How Did This Get Made? - Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (HDTGM Matinee)

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

Actress Anna Faris (Mom, Scary Movie) welcomes Paul, June, and Jason into her home recording studio to discuss the 1982 musical rom-com Grease 2. They talk about the return of Frenchy, how horny this ...film is, and June shares why she knows every word of this movie. (Ep. #150 Originally Released 12/09/2016) • Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, FAQs, and more• Have a Last Looks correction or omission? Call 619-PAULASK to leave us a voicemail!• Submit your Last Looks theme song to us here• Join the HDTGM conversation on Discord: discord.gg/hdtgm• Buy merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/• Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of Trauma• Shop our new hat collection at podswag.com• Paul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheer• Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheer• Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer• Subscribe to Enter The Dark Web w/ Paul & Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkweb• Listen to Unspooled with Paul & Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.com• Listen to The Deep Dive with June & Jessica St. Clair: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast• Instagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junediane• Twitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & msjunediane  • Jason is not on social media• Episode transcripts available at how-did-this-get-made.simplecast.com/episodesGet access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 If Greece was a seminal movie about teens, the 50s, and being cool, this movie is like it's dumb brother who always has a heart on and talks about doing it. We saw Greece too, so you know what that means? Green! How did Schwarzenegger Grove baby in his belly rock a ron stone vest while ripping just into Kelly or maybe see a burlash show with Nick Crow and take a boat with speed to hitting cruise control. J-man, Big Paul in the beautiful June, gonna take you from the goob all the way to the road. Rained the games in street fire that hope to blow off steam.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Just a sucker punch the odd life for Timothy Green. Shark needle, the bird demic, how we stand a lot. They call it in the badass and he's on the line. Cranking 88 minutes because they cool as ice. Because a bad Jim Barney looking kind and nice. Paul and June getting literal. Jason is getting laid. June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid.
Starting point is 00:00:55 They're just a bunch of movies while they're making the grade. Here's a real question for you. How did this get made? Yes. Hello, people of Earth. And welcome to a very special, how did this get made? We are in the home of Ana Farris. We are in the studio of Unqualified.
Starting point is 00:01:17 And I'm joined, as always, by my two co-host, Jason Manzukas. Hey-oh. And June, Diane, Raphael. How are you, June? I'm great. How are you, Paul? Good. It would be weird if I said that our guest was not on a Ferris, but we were recording.
Starting point is 00:01:28 And our guest is Julia Roberts. Oh. We are very excited to have you to talk about this movie because this movie, I mean, it falls in the tradition of great musical sequels like Miss Saigon 2. You know, all those, all those. More Chicago. Hamilton 6. It's really good. And now, just I want to get it out of the way and just say there is.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Someone in this room that knows every line to Greece to. Every single line. Not me. It's Jason's you? It's not me. It says shockingly. Hon as you? Not me.
Starting point is 00:02:18 June? It's me. And he hears why. Oh, boy. So when I was growing up, my neighbors, the Sherings, had a VHS player. And they had two tapes. Greece 1 and Greece 2. That's so funny.
Starting point is 00:02:38 I have the same story. The sharing? Yes. Wait a minute. Hang on a second. No, I have the same story except with Greece 1. Wow. Because I'm a little older, the first people that I knew that had a VCR, they had two movies.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Same. Greece 1 and Hooper. Wow. The Bert Reynolds Jan Michael Vincent vehicle, which I would like to now do on this show. Right. Absolutely. And later on, we got a VHS player, and I immediately got Greece 1, Greece 2, and we also got the movie regarding Henry. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Okay. The Harrison 4 movie gets shot in the head. The J.J. Abrams wrote in college. Yeah. Wow. So this movie to me is everything. And you never saw Greece 1. No, I've seen Greece 1.
Starting point is 00:03:26 But I mean, but. Can I ask, by the way, I preferred Greece 2. Wow. I need to know. Wow. You know you're going to give this to us, but why? Well, it's very hard because I feel like Greece, too, I was so obsessed with Michelle Fifer in this movie.
Starting point is 00:03:45 I was so obsessed with this cool lady. This movie has... Can I tell you that you sort of, you look like... That's like the highest praise anyone's... Michelle Fyfer ever given me. I want you to like climb a lap. matter. Physically?
Starting point is 00:04:05 Where she kicks over her leg on the ladder. I want you to ride it. It was thrilling to me. I was so obsessed with her and I was so obsessed with her attitude and her. I mean, I felt like this movie is where I learned about life beyond third grade. I swear to God. Like I studied it. I get with you.
Starting point is 00:04:25 I get it. I watched it a million times. But it's so, it's so oddly based because I feel like the. It doesn't add up is the thing. When you're a child, when you're in third grade, like you're not looking at movies to be good or bad. No, sure. You're just so psyched to watch a movie.
Starting point is 00:04:42 It is just a movie. There is no value judgment on it. It's just a movie. Absolutely. And back then you would watch it, especially in that instance where you only had two tapes, you would watch it constantly. And over.
Starting point is 00:04:53 But it's all sexual. I mean, that's the other thing too. It's like, so you... I look at this movie as like, it was a sexual awakening for me. I was obsessed with Michael Karen. and I was in love with him. Watching it today, I felt a lot of the same feelings.
Starting point is 00:05:07 When's the last time you watched, do you think, back then, or is it something you have continued to keep up with? No, I haven't seen it in, like, over-and-deck it. Yeah, I haven't seen it since I was younger, but it held up for me in the way that it needed to for me. Wow. I mean, Paul, you saw me watch it. I was so thrilled.
Starting point is 00:05:24 I've never seen her watch a movie for this show more in rapt attention. I love it. Cross-legged. Crisscross Applesauce, watching this movie with a big smile on your face. I can see that completely. And sing the songs. With a movie like this. And the songs and this, I don't think are that great.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Oh, I'm going to, this is what I'm going to say. This is what I'm going to say. I see that completely. I get it. You became obsessed with this movie at a time when movies weren't good or bad. They were just the movies. And I get it. I also want to say this movie, which I have never seen before, is terrible.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Yeah. It is unequivocally terrible. The songs are awful. Awful. And they're all about sex. And I love Greece. I think Greece is, and I hate musicals. I loathe musicals.
Starting point is 00:06:14 And I think Greece is, I feel about Greece the way you feel about Greece too. But let me tell you, because I've seen both of them, and I grew up on both of them. And let me tell you, Greece too, for me as a young girl, was more, I had way more to grab onto it. When Stephanie Zanoni says, like, there's got to be more. to life than just making out. You know, there are themes in this movie. It's a feminist greased. I mean, that's, I mean, that is true.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Sure. And I was so obsessed with her attitude and her insistent upon, you know, insistence upon, like, finding this guy who was challenging and, you know, her independence. You're right in the sense that this is a better, this is a better story for a girl. She works at her dad's garage, but is like the unequivocal. a leader of like the of the it group on on campus she is obsessed
Starting point is 00:07:08 with cool riders like I get all of that she is cool as shit like I mean anything you're getting away from this movie it's Michelle Fifer but what this movie for me has like all of my childhood crushes in one movie because the Segal twins the Seagal twins are also in this movie
Starting point is 00:07:26 the twins from Double Trouble who I've talked about before they are the cheerleaders they go on to be the double Trouble Twins in the 80s. Weren't they blonde in that show? In which show? Double trouble? No, they're kind of brunettes.
