Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (HDTGM Matinee)

Summary

Podcast Summary: How Did This Get Made? – Grease 2 w/ Anna Faris (January 13, 2026)

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Episode Overview

In this matinee episode of "How Did This Get Made?" Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas are joined by actress and comedy icon Anna Faris to deconstruct the notorious 1982 musical sequel Grease 2. Broadcasting from Anna's Unqualified studio, the crew dives into the camp, the chaos, and the curious cult following of a film many consider one of history’s most famously bad sequels. Equal parts nostalgia, critique, and roast, the conversation ranges from sexual politics to personal obsessions, generational views on "cool," and everything in between.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Grease 2’s Unique Place in Bad Movie History

• Opening Vibes: Paul immediately sets the tone by calling Grease 2 “like its dumb brother who always has a hard on and talks about doing it” compared to the original (01:36).
• Nostalgic Attachments: June is revealed to have an encyclopedic memory of Grease 2’s lines and songs due to inheriting a VHS as a child, cementing her lifelong obsession (03:47–05:01).
• Conflicted Fandoms: Anna Faris is both drawn to and repulsed by the film, partly because of her mother’s opinions on women changing themselves for men in media (10:44).

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Riffs, Reactions, and Ruminations: The Panel’s Grease 2 Hot Takes

June’s Childhood Obsession

• June describes Grease 2 as a kind of feminine sexual awakening:

  “I look at this movie as like it was a sexual awakening for me. I was obsessed with Michael Carrington. ... Watching it today, I felt a lot of the same feelings.” (06:35)

• She praises Michelle Pfeiffer’s Stephanie as an independent, aspirational icon:

  “This movie, for me as a young girl, was more ... there are themes in this movie.” (07:56–08:15)

Musical Comparison & Critique

• Jason asserts bluntly:

  “I’ve never seen [Grease 2] before. It is unequivocally terrible. The songs are awful.” (07:20)

• The panel agrees the songs lack narrative function:

  “The songs in Greece are story songs ... the songs in this movie do not do that. ... The bowling song ... is not forwarding the story at all.” — Jason (20:17)

The Sexual Politics, Gender Roles & Generational Shifts

• The hosts highlight Grease 2’s unmatched "horny energy" and muddled messages:

  “This movie is horny in a way that is like aimless.” — Jason (13:23) “It’s just like Grease with a hard on.” — Paul (13:30)

• Anna points out the awkward fit for its audience:

  “We have to talk about the idea ... of Michelle Pfeiffer’s virginity.” (26:47)

• The cast debates whether the millennial/Gen Z eras are "post-virginity" in their pop culture:

  “Are millennials post-virginity?” — Jason (29:07) “Is everybody just, like, on their own YouTube channel ... are we post-cool?” — June (62:10)

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Character and Performance Highlights

• Michelle Pfeiffer's 'Stephanie'
  • Repeated praise for her coolness and charisma; her independence stands out compared to Olivia Newton-John’s “Sandy”.
  • “She is cool as shit ... Michelle Pfeiffer is a fucking badass up and down in this movie.” — Jason (08:49, 50:35–50:44)
• Maxwell Caulfield as Michael
  • The panel reads a priceless, pompous magazine profile, reflecting on Caulfield's over-the-top self-regard (16:08–18:51).
• Adrian Zmed (Johnny, T-Bird leader)
  • Dismissed by June as "unappealing" compared to other leads (19:22–19:28).
• Frenchie’s Bizarre Cameo
  • The retconning of her character is dissected for its narrative clumsiness, with June lamenting her diminished role (21:26–22:57).
• Pamela Adlon as Dolores
  • Jason is stunned to learn "Pam Adlon was the character Dolores," and dubs her “my favorite character.” (51:50–52:17)

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Notable Songs & Scenes: Delight and Disturbance

• Horny Musical Numbers
  • Reproduction (“stamen” and “pistol” references) is cited as both insane and cherished:

    “That whole number is thrilling to me.” — June (26:42) “Except for Reproduction ... and Cool Rider.” — June (53:01)

  • “Do It For Our Country” is called out as an explicit “date rape song”:

    “That is a date rape song. ... The song is basically guilting her into sex before the country.” — Jason (49:48–49:57)

• Opening Sequence Absurdity
  • The baffling, lyric-less dance number at the start is mocked:

    “A sure fire way to know that you’re not in a good musical is when your opening musical number has no one singing on screen.” — Paul (13:47)

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Outrageous Movie Details & Behind-the-Scenes Tidbits

• Accidental Nudity:
  • At 13:30, a track team extra’s testicles accidentally fall out mid-scene, a discovery that triggers peals of laughter and disbelief in the room:

    “Some dude’s junk falls out of his pants ... he’s trying to tuck them back in for the rest of the run.” — Paul (39:03–40:40)

• Rejected Cameos:
  • Sandy and Danny (Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta) were meant to cameo as the gas station owners but it fell through (41:03).
• Disjointed Production:
  • Paul reveals the script “was not written by the time they started shooting. ... Things are introduced [and] whether or not they come out in the wash, we don’t know.” (65:16)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “When you’re a child ... you’re not looking at movies to be good or bad. You’re so psyched to watch a movie.”
  — June Diane Raphael (06:11)
• “This movie is horny in a way that is like aimless.”
  — Jason Mantzoukas (13:23)
• “I wanted to be in there ... I wanted to get to that crazy zoo as quickly as possible.”
  — June Diane Raphael on longing for teenage chaos (50:20)
• “If you were held in a basement and watched this movie 200 times, you would also grow to love it.”
  — Paul Scheer (66:03)
• “Grease 1 is a prude and Grease 2 is a saucy foot ... like, I want to watch, like, a saucier movie, I’m gonna put on Grease 2.”
  — Jason & June riffing on the film’s horny energy vs. its predecessor (60:42–60:55)
• June leads a spirited, half-serious singalong of “Cool Rider,” reenacting beloved choreography while the gang eggs her on (33:00–33:44)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• June’s origin story with Grease 2: 03:47–06:11
• Sexual politics and feminist reading: 07:56–08:49
• Discussion of the unkillable T-Birds and their odd goals: 35:52–37:56
• Insane musical innuendo: Reproduction number: 26:36–27:37
• Accidental nudity (“the balls”): 39:03–40:40
• The “Do It For Our Country”/bunker date rape song: 45:38–46:45, 49:48–50:20
• Pamela Adlon (Dolores) revelation: 51:46–52:17
• Debate over the value of fast forwarding musical numbers: 63:37–64:33
• Final recommendations: 63:37–66:03

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Panel Recommendations

• Paul Scheer: Recommends watching, especially if you want to participate in the cultural conversation or wallow in so-bad-it’s good joy (65:05).
• Jason Mantzoukas: Endorses the movie for lovers of kitsch and camp, with the caveat that fast-forwarding through much of the music is warranted (63:37).
• June Diane Raphael: Endorses it wholeheartedly, connecting to the film’s spirit and fun despite (or because of) its flaws (54:09–54:48).
• Anna Faris: Also recommends, delighting in both the weird and iconic aspects and the group experience (64:48).

