pants.
31:53 Speaker 01 My gosh, she's in the pink gingham personalized button-down pink lady blouse with gold trim, and, like you said, the most glittery, super, very tight gold pants. Also, the collar-up moment goes to Paulette as well, but the sunglasses inside moment goes to Stephanie.
32:13 Speaker 00 Well, I think we need to hear a little bit of "Score Tonight." Last game coming up, winner take all, agreed? Did you just shoot the ball? Shoot the ball! Shoot the ball!
32:31 Speaker 04 So fun. So that leads into a giant dance break. We are spinning, we are pirouetting, we are high kicking. We are toe touching. Everybody has a bowling ball, they're spinning with their bowling ball. These are clearly fakey balls. They weigh nothing. No, clearly, no one's even trying to make them look like they weigh anything. They just throw them up above their heads, they spin with them. I think one of the things that makes this song so great are the vocals on Adrian Zemed. I mean, when you hear him singing at the beginning, he's just crushing it. Yeah. And also Lorna Luft.
33:12 Speaker 04 And I want to play a clip that starts with this high note by Adrian Zemed and leads into Lorna Luft's section of this song.
33:26 Speaker 04 I mean, am I right? Yeah. The voices on these too. Absolutely amazing.
34:27 Speaker 00 Well, it makes sense because Lorna Left, this was her theatrical film debut, but she is the daughter of Judy Garland. She is the half-sister of Liza Minnelli. It runs in the family, clearly.
34:38 Speaker 01 Yeah.
34:39 Speaker 00 Incidentally, did you know that Cher was originally signed on to play Paulette Rebchuk, but she backed out? She said the salary was too low and they didn't have a finished script. Cher was like, I think I'm gonna pass.
34:53 Speaker 01 I think I'm out. Well, Lorna Left crushes it. There is a dance move in this number I need to talk about.
35:01 Speaker 00 Which one is it? There's so many.
35:03 Speaker 01 It's called "I'm annoyed, but I'm still gonna dance."
35:06 Speaker 00 Okay. Who does it?
35:08 Speaker 01 Stephanie.
35:09 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah.
35:10 Speaker 01 She's so annoyed, you know? But she's like, "Fine, I'm gonna dance, I'm gonna pout about it." It's pretty amazing. Like, I wanna do that dance move. Also, a lot of people online called bullsh** on Dancing on the Bowling Lanes. This is what some folks said. Quote, "Everybody is dancing at the bowling alley and even dancing on the alleys. The alleys in a bowling alley are heavily waxed, so the bowling balls don't have friction while rolling. Everyone dancing on the alleys would be slipping, sliding, and falling all over the place."
35:42 Speaker 00 Well, I wanna offer, maybe this is why they can spin so much. They spin with ease.
35:47 Speaker 01 I think they would be busting their ass. Many people wrote about that. One other thing I'd love to share is that Michelle Pfeiffer said in an interview that she kept her bowling ball
35:56 Speaker 00 Oh.
35:57 Speaker 01 from this movie and still has it.
35:59 Speaker 00 Well, outside, Michael is... What is happening here, okay?
36:05 Speaker 01 He's got some type of book, like a manual that tells you how to talk to people about bowling?
36:11 Speaker 00 Yeah, I wrote down the suggestions from the book.
36:14 Speaker 01 I did too.
36:15 Speaker 00 Always be courteous when asking for a game.
36:18 Speaker 01 "Hi, wanna game? Howdy, fellas, let's bowl some balls."
36:22 Speaker 00 Bowling, anyone? What is this book? There were a lot of pages in this book.
36:27 Speaker 01 I have to think that it's, it addresses more than bowling.
36:31 Speaker 00 I hope so. But also, wow, that there's even a section.
36:36 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
36:37 Speaker 00 Well, inside, everyone is now done bowling. They're walking up to return their shoes. Johnny wants a trophy for winning, because they won.
36:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
36:47 Speaker 00 So Paulette goes over, she gives him a big, long smooch.
36:50 Speaker 01 Yeah.
36:51 Speaker 00 And he's like, "That's great. That was the trophy for best average." Then he turns to Stephanie and he says, "How about a kiss for best score?" And Stephanie says, "I ain't no one's trophy." And he says, "So that's the way it's gonna be now, huh, Miss Independent?" And she says, "Yeah, independent. I kiss who I want, when I want. I could kiss the next guy who walks through that door if I want." And he says, "Be my guest." Well, guess who walks in right at that moment?
37:25 Speaker 01 Michael.
37:26 Speaker 00 And she lays one on him. He's shocked, everyone's shocked. Then she walks over to the group and she says, "Let's eat."
37:34 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
37:35 Speaker 00 Wow, this scene, that whole line of, "That's the way it's gonna be now, huh, Miss Independent?" She's like, "Yeah, independent." My sister and I used to do the dialogue from this scene.
37:47 Speaker 01 That's adorable.
37:47 Speaker 00 Some of my favorite dialogue from the movie.
37:50 Speaker 01 That's so cute, lady. Well, our next big scene is a new day at school. We're gonna meet Mr. Stewart.
37:56 Speaker 00 I'm sorry, but before that, we're gonna see the Pink Ladies arrive again without Stephanie. And I just wanna say I don't understand why they can't drive Stephanie to school.
38:05 Speaker 01 I don't know. Is that when they almost crash into the tree?
38:07 Speaker 00 Yeah.
38:08 Speaker 01 I don't think she likes to ride with them, lady.
38:10 Speaker 00 Okay, fine. They almost run over Mr. Stewart upon arriving.
38:14 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm. Mr. Stewart very quickly meets Miss Mason, AKA Sexy McSexy, and he says he likes her hair.
38:22 Speaker 00 She loves her hair.
38:23 Speaker 01 She's got great hair.
38:25 Speaker 00 Mr. Stewart was played by Tab Hunter. So, incidentally, both Connie Stevens and Tab Hunter, they were like matinee idols when they were younger.
38:34 Speaker 01 Hmm.
38:35 Speaker 00 So the casting of these two was kind of a nod to the older audience. It reminds me a little bit of Us and Lee's movie, Angela. It's a movie about young people and rock and roll.
38:46 Speaker 01 And a few recognizable oldies.
38:48 Speaker 00 Yes, they sprinkle in some matinee idols of the past. And that's me and you and Fred Armisen and Bobby Lee, I think. Our job in Lee's movie.
39:00 Speaker 01 I would do it all day long. It's super fun to be the oldies on set. And we find out about the big talent show. It's the Rydell Review. Prizes are 100 long playing records.
39:10 Speaker 00 The T-Birds really want them.
39:12 Speaker 01 Yeah, they do.
39:12 Speaker 00 Well, now we're going to get to this little bit in the hallway between Johnny and the principal. She's scolding him about riding motorcycles across the school lawn. And the whole time, he's hiding a cigarette in his mouth.
39:23 Speaker 01 Yeah, he's smoking as she walks up and he does the thing where he folds it into his mouth.
39:28 Speaker 00 Yeah, this would drive me crazy. I would have to skip this scene. I don't care for it. I don't like it. But then his friend slaps him on the back and he swallows it. This would make my sister and I crazy, this scene.
39:39 Speaker 01 Well, I looked up how they did this gag. And according to the internet, actor Adrian Zemed confirmed it was a real cigarette, not a special effect. The bit was written into the movie by Ken Finkelmann, who did this in high school. So Zemed practiced this trick every day for roughly two months before shooting the scene. He did hold the cigarette in his mouth, but he did not swallow it, Jenna.
40:02 Speaker 00 That is crazy to me. I assumed that he did the flip. I believed it. And then I assumed they took it out and that whole time that he was talking to Miss McGee, he was just pretending to have a... That makes it even harder for me to watch now, knowing that the cigarette was in his mouth the whole time.
40:18 Speaker 01 He did say when the camera came onto his back, he didn't have the cigarette in his mouth anymore.
40:22 Speaker 00 Well, thank God.
40:23 Speaker 01 But when he was facing forward, he did.
40:25 Speaker 00 Wow. Well, let's get to these talent show auditions, lady.
40:29 Speaker 01 First, we have a riveting song about a guy named Brad.
