Nerdy Dancing centerfold from Muppet Magazine
Grouchy Grooving Sesame Street parody posted on Facebook.
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 film that tells the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey, daughter of The Muppet Show guest star Joel Grey) and her crush on dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) at the Catskills resort where her family is vacationing.
References[]
- The film was spoofed in Muppet Magazine issue 25 as Nerdy Dancing, with the tagline "The Swine of Your Life" parodying the film's Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
- "Silly Dancing," a Sesame Street song from Episode 2586, not only owes its title to Dirty Dancing, but parodies "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
- The "Dirty Dancin'" episode of Dinosaurs is also named after the film.
- The signature song from the film, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", can be heard in The Muppets. Pepe and Miss Piggy are rehearsing the scene from the movie when Patrick Swayze lifts Jennifer Grey.
- In Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet: The Good, the Bad, and the Fuzzy, Pepe the King Prawn spoofs the movie's famous line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" as "No one ever puts de baby in the corner okay!", among other famous movie lines during his audition for the Muppets' band camp movie.
- The 2012 drawing book The Muppets: Doodle Book includes the text "Nobody puts Sweetums in a corner."
- In a September 12, 2018 Facebook post, Sesame Street spoofed the film with "Grouchy Grooving," featuring Oscar the Grouch and Slimey.
- The song "Just Takes Two" in the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode "When Mokey Met Lanford" features the two re-enacting the famous dance pose from the film.
Connections[]
- Sarah Hyland played Lisa Houseman in the 2017 remake
- Debra Messing played Marjorie Houseman in the 2017 remake
- Jerry Orbach played Dr. Jake Houseman
- Lonny Price played Neil Kellerman
- Billy Dee Williams played Tito Suarez in the 2017 remake