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Closing Thoughts

The episode is a riotous celebration/roast of a film whose failures are also its joys. Ultimately, “How Did This Get Made?” deems Grease 2 a time capsule: a testament to adolescent longing, female icons like Michelle Pfeiffer, and the power of repeated viewing (or Stockholm Syndrome). Whether you love it, hate it, or just can’t look away, Grease 2 has earned its place in the pantheon of movies that are “so bad they’re ... well, something else entirely.”

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Recommended For: Fans of musical misfires, pop culture autopsies, and listeners who love when a film can unite a room in laughter, confusion, embarrassment, and nostalgia—all at once.

Transcript

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[Paul Scheer]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Now it's time for.

[June Diane Raphael]

Remake.

[Paul Scheer]

How did Schwarzenegger grove in Baby in his Belly? Rock a Ronstone vest while ripping Justin the Kelly or maybe see a burlesque show with Nate Crow and take a boat with speed to hittin cruise control J Man Big Paul in the Beautiful June gonna take you from the goob all the way to the room Ran the games of Street Fighter help to blow off steam Just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green Sharknado the birdemic how we staying alive they call it in the badass and he's on the line cranking 88 minutes cause they cool as ice Cause the bad Jim Vonnie lookin kind and nice Paul and June gettin literal is getting laid June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid they judge a bunch of movies while they making the grade Here's 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 Faris. We are in the studio of Unqualified. And I'm joined as always by my two co hosts, Jason Mantzoukas.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hey.

[Paul Scheer]

And June. Diane Rayfield. How are you, June?

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm great. How are you, Paul?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Good.

[Paul Scheer]

It'd be weird if I said that our guest was not on a Ferris, but we were recording.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And our guest is, guess what, Julia Roberts.

[Paul Scheer]

We are very excited to have you to talk about this movie. Because this movie, I mean, it falls in the tradition of great musical sequels like Miss Saigon 2.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All Those more Chicago.

[Paul Scheer]

Hamilton 6. It's really good. 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 Grease two.

[June Diane Raphael]

Every single line.

[Paul Scheer]

Not me. Jason's you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's not me. So shockingly, Anna's you.

[Paul Scheer]

Not me, June.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's me. And here's why.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, boy.

[June Diane Raphael]

So when I was growing up, my neighbors, the Shirrings had a VHS player and they had two tapes, Grease 1 and Grease 2.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's so funny. I have the same story. Yes. Wait a minute, hang on a second. No, I have the same story, except with Grease one because I'm a little older. The first people that I knew that had a vcr, they had two movies, same Grease one and Hooper.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The Burt Reynolds Jan Michael Vincent vehicle. Which I would like to now do on this show.

[Anna Faris]

Later on.

[June Diane Raphael]

Absolutely. And later on we got a VHS player and I immediately got Grease one, Grease two. And we also got the movie Regarding Henry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

The Harrison Ford movie gets shot in.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The head that J.J. abrams wrote in college.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Wow. So this movie, to me, is everything.

[Paul Scheer]

And you never saw Grease 1?

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I've seen Grease 1, but I mean, many, many times. By the way, I preferred Greece 2.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow.

[Anna Faris]

I need to know. I know you're gonna give this to us, but why?

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, it's very hard because I feel like Greece 2, I was so obsessed with Michelle Pfeiffer in this movie. I was so obsessed with this cool.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Lady this movie has.

[Anna Faris]

Can I tell you that you sort of. You look like.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's like the highest praise anyone.

[Anna Faris]

Michelle Pfeiffer Ever given me. I want you to, like, climb a ladder.

[June Diane Raphael]

Physically, where she kicks over her leg on the ladder.

[Anna Faris]

I want you to ride.

[June Diane Raphael]

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 studied it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I get what you get.

[June Diane Raphael]

I watched it a million times, but it's so.

[Paul Scheer]

It's so oddly based because I feel.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like it doesn't add up.

[Paul Scheer]

It's just.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, 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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, sure.

[June Diane Raphael]

You're so psyched to watch a movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

Absolutely.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And back then you would watch it. Especially in that instance where you only had two tapes. You would watch it constantly and over.

[Paul Scheer]

But it's. But it's all sexual. I mean, that's the other thing, too. It's like, so you.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, I haven't seen it in, like, over a decade. Yeah, I haven't seen it since I was younger, but it held up for me in the way that it needed to for me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I bet.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow.

[June Diane Raphael]

I mean, Paul, you saw me watch it. I was so thrilled.

[Paul Scheer]

I've never seen her watch a movie for this show. More in rapt attention.

[June Diane Raphael]

I love it.

[Paul Scheer]

Cross legged crisscross applesauce. Watching this movie with a big smile on your face.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I can see that.

[Paul Scheer]

And sing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And sing the songs with a movie like this. Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

And the songs in this, I don't think are that great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I'm gonna. This is what I'm gonna say. This is what I'm gonna 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 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.

[Paul Scheer]

Awful. And they're all about sex.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I love Grease. I think Grease is. And I hate musicals. I loathe musicals. And I think Grease is. I feel about Grease the way you feel about Grease 2.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let me tell you, because I've seen both of them. I grew up on both of them. And let me tell you, Grease 2 for me as a young girl was more. I had way more to grab onto. When Stephanie Zanoni says, like, there's gotta be more to life than just making out, you know, there are. There are themes in this movie.

[Paul Scheer]

It's a feminist Grease. I mean, that's. I mean, that is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I see that.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm sure.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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 campus. She is obsessed with cool writers. Like, I get. By the way.

[Paul Scheer]

She is cool as shit. Like, I mean, anything I can take.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Away from this movie, she's Michelle Pfeiffer. Michelle, this movie for me has, like, all of my childhood crushes in one movie because the Seagal twins are mad. The Seagal twins are also in this movie. The twins from Double Trouble who I've talked about before. They are the true.

[Paul Scheer]

I didn't realize that they were the true.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They go on to be the Double Trouble twins in the 80s.

[Paul Scheer]

Weren't they blonde in that show?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In which show, Double Trouble. No, they're kind of brunettes.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I was obsessed with the Double Trouble girls. And I was. I had, like, a sexual awakening to Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie Lady Hawk. When Michelle Pfeiffer was in Lady Hawk, I lost my mind. And the fact that she dated Fisher 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 Pfeiffer. And I'm still coming for you, Michelle. David E. Kelly.

[Paul Scheer]

Where did that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Out of my way.

[June Diane Raphael]

As good as she did then?

[Paul Scheer]

She looks amazing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Unbelievable.

[Paul Scheer]

Where do you fall on this first time?

