29 Apr
Guilty As Charged III
In my continuing mission to reveal potentially embarrassing guilty pleasures, we have part three of this series.
Have you ever been watching TV and a show came on in which was not marketed for a younger demographic than yourself. Somehow you get hooked into watching it. You keep telling yourself that it is cheesy and silly and that you have better things to do but you don’t move, you keep watching. And watching and watching. It would be embarrassing if someone walked in on you watching this.
Well, I found myself in this situation sometime ago with the Disney Channel’s High School Musical. High School Musical is basically an update of the movie Grease. Our two romantic leads meet each other at a New Year’s party while on vacation. They sing together but never plan to meet each other again. School starts again and our leads are reunited as one transfers to the other’s school. One has be stereotyped as a basketball jock, the other a Miss Smartypants. Neither of them has really ever been known to be singers except on their chance meeting on vacation. They meet up and decide to surprise everyone by trying out for the school musical which only upsets the school’s drama queen and king (brother and sister). The Drama Queen and King unite forces with the basket ball team and the scholar bowl to split these two apart. People should stay with their own kind you see. They do all this while happily singing about their inner most feelings and thoughts.
Cheesy? Yes. Strangely enticing? Yes. Something you tell everyone about? No. Don’t even mention that you have watched the thing several times. Don’t drop in passing conversation that you have purchased several tracks off of iTunes. And whatever you do, don’t let people know that you watched the Dance Along version and then immediately watched the sing-a-long version right after that. Keep this shameful secret to yourself.
My little guilty pleasure was at risk of being exposed recently at the Wyman talent show. One of the third grade girls did the dance to one of the catchiest numbers from High School Musical, We’re All in This Together. You see it is a little difficult to sit there an not do the dance that you to learned in the dance-a-long version of the show. Occasionally a fist thrust down or a wildcat teeth to the side would sneak out. Immediately I try to think of excuses as to why I knew the motions to this song. But then I realized that I wasn’t the only one trying not to dance along. As I looked around the perimeter of the room I noticed several other teachers discretely doing the dance too! I wasn’t the only one! Whew!
After school several teachers and I had a good laugh about knowing the motions and having seen the show more than once.
Now it is time for me to get my head in the game… the results of my High School Musical quiz:
Makes me feel special and unique to be on of the 50% who got the same result. Who you are and how much do you secretly love the High School Musical? Let me know in the comments.
Class dismissed!
Posted by Anna on 29.04.06 at 8:10 pm
I was Sharpay. I don’t remember the specifics, but it didn’t sound too much like me. Not that I know who Sharpay is except she has the same name as the wrinkly shar pei dogs. Only 24% of the people came out as Sharpay. My concern is that if 50% of the people are Troy and 24% of people are Sharpay, there are only 26% of people to be divided among the remaining characters! What’s up with that?
I will admit that I have two guilty TV pleasures that I’m embarrassed to admit. I’ve gotten hooked on “Cheerleader Nation” on Lifetime (I love watching all the dancing/cheering stuff!). I also follow “Endurance” on Discovery Kids/NBC. It’s sort of a teenage “Survivor.” I watch it because I’m never home when Survivor airs, so Endurance gives me a little bit of that kind of reality show and is also easier to catch up to if you miss an episode!
But don’t tell on me!
Posted by Christopher on 29.04.06 at 8:10 pm
I am quite familiar with Endurance. I very rarely get to watch but on one of those lazy Saturday morning when I have nothing to do… it is appointment television for me. Hmmm, I suppose I could TiVo it.
Thanks Anna, I shall put that little gem in my pocket for Guilty Pleasures Part VI. (This is getting as bad as Dateline’s To Catch a Predator series.)
Posted by Kelbe on 29.04.06 at 8:10 pm
I am most like Troy! but I confess I’ve never seen High School Musical. My 7th/8th graders — who will do the dance if left to their own devices for two minutes — keep telling me how awesome it is but I can’t seem to catch it on the Disney Channel. If the kids had my phone number, I would have had at least 15 messages alerting me to the sing-a-long and dance-a-long that aired over break. I swear I’ll swallow my pride and rent it when it comes to DVD.
Posted by kiersten on 29.04.06 at 8:10 pm
i am like troy .& he’s so so hot i just love him for some reson i can’t stop thinkin’ about him
i wish i was his girlfriend he is a cutie for real but anyways that was a great movie thanks for sharing with everyone 
Posted by zaina on 29.04.06 at 8:10 pm
Posted by Sajid on 29.04.06 at 8:10 pm
TROY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU SHOULD NOT BE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MOVE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by jaimeelee on 29.04.06 at 8:10 pm
heyy ever one do u know how much i love yous yous are so sexc
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