Hairspray: Difference between revisions

*** In the stage show, just before that, "We do NOT touch ourselves ANYWHERE while on camera!"

** The reasoning for the need for a new member for The Corny Collin's Show.

'''Brenda:''' Just [[Teen Pregnancy|nine months]].<br />

'''Corny:''' We need a girl who's just as fun lovin', but maybe not as free wheelin'! ''(wink)'' }}

*** In other versions, it's:

'''Corny:''' We need a girl who's just as fun lovin', but maybe not as... educated. }}

** From Velma's villain song-

** How about Velma's title as [[White Dwarf Starlet|Miss Baltimore]] ''[[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named|Crabs?]]'' Considering that she screwed the judges, she might have... ''picked up something'' from one of them.

*** From the 2007 film: "I risked communicable diseases, she'll definitely risk prison."

** One of the lines of music from the HIGH SCHOOL script of the stage show, though oddly, not on the album.

** There's one in the "New Girl in Town" song.

We'd like to say... [two [[Beat|Beats]]]<br />

to the new girl in town" }}

** In "Timeless To Me", the final line on the album's version is Edna saying "Wilbur, honey, let's take this upstairs". In the script, the reprise includes the lines "You're rounding third base now" / "Holy cow!".

** Just before "Run And Tell That", Seaweed has this little gem, which somehow made it into the high school version of the script:

'''Seaweed:''' Band-aids and Q-tips! And a rubber. Wait, guess that's mine. (paraphrased) }}

** From "Ladies' Choice":

*** That whole song is really just one [[Double Entendre]].

** In the 2007 musical, there is a shot of Penny's mother reading aloud from the Bible during the opening of the pageant. The passage she's reading happens to be about Lot's daughters conspiring to get him drunk and have sex with him.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Penny.

* [[Henpecked Husband|Henpecked Boyfriend]]: Link is henpecked by his girlfriend Amber.

* [[The Hero Dies]]: Definitely doesn't happen in the musical or the movie, but the final lines of the song "New Girl in Town" imply that the new girl mentioned in the lyrics (Tracy?) was ran over by a moving van and died:

She was the new girl in... town! }}

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: In the Broadway version [[Glee|Will Schuester]] plays Link

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: In the 2007 movie, {{spoiler|Amber has Tracy steal her thunder and her boyfriend, gets hoisted above the set, tears her dress getting down, and loses her crown to a child on live TV}}. And then she's surprisingly good natured about it in the end, possibly making this a subversion. Played straight with Velma, though, whose humiliation is more thorough and ''not'' taken well.

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]:

'''Edna Turnblad:''' You can't eat? Well, come on in and worry with us. I'll make you some pork. }}

** Or, in the stage version,

'''Tracy:''' You couldn't eat? }}

* [["I Want" Song]]: "Good Morning Baltimore" and "I Can Hear The Bells".

* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Edna refuses to believe that First Lady Jackie Kennedy's hairstyle has anything to do with hairspray.

* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]

* [[Informed Ability]]: Inez's dancing in the 2007 movie. {{spoiler|She's not appreciably better than the rest of the talented cast, yet we're supposed to believe that she alone was impressive enough to win Miss Teen Hairspray after just one (short) dance. It's implied she won because she was the only black contestant (ever) and the whole community voted for her, even though there'd still be alot of racism in the community, making this very improbable.}}

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Velma Von Tussle is quite the racist bitch in the second movie, where she seems to revel in her own misdeeds. In the first film and the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]], she's more of a [[Selfish Good, Selfish Evil|Lawful Selfish]] [[Stage Mom]] who's willing to court segregationist attitudes to look respectable.

* [[Popular Is Dumb]]: The openly embraced creed of the Nicest Kids in Town:

''When you're the Nicest Kids in Town!'' }}

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Corny Collins, the dance show host, who is very open to bending the rules and doing away with segregation.

* [[Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism]]: Dancer Brenda must take time off from Corny's show, thus prompting the audition. How long will she be gone? "Just nine months..."

* [[Take That]]:

'''Everybody:''' Congress! }}

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Noreen and Doreen (only in the movie)