[Anna Faris]

Thank you, Paul. Thank you so much. I'm going to breathe heavily into the microphone, but no. Okay. I have a few thoughts. Of course I do, but I don't. All right. So, like, the corniness of, like, Bridal High. And, like, like, truly, when I started watching it because of your.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, we. Yeah, we made.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We made you watch it.

[Anna Faris]

You made me watch it again. And I had watched it As a child or whatever. And I liked Grease 1.

[June Diane Raphael]

But see, I thought you wanted to do this movie for the podcast.

[Anna Faris]

I did.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay. But because I was honestly like, oh, I did. This movie does not belong in this podcast.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Judy says to me in the way.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, it doesn't.

[Paul Scheer]

It does. No.

[June Diane Raphael]

And I thought, Anna, that you were coming it with the same love that I was. And I was like, great, I'd love to share in that.

[Anna Faris]

I just have a complicated relationship with Grease because of my mom. My mom was always like, a woman should never succumb to a man.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, you know, oh, she never change for a man.

[Paul Scheer]

So this movie would work for your mom really well, a little bit better.

[Anna Faris]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because the man changes. Or would she be like, nobody should change.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Would she be inherently the message behind either Grease is flawed. Yeah. But you should be accepting of who the people we are.

[Paul Scheer]

Right. Yeah. You should become somebody else.

[Anna Faris]

But, you know, like, ultimately, what she also doesn't realize is that I totally changed for all the three men I've dated, five men I've slept with. Let's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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.

[Paul Scheer]

It is a crazy. I mean, look at the base of this movie. It's stealing from a Steve Guttenberg film. Or a Steve Guttenberg film. Remember that movie Don't Tell Her It's Me, where he pretends to be, like, a biker to get a girl? Maybe it was only me. I was a big goot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't remember that. You were a big fan. You were a big goot Head.

[June Diane Raphael]

The scenes where he's driving around with her and he's wearing those goggles.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's a stranger.

[Paul Scheer]

He's a stranger.

[June Diane Raphael]

Can we also be better? What could be better? A leather jacket. What could be better?

[Anna Faris]

Itching to talk. You're so right, June. But I'm so itching to talk about the sexy teacher.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, Connie Stevens.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah. Let's do it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Talk about it.

[Paul Scheer]

Right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's Connie Stevens, right?

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. Yeah, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think so.

[Anna Faris]

Like boobies.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. And hair.

[Anna Faris]

And hair.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they keep talking about constantly has the hairspray.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, this movie also.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The sexual politics of this movie are pretty insane.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[Paul Scheer]

And who are people in their 30s.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Who are people in their 30s representing the attitudes of the 1930s written by.

[Paul Scheer]

Someone in the 80s.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Which is based on a movie that's kind of a cartoon of the 50s. And this is a cartoon of that.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's where my worldview, like, started.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And it's.

[Paul Scheer]

I've said this a cartoon of teenager.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I've said this about other movies. This movie is. This movie is horny in a way that is like aimless.

[Paul Scheer]

As I'm saying, it's like, it's like this. It's like, it's like Grease with a heart on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's like it's horny without any follow through.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, let's talk about the beginning of the movie. I would say that a sure fire way to know that you're not in a good musical is when your opening musical number has no one singing on screen.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Like the open musical number is like jittery Frankenstein dancing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Now.

[Paul Scheer]

You had a thought about this?

[Anna Faris]

Well, yeah, I did think like, I guess the logical thought is like, all right, you guys, everyone, let's all perform like the dance that we've been practicing all summer at 8:30am in like before, like the school flag. And we're gonna annoy everyone, but we're gonna do this shit. And like, you know, like a flash mob.

[Paul Scheer]

Like a flash mob. It's kind of like a big.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But it's in that musical sense when I couldn't.

[Anna Faris]

What I felt like, can you imagine? Like, Jason?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Okay, Anna. Okay, so listen, are we fighting?

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay.

[Anna Faris]

No, but listen, it's. Let's say it's June 20th.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Great.

[Anna Faris]

It's schools, like schools out for summer, Right. And I call you up and I'm like, hey. And I'm like, do we have a license?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Have we licensed that song?

[Anna Faris]

But I'm like, hey, Jason.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, Anna.

[Anna Faris]

Okay. Oh, God. So I really want to start practicing the dance number.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, for the first day of school. Dance number. Yeah. Yeah, we should start. We should start practicing.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, but you have to because it's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Coming up, you know, and every single person in school participates.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. So we gotta start on that now because. 8:30, you know, at like, when those buses pull up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

When those buses pull up, once they're halfway through hanging the flag.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Shit's gonna go down.

[Anna Faris]

So we gotta start doing that, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And that idiot with the cello.

[Anna Faris]

So if you don't start practicing with me.

[Paul Scheer]

Why did the T bird tape me?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You were so right.

[Anna Faris]

There was a huge, like, cello man. We did.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

So if you're not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

But that to me also, except for Michael Carrington.

[Paul Scheer]

Michael Carrington is deemed a nerd. Quite literally, just the most hunky guy right off the. Right out the gate.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, the glasses on. It's an accent. He's like.

[June Diane Raphael]

He has a breathy British accent. He's. He is an. You know what? I feel like they don't make him like this anymore. He's an old timey, like, dreamboat. Yep, A dreamboat.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That is a T shirt right there.

[June Diane Raphael]

He is. He's so great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What is missing for me in this movie? Sorry, go ahead, Paul.

[Paul Scheer]

No, I was gonna say there is a great New York magazine article that was written about him when the movie came out. And he is such a pompous German. It's one of the best.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Had he done. Was he famous for something else?

[June Diane Raphael]

Honestly, I don't know if I can hear this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know if I can hear this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What do you got?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, this is one of the lines that goes, you know, British accent, 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 Christie had written a mystery called Nemesis. Well, it's not very well known, is it? Or successful.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, my God.

[Paul Scheer]

He asked worriedly.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's like the Steven Seagal. Quote. The Steven Seagal quote, which is. He's in and off. 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 gonna do? Or whatever. What do you want to do? He goes, I've just read the most amazing script. And they said, really? 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 Seagal, but come on, it kind of works.

[Anna Faris]

I would so be guilty of that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Really?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like you would write a script and then tee it up for yourself that way?

[Anna Faris]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That is true. You are one of Hollywood's most successful illiterates.

[Anna Faris]

But I'm serious. Like.

[Paul Scheer]

Like you have someone in your ear saying it.

[Anna Faris]

Question, and I'll try to answer in like an incredibly pretentious way.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, okay. Anna, what was it like to work with Key and Peele in the movie Keanu?

[Anna Faris]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, that's great.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, by the way, that's almost. Listen to this answer. He goes. He goes. 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 airbrushing on the side and go down to Mexico with Juliet, his 41 year old wife. At 22 years old.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What?

[Paul Scheer]

And no. And no.

[June Diane Raphael]

Are they still together?

[Paul Scheer]

No, the kid gets left behind. Are you kidding? And I'm taking a shotgun. I've heard of those banditos.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, this kid's amazing.

