Here's What You Missed On: The Spanish Teacher

[narceus]

So, we all agreed yesterday that what we really wanted was a weekly 'references' post, for all the jokes, allusions, and visual callbacks to things we didn't quite catch.  Here it is!

I'm going to try an experiment with our first references post, and divide it into subthreads to keep things a little more organized.  We will see if this works!  Dive right in!

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Visual references

[narceus]

Clothing! Choreography! Staging! Talk about crazy boots, crazy dance moves, shots put together to look exactly like a scene from 'Grease', any of the above.

Re: Visual references

[four_tens]

Let's talk Choreography for the Cheerios for a second. The style that Roz introduces? It's Krumping. It's pretty interesting as far as street dancing goes. My knowledge of street dances is almost exclusively based on wiki-ing dances after watching movies like Step Up, which I blame Harry Shum Jr. for making me watch

Krumping is always about what you're feeling when you do it- it's considered bad form to not have something you want to express when you do it. But most often Krumping is about expressing anger.

In some ways that makes it the perfect dance for Sue Sylvester, really. I would pay money to see Jane Lynch krump

I was a bit confused, though. Because Krumping usually isn't choreographed- that's sort of the whole point, that Krumping is reacting to the music and how you're feeling. So maybe Roz isn't using it right on purpose?

It's also usually used in dance battles, too. Which makes me think Roz is using it correctly, because that was definitely a confrontation she was having with Sue.

I'm curious as to why Brit Brit was the principal dancer.

Thoughts?

Re: Visual references

[crown_of_weeds]

This is really cool information.

I'm curious as to why Brit Brit was the principal dancer.

Well, you said it yourself. If Krumping is about reacting to the music and how you're feeling...Brittany's the best at that. Dancing is her thing.

I keep wanting to type that "dancing is the one thing where nothing else about her matters," which makes me question how the show frames a few things. Hmm. Not ready to think about that yet.