Day 164: The jive is hip, don't say hep

5/7/2014

For our anniversary, my husband and I sat down to watch the Bollywood film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. It is the perfect couples' movie, with plenty of romance and heartstring pulling. It also has the most well-rounded human characters we've seen in recent memory, with all the flaws, strengths, quirks, emotions, and awkwardness of real people. Even though it is a love story, I wouldn't classify it as a "chick-flick;" there is enough comedy, action, drama, intrigue, plot twisting, and full-scale musical dancing to keep the average movie-goer entertained. We would both highly recommend this film.

The note is a reference to one of the songs from the movie, "Dance Pe Chance," which talks about creating a step that will make you hep.

This movie is solely responsible for returning "hep" to modern parlance.

8 Comments

Jasini link

5/7/2014 04:18:58 am

Looks like hep steps would make me trep. ;-)

Jasini link

5/7/2014 08:08:22 am

My first thought was those steps are even more rev than flooping, but I wasn't sure how well a "Fraggle Rock" reference would go over. LOL.

Shannon link

5/8/2014 01:57:26 am

You have to floop if you want to be rev! Fraggle Rock is awesome, and I'm not ashamed to say we own the whole series on DVD.

Jasini link

5/8/2014 03:49:18 am

I'm glad to see the classics aren't being neglected. ;-)

Seriously, though, even with the "Everyone on the internet is my age" phenomenon (doo doo doo doo doo), I've gotten the impression that you and your husband are quite a bit younger than me, and who knows which references will get dated, and which will remain fresh? :-)

Shannon link

5/8/2014 05:16:31 am

Well we are both 29 as of this year, so things like Fraggle Rock fall firmly into the "stuff we grew up watching" category.

Also, we both tend to be *at least* 5-10 years behind the times when it comes to our entertainment preferences - him with his classic gaming and 70's-80's folk-rock, and me with my musty books, SCA reenactments, and 90's anime. It is actually more likely that we will not get modern mainstream references (we haven't seen Breaking Bad, we honestly couldn't tell you what movies are in the theatre right now, we don't listen to current pop music, we don't own a PS3, and our computers don't even have the processing power to run new PC games). Everything is fresh to us!

Shannon link

5/8/2014 05:17:07 am

Also, I went ahead and deleted those extra comments that were posted in error. No worries. :)

Jasini link

5/11/2014 12:57:13 pm

Thanks for deleting all those extras. :-)

So, anyway, if you watched Fraggle Rock in its first run, you must have seen it much the same way I watched Star Trek (TOS) when it was first run. ;-)

I have much the same feeling about being out of time. My favorite actors growing up were Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Danny Kaye (red hair, dreamy!), not whoever was famous in the 80s when I was in high school. ;-)

Also, Macgyver. <3

Recently we've been going through DVDs from the library of Remington Steele, Bewitched, and the A-Team, introducing the kids to the old classics. ;-)

Shannon link

5/8/2014 01:53:31 am

LOL. If only we could all be spritely Bollywood dancers...

Day 164: The jive is hip, don't say hep

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