[Anna Faris]

This guy's article is amazing, though.

[Paul Scheer]

You like him?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You like him?

[Anna Faris]

I didn't like him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, no, he's a dreamboater.

[Anna Faris]

But I'm with you.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like, they're both so dreamy. I mean, here's the thing. Watching it now that who's more dreamy.

[Paul Scheer]

Him or Adrian Zemed?

[June Diane Raphael]

Who's Adrian Zemed?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, wow. He's like the leader of the T birds.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, oh, of course.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Joey. Joey almost played by Macarelli.

[June Diane Raphael]

Or Johnny. Of course. Of course Johnny. He's not dreamy at all. To me, I find him to be unappealing.

[Anna Faris]

Isn't he always trying to make out with the other one?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's always trying to make Michelle Pfeiffer jealous by making out one.

[June Diane Raphael]

And by the way, I think he's great. He's amazing in this, but I don't find him dreamy.

[Paul Scheer]

I think he would be more amazing in it if I never saw Danny Zuko. Cause I feel like it's just like a community theater version of Danny Zuko. And I don't mean that.

[June Diane Raphael]

No. Because Michelle is Danny. I mean, Stephanie Zanoni is Danny Zuko.

[Paul Scheer]

But he is Danny.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But he's portraying. He occupies the same.

[June Diane Raphael]

We don't care for him. Like, we care about.

[Paul Scheer]

Correct.

[June Diane Raphael]

Stephanie Zanoni or Danny Zuko.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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 songs in Greece are story songs. 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. The bowling song is. It's not forwarding the story at all.

[Paul Scheer]

They are song breaks that are veiled references to sex.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Which are just sexy songs. But they're. They're really, a lot of times just like kind of choruses without verses.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, agreed.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Which is not fun to watch at all. And the songs in Greece are so compelling. You know what I mean? 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?

[June Diane Raphael]

Boom.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's an incredible.

[Paul Scheer]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, Frenchie.

[Paul Scheer]

Frenchie comes back.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Frenchie comes back to go to school.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. To. She may go take a high school class on chemistry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's correct.

[Paul Scheer]

This is 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 main characters. Nope. You get this. A stop in the music. And then this. Frenchie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hello.

[Paul Scheer]

Hi.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thanks for meeting me.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You did say you were the one.

[Paul Scheer]

Who know the ropes around here.

[June Diane Raphael]

Ah, ropes are my specialty. See, I used to go to Rydell before I dropped out to go to beauty school, but then I flunked hinting when my hair turned pink.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Pink.

[Paul Scheer]

So that. That is that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, there's more of that. Like, Frenchie really has to justify her existence.

[Paul Scheer]

And by the way, I've done a.

[Anna Faris]

Beauty school in my house. Can't do it, Frenchie. June, can you do it?

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I can't do it. I do. It did make me very. When I saw her in the movie, I was Reminded of how good Grease one was and how good even a song like Beauty School Dropout, which is not great song, Beauty School Dropout. It is. And it isn't. Like, not. There are many songs that are so much better in Greece 1. But it sort of a song like the songs that are in Grease 2, which are sort of meaningless, you know, but. But it's so well done in Grease 1.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Here's a real thing.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

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 Zanoni 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 Ms. Mickey?

[Paul Scheer]

Whoa.

[June Diane Raphael]

I had a really. I was watching Ms. McGee's performance. Huh? Ms. McGee and Blanche are a comedic.

[Paul Scheer]

I think that that is great.

[June Diane Raphael]

By the way, they're from Grease one. They're just amazing together. I'm upset, obsessed with the two of them. Blanche is just phenomenal, but so is Ms. McGee. Oh, yeah, she's doing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You'll get no argument from me.

[June Diane Raphael]

Great work out there.

[Paul Scheer]

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[Anna Faris]

The weird song where they're talking about.

[Paul Scheer]

Like reproductive amazing stamen pistol.

[June Diane Raphael]

That whole number is thrilling to me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's sex thrill. Horny. The movie is horny.

[Anna Faris]

We have to talk about the idea, I think of Michelle Pfeiffer's virginity.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like I don't see her as a virgin.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think what's her name, the blonde is a virgin.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes, Paulette is. But I. It's interesting.

[Anna Faris]

I think they try to like have it each way.

[Paul Scheer]

Like they don't call out that she's having a lot of sex.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, but to me she's probably. Remember when she left with Johnny four?

[Anna Faris]

I don't know.

[June Diane Raphael]

I think yes.

[Anna Faris]

Cause remember she was 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 gonna wait for it.

[Paul Scheer]

I think. I think you're right, because I feel like all these people, like, all the groups. 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 it a little bit.

[June Diane Raphael]

That changes everything. Cause 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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I wonder if we're not gonna be able to come up with this answer, but I would love for people to weigh in.

[Anna Faris]

Let's call Michelle Pfeiffer right now.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would love to know, like, this. This. Because this movie is 1980s obsessed in. With virginity. You know, like. Like, virginity. Like. Like, was. Losing it is the. Is the title of Tom Cruise's first movie. Right.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way, Tom Cruise is supposed to play the Adrian Cement part.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Amazing. Sure thing. Like, these are movies that are entirely predicated on teenagers losing their virginity.

[Paul Scheer]

Porkies.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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. The necessity of losing it. Or, you know, like. Like, they. You know, they. In this movie, it's.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, it's always, like, one character. It's like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[Paul Scheer]

I guess American Pie is the closest thing that was, like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Sure. 20 years old now.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, it must be.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, you're right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's interesting.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Are millennials as post virginity. Are millennials post virginity? Like, obviously, I'm sure they as people are obsessed with their own virginities, et cetera, but they're not seeing it portrayed the way we all were.

[Paul Scheer]

Because that's special.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because. And I think that something else is happening, which is that they're all just.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Fingering each other's buttholes.

[June Diane Raphael]

They're probably fingering each other. But also, I think people are coming out.

[Paul Scheer]

Out.

[June Diane Raphael]

Coming out with their sexuality and also coming out with their identity.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I also.

[June Diane Raphael]

And that's more important than.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I also think porn.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, really?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I also think everybody's watching porn since they're like little kids now it's all online, so they'd like the idea of like a mist.

[June Diane Raphael]

The idea was always around.

[Paul Scheer]

Not this way though. Not this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, like, porn was like finding the woods.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But like, like gone are the days where in order to see like a naked woman, you had to like, like, you know, in. As represented in movies, find like a hole in a wall that you could look into the girl's desktop.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I. I think there isn't as much.

[Paul Scheer]

It scratches an itch.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I. Yeah. I wonder if losing your virginity has the same weight. I don't. I'm curious. Maybe this is old man talk. Anna Faris is eating her own birthday cake. Happy birthday, honey.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, it does bum me out too, actually.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm genuinely curious and I don't know, maybe this is like, to young listeners, they're rolling their eyes, aren't they?