40:32 Speaker 00 By the Twins with Michael on piano. So this guy Brad was played by Matt Lintanzi. He had a small part in Xanadu the year before, where he met Olivia Newton-John. And then he got cast in Grease 2, and this whole time he was Olivia Newton-John's boyfriend. They actually ended up getting married. They had a daughter. They divorced after 11 years of marriage. But maybe this is why she was hosting all those parties, because her boyfriend was in the movie.
41:03 Speaker 01 Yeah.
41:05 Speaker 01 But also, I mean, Lorna Love said that the, just the whole cast was so warm to them.
41:09 Speaker 00 I believe it. Well, now, we have the Pink Ladies. They're gonna audition. Their song is "Calendar Girls." Michael is playing the piano again. Sharon is clearly running the show. The role of Sharon was originally gonna be played by Jennifer Beals, but she left to take the lead role in "Flashdance."
41:27 Speaker 01 Oh.
41:27 Speaker 00 But I think if I was going to be in this movie, like, when I was younger,
41:32 Speaker 01 Yeah.
41:33 Speaker 00 I would've played Sharon.
41:34 Speaker 01 I love this line that she says to Rhonda. She goes, "Rhonda, your fall. Give me maturity. Give me aging." Rhonda's like, "Give me a break."
41:45 Speaker 00 Who would you have played, lady?
41:47 Speaker 01 Maybe Paulette.
41:48 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. I could see you as Paulette. You'd be great.
41:50 Speaker 01 Thanks.
41:51 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. Well, the "Calendar Girls" song, I find it so grating. It's hard for me. I really hate the beginning with the "uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh," but I, so I'm gonna play a clip.
42:03 Speaker 01 You're playing the song you hate?
42:04 Speaker 00 Yeah, because it's gonna lead into a really cringey conversation between Michael and Stephanie.
42:19 Speaker 05 Hello? Hi. I wanted to ask you if you're free after school today? Yeah, I'm free every day. It's in the Constitution.
42:29 Speaker 00 Yeah.
42:30 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
42:31 Speaker 00 That's another line we would always quote.
42:32 Speaker 01 Yeah.
42:33 Speaker 00 "I'm free every day."
42:34 Speaker 01 It's in the Constitution.
42:35 Speaker 00 Yeah. The Pink Ladies get cut off after just one season, and Sharon is really upset. But Michael's gonna hit up Stephanie again after the song, but she's too busy to go out.
42:46 Speaker 01 She's very busy.
42:48 Speaker 00 He'd like to know, like, what was up with the bowling alley? And she's like, "That was a joke."
42:52 Speaker 01 Okay, get over it.
42:53 Speaker 00 Listen, it's a no.
42:53 Speaker 01 Yeah.
42:55 Speaker 00 And then she forgot her book, so he asks her again. He says, "How about the day after tomorrow?" And she can't take it. And she's gonna explain what she's actually looking for in a guy. I think we should hear it.
43:14 Speaker 04 Well, I'm looking for a dream on a mint machine with hell in his eyes. I wanna double the skin, tight leather. He's gonna be wild as the wind. One fine night. I'll be holding on tight to a cool rider. A cool rider. If he's cool enough, he can burn me through and through. Whoa, whoa. If it takes forever, then I'll wait forever. No ordinary boy, no ordinary boy is gonna do.
43:55 Speaker 04 I wanna ride to that cool.
44:00 Speaker 00 Here's the thing. She is so dynamic when she's singing. There's like this spotlight on her. Her eyes are on fire. She has this amazing red lipstick. She's so intense. She's completely captivating.
44:14 Speaker 01 She is. She's wearing all black. She has a black top, black tight pants, black bangle bracelets. Her pink lady jacket is reversible lady. She's wearing it in black.
44:24 Speaker 00 Oh.
44:25 Speaker 01 But if Michael didn't know really what she's into, her necklace is a dead giveaway.
44:31 Speaker 00 Why? What is it?
44:32 Speaker 01 It's a gold necklace with a motorcycle pendant.
44:38 Speaker 00 Well, here's the thing. I wrote down, I think this is why she got the part. Holy [BLEEP]. She's amazing. All during this first section of the song, there are these weird cutaways to Michael listening to her sing, and he's a complete like just blank slate. But then something happens.
44:56 Speaker 01 What?
44:57 Speaker 00 Then she starts dancing.
44:59 Speaker 01 Well, I learned one of her dance moves. I'd like to show it to you now.
45:03 Speaker 00 Oh, God.
45:06 Speaker 06 Please. No, that's the one I can't take! That's the one I can't take at the end!
45:13 Speaker 01 Here's the thing. I have compassion for her because I'm looking at this whole scene through the camera lens, and she's got to cover a lot of ground in a short amount of time. So she does this weird scooching dance move. I don't know how else you cover that amount of ground unless you can do cartwheels and stuff. But I was curious what Michelle Pfeiffer had to say about her audition process. I was curious about her background for singing and dancing. And I found this interview of her on The James Corden Show. Here's what she had to say.
45:49 Speaker 05 Now, what was your audition process like?
45:51 Speaker 06 Oh, my gosh.
45:51 Speaker 05 For Grease 2?
45:53 Speaker 06 Well, it was a total fluke that I got that part.
45:55 Speaker 05 Go on, how?
45:56 Speaker 06 And I went on a lark. I mean, my agent said, "Oh, just go." I wasn't a dancer. I wasn't a singer. And I was in this little, short, purple skirt with go-go boots. And we had the dancing auditions.
46:10 Speaker 05 Yeah.
46:11 Speaker 06 You know, it's literally like a chorus line. It's like this line goes, and then the next line goes. And I kept sneaking in the back. And finally, finally, it was only me.
46:20 Speaker 05 Sure.
46:20 Speaker 06 And, and, uh, and the director's like, "Come on, come on." So I go and, you know, go down there. But anyway, I did, and I, I got the part. And I, you know, shockingly enough.
46:31 Speaker 05 And then?
46:32 Speaker 06 And then.
46:32 Speaker 05 We all got given Grease 2. And how could we not about that?
46:37 Speaker 01 I mean, she was surprised.
46:38 Speaker 06 Well, here's what I wrote down. I wrote, "She's so sexy when she's singing. And then she is so not sexy when they make her dance." And I just wrote, "Let this woman sing."
46:57 Speaker 00 Why did this need to be a dance number? It was so good. Because later, we're gonna let Michael wax on for three minutes about his charade. He doesn't have to dance through that song. His whole ballad that like, I can't even take.
47:12 Speaker 01 It's just a giant montage.
47:14 Speaker 00 Why couldn't she just stand there and sing like the powerhouse that she is? And the thing is that like, when you're seeing her face and her eyes, the singing sounds great. Leave her alone. Don't make this woman dance anymore.
47:27 Speaker 01 I would say, don't make her do any more than the ladder. The ladder was very impressive. The ladder is tall. It's got a tiny little top of the ladder that then she had to like, kind of move around on. I was terrified for her. And then, the way she comes off that ladder is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
47:43 Speaker 00 With her big sweeping leg?
47:45 Speaker 01 I would have wiped out. I would have absolutely face planted.
47:48 Speaker 00 Because she goes down a few, then up a few, and then down a few more, and then up one?
47:51 Speaker 01 Yes.
47:51 Speaker 00 It's great.
47:52 Speaker 01 Just leave her on the ladder. In fact-
47:54 Speaker 00 But you know what you don't make her do when she's on the top of the ladder? Which again, kills the whole ladder bit? The jazz hands. Why the jazz hands? Why is it, this is not sexy. I'm sorry. Like, if you're dancing for your husband and you're being sexy, and then you start doing jazz hands, it's gone.
48:11 Speaker 01 Or if he likes jazz hands, maybe there's another conversation to be had.
48:15 Speaker 00 I mean, sure. Maybe you have a thing for jazz hands, but I just think there's, you can't be sexy while doing jazz. There's not a single stripper who does jazz hands. I'm convinced. No one's doing it. It's not happening.
48:29 Speaker 01 I just also think that there's maybe a reason the ladder was part of this move, because maybe they saw her do the scooch move. And they were like, we need a prop.
48:41 Speaker 00 It was great.
48:42 Speaker 01 Yeah.
48:43 Speaker 00 But it all falls apart when she, oh god. Anyway. I both, I love Cool Rider, but the dancing is hard.
48:53 Speaker 01 That's all we have to say about that.
