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Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (HDTGM Matinee)

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (HDTGM Matinee)", an episode of How Did This Get Made? published January 13, 2026 (1 h 4 min, about 12,282 words). It mentions 11 people, works and ideas, including Greece 2, Anna Ferris, Grease, Jason Manzukas, Grease 2.

What this episode is about

"Grease 2" is examined as a humorous and offbeat sequel to the beloved original, contrasting its teen themes centered on romance and self-identity with a more absurd and lighthearted tone. With guest Anna Faris, the discussion dives into notable performances, the film's strange plot elements, and its place within the pantheon of musical sequels, while the hosts share their favorite moments and reflect on the movie's enduring charm.

Key takeaways

  • Grease 2: proof that sequels can redefine cultural moments, even if it’s a 'dumb' brother.
  • Movies shape childhood experiences; for some, Grease 2 was a sexual awakening in pastel vests.
  • Greece 1 may be a classic, but Grease 2 brought feminism to the forefront, one leather jacket at a time.
  • In a world of VHS choices, a movie isn’t good or bad; it’s just a cherished memory.
  • Musicals can be loathed yet loved; Grease 1 reigned, but Grease 2 holds the spark of youthful rebellion.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Greece 2, Grease, Anna Ferris, Grease 2
  2. – 20:00: Grease
  3. – 30:00: Greece 2, Anna Ferris
  4. – 40:00: Greece 2, Anna Ferris
  5. – 50:00: Stephanie Zenega
  6. – 1:00:00: Grease, Anna Ferris, Grease 2, Greece 2
  7. – 1:04:17: Anna Ferris, Crime Town, Jason Manzukas, Paul Shear

Notable quotes from "Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (HDTGM Matinee)"

  • We are in the home of Anna Ferris. We are in the studio of Unqualified and I'm joined as always by my two co-hosts, Jason Manzukas.
    about Anna Ferris · at
  • Just I want to get it out of the way and just say there is someone in this room that knows every line to Greece 2.
    about Greece 2 · at
  • Absolutely. And later on, we got a VHS player and I immediately got Greece 1, Grease 2, and we also got the movie regarding Henry.
    about Grease · at
  • Well, I guess he did make it. And I don't want to even enter Stephanie Zenega doesn't think that she is. But if they don't see him down there though, then where is he? They'll find him in the morning.
    about Stephanie Zenega · at
  • So, this is five star reviews cold from Amazon. This one is first written by Richard Beaman. Okay. Sure. It's not the original Greece, but this movie has its own campy theme…
    about Richard Beaman · at
  • And some No, no, no. Keep going. You got this. This one is from Victoria English.
    about Victoria English · at
  • I would say actually Paul Shear.
    about Paul Shear · at
  • From our podcast network, but there is an amazing podcast right now called Crime Town.
    about Crime Town · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Books & papers

  • Greece 2 — Book · 12 mentions · first at
  • Grease — Book · 5 mentions · first at
  • Grease 2 — Book · 2 mentions · first at
    Absolutely. And later on, we got a VHS player and I immediately got Greece 1, Grease 2, and we also got the movie regarding Henry.
  • Crime Town — Book · 1 mention · first at

Full transcript with timestamps

If Greece was a seminal movie about teens, the 50s, and being cool, this movie is like its dumb brother who always has a heart on and talks about doing it. We saw Greece, too, so you know what that means.

How did Schwarzenegger grow a baby in his belly? Rock a rhstone vest while ripping Justin Kelly or maybe see a burles show with crow and take a boat with speed to hit and cruise control. J man big Paul in the beautiful June going to take you from the goo all the way to the room rand the games of street fight hope to blow off steam just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy green sharp nato the bird demic how we staying alive they calling in the bad ass and he's on the line cranking 88 minutes cuz they cool as ice cuz a bad Jim Barney looking kind of nice Paul and June getting literal Jason is getting laid June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid they judge a bunch of movies while they making the grade A real question for you. How did this get made?

Yes. Hello, people of Earth and welcome to a very special How Did This Get Made. We are in the home of Anna Ferris. We are uh in the studio of Unqualified and I'm joined as always by my two co-hosts, Jason Manzukas.

Hey. And June Diane Rael. How are you June? I'm great. How are you, Paul? Good. It would be weird if I said that our guest was not on a ferris, but we were recording it.

And and our guest is guess what? Julia Roberts. Um, we are very excited to have you to talk about this movie because this movie, I mean, it falls in the in the the, you know, the tradition of great musical sequels like Miss Saigon 2 uh you know, all those all those things. Chicago, Hamilton 6. It's really good. Um, and now just I want to get it out of the way and just say there is someone in this room that knows every line to Greece 2.

Every single line. Not me. It's Jason's you. It's not me. Says shockingly. Honest you.

Not me. June. It's me. And here's why. Oh boy. So, when I was growing up, my neighbors, the Shurings, had a VHS player, and they had two tapes, Greece One and Greece 2.

That's so funny. Uh, I have the same storyings. Yes. Wait a minute. Hang on a second. Um, no, I have the same story except with Greece one with the in in my because I'm a a little older. it. The first people that I knew that had a VCR, they had two movies. Same Gree one and Hooper.

Wow. The Bert Reynolds Jan Michael Vincent vehicles, which I'm would like to now do on this show.

Absolutely. And later on, we got a VHS player and I immediately got Greece 1, Grease 2, and we also got the movie regarding Henry.

Okay. The Harrison for movie shot that JJ Abrams wrote in college. Yeah. Wow. So, this movie to me is everything.

And you never saw Greece one. No, I've seen Greece one. I saw it many, many times. I, by the way, I preferred Greece 2.

Wow. I need to know, and I know you're going to give this to us, but why? Well, it's very hard because I feel like Greece

2, I was so obsessed with Michelle Fefeifer in this movie. I was so obsessed with this cool lady.

This movie has Can I tell you that you sort of you look like that's like the highest praise anyone

Michelle Fiverr ever given me. I want you to like climb a ladder physically where she kicks over her leg.

Yeah. On the ladder and I want you to thrilling to me. I was so obsessed with her and I was so obsessed with her attitude and her I mean I felt like this movie is where I learned about life beyond third grade. I swear to God like I I studied it. I get what you

I watched it a million times. But it's so it's so oddly based because I feel like the

it doesn't add up. But here's the thing. When you're a child, when you're in third grade, like you're not looking at movies to be good or bad. You're just so psyched to watch a movie.

It is just a a movie. There is no value judgment on it. It's just a movie. Absolutely.

