Hairspray: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Tracy:''' Where do you go after special ed?

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

* [[The Theme Park Version]]: Of [[The Sixties]], particularly the anti-segregation movement. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Doesn't mean the movie's bad, though]].

* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: Tracy and Edna could be pretty surly and off-putting on several occasions in the original film (Edna in particular due to being played by Divine, the inspiration for [[The Little Mermaid|Ursula]], and it shows), but are very nice people in the musical.

* [[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}}.

* [[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.

 

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