Top 10 Jokes Only Adults Get in Hairspray

Pushing that PG rating, there are a lot of adult jokes in "Hairspray." For this list, we’ll be looking at the jokes and references from Hairspray that probably go over the heads of younger audience members. Our countdown includes mouth muscles, CinemaScope, "Just nine months," and more! Which adult joke in "Hairspray" did YOU just get? Let us know in the comments!
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[@trinaq]

The "Nine Months" gag seems pretty obvious now, but I was blissfully unaware. Plus, as Brenda and Corny are seen arguing earlier, and it's heavily implied that he's her baby daddy.

[@ashleydowney1222]

In the Broadway musical it was made more obvious that Brenda got pregnant by Corny.

[@mrabbeymkay6961]

I knew it was about her being pregnant but not the corrny Collins part

[@_kellyfurman]

wait what i didn't know about the second part 😳

[@stephanie22345]

I’m sorry, what?!

[@kbanghart]

@@ashleydowney1222 lol Corny the Playa!! 😂😂

[@bellamaz1972]

Didn’t have the guts to include “now I’ve tasted chocolate and I’m never going back”… :)

[@ddoubleu170]

✊🏾💅🏾🤍

[@kbanghart]

Damn that one was great.

[@DeeLuccket2]

Man I love Penny ❤️😂😂

[@lovipoekimo176]

I was waiting for it!

[@KT926]

Hairspray is no doubt the greatest musical of all time. The line "Hey baby, you look like you could use a stiff one" is so obvious XD

[@trinaq]

As a kid, I was cheerfully singing along to many of these lyrics, without even a clue, particularly "Miss Baltimore Crabs!"

[@Missmagazinebura]

lol she had crabs

[@lonelyronin2428]

@Tom Whalen so did my bio dad. One of the many, many, MANY reasons she left his crazy ass.

[@hellothere9161]

ha, yeah, that happens to me a lot whenever i listen to songs i liked when i was younger

[@cassie12121]

@@Missmagazineburai thought Ms Baltimore Crabs was like the name of the pageant since baltimore was known for their crabs

[@Ilikebunnies-metoo]

When Velma mentioned the "communicable diseases" part, it kind of made me wonder if she was Miss Baltimore Crabs in more ways than one 👀👀

[@jaelicious21]

I was like oh velma was a og ho when she said the disease part

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

It wasn't too hard to guess what she meant by "screwed".

[@kbanghart]

Lol right??

[@kbanghart]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 I love how she openly admitted she screwed the judges

[@anyviolet]

I legit thought "a stiff one" referred to the common phrase (of the time) "I could use a stiff drink" hence Amber getting away with the wink

[@aspiretoinspire9679]

After the remake of Hairspray earned nearly $120 million at the box office, Waters wrote a wild treatment for a sequel titled Hairspray 2: White Lipstick. The script moved the characters into the late 1960s and called for, among other things, Link (Zac Efron) to take acid. Director Adam Shankman was enthusiastically on board in early 2009, but apparently the deal fell through. In June 2010, Shankman confirmed that New Line Cinema had dropped the sequel.🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@Father_of_Death]

It would not have worked without Travolta.

[@karijones7345]

If you include the original musical, you get a couple of good innuendos in It Takes Two and Momma I'm A Big Girl Now.

[@philspence3073]

yeah those

[@kbanghart]

Wait, is the big girl comment about being pregnant??

[@verkaforever]

That song is on the end credits of this movie.

[@cherylbunyan3995]

The best one: "Cause he wants to rendezvous, We kinda sad and blue, We'd like to say (no words, smirks on singers' faces) to the new girl in town." Also, love the nod to Little Shop of Horrors in the same song, as the three girl singers say "Look out, look out, look out, look out!" just like in the opening number of LSOH.

[@IUsedToBeAnAdventurerLikeYou]

The “look out” phrase is probably also a reference to a 60’s girl group song called Leader of the Pack about a biker who’s killed in a crash. The girls shout it the song just before he dies

[@lovelyflorie]

Also after Brenda was rubbing her tummy and when Amber and her mom were having their conversation, you could see in the background Corny and Brenda having a little argument. Brenda’s baby might be his. 😂

[@daniellevinson6975]

If you're talking about his portrayal by James Marsden, Corny's body language evokes a sympathetic camp counselor rather than a casual lover caught off guard. Derek Hough's version of the character, meanwhile, probably *did* knock up one of his own starlets.