And back then, you would watch it, especially in that instance where you only had two tapes. You would watch it constantly and it's but it's all sex. I mean, that's the other thing, too. It's like, so you

I look at this movie as like it was a sexual awakening for me. I was obsessed with Michael Carrington. I was in love with him. Watching it today, I felt a lot of the same feelings.

When's the last time you watched it, do you think? Back then, or is it something you have continued to keep up with?

Oh, I haven't seen it in like over a decade. I haven't seen it since I was younger but

it held up for me in the way that it needed to for me. Wow. I I mean, Paul, you saw me watch it. I was so thrilled.

I've never seen her watch a movie for this show more in wrapped attention. I love it. cross-legged crisscross applesauce watching this movie with a big smile on your face.

I can see that and sing and sing the songs with a movie like this. Yeah. And the songs in this I don't think are that great.

Oh, I'm going to This is what I'm going to say. This is what I'm going to say. I see that completely. I get it. You became obsessed with this movie at a time when movies weren't good or bad. They were just the movies.

And I I get it. I also want to say this movie, which I have never seen before, is terrible. Yeah, it is unequivocally terrible. The songs are awful and they're all about sex. I love Greece. I think Greece is and I hate musicals. I loathe musicals and I think Greece is I feel about Greece the way you feel about Greece, too. I've seen both of them and I grew up on both of them. And let me tell you, Greece 2 for me as a young girl was more I had way more to grab on to when Stephanie Zenon says like there's got to be more to life than just making out. You know, there are there are themes in this movie.

It's a feminist grease. I mean that's I mean that is for sure. And I was so obsessed with her attitude and her insistent upon, you know, insistence upon like finding this guy who was challenging and, you know, her independence.

You're right in the sense that this is a better this is a better story for a girl. She works at her dad's garage, but is like the unequivocal leader of like the of the IT group on on on campus. She is obsessed with cool writers. Like I get

by She is cool as [ __ ] Like I mean anything away from this movie. It's Michelle Feifer. Michelle and this movie for me has like all of my childhood crushes in one movie cuz the seagulls the Seagal twins are also in this movie. The twins from Double Trouble who I've talked about before. They are the

I didn't realize that they were the They are They go on to be the Double Trouble twins in the 80s.

Weren't they blonde in that show? In which show? Double Trouble. No, they're kind of brunettes.

Okay. Um, and I was obsessed with the double trouble girls and I was I had like a sexual awakening to Michelle Fefeifer in the movie Lady Hawk.

When Michelle Feifer was in Lady Hawk, I lost my mind. And the fact that she dated Fischer Stevens, who is maybe

the closest celebrity I looked like growing up, I was like, there is hope. There is hope for someone like me that I could get a Michelle Feifer. And I'm still coming for you, Michelle. David E. Kelly. Where did that get out of my way?

As good as she did then. She looks amazing. Unbelievable. Where do you fall on this?

First time. Thank you, Paul. Thank you so much. Uh I'm going to breathe heavily into the microphone, but no. Uh okay. I have a I have a few thoughts. Of course I do. Um but I don't All right. So the like the corniness of um like bridal high and like like truly when it I started watching it because of your

Yeah, we you made we made you watch it. You made me watch it again and I had watched it as a child or whatever and I liked Greece one but

see I thought you wanted to do this movie for the podcast. I did. Okay. But because I was honestly like, "Oh, I did. This movie does not belong on this podcast." No, it doesn't. It does. No.

And I thought, Anna, that you were coming to it with the same love that I was. And I was like, great. I love sharing that.

I just have a complicated relationship with Greece because of my mom. My mom was always like,

"A woman should never succumb to a man." Like, you know, oh, it should never change for a man. So, this movie would work for your mom really well.

A little bit better. Yes. Because the man changes or would she be like nobody should change

is she would she be inherently the message behind either Greece is flawed. Yeah.

We should be accepting of the people we are. Yeah. You should become somebody else.

But you know like ultimately what she also doesn't realize is that I totally changed for all the three men I've dated and five men I've slept with. Let's let's let's just very quickly let's give full let's give full first names, last names,

and let's just get Twitter handles if they got them. Let's get it out there. Let's get the info out there. It is a crazy I mean, look at the base of this movie. It's a it's it's stealing from a Steve Gutenberg film or a Steve Gutenberg film. Remember that movie Don't Tell Her It's Me where he pretends to be like a biker to get a girl like um maybe it was only me. I was a big goo.

I don't remember that. You were a big fan. You were a big good head. the scenes where he's driving around with her and he's wearing those goggles.

He's a strange He's a strange sexy What could be better? What could be better? Leather jacket.

What could be better? Itching to talk. You're so right, June. But I'm so itching to talk about the sexy teacher.

Okay. Oh, Connie Stevens. Oh, yeah. Let's do it. Talk about it. Right. That's Connie Stevens, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Right. Like like booties. Yes. and hair and hair and they keep talking about hair constantly has the hairspray.

Well, this movie the sexual politics of this movie are pretty insane. Well, see, here's the thing. And as a child growing up, I mean, this to me, my mother always told me that when I people would ask me what I wanted to be when I was older, I would say a teenager.

Yes, I was obsessed with becoming a teenager. And it was because of these movies. And to me, I grew up thinking like, well, men are predators. I mean, uh,

what's interesting is that you're growing up what in the 80s getting all of your information about teenagers from people who are portraying teenagers in the ' 50s

and who are and who are people in their 30s. Yeah. Who are people in their 30s representing the the the the attitudes of the 1950s

written by someone in the 80s. Yes. Which is based on a movie that's kind of a cartoon of the 50s and this is a cartoon of that. That's where my world view like started.

And it's I've said this about other movies. A cartoon of teenagers. I've said this about other movies. This movie is this movie is horny in a way that is like aimless.

As I'm saying, it's like it's like this. It's like it's like grease with a heart on. It's like it's horny without any follow through. Well, let's talk about the beginning of the movie. I would say that a surefire way to know that you're not in a good musical is when your opening musical number has no one singing on screen.

Yeah. Like the open musical number is like jittery Frankenstein dancing. Now, you had a thought about this. Well, I I yeah, I did think like I guess the logical thought is like, "All right, you guys, everyone, let's all perform like the the dance that we've been practicing all summer um at 8:30 a.m. and in like before like the school flag and we're going to annoy everyone, but we're going to do this [ __ ] and like, you know, like a flash mob."

Like a flash mob. It's a kind of like a a big uh but it's in that musical sense what I couldn't what I what I felt like

can you imagine like Jason Okay. Okay. So listen are we fighting. Okay. No but listen it's uh June 20th.

Great. It's school's like f we up for summer right and I call you up later and I'm like hey do you have a license? Who licensed that song?

But I'm like hey Jason. Yes Anna. Okay. Oh god. So, I really want to start practicing the dance

for the first day of school dance number. Yeah. Yeah, we should start we should start practicing.

