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* [[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 a Big Girl Now" where Amber says "Once upon a time I used to dress up [[Barbie|Ken]]". Barbie came out in 1959, Ken in 1961. Unless the line's supposed to be figurative, Amber's been playing with dolls for a while.
* [[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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** One of the lines of music from the HIGH SCHOOL script of the stage show, though oddly, not on the album.
{{quote|'''Velma:''' (to Tracy) With your form and your face, well, it isn't your fault. You're just caught with a case of Miss... Baltimore Crabs!}}
** There's one in
{{quote|"We're kinda sad and blue,
yes it's true girl
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'''Seaweed:''' Band-aids and Q-tips! And a rubber. Wait, guess that's mine. (paraphrased)}}
** From "Ladies' Choice":
{{quote|'''Link:''' Hey little girl take me off the shelf / 'Cause it's no fun ''playing with yourself''.}}
*** That whole song is really just one [[Double Entendre]].
{{quote|'''Link:''' I'm the prettiest package you ever did see/Take me home and then unwrap me...}}
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Amber and Velma in the musical; just Amber seems to get one in the film (walking out on her mother and getting along with a black dancer), even after the unnecessary [[Humiliation Conga]].
* [[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 "The New Girl in Town" imply that the new girl mentioned in the lyrics (Tracy?) was ran over by a moving van and died:
{{quote|Hey, look out for that moving van
Look out, look out, look out, look out!
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* [[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".
** Depending on whether or not you think of Wilbur and Edna as leads, "Timeless
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: A [[Gender Inverted]] version with Link and Tracy.
** Similarly inverted with Seaweed and Penny.
* [[Smarmy Host]]: Corny is a borderline example.
* [[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..."
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* [[Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain]]: The Turnblads and the Von Tussles, except that Tracey's not exactly ugly.
* [[Where Da White Women At?]]?: Seaweed and Penny.
** Implied with {{spoiler|Amber at the end of the film. She can be seen making eyes at one of the black dancers and then, after walking away from her mother, chit chatting coyly with him in the finale
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Velma Von Tussle, who never lets anyone forget that she was once [[Villain Song|Miss Baltimore Crabs]].
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Velma pulls this when she's trying to hit on Wilbur and Edna walks in.
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: According to the script, the show begins in "early June" on a Monday and ends on June 6th, 1962. [[Did Not Do the Research|Schools did not run into June in 1962]], especially in Baltimore, because there was no air conditioning and it was oppressively hot and humid.
* [[Villain Song]]: In addition to Velma's "Miss Baltimore Crabs" above, Amber gets "Cooties" or "The New Girl in Town". The other members of the Corny Collins Show council contribute to all of these, as well.
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