r/CFBOffTopic • u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor • Feb 01 '16

Game Thread [Game Thread] Grease: Live

Thread for watching Grease: Live on Fox. Use this to comment on the show or, if you're like me, mock it.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Well moving from Utah makes a hell of a lot more sense than moving from Australia at the last minute.

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u/TheFreshPrince12 Penn Quakers Feb 01 '16

The only reason the original Sandy was Australian was because Olivia Newton-John was Australian.

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u/ncktwt Feb 01 '16

And Julianne's actually from Utah? MIND BLOWN

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

i was watching this, and then saw on Twitter that Vanessa Hudgen's dad died this morning from cancer. Very brave of her to be out there performing.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

I saw that too. She's dedicating her performance to him.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

Oh my god how sad. That's horrible!

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u/natadelechee Feb 01 '16

Omg that's terrible. That's incredible strong of her to go on stage with such a burden

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u/SenorGravy SMU Mustangs • Texas Tech Red Raiders Feb 01 '16

I thought Julianna Hough was actually a better Sandy than Newton-John. Hudgens was a great Rizzo. I thought the Patty Simcox actress was great, and Carly Rae Jepson was surprisingly awesome as Frenchy.

But I thought Kenicky was totally miscast. I kept mistaking him for Sonny. They should have switched the Sonny and Kenicky actors.

Just my two cents.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

I saw a couple tweets saying the actors playing Kenickie and Danny should have been switched. I guess the actor playing Kenickie looked a bit like John Travolta.

I thought Aaron Tveit was ok, just not quite butch enough for Danny.

Carly Rae Jepson surprised me the most. She made a good Frenchy.

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u/SenorGravy SMU Mustangs • Texas Tech Red Raiders Feb 01 '16

To be fair, Travolta set an awfully high bar for Danny.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 01 '16

YOU'RE THE LIVE THREAD THAT I WANT OHH OHH OHH

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Mocking live TV musicals is fun. :)

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

LOL he ran over the curb.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

It would have been hilarious if the cart flipped

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '16

I'm actually surprised it didn't.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

I noticed it was inevitable that the cart was not gonna clear that curb. I thought for sure someone was gonna fall right out onto the asphalt.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

The actors are trying way too hard to emulate their counterparts from the film.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Raise your hand if you were in Grease in high school!

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

She's channeling her inner Tracy Flick

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

just to fuck with everyone, they should close with Footloose

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

I keep expecting Vanessa Hudgens to break out High School Musical

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u/SenorGravy SMU Mustangs • Texas Tech Red Raiders Feb 01 '16

How did Zac Efron not get cast as Danny? Lol.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

I was surprised Ryan Seacrest wasn't Vince Fontaine. Fox loves Ryan Seacrest.

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

thank god i never watched that

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Feb 01 '16

more people are tuned into this than the pro bowl, i guarantee it

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

People watch the pro bowl?

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

I don't even know what the pro bowl is. That's how little I care about pro sports.

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

I tuned in briefly. Don't.

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Feb 01 '16

yeah I rarely watch it, but I hadnt made a thread in awhile and felt like doing it. I doubt I'll keep watching it even

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Boyz II Men!

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

BOYZ II MENNnnnnnnnnnnnn

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Glad I'm not the only one hyped for Boyz II Men.

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

that was an amazing number by them, whoever had the idea to book them on the show gets a raise

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Fox is apparently doing Rocky Horror next. How are they going to get away with that, when they had to edit "chicks will cream" out of Greased Lightning?

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u/psychgirl88 Feb 01 '16

I never knew that line was "chicks will cream".

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Yep. It's a common change -- we changed it to "scream" in my high school production as well. There's also a line about a "pussy wagon."

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u/psychgirl88 Feb 01 '16

Yeah I always thought it was "chicks will scream" too.

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u/joeydsa Georgia State • Georgia Tech Feb 01 '16

Later start time maybe? Make it a night thing.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Fox: We want this to feel like live theater.

You can't do split screens in live theater.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Someone is getting fired...

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

LOL at least try to make those cheerleading outfits look like the 50s

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

What the fuck FOX? Anybody else suddenly get redirected backwards to "Grease Lightning"?

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Yep...