Starting point is 00:07:37 Okay. And I was obsessed with the double trouble girls and I was, I had like a sexual awakening to Michelle Fyfer in the movie Lady Hawk. When Michelle Fyfer was in Lady Hawk, I lost my mind. And the fact that she dated Fisher Stevens, who is maybe the closest celebrity I look like growing up, I was like, there is hope. There is hope for someone like me that I could get a Michelle. Fyfer and I'm still coming for you, Michelle.
Starting point is 00:08:05 David E. Kelly, where to get out of my way. She looks as good as she did then. She looks amazing. Unbelievable. Where do you fall on this? First time. Thank you, Paul. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:08:18 I'm going to breathe heavily into the microphone. But no, okay, I have a few thoughts. Of course I do. But I don't. All right. So like the cornyness of, Um, like, Bridal High. And like, like, truly when I started watching it because of your, you, yeah, we made you watch it.
Starting point is 00:08:43 You made me watch it again. And I had watched it as a child or whatever. And I liked Greece one. But see, I thought you wanted to do this movie for the podcast. I did. Okay. But I did. Because I was honestly like, oh, I did.
Starting point is 00:08:56 This movie does not belong in this podcast. Yeah, June sends me in the way over. No, it doesn't. It does. No, it does. And I thought, Anna, that you. You were coming to it with the same love that I was, and I was like, great, I'd love to share in that.
Starting point is 00:09:06 I just have a complicated relationship with Greece because of my mom. My mom was always like, a woman should never succumb to a man. Like, you know. Oh, should never change for a man? Yes. So this movie would work for your mom really well.
Starting point is 00:09:21 A little bit better, yes. Because the man changes. Or would she be like nobody should change? Yeah. Would she be inherently the message behind either Greece is flawed. Yeah. You should be accepting of the people we are. Right.
Starting point is 00:09:32 She should become somebody else. But, you know, like, ultimately what she also doesn't realize is that I totally changed for all the three men I've dated, five men I've slept with. Let's just very quickly, let's give full first names, last names. And let's just get Twitter handles if they got them. Let's get it out there. Let's get the info out there. It is a crazy. I mean, look, at the base of this movie, it's.
Starting point is 00:10:02 It's stealing from a Steve Gutenberg film or Steve Gutenberg film. Remember that movie? Don't tell her it's me where he pretends to be like a biker to get a girl. Like maybe it was only me. I was a big good. I don't remember that. You're a big fan. You're a big goodhead.
Starting point is 00:10:16 The scenes where he's driving around with her and he's wearing those goggles. He's a strange. He's a stranger. He's a strange. Sexy man. What could be better? What could be better? What could be better?
Starting point is 00:10:27 What could be better? Itching to talk. You're so right, June, but I'm so itching to talk about the sexy teacher. Okay. Oh, Connie Stevens? Oh, yeah. Let's do it. Talk about it.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Right? That's Connie Stevens, right? Yeah. Yeah, right? Like, like boobbies. Yes, and hair. And hair. And they keep talking about it.
Starting point is 00:10:47 And she constantly has the hair spray. Well, this movie also like sets. The sexual politics of this movie are pretty insane. Well, see, here's a thing. And as a child growing up, I mean, this to me, my mother was told me that when I, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I was older, I would say a teenager. Yes. I was obsessed with becoming a teenager.
Starting point is 00:11:05 And it was because of these movies. And to me, I grew up thinking, like, well, men are predators. I mean... What's interesting is that you're growing up... In the 80s, getting all of your information about teenagers from people who are portraying teenagers in the 50s. And who are people in their 30s. Who are people in their 30s representing the attitudes of the 19thes. 50s.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Written by someone in the 80s. Yes. Which is based on a movie that's kind of a cartoon of the 50s, and this is a cartoon of that. That's where my worldview, like, started. And it's, I've said this about other movies. A cartoon of a teenage. I've said this about other movies. This movie is, this movie is horny in a way that is like aimless.
Starting point is 00:11:52 As I'm saying, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like grease with a heart on. It's like, ah. It's horny without any follow through. Well, let's talk about the beginning of this movie. I would say that a surefire way to know that you're not in a good musical is when your opening musical number has no one's singing on screen. Yeah. Like the open musical number is like jittery Frankenstein dancing. Now you had a thought about this.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Well, yeah, I did think like, I guess the logical thought is like, all right, you guys, everyone let's all perform like the dance that we've been practicing all summer at 8.30 a.m. And in like before like the school flag and we're going to annoy everyone, but we're going to do this shit. And like, you know, like a flash mob. Like a flash mob. It's like a big. But it's in that musical sense. What I couldn't, what I felt like. Can you imagine like Jason.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Yeah. Okay. Anna. Okay. So listen. Are we fighting? Okay. No.
Starting point is 00:12:52 But listen, it's, let's say it's June 20th. Great. It's schools like fun. Schools out for summer? School's out for summer, right? And I call you up a few days later. And I'm like, hey. And I'm like, hey.
Starting point is 00:13:07 Do we have a license that song? But I'm like, hey, Jason. Yes, Anna. Okay. Oh, God. So I really want to start practicing the dance. Oh, for the first day of school dance number? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:18 We should start practicing. Yeah. We have to because it's coming up, you know? And every single person in school participates. Yeah. So we got to start on that now because it. 8.30, you know, at like September 3rd. When those buses pull up, once they're halfway through hanging the flag,
Starting point is 00:13:37 shit's going to go down. So we got to start doing that, right? And that fucking idiot with the cello? So if you don't start practicing with me, why did the T-Bert? You were so right there was a huge, like, cello. Yeah. Man, come in it.
Starting point is 00:13:50 Yes. Yeah. So if you're not in. Don't worry. If you're wondering if nerds got theirs in this movie, they did. Oh, yeah. They did. But that to me also is.
Starting point is 00:13:58 Except for Michael Carrington. Michael Carrington is deemed a nerd quite literally just the most hunky guy right out the gate. And he has like a British accent. He's like, he has a breathy British accent. He's, he is an, now you know what, I feel like they don't make him like this anymore. He's an old-timey, like dream boat. Yep. A dream boat.
Starting point is 00:14:21 That is a T-shirt right there. He is. He's, he's so great. What is missing for me in this movie, sorry, go ahead. Paul. No, I was going to say there is a great New York magazine article that was written about him when the movie came out. And he is such a pompous germ.
Starting point is 00:14:42 It's one of the best. Had he done? Was he famous for something else? Honestly, I don't know if I can hear this. Wow. I don't know if I can hear this. Paul? What do you got?
Starting point is 00:14:55 Well, this is one of the lines that goes, you know. British accent. I don't know how to say this because it sounds so vain, but I've written a script, and the script I've written is the best one that I've ever read. It's a script called nemesis. And then the reporter goes, well, I pointed out that Agatha Christie had written a mystery called nemesis.
