Elektra Boogaloo

I'm listening to it again. Paul really wants to talk about the number, which always upset me as a kid. That guy totally became a serial rapist when he grew up. Who fakes nuclear war and thinks it's funny? It's stuff like that which makes me wonder if this version really is more empowering for girls (as June asserts) than the first movie. Like I never found Sandy's transformation at the end to be totally satisfying--again because it's like she becomes a different person as June said. In a way it's fun because the whole movie has basically been the Greasers being cooler than the Patty Simcoxes of the world and such. (Plus we had Rizzo who had her own sexual agency and didn't need Kenickie and all that. ) So we root for her to become friends with that group. But I want her to be more like the Sandy in the "Summer Loving" number--which is not poodle-skirt, uptight Sandy. She was kissing a boy she barely knew. I don't believe Danny's interpretation that they had sex but they must've fooled around a bit. So it's like when she's in school, she's not really being herself either. And the Greaser chick look at the end also isn't her. (I should also acknowledge that in Grease 1 it is shown that Danny is willing to transform himself for Sandy but getting the letterman sweater and looking like a nerd. He just shucks it as soon as he sees her. So they are both as committed to the relationship, which might not be seen as the case in Grease 2. Stephanie doesn't do anything for whatshisname that I recall. She is just his ideal from the start. So in a *way* he is also tricking her into falling for him the same way our Do It For Your Country rapist is.) Ugh. I don't know. I need Taylor Anne to do a this week in feminism on this one.

I saw him play Danny Zuko in the touring company of Grease. (Sally Struthers was the principal and she stole the show.) After having rather disliked him in "Grease 2", I found the scene where Sandy closes the door to the car on his dick rather satisfying. Ha ha. This bothers me so much. I don't know why I care so. But in "Grease" the T-Birds (or the Burger Palace Boys, as they were called in the original musical) drove cars. When they soup the car in "Greased Lightning" it's one of my favorite songs, so when they are all about motorcycles in Grease 2 it confused the heck out of me. I wonder if they were trying to get some of the cool "Easy Rider" sixties motorcycle vibe--since this one is set in the 60s not the 50s like everyone assumes. Which begs the question, which movie fails more at being as cool as "Easy Rider"? Grease 2 or Easy Rider 2? I do like Michelle Pfeiffer in this. Although I don't love "Cool Rider" just because I didn't thinks he was that great a singer. I was much more impressed with her in "Hairspray" (which, as I said in the minisode thread, is the better version of this. A musical about 60s counter culture with actual black people and mod clothing!) I love that June loves this movie. I want them to do Lady Hawk and whatever Paul's favorite movie as a kid was, because it's fun to poke holes in people's childhoods' for me. I think she is right that this one has a better message for the ladies. I love the Rizzo character but I dislike how they immediately pick on Sandy, and how they treat Patty Simcox, like she's such and asshole. I'm also really glad that Anna was there to comment on the balls. Now we know June isn't into buns or balls. Update your charts, nerds! ETA: Surprised some people didn't like Anna. I know she didn't have much to say, but I love her brother-sisterly relationship with Jason. You should definitely listen to his episode of her podcast if you haven't already. She's clearly just there to hang out.

I'm glad all of you seem to be on Team Turn Off Your Phone. I actually find the backlight of someone playing a game or googling something on their phone way more distracting than someone whispering or talking quietly to the person next to them. Because the light illuminates YOU. It's like a spotlight. And I'm like, "Great, now I have to look at your dumb face." You *can* turn down the brightness if you MUST look something up. But I don't see why people can't go two hours without Google. /old lady yells at cloud

Have you guys noticed that girls always seem to fall in love with "Grease" during middle school? That's when I watched it a lot. (Along with "Cry Baby" and "Hairspray"-- OG Ricki Lake version). It's kind of funny because I think a lot of the sexual elements of "Grease" went over my head then. (The pregnancy and a lot of the suggestive dance moves.) I think parents must think it's wholesome because it's set in the fifties but the whole point of the musical was it was about teenage counter-culture and rebellion. I think "Grease 2" misses out by being set in the 60's but not really addressing any of the teenage rebellion that went on during that time. Except some throw away references to nuclear war that are used for comedy??? I think that's why Hairspray (the Musical) works better as a successor, because it has the Civil Rights struggle and is pointedly about gay people, despite what John Travolta thinks. I should probably save this stuff for the episode thread but I just realized Hairspray Live is on this week. So I thought some people might want to watch and compare.

