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00:00What's up, Greg? I've wanted to make a video about the high school musical movies ever
00:06since I started making videos about D-coms almost five years ago. More so as just an
00:10excuse to go back and watch them, because when I was a kid I really liked these movies.
00:14And if you're a millennial, chances are, you did too. And you were also too scared
00:19to admit that to any of your friends. I don't know why as an 11-year-old I felt the need
00:23to pretend that I didn't like a movie that was, you know, made for 11-year-olds. As if
00:27all my friends were gonna be like, high school musical? I don't know, man. Sounds a little
00:31immature to me. I only watch war footage. I'm a very violent young man. Either way,
00:35something I did not realize as a kid is how low budget these movies were. The first movie
00:40was made on a budget of $4.2 million, which might sound like a lot, but Zombies 3, which
00:44is a newer D-com, cost $40 million to make. In zombies defense, though, they needed the
00:49money. Those werewolf costumes looked pretty expensive. High school musical was shot in
00:53just a couple of weeks at a real high school using real students as extras. In fact, they
00:58were so strapped for cash, they couldn't even afford a real title. Apparently high school
01:02musical was just the working title for the script, and they were like, we'll come up
01:06with a better one eventually. And then they didn't. I'm very excited to see if these movies
01:09hold up to my jaded adult eyes. So let's start with the first one. Let me introduce you to
01:13the two main characters of this movie, Troy and Gabriella. They don't know each other
01:17yet, but they're both on vacation with their respective families at a ski resort on New
01:22Year's Eve. And right away, this movie shows you everything you need to know about these
01:25characters in like two minutes. Gabriella is nerd girl. She doesn't want to go to the
01:29teen party because she's busy reading a book. Meanwhile, Troy's dad is the most stereotypical
01:34Disney dad to ever grace the screen. Not only is Mr. Bolton, Troy's dad, he's also the coach
01:39of Troy's high school basketball team. So instead of getting ready for the parties, he's making
01:44Troy run drills in the hotel gym by going left. Yeah. He looks middle. You take it downtown.
01:49Well, Troy, it's New Year's Eve. You know what that means? That's right, dad. I, I might finally get my first kid.
01:55Fake right. Take the ball downtown. Troy's mom comes to get them for the party. And Troy
02:00asks if he can have one more basket with all of the confidence and swagger of a real high
02:05school jock. Come on. One more. One more. Just one more basket please. Troy shows up
02:11to the teen party and is immediately yawning his face off. All right. Hell yeah. This is
02:15clearly a popular jock who knows how to party. Somehow, despite being the two most bored people
02:20at the party, the spotlight chooses Troy and Gabriella to sing karaoke. But to the spotlight
02:25operators credit, they actually do crush it. They both get up there and they're nervous
02:29at first, but then all of a sudden, Troy's voice, it's like it changes almost actually.
02:34It's like his voice changes from his voice to like a professional singer's voice. Cause
02:40that is what happens actually.
02:49I think this might be like the most well-known high school musical trivia, but for the vast
02:53majority of the first high school musical movie, it's not Zac Efron's voice singing.
02:57He had a voice double. His name is Drew Sealy and he never appears on screen in the movies.
03:02He also apparently didn't even realize how big of a movie high school musical was and
03:06forgot that he had done the vocals for the movie until it came on the TV while he was
03:11working a shift at P.F. Chang's. Apparently he tried to convince his coworkers that it
03:15was really him singing in the movie and no one believed him. It's kind of funny cause
03:19the whole point of the movie is kind of like, hey, basketball guys can sing too if they
03:23wanna. But not this basketball guy, actually. You don't want to hear this basketball guy's
03:30voice. So they crush the song, they're dancing around on stage together. It's like they were
03:34born to perform. But for me personally, Little Viking Boy really steals the show. You guys
03:41know Little Viking Boy, right?
03:42He's basically the star of the movie. Look at him back there. He's leaving it all on
03:48the dance floor, man. Whoa, sorry, I almost fell backwards. It's just, he actually is
03:54getting a little bit too into this. This guy's locking eyes with me like we've been madly
03:58in love for years. And why did his voice suddenly get so much more theatrical?
04:02I guess I better go find my mom and wish her a happy new year.
04:11This is so romantic. I should say something romantic. I gotta go find my mom. And then
04:16she vanishes. And he never sees her again. That's right, you thought the movie was gonna
04:21be about Troy and Gabriela? Nah. No, the rest of this movie is about Troy and Viking Boy.
04:25Flash forward, Troy returns to his high school East High, where he is seemingly a god amongst
04:29men. And then, um, actually, I don't, uh, I don't remember this scene. Yeah, I don't
04:35know what happens here at all. Looks like the teacher is about to maybe give some kind
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05:36And now back to Troy. But unbeknownst to him, there's a new student at East High.
05:40I reviewed your impressive transcripts. I expect your light will shine very brightly
05:43here at East High. I don't want to be the school's freaky genius girl again. Freaky
05:47genius girl? What did you do at your last school? Troy notices that Gabriella is sitting
05:52in the back of their drama class. And not to be nitpicky, but this drama class scene
05:55lasts for two minutes. But the class happens in real time from start to finish in that
06:01two minutes. The bell rings. They sit down. The whole class gets detention, and then the
06:07bell rings again and they leave. How long is a school day at East High? Is it like 15
06:14minutes? Troy shows Gabriella around, they catch up a little bit, and it is revealed
06:18that East High is having auditions for their winter musical pretty soon. Troy jokes that
06:22Gabriella should sign up because, you know, they sang together. And Gabriella's response
06:26is basically, fuck no. Yeah, I don't know why. I remembered this movie differently.
06:32I thought they both wanted to do the musical. Troy seems to maybe want to do it. And Gabriella's
06:37like, no, I'm not doing that. No, I don't sing. I'm not a freaky genius girl, and I'm
06:41definitely not a freaky singer girl. Yeah, and you guys would never do anything like
06:53sing show music, right? And then cut to them singing the hardest show music in this entire
06:59movie. That's the funny thing about this movie. Since it's a movie about a musical, there
07:03are several characters in this movie that are opposed to musicals. So it is a little
07:07jarring to see those characters seemingly completely unaware that they are literally
07:11singing and dancing right now. But on the other hand, I guess it would also be weird
07:15if they didn't sing when everyone else was. At the end, when they're all singing, we're
07:19all in this together. Corbin Blue's just standing around like, this is lame. There's two parts
07:26in the song though, where Troy like stops rapping to sing from the heart about how he
07:31wants to do the musical. She makes this feel so right. Should I go for it? What do you
07:36mean she makes this feel so right? And should I go for it? Gabriella doesn't want to do
07:41the musical. It was your idea. And she said, no, don't drag her into this. This girl's
07:46making me crazy. No, you're crazy. You already were. And then you met a girl. That's what
07:51happened. Also, Zac Efron is 5'8", and presumably so is everybody else on this basketball team
07:56because they're all like the same height. So how good exactly are they at basketball?
