Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (HDTGM Matinee)

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. Big Paul in the beautiful June, gonna take you from the groove all the way to the room. Random games and street fight that help to blow off steam. Just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green. Shock needle to bird, damn it, cat, we staying alive. They call it in the badass and he's on the line. Cranking 88 minutes cause they cool his ass. Cause the bad Jim Bonney looking kind of nice. Paul and June getting literal, Jason is getting laid. June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid. They judge a bunch of movies while they 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 Anna Ferris. We are in the studio of Unqualified and I'm joined as always by my two co-hosts, Jason Manzuchus. And June Diane Raefiel. How are you June? I'm great. How are you Paul? Good. It'd be weird if I said that our guest was not Anna Ferris, but we were recording. And our guest is Julia Roberts. We are very excited to have you to talk about this movie because this movie, I mean, it falls in the, in the, you know, 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 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. So shockingly. Anna's you. Not me. June. It's me and he hears why. Oh boy. So when I was growing up, my neighbors, the shirrings had a VHS player and they had two tapes, Greece one and Greece two. That's so funny. I have the same story. Yes. Wait a minute. Hang on a second. No, I have the same story except with Greece one. With the in my, because I'm a little older, the first people that I knew that had a VCR, they had two movies, same, Greece one and Hooper. The Bert Reynolds, Jan Michael Vincent vehicles, which I would like to now do on this. Wait a minute. Absolutely. And later on, we got a VHS player and I immediately got Greece one, Greece two, and we also got the movie regarding Henry. Okay. Okay. The Harrison Ford movie gets shot in the head. JJ Abrams wrote in college. Yeah. Wow. So this movie to me is everything. I can see that. And you never saw Greece one. No, I've seen Greece one. But I mean, but. I saw it many, many times. Because I, by the way, I preferred Greece two. Wow. I need to know. Wow. I know you're going to give this to us, but why? Well, it's very hard because I feel like Greece two, I was so obsessed with Michelle Pfeiffer in this movie. 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 Pfeiffer ever given me. I want you to like climb a ladder. She was physically. Where she kicks over her leg. Yeah. On the ladder. I want you to ride. 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. I get what you. 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. Well, but here's 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 so psyched to watch a movie. 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. But it's, 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 Carrington. I was in love with him watching it today. I felt a lot of the same feelings. When's the last time you watched it? 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 a decade. 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. 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 and sing with the songs with a movie like this. Yeah. And the songs in this, I don't think are that great. 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. 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 love musicals. And I think Greece is, I feel about Greece. The way you feel about Greece too. I think Greece is great. 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 Zinoni says like, there's got to be more to life than just making out. There are themes in this movie. It's a feminist Greece. I mean, that is true. I can see that. I was so obsessed with her attitude and her insistence upon finding this guy who was challenging and her independence. You're right in the sense that this is a better story for a girl. She works at her dad's garage, but is the unequivocal leader of the it group on campus. She is obsessed with cool riders. She is cool as shit. Like, I mean, anything. I know it's Michelle Pfeiffer. But what is this movie for me has like all of my childhood crushes in one movie. Because the Segal twins, the Segal twins are also in this movie. The twins from Double Trouble who I've talked about before. They are the cheerleaders. They were the cheer. 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. OK. And I was obsessed with the Double Trouble girls. And I was I had like a sexual awakening to Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie Lady Hawk. When Michelle Pfeiffer was in Lady Hawk, I lost my mind. Oh. 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 Pfeiffer. And I'm still coming for you, Michelle. David E. Kelly. By the 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. I'm going to breathe heavily into the microphone. But no. OK. I have a few thoughts. Of course I do. But I don't. All right. So like the corniness of like Bridal High and like truly when I started watching it because of your. Yeah. We made you watch it. You made me watch it again. And I had watched it as a child or whatever. And I liked Grease One. But I had to see. I thought you wanted to do this movie for the podcast. I did. OK. But I did. Because I was honestly like, oh, I did. This movie does not belong in this podcast. You sent me in the way over. No, it doesn't. It does. No, it does. And I thought, Anna, that you were coming to it with the same love that I was. And I was like, great, I'd love to share in that. I just have a complicated relationship with Grease 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. A little bit better. Because the man changes. Or would she be like, nobody should change. Yeah. Would she be inherently