Starting point is 00:15:17 Well, it's not very well known, is it, or successful? Oh, my God. He asked worriedly. That's like the Stephen Segal quote, the Stephen Segal quote, which is he's in and off. This is, I mean, it could be apocryphal, I don't know. allegedly at the height of Seagal mania, he is in a meeting and they're like,
Starting point is 00:15:35 well, what are you going to do or whatever? What do you want to do? He goes, I've just read the most amazing script. And they said, really? And he said, whatever it was. And they said, who wrote it? And he said, I did. And I love that story.
Starting point is 00:15:50 I'm sure it's like some sort of, you know, urban legend that is being attributed to Seagal. But come on, it kind of worked. I would so be guilty of that. Really? Yes. Like, You would write a script and then tee it up for yourself that way?
Starting point is 00:16:03 No, I would never write a script because I can't write. I don't even know how to write. That is true. You are one of Hollywood's most successful illiterates. But I'm serious. Like, ask me, ask me a question and I'll try to answer in like an incredibly pretentious way. Oh, okay. Anna, what was it like to work with Key and Peele in the movie Keanu?
Starting point is 00:16:27 Oh, my God. Well, it's really remarkable to work with somebody who is not only comedic, but incredibly intellectual. And it felt like I was able to be my intellectual self as well. Oh, that's great. Well, by the way, that's almost, listen to this answer. He goes, he goes, I'm not that dedicated to my craft. I like being regarded as an artist, but I really want to become a star. This acting thing is a lark, a big game.
Starting point is 00:16:57 and now I want to play another game. I want to get into race cars. I have a 65 vet, and they can really move. When this is over, I want to rent one of those vans with the airbrushing on the side and go down to Mexico with Juliet. His 41-year-old wife at 22 years old. What? And no.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Are they still together? No, the kid gets left behind. Are you kidding? And I'm taking a shotgun. I've heard of those banditos. Oh, this kid's amazing. This article is amazing. though.
Starting point is 00:17:28 You like him? No, I didn't like him. Oh, no, he's a dream boat in it. But I'm, but I'm with you. Like, my, yeah. They're both so dreamy. I mean, here's the thing watching it now that. Who's more dreamy, him or Adrian Zemad?
Starting point is 00:17:43 Who's Adrian Zemad? Oh, wow. He's like the leader of the T-birds. Oh, oh, of course. Joey? Joey? Almost played by. Not Gorelli or, yes.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Johnny. Of course, of course. Johnny. He's not dreamy at all to me. I find him to be unappealing. Isn't he always trying to make out with the other one? Yeah. He's always trying to make Michelle Pfeiffer jealous by making out with the blonde.
Starting point is 00:18:07 And by the way, I think he's great. He's amazing in this, but I don't find him dreamy. I think he would be more amazing in it if I never saw Danny Zuko. Because I feel like it's just like a community theater version of Danny Zucco. And I don't mean that. No, because Michelle is Danny Zuck. I mean, Stephanie Zanoni. is Danny Zucco.
Starting point is 00:18:27 But he is he's portraying. He's, he occupies the same. But he's not, we don't care for him like we care about. Right. Correct. Stephanie Zanoni or Danny Zucco.
Starting point is 00:18:38 I, my biggest problem, not my biggest problem because I have like a lot of big problems with this movie. But my biggest problem was that like the, the songs in Greece are, are story songs. Yeah. They are songs that illustrate and give context to the story. The songs in this movie do not do that.
Starting point is 00:19:00 Like the opening dance number is there is nothing to it. The bowling song is, is, it's not forwarding the story at all. They are song breaks. That are veiled references to sex. Yeah, which are just sexy songs. But they're really, a lot of times just like kind of choruses without verses. Yeah, agreed. Which is not fun to watch at all.
Starting point is 00:19:24 And the songs in Greece are. so compelling. Yes, they are. They're integral to the story. Like, when you have that opening number in Greece that gives you, who is he, who is she, what was the summer, and where are they now? Boom. That's an incredible...
Starting point is 00:19:41 What you get is stuff like this. This is what you get, like, that big dance number is going on, and then all of a sudden Frenchie comes back. Oh, French. French. French comes back to go to school. Yeah. She's not a teacher.
Starting point is 00:19:54 She's not a teacher. high school class on chemistry. That's correct. This is like, so a big, so a big giant musical number is going on. And you think, all right, well, let's lay down some of our main characters. Nope, you get this. A stop in the music and then this. Frenchie?
Starting point is 00:20:09 Hi. Hello. Hi. Thanks for meeting me. Oh, listen, when your cousin Sandy told me you were coming to school in America, I said, Sandy, any cousin of yours is a cousin of mine. Yes, you did say you were the one of the ropes around here. Oh, Wilms of my school.
Starting point is 00:20:24 She, I used to go to Rydell before I dropped out to go to beauty school. But then I flung tinting when my hair turned pink. Pink? So that is, like that's more of that. Like, Frenchie really has to justify her existence. And by the way, Then I flunk beauty school in my house. I can't do it.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Frenchie. June, can you do it? No, I can't do it. I do, it did make me very, that what, when I was, when I saw, her in the movie, I was reminded of how good Greece 1 was and how good, even a song like Beauty School Dropout, which is not... Great song. Well, it's...
Starting point is 00:21:01 Beauty School Dropout. It is and it isn't. Like, it's not... There are many songs that are so much better in Greece 1, but it's sort of a song like the songs that are in Greece 2, which are sort of meaningless, you know? But it's so well done in Greece 1. Yes. Here's a real said...
Starting point is 00:21:20 And I agree with all this, but I sort of feel like an Amazon reviewer. I really do. Like, I agree with all of it. And I could care. Yes. I could care. Yes. We can logically, we can logically pick it apart.
Starting point is 00:21:32 But this movie lives in your heart. It really does. The only thing that was hard for me in this viewing was watching it as a child. I thought of myself as Stephanie Zanoni. And I was like, oh, that's a part. I want to play. I want to be her. I want to play this part.
Starting point is 00:21:47 And watching it this time, I was like, oh, am I Miss Mickey? Whoa. I had a really, I was watching Miss McGee's performance. Huh. Miss McGee and Blanche are a comedic duo. And by the way, they're from Greece one. They're just amazing together. I'm obsessed with the two of them.
Starting point is 00:22:07 Blanche is just phenomenal. But so is Miss McGee. Oh yeah. She's doing great great work out there. The weird song where they're talking about like reproductive. Amazing. Stamen Pistol. That whole number is thrilling to me.
Starting point is 00:22:28 That's sex. Frilling. Horny. The movie is horny. We have to talk about the idea I think of Michelle Pfeiffer's virginity. Like, I don't see her as a virgin. I think that they try to. Yes, Paulette is.
Starting point is 00:22:45 But I, it's interesting. But they try to, I think they try to like habit each way. They don't call out that she's having a lot of sex. No, but to me, she's probably. I remember when she has to put on like... I don't know. You think? Yes.
Starting point is 00:22:58 Because remember she has to like put on the skirt. Like she... And then during that whole reproductive thing, she's like standing up there as a powerful woman, but she's not participating in the idea of... And then she is like defiant about the idea of her own sexuality. She's like, I want somebody who I can like ride with or whatever. And I'm going to wait for that person.