48:54 Speaker 00 I think we should take a break. And then when we come back-
48:57 Speaker 01 Michael has figured out a way to buy a motorcycle, and it includes selling essays and homework. I break down the math of it.
49:07 Speaker 00 Oh.
49:07 Speaker 01 When we come back.
49:08 Speaker 00 Great.
49:18 Speaker 00 All right, well, we are back. And like Angela said before the break, the T-Birds are gonna start asking Michael to do their homework for them. It's a secret.
49:29 Speaker 01 It's a secret. They got a rep to protect.
49:30 Speaker 00 Exactly.
49:31 Speaker 01 They all are very worried about their reps.
49:33 Speaker 00 Yes, their rep of doing their own homework?
49:37 Speaker 01 I don't know.
49:38 Speaker 00 I don't know. But he's doing it so that he can earn money to buy a motorcycle.
49:42 Speaker 01 Yeah. Louis comes to what we learn is Michael's uncle's nuclear fallout shelter, where I guess Michael hangs out and does his homework?
49:51 Speaker 00 Yeah, I said, does he live in his uncle's fallout shelter or just do his homework in there?
49:57 Speaker 01 I don't know. Either way, kinda makes me sad. But Louis comes there, he looks around and is like, oh, this is a good place to do homework and other things. And I'm like, great. It looks like he pays Michael what appears to be $5.
50:11 Speaker 00 For this essay?
50:12 Speaker 01 For this essay. I looked up what a motorcycle costs in 1961.
50:17 Speaker 00 Okay.
50:18 Speaker 01 On the low end, $800.
50:21 Speaker 00 I mean, he gets a pretty junky motorcycle that he has to fix up through a series of montages.
50:27 Speaker 01 He goes to like, basically, a junkyard.
50:29 Speaker 00 Yeah.
50:30 Speaker 01 So if he got one that's $800, it'd be about 160 essays.
50:35 Speaker 00 Oh my, how, there can't possibly be that many. There's only four T-Birds.
50:39 Speaker 01 I know. I think he got a real piece of junk.
50:43 Speaker 00 I mean.
50:44 Speaker 01 Well, now we go to a biology lesson by Mr. Stewart.
50:48 Speaker 00 With Ms. Mason in the room.
50:50 Speaker 01 It's got the famous, "Where does the pollen go?"
50:53 Speaker 00 Yes, this is the song, "Reproduction." Let's hear the beginning of it.
50:58 Speaker 04 (singing) Reproduction. Reproduction. Put your pollen tube to work. Reproduction. Reproduction. Make my statement go berserk. Reproduction. I don't think that even now what a pistol is.
51:16 Speaker 07 I got your pistol right here.
51:18 Speaker 04 Where does the pollen go? Back here. What you getting?
51:25 Speaker 00 Yeah, there you go. You've got this whole number now. The boys are all on one side of the room. The girls are on the other side of the room. The girls are doing that sort of stereotypical back in the day sort of thing of being both like sort of sexy, but also the gatekeepers of sex. The boys are just like, you know, lecherous and wanting to get it on.
51:47 Speaker 01 There is one moment, though, where the girls pretend to be the boys and the boys pretend to be the girls. The boys are like, "Oh, you always say no." And the girls are like, "Yeah, I wanna do this." So I did appreciate that moment.
51:58 Speaker 00 We did have a little role reversal there. Yeah. Catchy song. My sister and I were too shy to sing this one.
52:07 Speaker 01 I get it.
52:07 Speaker 00 We wouldn't do this one.
52:08 Speaker 01 You didn't want to sing about the pollen tubes?
52:10 Speaker 00 I guess we didn't. But then ironically, we would belt out, "Let's do it for our country," which is coming up. Guess what, everybody? Michael has enough money for a motorcycle. He fixes it up by reading a manual. This kid has got so many manuals.
52:31 Speaker 01 He's very smart.
52:32 Speaker 00 And he's gonna practice riding it in the park. Frenchie looks on, she's concerned. At the end, he like pulls away and then he looks over his shoulder at her. He's wearing like his mechanic's jumpsuit. Oh, this, I was dead. Like, he is so cute.
52:53 Speaker 01 This is the look that got it for you?
52:55 Speaker 00 This is the one. This is the Maxwell Caulfield, posters going on my wall, this look. There's another one, too.
53:03 Speaker 01 Okay, mine comes later. It involves a turquoise sweater.
53:06 Speaker 00 Oh, I know it.
53:07 Speaker 01 There is now a montage, you guys, with a passage of time. You know, we find out everyone made the talent show, because I guess they didn't have enough people sign up. We see people practicing for the talent show. We see Michael working on his bike, tinkering with his bike, trying to learn how to pop a wheelie, things like that.
53:24 Speaker 00 Yeah, the T-Birds are really intimidated by the Mr. Sandman trio. The Sandman trio are singing in the showers. They're harmonizing in the showers and the T-Birds are worried. Are they really gonna win the records?
53:35 Speaker 01 Yeah.
53:36 Speaker 00 These guys are good.
53:37 Speaker 01 Those guys are real good. Now the montage is over and we're back at the bowling alley. The rival gang, you guys, you know, the Cycle Lords.
53:46 Speaker 00 Yeah.
53:47 Speaker 01 They're gonna surprise the T-Birds. There's so many Cycle Lords. This is not an even match.
53:53 Speaker 00 Here's the thing. So just the leader is outside. And as Dolores walks in, she calls him scum and she runs in and tells the T-Birds, he's outside and he's all alone. So then the T-Birds go outside, but by the time they get there, the whole rival gang is there.
54:09 Speaker 01 All of the Lords are there.
54:11 Speaker 00 How many are there of them?
54:12 Speaker 01 Yeah.
54:13 Speaker 00 But as you've mentioned, it's like 20 against four.
54:17 Speaker 01 They start to rough up Davy.
54:19 Speaker 00 Yeah.
54:20 Speaker 01 And then the mysterious rider appears.
54:23 Speaker 00 Yeah.
54:24 Speaker 01 All hell breaks loose.
54:25 Speaker 00 Yeah, there's this shot of everybody inside the clear bowling alley doors.
54:32 Speaker 01 Watching.
54:33 Speaker 00 I wrote down, I cannot even imagine the nightmare this shot was for continuity. Also, clearly, they had people like on...
54:41 Speaker 01 Risers, yeah.
54:42 Speaker 00 Yeah, because how were they so tell? They fill the whole thing.
54:46 Speaker 01 Cinematically, it's a really cool shot.
54:48 Speaker 00 It is.
54:49 Speaker 01 It took a lot of work, though.
54:50 Speaker 00 So they are watching out these glass doors as this single mysterious motorcycle guy takes on this whole gang.
55:00 Speaker 01 The whole gang. None of them can catch him. 20 versus one. They can't get him.
55:04 Speaker 00 Also, they suddenly just can't ride their motorcycles. All he does is ride by and they fall over.
55:10 Speaker 01 They fall. I know. They're like, "Oh my God." Now everyone spills out of the doors. They're all in the parking lot now.
55:17 Speaker 00 Well, wait, we have to talk about the song that's going on this whole time. Who's that guy?
55:23 Speaker 01 I know. Stephanie is instantly fascinated, clearly turned on by this mysterious rider. This starts what I'm calling acting with bubble gum portion of the movie.
55:34 Speaker 00 Oh, does she have a lot of bubble gum in this one?
55:36 Speaker 01 What?
55:39 Speaker 01 Are you crazy? She's popping big bubbles. She's pulling it out of her mouth and stringing it back and forth. She's chomping on it nervous, chomping on it nervous.
55:49 Speaker 00 Oh.
55:49 Speaker 01 She pops it, rolls her eyes. She pops it sexy.
55:53 Speaker 01 There's so much gum acting here.
55:55 Speaker 00 I did not know that, but...
55:56 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh.
55:58 Speaker 00 My personal favorite part of this song is the part where Michael sings about himself in the third person. I thought we should hear it because this song is great. I also wrote down, "How you sing this song with zero irony? I don't know."
57:05 Speaker 00 What is that?
57:09 Speaker 00 What is that?
57:10 Speaker 01 Is that him? What would they say if they knew it was Michael?
57:14 Speaker 00 That's him while he's taking on the gang.
57:17 Speaker 01 That's him. But he also sounds a little bit like Cartman from South Park. Like, "Dude, it's Michael. Oh, my God."
