Funny / Rock 'n' Roll High School

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• The very first shot in the film is a student looking at a "You Are Here" campus map, complete with a large X. He looks down, and the X is there on the ground, with one of its arms crossing over the top of his shoe.
• Ms. Togar calls Coach Steroid and Mr. McGree to an emergency meeting to demonstrate the dangers of rock and roll. First, she holds up "before and after" pictures of a lab mouse exposed to rock music — the only difference is the mouse is now standing upright and wearing a leather jacket. Steroid and McGree are a bit incredulous, but she does successfully demonstrate that music played at the levels typically used at rock concerts will make a mouse explode.
  Togar: Notice the loss of hearing.
  • Much later in the movie, Riff is going to the Ramones show: Among those waiting in line is... a giant mouse in a leather jacket. The bouncer will only let him in when he shows that he brought earplugs, and therefore won't explode.
• When the Ramones finally make it to Lombardi High to see the students rise up against Togar:
  Joey Ramone: Things sure have changed since we got kicked out of high school.
• "Do your parents know you're Ramones?" - Truly a philosophical question for the ages.
• Riff has absentee notes for school while she waits in line for Ramones tickets: One for her dad's death, one for her mom's death, and one for her goldfish's death. Principal Togar catches her in the act when her henchmen find a still-living goldfish in his bowl.
  Togar: We can assume the parents are still alive... somewhere...
• In the "I Want You Around" sequence, Riff goes to her room, puts on a Ramones record and imagines Joey and Johnny Ramone serenading her with the song on guitar and vocals respectively, even though the recording playing on the soundtrack also includes bass guitar and drums; at first this seems like an acceptable break from reality since this is just a fantasy sequence, and one that takes place on a set too small to fit a full band and their instruments... Then Riff looks out her window to see Marky playing drums on her lawn, and moments later goes into the bathroom to find Dee Dee playing bass in her shower (with the shower head turned on no less!).

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