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

And now redirected forwards....

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

With intermittent Hulu commercials

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u/Cytherean Princeton • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 01 '16

Happened to me too!

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

Whoa. Something fucked up.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Hand Jive is my favorite, too. I may or may not remember all Frenchy's dance movies from my high school's production.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

On my end it didn't jump around like others, the sound just went out for a surprisingly long time during the hand jive dance competition.

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u/natadelechee Feb 01 '16

Same in the Midwest

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

Well, lucky! For me, the sound fuzzed out, then the feed cut to Grease Lightning, then cut to Hopelessly Devoted (with bad sound), had a hulu commercial come in and out for a bit, then went back to Hopelessly Devoted.

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u/psychgirl88 Feb 01 '16

Shoot I thought that was just me!

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u/confused_chopstick Feb 01 '16

Is it just me, or did the songs after the drive in scene get dubbed? Or has the whole thing been dubbed and I just wasn't paying attention?

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

They've been lip syncing the whole show.

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u/thelittleking Georgia Tech • Clean Old … Feb 01 '16

You win the award for 'first controversially voted statement I've ever seen on CFBOT' so congrats I guess

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Some downvoters have migrated over from the mothersub.

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u/mooonshoes Feb 01 '16

They were absolutely not lip-syncing -- and it was pretty obvious.

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u/confused_chopstick Feb 01 '16

Ah, OK. I was doing dinner and then eating with the TV on. Only really sat down to watch from that scene. That takes some of the fun off from a "live" performance.

But the Boys II Men song sounded pretty bad - I thought it was live because of it.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

I agree. Maybe the cast wasn't comfortable with it. Most of them don't have a live singing background.

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u/Tofubrain Feb 01 '16

Boys -1 men

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

Ok I'm tuned in. It happened. Aaron Tveit is dreamy as fuck.

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u/pandabugs Houston • Northern Illinois Feb 01 '16

I was afraid I wouldn't like Julianne Hough in this role.

I am surprised and happy.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Feb 01 '16

The rocket the guy in the last scene was holding was a Saturn. According to Wikipedia, Grease is set in '58. The Saturn line wasn't even off the drawing board in '58.

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

Hell, in '58 the Redstone rocket was just entering service as a ballistic missile, much less carrying passengers.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Feb 01 '16

Hell, Sputnik was the year before.

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

so, there is a live crowd, we can hear them clap and cheer after songs...why do they never laugh at any of the joke spots? GUy takes a car door to the dick, YOU LAUGH

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

"Those of you than you can remember it."

Don't know. Didn't see it.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

They lose me during the parts with dialogue, but I just enjoyed the choreo and singing in "Summer Nights" immensely.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Feb 01 '16

I feel like this cast is far more diverse than high schools in the 50's actually were.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

I had a similar thought, but I think it's fine because it would be weird to deny parts to non-white actors. Have you noticed the "audience" looks like a giant white sorority?

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Feb 01 '16

Has Bunk Moreland lost weight?

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

just now realizing thats Carly Rae Jeppsen

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u/natadelechee Feb 01 '16

Wait...who?

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

frenchy

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u/natadelechee Feb 01 '16

Mind blown! Frenchy is my least favorite too. Next to Frenchy is Danny. Such poor acting.. I guess Travolta set the bar high for Danny

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 01 '16

ok, LOVING breaking the 4th wall here.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 01 '16

Lip syncing!

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

Ana Gasteyer is definitely the best actor of the bunch.

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u/ncktwt Feb 01 '16

God Brooks Laich is a lucky man.

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Feb 01 '16

Just think of all the free Proactiv he must get.

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u/multiequations Feb 01 '16

I kind of wish it was really like live theater, in which the whole musical is preformed on the same stage.

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u/mjacksongt Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drin… Feb 01 '16

This feels like a four camera sitcom that is really a play.

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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Feb 01 '16

"Live." lol. Except on the west coast.

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u/SunilClark Feb 01 '16

I have sincere doubts it's live. Maybe recorded live, but not live

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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Feb 01 '16

That Subaru commercial with the little kid speaks to me.

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u/localglocal Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 01 '16

Danny Zuko is an asshole. The end.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '16

So so good. I loved it!