08:00Okay, now you got Sharpay, who's played by Ashley Tisdale. She's like the head of the
08:04theater department at school. She's the theater kid. And her brother Ryan is the theater kid
08:09in boy form. They are getting a little bit worried that Troy and Gabriella might audition
08:12for the musical. Again, Gabriella has showed zero interest in doing the musical. So they
08:17decided to do a little bit of research on Gabriella. So they search her name on the
08:20internet and they find out she's this freaky genius girl that she said she was. She's won
08:24all of these awards. She's won scholastic competitions and the like. But also, what
08:29is the third result there? Gabriella, San Diego Zoo's newest... what? What is Gabriella
08:37at the San Diego Zoo? Ryan's like, oh, that's interesting. Look, it says here she's a dolphin.
08:42That's funny. Now that I think about it, I can't believe I never noticed. After basketball
08:46practice, it's time for Troy to go home and relax. Just kidding. It's time for more basketball.
08:50Come on, Troy. Fake left. Take the ball. Downtown. Did you ever think about trying something
08:54new but were afraid of what your friends might think? You mean like going left? You're doing
08:58fine. Come on. Troy's dad has one thing in his mind and it is one basketball just bouncing
09:04around like the DVD logo. I want to see a movie about him and how hard his life must
09:09be. I do like that this movie keeps the tradition alive of Disney Channel movie characters being
09:13inexplicably rich. His dad is a high school basketball coach and they live in a mansion.
09:18What does the mom do? She an arms dealer? Also, he says something new, like going left.
09:22You mean like going left? When in Get Your Head in the Game, Troy clearly says coach
09:26said to fake right and break left. He already said to do that. That's not new. That's what
09:30he already does. So, found a plot hole. Next, Troy sneaks away from his friends to go audition
09:37for the musical. I guess the voices in his head that he thinks are Gabriela got too strong
09:41and he now has to act on them. He's gone. Wow. Where'd he go? Pay no attention to the
09:57fact that as he turns the corner, he probably fully saw Troy like. Meanwhile, Troy's dad
10:02is just standing there like, huh? That's weird. Could have sworn I saw a basketball.
10:08When we see the auditions, it becomes immediately clear that while Ryan and Sharpay are basically
10:13made out to be the villains of this movie because they're so overprotective of their
10:16theater department, they are completely in the right to do so. Not because their audition is
10:21really good, which it actually is, but because everyone else's is so bad. It's hard to believe
10:26that I couldn't sneeze. It seems that no one else in this entire school can even sing. It seems like
10:34they actually don't even have a concept of what music is. So like, yeah, I would actually be
10:40hoping I got the lead too. It is funny how they all act like they can't sing. And then anytime
10:44there's like an actual musical number as part of the movie, every member of the student body sings
10:48their heart out like the Rent is due. What's going on there? So Troy shows up to audition and then
10:52Gabriela shows up too. I guess, turns out she actually did want to audition. I don't know. I
10:57don't know if Troy threatened her or what, but she shows up. But they are too late to the actual
11:03audition, so they don't get to audition in time, but they stick around afterwards and just sing an
11:07audition anyway. And Miss Darbus, the director, hears them and decides, you know what? You guys
11:10get a callback. Understandably so. She's working with a very small talent pool. Here comes two
11:15people who know what a song is. She's got to hold on to that. After school, before school, whatever
11:19works. After basketball class, we can get this right. Now this is interesting. Troy is looking
11:25at his sheet music like he's never seen it before in his life, despite having just sung the song
11:29perfectly after only glancing at the sheet music briefly. He also says, what? To almost imply he
11:36has no clue how the sheet music got into his hands or how he got a callback. Does he not know that he
11:41just sang? Anytime there's a musical number in this movie, do they just black out and come to,
11:46like, I don't know what happened. We definitely didn't sing though. I don't know how. If you're
11:53my age, it might've felt like this movie was written just for you when it came out. And in a
11:57sense, it kind of was. The writer, Peter Barzacchini, who was mostly known for writing rated R action
12:02movies at the time, started writing the script because he wanted to make a movie he could watch
12:06with his daughter, Gabriella. I thought it would be really fun to write a Disney Channel movie that
12:11my daughter could watch. Yes, he did name the main character after her, and that kind of melts my
12:15heart. She was 10 in 2004 when he started writing it, and so was I. The story was actually inspired
12:21by his own high school experience when one of his basketball teammates confided in him about his
12:26love for ballet. Decades later, Peter thought, wow, that's actually the perfect plot for a kid's
12:30movie. Boys are more than just jocks. They can do other stuff. They can do ballet. Er, no,
12:37actually, that's, that's too far. They could do the musical, but only if it's because they want
12:42to sing with a girl. Anyway, it's time for another song about how basketball players shouldn't sing,
12:45sung by, you guessed it, the basketball players. Status quo is actually such a fantastic song. It
12:55features several students who decide that, hey, since Troy and Gabriella are breaking out of their
13:00stereotypical roles in this school, so can I. Zeke, the basketball player, decides to let everyone
13:06know, hey, not only do I play basketball, I also bake. I bake. This nerdy girl loves hip-hop. This
13:12stoner skater guy likes to play the cello, and everyone in this school fucking hates it. We're
13:20skaters, bro. We don't play the cello. We only skate and smoke weed, and of course, we sing.
13:26Now, of course, this movie is very self-aware about this contradiction, and I love it for that,
13:32but it does not make sense. At the beginning of this song, Zeke says, I want to make a creme
13:36brulee someday, and then at the end of the song, he actually has a creme brulee. So he presumably
13:41baked this creme brulee at some point during the song. It cuts to him sprinting down the
13:46hallway to the kitchen. You can hear everyone else singing, echoing in the background. He's
13:49like, they don't believe me. They don't believe I can bake. I gotta show them. So Gabriella shows
13:53up, and everyone is, of course, staring at her, because they were all just singing about her.
13:56They're staring at her. They're pissed, and they kill her. They kill Gabriella.