the message behind either Grease is flawed. Yeah. But you should be accepting of who the people we are. Right. Yeah. You 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. And so 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 great. I mean, look at the base of this movie, it's it's stealing from a Steve Gutenberg film or a Steve Gutenberg film. So 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. I don't remember that. You were a big fan. You were a big good head. The scenes where he's driving around with her and he's wearing those goggles. He's a strange. He's a strange sex. Can we use a stranger? What could be better? What? A leather jacket. Yeah. What could be better? Itching to talk. You're so right, June, but I'm so itching to talk about the sexy teacher. OK. Oh, Connie Stevens. Oh, yeah. Let's do it. Talk about it. Right. That's Connie Stevens, right? Yeah. Yeah. Right. I think so. Like like boobies and. Yes. And hair and hair and they keep talking about that. And she constantly has the hair spray. Well, this movie also like. The sexual politics of this movie are pretty insane. Well, see, here's the thing. And as a child growing up, I mean, this to me, my mother has 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 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. To the fact. What in the 80s, getting all of your information about teenagers from people who are portraying teenagers in the 50s and who are and who are people in their 30s. People in their 30s representing the attitudes of the 1950s. 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. Cartoon of teenage. I've said this about other movies. This movie is this movie is horny in a way that is like aimless. As I'm saying, it's like, it's like this. It's like, it's like grease with a heart on. It's like, yeah. It's horny without any follow through. Well, let's talk about the beginning of this movie. The I would say that a surefire way to know that you're not in a good musical is when you're opening musical number has no one singing on screen. Yeah. Like the musical number is like jittery frankincense dancing. Now you had a thought about this one. Well, I, 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 kind of like a big, but it's in that musical sense when I couldn't, what I, what I felt like you imagine like Jason. Yeah. All right. Go on. Okay. So listen, are we fighting? Okay. No, but listen, it's let's say it's June 20th. Great. It's schools like fun. We schools out for summer. Schools out for summer. Right. And I call you up a few years later. And I'm like, Hey, do you have a license? 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. Yeah. We should start, we should start practicing. Yeah. We have to because it's coming up. Yeah. And every single person in school participates. Yeah. So we got to start on that now because 8 30, you know, at like September 3rd. When those buses pull up, once they're halfway through hanging the flag, yeah, shit's going to go down. So we got to start doing that. Yeah. And that fucking idiot with the cello. So if you don't start practicing with me, why did the cheaper tape nerds? You were so right there. There was a huge like cello. Man, can we get it? Yes. Yeah. So if you are not in. Don't worry. If you're, if you're wondering if nerds got theirs in this movie, they did. Oh yeah. They did. But that to me also is for Michael Carrington. Michael Carrington is deemed a nerd quite literally just the most hunky guy right off the right out the gate. Like the name has like a last accent. He's like he has a British accent. He's he is an, 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. 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, as I 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. It's one of the best. Had he, had he done it? 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? Well, this is one of the lines that goes, you know, um. British example. Breathy. 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. 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 Segal mania, he is in a meeting and they're like, 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. I'm sure it's like some sort of, you know, urban legend. That is being attributed to Segal. But come on, it's kind of worse. I would still be guilty of that. Really? Yes. You would write a script and then tee it up for yourself that way? 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 a question and I'll try to answer in like an incredibly pretentious way. Oh, OK. OK. Anna, what was it like to work with Kean Peele in the movie Keanu? 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. And now I want to play another game. I want to get into race cars. I have a 65 vet and I can really move. When this is over, I want to rent one of those vans with the air brushing on the side and go down to Mexico with Juliet, his 41 year old wife at 22 years old. What? And no. And no. 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 guy's article is amazing. I was born in June, though. You like him? You like him? I didn't like him. Oh, no, he's a dream boat. No, but I'm with you. You're both so dreamy. I mean, here's the thing watching it now that- Who's more dreamy? Him or Adrian Zemed? Who's Adrian Zemed? Oh, wow. He's like the leader of the T-birds. Oh, of course. Joey. Joey? Joey? Almost played by- Nagarelli or- Yeah, Johnny. Of course, of course, Johnny. He's the heat. 