Seeking Ferret

The Sequel (3 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Multi-Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:

Sequel to Warning: Might Lead to Mixed Dancing

More Jews dancing, for more fandoms

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I think I might be ready for a critical, non-cheerleading beta on The Sequel. Let me know if you'd like to watch a bunch of Jews dancing and tell me where my timings are off or if there are any other problems.

Week 11 Draft

72 fandoms! New ones added since last time are Unreal, Torch Song Trilogy, Weeds, and An Israeli Love story.


Caroline in the City has a season 2 episode that prefigures in most particulars the plot of Jewtopia. Goyish asshole Del Cassidy accidentally ends up at a Jewish singles mixer, meets a nice Jewish girl (played by Rena Sofer), lies and tells her he's Jewish because she will only date Jews. He then asks his Jewish friend Richard to coach him Cyrano style on how to fool her and her parents. I was excited about this moment because it offered confirmation that Richard, coded as Jewish in several ways, is actually Jewish (It may have been confirmed earlier, I haven't watched much of this show). Richard then dances later in the episode in the other subplot. Just as in Jewtopia, the scheme goes off the rails when he's about to become sexually intimate with her and he realizes that his lack of circumcision will give up the ghost. Just as in Jewtopia, I didn't enjoy this storyline at all, but at least the jokes were played in far less offensive ways than in that mess of a movie. And at least Rena Sofer is legitimately hella Jewish (she does not dance). It actually made me madder about Jewtopia... why bother making this movie that just recycles a mediocre 90s sitcom plot? Even if you're not going to botch it as badly as Jewtopia did, WHY?




I'm trying to not be too attached to clip placements. There are some clip placements that I think are just great where they are. There are others that I think work where they are, but could work in other places too, and I need to remind myself that just because I've seen it in that spot a lot of times doesn't mean it's the best spot in the long run. I moved some clips this week that had been on their spot for two months, to make room for new clips, and it's important that I remain open to that. Right now I still think there are places in the timeline where energy flags or flow isn't smooth enough, so there's still a lot of thought and experimentation to go.

I have a sort of tricky problem with removal of clips altogether, as opposed to moving them or shortening them, as I add new ones. On the one hand, I want to emphasize diversity of fandoms in the vid, so if it's one of those fandoms that I had a lot of source for early and filled a lot of timeline space with, like The Good Fight and The Women's Balcony, I'm fine cutting back on usage, there's such a thing as too much use of a fandom. But I need to be careful not to remove clips that are the only representation of the fandom on the timeline, which I almost did with Bruriah... The dancing in Bruriah isn't the most exciting or interesting, but I want to keep it in the vid anyway if at all possible. It's an awkward tension between the Philosophy of vid and the Execution... The Philosophy wants there to be All the Fandoms, the Execution wants only the good images where there's clear action in the foreground.


Also, I am mulling the ending. I mostly like the ending I have now, it makes me laugh to end with obviously terrible dancing, people just absolutely flailing away. And I like the Seinfeld moment where they just instantly stop dancing, it's funny and works clearly as an ending. But it's not a hammer the way Willow and Tara was a perfect hammer ending to WMLTMD. It just sort of fades away rather than taking things to the next level. And I have another problem with the Seinfeld ending, which is that both Kramer and George, though inspired by real life Jews, are not Jewish, so I'm ending the vid with two thirds of the characters in the final shot not Jewish... and Kramer is doing a lot of the heavy lifting of why the clip is funny. Also, going back to the previous both, all three of Seinfeld, Andi Mack, and While We're Young, my mini-montage of inept dancing, appear elsewhere in the vid, so I can cut them without losing any fandoms. But I don't know what goes in their place. The Willow and Tara shot works, IMO, because so many of the people in the vid's original audience were deeply imprinted on Buffy, and also it works for me because of stilljewish, the community of Jewish fans on Dreamwidth that takes its name from a brilliant Willow line. But inherently as The Sequel, the vid using all the stuff that I didn't use originally, it doesn't have quite as many things with the same emotional hit. First vid has Fiddler and The Chosen and Buffy and Babylon 5... this vid has less of the iconic.