[June Diane Raphael]

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 Jack and nerds have always. Yeah, I don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, now nerds are jocks though.

[Paul Scheer]

Now the movie would be about like the T birds going to that British guy to take cool Instagram photos and they would steal the credit for the photo instead of papers.

[Anna Faris]

I will say if somebody went to the trouble of writing like a bunch of like, fake like, papers and whatnot for me and like, and then ended up up, like buying a motorcycle for me and fixed it up and ended up like, I'd be like, fuck you. I have no self esteem. So, like, I'm not gonna accept this.

[Paul Scheer]

So wait, you have no, like, so you're saying.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why would you, you would say that out of you not having sex? Because I feel like you'd be like, you don't have self esteem. You should have only represented yourself as a British man in a blazer. You shouldn't have had to change.

[Anna Faris]

That's what I'm saying. Like, he wanted to change for me. Fuh. That means that I have to.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're both disasters then.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, we're all disasters.

[June Diane Raphael]

See, this is the way I see it. As different as it's to me. It's not that he wanted to change for her, or that he even did change for her. Cause I felt in Grease 1, she was definitely making a choice. 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 Grease 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 it's not as stark a change.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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 wants. As exemplified in the song Cool Rider. He hears from me to sing it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Or should I just sing it?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He hears who sings Cool Rider. Go ahead.

[Anna Faris]

Okay.

[June Diane Raphael]

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 to put skin. Guys, it's so fun.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You wanted to see this.

[Anna Faris]

I know you have to climb this ladder.

[June Diane Raphael]

I want to watch June do it as the wind. And one fine night I'll be holding on tight to a coup.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's so fans.

[Anna Faris]

No, you have fans.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You have the vocal track.

[Paul Scheer]

Go fans.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You have the vocal track.

[June Diane Raphael]

If you don't, don't.

[Anna Faris]

If you don't continue.

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Anna Faris]

Goes, yeah, I need a.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's the way it's going to be. Cool. Cuz it's the way that I feel. I want to. I wanna win. I'm gonna be mad now. I can't remember any of it. It's so good.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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 storyline wherein they become friends, wherein he's helping her with her English paperwork, her English homework.

[June Diane Raphael]

And they have one scene together.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But there's like a couple scenes where they show them. Because I think it would have been insane. Because he starts the movie, he's asking her out constantly. Can you meet me after school? Will you go out with me? And she's like, take a hint. The answer is no. But this is a movie where 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.

[Paul Scheer]

Here's because you have this code. You can't date me because of the code.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But that's not why she's not interested in him.

[June Diane Raphael]

Here's the thing. No, of course not. But I.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's not interested in him. Cause he's like a nerd. He's a nerd.

[June Diane Raphael]

I was coming out of Greece one with Sandy and the poodle skirts to watch Stephanie Zanoni 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. I was. I mean, there's something to be said about the response to Grease one for. I mean, ultimately, I wish the story had been. 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 with.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Date the best rider like the movie could be. Why can't I be in the T birds?

[June Diane Raphael]

Right? Especially because she seems to be a mechanic.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She is quite possibly the most qualified person to ride a motorcycle in the entire room.

[Paul Scheer]

Do you want to talk just for a second about the T birds Also because I don't understand the T birds here because the T birds seemingly are not like, really a motorcycle gang, or at least comparatively.

[Anna Faris]

But they're very funny.

[June Diane Raphael]

They.

[Paul Scheer]

They're like a bunch.

[Anna Faris]

They riff like things.

[June Diane Raphael]

They.

[Paul Scheer]

But they're, like, missing a leader. Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

Say really funny things like, oh, yo, you want this cake? Oh, I don't even know if I want this cake.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[Anna Faris]

But it's very funny.

[Paul Scheer]

They also are like. They're like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They say things like, I'm going to help her out with her condition. She's a nymph.

[Paul Scheer]

Nymphoid.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nymphoid.

[Anna Faris]

What kind of.

[Paul Scheer]

Whoa.

[June Diane Raphael]

Whoa.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is this where you tell us you auditioned to play one of the T birds in this movie? Yo. Oh, hey, yo, you're not going to. Is more Stallone.

[Anna Faris]

This is our locker.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

More like Rocky.

[Anna Faris]

This is my locker. No one's taking this locker away from us.

[Paul Scheer]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, and they're also.

[Paul Scheer]

No one's gonna.

[June Diane Raphael]

They've got a rep to produce you.

[Anna Faris]

And I, not no one else.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they.

[Paul Scheer]

And they don't.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They don't fight.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm scared let's go bring a girl down to a shelter. Try to.

[June Diane Raphael]

In my mind. In my mind. Like their power had been diminished from Greece 1 to Grease 2. But I was okay with that.

[Paul Scheer]

They don't work on motorcycles. All they want to do is win a talent show. This is a fucking movie about.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are obsessed with.

[Anna Faris]

They never got to get this spring.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are obsessed with four part harmony. They're obsessed with four part harmony.

[Paul Scheer]

And the only people they beat up are nerds who are good at three part harmony. They hate musical nerds. That's all they hate.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's not cool.

[Paul Scheer]

They don't ever work on them. You barely see their motorcycles. You see their motorcycles in one scene.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In two scenes. And more importantly, there is a true. Like Michelle Pfeiffer should be dating the leader of the motorcycle rival gang. The man, like the 40 year old who. Thank you.

[Anna Faris]

Who like, like, like rides across the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The track. Yes. She should be that. The story should be.

[June Diane Raphael]

He was the same actor who played. I love it. Yes, I think so. So we're just. Which I think is the right choice. Like, he's super senior. He's always there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's McConaughey.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait, isn't his name Crater Face or.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, it was in Grease 1.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They cut and they reference it in Grease 2.

[Anna Faris]

But actually he was really hot and. But it was a little bit weird that he did go with 40 other motorcycle buddies across the track and then they decide to go bowling together.

[Paul Scheer]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Really? That does not surprise me.

[Paul Scheer]

It kind of actually answers a lot of questions for me. Another little fact here. This is for people at home that have not seen the movie. At 13 minutes and 30 seconds, hit that pause button because some dude's junk falls out of his pants.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Really?

[Paul Scheer]

A guy running track his. And I've watched it now. His testicles fall out of his shorts and he's trying to tuck them back in for the rest of the run. And it's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's June. I can't. As a child, you didn't. You weren't clocking the balls.

[Anna Faris]

Can I ask June, like, like woman to woman?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, boy, here we go.

[Anna Faris]

When a man's balls fall out of his shorts, it's like kind of secretly hot, right?

[June Diane Raphael]

Not to me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is humanity. This is how we are.

[Anna Faris]

Think about this.

[June Diane Raphael]

I can tell you it is not.

[Anna Faris]

Kind of hot, though. Not really though. Let's think about it. When you really think about, like, Some sweet balls. Like falling right out of.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, right out of, like, a pair of dolphin shorts.