57:26 Speaker 00 It's really crazy. It's really crazy. Well, anyway, he does it. He defeats them.
57:33 Speaker 01 He does.
57:34 Speaker 00 And then we lead into a scene that I love. Stephanie, she can't stop just staring off into space. And the pink ladies have to come over. And this is a scene called "There's Been Talk."
57:46 Speaker 01 Wait.
57:47 Speaker 00 What?
57:47 Speaker 01 I love that scene, but before that happens, my favorite line, maybe in the movie, happens.
57:54 Speaker 00 What is it?
57:54 Speaker 01 Johnny is pissed off. Mysterious writer has messed with his mojo. And he goes, "Everyone inside, we bowl."
58:06 Speaker 00 It's so good. All right, well, now let's hear "There's Been Talk."
58:11 Speaker 04 You know, Steph, there's been talk. We haven't been talking. But there has been talk, Steph, questioning your loyalty to the birds. Well, it doesn't mean that you gotta go steady with Johnny. In fact, I think it's better for the both of you that it's over. Yeah, but the code does say that we're two bird chicks. At least till grad. Let's go, Louis.
58:32 Speaker 00 Yeah, well, maybe I'm tired of being someone's chick.
58:34 Speaker 04 Tired of being someone's chick? Are you feeling OK?
58:39 Speaker 00 I don't know what I'm feeling.
58:41 Speaker 04 Here, have a ciggy. Maybe it'll make you feel better.
58:45 Speaker 00 Yeah, I love it. I love all that dialogue. I think it's great.
58:49 Speaker 01 Have a ciggy.
58:50 Speaker 00 Have a ciggy. Paulette offers her a ciggy, but she can't get it lit.
58:53 Speaker 01 She can't, but guess who can light it?
58:57 Speaker 00 The cool rider. He offers her a ride. She can't believe it, but then the cops show up and he says, "Some other time."
59:06 Speaker 01 And then he jumps the entire cop car.
59:09 Speaker 00 Yeah.
59:10 Speaker 01 Stephanie's about to come undone. I think we do need to discuss the mysterious rider's wardrobe. It is no shirt.
59:19 Speaker 00 Yes, it's no shirt under, but with a leather jacket.
59:23 Speaker 01 Leather jacket, very unzipped, though, like halfway down to his belly button to show off his chest. When he offers to light her cigarette, you can see his breath, so I know it was cold that night. But yeah. Mysterious rider.
59:38 Speaker 00 Yeah.
59:38 Speaker 01 Johnny sees all of this, by the way, and he is really upset.
59:43 Speaker 00 Yeah, there's this weird shot of him at the end, taking it all in. Also, we should note, he is doing an American accent.
59:52 Speaker 01 When he's the mysterious rider.
59:54 Speaker 00 When he offers her a ride.
59:55 Speaker 01 Yeah.
59:57 Speaker 00 All right, well, it's the next day. Michael is hanging out with Frenchie in the science lab.
1:00:02 Speaker 01 Oh, she's heard all about it.
1:00:03 Speaker 00 Oh, yeah, he's like, it was me.
1:00:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, and she's like, you knocked her socks off as the cool writer, but when you're yourself, you knock her socks back on.
1:00:12 Speaker 00 Oh, that's a great line.
1:00:13 Speaker 01 I know.
1:00:13 Speaker 00 Well, the pink ladies walk in. Michael claims that he's got confidence from the night before. He's gonna ask her out as Michael.
1:00:20 Speaker 01 Yeah, so he's gonna go and he's gonna have this sexy lead off question. He's like, hey, you ever read a Superman comic?
1:00:30 Speaker 00 And she says, not in the last few hours.
1:00:34 Speaker 01 This is your go to lead off line?
1:00:36 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:00:37 Speaker 01 You've ever read a Superman comic, Michael?
1:00:40 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:00:41 Speaker 01 Michael.
1:00:41 Speaker 00 So, listen, you're not gonna see Frenchie again. She's done.
1:00:45 Speaker 01 Oh, that's right.
1:00:45 Speaker 00 You're not gonna see her at the end of the movie. She just sort of disappears now. And in a 2003 interview, Didi Khan explained that the reason Frenchie disappears halfway through the movie is because the script was not finished when they began filming. The draft they started with included Frenchie, but the character was written out. She was told halfway through the movie that she was no longer needed. They did decide to include Frenchie in the final cut, but they had very limited footage. She described the entire filming process as rushed, frantic, and unorganized.
1:01:16 Speaker 01 Hmm.
1:01:17 Speaker 00 Yeah, so, anyway, that's the end of Frenchie.
1:01:21 Speaker 01 Well, now Louis is gonna sneak into Michael's uncle's nuclear fallout shelter to try to trick Sharon into sleeping with him.
1:01:32 Speaker 00 Yeah, he has the other T-birds go outside the shelter and crank, like, the alarm.
1:01:37 Speaker 01 The siren, yeah.
1:01:38 Speaker 00 Yeah, mm hmm.
1:01:40 Speaker 01 They're gonna have this duet called Let's Do It For Our Country.
1:01:43 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:01:43 Speaker 01 You can imagine what that entails.
1:01:46 Speaker 00 Yes.
1:01:47 Speaker 01 She's gonna get wise to him at the end, and she's like, I'm outta here. She's upset.
1:01:51 Speaker 00 But there's this whole thing where she's, like, wrapping him up in gauze and stuff.
1:01:54 Speaker 01 She thinks she's healing his-
1:01:56 Speaker 00 Like Florence Nightingale or something? Before he goes off to war.
1:02:00 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
1:02:00 Speaker 00 I guess she's gonna wrap him in some gauze and then have sex with him. I don't know. Not sure.
1:02:07 Speaker 01 All right.
1:02:07 Speaker 00 You know.
1:02:08 Speaker 01 Well.
1:02:08 Speaker 00 Well, now, we're at the gas station.
1:02:10 Speaker 01 Yes, the only mechanic in this whole movie is Stephanie.
1:02:13 Speaker 00 It's her dad's gas station.
1:02:15 Speaker 01 Because in Grease, you know, the greasers are mechanics.
1:02:18 Speaker 00 Mm hmm.
1:02:19 Speaker 01 So Stephanie is that for this movie.
1:02:22 Speaker 00 Well, she's very overwhelmed. She has multiple people asking her for things.
1:02:27 Speaker 01 They're very annoyed patrons at this gas station.
1:02:29 Speaker 00 Yes. I don't understand why she doesn't finish one thing at a time. She starts three different customers' things. Like, just finish it and then move to the next person. But instead, she's got three unfinished businesses all yelling at her.
1:02:43 Speaker 01 All yelling at her. Gas is, I would like to point out, fifty cents a gallon.
1:02:47 Speaker 00 Michael pulls up, he puts some gas in his motorcycle, he says, "What do I owe you?"
1:02:51 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:02:51 Speaker 00 Because he has to be very quiet, husky.
1:02:53 Speaker 01 He is a little bit of Batman.
1:02:55 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:02:55 Speaker 01 What do I owe you?
1:02:57 Speaker 00 She says fifty cents.
1:02:58 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:02:58 Speaker 00 He's wearing his leather jacket. It's unzipped, still no shirt underneath.
1:03:02 Speaker 01 And then she realizes who it is.
1:03:06 Speaker 00 It's the cool rider.
1:03:07 Speaker 01 And they are gonna go for this bike ride. I mean, Stephanie is living her best life.
1:03:13 Speaker 00 Yeah, they ride away on the bike. She's wearing no helmet.
1:03:17 Speaker 01 No helmet. Her hair also looks fine by the end of it. She hasn't eaten a bug, her eyes aren't watery, and her hair looks normal.
1:03:27 Speaker 00 Also, though, in the middle of them going down the road, she moves and straddles him from the front.
1:03:34 Speaker 01 Yeah, she does like a little leg wraparound.
1:03:37 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:03:38 Speaker 01 Mm hmm.
1:03:39 Speaker 00 They stop at sunset at the top of the hill. They are kissing. He's never taken off his helmet or his goggles.
1:03:45 Speaker 01 Nope.
1:03:46 Speaker 00 This whole time.
1:03:47 Speaker 01 Pretty sure his goggles have fogged up. And he's about to reveal his identity, and then they're interrupted by the arrival of the entire T-Bird gang.