The answer, as always, is that it'd be great to figure out what this vid is about besides just being The Sequel, the leftovers. What am I able to say with these sources and this song that I wasn't able to say with WMLTMD? Until I know that, I'm just fumbling around toward a coherent structure. (Maybe I should just say fuck it and end on Willow again.)


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
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
Call Me By Your Name
One Small Hitch
High Maintenance
Mean Girls
The OC
Russian Doll
The In-Laws

Parks and Recreation
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Full Court Miracle
Mr and Mrs. Smith
Wonder Boys
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Superstore
Runaways
Starsky and Hutch (original)
New York I Love You

An Emmy for Megan
Red Sea Diving Resort
The L Word
Indecent
Private Benjamin
The Birdcage
Caddyshack 2
Pinsky
Love, Simon
Big Mouth

The League
The Princess Diaries
Have Gun Will Travel
Marjorie Morningstar
Burn Notice
Rugrats
An American Tail
Arthur the Aardvark
Boynton Beach Club
Beverly Hills 90210

Schitt's Creek
Thirtysomething
Falsettos
Red Oaks
Plus One
The Year of Spectacular Men
Biloxi Blues
Legends of Tomorrow
An Israeli Love Story
Torch Song Trilogy

Unreal
Weeds

Fandoms I know have Jewish dancing, but haven't yet clipped

The Pickle Recipe
Love Comes Lately
The Crazy Ones (S1E19)
The Simpsons
90210 (S5e8)
Caroline in the City (S2E6, S4E15)


Fandoms that might have Jewish dancing, but I haven't checked yet

Man Seeking Woman
Beauty and the Baker
Shtisel
Being Erica
The Naked Brothers Band
Lanigan's Rabbi
The Spy
Gravity Falls
Duck Tales
Difficult People

Week 9 Draft

Because of holidays, I didn't do very much vidding this week. I'm looking forward to Saturday's equinox_exchange reveals, after which I'll be able to get rid of the redactions in the renders I'm showing you folk.

I grabbed a copy of the book Over the Top Judaism by Rabbi Elliot Gertel, written in the early 2000s as a critical discussion of Jewish representation on television. It's revealed some TV shows that used Jewish themes frequently that I didn't know about, and the criticism in general is interesting, but... a lot of the shows he talks about, I am reluctant to watch. Every summary I read of the Jewish content in Picket Fences sounds so alternately bleak or reductionist and racist, and a lot of the things are like that. Lazy stereotypes of Jewish doctors on Chicago Hope. Is there Jewish dancing? Gertel is not as interested in answering that question as I am, and the thought of watching a bunch of Chicago Hope to see if Dr. Geiger dances just seems entirely unfun.

I did get a note that Legends of Tomorrow season 2 came into the library, so I get to clip Martin Stein dancing in that. That should be fun.


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
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Superstore
Runaways
Starsky and Hutch (original)
New York I Love You

An Emmy for Megan
Red Sea Diving Resort
The L Word (Jenny Schecter)
Andi Mack
[redacted]
Private Benjamin
The Birdcage
Caddyshack 2
Pinsky
Love, Simon

Big Mouth
The League
The Princess Diaries
Have Gun Will Travel
Marjorie Morningstar
Burn Notice (Season 1 episode 5)
Rugrats
An American Tail
Arthur the Aardvark
Boynton Beach Club

Beverly Hills 90210
Schitt's Creek (The Olive Branch)
Thirtysomething

Fandoms I know have Jewish dancing, but haven't yet clipped

The Pickle Recipe
Biloxi Blues
Love Comes Lately
The Year of Spectacular Men (bathroom scene)
The Crazy Ones (S1E19)
Falsettos
Plus One
The Simpsons
Unreal
90210 (S5e8)