14:02At my other schools, I was the freaky math girl. Well, I hate to break it to you,
14:06Gabriella, but you are a freak here, too. Everyone at this school thinks you're a freak
14:10now also. The entire student body, I don't know if you heard, they actually just sang
14:13an entire song about it. Now you're the freaky singing girl. So you really want to do the
14:16callbacks? Just call me freaky callback boy. You're a cool guy, Troy. Thanks.
14:23I said call me freaky callback boy. I'm sorry, this is a closed practice.
14:30Dad, come on. Practice is over. Until the last player leaves the gym. I'll see you later, Troy.
14:35Nice meeting you, Coach Bolton. There's a lot of tension here. Mr. Bolton actually hates
14:42Gabriella. He hates this 15-year-old girl with all his might. Like, you will never be a basketball.
14:48Get out of my son's life. We know the truth. Go back to the zoo, you dolphin. She's not a problem.
14:53She's just a girl. But you're not just a guy, Troy. You're not just a guy, Troy.
14:59You're freaky callback boy. Call me freaky callback boy. You're a playmaker,
15:04not a singer. Hey, did you ever think maybe I could be both?
15:07The look on his face is like, damn, I really never did think of that. Because this whole singing thing is getting in the way of Troy's basketball responsibilities, his team decides to get together with Gabriella's friends to try to break the two apart.
15:21The plan consists of getting Troy to badmouth Gabriella by listing the names of basketball players who went to their high school 20 years ago.
15:31Spider Bill Natrine, class of 72. Semi-slamma-jamma. And you want to know the crazy thing? It works.
15:39I've always been for the team. She's just someone I met. All right, the singing thing is nothing.
15:44We're supposed to believe he doesn't see them set up a webcam right in front of his face to record him shit-talking his girlfriend?
15:51They might as well be filming on, like, a giant hand-crank film camera. The kind where you gotta put a blanket over your head to even see the image?
15:58Troy 100% sees the camera and does not care who sees what he's saying.
16:02The thunderclap. Gabriella is not important.
16:05After this happens, Gabriella doesn't want to talk to Troy anymore, and this really hits Troy hard, as you can see here.
16:13The pain is manifesting itself in Troy physically here, as he can't even shoot a basket without experiencing immense physical trauma.
16:20Aren't basketball players supposed to be good under pressure? Especially the captain of the team.
16:24Seems like this whole movie we've seen nothing short of the psychological unraveling of Troy, because he sang with a girl one time.
16:32Hey, we just had another team meeting.
16:34We just had another team meeting, man, and we just wanted to say...
16:37We forgot about J.J. Buckets Jenkins, class of 1984. Does that change your mind?
16:42So later, Troy sneaks up onto Gabriella's balcony. Again, huge house, no explanation, to try to win her back.
16:49This could be the start of something new. It feels so right to be here with you.
17:00Okay. Yeah, I don't remember this part being so pitchy, but this actually is Zac Efron's voice.
17:06To be here with you.
17:08Yeah, this is very uncomfortable. Can we get Drew Sealy in here, please?
17:12The start of something...
17:16new.
17:17It's a pair's audition.
17:18Saying it's a pair's audition kind of implies like, I would audition without you if I could.
17:22I guess Troy meant what he said earlier to the webcam. He really does not care about Gabriella.
17:27He just wants to be in the musical.
17:28Gabriella is not important.
17:30You might make the mistake like I did when I watched this as a kid, of thinking this is kind of like a Romeo and Juliet story about Troy and Gabriella.
17:37And it is a Romeo and Juliet story, but Gabriella is not Juliet.
17:41Juliet is just the musical.
17:42How you feeling?
17:45Nervous?
17:46Yeah, me too. Wish I could suit up and play alongside you.
17:50Yeah, no shit.
17:51What I want is for you to have fun. I know all about the pressure.
17:55And probably too much of it has come from me.
17:57I can't help but feel like all that screaming at you and making you play basketball until your hands bleed has had some kind of negative effect on you.
18:05But all I want in life is for you to be happy while playing basketball.
18:09I am still demanding that.
18:10Thanks, coach.
18:13Dad.
18:15Let's stick with coach unless you win, all right?
18:17Sharpay and Ryan try to throw another wrench into Troy and Gabriella's plans of attending the callbacks for the musical.
18:22By getting the callbacks changed to the exact same time as not only Troy's championship basketball game, but also Gabriella's decathlon tournament.
18:30So the gang has to create a diversion.
18:32That way they can make all three events.
18:34So Gabriella and her genius friends first hack the school's power grid to turn off the lights at the basketball game.
18:41Then they create a chemical reaction at the decathlon so everyone has to evacuate.
18:45And you know what?
18:47I get why everyone called her a freaky genius girl at her last school.
18:50I think she deserved it.
18:51She's like, oh, we can use a chemical reaction.
18:54I did this at my last school.
18:55We just have to make sure we don't make it as strong this time.
18:57That way not as many people die.
18:59Not as many.
19:00So Troy and Gabriella get to do their callback.
19:01Breaking free.
19:02Classic song.
19:03And look, the whole school shows up.
19:05Even the opposing basketball team is there.
19:08They crush the audition.
19:09Troy heads back to the basketball game.
19:10And they win that too.
19:11And then they all sing the big closing number of the movie.
19:15We're all in this together.
19:16We're all in this together.
19:19Well, I guess they all learned a valuable lesson.
19:21Except hang on.
19:22Darpay, you did not learn a lesson.
19:25Get out of this song.
19:26Don't sing and dance with them like you learned a valuable lesson.
19:28Get out.
19:29If Gabriella dropped dead right now, you would dance on her grave.
19:34And that's High School Musical 1.
19:36Many people lovingly remember little Viking boy from the first High School Musical movie.
19:40And while he rocketed to stardom in the wake of the first movie,
19:44his troubled life and fall from grace has been the subject
19:47of many concerned Twitter threads in the 19 years since.
19:50Do you know why I pulled you over today, sir?
19:52Huh?
19:52I said, do you know why I pulled you over?
19:54You're all over the road.
19:55All right.
19:55You want to play tough asshole?
19:56That's fine.
19:57All right.
19:57Step out of the vehicle.
19:58Take off that helmet.
19:59No, I can't take this off.
20:00It's a birth defect.
20:01It's part of my body.
20:02Are you drunk?
20:03I don't know.
20:03Huh?
20:03Let's think about that.
20:04Does crack get you drunk?
20:06Let's think about that for a second.
20:07Let's all think.
20:08Does crack get you drunk?
20:09After 15 DUIs and three counts of kidnapping exotic animals,
20:13little Viking boy was sentenced to life in prison.