[@the-ma-an]

You forgot to mention the "There's the flasher who lives next door" line in Good Morning Baltimore

[@OCLECTOR]

Yes lmao

[@baileeharding8886]

We did this musical in 2020 before the shutdown at my high school. So many innuendos but that's what made it fun. Like I actually bought a pack of Wrigley's for our Penny and taught her how to blow bubbles since she didn't know how to. She's watched me do it before and after class so she asked me to teach her. It did cause a war to see who could blow the biggest bubble. Our seaweed did say "Slow down Maya, your mouth muscles are already strong enough." I would've thought one of us would've choked on the gum because it was not expected of him to say that. That poor girl's face was so red.

[@j.r.taylor1997]

Did anyone notice the reference to The Sound of Music in Hairspray? When Penny appears on the corny Collins show wearing that dress it's actually made out of the curtains in her bedroom

[@revengeofbcraig5755]

It’s in one of their other videos.

[@monsterhanna6691]

That also happened in Enchanted.

[@j.r.taylor1997]

In the movie commentary it's revealed that corny Collins is Brenda's baby Daddy. When link gives his ring to Amber Velma Von tussle is talking to Brenda and Brenda looks down at her stomach and tries covering it with her arms then while Velma is talking to the cameraman you can see corny Collins and Brenda arguing in the background then she announces that she's leaving the show for 9 months. Then corny makes a statement where he says maybe we will find a girl who's just as fun willing but maybe not quite as free willing. Also I would like to add that at the end of the movie just as the song You Can't Stop the Beat and you could actually see Amber and the arms of a African American man and they're making out spinning in circles

[@daniellevinson6975]

The part about Corny's impregnation of Brenda is the speculation of only 1 cast member... Besides, *this* incarnation of Corny Collins is way too nice to take advantage of a teenager!! I think Brenda was arguing with Corny about simply feeling slut-shamed, while he tried to reassure her that he solely addressed his comment to prospective replacements.

[@hxrrys1]

@@daniellevinson6975Cassie Silva (Brenda) confirmed corny Collin’s is the father

[@daniellevinson6975]

@@hxrrys1 She's only one cast member...

[@hxrrys1]

@@daniellevinson6975 the actor who actually played Brenda would know more info than us, who weren’t actors in the movie 😭🙌🏻 no offense btw I wanted to say respectfully

[@matthk]

Why does Mojo assume Hairspray is a kids’ movie?? It’s an adult’s film which hopes to appeal to teens as well, and while kids would enjoy it, they’re not the primary audience at all. 🤷‍♂️

[@jasminealex7212]

I first saw this when I was 3-5 years old so with the exception of the padding’s joke and the 9-month comment, these went over my head

[@lisah3460]

Probably because it has a PG rating.

[@StarLightVillinsky]

I noticed Velma was staring at Brendan stomach and Brenda tried to cover it and then corny asked how long shed be gone and she said nine months. I'm like oh duh she's pregnant

[@ajaleafe-hall6872]

I got the “just 9 months” joke straight of the bat at age 12

[@nevehughes6111]

I remember singing along as a kid (like probably 7/8 ish) to Nicest Kids In Town blissfully unaware of the lyrics "nice WHITE kids" and then watching it again years later it was so painfully obvious

[@EleanorPennington_]

I bet you got a lot of weird looks in school 😆

[@nevehughes6111]

@@EleanorPennington_ haha I think most other kids didn't realise either, plus like I wouldn't even know half the lyrics so it was a lot of humming the tune

[@orangemarissa50]

This is seriously one of my favorite musicals ever ❤️

[@monsterhanna6691]

Same. 😍😍😍

[@mrabbeymkay6961]

Hairspray was The film that shut me up when I was a toddler It came out when I was a few months old

[@cheneethompson5756]

Same here!

[@cookingcrimescocktails3703]

I totally missed that from ladies choice

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

The bit that stuck out to me was the "baby makes three" part.