Yeah, we have to because it's coming up, you know, and every single person in school participates.

Yeah. So, we got to start on that now because 8:30, you know, at like when those buses when those buses pull up, once they're halfway through hanging the flag, shit's going to go down.

So, we got to start doing that, right? Yeah. And that [ __ ] idiot with the cello. So if you don't start practicing with me.

Yeah. Why did the tea birds hate nerds? So right. There was a huge like cello man coming in. Yes. Yeah. So if you're not

Don't worry if you're wear If you're wondering if nerds got theirs in this movie. They did. They did.

But that to me also except for Michael Carrington. Michael Carrington is deemed a nerd. Quite literally just the most hunky guy right off the right out the gate. Like the name of glasses on accent. He's like,

he has a breathy British accent. He's He is an And you know what? I feel like they don't make him like this anymore. He's an oldtimey like dreamboat.

Yep. A dreamboat. That is a t-shirt right there. Um he is he's um great for me in this movie. Sorry. Go ahead, Paul. No, I was going to say there is a great uh New York magazine article that was written about him uh when the movie came out and he is such a pompous.

It's one of the best. Had he had he done was he famous for something else? Honestly, I don't know if I can hear this.

Wow. I don't know if I can hear this. Paul, what do you got? Well, this is one of the lines that goes, uh, you know, um,

British accent. Well, breathy. I don't know how to say this because it sounds so vain, but I've written a script, and the script I've written is the best one that I've ever read. It's a script called Nemesis. And then the reporter goes, "Well, I pointed out that Agatha the Christy had written a mystery called Nemesis." Well, it's not very well known, is it? Or successful?

He asked worriedly. That's like the Steven Seagal quote. the Steven Seagal quote which is he's in an off he's this is I mean it could be apocryphal I don't know allegedly at the height of Seagal mania he is in a meeting and they're like well what are you going to do or whatever what do you want to do he goes I've just read the most amazing script and they said really uh and he said whatever it was and they said who wrote it and he said I did

and I love that story I'm sure it's like some sort of you know urban legend that is being attributed to Seagull, but come on, it kind of works.

I would so be guilty of that. Really? Yes. Like you would write a script and then and then tee it up for yourself that way.

No, I would never write a script cuz I can't write. I don't even know how to write.

That is true. You are one of Hollywood's most successful illiterates. But I'm serious. Like like ask you have someone in your ear saying it question and I'll try to answer in like an incredibly pretentious way.

Oh, okay. Um uh uh Anna, what was it like uh to work with Kian Peele in the movie Keanu?

Oh my god. Well, it's really remarkable to work with, um somebody who is not only comedic but incredibly intellectual and it felt like I was able to be my intellectual self as well.

Oh, that's great. Well, by the way, that's almost listen to this answer. He goes,

oh gosh. He goes, "Uh, I'm not that dedicated to my craft. I like being regarded as an artist, but I really want to become a star. This acting thing is a lark, a big game, and now I want to play another game. I want to get into race cars. I have a 65 vet, and I can really move. When this is over, I want to rent one of those vans with the airbrushing on the side, and go down to Mexico with Juliet, his 41-year-old wife, at 22 years old."

What? And no. And no, are they still together? And no, the kid gets left behind. Are you kidding? And I'm taking a shotgun. I've heard of those bandiditos.

Oh, this kid's amazing. This guy's article is amazing. June, though. You like him?

You like him? No, I I I didn't like him. Oh, no. He's a dream. But I But I'm But I'm I'm with you. Like

they're both so dreamy. I mean, here's the thing. Watching it now that Who's more dreamy? Him or Adrien Zmed?

Who's Adrien Zmed? Oh. Oh, wow. Oh, he's like the leader of the T-Irds. Oh. Oh, Joey. Joey

almost played by Narelli or Yes. Of course. Of course. Johnny. Um, he's not dreamy at all to me. I find him to be unappealing.

Isn't he always trying to make out with the other one? Yeah, he's Yeah, he's always trying to make Michelle Feifer jealous by making out with

By the way, I think he's great. He's amazing in this, but I don't find him dreamy. I think he would be more amazing in it if I never saw Danny Zuko. Like cuz I feel like it's just like like a like a community theater version of Danny Zuko. And I don't mean that.

No, because Michelle is Danny. I mean Stephanie Zenon is Danny Zuko, but he is Danny.

But he's he's portraying he's he occupies the same. He's not we don't care for him like we care about.

Right. Correct. Stephanie Zenoni or Danny Zuko. I my my biggest problem not my biggest problem because I have like a lot of big problems with this movie but my biggest problem was that like the the songs in Greece are are are story songs.

Yeah. They are songs that illustrate and give context to the story. The songs in this movie do not do that. Like the opening dance number is there is nothing to it. a bowling song is a is is not forwarding the story at all. They are song breaks which

are veiled references to sex. Yeah. Which are just sexy songs, but they're they're really a lot of times just like kind of choruses without verses.

Yeah, agreed. Which is not fun to watch at all. And the songs in Greece are so compelling. You know what I mean? They are they're integral to the story. Like when you have that opening number in Greece that gives you who is he, who is she, what was the summer, and where are they now. Boom. That's an incredible.

What you get is stuff like this. This is what you get. Like the that big dance numbers going on and then all of a sudden Frenchie comes back. Uh

oh. Frenchie. Frenchie comes back to go to school. Yeah. To go take a high school class on chemistry.

That's correct. This is like so a big so a big giant musical number is going on and you think all right well let's lay down some of our our main characters. Nope. You get this a stop in the music

and then this friendship. Hi. Hello. Hi. Uh thanks for meeting me. Oh listen. When your cousin Sandy told me you were coming to school in America I said Sandy any cousin of yours is a cousin of mine.

Yes. You did say you were the one who know the ropes around here. Oh ropes are my specialty. You see, I used to go to Ryel before I dropped out to go to beauty school, but then I flunked tinting when my hair turned pink.

Pink. So that that is that like there's more of that. Like Frenchie really has to justify her existence. And by the way,

beauty school in my Can't do it. Frenchie, can you do it? No, I can't do it. I do. It did make me very that what when I was when I saw her in the movie I was reminded of how good Greece one was and how good even a song like Beauty School Dropout which is not

great song school dropout it is and it isn't like it's not it's there are many songs that are so much better in Greece one but

it sort of a song like the songs that are in Greece 2 which are sort of meaningless you know but um but it's so well done in Greece one. Yes, here's a real

I agree with all this, but I sort of feel like an Amazon reviewer. Like, I really do. Like, I agree with all of it and I could care.