20:16Authorities claim that it's here he became head of an extremist religious cult.
20:20His followers helped him escape in 2023 and his current whereabouts are unknown.
20:25Although he does occasionally post to Instagram to frantically proclaim
20:29the end is near or post a brand deal.
20:31Every morning I wake up and I drink six bangs.
20:33High School Musical premiered to 7.7 million viewers,
20:37a record that has only been broken a handful of times in the nearly 20 years since.
20:41But one of my favorite things to come out of the success of this movie,
20:44which I totally forgot about until I was making this video, was the live concert.
20:49I forgot about this until I went to the library to check out the DVDs for the three movies,
20:54and they happened to have a DVD of the recording of High School Musical in concert.
20:59This feels pretty unusual, even to this day, for a Disney Channel movie
21:03to put together a live touring concert featuring the actual cast of the movie.
21:09Selling out arenas with audiences in the tens of thousands around the world.
21:13But it wasn't the whole cast, actually.
21:15Zac Efron couldn't be there because he had a commitment.
21:17He was filming Hairspray at the time.
21:19So who did they get to fill in for him?
21:21It's Drew Seely!
21:35I'm sure they advertised the fact that Zac wasn't going to be there and Drew would be in his place,
21:39but I have to imagine every concert, there were like one or two kids that were like,
21:45what the fuck?
21:48Zac looks different in person.
21:49With all the success of the first movie, they had to crank out a sequel fast,
21:53which they did, releasing High School Musical 2 in August of 2007.
21:57And you might think it would be impossible for them to catch lightning in a bottle twice,
22:01but oh baby did they.
22:03What time is it?
22:04Sequel time!
22:05High School Musical 2 is often regarded as the best High School Musical movie.
22:09Out of any High School Musical movie,
22:11this one has the most moments that have lived on in the cultural zeitgeist even today.
22:16The movie starts just as the school year is ending.
22:18The musical is long over,
22:20so if you were expecting to see the musical that they were just auditioning for in the first movie,
22:25get that out of your head right now,
22:27you're never gonna see that musical.
22:34One of the first things I noticed is that despite only a few months having passed
22:37from the events of the first movie,
22:39Troy looks drastically different.
22:41His hair is much darker,
22:42he has a different haircut so you can see his ears now,
22:45but most strikingly of all,
22:46his eyes have somehow become more blue.
22:51His eyes were already pretty blue in the first movie,
22:53but they're piercing in this film.
22:55It is scary.
22:56Get some contacts, you freak.
22:57The clock strikes 2.15 and the first banger of this movie commences.
23:01The class immediately erupts in celebration.
23:03They throw their papers in the air,
23:05start dancing around,
23:06and did Chad just kiss his teacher on the neck?
23:09Yeah, okay, he just kissed Miss Darbus on the neck.
23:13That's too far.
23:14Luckily, it doesn't look like she cared.
23:15She's just violent.
23:17We finally get to hear Zac Efron actually singing this song,
23:21and I hate to admit it,
23:22but he sounds pretty good.
23:23I'm sorry, Drew, your services are no longer needed.
23:26He does end the song in a very strange manner though.
23:33The song ends,
23:35there's silence,
23:36and then Troy breaks away from the group to slide on the floor and say,
23:41Yeah!
23:44Why does he do that?
23:45Now, the trouble in this movie begins
23:47because Troy wants to make some extra cash this summer.
23:49His parents are making him pay for college,
23:51despite them clearly being very wealthy,
23:53taking vacations at ski resorts,
23:56and living in a literal mansion.
23:57But I gotta get hired first.
23:58Me too.
23:59I'm saving up for a car,
24:00so I can take that little hottie on a proper date.
24:02You can't see it,
24:03but he's actually not talking about that girl in his grade.
24:05Miss Darbus is just standing right outside of frame.
24:09Why does he look so confused there?
24:11It's like it never occurred to him that T could be for Troy.
24:14He's like, oh, I actually thought it was a cross,
24:17but yeah, no, yeah, T for Troy.
24:19That's my name.
24:20Now that the school year's over
24:21and basketball season isn't starting back up again for months,
24:24it's time for, you guessed it,
24:26basketball practice!
24:28Fake right, Troy, fake left.
24:30Take the ball uptown for a fancy dinner.
24:32I'll tell you what, I'm seeing moves I didn't see last night.
24:35For a fancy dinner.
24:36I'll tell you what, I'm seeing moves I didn't see last season.
24:38Keep it coming, guys!
24:39This post-workout scene has a lot of gems,
24:41like Mr. Bolton's insanely long shorts.
24:44Dude is criminally insecure about his knees.
24:47Also, Troy about to drink from an entire gallon of milk from the fridge.
24:51And then he gets a phone call revealing that his ringtone is,
24:54get your head in the game.
24:57Uh-oh.
24:58Is that a real song in this universe?
25:00So in the first movie,
25:01it seemed like Sharpay might've had a little crush on Troy,
25:03but in this movie,
25:04she's got a big crush on Troy.
25:06She's like, he's the most popular guy in school,
25:08and I think I'm the most popular girl in school.
25:11It's a match made in heaven.
25:13So she pulls some strings at her family's country club
25:15to get Troy a summer job there.
25:17The only catch is,
25:18Troy requests to get like the entire school hired,
25:21and somehow that works.
25:22So Troy shows up with his entire basketball team.
25:26You got Chad there.
25:27Also the nerdy girl who loves to hip-hop dance got a job there.
25:30You got Vanessa Hudgens' stunt double working there.
25:33Mrs. Montez, it would seem your lunch break does not start for 3.5 minutes.
25:37In order to keep the conflict of this movie moving along,
25:40they have to make it seem like their job is really demanding,
25:44but they also have to toe the line of not making it seem like
25:47these kids are being abused in some way,
25:49because they are just kids.
25:51So some of the insane demands that their job is asking of them
25:55is just like, hey, can you show up to work on time
25:58and make sure you clock out at the end of your shift?
26:00And the entire student body of East High is like,
26:02we're in prison!
26:04They're not gonna pay us until we provide a service?
26:07What kind of dystopian universe is this?
26:10Mr. Fulton is 100% correct to be strict, by the way.
26:13Several times throughout this movie,
26:14he catches them doing things
26:16they're very clearly not supposed to be doing.
26:18Like having a picnic on the golf course during the day
26:21while people are playing golf,
26:22or swimming in the pool after hours when there's no lifeguard present.
26:26And every time he's like,
26:27um, hey guys, could you, could you not do this anymore?
26:30And Troy's just like, man, what the fuck is this guy's problem?
