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They came after Star Trek. They came after Star Wars. They came after Ghostbusters… but this is where we stand! This is where we fight! No Grease for you, woke zombies!

They came after Star Trek. They came after Star Wars. They came after Ghostbusters… but this is where we stand! This is where we fight! No Grease for you, woke zombies!


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As one of the original rock and rollers from the ’50s that lived through the wild 60’s I’m so sorry to see stuff like this come out. They have NO idea what the birth of Rock and Roll was like for the world…and the things we gave the later generations…that they’re now losing.

Olivia Newton-John was so beautiful that it pained me to see her with someone else, maybe I might have enjoyed it with a different actress. I take consolation in the fact that she never actually rejected me since we never came close to meeting.

I don’t think there’s enough room in this box to type out an appropriate number of the word “NOPE!” to even begin to address this sacrilege… I won’t give Ghostbusters the time of day and I had to look up to see if Frankie Valli had died because I don’t see him blessing the butchering of his instantly recognizable song! This news is sad news…

Chevy Chase: “Now with an opposing viewpoint on Rise of the Pink Ladies, is our own Emily Latella”.
Emily: “What’s all this fuss I hear about the Rise of the Pink Ladies??? When I was a young girl going to school, Pink Ladies were popping out everywhere, especially in fall. So beautiful, so slender, and such beautiful pink blossoms too! They were rising up everywhere you looked! I can’t think of a day in September when I used to walk to school if I didn’t see hundreds or even thousands of Pink Ladies rising up from the ground….”
Chevy: “Miss Latella, we’re talking about Pink Ladies, the new series based on the movie Grease! Not the flowers….and those are not Pink Ladies, they’re ‘Naked Ladies’.
Emily: “NAKED Pink Ladies in Grease? A movie about naked pink ladies covered in grease? How naughty. Terrible…terrible! Who would go to see this? ….. Ohhhhh….never mind!”

I haven’t willingly watched a musical since my Mom dragged my sister and me to the theater to watch The Sound of Music. Sat there all expectant to see a good war movie and what I got was dripping sap with a couple nasty Nazis thrown in. From my perspective that movie could have taken out all the music and been about a 45 minute show.

A friend of mine tried to get me to watch 1776 a while back. I shut it off after about 15 minutes. Which for me was a noble effort to try to stomach the movie. I should have shut it off after 5 minutes. In my view it was garishly insulting to our Founding Fathers.

Back in the 90s Brother Brother Bob & I took our parents to see 1776 on Broadway as an anniversary gift. I remember it not being too painful. I also took my Mom to see Les Miserables as a gift as well, and I hated it until halfway through. That was when I realized that even though it was filled with whiny, singing Frenchmen, they were all getting killed one by one. At that point I started to really enjoy it.
My thing with musicals is that when they do a number I have to focus on the lyrics rather than just be able to enjoy the song. It’s the same reason I never liked Mighty Mouse as a kid, and why I get annoyed at church services where they sing half of the mass. But that’s just me

“That was when I realized that even though it was filled with whiny, singing Frenchmen, they were all getting killed one by one. At that point I started to really enjoy it.”

If I were forced to watch a musical wherin whiny singing Frenchmen were being killed off one by one I might find the show tolerable. Barely. We share a similar sense of humor …

I loved Mighty Mouse and Underdog, btw.

On a TSL recently, Bill sang the theme song to Super Chicken. another member quickly posted the lyrics so Bill could finish. Thursday’s TSL my only question will be, Can you Sing this for us? Then I’ll add the lyrics to Underdog. Hell, I’ll also add Tom Slick and George of the Jungle too. Bill’s entry music, Underdog, Super Chicken, Tom Slick and George of the Jungle.
I think Petula’s been played out…..I know a place, and she should go there.

Don’t forget Magilla Gorilla!
“We’ve got a gorilla for sale,
Magilla Gorilla for sale…”

Sometimes, just sometimes, it’s threads like these which allow for some fun in an otherwise really crazy world. So glad I’m a member of BWDC with all of you nut jobs!
Tennessee Tuxedo, Quick Draw McGraw, Magilla Gorilla…Rocky and Bullwinkle, Natasha and Boris, absolute glory days to grow up seeing those animations we used to call “cartoons”.

