Is this a parody???


At face value, it seems to be proud of it's "good 'ol boy" values of drinkin', whorin', cheatin' and fightin' (not to mention hootin' and hollerin'). Yet, I found the football locker room scene to be a hillariously homo-erotic scene(and therefore contradictory to the theme). Anyone else notice this? If it were the 50' or maybe the 60's, this could be seen as incidental, but come on... 1982?

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You ain't never to Texas have ya?

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But I must say, I've never, and I mean NEVER been in a locker room where everyone is naked and singing...if they were, I would be, well, singing with them.
But I do agree, it was a very homoerotic moment but in Texas, it's a rite of passage to be naked a lot.

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You ain't never to Texas? Is that the english they are teaching you down there? Oh boy. Anyway, yes I have (a few times). I guess I just didn't realize that you can lobby for banning gay marriages, continue with hate crimes against homosexuals, etc... yet it's quite OK to sing and dance around naked with your teammates... and that's quite alright. I was simply pointing out the contradiction.

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::rolls eyes:: Right, because fitting the 2nd largest state in the US into one stereotype is SO progressive of you.

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The movie is a musical..so of course its going to look odd

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It's a super homoerotic scene! That's one of my favorite scenes in the film; I crack up through the whole thing, but when I first saw this film--in Texas, at age 11, and with a church group (and EVERYone loved the film!)--I didn't get that at all. I just saw it as a bunch of hot guys who were terrific singers and dancing their hearts out in a musical!

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That shower scene was terrific, a great segment from a great film. It reminded me of a similar scene from the Village People's "Can't Stop the Music," plus a few more buttocks to merit an R-rating.

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Thank you. I was just afraid that maybe I was the only one who caught this...

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No need to worry. A lot of us keep track of such details for sociocultural context, of course!

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they're a football team

they're not just a bunch of random college students showering en masse


they're kinda used to showering together after like, oh, every game? and they were excited as hell, they just "won the season" (can't remember which championship they won off hand, been a while) and they were gonna get to goto Dolly Parton's place


you wouldn't sing?



and Football's huge down here in Texas

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I think the scene was simply an eighties version of a 1960's hollywood musical, hinse a little nudity was allowed. It's no different than watching film like South Pacific or Oklahoma, where you'd have what was suppose to be military men or cowboys singing and dancing. Musicals are fantasy, not realism.

We saw a returned of dancing films in the early to mid eighties, (Stayin Alive, A chorus line),. Sadly, so many of the preformers who appeared in these films where dead before the end of the decade for AIDS. Check the profiles of the guys in this scene, you'll see what I mean.

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They would be showering together after the game, yes. But if they WERE singing, it would probably be something a whole let more vulgar and less Broadwayish than this song was, and they certainly wouldn't be dancing like that. It would come across to them as GAY. And if you're perceived as gay in such a hetero-centric realm as college football (particularly in the locker room!), then all the other players are going to make your life miserable. At least that's the way it would have been back in 1982, though attitudes may have changed nowadays. This especially holds true in Texas, which is generally known for it's conservatism and good ol' boys. This scene, while enjoyable, was just so totally unrealistic as to impede one's ability to suspend disbelief, which you need to be able to do to enjoy a movie.

On the flipside, though, the irony of a very homoerotic scene with the boys talking about going to a whorehouse as the focus made for an interesting juxtaposition.

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Dude, when in real life does anyone stop what they're doing and break into a song and dance number? Any musical number in any show has to be taken as unrealistic but you just enjoy it for what it is. And somehow I don't think showing a bunch of realife football players, most of whom don't look particularly good naked, running around singing in a locker room about how manly they are and that they're excited about getting laid would appeal to the type of audience that watches musicals.

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My point is, even though song and dance acts don't happen as a part of normal life in reality, THIS took unrealistic to a whole new level. Perhaps it's because of what I've been conditioned to accept from all the musicals I have seen before, but to me, Glinda the Good floating in a bubble singing about the "Good News" of the so-called Wicked Witch of the West being dead is more realistic than the football players singing and dancing about going to a whorehouse after a big game. I still very much like the movie, don't get me wrong, that scene was just a bit hard to accept, even as enjoyable as it was.

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The Aggie football players were celebrating beating their big rival, the University Of Texas Longhorns.

The Longhorns lead the series with more than twice as many wins as A&M, 76-37-5. The rivalry was played every year between 1898 and 2011, until Texas A&M left the Big 12 Conference to join the Southeastern Conference. Leading up to the end of the yearly series, Texas had won 9 out of 12 matchups in the 21st century, including a six-game winning streak between 2000 and 2005. The Texas–Texas A&M football rivalry has given rise to several stereotypes on both sides: Texas A&M is generally portrayed as the rural smaller school while Texas is portrayed as the urban-wealthy larger school. With the exception of the 1994 game, when A&M's probation restricted the Aggies from being televised, the annual football game with Texas A&M traditionally took place on Thanksgiving Day. This rivalry is often considered one of the top college rivalries of all time.

In July 2011 Texas A&M elected to join the Southeastern Conference beginning in 2012. The move to switch conferences resulted in the ending of the 118 year rivalry between the two schools. On November 24, 2011 Texas faced Texas A&M in College Station in the final scheduled meeting of the rivalry as of January 2012. Texas defeated Texas A&M 27–25 on a last second field goal to win the final meeting. In January 2013, a Texas state legislator filed a bill that would require the two teams to play each other every year. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Higher Education on February 18, 2013.

The football series was the third longest running rivalry in college football. Since 1900 the last regular season football game was usually reserved for the matchup. Each school has elaborate pre-game preparations for the annual football clash, including the Aggie Bonfire and Hex Rally. Texas has a unique lighting scheme for the UT Tower after beating Texas A&M.

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I watched this for Dolly Parton. But suddenly it turned very gay with the locker room scene.

After all it is a musical and many in the film crew is probably gay, so no real surprise.

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