Fandoms that might have Jewish dancing, but I haven't checked yet

Man Seeking Woman
Beauty and the Baker
Shtisel
Legends of Tomorrow
Being Erica
The Naked Brothers Band
Lanigan's Rabbi
The Spy
An Awkward Sexual Adventure
Red Oaks
Gravity Falls
Duck Tales
Difficult People

Week 7 Draft

The Have Gun, Will Travel episode A Drop of Blood is surprisingly moving. I found it by accidental Wikipedia trolling- there is a greater tendency for Jewish actors to play Jewish characters, so sometimes I linkjump on imdb or wikipedia starting with a Jewish actor or director just to see what I can find. In this case I was linkjumping from an Italian actor who's frequently played Jewish characters, Alex Rocco, and I jumped from him to Jewish actor Milton Selzer, and I saw that he'd played a Rabbi on Have Gun, Will Travel and was curious.

The premise of the episode is that gunslinger Paladin has come to visit a Jewish friend of his, Nathan Shotness (!), whose daughter Rivka is getting married to a nice frum Jew. Nathan is being harassed by a criminal he testified against recently, who wants to disrupt his party; enter Paladin to save the day. But they don't want to stir too much trouble, since the neighbors aren't on their side and just want to stay neutral. And it's not Paladin's way to kill if he doesn't need to. So the final third of the episode consists of them trying to conduct the wedding under threat of violence, to ever growing suspense. Inside, Rivka and her chasan stand under the chuppah, while outside the outlaws are heckling with ever greater fury. They read the first two of the Sheva Brachos in Hebrew, and then a torch is hurled through the window. A pogrom is about to start, in the midst of this chasanah! But then Paladin decides he's waited long enough, he's endured enough, and so he steps in and sends the outlaws packing with the help of the chasan. And then they all dance!

The tension during the Sheva Brachos is incredible, and was incredibly scary; It's an amazing use of technical accuracy, too... all of the details of the wedding service are spot on. That accuracy helps tell the story. You have a great sense of who these characters are and how they're anchored in their thousands of years of tradition, and why this leads to the choices they make. And you also feel the ebbs and flows of the narrative built into a Jewish wedding and how they pull against the narrative of oppression happening outside. The blessings to God as a counterbalance to the harassment, a verbal reminder that God is on their side. But then the breaking of the glass, a reminder the other way, that Jewish life will always have hardships in it.

Earlier on in the episode, sitting at the dinner table, the chasan does a really nice exegesis of the first daf of Masechet Chullin. It's clear that putting this Serious Jewish Content in the vid was a point of passion for somebody among the creators of this episode- you don't go to that level of specificity in the non-plot related details of a midseason episode of a TV Western otherwise. And I find that incredibly powerful to watch, as someone who is also deeply invested in Talmudic exegesis and its intersections with the Western storytelling tradition. There are things in this vid, like Destination Wedding, where the appearance of Jews dancing is incidental and not a primary part of the story. Destination Wedding is also terrible. I am not attached to it at all. But there are a lot of things in this vid that I have a strong emotional attachment to, and that includes a lot of things that I only watched for the first time because I am making the vid. I'm really grateful for that, I'm really grateful that this project has exposed me to so much great art that speaks to me personally as a Jew. Have Gun, Will Travel is going to get the same half second in the vid as Destination Wedding, which hardly seems a fair tribute.

I don't have much else to say about this week- I was limited in progress by Rosh Hashanah. I've started adding cartoons in, I added a few other fandoms that were sort of not surprises, and I've started thinking a bit about some of the timeline rearrangement I'm going to do.

