Line #14 Fridge/Grease


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2	* 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 WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's girlfriend in the classic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons.
3	* At the end of the 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.
4	** Speaking of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee," the line [[Film/PillowTalk "Even Rock Hudson lost his heart to 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]].
5	*** The original song also listed Sal Mineo (replaced with Music/ElvisPresley in the film) and Troy Donahue. Sal Mineo eventually came out as bi, while Troy Donahue was rumored to be gay too, though he wasn't.
6	* 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 life; 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.
7	* In the stage version, Rizzo sings "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" to Sandy, not alone as she does in the film versions. It may be that Rizzo's outline of her [[EthicalSlut ethical]] [[EveryoneHasStandards standards]] makes Sandy realize that she herself can hold onto her core values without needing to be a "good girl." Rizzo is sexually active, but she doesn't steal, doesn't lie, doesn't lead men on, doesn't hurt people out of spite or jealousy... and Sandy won't need to do those things either. Likewise, Sandy can demand more respect from Danny and still refuse to sleep with him until she's ready (in their original stage duet, "All Choked Up," she tells him to "take it slow" and that she doesn't want "strings attached"), but she can do it while loosening up and joining Danny's world.
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10	* 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 boys were asking Danny whether he and Sandy had sex, and whether Sandy fought back. That means... you guessed it... [[spoiler:rape]]
11	** 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.
12	** People often forget that PlayingHardToGet was urged as the ideal way for a young woman to flirt with a young man throughout most of the 20th century. Dating books of the 1950s and 1960s often scolded young men for cowardice if they weren't a bit pushy and advised young women to avoid young men who were so "weak" as to accept the very first "no" rather than try two more times; they also scorned young women who failed to say "no" the first two times before finally saying "yes" to an invitation to a date.
13	** Also it’s just worded to rhyme with the rest of the lyric and it simply questions whether Sandy rejected Danny and it pokes fun at his possible failed pursuits. Remember Danny's supposed to be a teenager and the rest of his friends are inexperienced, horny teenage boys in the 1950s.
14	** Plus, in the opening scene with them at the beach, it's obvious she's been successful in not letting him take advantage of her.
15	** It may be in poor taste, but he's jokingly insulting him by implying that no girl would be with him willingly.
16	* Speaking of rape, Marty mentions very flippantly that Vince Fontaine tried to roofie her at the dance. How many other girls has he done this to successfully, and plans to again if his show goes to more schools?
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18	[[AC:FridgeLogic]]
19	* "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.
20	** Those aren't rules, they're the parameters and win condition.
21	* 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.
22	** Not necessarily. Does Danny look like someone who takes a lot of pride or even cares about his school much?
23	** In the FOX TV special, it is established that Danny told Sandy he was an honors student at a boarding school.
24	** There's honestly no reason why the name of Danny's school would have come up at all, or (as in the FOX special) any reason to assume Danny would tell her the truth if it did. It might have been different if Sandy and her family regularly made holiday visits to the area so she'd actually know the school he was talking about but since they likely don't make regular visits there and Sandy assumed it was just a summer holiday instead of a permanent relocation...why should Danny bother to tell her (or she bother to remember) the name of a school that would mean literally nothing to her at the time..?
25	* Summer in the U.S. is winter in Australia. Doesn't this present some problems with the entire "Summer Nights" song?
26	** 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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