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Tracy Turnblad is a ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|huge]]'' fan of the Corny Collins Show, which is very like early [[American Bandstand]]. She also is a fan of big hairstyles which require hairspray to stay in place - a trend the adults disapprove of. When one of the old dancers has to leave because of pregnancy, an audition is held for a new female dancer, and Tracy gets the spot because of her talent and her exuberant personality. This leads to a chain of events that will change Baltimore forever...
2. The film eventually inspired a Broadway musical. The music was changed for this production. The original film was for the most part not a musical ''per
3. The musical was successful enough that it itself was [[Recursive Adaptation|made into a film]] around 2007. It starred Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad and [[John Travolta]] as her mom, among an ensemble cast.
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* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Amber, Tracy, and Penny.
* [[The Brainless Beauty]]: Link Larkin is a light, male version.
* [[Broken Smile]]: {{spoiler|Velma Von Tussle displays a perfect example when the show is finally integrated
** {{spoiler|In the play anyway. In the second movie, she stays pissy throughout, probably due to losing her job
* [[But Not Too Black]]: Nicely averted, since following the trope would have destroyed the point.
** A lot of people objected to [[Queen Latifah]]'s casting in the film musical because of this. But considering she's the most famous plus-sized black actress in Hollywood and her skintone is middle-ground.
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** Not to mention, in the 1988 film, John Waters plays the psychiatrist that hypnotizes/tortures Penny.
** Also in the movie musical, Jerry Stiller, who played Wilbur Turnblad in the original movie, played Mr. Pinky, who ran a plus-sized boutique and wanted Tracy to do commercials for him when she became a hit on the Corny Collins show.
* [[Casting Gag]]: In the 2007 film, Jerry Stiller plays fashion store owner Mr Pinky. Stiller played Wilbur Turnblad in the original 1988 film. Several other actors from the original and the director appear as well
** Brittney Snow in the 2007 version essentially fulfilled the same role as Tracy in her show ''[[American Dreams]]'' except she actually danced on [[American Bandstand]].
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Several members of the cast were picked either because their musical talents were largely unknown to the general public (Marsden, Walken, Bynes) or had simply been forgotten about in recent years (Travolta, Pfeiffer).
* [[Cavalier Competitor]]: Amber after losing; quickly in the 2007 film, gradually as "You Can't Stop
* [[Civil Rights Movement]]: Maybelle and the black dancers' plight.
* [[Climactic Music]]: "You Can't Stop the Beat", the climactic number that coincides with the climactic dance showdown.
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: Jon Waters as "...the flasher who lives next door."
* [[Crosscast Role]]: Edna is always played by a man.
* [[Curtain Clothing]]: An extremely subtle one: In the film, the dress Penney wears during "You Can't Stop
* [[Cut Song]]: "The New Girl in Town" was cut from the stage musical, but put into the 2007 film. Some songs from the stage version were cut from the film, too.
* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: {{spoiler|In the 2007 film, Little Inez's victory in the Miss Teenage Hairspray contest
* [[Dark Reprise]]: In the Broadway musical, Tracy sings a reprise of "Good Morning Baltimore" after she finds out she won't be granted any bail.
** And while "[[Villain Song|Miss Baltimore Crabs]]" was already dark, "Velma's Revenge" is much darker.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Corny, big time.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Poor Link doesn't get to shine in the 2007 film as much as he did in the stage show.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In addition to the [[Writers Cannot Do Math]] below, there's one line in "Mama I'm
* [[Dirty Cop]]: The lead police officer who's working for Velma in the 2007 film.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: The cameraman who lets the Turnblads use his camera for Velma's [[Engineered Public Confession]] in the 2007 film is the same one that she had belittled and threatened in the beginning of the movie.
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* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: Link, Corny Collins, and Seaweed.
* [[Food Porn]]: "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" is this trope in song form. Then we see Maybelle's soul food spread in the movie...
* [[Freudian Slip]]: Velma von Tussle: "We've got to lead kids in the white direction... I mean... you know what I mean."
* [[Genki Girl]]: Tracy.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: In the stage musical, Velma realizes that someone is hiding in the {{spoiler|giant hairspray can and she orders her guards to prevent anyone from touching it}}. It turns out that she is {{spoiler|[[Wrong Genre Savvy]] because Edna is in the can and Tracy just comes in through the front door while the guards are distracted by guarding the can. It helps that the guards are really Motormouth Maybelle and many of the other black cast members in disguise
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** Every word that comes out of Velma Von Tussle's mouth.