Starting point is 00:23:21 I think you're right because I feel like all these people, Like all the group, all the people in the Johnny group, like, were trying to always have sex, but they weren't like succeeding. They were getting close to it. Hence the date rape song, which we should get into it a little bit. That changes everything because to me, she, and I felt this growing up, she was not a virgin. She was like a total, like she had had sex before with Johnny and she was like a sexually mature woman. I wonder if, and we're not going to be able to come up with this answer, but I would love for people to weigh in on the form. That's called Michelle Fiper right now.
Starting point is 00:23:54 I would love to know, like, this, because this movie is 1980s obsessed in, with virginity. You know, like, virginity, like, was losing it is the name, is the title of Tom Cruise's first movie, right? By the way, Tom Cruise's supposed to play the Adrian Semed part. Amazing. Sure thing. Like, these are movies that are entirely predicated on teenagers losing their virginities. Porkies. Porkies.
Starting point is 00:24:19 That doesn't exist anymore in, we don't see that in, you know, in. TV. Like, that's not a thing anymore. Like, the movie that is based on the necessity of losing it or, you know, like, like they, you know, in this movie, it's, it's exemplified by. It's like, it's like, we almost got
Starting point is 00:24:40 in a car crash. Oh, and we would have died, I would have died a virgin. Can you imagine? Like, it's American Pie is the closest thing that was like that. Sure, 20 years old now. Wow. I mean, it must be. Yeah, right. Yeah. That's interesting. Are millennials as Post virginity?
Starting point is 00:24:56 Or are millennials post virginity? Like obviously I'm sure they as people are obsessed with their own virginities, et cetera, but they're not seeing it portrayed the way we all work. Because that's special. Because I think that something else is happening,
Starting point is 00:25:09 which is that there's... They're all just fingering each other's bubbles. No, they're probably fingering each other. But also, I think people are coming out, coming out with their sexuality and also coming out with their identity. I also think porn. I also think porn.
Starting point is 00:25:24 Oh, I also think everybody's watching porn since they're like little kids now. It's all online. So they're like the idea of like a mis... The porn was always around. Not this way though. Not this way. I mean like porn for us was like finding in a woods.
Starting point is 00:25:37 Yeah. Under an old stone. I don't want to talk about the woods again. But like like gone are the days where in order to see like a naked woman you had to like, you know, as represented in movies, find like a hole in a wall that you could look into the girl's bathroom. But are you saying that people because young, well, I guess young men, I mean, maybe young women are, or why. watching porn, I don't know, but are watching porn they feel they've had sex? I think there isn't as much. It scratches an itch.
Starting point is 00:26:01 Yeah, I wonder if losing your virginity has the same weight. I don't know. I'm curious. Maybe this is old man talk. Ana Farris is eating her own birthday cake. Happy birthday, honey. Yeah, it does bum me out too. I'm genuinely curious.
Starting point is 00:26:20 And I don't know, maybe this is like to young listeners is like their role. It's like, aren't they sort of, aren't they, isn't the big, like, you know, transition for teens and millennials or whatever more about identity now than like just the actual act of having sex and more about who they are as a person? They are like emo, this, that, you know, I mean, I guess jocks and nerds have always, yeah, I don't know. I mean, now the nerds are jocks though. Now the movie would be about like the T-birds going to that British guy to take cool Instagram photos and they would steal the credit for the photo instead of papers. I will say if somebody went to the trouble of writing like a bunch of like fake papers and whatnot for for me and then ended up like buying a motorcycle for me and fixed it up and ended up like I'd be like fuck you. I have no self-esteem. So, like, I'm not going to accept this.
Starting point is 00:27:27 So, you have no, like, so you're saying... Wait, you would you, you would say that out of you not having self-esteem? Because I feel like you'd be like, you don't have self-esteem. You should have only represented yourself as British man in a blazer. You shouldn't have had to change. Like, he wanted to change for me. That means that I have to... You're both disasters then.
Starting point is 00:27:48 Yeah. We're all disasters. See, this is the way I see. it as different as than it's, to me, it's not that he wanted to change for her or that he even did change for her. Because I felt in
Starting point is 00:28:03 Greece one, she was definitely making a choice. She comes out in that outfit in the end and it's like, oh, I've never seen this person before. It's a completely different person. In Greece too, though, to me it felt like, oh, no, this is actually who he is. He's more pulling out the side
Starting point is 00:28:19 of himself. And he wants her to see it. but it's not as stark a change. What's interesting is that this movie plays it both ways. They both have him change. They both have him undergo the transformation that is that which she thinks she wants. She wants, as exemplified in the song, Cool Rider. He hears her sing it or should I just.
Starting point is 00:28:43 He hears her sing Cool Rider. Go ahead. Okay. If you really want to know what I want in a guy. Well, I'm looking for a dream on a. mean machine with hell in his eyes. I want to put his skin in time. Guys, it's so good.
Starting point is 00:28:59 You wanted to see this. I know you're inclined this ladder. Come on. June, do it. There's the wind. And one fine night, I'll be holding on tight to a cool. It's so. Fans?
Starting point is 00:29:16 No, you have the vocal track. Go for. Fans, you have the vocal track. If you don't, if you don't, if you don't I'm trying to remember the next verse. I think at one point it goes, yeah, I need a cool. That's the way it's going to be.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Cool. Because it's the way that I feel. I'm going to be my... Now I can't remember any of it. It's so good. He takes that song... It is so good. And basically transforms himself into the cool writer.
Starting point is 00:29:55 Into the cool writer. But the movie also gives them a storyline wherein they become friends, wherein he's helping her with her English paperwork, her English homework. And they, and they have one scene together. But there's like,
Starting point is 00:30:10 there's a couple scenes where they're, they show them because I think it would have been insane. Because he starts the movie, he's asking her out constantly, can you meet me after school, can you, will you go out with me? And she's like, take a hint. The answer is no.
Starting point is 00:30:27 And, but, But this is a movie where he's like, okay, you can say no to me, but I'm going to become the guy you want me to be. And also it gives you a little bit of, but they also are compatible. Because you have this code. You can't date me because of the code.
Starting point is 00:30:43 But that's not why she's not interested in him. No, of course not. But here's the thing. She's not interested in because it's like a nerd. He's a nerd. After coming out of Greece, one with Sandy and the poodle skirts, to watch Stephanie Zanoneonian
Starting point is 00:30:56 one of the opening scenes, wear pants, and then forget that she has to wear a skirt at school and put that skirt over it and pull those pants up. I was, I mean, there's something to be said about the response to Greece one for, I mean, ultimately I wish the story had been, oh, I don't really wish it, but I suppose there's another reading of it
Starting point is 00:31:16 where she could actually want to ride a motorcycle. I mean, she still does want to just simply be on it. Date the best rider. Yeah. The movie could be, why can't I be in the T-birds? Right, especially because she seems to be a mechanic. She is quite possibly the most qualified person to ride a motorcycle in the entire group. I do want to talk just for a second about the T-birds also,
Starting point is 00:31:40 because I don't understand the T-birds here because the T-birds seemingly are not like really a motorcycle gang, or at least comparatively. But they're very funny. They riff like things. But they're like missing a leader. They are missing a leader. Say really funny things like, oh, yo, will you want this cake?