[@monsterhanna6691]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 Same. 😂

[@cassie12121]

Isnt it about male prostitutes

[@hgftrew1992]

Every time the word “innuendo” was mentioned, I couldn’t help but add “and outtuendo” which probably tells you that I’ve seen Wicked about ten times….. and have some of the lines memorized

[@selenedm999]

On the commentary, Brittany Snow points out that the large circle brooch she's wearing in the classroom where she mocks Tracy for grass stains is an early 60s version of the "purity ring." It's meant to be a statement that the girl is a virgin, and it gets more ironic that Brenda is also wearing one. Hers is MUCH smaller than Amber's!

[@martinsorenson1055]

Ms. Mojo explains the Cinemascope reference as using anamorphic lenses - to make it simpler, Cinemascope was a widescreen process. Movies used to be in more square in shape - but then in the 50's they became wider ( I won't go into the aspect ratios, and all that, since that would only complicate this).

[@darthstarkiller1912]

First saw it in choir in high school. One of my favorite films.

[@monsterhanna6691]

Same! 😍😍😍

[@Kay-rm6cv]

... I sometimes wonder how I got most of these jokes when I first watched it when I was 7, but still got confused with Penny's comment about "tasting chocolate"

[@specksgreenred33]

I was 14 when the movie came out so I got a few of them, but some went over my head.

[@mervyngreene6687]

There are quite a few "stiff" jokes throughout the movie.

[@cheneethompson5756]

When I first saw this movie, it was in my music class in high school Like me, all the other teenage girls swooned over zac efron!

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

I thought he was cuter as Link than he ever was as Troy.

[@monsterhanna6691]

Who wouldn't? 😍😍😍

[@cheneethompson5756]

@@monsterhanna6691 ikr? He's still a cutie pie nowadays!

[@monsterhanna6691]

@@cheneethompson5756 I couldn't agree more and he was one of my first childhood crushes. 😍😍😍

[@cheneethompson5756]

@@monsterhanna6691 yep Him, the jonas brothers, jesse mccartney, and Nathan kress were among my early childhood crushes I still love all of them!

[@watermelongo]

Recently watched this - when I was little I did a dance to “New Girl In Town”

[@valenciaj2502]

The part where Edna (John Travolta) was consoling Tracy at Maybell’s record store and he’s like” I know a little something about men” was a good one too.

[@kimberlyterasaki4843]

Ironically, the only one I understood as a 10-year-old was the "white" direction one.

[@PsilentThunderer]

Who wouldnt want a stiff one from James Marsden... woof.

[@monsterhanna6691]

You're not wrong. 😂😍

[@JennyAmponsah]

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@cheneethompson5756]

I agree! Who wouldn't?

[@SteveCarras]

From us, from Brittany snow or Amanda Bynes or Nikki Blonksy. This could firm a good new line cinema double retro young girl fest with NOW AND THEN

[@scottgarbo1288]

Right!??!!

[@monsterhanna6691]

I see Hairspray, I click. One of my favorite movies of all time. 😍😍😍

[@luxuryhub1323]

ms mojo your trusted authority on pop culture

[@chrisengelke1371]

I’m so not young, so I laughed at all of those. Funniest was the guy pulling out the socks then sniffing them.

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

I love Hairspray. xD

[@agcons]

At 07:00 he removes the roll of socks from the front of his trousers . . . and puts it in his mouth . . .

[@ashleydowney1222]

None of these references went over my head. I was 15 when Hairspray came out. I love Hairspray although I wouldn't let a kid watch Hairspray until a certain age.

[@mervyngreene6687]

I think that Ms. Mojo is underestimating today's youth.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

Yeah, I was twelve. I don't remember much about that first time, but I definitely knew why Brenda was leaving the show and what Velma risked to win a pageant. Admittedly I didn't get the Cold War joke at the time, but we didn't do that in school until I was sixteen and then it was only kids who were taking National Certificate of Educational Achievement Level 2 History. I found it a lot of fun to write from Eisenhower's POV (of course he left office the year before this movie takes place - Kennedy was the first president to support equal rights and integration - Eisenhower actually had blocks put up around the school in Little Rock so the nine African-American kids had a hard time getting in - and don't get me started on the way they'd expel those kids for the tiniest things).

[@ashleydowney1222]

@@mervyngreene6687 I was fairly innocent until I was 14.