** "I'm sorry, Prudy, but some of your ''personal stains'' need poundin' out with a rock!"
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to the new girl in town"}}
** The chorus of Seaweed's song is entirely about this, with tons of [[Where Da White Women At?]] implications.
** In "Timeless
** Just before "Run
{{quote|'''Penny:''' The nurse was out sick, but look what Seaweed found!
'''Seaweed:''' Band-aids and Q-tips! And a rubber. Wait, guess that's mine. (paraphrased)}}
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* [[Historical In-Joke]]: When Penny rushes to show the Turnblads Tracy's TV debut, Edna misunderstands and thinks she's trying to show them the footage of John Glenn's space trip. She chastises her, saying "Oh, I've seen it! It's all some studio out in Hollywood. Do they really expect me to believe he's up there?"
** In the script of the stage version, (or at least the high school version, which kept most of the crap that got past the radar), it's "Oh no, don't tell me Khrushchev has his shoes off again!"
* [[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
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Edna refuses to believe that First Lady Jackie Kennedy's hairstyle has anything to do with hairspray.
{{quote|"I believe it is just naturally stiff."}}
* [[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 would still be a lot of racism in the community, making this very improbable
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]:
{{quote|'''Link Larkin:''' I shoulda been there, beside her. I can't sleep. I can't eat...
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{{quote|'''Link:''' I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I couldn't even concentrate!
'''Tracy:''' You couldn't eat?}}
* [["I Want" Song]]: "Good Morning Baltimore" and "I Can Hear
* [[Jerkass]]: Velma Von Tussle in the musical and even more so in it's film adaptation (where she's less [[Laughably Evil]]), and Amber Von Tussle for a good while due to emulating her mother.
** The whole Von Tussle family takes this to ridiculously extreme levels in the original 1988 film. Tracy and (especially) Edna have their moments there too, in stark contrast to the kind people they are in the musical and 2007 film.
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* [[Lean and Mean]]: "[[Villain Song|I never drank one chocolate malt / No desserts for Miss Baltimore Crabs]]..."
** "[[Honey Trap|I bet you're tired of heavy lifting / Get your hands on something small]]."
* [[The Makeover]]: Tracy and Edna get one in "Welcome to the Sixties"; Tracy gets another {{spoiler|when she crashes the beauty contest
** Penny gets one in the finale as well, and Edna {{spoiler|comes out of the Hairspray Can in the musical with clothing she made herself
* [[Morning Routine]]: The 2007 movie starts with one. The musical too, but in less detail.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The Dynamites (The Supremes), Corny Collins (Dick Clark).
* [[Not So Different]]: Tracy, Penny, and Amber all have radically different personalities, but are the same when it comes to their mother issues, as shown in
* [[One Head Taller]]: Inverted with Penny and Seaweed. She is noticeably taller than him.
* [[The Plan]]: How the main characters get Tracy into the Miss Teenage Hairspray pageant in the end of the stage musical and newer movie.
* [[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
{{quote|''Who cares about sleep, when you can snooze in school?''
''You'll never get to college but you sure look cool!''
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* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Motormouth Maybelle, the Dynamites.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Link in the original 1988 film, and to a lesser extent in the 2007 film. Deliberately subverted in the stage musical, where his [[Character Development]] is about stopping being a shallow tool and doing things for himself.
* [[Shout-Out]]: For the 2007 film, director Adam Shankman included several homages to and winks at the films that were his inspiration. The opening shot is a mix of the opening shots for ''[[West Side Story]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. Penny's dress at the end of the film is made from her curtains, just like the Von Trapp children's play clothes that Maria makes out of old curtains in ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. Several of Tracy's scenes - such as her ride atop the garbage truck - are taken from the Barbra Streissand film version of ''[[Funny Girl]]''. Link singing to Tracy's photograph, which sings back, is directly inspired from ''The Broadway Melody of 1938'', in which [[Judy Garland]] sings to a photo of Clark Gable.
** The stage musical contains a few references to [[Gypsy]]. In the beginning, these references were quite timely, as Hairspray premiered on Broadway in the same season as a revival of Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters. By the time Hairspray closed, these references would again become timely, as a new revival starring Patti LuPone had just started its run.
* [[Sidekick Song]]: "Run and Tell That" and "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful"
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