Starting point is 00:32:00 Oh, I don't even know if I want this cake. Are these lines from the movie? No, they're not. Are you talking about the cake that's in front of you right now? Once again, your birthday. But it's very funny. They also are like, they're like, they say things like I'm going to help her out with her condition.
Starting point is 00:32:16 Oh, what kind of, whoa. A nymphoid. Nymphoid mania. What kind of, whoa, whoa. Is this where you tell us you auditioned to play one of the T-birds in this movie? Oh, yo, oh. Hey, yo, you're not going to... This is more Stallone.
Starting point is 00:32:34 This is our locker. This is more like Rocky. This is my locker. No one's taking this locker away from us. They're like human apes. And yet they're afraid to wreck their reputation by having it known that someone's doing their homework. Wouldn't you think that that would be... Oh, and they're also...
Starting point is 00:32:51 No one's going to. They've got a reptopoe. They're also. You and I. Not no one else. And they don't. They don't fight. Here's $3.
Starting point is 00:33:01 They're scared. Let's go bring a girl down to a shelter. In my mind, in my mind, like, their power had been diminished from Greece 1 to Greece 2. But I was okay with it. They don't work on motorcycles. All they want to do is win a talent show. This is a fucking movie about, they are. But they never got to get to spring.
Starting point is 00:33:21 They are upset. with four-part harmony. They're obsessed with four-part harmony. And the only people they beat up are nerds who are good at three-part harmony. And when... They hate musical nerds. That's all they hate. It's not cool.
Starting point is 00:33:35 They don't ever work on a... You barely see their motorcycles. You see their motorcycles in one scene. Like in two scenes. And more importantly, there is a true... Like, Michelle Pfeiffer should be dating the leader of the motorcycle rival game. The man The movie
Starting point is 00:33:54 The 40-year-old Who like Rides across the track? Yes She should be That the story should be He was the same actor Who played Balmudo
Starting point is 00:34:04 In Greece one I love it Yes So we're just Which I think is the right choice Like he's just a super senior He's always there Perfect
Starting point is 00:34:12 He's McCona hanging Daste and confused Wait isn't his name Craterface or no It was in Greece one And they reference it in Greece too Yeah But actually he was really hot and, but it was a little bit weird that he did go psych and like with like 40 other motorcycle buddies across the track.
Starting point is 00:34:35 And then they decided to go pulling together. Is it interesting to know that the sequel to Greece 2 was written by the guy who wrote and directed airplane to? Really? That does not surprise me. It kind of actually answers a lot of questions for me. Another little fact here, this is for people at home that have not seen the movie. At 13 minutes and 30 seconds, hit that pause button because some dude's junk falls out of his pants. Really?
Starting point is 00:35:04 A guy running track, and I've watched it now, his testicles fall out of his shorts. And he's trying to tuck them back in for the rest of the run. June, I can't. You as a child, you weren't clocking the balls? Can I ask June, like, woman, a woman. Oh, boy. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:35:22 When a man's balls fall out of his shorts, it's like kind of secretly hot, right? Not to me. This is human. This is how we are as humans. I can tell you, it is not. It's kind of hot, though. Really, though.
Starting point is 00:35:44 Let's think about it. When you really think about, like, some sweet balls, like falling right out of. No? Right out of like a pair of dolphin shorts. No. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were involved in this conversation.
Starting point is 00:35:59 I'm just talking about those sweet, sweet balls, like just plopping right out of those track shorts. I feel like it's vulnerable and sexy at the same time. Are you looking at it? I'm looking at the picture. Oh, wow. What you're attracted to is the unexpected reveal of genital. Oh, that's a great shot of it. Right?
Starting point is 00:36:18 Yeah. You're like, I'm not supposed to see this. So balls to you do it. That's amazing. 1330, everybody. Unsettling. Well, not as unsettling as this where they take out all the sound and you heard. What is this?
Starting point is 00:36:39 Wet mouth sounds. Wet mouth kissing. I'll play it again. This is when they finally kiss. What? All right. Gross. Gross.
Starting point is 00:36:51 I don't like it. I do want to just give you a couple facts that I thought were funny. Sandy, or not Sandy, what is his name? Michelle Fiverett. Stephanie Zemini. The gas station that she worked at, that's where John Travolta and Sandy were going to cameo as the owners of that gas station. Oh, interesting. I don't want them owning a gas station.
Starting point is 00:37:11 I don't want them still together. How many years after Greece won is Greece two meant to take place? I thought they were going back to Australia. It takes place in 1961, this movie. Oh, really? You've, like, dashed all my dreams. I had? Jason Mansucus, yes.
Starting point is 00:37:26 Can you accept my apology? No. Fuck you. Wow. Things are not good between me and guest on a favorite. Guest? Fuck you. Okay, so Greece takes place in 1959.
Starting point is 00:37:41 Greece two takes place in 1961. Oh, three years is the difference. Yes, I mean, as three years. So these were freshmen when Danny Zuko was a senior? Is that what you're telling me? Yeah. So you're telling me, these people have witnessed the events of Greece 1
Starting point is 00:37:58 and are participating in, they should look at their lives and be like, you know what? We've already seen Danny Zucco go through this. Remember when that car flew away? My first year here, that was insane. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:15 There's been a lot of talk online also that that the Robert Patrick character from Terminator 2 is the... Who's that? Goose? No. No, is the main guy, the Holden Caulfield, whatever. Oh, oh, Michael Caulfield? Yeah, is...
Starting point is 00:38:34 Is they're the same person because they wear the same... Oh, oh, oh, I see. Oh, that's weird. Also, by the way, and I mean, like, and I get it, it's for the romantic, you know, story in the movie. But, like, she is able... she is right next to him. She's able to see three quarters of his face and does not recognize him.
Starting point is 00:38:56 And he has a very recognizable jawline. And she is like, I don't know who he is because he won't take his goggles off. Why? I don't know. Why on earth? What's interesting about his accent initially, like when he first enters the school he speaks as though he doesn't know English. Yes.
Starting point is 00:39:16 Like there's a quality to his voice where it seems like he doesn't know the language. And then you realize, well, no, he just is British. Yeah. Well, and that kid is talking to him like, how long have you been in America? I thought that was an okay joke for this movie. I think there are some great jokes in here. The stuff, I really genuinely laughed when that teacher who's, you know, had the mental breakdown, walks up to the Lua and walks straight straight into the pool. I mean, I had a laugh when I was 11 and I had another laugh this afternoon.
Starting point is 00:39:46 There's definitely jokes. There's definitely solid jokes in this movie. Airplane two style jokes. And that's actually what they are. They are. I appreciated them. I wanted to, before we wrap it up, I do want to talk about the sex in the bunker scene. Yeah, let's do it for America.
Starting point is 00:40:00 Yeah, let's do it for America. Let's play it. Yeah, let's do it more on country. The red, white and the blue. It's Uncle Sam who's asking, so your mother will move. Tomorrow I'll be fighting. I'll win this war for you. Let's do it.