But it's in your Well, that's the thing is like we can logically we can logically pick it apart, but this movie lives in your heart.

It really does. The only thing that was hard for me in this viewing was watching it as a child. I thought of myself as Stephanie Zenoni and I was like, "Oh, that's a part I want to play. I want to be her. I want to play this part." And watching it this time, I was like, "Oh, am I Miss Mickey?"

WHOA. I had a really I was watching Miss McGee's performance. Miss Mickey and Blanch are a comedic.

And by the way, they're from Greece One. They're just amazing together. I'm obsessed with the two of them. Blanch is

just phenomenal. Just But so is Miss McGee. Oh, yeah. She's doing You'll get no argument from me. Great work out there.

The weird song where they're talking about like reproductive amazing stamon pistol.

That whole number is thrilling to me. That's sexy. The movie is we have to talk about um the idea I think of Michelle Feifer's virginity. Like I don't see her as a virgin.

I think what's her name? The blonde is a virgin. Yes. Pette is, but I It's interesting. They try to I think they try to like have it each way. Like

they don't call out that she's having a lot of sex. No, but to me she's probably

I don't know. You think? Yes. Cuz remember she has to put on the skirt like she and then during that whole reproductive thing she's like standing up there as a powerful woman but she's not participating in the idea of and then she is like defiant about the idea of her own sexuality. She's like I want somebody who I can like ride with or whatever and I'm going to wait for it. I think I think you're right because I feel like all these people like all the group all the people in the Johnny group like were trying to always have sex but they weren't like succeeding. They were getting close to it. Hence the date rape song which we should get into a little bit.

That changes everything cuz to me she and I felt this growing up she was not a virgin. She was like a total like she had had sex before with Johnny and she was like a sexually mature woman. I wonder if we're not going to be able to come up with this answer, but I would love for people to weigh in on this.

Call Michelle Fiver right now. I would love to know like this cuz this movie is 1980s obsessed in with virginity, you know, like like virginity like like was losing it is the n is the title of Tom Cruz's first movie. Right.

By the way, Tom Cruz is supposed to play the Adrian Semed part. Amazing. Um sure thing. Like these are movies that are entirely predicated on teenagers losing their virginity.

Porkies. Porkies. That doesn't exist anymore in We don't see that in TV. Like that's not a thing anymore. Like the the movie that is based on the uh uh the necessity of losing it or you know like like they you know they in this movie it's always one character. It's like

like we almost got in a car crash. Oh. And we would have died I would have died a virgin. Can you imagine?

I guess it's American pie is the closest thing that was like short 20 years old now.

Wow. I mean it must be right. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's interesting. Are millennials as I mean

post virginity are millennials post virginity like obviously I'm sure they as people are obsessed with their own virginities etc. But they're not seeing it portrayed the way we all were

because it's not special. Because and I think that something else is happening which is that

they're all just fingering each other's butles. They're probably fingering each other but also I think people are coming out coming out with their sexuality and also coming out with their identity and that's more important than

I also think porn. Oh really? I also think everybody's watching porn since they're like little kids now. It's all online. So they like the idea of like a m the idea

porn was always around. Not this way though. I mean like porn for us was like find it in the woods under an old

woods. I don't want to talk about the woods again. But like like gone are the days where in order to see like a naked woman you had to like you know in as represented in movies find like a hole in a wall that you could look into the girl's bathroom.

But are you saying that people because young well I guess young men I mean maybe young women are watching porn I don't know but are watching porn. They feel they've had sex. I I think there isn't as much.

It scratches an itch. I Yeah, I wonder if losing your virginity has the same weight. I don't know. I'm curious. Maybe this is old man talk.

Anna Ferris is eating her own birthday cake. Happy birthday, honey. Yeah, it does bum me out, too. Actually,

I'm genuinely curious. And I don't know, maybe this is like to young listeners rolling their eyes. Aren't they sort of aren't they isn't the big like, you know, transition for teens and millennials or whatever more about identity now than like just the actual act of having sex and more about

who they are as a person. Who they are like emo this that, you know? I mean, I guess jocks and nerds have always

Yeah. I don't know. I mean, jocks though. Now the movie would be about like the te-irds going to that British guy to take cool Instagram photos and they would steal the credit for the photo instead of uh papers. I will say if somebody

went to the trouble of writing like a like a bunch of like fake like papers and whatnot for

um for me and like and then ended up like buying a motorcycle for me and fixed it up and ended up like I'd be like [ __ ] you. I I I have no self-esteem. So like I'm not going to accept this. So

wait, you have no like So you're saying why would you you would say that that out of you not having self-esteem? Because I feel like you'd be like you don't have self-esteem. You should have you should have only represented yourself as British man in a blazer. You shouldn't have had to change.

That's what I'm saying. Like he wanted to change for me. [ __ ] that. That means that I have to

You're both disasters then. Yeah. Yeah. We're all disasters. This is the way I see it as different as than it's to me it's not that he wanted to change for her or that he even did change for her cuz I I felt in Greece one she was definitely making a choice like she comes out in that outfit in the end and it's like oh I've never seen this person before. This is a completely different person.

In Greece 2 though to me it felt like oh no this is actually who he is. He's more pulling out this side of himself

and he wants her to see it, but he it's not as stark a change. What's interesting is that this movie plays it both ways. They both have him change. They both have him undergo the transformation that is that which she thinks she wants. She want as exemplified in the song Cool Rider. He hears her not to sing it or should I just

He hears her sing Cool Rider. Go ahead. Okay. If you really want to know what I want in a guy, well, I'm looking for a dream on a mean machine with hell in his eyes. I want skin. Guys, it's so you want to

I KNOW YOU CLIMB THIS LADDER. I WANT to watch you as the wind and fat knife. I'll be holding on tight to a

It's so fans, you have the vocal track. Go fans, you have the vocal track. If you don't if you don't continue.

Well, I'm trying to remember the next verse. I think there at one point it goes,

"Yeah, I need a way to be cool." Cuz that's the way that I feel. Uh, I want to I want to I'm going to be now I can't remember any of it.

It's so good. He takes that song so good and basically transforms himself into the cool writer

into the cool writer. But the movie also gives them a story line wherein they become friends wherein he's helping her with her English paperwork, her English homework and they have one scene together

but there there is like a couple scenes where they're they show them because I think it would have been insane for cuz he could he starts the movie he's asking her out constantly. Can you meet me after school? Can you will you go out with me? And she's like take a hint. The answer is no. And but this is a movie. This is a movie wherein like he's like, "Okay, you can say no to me, but I'm gonna become the guy you want me to be." And also it gives you a little bit of but they also are compatible. Here's

because you have this code. You can't date me because of the code. But that's not why she's not interested.

