Grease

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy know 1978’s retro musical sensation Grease is the word! They praise Stockard Channing’s fiercely independent performance as Rizzo, compare the film to contemporary period piece American Graffiti, and explore the early career of “Plastic Bubble”-boy John Travolta. Plus: revisiting an infamous awards disaster masterminded by Grease producer Allan Carr. Next week Unspooled continues our series on musicals with Chicago! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0	The year is 1978 and this is a story about a boy and a girl.
0:06.6	Ooh, tell me more, tell me more the movie Greece.
0:10.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Un-Splowed.
0:34.3	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:35.6	I'm Paul Sheer and I'm just now realizing that that musical introduction that we do, that
0:41.0	beautiful singing, acapella singing that we do to intro every show is such a great entry
0:49.0	point for our musical series which we are now in the middle of because we are trying to
0:54.1	find the hundred best movies of all time and when we do we're going to send them into space.
0:59.3	But right now we're trying to find one of the best musicals.
1:02.7	We started off really easy with a night member before Christmas, a beloved film and I really
1:08.2	loved seeing the reaction to that and now we're going into another film that has a gigantic
1:14.6	fan base, a gigantic following and huge staying power which of course is Greece, the original
1:21.1	Greece.
1:22.1	I'm so excited to talk about this movie today.
1:24.4	Yeah, I cannot believe that you have never seen this film.
1:27.3	You've only seen scenes out of context so this is exciting Paul.
1:31.5	I know.
1:32.5	This is a full new world.
1:33.5	I think there is a thought about this.
1:34.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:35.8	No, I think it's in Lion King, right?
1:37.6	So, here's the deal people.
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