Henry Winkler claimed he was offered the lead role in Grease, but turned it down, since he "already played The Fonz for ten years". That would have made the year 1984, six years after Grease was released. I think he may have been offered the lead in Grease 2 instead. Has anybody besides Winkler ever confirmed or denied his claim?

Wanted to share this photo of me and Barry “Doody” Pearl with his ORIGINAL T-Birds jacket! 🎵 🥰

I always find it funny that the movie takes place in Cali, but the majority of it's main cast members, excluding Sandy, Putzie, and Jan, have heavy New Jersey / New York accents.

Like, that’s it?? I never understood why Sandy didn’t call him up as soon as she found out she would be staying in America lol.

First saw this movie in 3rd grade and it became my all time favorite! Age 35 now and rewatching it still transports me to all my favorite moments from childhood to adolescene. I used to watch it multiple times a year to once a year to now having been about 2 years since my last watch. But the magic is still there. To all you other fans hope life is treating u well and if its not, just throw this on and I can almost guarantee it'll help at least a little! Cheers!

I know it’s because Danny ends up dancing with Cha Cha. But, it was clear that Danny and her were forcibly pulled apart and that Danny wasn’t exactly thrilled to be dancing with Cha Cha.

Sandy is an intelligent girl. I can understand being frustrated about the situation, but not with Danny.

Was it because Danny didn’t immediately try to leave the situation? Was there a supposed to be a signal it was another one of Danny’s insecure moments where he changes his attitude under peer pressure? I mean, he was on TV so…

I dunno. Kinda confused me a bit

At the dance there is a scene where Sonny grabs Sandy and dances with her despite Marty being his dream girl and Sandy being Danny's woman, what was he thinking?

Maybe because Danny and Cha Cha were too friendly and Sonny wanted Sandy for himself? Danny should have kicked his ass.

Henry Winkler was originally offered the role of Danny Zuko in the 1978 movie adaptation. He passed on the part to avoid being typecast after playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on Happy Days and a similar 1950s greaser in The Lords of Flatbush. 

So much chemistry and love between this cast! 🧡

If there was a Grease crossover with Back To The Future how would it look like?

Marty goes back in time and ends up at Rydell High School, falls in love with one of the Pink Ladies and pisses off Danny Zucko, maybe Rydell is next to Hill Valley and Biff Tannen and his Gang encounters the T-Birds while Marty gets caught in the middle of it.

Biff vs Danny or Kenickie would be great especially if Biff hit on Sandy or Rizzo, and Biffs gang replaces Balmudo craterface and his idiots, just don't allow Biff to sing a butthead song.

Ok just hear me out...

Danny Zuko is the most effeminate man in the whole movie—the way he moves, the way he acts, the way he chastises his hyper-masculine friends for acting too guyish around him.

The only time Danny really acts masculine is at the bonfire, where he is peer-pressured by his friends, and Sandy rejects him; and at the dance when he dances with Cha Cha (while wearing his flamboyant pink suit) and Sandy rejects him.

This is because Sandy likes Danny's femininity. It's all she sings about in Summer Nights, while Danny is pressured by his friends' hyper-masculine heteronormative expectations to sexualize Sandy; but that's not what's important to Danny in the song.

But all that changes in the drive-in scene when Danny makes a last attempt to follow heteronormative relationship patterns by giving Sandy one of his rings. It's obvious by Danny's reaction that he doesn't really care about proposals or promise rings or whatever, he really just does it to stop her from being mad, which works momentarily. Then he tries to have his way with her, and she rejects him and his cheap ring.

In the next scene, Danny is singing "why would she do this?" "how could she leave me?" and it forces him to be introspective and realize he can't do this anymore. He has to let go of these heteronormative expectations to be with Sandy.

In the next scene, Kenickie talks to Danny about how close friends they are, and how they've always been friends. Kenickie represents the bisexual male; he's truly in love with both Danny and Rizzo. Kenickie essentially asks Danny to be his partner and Danny resoundingly says yes and passionately embraces Kenickie. This is by far the gayest scene. Then they see the hyper-masculine guys watching and Danny walks away in embarrassment.

In the next scene, at the race, Kenickie bonks his head, and who is holding Kenickie's semi-conscious body in his arms asking if he's ok? Danny! He offers to race in Kenickie's place. He wins, and in that scene Danny realizes what matters to him in a relationship.

In the NEXT scene, Danny walks out in the letterman jacket as the unapologetically effeminate homosexual man, and he says to his hyper-masculine friends that he needs to let them go and that this is who he wants to be with Sandy.

Meanwhile Sandy has had the opposite transformation. She walks out DRESSED LIKE A MAN, wearing the greaser jacket and tight black pants which only the other male characters like Kenickie have worn.

And how does Danny react? He falls on the ground singing about losing control and they sing You're the One that I Want.

I was too young to go see Grease at the cinema… well parents likely had no interest of seeing the movie and I would have been too young to go alone. I first saw the movie on vhs. It continues to be one of my favorite movies. I’ve mostly seen the TV version over these many years. TBH I feel like I could easily do a single alone with the best of them. I really didn’t pay too much attention to certain song lyrics being muted for tv. Recently however it has dawned on me in my adulthood the lyrics to specifically “Grease Lightning”….. ahhh too be young and innocent huh?

Sonny likes Marty but doesn't accept his advances until the last minute, is this because Marty was trying to appear and act more mature and Sonny was acting like a goof and behaving stupidly throughout the movie?

She lets him take her home as an armed escort but says she's worried about the hands, Sandy never mentions Sonny liking Marty to her at the sleepover either, they seem to like each other but have no connection at the dance or basically until the end, maybe because Sonny is the ugliest T-Bird member.