Starting point is 00:40:20 A country wants us to. I'm just picture you like a little kid June running around singing that song and your parents being like, what the fuck is going on? I would sing reproduction all the time. Reproduction is also a sexual. Oh, absolutely. Even know what a pistol is. I got your pistol right here. One of the best toys.
Starting point is 00:40:49 I've had to your audience Is watching June Sing Like lyric by lyric And the joy The unabashed joy The whole movie The whole movie
Starting point is 00:41:06 By the way I just love that You can't see it But she just did Like with her Rolled her fingers Like I got you a pistol
Starting point is 00:41:13 Right Yeah It's I wish you could I want to I want to have watched It with you You know
Starting point is 00:41:19 I will say In terms of social order, this is why I like this movie more also because of the way women treated each other. Paulette really does like Johnny and Michelle Pfeiffer, Stephanie Zanonez had this relationship with Johnny. There's no competition between the pink ladies. And there's no stalker channing. There's no starker channing. What's the character's name? It's one of the most amazing characters.
Starting point is 00:41:45 The end song on Greece won that she sings about having had an or almost being pregnant. By the way, they also just dropped that as a runner in this movie. She's like, I miss my period. Like, what? And then it's like, we don't file that character at all. But it's a great joke. And Miss McGee, it's a great joke. It kills that scene.
Starting point is 00:42:01 It's a great line. Yeah, she does. It's a great line and it's a great look from her. Oh, honey, it's okay, honey, you can make them up. And then, oh, what? It's so good. I will say that when they get into the motorcycle chase with British guy and he goes off the jump and they think he's died, they are very casual.
Starting point is 00:42:20 about being murderers. The T-birds are super casual about having just murdered someone and then they're like and everybody goes to the talent show. And they perform. See, this is my one complaint about the movie.
Starting point is 00:42:32 My one. Everybody's pretty casual about having murdered someone. I don't think they should have pulled back on that. He should have died. No, I know that he should have died. I think when they say they've looked down there and he's not there,
Starting point is 00:42:46 I don't think they should be able to see. I think they should have been staring into just a dark pit. Abyss. Yeah, like a quarry. And really not know whether he's alive or dead. Okay. Because I think that's how they were playing.
Starting point is 00:42:56 No, but they say so many times he's nothing's there, nothing's there. And when I watch this movie, I mean, I'm in every moment. I am suspending my disbelief. And when they say he's not there, I'm like, well, I guess he did make it. And I don't want to even entertain that thought. But Stephanie Zanega doesn't think that. She is devastating. They don't see him down there, though.
Starting point is 00:43:20 then where is he? They'll find him in the morning. That's what I don't understand. If they are not seeing with their eyeballs, that he's not in that pit, where do he go? I think they're looking down into the pit and they don't see anything obvious,
Starting point is 00:43:32 but they don't see it all. So they're telling themselves a narrative that is, we think he made it. And she's like, in her head, like, he's gone. He's gone. He's gone, and I never even got to see his eyes, which would have identified him as a person. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:43:44 Okay. Because I also wanted to see like a Sherlock kind of, how did he survive? I want to see. Oh, I want to see a put, together. Yeah, I want to see him explain how he... Had he been practicing that jump specifically.
Starting point is 00:43:55 You know? Dead man's curb. Did he set up those road signs? Wait, can we just go back to the lot? You guys were not disturbed by the scene that is a date rape song. Oh, yeah. I mean, like, but that is... No, the song is basically guilty in her into sex before the cunt because your mom won't
Starting point is 00:44:10 even mind. Is sex before the cunt? What? No, for the country. Oh, I thought you just said sex before the cunt, which I sort of loved. Which is the thing. The name of my second album. Sex before the cuck.
Starting point is 00:44:25 Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. And it's crazy to have watched this at a formative age where you're just like, oh, this is what, I mean, the way I thought about high school, I was like, but I wanted to be in there. I was like, get me in that zoo. Yeah. I want to get to that crazy zoo as quickly as possible. It's that feeling of wanting to be a teenager is huge. It's so, I mean, it's what I wanted more than anything in the world was to be a teenager. because of this movie.
Starting point is 00:44:51 And I get it. I can see why this would be attractive because Michelle Pfeiffer is a fucking badass up and down in this movie. She's the best. She's the best. She's never not chewing like five pieces of gum. And is wearing sunglasses for half of the movie.
Starting point is 00:45:08 She's wearing sunglasses for a full half of the movie. You cannot see the actor's eyes, which is insane. I really realize that that is a huge... Well, it's funny. I mentioned that because she is chewing a lot. She's not just chewing one piece of gum. She's chewing like five. But that's what you do.
Starting point is 00:45:26 I know. I've never been able to have one piece of gum. She can't chew one piece of gum. I can and I won't. I'd rather have none. If I buy a pack of gum, it's gone in two settings because she's... If I'm going to have gum, I'm going to have at least three pieces and one sitting. So I have to buy her like Costco level gum to keep in her car so it'll fend off a week.
Starting point is 00:45:48 She's like a bear. You gotta just throw gum at her. One of my favorite characters that we have not touched on at all is the character named Dolores. Oh. Who is the pink lady's intern, basically, who rides a skateboard. Pamela Adelon. Oh, the little one. No, it's not.
Starting point is 00:46:05 Time up. Shut your mouth. Yes. Was that Pam Adlon? Yeah. Wait, shut up. Everybody shut up. Nobody's speaking.
Starting point is 00:46:12 Shut up in the house. Nobody has said anything. Are you talking to me right now and saying that someone that we, No. Pamela Adlon was the character Dolores in that movie. That is mind-blowing. That was my favorite character. I looked up on the accident. Trying to sleep with her. She got the car accident in the middle of the movie so most of her scenes
Starting point is 00:46:31 are doubles. Oh, interesting. But yeah, but they got the movie. I thought that character was hilarious. She was great. I love what she was like, oh, this bra is this. Wait, will you extend hilarious even more? Hilarios. This bra is killing me. This bra is killing me. You wish. I love that.
Starting point is 00:46:50 You wish. The fact that Paulette is her sister is so perfect. I just love the two of them. It's the bad. That character and her dynamic with British guy also liked. So great. And she's like, we can't see each other anymore because I've got another guy going on. So great.
Starting point is 00:47:06 I thought it was really good. There's good stuff in here. But the songs are truly reprehensible. Yeah. And they're all about one thing. Reproduction. Except for reproduction. production, which is on message.
Starting point is 00:47:20 And Cool Rider. And who's that guy? Nope. Nope. Who's that guy is an entire song that only asks one question. Who's that guy? And it's almost as if they're like, well, we can't finish the song until every character on screen says the line, who's that guy?
Starting point is 00:47:38 And so the song goes on for like seven minutes because there's a lot of people who have to say, who's that guy? Well, obviously. And also, let's see. It's true for our country. And also... Bad song. Yeah, that's a bad song.
Starting point is 00:47:52 It's a bad song. The message behind that song is... We're going to score tonight. Is also not a great song too. Because it's not even clever innuendo. It's not even innuendo. It's like it is a bowling song. It just is a bowling song.