[@ashleydowney1222]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 I definitely wouldn't have even noticed the reference about nine months when I was 12. But I definitely would have understood the Cold War reference when I was 12. I learned about the Cold War in 5th grade when I was 10. I was homeschooled and I was in AP History.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@ashleydowney1222 Where are you from? I live in New Zealand, so that might be a reason as well as you being homeschooled. I took History for three years but the only part I really liked was about Black Civil Rights when I was fifteen. We went from Jim Crow laws to the Black Is Beautiful movement up to the 1980s. Apparently for Level 3, schools could do nineteenth century New Zealand or the Tudors. I so wish we'd done the latter! Divorce, religion, Mary locking up her half-sister, Spanish Armada, major feminism from Queen Elizabeth I...but no, we got stuck with missionaries and whalers, the Treaty of Waitangi, pasture, mining...the only good thing was the 1890s when we became the first country in the world to give women the vote.

[@penguin-schluppstudio]

My mom used Hairspray as a learning opportunity for me.

[@deconstruct.with.raejene]

The deleted scene even reveals that Corny is the dad of the girl’s baby 😅

[@daniellevinson6975]

Considering how the rest of the films makes Corny look like avery different person, I'd say removing that scene was a wise decision.

[@Father_of_Death]

Ah, "Hairspray" One of the few family comedy musicals that has not so subtle hints of adult innuendo. Also, it's not a Disney film.

[@k333nya]

Velma said something like “they don’t have the mental capacity to break in”, some people might think she was talking about the crew but you can tell that she was talking about the black people.

[@JeBriClemeNu]

My favourite musical 😍

[@milkshakedraws6944]

Despite the 9 months joke being incredibly obvious, I never noticed it until my mom pointed it out.

[@johnathonf1]

Loved this one!

[@jaelicious21]

It was nice how they had the original Tracy as a guest judge I was hype I saw ricki lake was there

[@bethanyauble7934]

10: The Pingletons' Bunker 9: Mouth Muscles 8: "Having Fun Playing With Yourselves" 7: "Won't Go All The Way..." 6: Cinemascope 5: No Stuffing Allowed 4: "A Stiff One" 3: "She'll Certainly Risk Jail" 2: "Just Nine Months" 1: "The 'White' Direction"

[@gabbyp1934]

Holy Crap! I knew about a few of these from time to time but I can’t believe I didn’t realize some of the double meanings behind some of them 😅

[@freddiemolinajr.8397]

Ms MOJO is a great channel

[@freddiemolinajr.8397]

Great video

[@9Risky]

Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here

[@syra1541]

50% of this movie went over my head as a kid, despite that, it was still a favorite of mine

[@meyer8199]

Love this! The movie is very different from the stage shows, but both are great! At least when the stage version is done, they don't try to make it like the movie, the way they do with Grease. The stage version of that show is much better than its movie counterpart.

[@tayloredwards4968]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@mrabbeymkay6961]

When hairspray gets mentioned I get hyper as its my first movie that I remember watching ( I was a few months old when it came out) Never truly noticed all off these

[@onemercilessming1342]

Fallout shelters from the 1960s were no joke. Nor is the concept funny. My father, a US Navy veteran, built a shelter in our home's cellar at the height of the cold war. So did untold numbers of people. During the Bay of Pigs crisis, my father packed his sea bag and awaited a call up (which thankfully never came), while giving instructions to my mother and me (the oldest child) on his survival plan and his preparations in case the cold war got hot.

[@katherineknapp6604]

I understand two things as a teen but the rest, I understand now!

[@katherineknapp6604]

P.s. I'm 30 now and not as clueless as I was a teen in 2007.

[@emmaselsing3531]

Girl really said “but I screwed the judges”-

[@1LostMind]

I remember seeing the Broadway show the same year the movie was released, Alexa Vega was Penny

[@liliaalvarado7040]

'A Stiff One' Also has the double meaning of having an alcoholic drink.

[@skitcentral.]

I thought the CinemaScope was CinnamonScope LOL

[@alking7655]

I got the bunker joke as the references to the Cuban Missle crisis and Cold War easily. Also got many of the sexual references, though the whole means of "Ladies Choice" took a little longer, to my embarrassment.-

[@SteveKnightVO]

There is only one true “Hairspray” and it’s the vastly superior 1988 version

[@user-lt6dq4ir2w]

Ppl watched hairspray as a kid? I was 13 when this came out… it isn’t for kids?

