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* At the end of the sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Sandy walks in on the other girls mocking her. Rizzo simply replies, "Some people are so touchy," rather than trying to come up with a lie to spare Sandy's feelings. This seems very odd, unless you pay close attention to Rizzo's solo later on, "There are worse things I could do." One of the last lines is, "I don't steal, ''and I don't lie''." Making fun of Sandy wasn't beneath Rizzo, but lying to her was.

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* At the end of the sing song "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Sandy walks in on the other girls mocking her. Rizzo simply replies, "Some people are so touchy," rather than trying to come up with a lie to spare Sandy's feelings. This seems very odd, unless you pay close attention to Rizzo's solo later on, "There are worse things I could do." One of the last lines is, "I don't steal, ''and I don't lie''." Making fun of Sandy wasn't beneath Rizzo, but lying to her was.
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*** The original song also listed Sal Mineo (replaced with Creator/ElvisPresley in the film) and Troy Donahue, both of whom were rumored or revealed to be gay.

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*** The original song also listed Sal Mineo (replaced with Creator/ElvisPresley Music/ElvisPresley in the film) and Troy Donahue, both of whom were rumored or revealed to be gay.

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** Speaking of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," the line "Even Rock Hudson lost his heart to Dorris Day." At first I thought it was just another '50s reference. It gains a whole new meaning, though, when you realize that [[IfItsYouItsOkay Rock Hudson was gay]].

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** Speaking of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," the line "Even Rock Hudson lost his heart to Dorris Doris Day." At first I thought it was just another '50s reference. It gains a whole new meaning, though, when you realize that [[IfItsYouItsOkay Rock Hudson was gay]].gay]].
*** The original song also listed Sal Mineo (replaced with Creator/ElvisPresley in the film) and Troy Donahue, both of whom were rumored or revealed to be gay.
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** Speaking of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," the line "Even Rock Hudson lost his heart to Dorris Day." At first I thought it was just another '50s reference. It gains a whole new meaning, though, when you realize that [[IfItsYouItsOkay Rock Hudson was gay]].
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** In Danny's lines right before that one, he was telling his friends how he met Sandy when he saved her from drowning - and people who are drowning often panic and struggle to keep themselves afloat, which ends up hindering their rescuers. They could have been asking about that.
*** Doubtful, as the "no means yes" double standard was quite common, along with the "madonna/whore" split - at least in male teen thought at the time. Consider some of the anti-STI public info films that ran at the time (50s).

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* If you look at the lyrics of {{Summer Nights}}, it has the lyrics "Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? Tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" The girls were asking Sandy whether she and Danny had sex, and whether Sandy fought back. That means... you guessed it..... [[spoiler:rape]]
** Actually, the girls just said the "at first sight" line, and the boys said the "fight" line, so they were unrelated lines that just happened to rhyme. It helps, but the boys' line still sounds...wrong...
*** Besides, in Danny's lines right before that one, he was telling his friends how he met Sandy when he saved her from drowning - and people who are drowning often panic and struggle to keep themselves afloat, which ends up hindering their rescuers. They could have been asking about that.

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* If you look at the lyrics of {{Summer Nights}}, it has the lyrics "Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? Tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" The girls boys were asking Sandy Danny whether she he and Danny Sandy had sex, and whether Sandy fought back. That means... you guessed it..... [[spoiler:rape]]
** Actually, the girls just said the "at first sight" line, and the boys said the "fight" line, so they were unrelated lines that just happened to rhyme. It helps, but the boys' line still sounds...wrong...
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In Danny's lines right before that one, he was telling his friends how he met Sandy when he saved her from drowning - and people who are drowning often panic and struggle to keep themselves afloat, which ends up hindering their rescuers. They could have been asking about that.
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** In the FOX TV special, it is established that Danny told Sandy he was an honors student at a boarding school.
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* In the stage production, Jan and Roger get into a playful argument after Roger, who is Catholic, accidentally eats a burger on Friday, and complains that he'll have to go to confession to atone for it. When Jan takes a bite of her burger and says, "That's the good thing about being a Lutheran," Roger responds with, "That's the good thing about being Petunia Pig!" Jan snaps back with, "Look who's talking, Porky!" This exchange is the first indication that, by the end of the musical, Jan and Roger will be a couple, as Petunia Pig is PorkyPig's girlfriend in the classic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons.