1:03:57 Speaker 00 Yeah, and he races away. He says, "I'll see you Friday night at the talent show." Out front.
1:04:02 Speaker 01 What? Talent show? How do you know?
1:04:05 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:04:05 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:04:07 Speaker 00 So this is pretty steamy, this moment between them, right? Like, they have some chemistry, like, you're seeing them together. Would you be surprised to know that, according to the internet, Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield did not get along during filming?
1:04:20 Speaker 01 Oh, I read that it was platonic. I didn't know it was...
1:04:25 Speaker 00 Yeah, "maybe doesn't get along" is the wrong wording, but a few years after the film was released, Maxwell said in an interview that they got along infamously. And Michelle Pfeiffer supposedly, in an interview, said that she found Maxwell self-adoring. So, you know, this just goes to show ya, you don't have to have chemistry in real life to have sparks fly on screen. Acting! Acting.
1:04:50 Speaker 01 Well, here's the thing, guys. Johnny is super upset by Stephanie's new romance. He threatens to fight the mysterious writer. Stephanie's like, "Stay out of my life." Now Paulette is pissed because she's like, "Johnny, you don't ever get jealous about me." Everyone tells Sharon to shut up, so all the ladies leave in a huff.
1:05:10 Speaker 00 They all storm inside the gas station.
1:05:13 Speaker 01 That's right.
1:05:13 Speaker 00 Slam the door.
1:05:14 Speaker 01 I have a wardrobe tidbit about this scene.
1:05:17 Speaker 00 Yes.
1:05:17 Speaker 01 First of all, I did not discuss this up top. I should have. All the pink ladies have a look. Sharon is Jackie Kennedy. That's why she wears the little pillbox hat and pearls. Stephanie is usually in all black. You know, she's the motorcycle kind of gal. She's got the necklace. Allison wears headbands and scarves. Paulette's character wants to be Marilyn Monroe.
1:05:39 Speaker 00 I mean, that's clear.
1:05:40 Speaker 01 Yes, and in this scene, she is dressed almost identical to Marilyn in the white dress that even flies up as she walks into the gas station. But here's what actress Lorna Left had to say about trying to get this Marilyn look.
1:05:54 Speaker 06 The whole thing with me was...
1:05:58 Speaker 06 They wanted this character to sort of be this character who was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe. So it was all about my hair. And Alan wanted me to be literally the platinum blonde. And he sent me to a hairdresser in Westwood. And she bleached out my hair. And I got to tell you, it was really painful. And because in those days, they didn't have the real bleach now that they have that isn't painful. They bleached out my hair. I was weeping.
1:06:42 Speaker 06 And the next day, I went into hair and makeup for a hair and makeup test for the film. And the hairdresser went like this, and it came out in her hand.
1:06:55 Speaker 06 They had broken off all my hair. My hair was this long. And that's when Alan said, "Oh, put a wig on her." I thought to myself, "They couldn't have thought about that before they did that to me."
1:07:09 Speaker 01 So Alan, that she's talking to, is Alan Carr. He was a producer on the movie. And when you watch the interview, she sort of does the motion of what the hair person did.
1:07:18 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:07:19 Speaker 01 Was just run her fingers through her hair, and it just came out in clumps.
1:07:23 Speaker 00 I mean, that's because, like she said, it was like, they just like scalded your hair.
1:07:30 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:07:30 Speaker 00 Back then.
1:07:31 Speaker 01 She said her hair ended up being like about an inch in length. It broke off that much.
1:07:37 Speaker 00 Wow.
1:07:37 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:07:39 Speaker 00 Oh.
1:07:39 Speaker 01 So shout out to Lorna Luft for enduring all that.
1:07:44 Speaker 00 She's so good in the movie.
1:07:46 Speaker 01 She's so great.
1:07:46 Speaker 00 I love her as Paulette.
1:07:48 Speaker 01 I do too.
1:07:49 Speaker 00 Well, with all the girls inside the gas station, the T-Birds, they decide that they need some guaranteed action.
1:07:57 Speaker 01 Yeah, they're gonna go prowlin'.
1:07:58 Speaker 00 Yeah, they launch into the "Go and Prowlin'" song, which kind of turns into a rehearsal for their talent show performance.
1:08:07 Speaker 01 Yeah, it like morphs into it. And I will say, the number they perform, I guess for the talent show, stylistically is really cool looking. There's like this back thin curtain on the stage.
1:08:21 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:08:21 Speaker 01 And the gals, I guess where you go to score is the grocery store?
1:08:25 Speaker 00 Yeah, because it's like three ladies shadows and their cashiers at a grocery store and they're dancing.
1:08:32 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's this cool kind of black and white effect behind them.
1:08:35 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:08:36 Speaker 01 And now we know their talent show number.
1:08:39 Speaker 00 Right. All right, well, now we're back in Miss Mason's class. She's now teaching English.
1:08:46 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:08:46 Speaker 00 And Stephanie has to stay after class because she didn't do well on her Shakespeare essay.
1:08:52 Speaker 01 Right. Guess who's gonna help her, you guys? It's Michael.
1:08:56 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:08:56 Speaker 01 They have a very cute scene at like this little coffee shop where he's gonna help her with her homework. And there's chemistry there where he's just Michael. There is chemistry.
1:09:08 Speaker 00 Yes, this scene is meant to show that Michael and Stephanie can have a connection even when he's not the cool writer.
1:09:15 Speaker 01 Right.
1:09:15 Speaker 00 But here's my beef with it. I don't understand how after spending a significant amount of time with Stephanie, Michael isn't totally turned off by her. She seems completely superficial and self-absorbed. She just keeps talking to him about the cool writer. She says, what if he takes off his goggles and he's just like an ordinary guy? And he's like, what if he is? And then she's like, I don't want to talk about this anymore. And then like, she's obsessed with the ketchup and like, everything about her is like a giant turn off to me.
1:09:48 Speaker 01 And she kind of eats a hamburger like the Carl's Jr. commercial.
1:09:51 Speaker 00 I love how she eats the hamburger.
1:09:53 Speaker 01 It's so gross.
1:09:54 Speaker 00 No, I like it because she's not being fussy about it. She's gonna dive right into that burger and the fries, but... I don't know. I mean, he's just like an intelligent person. And I feel like he's dumbing himself down for her, which always bums me out when people do in movies. I don't know.
1:10:12 Speaker 01 I think my thing with them is that he has to figure out how to be something he's not.
1:10:18 Speaker 00 Uh huh.
1:10:19 Speaker 01 To win her over.
1:10:20 Speaker 00 Yes.
1:10:21 Speaker 01 And that's what you don't want to do. You want to be your authentic self.
1:10:24 Speaker 00 Right.
1:10:24 Speaker 01 And have someone love you just as you are.
1:10:26 Speaker 00 Well, she is impressed by him.
1:10:29 Speaker 01 By his smarts.
1:10:30 Speaker 00 Yes. But then he downplays it. He's like, oh, I'm no smarter than you. I don't understand this stuff anymore than you do. I just know a few big words that impress teachers. It's like, no, Michael, I think you understand it. I think you actually understand Hamlet.
1:10:43 Speaker 01 I think you do. Well, he's gonna ask her out again. And she's like, no, you know, pink lady code, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, according to Dolores, the code stinks.
1:10:54 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:10:54 Speaker 01 Johnny and Goose show up. Johnny sees Michael talking to Stephanie. Once again, he's super ticked off. And lady, I think maybe Michael Scott had watched Grease 2. Why? I think you gotta hear this.
1:11:09 Speaker 00 What do you want, Johnny?
1:11:11 Speaker 02 Yeah, well, I just wanted to let you know that I'm officially declaring us as an item officially over.
1:11:19 Speaker 00 You're declaring.
1:11:20 Speaker 02 That's correct.
1:11:22 Speaker 00 Okay, fine. Okay? You declared it. It's over. Can I, can I go now? He declared it.
1:11:29 Speaker 01 I declare bankruptcy. That's all I could think about in that scene.
1:11:33 Speaker 00 Well, he asks her for her pink lady's jacket.
1:11:36 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:11:36 Speaker 00 He's like, I have a rep to protect. If you're not gonna date me, you're out of the pink ladies.