[June Diane Raphael]

No.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were involved.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[Anna Faris]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Are you looking at it?

[June Diane Raphael]

Picture.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, wow. What you're attracted to is the unexpected reveal of genitalia.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, that's a great shot of it, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're like, I'm not supposed to see this.

[Paul Scheer]

This is balls till you do it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, my God, that's amazing.

[Paul Scheer]

13:30, everybody.

[June Diane Raphael]

Unsettling.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, not as unsettling as this, where they take out all the sound and you hear.

[June Diane Raphael]

What is this?

[Paul Scheer]

It's very loud. Wet mouth kissing. I'll play it again. This is when they finally kiss.

[Anna Faris]

All right.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, I mean.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Gross. Gross. I don't like it.

[Paul Scheer]

I do want to just give you a couple facts that I thought were funny. Sandy. Or not Sandy, what is her name? Michelle Pfeiffer. Stephanie, the gas station that you worked at, that's where John Travolta and Sandy were gonna cameo as the owners of that gas station.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, interesting. Wonderful.

[Anna Faris]

I don't want them owning.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't want them still together. How many years after Grease 1 is Grease 2 meant to take place?

[June Diane Raphael]

That's a great question.

[Paul Scheer]

It takes place in 1961, this movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, really?

[Anna Faris]

You've dashed all my dreams.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I have.

[Anna Faris]

Jason Mensukas.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Can you accept my apology?

[Anna Faris]

No, you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow. Things are not good between me and Guest, Anna Faris.

[June Diane Raphael]

Guest?

[Anna Faris]

Fuck you.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, so Greece takes place in 1959. Greece 2 takes place in 1961.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh. Three years is the difference. So these were freshmen when Danny Zuko was a senior. Is that what you're telling me?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So you're telling me these people have witnessed the events of Greece 1 and are participating in.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They should look at their lives and be like, you know what? We've already seen Danny Zuko go through this. Remember when that.

[Paul Scheer]

When they.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That car flew up into the sky.

[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

Who's that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Goose?

[Paul Scheer]

No. Is the main guy Holden Caulfield? Whatever.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, Michael Caulfield.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Is there the same person? Because they wear the same eyewear.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, I see. Oh, that's cool. Also, by the way. And I mean, like. And I get it, it's for the romantic, you know, 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. And he has a very recognizable jawline. And she is like. I don't know who he is. Cause he's.

[June Diane Raphael]

I will say, though, his accent drops away.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why?

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know why on earth. But what's interesting about his accent, initially, like, when he first enters the school, he speaks as though he's. He doesn't know English.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Well. And that kid is talking to him like, how long have you been in America?

[Paul Scheer]

I thought that was an okay joke for this.

[June Diane Raphael]

I think there's some great jokes in here. This 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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

There's definitely jokes. There's definitely solid jokes in this movie.

[Paul Scheer]

Airplane 2 style jokes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And that's actually what they are.

[June Diane Raphael]

They are. I appreciated them.

[Paul Scheer]

I wanted to. Before we wrap it up, I do want to talk about the. The sex in the bunker scene.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, let's do it for America.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, let's do it for America. Let's play it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, let's do it for our country.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The red, white and the blue.

[Paul Scheer]

It's Uncle Sam who's asking.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So your mother will have room.

[June Diane Raphael]

Tomorrow. Fighting. I'm gonna win this war for you. Our country wants us to.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I just picture you like a little kid, June running around singing that song. And your parents being like, oh, I'm sure I did.

[June Diane Raphael]

I would sing reproduction all the time.

[Paul Scheer]

Reproduction is also a section.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, absolutely. Even know what I'm pistol is. I got you a pistol right here.

[Anna Faris]

One of the best joys I've had to your audience so good is watching June sing like lyric by lyric.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And the.

[Paul Scheer]

She was.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The old fashioned joy the whole movie, by the way.

[Paul Scheer]

I just love that if you can't see it, but. But she just did like with her. Rolled her fingers like.

[June Diane Raphael]

I got you a pistol right here.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's. I wish you could all. I want to watch. I want to have watched it with you.

[June Diane Raphael]

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. Paulette really does like Johnny and Michelle Fife or Stephanie Zanoni's had this relationship with Johnny. There's no competition between the Pink Ladies.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And there's no stalker channel. There's no stalker. Channing, what's the character?

[June Diane Raphael]

One of the most amazing characters. The end song on Grease. One that she sings about having had an or almost being pregnant.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, by the way, they also just dropped that as a runner in this movie. She's like, I missed my period. Yeah, like what? And then it's like we don't follow that character at all.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, but it's a great joke. And Ms. McGee, it's a great joke.

[June Diane Raphael]

Kills that scene.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a great line.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, she does.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a great line. It's a great look from her. Oh, honey, it's okay, honey, honey, you can make them up. And then I will say that when they get into the Motorcycle chase with British guy, and he goes off the jump, and they think he's died. They are very casual about being murderers. The T birds are super casual about having just murdered someone. And then they're like. And everybody goes to the talent show and they perform. Everybody.

[June Diane Raphael]

This is my one complaint about the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Everybody's pretty casual about having murdered someone is that.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't think they should have pulled back on that. Actually.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He should have died.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I don't think he should have died. I think when they say 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.

[Paul Scheer]

An abyss.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Like a corner.

[June Diane Raphael]

And really not know whether he's alive or dead.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay. Because I think that's how they were playing.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, but they said so many times, nothing's there. Nothing's there. And when I watch this movie, I mean, I'm in every moment. I am suspending my.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Very clearly.

[June Diane Raphael]

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 understand.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Daphne Zenega doesn't think that. She is devastated.

[June Diane Raphael]

But if they don't see him down there, though, then where they'll find him in the morning. That's what I don't understand, Jason. They are not seeing with their eyeballs that he is not in that pit.

[Paul Scheer]

Where do you see that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think they're looking down into the pit, and they don't see anything obvious, but they don't see it 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.

[Anna Faris]

Right.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

Because I also wanted to see, like, a Sherlock. How did he survive? I want to see.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I want to see it put together.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. I want to see him explaining how.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He'S practicing that jump specifically.

[Paul Scheer]

You know, that man's curb. Did he set up those road signs? But can we just go back to the. You guys were not disturbed by the scene. That is a date rape song.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, that is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The song is crazy. The song is basically guilting her into sex before the cunt because there's a guy outside. Mom won't even mind.

[Anna Faris]

Say, sex before the cunt.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What? No, for the country.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, I thought you just said sex before the cunt, which I Sort of.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Loved, which is the name of my.

[Anna Faris]

In the second album before the Cunt.

[June Diane Raphael]

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. I was like, get me in that zoo.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

I want to get to that crazy zoo as quickly as possible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's that feeling of. That feeling of wanting to be a teenager is huge.

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I get it. I get. I can see why this would be attractive because Michelle Pfeiffer is a. A fucking badass up and down in this movie.

[Paul Scheer]

She's the best.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's the best.