I'm so happy!

You know what? Daisy Duck? You ain't all that. Daisy was my sister's favorite character (because she liked ducks and was a girl) growing up. And when we went to Disney World? She looked all over for Daisy and never found her. First Daisy disses my sister and they has a beef with June? You know what? I'm fucking done with you, bro. Just Say No to Daisy Duck. She's a Poor Man's Minnie Mouse. I disagree with Paul's response to the cell phone guy (I don't know why people call ask Paul's opinion on Kanye West. Like... what does that have to do with this show?) I don't want people on their cellphones during the trailers. Because the lights do go down then. It's okay when they're doing the pre-show commercials. But once the lights go down, you gotta turn it off. The light of the cellphone is distracting so if you want to use it, you should go outside the theater. I'm so pumped for Grease 2. I've been wanting them to do this one since June said it was one of her favorite movies as a kid. She better be back for this podcast. I NEED to know June's thoughts! NEED.

I didn't watch this movie but the ep was fun. I also noticed Emily laughing into the microphone but it didn't bother me enough to turn it off. I don't know how to do spoiler text but I was very excited to see a certain person who finally got to be on his fave show, even if his part was very small and didn't involve having sex with both Rory and Lorelai. ETA: Also I *do* think the remix theme song should be longer!

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I will admit I did not watch this movie. Had a hard time getting out of bed this week. But having the whole gang back was a nice treat on Friday. I have a confession to make. I've mentioned before that I work in book publishing. Before that, I worked at a bookstore and I *may have* had a Nicholas Cage-esque breakdown about the misshelving of books. See, a customer would order a book and we'd put it behind the counter, alphabetical by last name. Except I kept having trouble FINDING the books. So finally I left a passive aggressive note (though now I wish I had simply played this movie) that explained EXACTLY how the alphabet went. There was a lot of confusion about like does J come before or after N? Isnt Q after T? However once I worked in contracts I had to give up the ghost because those fuckers get misfiled ALL THE TIME. Not just because of alphabet confusion but because some authors have pseudonyms and corporations they go under and then no one knows where the heck they are. Anyway, I have done that. But I can't say I know too many people with the pretentious accent. It's more of a professorial thing in my mind. Of course, George Plimpton was the editor of the Paris Review and his accent was crazy pants. Also, the gang was right that literary agents don't rep short stories. Many if the author is a huge name and was doing a collection of short stories, but for the most part they don't pay enough for the author to want to split it up.

Paul and June sing plus baby!

You can also google the complete Pottermore sorting hat test, because each time it only asks you a couple of potential questions for a more accurate result. Because I have been sorted into Hulfflepuff once and Ravenclaw twice (by Pottermore and the HP Experience). So I took the full quiz to find out and it gave me Racenclaw again.

IS ANYONE ELSE SHOCKED BY THE REVELATION THAT PAUL IS IN SLYTHERIN?? I mean, I can sorta see it in hindsight because he's always working so hard and doing so many projects to conquer the world. But For a good minute there my world was all askew. Taylor Anne, how could we both be so wrong? So this is Paul's patronus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocicat We def still need Jason's house. (Although it didn't sound like Jason was either Slythcerin or Hufflepuff.) Anyway, as you all know I am a Ravenclaw. My patronus is a white mare which I thought was odd because aren't all patronuses silver in color? Someone else told me they got black mare and I was like, well that's not even a patronus then. That's a horse. You got a horse. ETA: Also does anyone have soundcloud skills? Because I would like to put together a trailer for a fake movie but I have no idea how. It would start with Paul and June and Brian Posehn mocking Jason talking about "the clowns" in the Cobra ep. Then cut to news footage about all these clowns around. And Jason saying, "I was fucking right." And basically he's the chosen one who has to save us from the clowns. I think it'd be a good movie.

Omission: I want to know Jason's feelings on the recent clown sightings. Especially if this movie is set in the same place as "It." I think that's a real missed opportunity.

That costume is gross. I forgot everything about VAMPIRE ACADEMY so this minisode felt like a foreign language to me. All I really wanted to say was that I watched "Brooklyn 99" last night and it made me really mad that Rosa was crying on a park bench for Pimento when he's been here watching dumb movies the entire time!