1:11:40 Speaker 01 If you're not gonna date me while I date you and Paulette, you're out.
1:11:45 Speaker 00 Well, she doesn't give him his jacket. And do you see where she goes? Do you see where she walks to? The Pink Lady car. Whose car is it? Now she's driving it.
1:11:58 Speaker 01 I know.
1:11:58 Speaker 00 Now she's getting in the car. I don't get it. It cuts to Michael, who's standing, watching all of this, by his motorcycle. By the Cool Riders motorcycle. No one notices that he's standing next to the motorcycle with the red flames on it? What is with the vehicles in this film? Anyway. Oh, God, now the part of the movie that I fast forward through.
1:12:24 Speaker 01 It's the super long.
1:12:26 Speaker 00 It's the only part. It's the only part I don't watch.
1:12:29 Speaker 01 Let me tell you why you shouldn't fast forward.
1:12:31 Speaker 00 Why?
1:12:32 Speaker 01 There is no one hotter in a turquoise sweater than Maxwell Caulfield. He is so dreamy in this sweater. I swear to God, they're selling it right now at Marine Layer. It's like a timeless sweater. He looks so cute. The song is long and boring. It's called "My Charade."
1:12:49 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:12:50 Speaker 01 It's him in the cafeteria. It's all different, like, moments in high school where he's just tired of playing this charade.
1:12:56 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:12:56 Speaker 01 Half the time, he's not singing. He's just walking and looking around.
1:13:00 Speaker 00 I know.
1:13:01 Speaker 01 And the song is like a voiceover?
1:13:03 Speaker 00 Yes.
1:13:03 Speaker 01 It's all odd.
1:13:04 Speaker 00 Yes. But now, it's the night of the talent show. Stephanie's waiting out front in her sparkly jacket. Cool Rider shows up.
1:13:13 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:13:14 Speaker 00 But, uh-oh, the T-birds show up, too. So he rides away. Why? Why does he keep riding away from the T-birds? He took on 20 of the Cycle Lords outside the bowling alley. This is four people. But apparently, he can't take on these four guys on the motorcycle. So he speeds away, and the T-birds chase him, and then the girls follow them in the pink car.
1:13:36 Speaker 01 And guess what? There's a construction site. It conceals the deadly drop of dead man's curve. And he just goes flying off into the night. Can I say what I wrote?
1:13:46 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:13:47 Speaker 01 He died? I thought, where does the movie go from here?
1:13:50 Speaker 00 You really thought he died?
1:13:52 Speaker 01 How do you come back from that? I thought he died.
1:13:57 Speaker 00 Well, that's good. That's what they wanted you to think. Stephanie's convinced, but I do have to go back because this is one of me and my sister's favorite lines from the movie.
1:14:06 Speaker 01 Please, I'm sorry, say it, say it.
1:14:07 Speaker 00 It's in the car when the pink ladies are chasing toward the construction site before he flies off the edge. And Sharon has a line because they're zipping around and she goes-
1:14:19 Speaker 01 And Sharon is who you would be in the movie.
1:14:20 Speaker 00 This is me. This is my line. She says, "We're gonna die and I'm wearing my mother's underwear." Sharon's line.
1:14:28 Speaker 01 I bet you guys love that.
1:14:29 Speaker 00 We love that line. We would always say that line when it came up. Alright, so it's time for the talent show.
1:14:38 Speaker 01 I have this moment highlighted as my favorite Paulette moment because she finally lets Johnny have it.
1:14:44 Speaker 00 Yeah, Johnny thinks Paulette is dressed too skimpy. Um, Johnny's not wrong. I'm sorry, for a high school student, is this what you wear during the talent show?
1:14:57 Speaker 01 She's in-
1:14:57 Speaker 00 Lingerie.
1:14:58 Speaker 01 Is it like a bustier unitard?
1:15:02 Speaker 00 It's a bustier. She's got on-
1:15:04 Speaker 01 What do you call those?
1:15:05 Speaker 00 What do you call that thing you put around your leg that you throw at weddings? A garter. I mean, she's covered, but it's very suggestive.
1:15:13 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:15:14 Speaker 00 And I just want to, it's, there's nothing wrong with it, except that I think she's 17.
1:15:19 Speaker 01 I know what it looks like.
1:15:20 Speaker 00 What?
1:15:20 Speaker 01 Visually, for people who haven't seen the movie, if you made a Playboy bunny outfit, but like into like more of a corset look.
1:15:29 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:15:29 Speaker 01 Right?
1:15:30 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
1:15:30 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:15:31 Speaker 00 It's like a one-piece-
1:15:32 Speaker 01 Jordan's not in, yes.
1:15:33 Speaker 00 Bathing suit, strapless, but lacy and suggestive.
1:15:38 Speaker 01 Yes.
1:15:39 Speaker 00 It's like what I wore in Blades of Glory.
1:15:41 Speaker 01 Oh, yes, it is. That's exactly what it is. Now people are gonna Google that lady.
1:15:45 Speaker 00 Well, do it. I looked great in that movie.
1:15:48 Speaker 01 I just have to say what Paulette says to him, though.
1:15:50 Speaker 00 Yeah, I love it.
1:15:52 Speaker 01 She's like, "Maybe you can bully some chicks in this school, but this chick has been bullied for the last time. I may not be the classiest chick, but I'm the best you're gonna get, so take it or leave it."
1:16:02 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:16:03 Speaker 01 And she's kind of swatting at him the whole time.
1:16:06 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm. He backs down.
1:16:08 Speaker 01 I was like, way to go, Paulette.
1:16:09 Speaker 00 But first, we're gonna see the T-Bird sabotage the Mr. Sandman trio.
1:16:15 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:16:15 Speaker 00 They tie them up.
1:16:17 Speaker 01 And like, turn the showers on them or something.
1:16:19 Speaker 00 Yes, and then the T-Birds go out and they do a great job.
1:16:22 Speaker 01 They crush it.
1:16:23 Speaker 00 A big hit.
1:16:23 Speaker 01 They crush it. Everyone loves them.
1:16:25 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:16:26 Speaker 01 Then we have the Pink Ladies number, the Girl for All Seasons.
1:16:30 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:16:31 Speaker 01 Amazing costumes, by the way. There's so many costumes, you guys, because they do all the seasons. I'm just gonna highlight three.
1:16:38 Speaker 00 Okay.
1:16:38 Speaker 01 December is Stephanie in a Christmas tree-themed dress. It's pretty amazing.
1:16:44 Speaker 00 She is wearing a star on top of her head.
1:16:46 Speaker 01 Yes.
1:16:46 Speaker 00 Mm-hmm.
1:16:47 Speaker 01 And she looks like a Christmas tree. January, it's a champagne glass featuring foam legs sticking out of the top.
1:16:54 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:16:55 Speaker 01 Combined with a red sparkly dress. It's amazing. February has to be in the top three. It's a wiggling George Washington face on a belly?
1:17:07 Speaker 00 She's a coin for President's Day in February.
1:17:11 Speaker 01 I did not. You know what? I thought she was Mount Rushmore.
1:17:13 Speaker 00 No, she's a coin. But what's interesting is that her body
1:17:19 Speaker 01 Uh-huh.
1:17:19 Speaker 00 is painted to be the face of the coin.
1:17:22 Speaker 01 Uh-huh.
1:17:22 Speaker 00 And the eyes of George Washington are her boobs.
1:17:26 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:17:26 Speaker 00 And then she's like belly dancing.
1:17:28 Speaker 01 Yes.
1:17:29 Speaker 00 Which makes his face move. And again, I just want to say, is this appropriate for high school? George Washington's eyes on a girl's boobs. I don't think it is.
1:17:39 Speaker 01 I'm gonna say no. I did not put those two together. I didn't realize his eyes were her boobs.
1:17:43 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:17:44 Speaker 01 Because I was so
1:17:44 Speaker 00 Check it out.
1:17:45 Speaker 01 confused by why Mount Rushmore was being featured in February. Okay.
1:17:51 Speaker 00 Well, they go through all the seasons.
1:17:54 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:17:55 Speaker 00 When Stephanie comes out and she starts to sing, she
1:18:00 Speaker 01 Hallucinates?
1:18:02 Speaker 00 Yeah, she kind of zones out the star that's on top of her head. She takes it down into her hands and then it flies out of her hand.