Starting point is 00:48:05 Obviously, we had an opinion about this movie. There are people out there that had a different opinion. It is now time for... A lot of these are from June. These are June Amazon reviews of this movie. Honestly, I would be fine to write a review for this movie. I really would.
Starting point is 00:48:18 I do think, well, I don't know. I guess people watching movies now are so jaded. But. Ooh, the look on June's face with the word jaded. But there's something, to me, even the worst musical, I tip my hat to. Because I feel like it takes a certain amount of courage to put words to music and to make a musical. I just think it does. I think you have to really put yourself out there in a way.
Starting point is 00:48:47 that I appreciate, and I find joy in musicals. So I appreciate a musical, and I do think that there are better ones, of course. I don't look at this, though, as like, oh, it's about the music. It's not. If you're looking for a great musical. What you love about it is not musical, but it is a musical. But it is a musical. That's right.
Starting point is 00:49:08 What you love about it happens to be, you could cut all the songs out, and it would be a movie you would still love. Except for Cool Rider. Okay. Who's that guy? Reproduction. All of them. Except for all the songs. Obviously, we have...
Starting point is 00:49:24 It's the last song she sings when she's playing Winter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A crazy dream sequence. That song, too. Where he's, like, suddenly in, like, different gear, talking from a pile of burnt motorcycles. And let's do it for America. Well, obviously, we have a second opinion, and so does June.
Starting point is 00:49:40 People have a second opinion, so does June. That's time for second opinions. What do they do to show a different view? they get a second opinion Amazon review It's a five-star review In for someone like you It's a second opinion
Starting point is 00:49:55 I love that That's amazing That was Chelsea Cannon Chelsea Cannon Best Second Opinion theme song ever Really good for Chelsea That is it That is the bar
Starting point is 00:50:08 Try and beat it assholes All right so this is a five-star reviews Cold from Amazon This one is first written by Richard Beeman okay, sure. It's not the original Greece, but this movie has its own campy theme and quality,
Starting point is 00:50:22 and I enjoy watching it from time to time to escape reality, if nothing else. That being said, it's easy to understand why Greece 3 never came around. It'd be like North and South Book 3, totally unnecessary and empty, no matter how well it was done. Wait, what's that?
Starting point is 00:50:37 No idea. No idea. Some books? I guess North and... Somebody should get smart, though, and produce a film that reunites a lot of these characters while they're still living.
Starting point is 00:50:45 after all, Travolta and Newman aren't on fire anymore. Oh, God. And we'd like to see him again for fun. Five stars. A movie that puts all of these people, the characters from one and two into one movie? I guess this guy's basically saying, I don't like anything, but let's make it. I mean, you could make Greece 3 as a reunion movie. You know, a reunion movie for that age group.
Starting point is 00:51:11 I've got an idea. It would take place, interestingly, if Greece, three starred all the original actors at their like 50 year reunion, it would take place in the 90s. I would like that. That would be neat. Or their 40-year reunion? It would be like the 90s.
Starting point is 00:51:30 I don't know. I'm thinking like... And June, you could be in it. Yeah, I'm just... Alaska, like, global warming is like setting in. Like, there's a small... This is the theme? Village.
Starting point is 00:51:42 Of Greece 3? Yeah, that's sort of like getting... you know, like... Less and less snow? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the shores coming like creeping, like creeping, creeping, creeping slowly.
Starting point is 00:51:55 And they decide to have like some kind of like a mid-summer night's dream celebration. Of course. That's... A musical. That is Greece related. And... No, no, no. Keep going.
Starting point is 00:52:12 You got this. This one is from Victoria English. I've only seen bits and pieces of the original Greece, and to be honest, I've never been interested in watching it. I have, however, watched this movie several times and can honestly say I love it. Great cast, plot, and songs, definitely a classic, better than the original, five stars.
Starting point is 00:52:37 Yeah, and it's sort of like, must we compare it to the original? I think you'd have to. That's right. Of course. That would be a mistake. But I will, but I'm going to, like, I will back June up in the sense that, like, I like the story of Greece 2 more than the story of Greece 1. Me too.
Starting point is 00:52:52 You know, like I like this story. I just, I think the songs are really boring. One of the things that pops up in these reviews, too, is everyone that loves this movie has seen it and quoted, I've seen it 200 times. I've seen it 300 times. I've seen it 400 times. I've seen it for a lot of people. It probably existed in a similar way to June, which is it was their first VHS or something. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:53:14 Wow. Oh, I'm sure. Over 200, you think. Well, there was a period. There was one summer I actually remember watching it almost every day. Wow. Yeah, I mean, there were two movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:24 It was so awesome to watch a movie that, yeah, I probably watched it every day. So that's a summer of seeing it. Yeah, it's over 200 times. Wow. Geez. I mean, I know if you were to play it right now, I could probably do every line from the movie. You were doing it. I was, yeah, I was.
Starting point is 00:53:42 I can't explain myself, but I like Greece too more than your original. Paul, are you speaking for yourself? I'm speaking as Gina. I can't explain myself, but I like Greece too more than the original Greece. I know, I'm crazy. Wait, am I crazy? No, this movie is great. Why is it great?
Starting point is 00:54:00 Because it's funny. It's funny and it's got attractive people in it. Plus, they got that whole school pageant talent show thing. And that's just so you get it. Five stars. I get it. And then this is the other one that, like, again, this is just one other one that's almost like a haiku. Love it.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Could watch it every week. Can't watch it enough. Love Greece 1, 2. I'm not sure what else to say. Five stars. All around fun sing-along movie. I get it. I get the appreciation of the movie.
Starting point is 00:54:38 I just. To me, I remember watching Greece 1 and I loved it. But Greece 1, I remember thinking was a bit of a bore. compared to this. Greece one? Grease one was a bit of a bore. That's what everyone says here. Everyone says,
Starting point is 00:54:51 Greece one is a bore. Grease 2 is amazing. If you really want to, like, have some fun. Whoa. You're going to want to watch grease. So basically what you're saying is like, Greece 1 is a prude and grease 2 is a slut. Grease 2 is like,
Starting point is 00:55:05 a horny slut. Yeah, absolutely. It's true. I want to watch like a saucy or movie. Like, I'm going to put on grease too. Yeah. I think that's true. Can I ask you guys one last question?
Starting point is 00:55:15 Oh, no. No, go go. No. All right. So why is Stephanie always wearing glasses throughout the first act? Sunglasses? Mm-hmm. She is.
Starting point is 00:55:25 She's wearing sunglasses constantly in the movie. So what happened? Did she like... It's bright. Can we work this out? I mean, I think this was like... It was cool, quote unquote. Yeah, she was like...
Starting point is 00:55:40 Yeah, it was. And when she takes them off... And when she takes them off is when she becomes vulnerable. Well, I do think. I do think this idea of being cool was such a teenage idea, and I do wonder if it's, if it has that currency anymore. Similar to what you're saying about losing your virginity, because I do remember thinking kids were cool or not cool,
Starting point is 00:56:05 and now I don't ever think of people as cool or not cool. You should. But yeah, yeah, what about me? But, I mean, maybe there are certain people, I think, of like amazing style or I can appreciate their aesthetic, whatever. But go through the room and say who's cool and who's not cool. Yeah. Okay, great.