Her dad was also in "Luke Cage" which I just binged. I freaked out!

I love Yvette Nicole Brown so much! She's great on everything she's on. And I totally agree with her that I don't think Angelica and Hamilton had an affair. It seems to me they definitely had a close relationship. They corresponded while she was overseas a lot. (But obviously they couldn't have been physically intimate during all that time.) Yet that's when Jefferson starts insinuating that Hamilton is into his sister (in law), which would've been a crime of incest then. And I think (this is my psychoanalysis) that Jefferson is projecting his own issues--since Sally Hemings was his wife's half sister--onto Hamilton. It also doesn't seem like Jefferson corresponded with a lot of ladies he wasn't trying to sleep with. That was something Walter Isaacson brought up in his biography of Benjamin Franklin too. Franklin corresponded with a lot of women and got a reputation for being a womanizer (and there's no doubt he did have mistresses) but Isaacson proposes that Jefferson and Adams assumed there must've been a sexual interest in these women because they couldn't imagine writing to a lady who wasn't their wife (in Adams' case) or seeking a lady's opinion in general (in Jefferson's). Plus Angelica was actually already married by the time she met Hamilton. Oh! And total agreement with Travon about Burr being a real dick. Leslie does give him a lot of humanity he lacks in the history. I believe the Chernow book references a time where he actively duped Hamilton out of money with some water company scheme. And how he married an old lady and spent all her money? Although he did really seem to love his daughter, which is cool considering the above point about how men didn't care about women's opinions that much. Burr wrote to Theodosia all the time. They were tight. I always post too much.

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Oh see I did Divergent. If they ever do those movies, I will be the designated authority, I guess. They got worse as they went on and the first one was not that good. (I referred to it as "WHEN RAVENCLAWS ATTACK!" because the factions thing was clearly based on HP. But no one else thought I was funny.)

If he has, I'd be surprised. I work in publishing and I read a lot of YA books that are popular. I've read "Vampire Diaries," "Twilight," etc. These I read a couple pages and I was like, "Nope, can't do it." Plus the fans of the series hated the movie. So that means this is terribleness made worse. I'm glad Taylor Anne Photo has read the book so none of us have to now. Speaking of books, I did a Scientology read weekend this weekend and I thought of you guys a lot. I read "Going Clear" and "Troublemaker" (Leah Remini's book). I realized this show has done a lot of Scientology movies. Battlefield Earth, Face/Off, etc. Also MONKEYSHINES. Did you guys know Jason Beghe was a former Scientologist who speaks out against them now?? Throughout "Going Clear" there were stories of young kids who were basically slave labor for the church. There was one story about a kid who did forced labor in the Scientology book publishing office and got his FINGER CUT OFF by one of those things that cuts notches out of books (that no one under 18 is supposed to operate). The happy ending is that Jason Beghe says he took him in at the end. I was like, "Holy shit we all need to go buy Monkeyshines so Jason Beghe can get royalties and take in more Scientology kids."

People who write second opinions.

PS You should all watch the "Go Fish" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer--which is not a good episode; it's very much filler--just to hear Wentworth Miller deliver the immortal line, "Ugh, dude, what is that foulness?" and then turn into a fish.

As I mentioned in the minisode thread, I didn't watch this movie. I'm in a fight with the actors from "7th Heaven" (fuck that show!) so I can't deal with Jessica Biel. Although she was dating Chris Evans at the time this was done and now she's married to JT. So she's doing just fine without my love and support. I was wondering about the Jamie Foxx death. Were they trying for something emotional like Goose's death in "Top Gun?" Or do we think Jamie Foxx was just like "I'm too famous now, I'm leaving"? I also have questions about Wenworth Miller's voice. Because I've seen him on "Buffy" and "Prison Break" and I know he speaks like a . But sometimes he does weird voices. Like last season on "Legends of Tomorrow" he did something weird with a drawl that bugged me to no end. I guess my question is just WHY, WENTWORTH MILLER, WHY?

Yay! We're back. I have to say I'm really surprised that the Howdies don't begin next week. That is what I thought was going to happen. I don't believe I've heard of "Stealth" at all. Possibly because I generally avoid Jessica Biel.

I didn't know her dad was on "I, Robot"! Nerdoms collide.

Leslie Odom Jr did a parody of that commercial.