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 Fai for jealous by making out with the boy. And by the way, I think he's great. He's amazing in this, but I don't find him dreamy. I think you would be more amazing in it if I never saw Danny Zuko. Like, they feel like it's just like a community theater version of Danny Zuko. And I don't mean that- No, because Michelle is Danny Zuko. I mean, Stephanie Zinoni is Danny Zuko. But he is Danny Zuko. But he's portraying- I know he's the leader of the T-birds, but he's not- We don't care for him like we care about. Right. Correct. Stephanie Zinoni or Danny Zuko. I- My biggest problem- I'm not my biggest problem because I have a lot of big problems with this movie, but my biggest problem was that like the songs in Greece are story songs. They are songs that illustrate and give context to the story. The songs in this movie do not do that. Like the opening dance number is- There is nothing to it. The bowling song 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. And the songs in Greece are so compelling. You know what I mean? Yes, they are. And 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- 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, Frenchie. Frenchie comes back to go to school. Yeah, she's not a teacher. She's not a go take a 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. Hi. Hello. Hi. Uh, 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, she did say you were the one to know the ropes around here. Oh, ropes are my specialty. See, I used to go to Rydel before I dropped out to go to beauty school. Then I flunked Tinting when my hair turned pink. Pink? So that, that is, that is like that. And there's more of that. Like Frenchie really has to justify her existence. And by the way. You can't do it. 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 grease one was and how good even a song like beauty school dropout, which is not. Great song. Well, it's, it isn't, it isn't like it's not, it's, there are many songs that are so much better in grease one, but it's sort of a song like the songs that are in grease two, which are sort of meaningless, you know, but, but it's so well done in grease one. Yes. Here's a real set. I agree with all this, but I sort of feel like an Amazon reviewer. Like I really do. Like I agree with all of it and I could care. But it's in your, well that's the thing is like we can logically, we can logically pick it apart, 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 Zinoni and I was like, oh, that's a part I want to play. I want to be her. I want to play this part 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. Miss McGee and Blanche are a comedic duo. I think that is right. By the way, they're from grease one. They're just amazing together. I'm obsessed with the two of them. Blanche is just phenomenal. But so is Miss McGee. 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. That's excellent. Thrilling. The movie is horny. But we have to talk about the idea, I think of Michelle Pfeiffer's virginity. I don't see her as a virgin. What's her name? The blonde is a virgin. Yes, Paulette is. But I, it's interesting that they try to, I think they try to like have it each way. Like they don't call out that she's having a lot of sex. No, but to me, she's probably slept with Johnny before. I don't know. You think? Yes. Because remember she had 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 it. 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. Yeah. Or getting close to it. Hence the date rape song, which we should get into in a little bit. That changes everything. Cause 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 we're not going to be able to come up with this answer, but I would love for people to weigh in on the floor. That's called myself hyper right now. I would love to know like this, cause this movie is 1980s obsessed in, with virginity. You know, like like virginity, like like was losing it is the, is the title of Tom Cruise's first movie, right? By the way, Tom Cruise is supposed to play the Adrian Sumed part. Amazing. Sure thing. Like these are movies that are entirely predicated on teenagers losing their virginities. Porches. Porches. That doesn't exist anymore in, we don't see that in TV. Like that's not a thing anymore. Like the, the movie that is based on the, the necessity of losing it or, you know, like, like they, you know, they, they, in this movie, it's, it's exemplified. Well, it's always like one character. It's like, it's like, well, you almost got in a car crash. Oh, and we would have died out. I would have died a virgin. Can you imagine? Like it's American pie is the closest thing that was like that. Short 20 years old now. Wow. About, I mean, it must be. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. That's interesting. Are millennials as, I mean, post virginity? Are, are millennials post virginity? Like obviously I'm sure they, as people are obsessed with their own virginities, etc. But they're not seeing it portrayed the way we all were. Because that's special. Because, and I think that something else is happening, which is that there's- They're all just fingering each other's bubbles. 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. And that's more important than the virginity. I also think porn. Oh, really? I also think everybody's watching porn since they're like little kids now. It's all online. So they had 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 the woods 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, in, 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 watching porn, I don't know, but are watching porn, they feel they've had sex? I think there isn't as much- Scratches an itch. Yeah, I wonder if losing your virginity has the same weight. I'm curious, maybe this is old man talk. Anna Ferriss is eating her own birthday cake. Happy birthday, honey. Yeah, it does bum me out too. I'm genuinely curious and I don't know, maybe this is like to young listeners. But what I was saying though, 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 Jocs and nerds have always. Yeah, I don't know. I mean now nerds are Jocs 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 like papers and whatnot for me and like 