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
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Superstore
Runaways
Starsky and Hutch (original)
New York I Love You
An Emmy for Megan
Red Sea Diving Resort
The L Word (Jenny Schecter)
Andi Mack
[redacted]
Private Benjamin
The Birdcage
Caddyshack 2
Pinsky
Love, Simon
Big Mouth
The League
The Princess Diaries
Have Gun Will Travel
Marjorie Morningstar
An American Tail
Arthur the Aardvark
Rugrats
Burn Notice

Fandoms I know have Jewish dancing, but haven't yet clipped

The Pickle Recipe
Biloxi Blues
Love Comes Lately
Beverly Hills 90210 (David Silver)
Schitt's Creek (The Olive Branch)
The Year of Spectacular Men (bathroom scene)
The Crazy Ones (S1E19)
Falsettos
Plus One
The Simpsons
Unreal


Fandoms that might have Jewish dancing, but I haven't checked yet

Man Seeking Woman
Beauty and the Baker
Shtisel
Legends of Tomorrow
Thirtysomething
Being Erica
The Naked Brothers Band
Lanigan's Rabbi
The Spy
Jewtopia
An Awkward Sexual Adventure
Boynton Beach Club
Girlfriends
Red Oaks
Gravity Falls
Duck Tales
Difficult People

This week's draft


It was in some ways a frustrating week. David Krumholtz's character in 10 Things I Hate About You is unquestionably coded as Jewish, but a rewatch confirmed that is not made explicit in any way. Zach Braff's character does not dance in Garden State, while Natalie Portman's does, and though Portman is as Jewish as Braff, her character is explicitly marked as not Jewish while his is. Eli Wallach's Jewish screenwriter character in The Holiday does not dance. Nor do any of the Jewish characters in The Jewish Cardinal, a biopic about Jean-Marie Lustiger. And I have gotten through seven or eight episodes of The L Word and Jenny has not yet danced, although youtube confirms that at several unidentified moments in the series she will.

That sort of wasted effort was pretty normal the last time around. The difference is that last time I just vented to myself, but because I'm doing these public posts you all get to read about my frustration. I like this better.

Making a massively multifandom vid of this type (One Night Fandoms, Silent Fandoms, Starships, etc...) is not like any other kind of vidding experience. Usually the impetus for vidding is fannish- you've seen a show, or in some cases seen a show many times, and you want to work with this imagery that you're deeply familiar with to tell a story or make an argument. But in these multifandom vids, you're frequently working with source material you're not very familiar with. That's kind of strange. That's why this particular sort of frustration is common. Looking at the lists below, I have in the past 5 weeks clipped over forty fandoms(!), and I have a list of another thirty things to collect. That's a lot of media, some of which I've seen before, but a lot of which I haven't. Seeing all this new media is exciting and fun, but in terms of a path to a completed vid, it is not at all straightforward. There will be a lot of wrong turns. This week I got some work done, but I also took a lot of wrong turns.


But in any case, thanks to evil_plotbunny and dirty_diana for fandom recs, garrideb for Starsky and Hutch source, and everyone for putting up with my babbling.


Also, a couple things in the vid draft I am pleased with: The sequencing at 2:29 of Seth Cohen dancing with Anna to Seth Cohen dancing with Summer to Zoe Hart dancing with Joel pleases me, the alchemical transformation of Rachel Bilson from goy to Jew. And also I was delighted to realize An Emmy for Megan has dancing.


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
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Superstore
Runaways
Starsky and Hutch (original)
New York I Love You
An Emmy for Megan

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)
The Crazy Ones (S1E19)
The L Word (Jenny Schecter)
[redacted]
Falsettos
The Birdcage
Plus One


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 Princess Diaries
Legends of Tomorrow
Pinsky
Private Benjamin
Everything is Illuminated
Then She Found Me
Front of the Class
Thirtysomething
Being Erica
The Naked Brothers Band
Lanigan's Rabbi
Red Sea Diving Resort
The Spy
Andi Mack

Vid Draft Week 3

The story of this week is that vidding fandom is the best. findmeinthealps gave me a zip file full of awesome clips from Community. bessyboo gave me a clip from One Small Hitch and a half dozen other sources to check out. dirty_diana and beatriceeagle gave me more fandom recs. ambyr and bessyboo have both recruited their parents to help identify fandoms. I am not regretting my choice to be more open about the work on this vid. And everyone in Vidding Discord has not yelled at me to shut up about Seth Cohen yet, somehow. I am amazed and grateful for all the help I've gotten. <3

