Scott Aukerman and Pamela Adlon solve the mystery of whether Patrick Swayze was in Grease 2
There’s a lot of important questions in the air right now. Who will save us? That’s one. But self-quarantining has our brains spinning in other directions, too. Why are Triscuits called Triscuits? we ask in these isolated times. What are Rian Johnson’s favorite movie musicals? What do the Goop people think about the coronavirus? Was that Patrick Swayze in Grease 2? Because that sure looks like Patrick Swayze.
This last question was posed on Thursday by Comedy Bang! Bang! host Scott Aukerman, who activated Twitter’s Grease 2 hive after posting a clip of a spinning back-up dancer who resembles the late actor. While it might seem random, Swayze did play Danny Zuko on Broadway and, in the same year that Grease 2 was released, appeared as a dancer in Toto’s video for “Rosanna.”
Aukerman’s query, however, was met with a resounding “no” by the Grease 2 fanbase, which exists because, believe it or not, Grease 2 is cool as hell.