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Plus, while they were shooting the first movie, the actors were all throwaway, no-name, nothing Disney factory meat puppets filming something they figured no one would ever see. By the second movie they were bona-fide teen idols, and the lingering camera angles and hugely expanded background ensemble reflected that. By number three, they were snorting meth with thousand dollar bills, they didn't care anymore.

Tell me they were auditioned by rando people holding clipboards who just showed up at your school one afternoon for an hour.

Actual spoiler below

Also, the University of Albuquerque shut down in 1986. They've been accepted to ghoooost universityyyyyy... SPIN OFF IDEA: Scooby Doo meets High School Musical: the Mystery of the Haunted Redhawk

Absolutely. I've never heard of a high school graduation where the top, say, seven students announce their university major to the amazement and joy of everyone in the room (including their parents, who seem oblivious to their choices). I've also auditioned for Juilliard. That's not how you get in. (hint: it's stupidly hard to get in, they don't send scouts to watch high school shows) Coming back to Troy's choice, the most bonkers thing is

Hey! I was tossing you a lifeline for picking what's still widely agreed to be the worst MM pick so far! Put on a spoiler tag to save Taylor's delicate stomach.

Hey, it takes a brave man to make a brave pick. That's why tomspanks, kateacola and I can enter here, heads high, for picking difficult, troubling musicals rather than just going safe with 'West Side Story' or something else that's... ugh... GOOD. Months later and you're all still mad at AtU. And to that I say...

Science. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-prove-it-really-is-a-thin-line-between-love-and-hate-976901.html

Cameron, talking to Jim Sturgess on his TV screen, huddled under a blanket, hoping no one can hear...

[Was that] the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burn'd the topless tow'rs of Ilium? Answer:

Pretty sure he was giving her a memento of the fall of Ilium. 'I know how much you like wooden horses, so...'

Me too! Me too! YES

My favourite part of this scene is that Ryan, in his pristine white outfit, says, 'oh, i can play baseball' and Chad says, 'prove it', and rather than going off to change his clothes and sit in the dugout, dude struts to the pitcher's mound and proceeds to dominate the whole game. He needs to warm up though. That kind of cold action has Tommy John surgery written all over it.

Since we've started to talk a bit about sequels, and Chad is coming up (I can't wait to hear tom get in here and start talking about how much she hated the second one!!), I'd like to bring up my mancrush moment in the series: just for a single scene, when Chad was playing baseball with his hat and dorag and ponytail, dude had it! Then, the next scene he went back to whatever. But in this scene!

OHHHHHH FUCKIN SNAP

I might have misread Fister's letterboxd review as I skimmed quickly, but I'm pretty sure he said that he thinks HSM2 is better than FF8. That's right, right?

WHAT FORUM? MUSICAL MONDAYS! WHAT FORUM? MUSICAL MONDAYS!

Don't be mad, just because we all know that you're absolutely, without any doubt whatsoever, this forum's...

You get me.

Rugby was never the biggest game at my school (that would be Australian Rules Football, for realz) so I never got the Wildcat treatment, but as a Varsity rugby player and Captain of Drama, I would definitely be Troy in the HSM universe. Of course my reality was the drama kids mistrusted me because they thought I was a jock the rugby guys mistrusted me because I was a "drama fag" (sic) High school was NEAT

Wondering what 'Grease 3' with this script would have looked like? Wonder no more, mofos. Because if you had hoped to know what the T-Birds would look like as a 90's boy-band, we NEARLY got the chance. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=114797&page=1 That's right. TROY: Justin Timberlake GABRIELLA: Britney Spears. T-BIRDS: THE REST OF N'SYNC Damn you 2000 Screen Actors Guild strike! How much did you ruin for us!!

Yeah, it looks dumb as hell, but I do appreciate Zac Efron's comedy chops in this. Thanks, High School Musical!

Jammer, you've got a lot to answer for. After two days of begging, I finally gave in to my kids and bought all three soundtrack albums, and they've been playing all night tonight at our customary bedtime dance parties. This could be a long month.

The use of Whitney Houston there is genius.