Nobody puts Baby in a corner. May 2, 2007
When we were growing up, my sister and I lived down the street from our elementary school. In between our house and the school lived a lady named Pam, and we stayed with her after school until our mom came home.
Pam’s house was the best. She had Little Debbies and Kool-Aid, lots of games, and a big backyard. But that’s not why we loved it there. Pam had a daughter who was a few years older than us (she was in high school!), and we idolized her. She was a cheerleader, she had the biggest bangs we had ever seen, and she let us watch her movies. She was awesome.
One thing I learned later in life was that Pam didn’t want us to see parts of certain movies. I was in high school before I knew that Beaches didn’t start with them as kids. We weren’t allowed to watch the New Year’s Eve scene in Can’t Buy Me Love. And for the longest time, I had no idea there was a sex scene or… well, dirty dancing in Dirty Dancing.
It’s funny how much different the movies you watched as a kid look when you’re an adult. I probably hadn’t watched Dirty Dancing in its entirety since high school. But I saw the whole thing, dirty dancing, sex scene, abortion storyline and all, on the BIG SCREEN last night. And it was glorious.
After seeing the ad on TV, I gathered up a bunch of friends and we headed to the movies last night for the 20th anniversary showing of Dirty Dancing. The theater was packed out, and almost everyone there was a girl in her mid-twenties to late-thirties. We had all grown up watching this movie, and you could feel how excited everyone was to watch it in that atmosphere.
I had hoped it would be kind of a Rocky Horror experience, and I was not disappointed. The crowd was singing along, whistling at a shirtless Patrick Swayze, and saying the lines out loud. We yelled out in unison all the best lines: “I carried a watermelon?”, “Go back to your playpen, baby.” and, of course, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” We cheered when Johnny beat up Robby in the field and when he jumped off the stage to dance with his friends. We laughed at the cheesy lines and sang along with “I’ve Had The Time of My Life”.
It was so. much. fun.
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what a freakin great time!
i don’t i’ve seen DD more than twice, if more than once, but that would be awesome to see an 80s movie like that.
oh, and i had a similar movie realization. my sister and i could quote almost every line in the CBS edit of “Vacation”. when we watched it unedited, we realized our memorized lines were not in the real movie and it contained different scenes that we weren’t used to. i have the dvd, but the nostalgia factor just isn’t there for that version.
It happened to Aaron with Top Gun. We saw it at a movies in the park thing about five years ago, and when the sex scene started he was all, “WAIT A MINUTE I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE”. His mom had taped it off the TV and cut that part out.
Sorry I couldn’t make it. No one to watch the boys. I’m not too disappointed. Don’t hate me, I didn’t like Dirty Dancing all that much. But I wish I could’ve come and hung out. Maybe next time.
and sometimes when pam wasn’t quite on top of her game… those of us who knew she would make us skip certain parts would do everything we could to get to them before she got in there and if we beat her she would just yell “yall didn’t see that” and we would yell back “yes we did” man.. those we’re some good times