26:33Suddenly, I'm beginning to miss detention with Ms. Darbus.
26:35Yeah, I bet you are, you freak.
26:37How did we get from the top of the world to the bottom of the heap?
26:40You guys, you've been working for 30 minutes.
26:44This is a job.
26:46This is just what jobs are.
26:47I don't recall you mentioning the boss is such a creep.
26:51Okay, wait, hold on.
26:52What did he, what did he do to you?
26:54Maybe I spoke too soon.
26:54If he's actually a creep, I take back everything I said.
26:56So Sharpay didn't just have Troy hired.
26:58She actually has a whole plan to lure Troy in.
27:01Starting with getting her dad to pull some strings
27:04at the University of Albuquerque's basketball team
27:06to give Troy a chance at a scholarship.
27:08So Troy, I saw your championship game.
27:11I mean, wow.
27:12That last second shot at the buzzer, outstanding.
27:15If I was a basketball recruiter and I saw that championship game,
27:18I would be more concerned about the lights going out
27:21and then everybody leaving at the same time
27:24to watch the star basketball player audition for a musical
27:27and then come back and win the game like nothing happened.
27:30And then also how they all sang a song after that.
27:32That's what I would be concerned about.
27:33But yeah, I'm sure he played well too.
27:35You know, between the two of us here,
27:36we pull a little weight over at the school.
27:39Ah, well, time flies when you're having fun.
27:43I'm not really sure what prompts that reaction.
27:45They're like, you know,
27:45we could do a lot of great things for your future.
27:48We really want to help you, Troy.
27:49And he's like, I don't know.
27:51I'm getting the fuck out of here, guys.
27:52See ya.
27:52If that were Mr. Bolton there instead of Troy right now,
27:55he would be, he'd be barking like a dog.
27:57Pay's dad let me play a few holes
27:59and then invited me to dinner with some U of A alumni.
28:01Really?
28:01Paul, wait, Troy's dad is fixing up a car.
28:04Look, he has other hobbies.
28:05Good for him.
28:06Granted, he is propping up the hood of the car with a basketball
28:09and there's more basketball and hoops in the background.
28:12And I do kind of feel like if we could see what he's working on,
28:15there would just be five basketballs
28:16where the engine is supposed to be,
28:18but it's a step in the right direction.
28:19Troy's dad, surprisingly,
28:21is all for Troy going for the basketball scholarship.
28:23Nothing wrong with keeping your eye on the prize.
28:25And that's great.
28:26I totally agree with that.
28:27Troy should capitalize on these opportunities he's been given,
28:30but he should try to make his girlfriend
28:31and his friends a priority too.
28:33However, that is not what Troy does.
28:36It's all in the grip.
28:37You gotta hold it just right.
28:39Ooh, that looks great.
28:40Hey, I almost forgot.
28:42I wrote a Swiss on my burger.
28:44So go ahead and check it out, man.
28:45Hey, I almost forgot.
28:46Get back in the kitchen, you broke motherfucker,
28:48and get your money on it.
28:49Look at you.
28:52Go team.
28:53Yeah, it's a gift from the guys.
28:55Typical high school jock.
28:57Always doing cool spin dance moves.
29:03I love sports.
29:04It's a gift from the guys.
29:09Look how much taller the actual basketball players are than Troy.
29:12I hate to say it, man,
29:13but he's gonna get crushed in college.
29:15He doesn't stand a chance.
29:16And not to mention, they definitely don't take singing breaks
29:18in the middle of practice.
29:19Next, we get the absolute classic I Don't Dance
29:22featuring, you guessed it, a lot of dancing.
29:25This song is great, but tell me why at the end of the song,
29:29Ryan and Chad are wearing each other's clothes.
29:32Because they don't ever address that.
29:33It's such a confusing part of the movie.
29:35Why did they change clothes?
29:37When did they get naked?
29:38So I was confused about this.
29:39So I actually went looking,
29:40and I found an article where the two actors explained what happened.
29:44The outfit swap was actually suggested by director Kenny Ortega.
29:48Quote, he had the on the fly idea at the last minute, Blue said.
29:52We had already done one take of that scene,
29:54and he did the usual thinking gesture and said, switch outfits.
29:59Bro was cooking.
30:01Bro was, you know, I don't know what he was cooking,
30:03but bro was cooking something.
30:05Well, you missed out on a fun night.
30:07But the dessert afterwards had to be the best part.
30:10Her mom makes the best brownies in the entire world.
30:13I know, I've had them.
30:14I've had them.
30:15I've had her fucking brownies.
30:17I like that that was the thing that pissed him off.
30:19He was like, look, I can catch you romantically dancing
30:22with my girlfriend at sunset until the cows come home,
30:25but you touch her mom's fucking brownies, you're dead.
30:29We're fighting.
30:30And let's just say by the end of the fight,
30:33I'm going to be wearing your clothes.
30:34Blowing off your friends, missing dates.
30:37If that's you, it's good to know.
30:38No, no, no, no, no.
30:39Missing dates, blowing off friends.
30:41This is nothing like the Troy I met last year,
30:43who blew off his friends and missed basketball to audition for the musical with me.
30:47I gotta go my own way.
30:49Then Gabriela sings a song breaking up with Troy called, I gotta go my own way.
30:54I gotta go my own way.
30:57I like that she finishes the last line of the song after she's gotten in the car.
31:01So like Troy can't hear her anymore.
31:03Gabriela just gets in the car and her mom's like, how was work?
31:06And she's like, I gotta go my own way.
31:08All right, hell yeah, we are going our own way.
31:11We're going home.
31:11I like this song.
31:12All right, the pressure has mounted.
31:14Troy's about ready to crack,
31:16which means it's time for the most iconic song of all, Bet On It.
31:19I love this song so much.
31:20Great choreography.
31:21The fact that he's dancing across an open golf course that is currently in use.
31:26I don't know if his promotions that he got entitled him to have a dancing crisis on the golf course,
31:31but he's really going for it.
31:32He's going all in, risking getting absolutely beamed by a golf ball.
31:36Oh, and now he's in the wilderness.
31:44What?
31:45Troy, respectfully, I think you have a lot more to worry about than your golf swing.
31:51That's not what this song is about, is it?
31:53I guess it's kind of vague.
31:58Hell yeah, dude.
31:59You know, powerful lyrics aside,
32:01I actually have no clue what he's decided on at the end of this song.
32:04He's kind of just like, you can bet on me.
32:07I'm going to end up on top.
32:09I got this.
32:09And it's like, what are you actually going to do though?