Here's the thing. No, of course not. But she's not interested because he's like a nerd.

He's a nerd. coming out of Greece one with Sandy and the poodle skirts to watch Stephanie Zenon in one of the opening scenes wear pants and then forget that she has to wear a skirt at school and put that skirt over it and pull those pants up. Like I was I mean there's something to be said about the response to Greece one for I mean ultimately I wish the story had been oh well I don't really wish it but I suppose there's another reading of it where she could actually want to ride a motorcycle. I mean she still does want to just simply be on it

date the best rider like the the movie could be why can't I be in the T-Irds right especially because she seems to be a mechanic. She is quite possibly the most qualified person to ride a motorcycle in the entire world.

I do want to talk just for a second about the T-Irds also cuz I don't understand the T-Irds here because the T-Irds seemingly are not like really a motorcycle gang or at least comparatively

but they're very funny. They riff like things they say but they're like missing a leader. They like they say really funny things like oh yo you want this cake? Oh, I don't even know if I want this cake.

Are these lines from the movie? Are you talking Are you talking about the cake that's in front of you right now? Once again, your birthday. Happy birthday.

But it's very funny. They also are like They're like They say things like, "I'm going to help her out with her condition. She's a nymphoid." Nymphoid nymphoid mania.

What kind of Whoa. Whoa. Is this where you tell us you auditioned to play one of the T-irds in this movie?

Yo. Oh, hey yo, you're not going to This is more Stallone. This is our locker. This is more like Rocky.

This is my locker. No one's taking this locker away from us. They're They're like They're like human apes and yet they're afraid to wreck their reputation by having it known that someone's doing their homework. Wouldn't you think that that would be

Oh, and they're also No one's going to They've got a rep to protect you and I, not no one else. And they and they don't they don't bite. They don't very scared.

Let's go bring a girl down to a shelter. Try to In my mind in my mind like their power had been diminished from Greece one to Greece 2.

But I was okay with it. They don't work on motorcycles. All they want to do is win a talent show. This is a [ __ ] movie about

They are they never got to get to spring. They are obsessed with four-part harmony. They're four-part.

And the only people they beat up are nerds who are good at three-part and they hate musical nerds. That's all they hate. It's not cool. They don't ever work on a you barely see their motorcycles. You see their motorcycles in one in two scenes. And then and more importantly, there is a true like Michelle Feifer should be dating the leader of the the motorcycle rival gang. Yes, the man the 40year-old who like like rides across the

the track. Yes, she should be that the story should be. He was the same actor who played in

I love it. Yes, I think so. So, we're just which I think is the right choice. Like he's a super senior. He's always there and confused.

Yes. Wait, isn't his name Craterface or No, it was in Greece one. They and they reference it in Greece 2. Yeah,

but actually he was really hot and but it was a little bit weird that he did go cycling like with like 40 other

motorcycle buddies across the uh the track. And then they decided to go bowling together.

Is it interesting to know that the sequel to Greece 2 was written by the guy who wrote and directed Airplane 2?

Really? That does not surprise me. It kind of actually answers a lot of questions for me. Um the uh another little little fact here, this is for people at home that have not seen the movie. Um

at 13 minutes and 30 seconds, uh hit that pause button because some dude's junk falls out of his pants.

Really? A guy running track his and I've watched it now. His testicles fall out of his shorts.

Oh my god. And he's trying to tuck them back in for the rest of the run. And it's it's

June. I can't you as a child you didn't you weren't clocking the balls. Can I ask June like woman to woman?

Oh boy. Here we go. When a man's balls fall out of his shorts, it's like kind of secretly hot, right?

Not to me. This are humanity. This This is how we are. Think about this. I can tell you it is not. It's kind of hot though. Like really though, let's think about it. When you really think about like some sweet balls like falling right out of

No, right out of like a pair of dolphin shorts. No. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were involved in this.

What's going on? I'm just talking about those sweet, sweet balls like just plopping plopping right out of those track shorts.

I feel like it's vulnerable and sexy at the same time. I'm looking at it picture.

Oh, wow. What you're attracted to is the unexpected reveal of genetary. Oh, that's a great shot of it.

Right. You're like, you're like, I'm not supposed to see this. This is an balls. Do you do it?

Oh my god, that's amazing. 13:30, everybody. Um, it's unsettling. Well, not as unsettling as this. Uh, where they take out all the sound and you heard,

what is this? A loud sounds wet mouth kissing. I'll play it again. This is when they finally kiss.

All right. Well, I mean, gross. Gross. I don't like it. Um, I do want to just give you a couple facts that I thought were funny. Um, Sandy or not Sandy, Janu, what is her name? Michelle F.

Stephanie, the gas station that she worked at, that's where John Travolta and Sandy were going to cameo as the owners of that gas station. Oh, interesting.

I don't want them. I don't want them still together. How many years after Greece when is Greece 2 meant to take place?

Australia. It takes place in 1961. This movie. Oh, really? You've like dashed all my dreams.

I have. Jason M. Yes. Can you accept my apology? No. [ __ ] you. Wow. Things are not good between me and guest Anna Ferris.

Guest? [ __ ] you. Okay. So, Greece takes place in 1959. Greece 2 takes place in 1961.

Oh, three years is the difference. So, the these were freshmen when Danny Zuko was a senior.

Is that what you're telling me? Yeah. So, you're telling me these people have witnessed the events of Greece 1

and are participating in? They should look at their lives and be like, you know what, we've already seen Danny Zuko go through this. Remember when that when they that car flew away? My first year here. That was insane.

Yeah. Yeah. There's been a lot of talk online also that that the Robert Patrick character from Terminator 2 is the uh the

Who's that goose? No. Is the main guy the Holden Cfield. Whatever. Oh. Oh, Michael Cfield. is they're the same person cuz they wear the same eyebrow.

Oh. Oh. Oh, I see. Oh, that's um also by the way, and I mean like and I get it. It's for the romantic, you know, uh story in the movie, but like

she is able she is right next to him. She's able to see three quarters of his face and does not recognize him. And he has a very recognizable jawline. And she is like, I don't know who he is because

I will say though, his accent drops away. Why? I don't know why on earth. But what's interesting about his accent initially, like when he first enters the school, he's he speaks as though he's he doesn't know English. Yes.

Like there's a quality to his voice where it seems like he doesn't know the language and then you realize, well, no, he just is British.

Yeah. Well, and that kid is talking to him like, how long have you been in America? I thought that was an okay joke for this.

I think there are some great jokes in here. The stuff I really genuinely laughed when that teacher who's, you know, had the mental breakdown walks up to the luau and walks straight straight into the pool. I mean, I had a laugh when I was 11 and I had another laugh this afternoon.