1:18:11 Speaker 01 And then she like follows it to like La La Land. She's like in a dreamlike fantasy.
1:18:15 Speaker 00 Yes, and now we do have a sort of thing that I think is meant to represent heaven or something because Michael is now on top of a mountain of white motorcycles. I wrote, is he an angel?
1:18:28 Speaker 01 This is what I wrote. Stephanie is now dressed as a Grecian goddess?
1:18:33 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:18:34 Speaker 01 She looks amazing.
1:18:35 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:18:35 Speaker 01 Michael's in all silver. This might be the weirdest number in the whole movie. There's a pile of old busted motorcycles that look white and dusty. Are they like corpses?
1:18:46 Speaker 00 I don't know what they are.
1:18:47 Speaker 01 It's foggy.
1:18:49 Speaker 00 Oh yeah, there's tons of fog. And I do have to note again that even in his silver motorcycle outfit, he has no shirt on, under the jacket, and zip down to his belly button. This is a very long dream sequence song. It's a duet.
1:19:06 Speaker 01 It's a duet, and Stephanie has two outfits.
1:19:09 Speaker 00 Yes.
1:19:10 Speaker 01 She's either Grecian goddess, or she is also like in a silver jacket on the motorcycle with him.
1:19:17 Speaker 00 Yes. I wrote, "Don't know how you sing these weird lyrics and not break. They are somehow 100% stone cold serious through this whole song." Especially this part where there's a dialogue break.
1:19:31 Speaker 01 And they talk to each other.
1:19:33 Speaker 00 Yeah, I have it.
1:19:34 Speaker 01 They do song talking.
1:19:35 Speaker 00 I have it.
1:19:36 Speaker 01 Oh, great.
1:19:37 Speaker 00 Here it is.
1:19:39 Speaker 07 Stephanie, please don't cry. Oh, it all seems so unfair. Just when I found you, I lost you. That doesn't matter now. The only thing that matters is that I love you. And you're the only one who can keep our love alive. So Stephanie, don't forget me. I promise.
1:20:00 Speaker 04 You remember, I love you. You won't be far away. I'll just close my eyes and bring back yesterday. And we'll be there.
1:20:21 Speaker 00 Yeah, so...
1:20:22 Speaker 01 Then it morphs back into her being in the talent show.
1:20:26 Speaker 00 Yes, and she's singing this weird solo now that has nothing to do with Calendar Girls. She's singing, "Turn back, uh-oh, turn back."
1:20:37 Speaker 01 The crowd is mesmerized.
1:20:39 Speaker 00 Yes.
1:20:39 Speaker 01 You could hear a pin drop.
1:20:41 Speaker 00 She's sad, she's on her knees, the song ends, and the audience erupts into a standing ovation.
1:20:48 Speaker 01 Ovation.
1:20:49 Speaker 00 And then Johnny and Stephanie win the talent show.
1:20:52 Speaker 01 They win the talent show, which I didn't realize meant that they were crowned king and queen of a luau.
1:20:59 Speaker 00 Which is coming up.
1:21:00 Speaker 01 It's all, I wrote at this point, what is happening?
1:21:06 Speaker 01 What is happening? Now we have a rock-a-hula luau.
1:21:10 Speaker 00 Yes, this is clearly the we go together of Grease 2.
1:21:13 Speaker 01 This is, you know what this number is? We don't know where the script is going. Let's get everyone back in one big scene together. Dance it out! I wrote, there are so many continuity errors in this luau scene, I don't even know how to start.
1:21:25 Speaker 00 Well, I want to talk about how everybody is dressed so festively, except for Stephanie, who's still mourning the death of Cole Ryder. She shows up in a slouchy gray sweatshirt and jeans. She's over it.
1:21:36 Speaker 01 She's not happy.
1:21:37 Speaker 00 She's done. But yeah, there's a big dance number.
1:21:40 Speaker 01 Big, big dance number.
1:21:41 Speaker 00 And then there's a big, like above-ground swimming pool in the middle of this luau.
1:21:46 Speaker 01 My Aunt Louise and Uncle Sonny had one. I don't know how they put so many things in it.
1:21:53 Speaker 00 Well, it starts with Mr. Stewart and Ms. Mason. They're in a boat in the middle. People are swimming and dancing in the water, but then suddenly they're not in the water.
1:22:03 Speaker 01 And you never see them again.
1:22:04 Speaker 00 In the water, out of the water.
1:22:06 Speaker 01 No one's drying off, there's no towels.
1:22:08 Speaker 00 Yes. We dance until the sun sets, and now it's time for the king and queen to take their positions.
1:22:14 Speaker 01 They're in some kind of native dress, doesn't feel appropriate.
1:22:18 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:22:19 Speaker 01 They have crowns. They're in a bamboo raft with paddles. And they're put in the above-ground pool.
1:22:27 Speaker 00 By, by, like, six high school guys who are dressed in loin cloths.
1:22:34 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:22:34 Speaker 00 Did you see the guy on the right?
1:22:38 Speaker 01 Is he the same guy that ran track?
1:22:40 Speaker 00 I don't know. I hope not, because clearly they didn't heat this water. Because when this guy hits the water, he visibly, like, flinches. Like, you see, like, the wind come out of him. He's like, "Ugh, it's so cold." It's so cold. Johnny is smoking.
1:22:59 Speaker 01 He's always smoking.
1:23:00 Speaker 00 He drops his cigarette.
1:23:02 Speaker 01 He almost catches the raft on fire.
1:23:04 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:23:04 Speaker 01 The bamboo raft.
1:23:05 Speaker 00 He and Stephanie are bickering, she's in such a sour mood, and now, wouldn't you know it. Wouldn't you know it.
1:23:13 Speaker 01 Cycle lords show up. Can we, I, there's one thing I've been wanting to say.
1:23:17 Speaker 00 What is it?
1:23:18 Speaker 01 One thing. There's one thing.
1:23:20 Speaker 00 What is it?
1:23:21 Speaker 01 Just go with me on this. Let's say you're madly in love with a guy.
1:23:26 Speaker 00 Okay.
1:23:27 Speaker 01 Who plummets to his death off a, like a cliff on a motorcycle.
1:23:31 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:23:32 Speaker 01 And then you immediately go to your talent show.
1:23:34 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:23:34 Speaker 01 What?
1:23:36 Speaker 00 That's why she couldn't get through the number, Ann.
1:23:38 Speaker 01 Why did she even go?
1:23:39 Speaker 00 I don't know.
1:23:40 Speaker 01 And now she's like on a pontoon boat and an above ground.
1:23:44 Speaker 00 That's why she's so grumpy.
1:23:46 Speaker 01 Okay.
1:23:47 Speaker 00 That's why she's so annoyed.
1:23:48 Speaker 01 Okay. Anyway, cycle lords show up.
1:23:52 Speaker 00 Yes, and they're running over all the decorations.
1:23:56 Speaker 01 It's crazy. People, there's like a cake booth and they're gonna throw cakes at the cycle lords, but they end up throwing cakes at each other.
1:24:02 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:24:02 Speaker 01 People are throwing stuffed animals at them.
1:24:05 Speaker 00 Stephanie and Johnny, they're trying to row the raft out of the pool, but they can't seem to row.
1:24:10 Speaker 01 It's not working.
1:24:11 Speaker 00 Don't worry.
1:24:12 Speaker 01 Don't worry, because during the mayhem, the mysterious rider shows up.
1:24:18 Speaker 00 He shows up. He is on top of a thatched roof.
1:24:21 Speaker 01 Very high.
1:24:22 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:24:22 Speaker 01 Very high. He jumps off of it, legs split, and lands on what we guess is his motorcycle, because the next shot is him just riding away. How his nuts survived that, I don't know.
1:24:34 Speaker 00 I don't know. Here's how he's gonna save the day. He jumps over the pool of water.
1:24:41 Speaker 01 Jumps over Stephanie.
1:24:42 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:24:43 Speaker 01 And Johnny.
1:24:44 Speaker 00 Yeah. He makes it all the way across. So that means that all the cycle lords.
1:24:49 Speaker 01 Have to do the same jump.
1:24:51 Speaker 00 But they can't do it and they all land in the water.
1:24:53 Speaker 01 But they don't land on Stephanie and Johnny.
1:24:56 Speaker 00 No.