32:12Are you going to get Gabriela back?
32:13Are you going to do the talent show?
32:14He's like, no, I was just going to stand on top of this mountain for the rest of the summer.
32:21Actually, no one can be mad at me up here.
32:24The end of this movie is messed up.
32:26Sharpay actually turns her act around.
32:28She previously got the Wildcats banned from the country club talent show,
32:32but she decides, you know what?
32:33They can do their act as long as Troy still does his song with me.
32:36She agrees to this.
32:38And then the Wildcats turn around,
32:40secretly remove Sharpay from the talent show,
32:42and stick Troy back in their musical number.
32:45It's like, dude, why did you even make her agree to it
32:47if you were just going to go behind her back and do it on your own anyway?
32:50Sharpay, I'm sorry, man.
32:53You got played.
32:54Really, your weak hand.
32:57And Gabriela's here.
33:01Why?
33:02She forgives him now?
33:03It's actually not clear at all what Troy did to win Gabriela back.
33:07They haven't seen each other since she drove away singing.
33:10Maybe word got to her that Troy was angrily prancing around the golf course,
33:14and she was like, oh god, it's gotten too bad.
33:16I gotta step in.
33:21The last song of this movie is called All For One.
33:24Um, I don't know.
33:27I kind of feel like they lost a little bit of inspiration at the end here.
33:29Kind of feels like they forgot what moral they were working towards for the end of this one,
33:34and they were like, and we're all together in this one also.
33:38And the movie ends with Gabriela wooing several times while looking over at Troy for approval.
33:50And that's the end of the movie.
33:51Now I'm very excited to watch the third movie.
33:53But before I do, there's something I need to address.
33:56I feel like there's something deeply wrong in these movies,
33:59and I feel like I'm finally starting to get a handle on it.
34:02These movies, like, they don't really feel like musicals.
34:05And it took me a while to figure out why.
34:07So to explain it to you, we're gonna have to go back to medieval Europe.
34:11In a French town in 1518, some 400 people became inexplicably overcome by an urge to dance.
34:19They did so for weeks on end.
34:21This dancing plague, as it was later coined,
34:23lasted for months and only ended when participants were either
34:26so exhausted that they collapsed or so exhausted that they were dead.
34:29Authorities tried to stop the dancing,
34:31even hiring musicians to play vigorously to try to help them get all the dancing out of their system.
34:36This, of course, made things much worse.
34:38This event has baffled scientists and historians for years.
34:41But many believe it could be the result of a particular type of food poisoning.
34:46Yeah, crops like rye can end up growing a type of fungus that basically makes you crazy.
34:50Could it be that this is what's happening at East High?
34:52In the high school musical universe, the characters, they sing and they dance.
34:56And at first, you might think this is just like any other musical.
34:58The characters aren't really spontaneously breaking into song.
35:02It's more an artistic depiction of how they're feeling.
35:04But a closer look reveals something shocking.
35:07Well, firstly, sometimes they definitely are actually singing, like at the karaoke party.
35:11Now, you might think that a moment like Get Your Head in the Game is totally different.
35:15You know, that song doesn't really exist within this universe.
35:18But what is Troy's ringtone in the second movie?
35:24But how could an entire school become poisoned by a rare fungus?
35:27This man, who convinced us he had relevant qualifications,
35:30believes it could have been a certain freaky genius girl.
35:33It could be that by growing a fungus in a lab,
35:35Gabriella was able to manufacture a sort of singing and dancing craze to control Troy,
35:40who I'm pretty sure would have never done all of that stuff
35:43had he not been under some kind of drug-induced hysteria.
35:46After all, Troy is so cool and singing is for weirdos.
35:49So it could be the fungus or maybe Gabriella's some kind of fucking witch.
35:52The High School Musical Bonus Soundtrack.
35:55You love high school musical hits like Get Your Head in the Game.
35:58Well, now's your chance to own the extended soundtrack,
36:01featuring songs that didn't quite make the final cut.
36:04Like Coach Bolton's Crisis.
36:06What's up, guys? I'm 16.
36:08I'm the new player on the basketball team.
36:11I'm really excited to play.
36:12Yeah, Mr. Bolton, we know it's you.
36:14And Gabriella's on the news.
36:16A little boy drowned in the pool.
36:17Oh, no!
36:18A little boy drowned in the pool.
36:19No!
36:19Where was the lifeguard?
36:22Having a picnic.
36:23And a preview of the finale song from High School Musical 3.
36:27We're all friends together with each other.
36:30We're all together at the end again.
36:33And we're friends.
36:34We're still friends.
36:35And classmates.
36:36We go to school together.
36:38We learned a lesson.
36:39And now we're gonna switch clothes.
36:45High School Musical 2 broke the premiere record
36:47that the first High School Musical had just set.
36:49Instead of 7 million viewers, this one had 17 million viewers.
36:54So, of course, they had to make a third one.
36:56High School Musical 3, Senior Year.
36:59The only one in the franchise with a subtitle.
37:02Now, outside of the fact that they're all seniors in this movie,
37:05which I can tell by the title of the film,
37:08I actually know next to nothing about this one.
37:12I've never seen it.
37:13Yeah, I know I made it sound like I was a really big High School Musical fan,
37:16but by the time the third one came out, I was 14.
37:18And unlike the first two, this one came out in theaters.
37:21And as a freshman in high school,
37:23I was much too embarrassed to ask my friends
37:25if they would go see a High School Musical movie in theaters with me.
37:28So I decided it would be way less embarrassing
37:30if I waited until I was 30 years old
37:32to watch it for the first time in front of millions of people.
37:35And we're back at East High, baby.
37:37Zach's playing basketball.
37:39There's a dog in the crowd?
37:41Is this an Air Bud crossover?
37:43Zach's like, oh, my head's just not in the game tonight.
37:45Can we get in the sub?
37:46This gold lab comes in and just slam dunks it a couple times.
37:50The movie opens on the Wildcats with their backs against the wall.
37:53It's the championship game.
37:55They're behind, and there's only 16 minutes left.
37:59Whoa, Mr. Bolton rocking a middle part.
38:02That's new.
38:03Mr. Bolton gives a speech about how there's only 16 minutes left.
38:08And then they sing a song about how there's only 16 minutes left.
38:11Oh, a song about there being 16 minutes left in a game.
38:18We're getting very specific with these songs.
38:20I think they're starting to run out of ideas.
38:26This is the last time to make dad proud.
38:28If I don't, then he never will be.
38:30Hell yeah, he won the championship game.
38:34Again.
