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Also PS Sharpay's dog is called Boi. BOI

Yeah, my theory (from 17 pages ago) was that Ryan was the afterthought twin, which is why it's a big deal in HSM2 when he is given the Sparkle Prize (or whatever it's called) for his choreography, and then in HSM3 he gets into Julliard while his sister has to go to Haunted University. In both cases they cut away to his parents who look amazed that their loser, forgotten son actually did something better than Sharpay. Poor Ryan. I'm glad he gets some props, since he spends most of the first movie as a glorified handbag.

I have that movie, all queued up, to show my daughter this weekend. I'll report back...

Oh! I love that bit! I was looking for that gif earlier.

This thread is 180 posts short of the longest-ever HDTGM thread (560 posts, 'You Can't Stop the Music', but most of that thread is OT). Have we really run out of things to say about these movies? Can we break the record?

So what you're saying, Cam, is that we should Stick to the '1', y'know?

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Don't listen to Cameron H., he has lost all sense of joy and wonder.

That's how it works. Universally. Nailed it.

Darbus's stage set scattered with in-progress props and set pieces of course brings us immediately in mind of...

Can I talk about how terrible a drama teacher Ms. Darbus is? 1. She gives detentions to people for OWNING cell phones. 2. She has a throne in her drama classroom and everyone sits at desks. WHY DO YOU NEED DESKS IN A DRAMA CLASSROOM? 3. She has (as we've discussed) the world's worst audition process. 4. Her punctuality policy, while laudable, seems self-sabotaging. 5. She pulls awful faces while kids sing in auditions. Jesus Christ, lady. 6. She willfully mispronounces words as though it's fancy or something but it's just wrong. No one, nowhere says 'musiCALLE'. 7. She expects so much of poor Kelsi, who's minutes from a nervous breakdown at 16, and mostly she gets walked all over. 8. Worst of all, when she gets kids to come for detention, she's not running detention, she's running backstage slavery camp. Kids with no experience at all in set design are being asked to carve sets, paint backdrops, and are left to their own devices to fiddle as they will. This is not only ridiculously wasteful it's also dangerous, to have that many projects on the go at once. Pictured: something the kids made on their own initiative.

Also: no mention anywhere of being the lead in her High School Musical? Surely that is more apt than LIKES ANIMALS. Also, check out the browser. Gnarly.

Yep, 3 days in and we've absolutely SMASHED the record for number of posts in a MM thread (old record holder was Rent with 308 posts)... What have you done indeed!

#likesanimals

Not to mention that she mentions those three things as though they're completely unbelievable, but... 1) she makes a pretty good shot at the hoop, so I'm not buying this whole 'nerds don't know how to sport' trope. 2) she's literally going to be a rocket scientist at the end of the third one and is in the math decathlon in the first one. I would totally buy her working on the space programme. Stop selling yourself short, Vanessa Anne! 3) yeah, that's bananas. Some lazy screenwriting right there. I would totally buy that she balled at her old school. How much more interesting would it have been if they'd had a one-on-one basketball falling in love song? Instead, they clang the doors shut by saying NERDS CAN'T SPORT DUMMIES

Then how will you find out whether or not the boys are, indeed, back?

Yeah, but the moment when Chad brings Troy his burger and Troy says, 'oh, by the way', and Chad's little face lights up because he thinks he'll be able to shake the hand of this college basketball hero, only to then be told 'i wanted swiss cheese on my burger'... That's a fucking war crime right there. I hated that moment so much: introducing dude to your friend who also loves basketball would take no effort and wouldn't ruin your own chances (and let's not get into preppy white kid treating his African-American waiter like some kind of piece of shit on his shoe) - that was fucking cold. I would have been pissed about that too. Later, they say 'hey, we'd love to shoot hoops at the haunted university too' and he's all, like, no man, I own the haunted university, step off. Troy is cockblocking the other Wildcats because he knows he's wildly overrated as a baller and he's worried, like, Jason will steal his scholarship. That's the truth.

ooh, kateburn

ftfy

And, of course, this is a direct homage to this, right?

I've said 'fuck it' and added HSM2 and 3 to my letterboxd MM list. (newbs to the thread who aren't on letterboxd: the main conversation's usually happening over there)

HomoEROTIC meth

Am I stretching too much to think that this song: is the equivalent to this song?: