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The new kid Michael is a nerd. A hopeless nerd! And furthermore, he's in love with Stephanie, who as a Pink Lady can only go with a T-Bird. Naturally, the solution is to find out what she wants in a man and become it, regardless of cost or effort. But Michael succeeds so wildly he ends up upstaging the T-Birds, impressing the whole school, and becoming so awesome that Stephanie [[Wangst|starts to question]] whether she wouldn't rather just have the [[Be Yourself|normal nerdy guy]] who keeps helping her with her essays. When Michael finally [[The Reveal|reveals]] his [[Badass Bookworm|true identity]], he gets the girl and the acceptance he so craves. Hooray!
Yep, that's '''''Grease 2''''' for ya.
Even those who took [[Grease|the original]] seriously might have trouble with this one. Song topics include plant reproduction (which is [[Freud Was Right|really sex]]), going off to war to become a man (which is [[Freud Was Right|really sex]]), and the moral flexibility of the women one meets at the grocery store (which [[Intercourse with You|isn't even disguised]]). Also features a talent-show act with [[Erection Rejection|girls trying to act sexy while dressed as Christmas trees and jack-o'lanterns]], and [[Informed Attribute|almost]] [[Informed Emotion|every]] [[Informed Flaw|instance]] of informed or [[Designated Hero|designated]] [[Designated Villain|anything]].
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: "Cool Rider". Michelle Pfeiffer's character somehow resists the charms of the sweet British boy, because she's "...lookin' for a dream on a mean machine/ With hell in his eyes/ I want a devil in skin tight leather..."
* [[Bad Girl Song]]: "Cool Rider" also has elements of this.
* [[Badass Biker]]: What Stephanie wants in a man,
** Also Balmudo and his gang The Cycle Lords.
* [[Biker Babe]]:
* [[Butt Monkey]]:
* [[Cold War]]:
* [[Cool Bike]]:
* [[Cool Mask]]:
* [[Creation Sequence]]/[[Training Montage]]/[[Time Compression Montage]]:
* [[Crowd Song]]:
* [[Dawson Casting]]:
* [[Delinquents]]:
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: The "Turn Back the Hands of Time" number, which takes place when Stephanie apparently spaces out in the middle of the talent show and imagines singing a duet with the spirit of her [[Mysterious Protector]] in what we can only take to be Biker Heaven. Except that when Stephanie returns to reality at the end of the number, the audience is applauding and she's won the talent show, leaving us to wonder if they all somehow experienced the whole sequence with her. And, if so, then who was really singing the male part of the duet while she was tripping out?
* [[Disney Death]]:
* [[Dramatic Unmask]]:
** After taking Stephanie for a long ride during which they presumably connect on a deeper level, he's about to reveal who he really is when the T-Birds show up and threaten him.
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* [[Guilty Pleasures]]: Wholly guilty.
* [[Happily Ever After]]
* [[High School Hustler]]:
* [[Hood Ornament Hottie]]: What most of the Pink Ladies are for the T-Birds, Stephanie being the only exception.
* [[Hot for Teacher]]:
* [[Hula and Luaus]]:
* [["I Want" Song]]:
* [[Magical Realism]]:
* [[Malaproper]]: Johnny Nogarelli, whose verbal garbling produces gems such as turning "menstruation" into "mentalstration".
* [[Marilyn Monroe]]:
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Michael.
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] by Michael, who creates the "Cool Rider" persona in order to entice Stephanie into chasing him.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]:
* [[Plot Irrelevant Villain]]: Subverted with Balmudo (AKA "Leo"/"Craterface" in the original ''Grease''). He initially ''seems'' to be just as irrelevant to the overall plot of this film as he was to the first -- until he leads his biker gang in an attack on the senior luau at the end of the movie.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Stephanie▼
* [[The Rabbit Died]]: Alluded to during the song [https://youtu.be/BwM0SPJ9Gj0?t=298 "Reproduction"], when one of the T-Birds holds up a white rabbit and says, "See what happens when a boy and girl don't know how to play it safe?"
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Michael takes one. Naturally.▼
▲* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Stephanie.
* [[Triang Relations]]: Type 10: Johnny (b) wants ex-girlfriend Stephanie (c) back although she is no longer interested in him. At the same time, he is also dating Paulette (a) who very much reciprocates his interest. {{spoiler|By the end of the film, Paulette gives him an ultimatum and he gives up on Stephanie, who is now surgically attached to Michael anyway.}}▼
* [[Vindicated by Cable]]: Although a flop in the theatres, it developed a following on cable during the 1980s.▼
▲* [[Triang Relations]]:
* [[You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?]]: Intentionally invoked and set to music, with the song "Let's Do It For Our Country". DiMucci brings Sharon down to the bomb shelter owned by Michael's aunt and uncle (where he bought a paper from Michael earlier in the film). One of the other T-Birds sounds a bomb siren outside the door to make her think it's [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Cue an incredibly [[Narm|Narmful]] song where she sings about volunteering for the war, contrasting with his rather less patriotic intentions. Then she realizes the siren has stopped, opens the shelter door, and trips over his friends listening at the door.▼
▲* [[Vindicated by Cable]]:
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Stephanie, surprisingly. She actually works at a garage when not in school or going on long rides with mysterious bikers.▼
▲* [[You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?]]: Intentionally invoked and set to music, with the song "Let's Do It For Our Country". DiMucci brings Sharon down to the bomb shelter owned by Michael's aunt and uncle (where he bought a paper from Michael earlier in the film).
▲* [[Wrench Wench]]:
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