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* In the stage production, Jan and Roger get into a playful argument after Roger, who is Catholic, accidentally eats a burger on Friday, and complains that he'll have to go to confession to atone for it. When Jan takes a bite of her burger and says, "That's the good thing about being a Lutheran," Roger responds with, "That's the good thing about being Petunia Pig!" Jan snaps back with, "Look who's talking, Porky!" This exchange is the first indication that, by the end of the musical, Jan and Roger will be a couple, as Petunia Pig is PorkyPig's WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's girlfriend in the classic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons.
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* In the stage production, Jan and Roger get into a playful argument after Roger, who is Catholic, accidentally eats a burger on Friday, and complains that he'll have to go to confession to atone for it. When Jan takes a bite of her burger and says, "That's the good thing about being a Lutheran," Roger responds with, "That's the good thing about being Petunia Pig!" Jan snaps back with, "Look who's talking, Porky!" This exchange is the first indication that, by the end of the musical, Jan and Roger will be a couple, as Petunia Pig is PorkyPig's girlfriend in the classic LooneyTunes cartoons.

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* In the stage production, Jan and Roger get into a playful argument after Roger, who is Catholic, accidentally eats a burger on Friday, and complains that he'll have to go to confession to atone for it. When Jan takes a bite of her burger and says, "That's the good thing about being a Lutheran," Roger responds with, "That's the good thing about being Petunia Pig!" Jan snaps back with, "Look who's talking, Porky!" This exchange is the first indication that, by the end of the musical, Jan and Roger will be a couple, as Petunia Pig is PorkyPig's girlfriend in the classic LooneyTunes WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons.
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* Summer in the U.S. is winter in Australia. Doesn't this present some problems with the entire "Summer Nights" song?

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* Summer in the U.S. is winter in Australia. Doesn't this present some problems with the entire "Summer Nights" song?song?
**Not really, as they were in America (California, to be specific) at the time, so for both of them, it was summer.
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* In the stage production, Jan and Roger get into a playful argument after Roger, who is Catholic, accidentally eats a burger on Friday, and complains that he'll have to go to confession to atone for it. When Jan takes a bite of her burger and says, "That's the good thing about being a Lutheran," Roger responds with, "That's the good thing about being Petunia Pig!" Jan snaps back with, "Look who's talking, Porky!" This exchange is the first indication that, by the end of the musical, Jan and Roger will be a couple, as Petunia Pig is PorkyPig's girlfriend in the classic LooneyTunes cartoons.
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** Not necessarily. Does Danny look like someone who takes a lot of pride or even cares about his school much?

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** Not necessarily. Does Danny look like someone who takes a lot of pride or even cares about his school much?much?
* Summer in the U.S. is winter in Australia. Doesn't this present some problems with the entire "Summer Nights" song?
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* At the end of the sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Sandy walks in on the other girls mocking her. Rizzo simply replies, "Some people are so touchy," rather than trying to come up with a lie to spare Sandy's feelings. This seems very odd, unless you pay close attention to Rizzo's solo later on, "There are worse things I could do." One of the last lines is, "I don't steal, ''and I don't lie''." Making fun of Sandy wasn't beneath Rizzo, but lying to her was.

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* At the end of the sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Sandy walks in on the other girls mocking her. Rizzo simply replies, "Some people are so touchy," rather than trying to come up with a lie to spare Sandy's feelings. This seems very odd, unless you pay close attention to Rizzo's solo later on, "There are worse things I could do." One of the last lines is, "I don't steal, ''and I don't lie''." Making fun of Sandy wasn't beneath Rizzo, but lying to her was.
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* During "Summer Nights", both Danny and Sandy recall and tell with their respective groups how they met and spent the summer together. While it's very obvious that Danny is exaggerating or even blatantly lying about what happened (let's remember, Danny has a reputation to maintain, while Sandy had just met the girls and has no reason to lie to them), Sandy's version of the events might not be true either. She's a sweet, naïve town girl who just met who she might see as the love of her live; her idealism probably has a hand in how she perceived Danny's behavior over the time they spent together. In other words, she's telling the story of how she experienced it, but not how it really was. Therefore, we probably don't know what really happened. It might be somewhere in between the two versions, but leaning a little bit more towards Sandy's version.