1:24:56 Speaker 01 Because they're no longer in the pool.
1:24:58 Speaker 00 I guess they got out.
1:24:59 Speaker 01 Oh, my gosh, lady, there's so much chatter online about it. People are like, okay, during the lull, people appear to disappear and appear on the boat, and appear and disappear into the pool. Some people fall in, then they're not there. It's like a whole thing. Also, someone else pointed out, when the bike flips into the pool, the cord that they use to make the bike flip is completely visible.
1:25:19 Speaker 00 Oh.
1:25:20 Speaker 01 So there's that.
1:25:21 Speaker 00 I see. Well, I guess he did it. He saved the day. It's really nuts. The cycle lords could have ridden around the pool, but maybe not. I guess that's the challenge. That's how it works when you are cycle fighting. It's like, can you do the stunt or not?
1:25:38 Speaker 01 Yeah. Stephanie's so excited. She's like, oh, my God, you're alive. She takes off her crazy outfit they had her wear, and under it is not her sweatshirt.
1:25:48 Speaker 00 Yeah, now she has a cute outfit on.
1:25:50 Speaker 01 A silver LeMay amazing shimmery dress slash unitard. Michael, guys, now has a leather vest. Collar up.
1:26:00 Speaker 00 No shirt, obvi.
1:26:03 Speaker 01 And at first, you guys, Johnny sees all of this, and he is so pissed off. And he runs up to him, and he's like, you got one more jump. And she's like, Johnny, hasn't there been enough?
1:26:13 Speaker 00 And then the T-birds are like, yeah, hasn't there been enough, Johnny? Hasn't there been enough? And then he's like, and then he's like, jacket. And Paulette's like, jacket. And then he gets the jacket, and then he gives it to Michael, and he's made Michael a T-bird. And now he and Stephanie, they can be together.
1:26:33 Speaker 01 They can. And there's going to be a lot of coupledom. The final song is called We'll Be Together. Everyone is dancing, and this song wins Closest Singing in Each Other's Faces Award.
1:26:46 Speaker 00 Yeah, there's a lot of spinning, singing into each other's faces.
1:26:50 Speaker 01 I'm talking like maybe
1:26:52 Speaker 00 Lip to lip.
1:26:53 Speaker 01 Like, like, like two fingers, put two fingers up to your lips.
1:26:56 Speaker 00 Yep.
1:26:56 Speaker 01 And then imagine someone else's face on the other side of your finger.
1:26:59 Speaker 00 Singing at you.
1:27:00 Speaker 01 Singing, full voice.
1:27:01 Speaker 00 I have an audio clip. It has a little bit of dialogue between Stephanie and Michael, and then it leads into the top of this song. I never thought you'd kiss me like that if you knew I really was. Are you crazy? I'm gonna two for the price of one.
1:27:19 Speaker 04 You certain? I've never been certainer. Or certain.
1:27:27 Speaker 04 The certainest. The certainest. Yeah, I like that.
1:27:34 Speaker 00 I'd love to kiss you again.
1:27:37 Speaker 00 Yeah, I would have suggested that they cut that dialogue before the singing. Because again, Michael, what are you seeing in her? This is the woman for you?
1:27:51 Speaker 01 Lady, I love this movie so much now. And I am the certainestest of it.
1:28:01 Speaker 00 I hear you. I hear you. You know what? He accepts her where she is.
1:28:07 Speaker 01 That's right.
1:28:07 Speaker 00 That's the love.
1:28:09 Speaker 01 He's like, "I love you, you dumb-tum."
1:28:14 Speaker 01 "Could I please kiss you again?" Maybe he's like, "Don't speak. Don't speak."
1:28:20 Speaker 00 Could we go back to the kissing?
1:28:21 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:28:22 Speaker 00 I love you so much when we're kissing.
1:28:24 Speaker 01 And she's like, "You don't need to talk to me. Just let me ride on your motorcycle." Maybe this is a relationship in silence.
1:28:31 Speaker 00 Well, this whole thing is gonna morph into graduation. Now we're back outside Rydell High. Everyone's in caps and gowns in front of the school. They're throwing their caps in the air. Everyone's singing toward the camera, except for Stephanie and Michael, who are still singing right into each other's faces. And then we're gonna have this final montage that I've always loved. It starts with the whole group of people running toward the camera. They jump in the air and it's like a freeze frame. And that sort of like becomes like a yearbook picture.
1:29:02 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:29:03 Speaker 00 And then you see everybody kind of coupled up in their couple pairs. And they run toward the camera kind of in slow motion. And they do some sort of fun jump and it freezes.
1:29:15 Speaker 01 And that's part of the yearbook.
1:29:17 Speaker 00 Yes.
1:29:19 Speaker 00 There were two alternate endings for this movie. Would you like to hear them?
1:29:23 Speaker 01 I can't wait.
1:29:25 Speaker 00 Okay, so one alternate ending had Michael and Stephanie flying off into the sky on a motorcycle, which would have mirrored Danny and Sandy flying off in the car at the end of Grease. They didn't do that. But also Patricia Birch proposed an idea to feature John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reprising their characters as a now married couple running a gas station at the end of the movie. And it would have even involved John Travolta singing a new number called "Gas Pump Jockey", but this did not come to fruition. So I guess there was the option to end the movie with a little cameo.
1:30:04 Speaker 01 So I guess they would have ridden their motorcycle together to Danny and Sandy's gas station.
1:30:11 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:30:11 Speaker 01 And there would have been this little reunion.
1:30:13 Speaker 00 I guess, with a whole song. How does "Gas Pump Jockey" go? I don't know. Speaking of songs. So you watched this movie for the first time.
1:30:25 Speaker 01 Last week.
1:30:26 Speaker 00 Yes. Aren't the songs so catchy? You know these songs are good because you hear them once and you can sing "I Wanna Score Tonight", you can sing "Let's Do It For Our Country", you know these songs after one time watching the movie.
1:30:40 Speaker 01 Driving in here today, I was singing "I'm Gonna Score Tonight".
1:30:45 Speaker 00 Exactly.
1:30:46 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:30:46 Speaker 00 It's great.
1:30:47 Speaker 01 Yeah.
1:30:48 Speaker 00 That's a great musical.
1:30:49 Speaker 01 That is a really fun musical. And really Grease 2 has everything. It's got Russia. It's got fallout shelters. It's got lots of cigarettes. Lots of
1:31:04 Speaker 00 Gum.
1:31:04 Speaker 01 Gum and stiff collared shirts.
1:31:08 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:31:09 Speaker 01 You guys, I highly recommend it. And I also want to say thank you today. In the booth, we have Jordan filling in for Sam. Thank you, Jordan.
1:31:18 Speaker 05 You're welcome. I was so excited to be helping with this episode because I grew up avidly watching Grease 2.
1:31:25 Speaker 01 How many times have you seen it?
1:31:27 Speaker 05 Oh, many times. I had a vinyl of it growing up because my parents, they graduated in 72. I literally, my dad rode a motorcycle and worked on them.
1:31:36 Speaker 01 His entire life, I have pictures of him doing wheelies and next to like motorcycles.
1:31:41 Speaker 00 Your dad was a cool writer, Jordan.
1:31:43 Speaker 01 He was a thunderbird. He was a thunderbird. And Matt is here all the way from San Francisco. Matt, thanks for being here today.
1:31:50 Speaker 05 This was great. This was very fun to watch. My sister and I are Grease purists, so we never really delved into this. So this was interesting to watch. I had a good time.
1:32:00 Speaker 00 Well, I want to say a thank you to Nathan for suggesting this movie.
1:32:05 Speaker 01 Mm-hmm.
1:32:06 Speaker 00 Hit us up, guys. Let us know, what do you want us to watch? Because we like watching stuff together.
1:32:11 Speaker 01 We really do. I couldn't have predicted half of the plotlines for Grease 2. It was a real adventure, and I hope you guys all score tonight, whatever that means to you.
1:32:25 Speaker 00 We love you, and we'll see you next week.
1:32:32 Speaker 00 Oh, that's a delight. I love doing it.
1:32:34 Speaker 01 Me too.
1:32:37 Speaker 00 Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.
1:32:39 Speaker 01 Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.
1:32:45 Speaker 00 Our senior producer is Matt Beagle, and our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer.
1:32:49 Speaker 01 Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis.
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