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** The movie showed one of the earliest nuanced portrayals of abortion. Penny gets knocked up by a rich jerk but is supported in her decision to get one by her friends. She's not portrayed as evil, naïve, or misguided, just a young woman who knows what she needs. When her life is in danger thanks to the back-alley abortion and Jake has to get involved to save her, he doesn't report her and reassures her that she'll still be able to have children, and as far as we can see never condemns or blames her for her choice.

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** The movie showed one of the earliest nuanced portrayals of abortion. Penny gets knocked up by a rich jerk but is supported in her decision to get one by her friends. She's not portrayed as evil, naïve, or misguided, just a young woman who knows what she needs. When her life is in danger thanks to the back-alley abortion and Jake has to get involved to save her, he doesn't report her and reassures her that she'll still be able to have children, and as far as we can see never condemns or blames her for her choice. choice, reserving his anger for Johnny (whom he thought was the father) and Robbie (who actually ''was'' the father and not only didn't take responsibility but made disparaging comments about Penny).
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** The movie showed one of the earliest nuanced portrayals of abortion. Penny gets knocked up by a rich jerk but is supported in her decision to get one by her friends. She's not portrayed as evil, naive, or misguided, just a young woman who knows what she needs.

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** The movie showed one of the earliest nuanced portrayals of abortion. Penny gets knocked up by a rich jerk but is supported in her decision to get one by her friends. She's not portrayed as evil, naive, naïve, or misguided, just a young woman who knows what she needs.needs. When her life is in danger thanks to the back-alley abortion and Jake has to get involved to save her, he doesn't report her and reassures her that she'll still be able to have children, and as far as we can see never condemns or blames her for her choice.
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* SignatureScene: The ending dance scene, in which Baby and Johnny dance to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", especially the part where Baby gets lifted by Johnny.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: The joke of the talent show is that Lisa is a terrible singer who can't carry a tune, but makes up for it by revealing [[MostCommonSuperpower her real talents]] in a skimpy costume. In true Hollywood Tone Deaf fashion, however, her actress's singing ''is'' in tune, and she is forced to portray "bad" singing by being pitchy and lacking projection. She also sings "Hula Hana," a tune without a lot of variation in its chord structure, to increase the impression that she's singing in monotone.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" won the Oscar for Best Original Song and the Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. The first soundtrack released is one of the best-selling albums of all-time (32 million), spent 18 weeks at number one on the Billboard charts, and spawned a second soundtrack release of other songs from the film. The latter album, ''More Dirty Dancing'', was headlined by "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours, which was re-issued as a single and hit #11 on the Billboard charts 25 years after its original release (and wouldn't be the first time an old song would [[Film/Ghost1990 find new life off a Swayze film]]).

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" won the Oscar for Best Original Song and the Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. The first soundtrack released is one of the best-selling albums of all-time all time (32 million), spent 18 weeks at number one on the Billboard charts, and spawned a second soundtrack release of other songs from the film. The latter album, ''More Dirty Dancing'', was headlined by "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours, which was re-issued as a single and hit #11 on the Billboard charts 25 years after its original release (and wouldn't be the first time an old song would [[Film/Ghost1990 find new life off a Swayze film]]).



* HollywoodToneDeaf: The joke of the talent show is that Lisa is terrible singer who can't carry a tune, but makes up for it by revealing [[MostCommonSuperpower her real talents]] in a skimpy costume. In true Hollywood Tone Deaf fashion, however, her actress's singing ''is'' in tune, and she is forced to portray "bad" singing by being pitchy and lacking projection. She also sings "Hula Hana," a tune without a lot of variation in its chord structure, to increase the impression that she's singing in monotone.

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* HollywoodToneDeaf: The joke of the talent show is that Lisa is a terrible singer who can't carry a tune, but makes up for it by revealing [[MostCommonSuperpower her real talents]] in a skimpy costume. In true Hollywood Tone Deaf fashion, however, her actress's singing ''is'' in tune, and she is forced to portray "bad" singing by being pitchy and lacking projection. She also sings "Hula Hana," a tune without a lot of variation in its chord structure, to increase the impression that she's singing in monotone.



** On the flip-side, "I carried a watermelon" is frequently up there in "worst lines ever" lists, and often mocked on the internet. This is even lampshaded by Baby herself InUniverse: "''[[CantBelieveISaidThat I carried a watermelon?]]''"

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** On the flip-side, flip side, "I carried a watermelon" is frequently up there in "worst lines ever" lists, and often mocked on the internet. This is even lampshaded by Baby herself InUniverse: "''[[CantBelieveISaidThat I carried a watermelon?]]''"



** Baby's growing female sexuality is something that still resonates for every modern woman.

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** Baby's growing female sexuality is something that still resonates for with every modern woman.
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* SignatureSong: The Oscar-winning "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", followed in second by "[[Music/EricCarmen Hungry Eyes]]".

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* SignatureSong: The Oscar-winning Oscar-and-Grammy-winning "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", followed in second by "[[Music/EricCarmen Hungry Eyes]]".

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