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* When Danny and Sandy encounter each other again for the first time during the school year, why was Sandy surprised to find out that Danny went to Rydell High? Surely he would have mentioned the name of his school sometime during their summer romance (and she presumably would have remembered it). Danny's surprise is understandable as he had thought Sandy was going to move back to Australia, but Sandy should have known Danny would be at her school.

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** Those aren't rules, they're the parameters and win condition.
* When Danny and Sandy encounter each other again for the first time during the school year, why was Sandy surprised to find out that Danny went to Rydell High? Surely he would have mentioned the name of his school sometime during their summer romance (and she presumably would have remembered it). Danny's surprise is understandable as he had thought Sandy was going to move back to Australia, but Sandy should have known Danny would be at her school.school.
** Not necessarily. Does Danny look like someone who takes a lot of pride or even cares about his school much?
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* "The rules are there ain't no rules. It's to the second bridge and back. And the one who makes it here first wins." That sounds like at least two rules to me.

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* "The rules are there ain't no rules. It's to the second bridge and back. And the one who makes it here first wins." That sounds like at least two rules to me.me.
*When Danny and Sandy encounter each other again for the first time during the school year, why was Sandy surprised to find out that Danny went to Rydell High? Surely he would have mentioned the name of his school sometime during their summer romance (and she presumably would have remembered it). Danny's surprise is understandable as he had thought Sandy was going to move back to Australia, but Sandy should have known Danny would be at her school.
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** A more benign interpretation (though hardly one without problems) is that they were asking (and thinking it would make the story more exciting) if she was PlayingHardToGet.

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** A more benign interpretation (though hardly one without problems) is that they were asking (and thinking it would make the story more exciting) if she was PlayingHardToGet.PlayingHardToGet.

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* "The rules are there ain't no rules. It's to the second bridge and back. And the one who makes it here first wins." That sounds like at least two rules to me.
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* At the end of the sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Sandy walks in on the other girls mocking her. Rizzo simply replies, "Some people are so touchy," rather than trying to come up with a lie to spare Sandy's feelings. This seems very odd, unless you pay close attention to Rizzo's solo later on, "There are worse things I could do." One of the last lines is, "I don't steal, *and I don't lie.*" Making fun of Sandy wasn't beneath Rizzo, but lying to her was.

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* At the end of the sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Sandy walks in on the other girls mocking her. Rizzo simply replies, "Some people are so touchy," rather than trying to come up with a lie to spare Sandy's feelings. This seems very odd, unless you pay close attention to Rizzo's solo later on, "There are worse things I could do." One of the last lines is, "I don't steal, *and ''and I don't lie.*" lie''." Making fun of Sandy wasn't beneath Rizzo, but lying to her was.
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The summer wasn\'t in australia.


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* In the movie, why were Danny and Sandy singing about their romantic summer on the beach together? It was in Australia, where it would have been winter. No way that would be a romantic time to romp on the beach.

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* In the movie, why were Danny and Sandy singing about their romantic summer on the beach together? It was in Australia, where it would have been winter. No way that would be a romantic time to romp on the beach.



** A more benign interpretation (though hardly one without problems) is that they were asking (and thinking it would make the story more exciting) if she was PlayingHardToGet.
* In the movie, why were Danny and Sandy singing about their romantic summer on the beach together? It was in Australia, where it would have been winter. No way that would be a romantic time to romp on the beach.

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** A more benign interpretation (though hardly one without problems) is that they were asking (and thinking it would make the story more exciting) if she was PlayingHardToGet.
* In the movie, why were Danny and Sandy singing about their romantic summer on the beach together? It was in Australia, where it would have been winter. No way that would be a romantic time to romp on the beach.
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** A more benign interpretation (though hardly one without problems) is that they were asking (and thinking it would make the story more exciting) if she was PlayingHardToGet.

