Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
84:48 – 92:22… Say it with me. The active cash credit card from Wells Fargo. Be a 2%er. Learn more at wellsfargo.com forward slash active cash. Terms apply. All right. Apex Mountain. Dare I say nobody was higher on Apex Mountain than Travolta after this movie. I think he could have made any movie after this and it would have been greenlit. Literally anything. He could have named the movie, the genre, the director. He could have picked the cast. I think even more than Leo and Titanic, I just think there's no better definition than Apex Mountain, which is what is so funny about what his next movie was, which was moment by …
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So whether it's buying tickets to the game and grabbing a coffee, it earns unlimited 2% cash rewards on purchases. Say it with me. The active cash credit card from Wells Fargo. Be a 2%er. Learn more at wellsfargo.com forward slash active cash. Terms apply. All right. Apex Mountain. Dare I say nobody was higher on Apex Mountain than Travolta after this movie. I think he could have made any movie after this and it would have been greenlit. Literally anything. He could have named the movie, the genre, the director. He could have picked the cast. I think even more than Leo and Titanic, I just think there's no better definition than Apex Mountain, which is what is so funny about what his next movie was, which was moment by moment with Lily Tomlin, which is one of the worst movies of the last 50 years. It was the third movie in his contract. It is just absolutely abominable and should not have been the choice. But anyway. And his path after that is just totally screwy. There's no other streak. There's no other like ascension. It's just it's wacky. So I agree with you. Olivia Newton-John. I would say yes. I think the physical moment is more sustained and there's like more around it though. Right. But the physical moment doesn't happen without this. That's true. Okay. When did Let's Get Physical come out? I want to say 81. Yeah, I think so. It's a great song. Let's listen a little. Craig, do you know this song? Yeah, I know it a little bit. Craig, do you know about Jazzercise? I do. Yeah. It's one of the funniest videos ever with how just insane it is. Yes. I liked her little hairdo aerobics thing too. People doing push-ups. It's great. I don't understand what's going on in that video. Jeff Conaway, I think is also on Taxi when this comes out. I think he had just started on Taxi. One of my favorite shows as a child. Taxi is an amazing show. I absolutely love it. Pluto is running old TV shows and you can step into some Taxi and see Danny DeVito. It's amazing. Amara Lou Henner throwing a thousand miles an hour. The Great Judd Hirsch. Christopher Lloyd. I love that show. Tony Danza. It's amazing. That show's awesome. Also, it's tonally pretty unique. It's excellent. Yeah, it was unlike any other sitcom by far. Yeah. It was just trying to do something completely different. It was James L. Brooks who's been on the Rewatchable SpongeBob's. Is this Apex Mountain for musicals? No. No. No. No. No. I mean, are we talking musicals, movie musicals, or just like musicals in general? Musicals. I cannot give this movie of Grease Apex Mountain for musicals the entire genre. I'm sorry. What's a bigger musical than Grease? Les Mis. It's Phantom of the Opera. Very true. Hamilton. On its way. Yes. How about movie musicals? No. Singing in the Rain, Sound of Music, West Side Story. Yeah. Sorry. I know those are old movies. This is a throwback to the 50s for a reason. Yeah. This is one of the biggest movies of all time and one of the most seen movies of all time, and it's still lived on to this day. I guess it's not Apex. The definition of Apex Mountain is, after this movie, what was the juice? So I guess you're right, but I think this is the most seen musical ever. I don't know. I mean, maybe, but nothing else really took pieces from it. Grease takes pieces from other musicals. Grease is, I think even Randall Kleiser said, some of the way that he shot Summer Nights is based on West Side Story and all of the motion in that. So I just don't think he can give it to it. Okay. The nostalgia for the 1950s, I think Happy Days is still Apex Mountain for that. Robert Stigwood, yes, because he has Saturday Night Fever, then this, in a row, and did the deals where he owns all the soundtrack stuff. He has his artists and the thing. I mean, he just was crushing it. How about Extreme Makeovers? What about Clueless? I think Ty and Clueless is one that is really high up there. It's not quite as extreme, but it is good. Dance contests? Maybe. I'm trying to think. In movies? I think so. Yeah. I think in movies, yes. Okay. Thunder Road. Would you go with the Thunder Road in this movie or the Springsteen song? I'd go Springsteen. I would also go Springsteen. Drive-ins? Drive-in movie scenes? Oh, definitely up there. Yes. I think yes. That swing set's pretty iconic. Yeah. How about Girls Named Cha-Cha? Yeah. Yeah. Any other Apex Mountains? Sandra Dee? Yeah. Sandra Dee is a good one. Men's Gymnastics? Gets a big look. I think that's American Anthem with Mitch Gaylord. All right, fine. What about John Marshall High School? John Marshall High School is really famous. It's in a lot of movies. Yeah. I think it's either this moment, like this scene and sort of the way that it shows off the hills behind it. I'm a little biased. I used to live really close to it. It's either that or, often referred to on this podcast, is where Leonardo DiCaprio went to high school. So, when Leo was in high school? Wow. Or is it in this movie? What's the location for John Marshall High School? It's in Los Feliz. It's off of Griffith Park Boulevard. I think it's this movie. Yeah, I do as well. Yeah. Hall of Fame plaque. Was this movie the movie they would put in their Hall of Fame pack? I say no for Travolta. I still think it's Saturday Night Fever. But I think it's yes for Olivia Newton-John. Absolutely. I agree with that. Did you have a best racehorse name from this movie? I have Hopelessly Devoted. Oh, that's a good one. That would be a good one, right? Yeah. Here comes Hopelessly Devoted. I've got a couple. Yeah. National Bandstand. Hmm. Pink Lady is honestly, like, probably. Oh, for Philly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, Kinnicky. It's just like, there's always one really weird horse, you know, in the lineup where you're just like 80 to 1 odds. Like, sure, I'll put my money on Kinnicky. No problem. I like that. That's good. Those are good. Picky Knits. It's a really fast nine months. I mean, no joke. Really fast. Yeah. We do nine months in about two days. Mm-hmm. Does the National Bandstand, was that the prom? I guess so. Or fills in for it. We'd have no holidays. We just zip through. There's no context for how long. Danny and Sandy, were they kind of dating there? Were they not? How long were they not talking? Right. Yeah. All of a sudden, we're at graduation. Does anyone go to college? There's no college conversations? Yeah. I'm not sure why they had them graduate at the end. Why they just didn't have it be like November and then end of football season or something like that. You could have packed us into three months. I think we're probably good.
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