The other story of this week is that there is an Alec Guinness/Rosalind Russell movie called A Majority of One in which Russell plays a Jewish widow and Guinness, in tasteless yellowface, plays a Japanese businessman, and fuck that noise. Russell's character does in fact dance, but I am not putting yellowface in my happy vid. So add it to the list of movies with Jews dancing that I will never include in my vids, which up to this point consisted of a bunch of movies with Jewish gangsters and criminals, and also every Woody Allen movie.

In other news, the ex-Chasid Baruch dances in his episode of the NYC anthology show High Maintenance (the framing device of the series, apparently, is a traveling marijuana delivery person known as The Guy), and I was otherwise mesmerized by the plotting and dialogue of the show, and want to watch more.



I am also having second thoughts about the song. To be clear, I am entertaining no other thoughts besides vidding to some version of Lior Narkis and Omer Adam's "Mahapecha shel Simcha", it's the perfect song. But so far I've been showing you guys drafts set to the Koolulam cover. Koolulam is an Israeli public arts project where hundreds or thousands of people show up to a venue, are taught an arrangement of a song over the course of an hour or so, and then everyone sings it and it's recorded. It sounds like an amazing experience, one I would love to be a part of. But... here's the thing. A lot of the song arrangements are carefully arranged to make a political statement about unity and peace. Often English lyrics are translated into both Hebrew and Arabic to communicate a dream of unity. And that's all great. But the Koolulam arrangement of "Mahapecha shel Simcha" significantly sanitizes the song.

1. The lyric "Im shotrim, ken rokdim"- "If you drink, you must dance." is changed, presumably for anti-alcoholism reasons, to "Im sharim, ken rokdim", "If you sing, you must dance." A handy translator in the comments on the original song points out that the original lyric is a deliberate play on an Israeli anti-drunk driving PSA... "If you drink, don't drive" becomes "If you drink, yes dance."

2. A parallel pair of verses later in the song link the Charedim who refuse to join the army to the Chayalim who do join. The first verse starts "Elohim, Elohim, rak tishmor et harokdim"... "Lord God, protect those who dance." The second verse goes "Chayal, tarim li t'kahal // Hem lo rokdim bichlal // tarimu et hayad." "Soldier, bring forward the crowd. They're not dancing at all. Put up your hands". It's indirect but perfectly clear what these verses mean. Narkis and Adam are saying that both the Charedim and the Chayalim have been misusing their power to hurt people, when they could be using their power instead to protect the dancers, the ones trying to live joyful lives. But they're not criticizing either, rather, they are inviting everyone to the party. Just imagine what Israel would look like, says the song, if we had a revolution of joy instead of a revolution of fear and sectarianism.

In Koolulam's version, the first of these verses skips the invocation of God and jumps straight to 'Rak tishmor et harokdim", a sort of dreamy wouldn't it be nice if the dancers were safe. And the verse about the Chayal is skipped altogether.

3. There's a bit where Narkis and Adam misappropriate an Israeli political slogan from recent Tel Aviv protests "Ha'am doresh tzedek habriti", "The People demand Social Justice", as "Ha'am doresh ketzev mizrachi", "The People demand a Mizrachi beat." I'm not up enough on Israeli political context to fully follow this, but I think it's similar to the previous two... It's saying that social justice is fine, but what we really need is joy and community. It holds the left partially culpable for disunity, too. That part is removed entirely from the song.

4. And there is the insertion of a new verse, since the song was performed as part of Israeli 70th anniversary celebrations, that goes "Kulam sharim b'koolulam, haketzev lapanim, higanu l'shiv'im"- "We are all singing with Koolulam, the beat is heating up, we've reached 70 years".

