The Sequel Update Week 4
Sep. 11th, 2019 11:31 pm Week 4 Draft
Pace of adding fandoms clipped slowed a bit this week, but it was still productive on that front. Six new fandoms clipped. I got some new source from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bessyboo, the AMAZING Disney Channel movie Full Court Miracle, in which the Jewish basketball team would have lost the championship... except that the fuel in the backup power generator for the arena MIRACULOUSLY LASTED EIGHT EXTRA MINUTES. garrideb is also working on getting me Starsky and Hutch source, yay! (Sorry again to findmeinthealps for misdirecting my thanks last week.) I also just watched [redacted], which has lots of Jews dancing, but about which more next month.
I'm still up in the air on switching to the original version of the song, but I'm punting on that until I have more source collected.
I think the most satisfying moments this week were 1) Realizing that there's a throwaway joke in Mr. and Mrs. Smith that Angelina Jolie's character is Jewish, and 2) Getting to the end of Season 1 of The OC and finally finding Sandy Cohen dancing.
The joke in Mr. and Mrs. Smith: The premise of the film is that Jolie and Pitt are undercover spies/assassins who got married without knowing the other was a spy. After the revelation, there are recriminations as they realize that they never really knew each other. Jolie reveals that she hired actors to play her parents at their wedding, and then as Pitt is spluttering, as a cherry on top, throws in, "Also, I'm Jewish."
It's a weird joke with tricky contours. There are people who conceal their Jewish heritage from their spouse because their spouse or spouse's family is anti-semitic, but that is not this joke, I think. Pitt has no problem with Jews, from what we can tell. Jolie's character concealed her Jewishness because she was trying to conceal anything that could lead him back to the real her. But the timing of the line is tricky. First, she reveals the lie about her parents, which is just about the most fundamental lie about one's self you can make. Then, as Pitt is grappling with the realization that his deepest knowledge of her is completely wrong, she mentions her Jewishness. I called it a throwaway joke, that's exactly how it reads... she might just as well have said "Also, I'm really a blonde." So what does her Jewishness mean to Jolie's character, is it a useless piece of trivia that shouldn't change Pitt's perception of her at all, or is it, like her parents, a deep secret of her true identity? Or is she lying about being Jewish altogether? Yay overthinking!
But I am delighted because Angelina Jolie just reads SO non-Jewish in every single way, which is the meta-joke behind the line in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The line is funny not because of any story idea about whether Jolie's character is or isn't Jewish and what it means to her, it's funny because Angelina Jolie being Jewish seems preposterous. So it gives me joy that because of that line, she can be included in the vid. Being a Jew complies with no stereotype.
fandoms I have clipped
Caddyshack
Bruriah
The Good Fight
Life During Wartime
Destination Wedding (bad rip)
The Good Wife
The Women's Balcony
Northern Exposure (1.2, other episodes not yet clipped)
Barney's Version
The Sitter
How to Make it in America
Late Marriage
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
While We're Young
Seinfeld
Hello, Goodbye
This is the End
The Campaign for Camelot
On the Basis of Sex
Modern Romance
The Wonder Years
Hart of Dixie
Community (Annie)
Call Me By Your Name
One Small Hitch
High Maintenance (Derech)
Mean Girls
The OC
Russian Doll
The In-Laws
Parks and Recreation (Jean Ralphio in End of the World Party drumline)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Full Court Miracle
Mr and Mrs. Smith
Wonder Boys
Fandoms I know have Jewish dancing, but haven't yet clipped
Caddyshack 2
The Pickle Recipe
Biloxi Blues
Burn Notice (Season 1 episode 5)
Love Comes Lately
Beverly Hills 90210 (David Silver)
Schitt's Creek (The Olive Branch)
The Year of Spectacular Men (bathroom scene)
Superstore (S4E17)
Starsky and Hutch (original) ('Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts')
The Crazy Ones (S1E19)
The L Word (Jenny Schecter)
[redacted]
Falsettos
The Birdcage
Also, cartoons including Big Mouth, The Simpsons, Gravity Falls, Duck Tales, and Rugrats, if I feel like adding cartoons
Fandoms that might have Jewish dancing, but I haven't checked yet
Man Seeking Woman
Beauty and the Baker
Shtisel
The Holiday
The Princess Diaries
Legends of Tomorrow
Pinsky
Garden State
The Jewish Cardinal
Private Benjamin
Everything is Illuminated
Then She Found Me
Front of the Class
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Thirtysomething
Being Erica
The Naked Brothers Band
Lanigan's Rabbi
Pace of adding fandoms clipped slowed a bit this week, but it was still productive on that front. Six new fandoms clipped. I got some new source from
bessyboo, the AMAZING Disney Channel movie Full Court Miracle, in which the Jewish basketball team would have lost the championship... except that the fuel in the backup power generator for the arena MIRACULOUSLY LASTED EIGHT EXTRA MINUTES. garrideb is also working on getting me Starsky and Hutch source, yay! (Sorry again to findmeinthealps for misdirecting my thanks last week.) I also just watched [redacted], which has lots of Jews dancing, but about which more next month.I'm still up in the air on switching to the original version of the song, but I'm punting on that until I have more source collected.