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. Wait, you have no like to your thing. Why would you, you would say that out of you not having self-esteem because I feel 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. That's insane. Like he wanted to change for me father. That means that I have to. You're both disasters now. Yeah. We're all disasters. See this is the way I see it as different as the, 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 Greece when she was definitely making a choice. Like she comes out in that outfit in the end and it's like, oh I've never seen this person before. Yeah. He'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 of himself and he wants her to see it but he, it's not a 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 who's in 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 skin to, guys it's so bad. You wanted to see this. I know you're going to climb this ladder. Come on. I want to watch you do it. Wow there's the wind and one fine knife. I'll be holding on tight to a cool. Cool. It's so good. Fans, you have the vocal track. Go fan, we'll have the vocal track. If you don't, if you don't continue. I'm trying to remember the next verse. I think there at one point it goes. Yeah I'm gonna, I need a cool. That's the way it's gonna be. Because that's the way that I feel. I want to, I want to, I'm gonna be with, 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 Rider. Into the Cool Rider. But the movie also gives them a storyline wherein they become friends. Where in he's helping her with her English homework. It includes, I mean they have one scene together. But there's like, there's a couple scenes where 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. And, but this is a movie, this is a movie where you're in like, he's like, okay, you can say no to me, but I'm gonna become the guy you want me to be. And also it gives you a little bit of, but they also are compatible. Here's because you have this code. You can't date me because of the code. But that's not why she's not interested in him. I guess here's the thing. No, of course not. But she's not interested in him because he's like a nerd. He's a nerd. After coming out of Greece, one with Sandy and the poodle skirts, to watch Stephanie's anonian when 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 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. Like 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 room. I do want to talk just for a second about the T-Birds also, 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. They say really funny things like, oh, yo, you want this cake? 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. She's a nymphoid maniac. A nymphoid. Nymphoid maniac. 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. This is all locker. This is more like Rocky. This is my locker. No one's taking this locker away from us. They're like, 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. Hey, no one's going to. They've got a rep to put. They're also, they're also. You and I, not no one else. And they don't. They don't bite. You're $3. 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 grease one to grease two. But I don't. 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 the. They never got to get to spring. They are obsessed with four part harmony. They're. 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. That's not cool. They don't ever work on them. You barely see their motorcycles. You see their motorcycles in one. Like in two scenes. And then more importantly, there is a true, like Michelle Pfeiffer should be dating the leader of the motorcycle rival gang. The man. Yeah. The 40 year old. The old. Thank you. Like rides across the track. Yes. She should be that. The story should be. He was the same actor who played Bel Udo and Grease 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. He's McConaughey and basically confused. Yes. Wait, is it his name Crater Face or no? It was in grease one. They cut and they reference it in grease two. But actually he was really hot and, but it was a little bit weird that he did go psych on like with a like 40 other motorcycle buddies across the track. And then they decided to go pulling together. Is it interesting to know that the sequel to grease two was written by the guy who wrote and directed airplane to? Really? That is not surprising. It kind of actually answers a lot of questions for me. The 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 dudes junk falls out of his pants. Really? A guy running track his, 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. And it's, it's June. I can't, as a child, you didn't, you weren't clocking the balls. Can I ask June? Like woman to woman? Oh boy. Here we go. When a man's balls fall out of his shorts, it's like kind of secretly hot, right? Not to me. This is how we are as humans. I can tell you it's kind of hot though. We're like really though. Let's think about it. We 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. I'm just talking about those sweet sweet balls like just plopping, plopping right out of those track shorts. I feel like it's vulnerable and sexy at the same time. Are you looking at it? A picture. Oh wow. What you're attracted to is the unexpected reveal of genitive. Oh, that's a great shot of it. Right? You're like, I'm not supposed to see this. This is an accident. So balls do you do it? Oh my god. That's amazing. Sweet balls. 1330 everybody. Unsettling. Well, not as an unsettling as this where they take out all the sound and you heard What is this? It's a wet mouth. Sounds wet mouth kissing. I'll play again. This is when they finally kiss. All right. Why I'm in. Gross. Gross. I don't like it. I do want to just give you a couple of facts that I thought were funny. Sandy or not Sandy. What is your name? Michelle Fever. Stephanie. Stephanie. 