Day 18 -- A Song Used Well in a Movie or TV Show
"Girl" -- Davy Jones in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
My parents wouldn't take me to see The Brady Bunch Movie in theaters. They said I wouldn't get it. But what was there not to get? I watched The Brady Bunch on Nick-at-Nite all the time! I knew the characters! I knew that "groovy" meant "cool"! I understood bell bottoms and daisy appliques were once all the rage! And I liked all that stuff! 70s trends were way more neato than 90s trends. I even felt that way back then.
What I didn't know was that The Brady Bunch Movie was a parody of everyone's favorite blended TV family. The film took the family with all their 1970s fashion sense, lingo, and moralism and transported them to the grungey, techy 1990s. Hilarity ensued. Much later, when I finally saw The Brady Bunch Movie, I realized there were a lot of double entendres and other kid inappropriate stuff. So my parents were right. I wouldn't have "got it". It was best I stuck to the old sincere sitcom.
One of the original episodes of The Brady Bunch focuses on Marcia getting Davy Jones to perform at a school dance where he sings the ultra corny bubblegum pop song "Girl". Naturally, the movie parodies this very famous episode by having Marcia do the very same thing--getting Davy Jones to perform at the Big Dance. Except, you know, it's the 90s and bubblegum is out. Grunge is in. But since Marcia is so delusional about what is popular, she brings Davy Jones onstage. He begins singing "Girl" while the Gen-Xers stand around looking confused and the thirty-something female teachers swoon over their high school crush. In time, the back-up band begins playing along with "Girl" putting a grunge twist on it until everyone is dancing.
It's a great scene that shows how music can bring generations together and teaches the ever important lesson that, hey, maybe your parents' music isn't so lame after all.
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