There's definitely jokes. There's definitely solid jokes in this movie. Airplane two style jokes

and and that's actually what they are. They are. We appreciated them. I want to before we wrap it up, I do want to talk about the the sex in the bunker scene.

Yeah. Let's do it for America. Yeah, let's do it for America. Let's play it. Yeah, let's do it for our country. The red, white, and blue.

It's Uncle Sam who's asking. So, your mother will tomorrow win this war for you.

It's our country. Our country wants us to. I'm just picturing like a little kid June running around singing that song and your parents being like, "What the fuck?"

I'm sure I did. I would sing reproduction all the time. Reproduction is also a sex.

Oh, absolutely. Even know what a pistol is. I got you a pistol RIGHT? UH, one of the best joys I've had to audience

so good is watching June. sing like lyric by lyric and she was the most fashion movie the whole movie.

By the way, I just love that if you you can't see it, but she just did like with her rolled her fingers like

I got you a pistol right here. It's I wish you could all I want to watch I want to have watched it with you.

I you know I will say in terms of social order this is why I like this movie more. Also because of the way women treated each other. Pette really does like Johnny and Michelle Fefeifer. Stephanie Zenon has had this relationship with Johnny. There's no competition between the pink ladies

and there's no um stalker. There's no stalker. Stalker Channing. What's the one of the most amazing characters? The end song on Greece one that she sings about having had an

Mhm. or almost being pregnant. Oh, by the way, they also just dropped that as a runner in this movie. She's like, "I missed my period." Like, "What?" And then it's like, "We don't follow that character at all."

But it's a great joke. And Miss McGee, it's a great joke. Kills. It's a great line. It's a great line and it's a great look from her.

Oh, honey. It's okay, honey. You can make them up. And then um I will say that when they get into the motorcycle chase with um British guy and he goes off the jump and they think he's died, they are very casual about being murderers. The T-Irds are super casual about having just murdered someone and then they're like and everybody goes to the talent show and they and they perform.

This is my one complaint about the movie. I won. Everybody's pretty c about having murdered someone

is that I don't think they should have pulled back on that. Actually, he should have died.

No, I don't think he should have died. I think when they say they're they've looked down there and he's not there, I don't think they should be able to see. I think they should have been staring into just a dark and really not know whether he's alive or dead.

Okay. Because I think that's how they were playing it. No, but they so many times he's nothing's there. Nothing's there.

And when I watch this movie, I mean, I'm in every moment. I'm suspending my grief.

And when they say he's not there, I'm like, well, I guess he did make it. And I don't want to even enter

Stephanie Zenega doesn't think that she is. But if they don't see him down there though, then where is he? They'll find him in the morning.

That's what I don't understand. They are not seeing with their eyeballs that he's not in that pit.

I think they're looking down into the pit and they don't see anything obvious, but they don't see at all. So they're telling themselves a narrative that is we think he made it. And she's like in her head like he's gone.

He's gone. He's gone. And I never even got to see his eyes, which would have identified him as a person.

Right. Okay. Because I also wanted to see like a Sherlock kind of how did he survive? I want to see

Oh, I want to see it put together. Yeah. I want to see him explain how practicing that jump specifically,

you know, dead man's curb. Did he set up those road signs? But I can we just go back to the You guys were not disturbed by the scene that is a date rape song. I know. I mean, but that is the song is crazy. The song is basically guilting her into sex before the [ __ ] because

there's a guy mom won't even mind. Sex before the [ __ ] What? No, for the country.

Oh, I thought you just said before, which I sort of loved, which is the the the name of my second album.

Sex. Sex before the [ __ ] Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. And it's crazy to have watched this at a formative age where you're just like, "Oh, this is what I mean." The way I thought about high school, I was like, but I wanted to be in there. there. I was like, "Get me in that zoo.

I want to get to that crazy zoo as quickly as possible." It's that feeling that feeling of wanting to be a teenager is huge.

It's so I mean, it's what I wanted more than anything in the world was to be a teenager because of this movie.

And I get it. I get I can see why this would be attractive because Michelle Fefeifer is a [ __ ] badass.

I mean, up and down in this movie. She's the best. She's the best. She's never chewing like five pieces of gum

and is wearing sunglasses for half of the movie. She's wearing sunglasses for a full half of the movie. You cannot see the actor's eyes, which is insane.

I I really realize that that is a huge Well, it's funny you should mention that because she is chewing a lot. She's not just chewing one piece of gum. She's chewing like f like

But that's what you do. I know. I've never been able to have one piece of gum. And maybe I can and I won't. I'd rather have none.

If I buy a pack of gum, it's gone in two settings because if I'm going to have gum, I'm going to have at least three pieces

in one sitting. So, I have to buy her like Costco level gum to keep in her car. So, it'll fend off a week. She's like a bear. You got to just throw gum at her. One of my favorite characters that we have not touched on at all is the character named Dolores

who is the the pink lady's intern basically who writes a skateboard. No, it's not. Tyler, shut your mouth.

Was that Pam Adela? YEAH. WAIT, SHUT UP. EVERYBODY SHUT UP. Nobody's speaking. Shut up in the house.

Nobody has said anything. Are you talking to me right now and saying that someone

that we know Pamela Adlon was the character Dolores in that movie? That is mind-blowing. I that was my favorite character.

I looked up her accident trying to sleep. She got in a car accident in the middle of the movie. So most of her scenes are doubles.

Oh, interesting. But yeah, but they they got they got the I thought that character was hilarious. She was great. Am I I love when she was like, "Oh, this bra is

hilarious." Even more hilarious. This bra is killing me. This bra is killing me. You wish.

I love that. You wish I The fact that Pette is her sister is so perfect. I just love the two of them.

It's the best that character and her dynamic with British guy. I also like and she's like, I we can't see each other anymore because I'm I've got another guy going on. I thought it was that was really good. There's good stuff in here. Uh but the songs are

truly reprehensible. Yeah. And there except for one thing reproduction except for reproduction which is on message

and cool writer and who's that guy? Nope. Nope. Who's that guy is an entire song that only asks one question. Who's that guy? And it's it's almost as if they're like, "Well, we can't finish the song until every character on screen says the line, who's that guy?" And so the song goes on for like seven minutes cuz there's a lot of people who have to say, "Who's that guy?"

Well, obviously, and also, let's do it for our country. And also bad song. Yeah, that's a bad song.

That's a bad song. The message behind that song is we're going to score tonight is also not

That's a bad song, too, because it's not even clever innuendo. It's not even innuendo. It's like it is a bowling song. It just is a bowling song.