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. Interesting. I don't want them owning it. They are. Yeah. I don't want them still together. How many years after grease one is grease two meant to take place? I thought they were going back to Australia. That's a great question. It takes place in 1961, this movie. Oh really? You've like dashed all my dreams. I have. Jason Minzik is yes. Can you accept my apology? No. Fuck you. Wow. Things are not good between me and guest Anna Ferris. Guest. Fuck you. Okay so grease takes place in 1959, grease two takes place in 1961. Oh three years is the difference? Yes. I mean three years. They were freshman. 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 grease one and are participating? Yes. They should look at their lives and be like you know what we've already seen Danny Zuko go through this. Remember when that car flew up into the sky? My first year here that was insane. Yeah. Yeah. There's been a lot of talk online also that the Robert Patrick character from Terminator 2 is the Goose? No is the main guy. They've holding coffield whatever. Oh Michael Coughield? Yeah. Is they're the same person because they wear the same eyewear? Oh oh oh I see. 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 and he has a very recognizable jawline and she is like I don't know who he is because he won't take his daughter's eyes. I will say though his accent drops away. Why? I don't know. Why on earth? But what's interesting about his accent initially like when he first enters the school east he speaks as though he's he doesn't know English. Yes. Like there's a quality to his voice where it seems like he doesn't know the language and then you realize oh 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 Luau and walks straight straight into the pool. I mean I had a laugh when I was 11 and I had another laugh this afternoon. Nope there's definitely jokes there's definitely solid jokes in this movie. Airplane 2 style jokes. And that's actually what they are. They are and I appreciated them. I wanted to before we wrap it up I do want to talk about the the sex in the bunker scene. Yeah let's do it for America. Yeah let's do it for America. Let's play it. Yeah let's do it for our country. The red, white and blue. It's Uncle Sam who's asking so your mother will approve. Tomorrow I'll be fighting. I know in this war for you. That's too far country. Our country wants us to. Just picture you like a little kid June running around singing that song and your parents being like Oh I'm sure I did I would sing reproduction all the time. Reproduction is also a section. Oh absolutely. Even now what a pistol is. I got you a pistol right here. One of the best joys I've had to your audience is watching June sing like lyric by lyric. And the joy. The whole thing. The whole movie. The whole movie. Oh I love that. By the way I just love that you can't see it but she just did like whether rolled her fingers like. I got you a pistol right here. I wish you could. I want to have watched it with you. 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 Zunonis had this relationship with Johnny. There's no competition between the pink ladies. And there's no. Stalker Channing. Are you? There's no Stalker Channing. Stalker Channing is one of the most amazing characters. The end song on Grease one that she sings about having had an or almost being pregnant. Oh by the way they also just drop that as a runner in this movie. She's like I miss my period. Yeah. Like what? And then it's like we don't follow that character at all. But it's a great joke and Miss McGee. It's a great joke. 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. 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 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. Everybody's pretty cash about having murdered someone. No is that I don't think they should have pulled back on that. He should have died. No I don't think he should have died. I think when they say they've looked down there and he's not there. I don't think they should be able to see. I think they should have been staring into just a dark bit and really not know whether he's alive or dead because I think that's how they were playing. 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. Daphne Zanaga doesn't think that she is devastated. They don't see him down there though. Then where is he? She thinks they'll find him in the morning. That's what I don't understand. Jason are not seeing with their eyeballs that he's not in that pit. Where did he go? I think they're looking down into the pit and they don't see anything obvious 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. Because I also wanted to see a Sherlock kind of how did he survive? I want to see him put together. Yeah I want to see him explain how he's... Had he been practicing that jump specifically? That man's curb did he set up those road signs? But can we just go back to the... You guys were not disturbed by the scene that is a date rape song? Oh yeah. I mean like but that is... The song is crazy. The song is basically guilting her into sex before the cunt because your mom won't even mind. To stay 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 name of my second album. Sex before the cunt. 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. 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. And I get it. I get... 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. 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 you should mention 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. 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. Whoa. If I buy a pack of gum it's gone in two settings because she's... If I'm gonna have gum I'm gonna have at least three pieces. And one sitting. So I have to buy her the Costco level gum to keep her car so it'll fend off a week. 