So in order to create a version of the song that speaks for a politically correct version of what Israeli unity looks like, the song strips out all the clever invocations of overcoming political disagreement. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with using that. On the other hand, I don't exactly know how I would handle the Chayal section of the original myself as a vidder. Do I engage with that, do I include Jewish soldiers in some fashion explicitly, or do I just treat it as noise knowing that most of the vid's audience won't understand a word of the song unless I call their attention to it? I try, when vidding, not to be scared of complexity and difficulty, but I have to admit that using the Koolulam version makes for a simpler vid. And I don't have any problem with the message of the Koolulam version as it is, it's just frustrating knowing what it made the decision to hide.

Anyone have opinions? Significantly not a consideration is how much time I've already spent putting together this timeline- I am not at all attached to this particular arrangement of clips, as I've said before.

Original Lior Narkis/ Omer Adam version



Koolulam cover




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

Fandoms I know have mixed dancing, but haven't yet clipped


Caddyshack 2
The Pickle Recipe
Parks and Recreation (Jean Ralphio in series finale extended, also End of the World Party drumline)
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')
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Crazy Ones (S1E19)
The In-Laws

Also, cartoons including Big Mouth, The Simpsons, Gravity Falls, Duck Tales, and Rugrats, if I feel like adding cartoons

Fandoms that might have mixed dancing, but I haven't checked yet

The L Word (Jenny Schecter)
Man Seeking Woman
Beauty and the Baker
Shtisel
The Holiday
Full Court Miracle
The Princess Diaries
Falsettos
Legends of Tomorrow
Pinsky
10 Things I Hate About You
Garden State

I have been in denial for some time, but with the release of "Tik Tok", I think it's time to admit to myself that I am working on a sequel to "Warning: Might Lead to Mixed Dancing". I find this utterly terrifying, but it's happening anyway.

I'm thinking I want to make the process of making the vid a more public one. I'll post drafts as I go, I'll post my vidding notes here. For two reasons. First, because I think people might find it interesting. And second, because maybe it'll lure people into helping me. Also, there's just no compelling reason to keep it secret.


This is not a real draft. There's no clip structure yet. I've only clipped a tiny handful of fandoms. But again, I wanted to put them on the timeline in a consecutive way so I could get the joy from it.


The Sequel, first draft

The song is "Mahapecha shel Simcha", a big Israeli hit a few years back. The title means "A Revolution of Joy". This is a cover version by an Israeli public art project called Koolulam, which organizes mass-singing events where hundreds or thousands of people come to a venue, are assigned a part, taught how to sing it, and then everyone sings it together. I like how the combination testifies to the force of community to bring Joy.


fandoms I have clipped

Caddyshack
Bruriah
The Good Fight (Season 2 Episode 7)
Life During Wartime
Destination Wedding (bad rip)
The Good Wife Season 2 Episode 16
The Women's Balcony
Northern Exposure (1.2, other episodes not yet clipped)
Barney's Version
The Sitter

Fandoms I know have mixed dancing, but haven't yet clipped

How to Make it in America (episode 1)
Late Marriage
Hart of Dixie (multiple episodes, esp. early S3)
While We're Young
Caddyshack 2
The Pickle Recipe
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Parks and Recreation (Jean Ralphio in series finale extended, also End of the World Party drumline)
Seinfeld
Hello, Goodbye
Biloxi Blues
Community (Annie)
Call Me By Your Name
Burn Notice (Season 1 episode 5)
Love Comes Lately
Beverly Hills 90210 (David Silver)
Russian Doll (episode 2)
Modern Romance (A Fifth of Beethoven)
Schitt's Creek (The Olive Branch)
The Year of Spectacular Men (bathroom scene)
Superstore (S4E17)
One Small Hitch
This is the End
Starsky and Hutch (original) ('Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts')
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Also, cartoons including Big Mouth, The Simpsons, and Rugrats, if I feel like adding cartoons

Fandoms that might have mixed dancing, but I haven't checked yet

The L Word (Jenny Schecter)
High Maintenance (Derech)
Man Seeking Woman
Beauty and the Baker
Shtisel