“Speed of lightning, roar of thunder,
Fighting all who rob or plunder ….”

At least that’s the way I remember it. Great catchphrases too …

“When Sweet Polly’s in trouble I am not slow, so it’s hip, hip, hip and away I go!”

“There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here!”

The world badly needs more Underdog and less Proud Family.

The Question:  Bill, you did such a great job on Superchicken,  can you please sing the theme song to Underdog? It’d make RSAE (“Ron Swanson’s alter ego”)  and ACTS (TM) day. It’d make my day too! Here are the lyrics:  Next week, I’ll be asking for a redo, this time it’ll be Tom Slick! Also, let’s make the entry music Superchicken, Underdog, Tom Slick and finally George of the Jungle, then you can have Petula.
When criminals in this world appear,And break the laws that they should fear,
And frighten all who see or hear,The cry goes up both far and near for
Underdog, Underdog, Underdog, Underdog.
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder,
Fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog, Underdog, Underdog.
When in this world the headlines readOf those whose hearts are filled with greed
And rob and steal from those in need.To right this wrong with blinding speed goes
Underdog, Underdog, Underdog, Underdog.
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder,
Fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog, Underdog, Underdog.

I’m not a fan of musicals, either, but I just loved Chicago with Rene Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah and Richard Gere and John C. Reilly. I could watch that again and again!

Thank heavens the producers didn’t demand Carol Channing for the part instead of Stockard Channing….

I’m still trying to figure out what kind of idiot names his daughter “Stockyard” … 😉

Perhaps it was her agent, since she was apparently named Susan Antonia Williams Stockard just after being born. I hear that those Hollywood agents are insane.

And she was one of the older cast members. Early 30s I think. Rizzo was always held up as the best part. Character arc and depth and actual questioning of herself and her life choices.

OH, yes! If you saw a photo of the girl I dated through most of HS, there would be no doubt who I really had a crush on.
From a part in a play standpoint, Rizzo was considered a better role. Up until all the Broadway reboots where they decided to put someone “famous” in it for a short run each time. They had Rosie O’Donnell at one point! Ugh! Or as the kids said in the 80s: Grody to the max

Scott, I was thinking exactly what you said, that the left cannot create something new to make their point. They need to ride on the coattails of something familiar (and possibly loved) so they can lure the audience to pay attention to their pathetic and unpopular ideas. Maybe a few people will find their remakes entertaining, but the majority will not buy it.

Except that it’s a musical set in about the same time period, the “sequel” seems to have no relation to the original. Not only are the “insect overlords” assassinating brands one by one, but they are also killing an entire genre, the musical. Musicals used to be fun and romantic. Well, let their failures define who they are.

Yeah … I have never seen Grease, neither the movie nor the musical. The only time I’ve ever watched Happy Days is when I was somewhere, like a friend’s house, where I couldn’t change channels.

I realize that the majority of population is concentrated in the cities but I didn’t grow up in a city. People in my high school didn’t act like those characters.

No characters in any of the movies or television shows about school depicted any sort of character I could have identified with or recognized in any manner.

Never saw Grease either – I’ve never liked musicals. And I watched Happy Days some, but thought it was overrated.

Never connected with “Grease!”, I have to admit. I couldn’t relate. Much to my shame I wasn’t a gearhead, a jock, or even anywhere near cool. I could count on one hand the number of people that I knew that could relate to any of the characters. My once proud inner city high school had just undergone an integration/forced busing/great white flight/muggings after school/heroin in the stairwells/abortions in the bathrooms/teacher-pushed-down-the-stairs/gang infiltration and my wannabe hippy self – sans drugs and alcohol – was a satellite orbiting the melee.

Yes, but either the girls will spy on the boys in the shower, or girls will spy on the girls. And one of the “girls’ in the shower will be trans. So, check all the boxes.

Ah, you laugh about them mining the cultural material from our past — again people, it IS the point of critical theory … they want to tarnish, in everyones’ heads, the things we love and cherish from our own culture… the point is to get us to lose faith in ourselves. To collapse the culture, so that it can be replaced by their utopian vision.

Was it as repugnant as I typically expect? I don’t watch any of the NFL nonsense (including the dull game itself), so I am ignorant of your specific reference.

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