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. Who is the pink ladies intern basically who rides a skateboard. The hot one with the pink. Pamela Adelaugh. Oh the little one. No it's not. Tyrone shut your mouth. Yes. Was that Pam Adelaugh? Yeah. Wait shut up. Everybody shut up. Nobody's speaking. Shut up in the house. Nobody has said anything. Are you talking to me right now and saying that someone that we know. Pamela Adelaugh was the character Dolores in that movie. That is mind-blowing. That was my favorite character. I looked up her accident. Trying to sleep with her. She got in the car accident in the middle of the movie so most of her scenes are doubles. Oh interesting. But yeah but they've got the names. I thought that character was hilarious. She's great. I love what she was like. Wait will you extend hilarious even more? Hilarious. This is killing me. You wish. I love that. You wish. The fact that Paulette is her sister is so perfect. I just love the two of them. It's the best. That character and her dynamic with British guy I also liked. She was so great. And she's like we can't see each other anymore because I've got another guy going on. So great. I thought it was. So great. That was really good. There's good stuff in here but the songs are. Terrible. Truly reprehensible. Yeah and they're all about one thing. Reproduction. Except for reproduction which is on message. 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. 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 lets you for a country and also. Bad song. Yeah that's a bad song. That's a bad. That's a message behind that song is. We're going to score tonight. Is also not a good song. That's a bad 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. Yep. 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 like 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 too. Because I feel like there's 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 are you have to. Really put yourself out there in a way 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 like look at this though as like oh it's about the music. It's not. I if you're looking for what you love. What you love about it is not musical. But it is a musical. But it is a musical. That's right. What you love about it happens to not 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. It's the last song she sings when she's playing Winter. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. Crazy dream sequence. That song too. Where he's like suddenly in like different gear. Talking from a pile of burnt motorcycle. And let's do a firmware. Okay go on. Well obviously we have a second opinion in Sotus June. Or people have a second opinion in Sotus June. That time for second opinions. 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. Try and beat it assholes. All right so this is a five star reviews cult from Amazon. This one is first written by Richard Beeman. Okay. Sure. It's not the original Grease. But this movie has its own campy theme and quality. And I enjoy watching it from time to time. To escape reality if nothing else. That being said it's easy to understand why Grease 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? I think no idea. No is that some books? I guess North and South. Somebody should get smart though and produce a film that reunites a lot of these characters while they're still living. After all Travolta and Newman aren't on fire anymore. Oh god. And we'd like to see them 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 Grease 3 as a reunion movie. You know a reunion movie for that age group. I've got an idea. It would take place interestingly if Grease 3 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. I don't know. I'm thinking like. And Juni could be in it. Yeah I'm just. Alaska like global warming is like setting in like there's a small like. This is the theme. Village of Grease 3. Yeah that's sort of like getting you know like. Less and less snow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah like like the shore is coming like creeping. Sure sure sure. Creeping creeping slowly and they decide to have like some kind of like a mid-summer night stream celebration. Of course. That's um. A musical. That is Grease related. And uh. No no no keep going. You got you got you got this. Yeah yeah. This one is from Victoria English. I've only seen bits and pieces of the original Grease 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. Yeah it's sort of like must we 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 and but I'm gonna like I will back Jun up in the sense that like I like the story of Grease 2 more than the story of Grease 1. Me too. You know like I like the story I just I think the songs are really boring. One of the things that pops up in these reviews too is everyone's that loves this movie has seen it and quoted I've seen it 200 times. Wow. I've seen it 300 times. I've seen it 45 times. I think for a lot of people it probably existed in a similar way to Jun which is it was their first VHS or something. Whoa. Wow. Oh I'm sure. Over 200 you think. Well I there was a period there's one summer I actually remember watching it almost every day. Wow. Yeah I mean there were two movies. Yeah yeah yeah. It was so awesome to watch a movie that. I probably watched it every day so that's a summer of seeing it. Yeah that's amazing. It's over 200 times. How about that. 