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** A more benign interpretation (though hardly one without problems) is that they were asking (and thinking it would make the story more exciting) if she was PlayingHardToGet.PlayingHardToGet.
* In the movie, why were Danny and Sandy singing about their romantic summer on the beach together? It was in Australia, where it would have been winter. No way that would be a romantic time to romp on the beach.
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* At the end of the sing "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," Sandy walks in on the other girls mocking her. Rizzo simply replies, "Some people are so touchy," rather than trying to come up with a lie to spare Sandy's feelings. This seems very odd, unless you pay close attention to Rizzo's solo later on, "There are worse things I could do." One of the last lines is, "I don't steal, *and I don't lie.*" Making fun of Sandy wasn't beneath Rizzo, but lying to her was.
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** A more benign interpretation (though hardly one without problems) is that they were asking (and thinking it would make the story more exciting) if she was PlayingHardToGet.
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*** Besides, in Danny's lines right before that one, he was telling his friends how he met Sandy when he saved her from drowning - and people who are drowning often panic and struggle to keep themselves afloat, which ends up hindering their rescuers. They could have been asking about that.

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*** Besides, in Danny's lines right before that one, he was telling his friends how he met Sandy when he saved her from drowning - and people who are drowning often panic and struggle to keep themselves afloat, which ends up hindering their rescuers. They could have been asking about that.that.
**** Doubtful, as the "no means yes" double standard was quite common, along with the "madonna/whore" split - at least in male teen thought at the time. Consider some of the anti-STI public info films that ran at the time (50s).
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** Actually, the girls just said the "at first sight" line, and the boys said the "fight" line, so they were unrelated lines that just happened to rhyme. It helps, but the boys' line still sounds...wrong...

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** Actually, the girls just said the "at first sight" line, and the boys said the "fight" line, so they were unrelated lines that just happened to rhyme. It helps, but the boys' line still sounds...wrong...wrong...
*** Besides, in Danny's lines right before that one, he was telling his friends how he met Sandy when he saved her from drowning - and people who are drowning often panic and struggle to keep themselves afloat, which ends up hindering their rescuers. They could have been asking about that.
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** Actually, the girls just said the "at first sight" line, and the boys said the "fight" line, so they were unrelated lines that just happened to rhyme.

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** Actually, the girls just said the "at first sight" line, and the boys said the "fight" line, so they were unrelated lines that just happened to rhyme. It helps, but the boys' line still sounds...wrong...
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* If you look at the lyrics of {{Summer Nights}}, it has the lyrics "Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? Tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" The girls were asking Sandy whether she and Danny had sex, and whether Sandy fought back. That means... you guessed it..... [[spoiler:rape]]

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* If you look at the lyrics of {{Summer Nights}}, it has the lyrics "Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? Tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" The girls were asking Sandy whether she and Danny had sex, and whether Sandy fought back. That means... you guessed it..... [[spoiler:rape]][[spoiler:rape]]
** Actually, the girls just said the "at first sight" line, and the boys said the "fight" line, so they were unrelated lines that just happened to rhyme.
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* If You look at lyrics of {{Summer Nights}} ,it has the segments of lyrics "tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" that was about the girls asking sandy whether Sandy and Danny has sex, and weather Sandy fought back. that means... you guess it..... [[spoiler:rape]]

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* If You you look at the lyrics of {{Summer Nights}} ,it Nights}}, it has the segments of lyrics "tell "Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? tell Tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" that was about the The girls were asking sandy Sandy whether Sandy she and Danny has had sex, and weather whether Sandy fought back. that That means... you guess guessed it..... [[spoiler:rape]]
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* If You look at lyrics of [[Summer Nights]] ,it has the segments of lyrics "tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" that was about the girls asking sandy whether Sandy and Danny has sex, and weather Sandy fought back. that means... you guess it..... [[spoiler:rape]]

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* If You look at lyrics of [[Summer Nights]] {{Summer Nights}} ,it has the segments of lyrics "tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" that was about the girls asking sandy whether Sandy and Danny has sex, and weather Sandy fought back. that means... you guess it..... [[spoiler:rape]]
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Grease had amount of fridge horror.

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* If You look at lyrics of [[Summer Nights]] ,it has the segments of lyrics "tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight? tell me more tell me more, did she put up a fight?" that was about the girls asking sandy whether Sandy and Danny has sex, and weather Sandy fought back. that means... you guess it..... [[spoiler:rape]]

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