[June Diane Raphael]

She's never chewing, like five pieces of.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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.

[Paul Scheer]

I really realize that. That is a huge.

[June Diane Raphael]

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 five.

[Paul Scheer]

But that's what you do.

[June Diane Raphael]

I know. I've never been able to have one piece of gum. And I. Maybe it started. I can and I won't. I'd rather have none.

[Paul Scheer]

If I buy a pack of gum, it's gone in two settings because I'm gonna have gum.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm gonna have at least three pieces and one sitting.

[Paul Scheer]

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 gotta just throw gum at her.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

One of my favorite characters that we have not touched on at all is the character named Dolores, who is the pink lady's intern, basically, who writes the.

[Anna Faris]

Hot one with a picture.

[Paul Scheer]

Pamela Adelon.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, it's not.

[Paul Scheer]

Tyler. Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Shut your mouth.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Was that Pam Adlon?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait. Shut up. Everybody shut up.

[June Diane Raphael]

Nobody's speaking.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Shut up in the house.

[June Diane Raphael]

Nobody has said anything.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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.

[Paul Scheer]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, interesting.

[Paul Scheer]

But, yeah, but they got. They got them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I thought that character was hilarious.

[Paul Scheer]

She was Great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love when she was like, oh, this broad.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hilarious.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Even more hilarious.

[June Diane Raphael]

This broad.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This bride's killing me. You wish. I love that.

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's the best. That character and her dynamic with British guy I also like.

[June Diane Raphael]

So great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And she's like, we can't see each other anymore because I've got another guy going on. I thought it was. That was really good. There's good stuff in here, but the songs are truly reprehensible.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. And they're.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Except for the one.

[Paul Scheer]

Except one thing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Reproduction.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Except for Reproduction, which is on.

[June Diane Raphael]

And Cool Rider. And who's that Guy?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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. Because there's a lot of people who have to say, who's that guy?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, obviously.

[June Diane Raphael]

And also, let's do it for our country. And also.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Bad song.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that's a bad song.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a bad song. The message behind that song is, we're gonna score tonight is also not good.

[Paul Scheer]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's like.

[Paul Scheer]

It is a bowling song. It just is a bowling song. Obviously, we had an opinion about this movie. There are people out there that had a different opinion. It is now time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But, ooh, the look on June's face.

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What you love about it is not musical. But it is a musical.

[June Diane Raphael]

But it is a musical. That's right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, except for Cool Rider. Who's that guy reproduction all of them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Except for all the songs.

[Paul Scheer]

All the songs, obviously.

[June Diane Raphael]

That song she sings when she's playing Winter.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Crazy Dream sequence. That song too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Where he's like suddenly in like different.

[Paul Scheer]

Gear, talking from a pile of burnt.

[June Diane Raphael]

Motorcycle and let's do it for America.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, obviously we have a second opinion and so does June. Or people have a second opinion. So does June.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That.

[Paul Scheer]

Time for second opinions.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What do they do to show a different view?

[June Diane Raphael]

They get a second opinion. Amazon review. It's a five star review in the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

For someone like you, it's a second opinion. I love that.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's amazing.

[Paul Scheer]

That was Chelsea Cannon.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Chelsea Cannon, best second opinion theme song ever.

[Paul Scheer]

Really good for Chelsea.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That is it. That is the bar. Try and beat it, assholes.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, so this is 5 star reviews culled from Amazon. This one is first written by Richard Beaman. Okay, sure, it's not the original Grease, 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 Grease 3 never came around. It'd be like north and South, Book three, totally unnecessary and empty, no matter how well it was done.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, what's that?

[Paul Scheer]

I don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is that some books?

[Paul Scheer]

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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, God.

[Paul Scheer]

And we'd like to see them again for fun. 5 stars.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A movie that puts all of these people, the characters from one and two, into one movie.

[Paul Scheer]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, you could make Grease 3 as a reunion movie. You know, a reunion movie for that.

[Paul Scheer]

Age group, the older principles. Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It would take place Interestingly if Grease 3 starred all the original actors at their, like 50 year reunion. It would take place in the 90s.

[Paul Scheer]

I would like that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That would be neat. Or their 40 year reunion. It would be like the 90s.

[Anna Faris]

I don't know. I'm thinking like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And June. You could be in it.

[Anna Faris]

Alaska, like global warming. Is, like, setting in, like, there's a small. Like, this is the theme village of getting. Yeah, that's sort of like getting, you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Know, like, less and less snow.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, the shores coming, like, creeping, creeping, creeping slowly, and they decide to have, like, some kind of, like, A Midsummer Night's Dream celebration.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Of course, that's a musical that is Grease related.

[Anna Faris]

And.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, no, keep going. You got this.

[Paul Scheer]

This one is from Victoria English. I've only seen bits and pieces of the original Grease, 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.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. And it's sort of like, must we compare it to the original?

[Paul Scheer]

I think you'd have to.

[Anna Faris]

That's right.

[June Diane Raphael]

That would be a mistake.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But I will. And. But I'm gonna, like. I will back June up in the sense that, like, I like the story of Grease 2 more than the story of Grease 1.

[June Diane Raphael]

Me, too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know, like, I like this story. I just. I think the songs are really boring.

[Paul Scheer]

One of the things that pops up in these reviews, too, is everyone that loves this movie has seen it and quoted. I've seen it 200 times. I've seen it 300 times. I've seen it 45 times.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think for a lot of people, it probably existed in a similar way to June, which is. It was VHS or something. Whoa.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I'm sure over 200, you think?

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, there was a period. There was one summer. I actually remember watching it almost every day.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. I mean, there were two movies. It was so awesome to watch a movie that I probably watched it every day. So that's a summer of seeing it. Yeah. I see over 200 times.

[Paul Scheer]

How about that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

Geez.

[June Diane Raphael]

I mean, I know if you were to play it right now, I could probably do every line from the movie.

[Paul Scheer]

You were doing it.

[June Diane Raphael]

I was, Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I can't explain myself, but I like Grease 2 more than the original.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, Paul, are you speaking for yourself?

[Paul Scheer]

I'm speaking as Gina. I can't explain myself, but I like Grease 2 more than the original Grease. 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.

[Anna Faris]

I get it.

[Paul Scheer]

And then this is the other one. That again, this is just one other one that's almost like a haiku. Love it. Could watch it every week. Can't watch it enough. LoveGreece1, too. I'm not sure what else to say. Five stars all around. Fun, sing along movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I get it. I get the appreciation of the movie. I just.

[June Diane Raphael]

To me, I remember watching Grease 1 and I loved it. But Grease 1, I remember thinking was a. Was a bit of a bore compared to this. Grease one was a bit of a.

[Paul Scheer]

That's what everyone says here. Everyone says Greece 1 is a bore. Greece 2 is amazing.

[June Diane Raphael]

If you really want to, like, have some fun.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa.