38:35I'm noticing right away that this movie is like
38:37much higher production value than the other two.
38:41I'm curious to see the budget on this bad boy.
38:43This movie looks like they actually like lit it.
38:47The other two just kind of look like they set up cameras and started filming,
38:51but there's lights in this one.
38:55So now they're having like the biggest high school rager ever,
38:58and they expect us to believe that they're not insanely rich.
39:02I'm pretty sure this is in Troy's backyard.
39:04Hey Troy, great house, bro.
39:06Your room is way cool.
39:08Oh, thanks, bro.
39:08Yeah.
39:09You were in my room?
39:10Well, yeah, I just took a picture.
39:12Yeah, just took a picture of your room, man.
39:14He's a secret agent for the IRS.
39:16He's like, how did your family get so rich?
39:18Well, another top secret hiding place.
39:23You're the second girl I've ever had up here.
39:24Yeah, it is top secret.
39:26I couldn't even see it up there.
39:27Just looks like a regular tree to me.
39:29It's here we find out that while Troy is a shoo-in for the basketball team at U of A,
39:34Gabrielle has already been accepted to Stanford.
39:36I sense a conflict in the movie.
39:39Troy's going to University of Albuquerque to play basketball,
39:43and Gabrielle is going to learn how to create the singularity at Stanford.
39:47So they sing a song about cherishing the present moment.
39:51Did they like challenge themselves to make a song with no dancing in this one?
39:55Like, what if we just sat for a whole song?
39:57Oop, now he's up.
39:58Oh, that was it.
39:59That was the whole dance.
40:02Nah, it doesn't work with this song.
40:04Julliard is considering four of you for one available scholarship.
40:09Sharpay Evans.
40:10Mr. Ryan Evans.
40:12Miss Kelsey Nielsen.
40:14And lastly, Mr. Troy Bolton.
40:19What?
40:24Since when does that guy have an evil cackle?
40:27I mean, I was surprised too, but that guy threw his head back and squealed.
40:32Did he submit his name to Julliard as some kind of evil plan to get him killed?
40:37They're trying to come up with some ideas for the spring musical,
40:40which I'm just now realizing they write every year.
40:43Like, they don't do a pre-existing musical.
40:45They write their own musical every year.
40:48All of you will create it.
40:49That's why in the first movie, they call Kelsey the composer.
40:52She literally writes the musical.
40:54Isn't that crazy?
40:55But to get some ideas, Miss Darbus asks the seniors about their future.
40:59Your future.
41:01It's easy.
41:02It's U of A.
41:03Hoops all the way.
41:04Ha ha ha.
41:05Yeah.
41:06Is University of Albuquerque like a really good school for basketball?
41:10I feel like I've never heard of them before.
41:12All the basketball players are like,
41:14we gotta get to U of A, man.
41:15It seems like that's just like the closest college that has a basketball team.
41:19Meanwhile, Gabriella's going to Stanford.
41:22Sharpay's going to Julliard.
41:23They're like, I don't know.
41:25We can go play basketball down the street.
41:26For the record, the reason I've never heard of the University of Albuquerque
41:30is because it's a Catholic liberal arts school that actually closed in 1986.
41:36So I guess these characters live in some sort of alternate dimension
41:39where it stayed open and went on to become a basketball powerhouse.
41:43Mr. Bolton.
41:46Mr. Bolton.
41:47Yeah.
41:49All of a sudden, he doesn't know if he wants to go to Julliard or U of A.
41:53See, he really never did care about Gabriella.
41:56He just wants to sing.
41:57Somebody just let this kid sing.
41:59Just tell him it's okay.
42:04Jeez.
42:05That song started so abruptly.
42:06No intro.
42:09No buildup.
42:10It's kind of scary.
42:14Oh, this is a look into some kind of strange alternate future
42:18where Troy chose neither basketball or Julliard and became a stalker.
42:22I want that to be how this movie ends.
42:24Troy choosing between two incredible futures and instead he just throws his life away.
42:29I can't decide.
42:30I don't fucking know.
42:31Ms. D said that there's only one scholarship.
42:34There's two of us.
42:35Wait, they're doing this to compete for a scholarship,
42:38not even just as like a place at Julliard?
42:40If I know anything about these two, it's that they can both afford to go to Julliard.
42:45Why do they need to take the scholarship away from somebody else?
42:49Which one do you think I should wear?
42:50Well, I've never been asked to a prom, but this almost sounds like an invitation.
42:54Did she say she's never been asked to prom?
42:58What about last year?
42:59They were dating last year.
43:00Troy didn't want to go to prom with her?
43:02His dad was probably making him run basketball drills.
43:04The only place you're going, Troy, is downtown with the ball.
43:07Make sure you bring the ball.
43:08Time for another song about how much Troy and Gabriella love each other.
43:12There's already like two very sentimental songs between these two.
43:16They are really setting us up for heartbreak, I feel.
43:19And also just spending like an unnecessary amount of time being like,
43:22these two are in love, okay?
43:24Don't forget that they're in love.
43:25That way when whatever happens happens, we're gonna all be sad, all right?
43:29So that way when Troy picks U of A and Gabriella gets hit by a bus, it's gonna be sad.
43:35I think they're gonna end up going to the same college.
43:37They couldn't possibly end this entire series by being like,
43:41eh, they didn't actually like each other that much.
43:42They're just gonna call it quits.
43:47Where's their clothes?
43:48Yo, Rocket Man.
43:49Why do I feel like they're about to haze these kids?
43:51You know, we weren't just given these lockers, we had to earn them.
43:53Right, right.
43:54Oh, they're definitely about to haze these kids.
43:56Now drink this entire bottle of Absolute.
43:59That'd be a crazy twist in this movie.
44:03Just a little hazing.
44:04Troy is not better than doing some hazing.
44:06Oh, I thought I heard you.
44:08I was just making some snacks inside.
44:10Are you guys hungry?
44:11Only if it's your brownies.
44:13I've had them.
44:13I've had them.
44:14I've had them.
44:15Bring those out of here.
44:16Could you take me after school to check out that tuxedo?
44:19Tuxedo?
44:20For what?
44:22For prom.
44:23Oh, honey.
44:24If that's what you call an invitation, you'll be dancing with yourself.
44:29He's like, okay.
44:31I wasn't inviting you.
44:33I'm gonna ask Miss Darbus.
44:34Then comes a song about getting ready for prom,
44:36featuring, I think, the funniest moment in any of these movies.
44:39I think this tux is too baggy, too tight, it makes me look weird.
44:43Yeah, this movie's kind of funny, man.
