Sunday, November 15, 2015

You're the One that I Want


All through that fateful summer, Sandy had chills multiplying up and down her spine during her many encounters with Danny Zuko. Zuko too thought that the power Sandy was supplying was electrifying. It was young love at its finest, and it was appreciated both near and far.  Especially far, as their relationship soon had many extraterrestrial admirers who studied the mating rituals of humans with an interest akin to fanatical ornithologists.

Summer turned to fall and the years breezed by.  Danny grew discontent and began to question his place in the universe.  Had he know about the alien observers, he could have asked them about his place in the universe and obtained helpful information.  Instead, he turned to L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology for answers. This proved disastrous, especially when Zuko brought L. Ron to a meeting of the T-Birds and both Danny and L. Ron were unceremoniously banned from further gang activities.  Zuko then tried a comeback with the rival gang the Flaming Dukes.  Though their initial foray against the T-Birds (supported in part by Zuko's Boeing 707) was successful, the T-Birds decisively defeat Zuko and the Flaming Dukes at the Battle of the Battle of Irrigation Gulch in 2002.   After that defeat, a dejected Zuko turned to drugs, alcohol, roles as women in B-movie Hollywood productions.

The passing of time was also not kind to Sandy.  With Zuko otherwise occupied with Scientology, she took out her frustrations in the gym. What began initially as a modest exercise regime soon escalated into a full fledged obsession with all forms of physical activities which soon proved to be too much for the other Pink Ladies.  Sandy was soon banned from all further pajama parties with the Ladies who could no longer accept Sandy's constant desire to get "physical" with them.  Like Zuko, her career soon descended into making low budget movies and exercise videos.  Sandy and Zuko were last seen together in 1995 at the opening night of the critically and commercially disastrous remake of Grease III.

And such would have been the fate of Sandy and Zuko had it not been for their extraterrestrial admirers.  For though Sandy and Zuko were all but forgotten in Hollywood, the Grease franchise was the longest running theatrical production in the entire Orion Nebula.  Sandy and Zuko merch was priceless, and promoters, learning of their hard times on the planet Earth soon teleported Sandy and Zuko to the Orion homeplanet of Rigas VI.  The Rigan's were extra-dimensional beings who had little use for all the baggage that Zuko and Sandy acquired after that fateful summer depicted in the first Grease movie.  Consequently, everything else was edited from Sandy and Zuko's life and they became 17 again, locked in long passionate kisses and walks on the beach for eternity.  They became the living embodiment of the dream of Grease, and each time they sang the songtrack, it was filled with new meaning:

I saw my problems and I'll see the light
We got a lovin' thing, we gotta feed it right
There ain't no danger we can go too far
We start believin' now that we can be who we are - grease is the word
They think our love is just a growin' pain
Why don't they understand? it's just a cryin' shame
Their lips are lyin', only real is real
We stop the fight right now, we got to be what we feel - grease is the word

Plaza de crown, with endless delights.  

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