[June Diane Raphael]

You're gonna want to watch Grease.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So basically we can. What you're saying is, like, Grease 1 is a prude and Grease 2 is a sauce.

[June Diane Raphael]

Grease 2 is like, horny foot. Yeah, absolutely. Like, I want to watch, like, a saucier movie. Like, I'm gonna put on Grease too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I think that's.

[June Diane Raphael]

Sure.

[Anna Faris]

Can I ask you guys one last question? Oh, no.

[June Diane Raphael]

I know you.

[Paul Scheer]

No, go ahead. No.

[Anna Faris]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

Sunglasses.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Mm. She is. She's wearing sunglasses constantly in the movie.

[Anna Faris]

So what happened? Did she, like, bright, can we work this out?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, I think this was, like. It was cool. Quote, unquote.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, she was like, yeah, it was.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And when she takes them off. And when she takes them off is when she becomes vulnerable.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, I do think. I do think this idea of being cool was such a teenage idea, and I do wonder if it's. If it has that currency anymore, similar to what you're saying about losing your virginity. Like. Cause. 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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You should, but.

[Anna Faris]

Yeah. Yeah. What about me?

[June Diane Raphael]

But I mean, maybe there are certain people I think of, like, amazing style, or I can appreciate their aesthetic, whatever, but.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But go through the room and say who's cool and who's not cool?

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

She keeps the list. It's in her bullet journal.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, but I do wonder if kids now conceive of it in that way of, like, you're either like, stephanie Zanoni was so cool. Like, do they still think of kids as. Are we post cool? Is everybody just, like, on. You know, everybody's got their own YouTube channel, and that's great, or I think.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It'S cool is more of the question. Cause I'm sure there is still a hierarchy, but what is it predicated on now? That's what I Wonder, I wonder what? I know I'm gonna regret this. What do you wonder?

[Anna Faris]

I wonder when the fuck you're gonna stop talking. Cause I'm bored.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I love you.

[Paul Scheer]

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 61 9.

[Anna Faris]

I love you.

[Paul Scheer]

Just I love you. 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 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 the scenes 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.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like not yeah, for me, absolutely. But 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.

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because this movie is straight up two hours long. I would speed through the entirety of the opening first day of school.

[Paul Scheer]

That's like 11 minutes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Love that moment.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then they end it. It's worth the whole thing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In fact, it's not. But I also, if you like jumping.

[Paul Scheer]

I prefer the end of the movie where they all jump and it freezes. I like that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you think, oh, I wonder if I could fast forward right now. You can, but 100% watch.

[Anna Faris]

Okay. My two cents. As on affairs, Jason Manduka hit me on the shoulder. It still hurts. So it turns out he's weirdly strong, but also he can't eat eggs. So yes, I recommend Grease too.

[Paul Scheer]

I, I, I also recommend, I recommend this movie because it's not, it's not all, it's not bad. It's just.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And it.

[Paul Scheer]

This is. I did some research on it and I found out simply this. The script was not written by the time they started shooting.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, wow.

[Paul Scheer]

So Dee Dee Cohn 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 not in it. It's like they rewrote the script throughout shooting that her character was eliminated. So I feel like that's what you're watching. A lot of the substitute teacher comes in Tap Hunter and his story is like, man, everybody's like kind of things are introduced and whether or not they come out in the wash, we don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a mess of a movie, but it's not. But there's.

[Paul Scheer]

It's in that way.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's so much joy in it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But June is what June loves about it is. There is.

[Paul Scheer]

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

[Anna Faris]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you had Stockholm syndrome for this movie.

[Paul Scheer]

This is a Stockholm syndrome.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You would also think it. It was good.

[Anna Faris]

Who's gonna chain me into a basement?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, boy.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, it would be like a sloth from Goonies if he was watching Grease do.

[Anna Faris]

Someone chain me into it's room.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's room with one vhs.

[Anna Faris]

Make me watch Grease do.

[Paul Scheer]

That's that.

[Anna Faris]

Never. Never.

[Paul Scheer]

You'll win an Oscar. You'll win an Oscar for the Jason keeps you in a basement.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I watch make you watch Grease too.

[June Diane Raphael]

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

[Anna Faris]

Can I please like a little more split pee or.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, keep watching. You'll get soup. When you know all the lyrics to Cool Rider.

[Anna Faris]

I'm a cool, cool writer.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, God.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, my God.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Cut that into the song phase.

[Paul Scheer]

Anna, you have an amazing podcast that we've all been guests on now, and you should definitely check it out. It's called Anna Faris Unqualified. It comes out every Tuesday. 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?

[Anna Faris]

I would say, actually Paul Scheer.

[Paul Scheer]

No.

[Anna Faris]

Yes, Paul Scheer and Jason Manzoukas and now June Diane Raphael and then also your hit show. And I thank you so much for being here.

[Paul Scheer]

Your hit show is on CBS.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Killing It Thursday nights at 9pm Yeah.

[Anna Faris]

I guess it's called Mom.

[Paul Scheer]

It is called Mom.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And that's the Title. It is called Mom.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, it's a long.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, really?

[Paul Scheer]

It is called Mom. Wait, what was it the show is called? It is called Mom.

[Anna Faris]

Oh, okay.

[Paul Scheer]

It is called Mom. All right, Jason, what do you want to plug?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

As of right now, you have had two weeks to watch Gilmore Girls. I am on the episode called Spring, guys. My dreams all came true.

[Anna Faris]

Gilgal are spring.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you, honey. Watch the four episodes of Gilmore Girls, A year in the Life. And also, and this is going sideways completely from our podcast network, but there is an amazing podcast right now called Crime Town.

[June Diane Raphael]

Ooh, I'm writing that down.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That is unreal. Every good rhyme, every season is a. 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 time. Buddy seancing. No, it is like a documentary series. Podcast documentary.

[June Diane Raphael]

So if it's on gimlet. Things that we like. I've been really into the CNBC show the Prophets, starring Marcus Lemon, and he's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A nice Greek man. He's a nice Greek man.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's a nice, lovely Greek man.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love that show as well.

[Anna Faris]

We're talking about things we like. I like Daniel Tiger's neighborhood.

[June Diane Raphael]

I do, too.

[Paul Scheer]

Me too. That's amazing.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know what that is for Halloween. Oh, it's amazing. It's a child's show.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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, ooh, boy, that's worrisome.

[Paul Scheer]

You could definitely check me out on that star show, Blunt Talk with Patrick Stewart. I think I am on this week. Or I was on last week.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nice.

[Paul Scheer]

Figure it out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Watch it.

[Paul Scheer]

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 to Avril Halley, who gets all of our clips. You can follow her on Movie Bitches on YouTube. July Diaz, who does all the listening and making sure the show sounds good. Nate Kiley does all of our research. Mrs. Itzel puts it all together. Leanna Waldron designs all of our cool stuff. And everybody at Earwolf, thank you so much. Bye. Bye.

[June Diane Raphael]

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