Starting point is 00:56:23 She keeps the list. It's in her bullet journal. No, but I do wonder if kids now conceive of it in that way of like you're either, like Stephanie Zanoni was so cool. Like do they still think of kids as, are we post cool? Is everybody just like on, you know, everybody's got their own YouTube channel and that's great or I think what constitutes
Starting point is 00:56:48 cool is more of the question because I'm sure there is still a hierarchy but what is it predicated on now that's what I wonder I wonder what I know I'm going to regret this what do you wonder
Starting point is 00:57:04 I wonder when the fuck you're going to stop talking because I'm bored Oh I love you Obviously, there's a lot of things to say. And if you want to continue to keep this conversation going, you can call us at 619 Paul Ask. I love you, Justin, Minx. I love you all.
Starting point is 00:57:24 619, Paul Ask, and you can leave your own correction and omission or whatever you want to talk about. We'll play it on our mini episode, 619, Paul Ask. And we'll definitely check in with our good friend, Blake J. Harris, who's going to be talking to some of the players from this film to find out some behind the scenes info.
Starting point is 00:57:41 But now, before we, Before we go, we go around the table, I think the answers are clear. Would you recommend this movie? Would you recommend people to watch this movie in regards to this podcast? That's what I would say. For me, absolutely. But I don't be afraid, in my opinion, I would say in like the opening number, there's a lot of numbers that you can fast forward through because the songs are not relevant to the story.
Starting point is 00:58:09 The only numbers that you should fast forward through. are the T-Bird, like, weird number where they do the silhouettes while they're practicing. Like, you absolutely should fast forward through that. And that's it. Nope. There's like, that's it. Because this movie is straight up two hours long. I would speed through the entirety of the opening first day of school.
Starting point is 00:58:29 That's like 11 minutes. There are no lyrics. It's seven minutes long. It's seven minutes long. And it's, that's all of it. It is not worth it. It is worth it because of the very end of it when a kid, you think the song's over. and then a kid runs over the window and jumps in.
Starting point is 00:58:45 Love that moment. And then they end it. It's worth the whole thing. In fact, it's not. But I also appreciate that moment. If you like jumping, I prefer the end of the movie where they all jump and it freezes. I like that. I do love that.
Starting point is 00:58:58 If you think, oh, I wonder if I could fast forward right now, you can. Yes. But 100% watch. Okay. My two cents as on a Ferris, Jason Manzukas, hit me on the shoulder. It still hurts. So it turns out he's weirdly strong, but also he can't eat eggs. So, yes, I recommend grease too.
Starting point is 00:59:20 I also recommend, I recommend this movie because it's not, it's not all, it's not bad. It's just, and it, this is, I did some research on it and I found out simply this. The script was not written by the time they started shooting. Oh, wow. So D.D. Cohn, as Frenchie, was written. in when they started shooting, but written out by the time the movie stopped shooting. So it wasn't that she is like not in it. It's like they rewrote the script throughout shooting that her character was eliminated.
Starting point is 00:59:55 Yeah. So like I feel like that's what you're watching a lot of. Like the substitute teacher comes in. Tap Hunter. And his story is like, and we everybody's like kind of things are introduced. And whether or not they come out in the wash, we don't know. It's a mess of a movie, but it's not. But there's...
Starting point is 01:00:12 There's so much joy in it. But what June loves about it is there. Is correct... Yes, if you were held in a basement and watched this movie 200 times, you would also grow at 11. Yes. If you had Stockholm syndrome for this movie, you would also think it was good. Who's going to chain me into a basement? Oh, boy.
Starting point is 01:00:31 Uh-oh. It would be like a sloth from Goonies if he was watching Greastew. Will someone change me in a basement? It's room with one VHS tape. Make me watch Greece too. That's that. You'll win an Oscar. You'll win an Oscar for the Jason keeps you in a basement.
Starting point is 01:00:50 Yep. And I just make you watch Greece too. Really? Yep. I mean, it's like Michelle Pfeiffer dancing around. Like, what's the problem? Wait, wait. What is the problem here?
Starting point is 01:00:58 Can I please like a little more split pee or anything? No. Keep watching. You'll get soup when you know all the lyrics to Cool Rider. I'm a cool. Cool, Ryder. Oh, God.
Starting point is 01:01:16 Cut that into the song, Faced. Anna, you have an amazing podcast that we've all been guests on now. Oh, thank you. Definitely check it out. It's called Anna Ferris's Unqualified. It comes out every Tuesday.
Starting point is 01:01:28 Thanks. Awesome. Definitely check that show out if you've not listened to it. Amazing episodes there. What's a good starter episode that you would tell people to listen to? I would say actually Paul Shear. No.
Starting point is 01:01:38 Yes. Paul Shear and Jason Manzookas. And now, June, we did a three. And then also your hit show. I love you. And I thank you so much for being here. Your hit show is on CBS. Oh, yeah. Killing it.
Starting point is 01:01:52 Thursday nights at 9 p.m. Yeah, I guess it's called mom. It is called mom. And that's the title. It is called mom. Yeah, it's a longer time. It is called mom. Wait.
Starting point is 01:02:02 What was it? The show is called. It is called mom. Oh, okay. It is called mom. All right. Jason, what do you want to plug? As of right now, you have had two weeks to watch Gilmore Girls.
Starting point is 01:02:15 I am on the episode called Spring. Guys, my dreams all came true. You are Spring. Thank you, honey. Watch the four episodes of Gilmore Girls a year in the life. And also, and this is going sideways completely from our podcast network. But there is an amazing podcast right now called Crime Town. Oh, I'm writing that down.
Starting point is 01:02:38 That is unreal. Every season is a deep dive into the crime of one city. The inaugural season is going on right now, and it is Providence, Rhode Island, and it is fascinating. It is a guy buddy. Crime-time Buddy Ciancing. No, it is like a documentary series. Ginny? Podcast, documentary.
Starting point is 01:03:01 So, if it's not like things that we like, I've been really into the CNBC show, The Prophet, starring Marcus Limonis. He's a nice Greek, man. He's a nice, lovely Greek man. I love that show as well. We're talking about things we like. I like Daniel Tiger's neighborhood. I do too.
Starting point is 01:03:20 We too. That's a big. I don't know what that is. Oh, it's amazing. It's a child's show. Oh, that's why I don't know what it is. By the way, thank God I don't know what it is, right? What if I was like, I also love that?
Starting point is 01:03:31 Wouldn't you be like, oh, boy, that's worrisome. You could definitely check me out on that star show Blunt Talk. with Patrick Stewart. I think I am on this week or I was on last week. Nice. Figure it out. Watch it. All right.
Starting point is 01:03:47 That is all a big thank you to the amazing people that put this show together. First of all, thank you to everybody here at the Unqualified Compound for hosting us here. To Averill Haley, that's all of our clips. You can follow her on movie bitches on YouTube. July Diaz, who does all of the listening and making sure the show sounds good. Nate Kiley does all of our research, Mrs. Zaitz, puts it all together. Leanna Waldron designs all of our cool stuff and everybody at Earwolf. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 01:04:13 Bye-bye.

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