I think the most satisfying moments this week were 1) Realizing that there's a throwaway joke in Mr. and Mrs. Smith that Angelina Jolie's character is Jewish, and 2) Getting to the end of Season 1 of The OC and finally finding Sandy Cohen dancing.
The joke in Mr. and Mrs. Smith: The premise of the film is that Jolie and Pitt are undercover spies/assassins who got married without knowing the other was a spy. After the revelation, there are recriminations as they realize that they never really knew each other. Jolie reveals that she hired actors to play her parents at their wedding, and then as Pitt is spluttering, as a cherry on top, throws in, "Also, I'm Jewish."
It's a weird joke with tricky contours. There are people who conceal their Jewish heritage from their spouse because their spouse or spouse's family is anti-semitic, but that is not this joke, I think. Pitt has no problem with Jews, from what we can tell. Jolie's character concealed her Jewishness because she was trying to conceal anything that could lead him back to the real her. But the timing of the line is tricky. First, she reveals the lie about her parents, which is just about the most fundamental lie about one's self you can make. Then, as Pitt is grappling with the realization that his deepest knowledge of her is completely wrong, she mentions her Jewishness. I called it a throwaway joke, that's exactly how it reads... she might just as well have said "Also, I'm really a blonde." So what does her Jewishness mean to Jolie's character, is it a useless piece of trivia that shouldn't change Pitt's perception of her at all, or is it, like her parents, a deep secret of her true identity? Or is she lying about being Jewish altogether? Yay overthinking!
But I am delighted because Angelina Jolie just reads SO non-Jewish in every single way, which is the meta-joke behind the line in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The line is funny not because of any story idea about whether Jolie's character is or isn't Jewish and what it means to her, it's funny because Angelina Jolie being Jewish seems preposterous. So it gives me joy that because of that line, she can be included in the vid. Being a Jew complies with no stereotype.
fandoms I have clipped
Caddyshack
Bruriah
The Good Fight
Life During Wartime
Destination Wedding (bad rip)
The Good Wife
The Women's Balcony
Northern Exposure (1.2, other episodes not yet clipped)
Barney's Version
The Sitter
How to Make it in America
Late Marriage
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
While We're Young
Seinfeld
Hello, Goodbye
This is the End
The Campaign for Camelot
On the Basis of Sex
Modern Romance
The Wonder Years
Hart of Dixie
Community (Annie)
Call Me By Your Name
One Small Hitch
High Maintenance (Derech)
Mean Girls
The OC
Russian Doll
The In-Laws
Parks and Recreation (Jean Ralphio in End of the World Party drumline)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Full Court Miracle
Mr and Mrs. Smith
Wonder Boys
Fandoms I know have Jewish dancing, but haven't yet clipped
Caddyshack 2
The Pickle Recipe
Biloxi Blues
Burn Notice (Season 1 episode 5)
Love Comes Lately
Beverly Hills 90210 (David Silver)
Schitt's Creek (The Olive Branch)
The Year of Spectacular Men (bathroom scene)
Superstore (S4E17)
Starsky and Hutch (original) ('Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts')
The Crazy Ones (S1E19)
The L Word (Jenny Schecter)
[redacted]
Falsettos
The Birdcage
Also, cartoons including Big Mouth, The Simpsons, Gravity Falls, Duck Tales, and Rugrats, if I feel like adding cartoons
Fandoms that might have Jewish dancing, but I haven't checked yet
Man Seeking Woman
Beauty and the Baker
Shtisel
The Holiday
The Princess Diaries
Legends of Tomorrow
Pinsky
Garden State
The Jewish Cardinal
Private Benjamin
Everything is Illuminated
Then She Found Me
Front of the Class
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Thirtysomething
Being Erica
The Naked Brothers Band
Lanigan's Rabbi