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. I can't explain myself but I like Grease 2 more than the original. Wait Paul are you speaking for yourself. I'm speaking as Gina. I can't explain myself but I like Grease 2 more than the original. Grease I know I'm crazy. Wait am I crazy. Whoa. No this movie is great. Why is it great 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 again this is just one other one that's almost like a haiku. Some. Love it. Could watch it every week. Can't watch it enough. Love Grease 1 2. I'm not sure what else to say. Five stars. All around fun sing-along movie. I get it. I get it. I get the appreciation of the movie. I just. To me I remember watching Grease 1 and I loved it but at Grease 1 I remember thinking was a bit of a bore. Come here to this. Grease 1 was a bit of a bore. That's what everyone says here. Everyone says Grease 1 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 2. So basically what you're saying is like Grease 1 is a prude and Grease 2 is a slob. Grease 2 is like let's. A horny slut. Yeah absolutely. Yeah it's true. I want to watch like a saucy or a movie like I'm going to put on Grease 2. Yeah I think that's true. Can I ask you guys one last question. Oh no I know you don't. No go ahead. No. All right so why is Stephanie always wearing glasses throughout the first act. Sunglasses. She is. She's wearing sunglasses constantly in the movie. So what happened. Did she. She was bright. Can we work this out. I mean I think this was like it was cool quote unquote. Yeah she was like. 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 of similar to what you're saying about losing your virginity like it because I do remember thinking kids were cool or not cool 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. But go through the room and say who's cool and who's not. Okay. Bring it up. 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 Zinoni was so cool. Like do they still think of kids as are we post cool or is everybody just like on you know everybody's got their own youtube channel and that's great or I think what constitutes 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 you're gonna regret this. What do you wonder. I wonder when the fuck you're gonna stop talking because I'm bored. Oh I love you. Oh 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. I love you. 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. Thank you. Find out some behind the scenes info. But now 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. Like not yeah. 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 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. Mother's record. 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. That's like 11. There are no lyrics. So much fun. Just it's seven minutes long. It's seven minutes long and it's that's 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. Love that moment. And then they end it. It's worth the whole thing. In fact it's not. But I also I also appreciate that. 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. If you think oh I wonder if I could fast forward right now you can. Yes. But 100 percent watch. OK. My two cents as on a ferris Jason Menzukas 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 Greece to. I I 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 Didi Kohn as Frenchy 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. 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 is like kind of things are introduced and whether or not they come out in the wash. We don't know. It's a it's a mess of a movie but it's not but there's it's in that way. It's so much joy in it. June is what June loves about it is there is career. Yes. If you were held in a basement and watch this movie 200 times you would also grow to love. Yes. If you had Stockholm syndrome by this movie this is a stop. You would also think it was good. Who's going to change me into a basement. It would be like a sloth from Goonies if he was watching Grease Do. It's room. It's room with one VHS make me watch these two. That's that. Never. You'll win an Oscar. You'll win an Oscar for the Jason keeps you in a basement. Yep. And I just make you watch Grease Do. Really. I mean it's like Michelle Pfeiffer dancing around like what's the problem. Wait. What is the problem here. Can I please like a little more split pee or. No. Keep watching. You'll get soup when you know all the lyrics to Cool Rider. I'm a cool cool rider. Oh my god. Cut that into the song. Anna you have an amazing podcast that we've all been guests on now. You should definitely check it out. It's called Anna Ferriss's Unqualified. It comes out every Tuesday. 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 this. I would say actually Paul Sheer. No. Yes. Paul Sheer and Jason Manzukas. And now June. We did it. We did it. Diane Raphael. 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 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 long. Oh really? It is called Mom. Wait. The show is called It is Called Mom. Oh okay. It is called Mom. 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. 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. You're 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. I'm writing that down. That is unreal. Every season is a day. 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 called Crime Town. It is fictional. No it is like a documentary series. Ginny. A podcast documentary. So it's on Gimbal. Things that we like. I've been really into the CMBC show The Profits. Oh we love that. Sorry. Marcus Lamonas. We love that. He's a nice Greek man. He's a nice lovely Greek man. I love that show as well. Honey if we're talking about things we like I like Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. I do too. We too. That's a big kid. I don't know what that is. It's Wednesday for Halloween. 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. 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 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 Halley who cuts 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. Marisa Zeitz puts it all together. Leanna Waldron designs all of our cool stuff. And everybody at Ear Wolf thank you so much. Bye bye.