Um, obviously we had an opinion about this movie. There are people out there that had a different opinion. It is now

a lot of these are from June. These are these are June Amazon reviews of this movie.

Honestly, I would be fine to write a review for this movie. I really would. Like I I do think Well, I don't know. I guess people watching movies now are so jaded but

the look on June's face with the word jaded. But there's something to me, even the worst musical, I tip my hat, too, because I feel like there's it takes a certain amount of courage to put um words to music and to make a musical. I just think it does. I think you have to really put yourself out there in a way that I I appreciate and I find joy in musicals. So, I I appreciate a musical and I do think that there are better ones, of course. I don't like look at this though as like, oh, it's about the music. It's not. I If you're looking for

what you love what you love about it is not musical, but it is a musical. But it is a musical. That's right.

What you love about it happens to not happens to be you could cut all the songs out and it would be a movie you would still love.

Well, except for Cool Rider, who's that guy reproduction? All of them except for all the songs.

All the songs obviously we have the last song she sings when she's playing winter.

Oh yeah yeah yeah. Crazy dream sequence. That song too where he's like suddenly in like different gear

talking from a pile of burnt motorcycles. And let's do it for America. Go. Well obviously we have a second opinion and so does June or people have a second opinion. So does June. It's not time for second opinions.

What do they do to show a different view? They get a second opinion. Amazon review. It's a fivestar review for someone like you. It's a second opinion.

I love that. That was Chelsea Cannon. Chelsea Cannon. Best second opinion theme song ever.

Really good for Chelsea. That is it. That is That is the bar. Try and beat it, [ __ ] Um, all right. So, this is five star reviews cold from Amazon. This one is first written by Richard uh Beaman. Okay. Sure. It's not the original Greece, but this movie has its own campy theme and quality, and I enjoy watching it from time to time to escape reality if nothing else. That being said, it's easy to understand why Greece 3 never came around. It'd be like North and South book three. Totally unnecessary and empty, no matter how well it was done.

Wait, what's that? I know. Was that some books? I don't know. I guess North and Somebody should get smart though and produce a film that reunites a lot of these characters while they're still living. After all, Travolta and Newman aren't on fire anymore.

Oh god. And we'd like to see them again for fun. So, five stars. A movie that that puts all of these people, the characters from one and two into one movie.

I guess this guy's basically saying I don't like anything, but let's put this let's let's make it

I mean, you could make Gree as a reunion movie, you know, a reunion movie for for that group.

The older principles. It would take place, interestingly, if Greece 3 starred all the original actors at their like 50-year reunion. It would take place in the '9s. I would like that. That would be neat. Or their 40-year reunion. It would be like the '9s.

I don't know. I'm thinking like, and Junior, you could be in it. I'm just Alaska like global warming is like setting in. And like there's a small like big village that's getting Yeah. that's sort of like getting you know like

less and less snow. Yeah. Yeah. Like like the shore is coming like creeping creeping and creeping slowly and they decide to have like some kind of like a Midsummer Nights Dream celebration.

Of course that's um a musical grease related. That is Greece related. And uh some

No, no, no. Keep going. You got You got You got this. This one is from Victoria English. I've only seen bits and pieces of the original Greece, and to be honest, I've never been interested in watching it.

I have, however, watched this movie several times and can honestly say I love it. Great cast, plot, and songs. Definitely a classic. Better than the original. Five stars.

Yeah. And it's sort of like must we must we compare it to the original? I think you'd have to.

That's right. Of course. That would be a mistake. But I will and and but I'm going to like I will back June up in the sense that like I like the story of Gree 2 more than the story of Greece 1.

Me too. You know, like I like this story. I just I think the songs are really boring. One of the things that pops up in these reviews too is everyone's that loves this movie has seen it and and quoted, "I've seen it 200 times. I've seen it 300 times. I've seen it 45 times. I think for a lot of people it probably existed in a similar way to June, which is it was their first VHS or something.

Wa. Wow. Oh, I'm sure. Over 200, you think? Well, I there was a period there was one summer I actually remember watching it almost every day.

Wow. Yeah. I mean, there there were two movies and it was so awesome to watch a movie that I probably watched it every day. So, that's a summer of seeing it.

Um, yeah. Say over 200 times. How about the Wow. Jeez. I mean, I know if you were to play it right now, I could probably do every line from the movie.

You were doing it. I was. Yeah, I was. I can't explain myself, but I like Greece 2 more than the original.

Paul, are you speaking for yourself? I'm speaking as Gina. I can't explain myself, but I like Greece 2 more than the original Greece. I know I'm crazy. Wait, am I crazy? No. This movie is great. Why is it great? Because it's funny. It's funny and it's got attractive people in it. Plus, they got that whole school pageant talent show thing and that's just so you get it.

Five stars. I get it. And then this is the other one that like again this is just one other one that's almost like a ha coup.

Awesome. Love it. Could watch it every week. Can't watch it enough. Love Greece one too. I'm not sure what else to say. Five stars. Allaround fun sing along movie. I get I get it. I I get the appreciation of the movie. I just

to me I remember watching Greece one and I loved it. But Gree one I remember thinking was a was a bit of a boore

compared to this. Gree one was a bit of a That's what everyone says here. Everyone says Greece one is a bore. Grease 2 is amazing.

If you really want to like have some fun wa you're going to want to watch Greece. So basically what you're saying is like Greece one is a prude and Gree 2 is a [ __ ]

Gree 2 is like [ __ ] Yeah. Absolutely. Like I want to watch like a saucier movie. Like I'm going to put on Greece too.

Yeah. Oh, I think that's true for sure. Can I ask you guys one last question? Oh, no. I know you go ahead.

All right. So, why is Stephanie always wearing glasses throughout the first act?

Sunglasses. Mhm. She is. She's wearing sunglasses constantly in the movie. So, what happened? Did she like

bright? Can we work this out or I mean I think this was like it was cool quote unquote.

Yeah, she was like Yeah, it was. I mean, and when she takes them off and when she takes them off is when she becomes vulnerable.

Well, I do think I do think this idea of being cool Mhm. was such a teenage idea. And I do wonder if it's if it has that currency anymore of similar to what you're saying about losing your virginity like it cuz because I do remember thinking kids were cool or not cool and now I don't ever think of people as cool or not cool.

You should. But yeah. Yeah. What about me? But I mean maybe there are certain people I think of who have like amazing style or I can appreciate their aesthet whatever. But

but go through the room and say who's cool and who's not. Okay, she keeps the list. It's in her it's in her bullet journal.

No, but I do wonder if kids now conceive of it in that way of like you're either like Stephanie Zenon was so cool. Like do they still think of kids as are we post cool? are is everybody just like on, you know, everybody's got their own YouTube channel and that's

what I think what constitutes cool is more of the question cuz I'm sure there is still a hierarchy, but what is it predicated on now? That's what I wonder.