44:49Makes me look weird.
44:50Do I want classical, vintage, or plaid?
44:53I like that they're like,
44:53Should I wear plaid or ruffles or a really old suit?
44:57And it's like, no, you should just go to men's warehouse and ask for a prom tuxedo.
45:02Should I wear the ugliest thing that you've ever seen?
45:06No, just go.
45:07Just tell them you're going to prom,
45:08and they'll just give you the most generic tux you've ever seen.
45:14This reminds me of when I was a senior in high school,
45:17and I was getting ready to go for prom,
45:18and I sang this song called It's Gonna Be the Night to Remember,
45:22and me and all my boys got dressed up in weird suits and danced around on the stage.
45:27This is kind of just like that, actually.
45:30Am I crazy, or is there like actually too much music in this movie?
45:34I feel like the plot is kind of moving at a snail's pace,
45:37because every two minutes there's a song,
45:39and it's like, here's what's going on right now.
45:41We're thinking about going to prom.
45:43We're Troy and Gabriella.
45:44We like each other.
45:45Also, the stakes feel very low right now.
45:47What am I supposed to be worried about right now?
45:49Troy is like, I don't know what college I want to go to,
45:52and Gabriella's like, I also have choices to make.
45:55I still have decisions to make too.
45:57And she has not elaborated,
45:58and so I don't know what I'm supposed to be worried about.
46:00Now they're at some kind of junkyard.
46:03Just hanging out at a junkyard,
46:05as if we've always known that this is what they do.
46:07You see what happens when you do a show?
46:09You're like five people.
46:11Yeah, but what's so bad about that, man?
46:14We used to come here as kids.
46:15We'd be 10 people.
46:16Yeah, I remember that,
46:17because they used to talk about that in all the other movies,
46:19how they used to come to the junkyard.
46:21♪ Take it back to the place where you know it all began. ♪
46:26Finally, the boys are back at the junkyard.
46:30So we had a song establishing that Troy and Gabriella are in love.
46:34Now we have a song establishing that Troy and Chad are friends.
46:38This kind of reminds me of senior year in high school,
46:40when I danced around in a junkyard with my best friend,
46:42and we sang a song about how the boys are back.
46:46It's weirdly similar, actually.
46:49Whoa, the junk men who live in the junkyard are here.
46:53What's going on?
46:54What if Troy and Chad turn around and see them,
46:56and they're like, whoa, what the fuck?
46:58Who are you?
46:58Maybe I'll just stay here next year.
47:00Stay in Albuquerque?
47:01That makes no sense.
47:03Then why do I always have to make sense?
47:04Why do I always have to make sense?
47:06Why can't sometimes I just say...
47:09What are you gonna tell me about this?
47:13Juilliard.
47:13The only dad to ever be pissed off
47:15that his son is getting considered for a scholarship
47:18at one of the most prestigious colleges in the country.
47:23Troy, come on.
47:24Ah, damn, he's too fast.
47:26Get back here.
47:26The director for that scene was like,
47:28okay, how could you guys run away,
47:30but also walk away at the same time?
47:34Oh no, he's going crazy again.
47:35Painful basketball time.
47:37Time to scream and shoot some hoops.
47:40What?
47:41I like that little pouty dance up the stairs.
47:44Okay, Troy, for this one, you're a pouty toddler.
47:46Now you're a crab.
47:55Man, he wasn't kidding.
47:57He was really gonna scream.
47:58Well, now that he did it,
47:58I hope he can figure out what he's gonna do.
48:00Now that I got that out of my system,
48:02I'm for sure going back to U of A.
48:04I don't care about singing.
48:06Miss D, I know I'm not supposed to be here.
48:08Aren't you?
48:09Last one out turns off the lights.
48:12You know, she might seem cool
48:13about Troy being there right now,
48:14but as she walks through the school
48:16to get back to her car,
48:17she realizes he totally trashed the place.
48:19It's like he tore down posters.
48:21He flipped an entire hallway upside down.
48:23How did he do this?
48:24I don't think I can do it, Troy.
48:27Uh-oh.
48:30Is that a Dr. Pepper in the background?
48:31That looks good.
48:32I've chosen basketball.
48:35But I've also chosen theater.
48:39The University of California, Berkeley.
48:42Okay.
48:44I'll be honest.
48:44I did not know that that was an option.
48:51They made the Mr. Beast logo.
48:58I like that they're performing for the camera
49:01and not for the audience
49:03who's here to see them graduate.
49:04They're just like facing away from the bleachers.
49:07All their parents are like,
49:08damn, I wish I could see their faces.
49:10I don't even know which one's my kid.
49:12Now they're all just gonna smile at the camera
49:16for the rest of their lives.
49:18They say, we're not going to college, baby.
49:20We're gonna stare at this camera forever.
49:25And that's it.
49:26That's high school musical, baby.
49:27As far as endings go,
49:28I think they did a decent job
49:30with a nearly impossible task.
49:32It's a Disney Channel movie.
49:33So it's not like they can just like
49:34make everybody break up
49:35and go their separate ways at the end of the movie.
49:37That would be too sad, obviously.
49:39But they also can't make everybody
49:40just go to the same college
49:42and do the same thing
49:43because that would be unrealistic.
49:45So it leaves the door open.
49:46My only issue is that in doing that,
49:48they kind of don't really provide any closure.
49:50It feels like they kind of just pushed
49:52Troy's decision of what he wants to do with his life
49:54further down the road.
49:55But if you are looking for some closure for Troy,
49:58I might have something that helps.
50:01I mentioned earlier that the character of Troy
50:03was inspired by one of the writer's
50:05real high school teammates.
50:06But when I read that for the first time on Wikipedia,
50:08I was surprised to find that that teammate
50:11has his own Wikipedia article.
50:13And that's because that classmate, Lin Swan,
50:16went on to be a professional football player,
50:18playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers
50:20and winning the Super Bowl four times.
50:22This man is the real life Troy Bolton,
50:25and that might be the least interesting thing about him.
50:28In fact, he might not even know.
50:29It really helped you in your game.
50:31All the things that ballet taught you,
50:33you applied that to the football field.
50:36Did you catch any flack from your teammates
50:39about taking ballet?
50:40I mean...
50:41Oh, always.
50:47What's a gift from the guys?
50:49But I'll always remember a Hall of Famer
50:52who rose to the occasion each time.
50:55A plie-making playmaker.
50:57But you're a playmaker.
50:58Did you ever think maybe I could be both?
51:01Who could defy gravity.
51:06Yeah!