You I wonder what I know I'm going to regret this. What do you wonder? I wonder when the [ __ ] you're going to stop talking cuz I'm bored. Oh, I love you.

Obviously, there's a lot of things to say and if you want to continue to keep this conversation going, you can call us at 619 Paul.

I love you all. 619 Paul ask and you can leave your own correction and omission or whatever you want to talk about. We'll play it on our mini episode 619 Paul ask. And uh we'll definitely check in with our good friend Blake J. Harris, who's going to be talking to some of the players from this film to find out some behind thescenes info. But now before we go,

we go around the table. I think the answers are clear. Would you recommend this movie? Would you recommend people to watch this movie in regards to this podcast? That's what I would say. Like not Yeah. AB for me. Absolutely.

But I don't be afraid in my opinion. I would say in like the opening number, there's a lot of numbers that you can fast forward through because the songs are not relevant to the story.

The only numbers that you should fast forward through are the T-Ird like weird number where they do the silhouettes while they're practicing. Like you absolutely should fast forward through that. And that's it.

Mother, that's it. Cuz this movie is straight up 2 hours long. I would speed through the entirety of the opening first day of school. That's like 11 minutes.

There are no lyrics. There's it's seven minutes long. It's 7 minutes long and it's that's that's all of it. It is not worth it.

It is worth it because at the very end of it when a kid you think the song's over and then a kid runs over the window and jumps in.

Love that moment. And then they end it. It's worth the whole thing. In fact, it's not. But I also I also

I prefer the if you like jumping, I prefer the end of the movie where they all jump and it freezes. Uh I like that. Um, if you think, "Oh, I wonder if I could fast forward right now." You can, but 100% watch.

Okay. My two cents as Anna Ferris. Jason Menukas hit me on the shoulder. It still hurts. Uh, so it turns out he's weirdly strong, but also he can't eat eggs. So, yes, I recommend Greece, too. I I I also recommend I recommend this movie because

it's not it's not all it's not bad. It's just and it this is I I did some research on it and I found out simply this the script was not written by the time they started shooting. Oh wow.

So Dee Conn as Frenchie was written in when they started shooting but written out by the time the movie stopped shooting. So it wasn't that she is like not in it. It's like they rewrote the script throughout shooting that her character was eliminated.

So like I feel like that's what you're watching a lot of like the substitute teacher comes in his story Tab Hunter and his story is like and we everybody's like kind of things are introduced

and whether or not they come out in the wash we don't know. It's a it's a mess of a movie but it's not but there's

in that way it's fun. But June is but what June loves about it is there is correct.

If you were held in a basement and watched this movie 200 times, you would also grow to love it.

Yes. If you had Stockholm syndrome for this movie, you would also think it was good.

Who's going to chain me into a basement? Oh boy. Uhoh. It would be like a sloth from Goonies if he was watching Gree.

Someone it's room. It's room with one VHS tape. Make me watch Stew. That's that

you'll win an Oscar. You'll win an Oscar for the that Jason keeps you in a basement watching make you watch Greece too.

I mean it's like Michelle Feifer dancing around like what's the problem? What is the problem here?

Can I please like a little more split pea or No, keep watching. You'll get soup when you know all the lyrics to Cool Rider.

I'm a cool cool rider. Oh god. Oh my god. Cut that into the song face. Uh Anna, you have an amazing podcast that uh we've all been guests on now and uh you should definitely check it out. It's called Anna Ferris's Unqualified. It comes out every Tuesday.

Thanks. Awesome. Definitely check that show out if you've not listened to it. Amazing episodes there. What's a good starter episode that you would tell people to listen to?

Uh I would say actually uh Paul Shear. No. Yes. Paul Shear and Jason Manzukas. And now uh June um

we did a we did a Raphael and then also your hit show. I love you and I thank you so much for being here.

Your hit show is on CBS. Oh yeah. Killing it Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. Yeah, I guess it's called Mom.

It is called Mom. And that's the title. It is called Mom. Yeah, it's a long It is called Mom.

Wait, what was it? The show is called It Is called Mom. Oh, okay. It is called Mom.

It is called Mom. Um All right, Jason, what do you want to plug? Um, as of right now, uh, you have had two weeks to watch Gilmore Girls. I am on the episode called Spring. Guys, my dreams all came true.

Our spring. Thank you, honey. Watch the watch the watch the four episodes of Gilmore Girls,

a year in the life. And also, and this is uh this is going sideways completely from our podcast network, but there is an amazing podcast right now called Crime Town.

Oo, I'm writing that down. That is unreal. Um, every good every season is is a deep dive into the crime of one city. The inaugural season is going on right now and it is Providence, Rhode Island and it is fascinating. It is called Buddy Crime Buddy. No, it is like a documentary series uh podcast documentary. So, um, if we're talking things that we like, um, I've been really into the CNBC show, The Prophets, starring Marcus Lamonus.

That's our He's a nice He's a nice Greek man. He's a nice, lovely Greek man. I love that show as well.

We're talking about things we like. I like Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. I do, too.

Me, too. That's a great for Halloween. Oh, it's amazing. It's a child's show. Oh, that's why I don't know what it is, by the way. Thank god I don't know what it is, right? What if I was like, I also love that. Wouldn't you be like, "Oo boy, that's worrisome."

Uh, you could definitely check me out on that star show, Blunt Talk, uh, with Patrick Stewart. Uh, I think I'm on this week or I was on last week.

Nice. Figure it out. Watch it. Um, all right. That is all. A big thank you to the amazing people that put this show together. First of all, thank you to everybody here at the Unqualified Compound for hosting us here. uh to uh Averil Hley who cuts all of our clips. You can follow her on Movie [ __ ] on YouTube. July Diaz who does all the listening and making sure the show sounds good. Nate Kylie does all of our research. Mrs. Zites who puts it all together. Lyanna Waldron designs all of our cool stuff. And everybody at Earwolf, thank you so much. Bye-bye.

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Who speaks in "Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (HDTGM Matinee)"?

Paul Scheer (Host), Jason Mantzoukas (Host), June Diane Raphael (Host), Anna Faris (Guest).

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"Grease 2" is examined as a humorous and offbeat sequel to the beloved original, contrasting its teen themes centered on romance and self-identity with a more absurd and lighthearted tone. With guest Anna Faris, the discussion dives into notable performances, the film's strange plot elements, and its place within the pantheon of musical sequels, while the hosts share their favorite moments and…

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The episode runs 1 h 4 min; the transcript is about 12,282 words in 349 timestamped sections.

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