[@kimbrulee_the_musical]

i just realize what line "they padded their cups" means😳

[@StarLightVillinsky]

Has no one ever questioned this in hairspray? Why are pregnant ladies drinking and smoking I mean doesn't that affect the baby?

[@radrobd123]

That's because it was common to do that back then. Society wasn't aware of the ill effects smoking and drinking would have to the unborn child. However, on I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball's character regularly smoked, but refrained on air when she was pregnant

[@jenniemarshall6804]

Why are they only stuffing one side of their dresses ? 😂

[@kristensing9057]

I got all of the jokes and comments especially as a 90s kid

[@hgftrew1992]

Also, I can no longer take Mrs Pingleton seriously after watching Allison Janney on “Mom” which I have been pretty much binge watching and am now halfway through the last season

[@mackenziehollister4604]

When I was a kid I noticed 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 The holy moly honorable mention and 1

[@Missmagazinebura]

Brenda is pregnant

[@GetRekt-bw6pu]

No shit Sherlock

[@michelleversace6030]

the scene where link tells the teacher to kiss his ass... I repeated that to my sisters friend. I got in trouble

[@DaisyBell2163]

I can’t believe penny’s mom tied her up

[@daniellevinson6975]

I think the "mouth muscles" line was about kissing rather than full-on intercourse.

[@hannahk5281]

You guys didn’t explain the Cinemascope joke

[@yingthompson6386]

2:47

[@thephantomoftheopurrra2527]

This is my favorite movie ever lmao

[@thephantomoftheopurrra2527]

Also I got all of these when I was a kid I blame my aunts and uncles lol

[@thephantomoftheopurrra2527]

*also* I always thought that the song ladies choice could be referencing male prostitution take that how you will

[@kimble90126]

Lol

[@emilykeepsmiling9465]

I must have one messed up childhood, cz I was 15 when this came out and not being funny, I got every single one of these.

[@SteveCarras]

Wow only less than a year this was posted .. long overdue- stiff (quotes Bravia and butthead uh huh uh huh uh huh)

[@daniellevinson6975]

Is Corny the baby daddy? That depends on which version you cite... The 2016 live production features an overwhelmingly seductive weasel who could easily be filthy enough to toy with a 17-year-old. The 2007 film, however, features a SINCERELY NICE host; Corny's charisma and gorgeous looks are matched by a kind heart in that version.

[@quranbutler6076]

Even though i love Hairspray, IM sick of these fing top 10 ideas.

[@m0rphinelollipop]

Bro I know someone who's like eleven who gets all these jokes I don't know if their is something wrong with society and kids these days or that these jokes aren't just for adults

[@gabrielribeiro-mills8716]

I need to be honest, I really do not get most of the Hairspray.

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, MsMojo. How about you do a list of the Top 20 Cutest Girls in Anime? I have some examples. Examples: Emilia (Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World) Yoshino Himekawa (Date A Live) The Platelets (Cells at Work!) Milim Nava (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) Sumi Sakurasawa (Rent-A-Girlfriend) Kanna Kamui (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) Wendy Marvell (Fairy Tail) I hope you have a good merry Christmas and a happy new year.

[@jonathanfitzharris4196]

The White Direction is so obvious.... how wouldn't anyone get that

[@sarahlindsey4965]

Hiheylikeit

[@breannaallen5926]

You guys missed one of my favorite jokes. The name of the TV station is WYZT or whites. Another reference to the segregation and civil rights.

[@hughiebrophyHind]

Like that's

[@RedK5]

NOT OBVIOUS TO THI ADULT!!! I won't watch this movie again

[@lyndahammond8883]

You all have dirty minds...

[@inevitablelyagitated1839]

😍

[@handyandyaus]

This commentary is puerile in the extreme. :(

[@register1430]

this is not the real movie.

[@geologist1005]

Love John w movies But all musicals suck

[@Alex-zl3gs]

First!

[@GetRekt-bw6pu]

Not even close

[@jnelletrim1478]

Remember God loves you!!♥️ John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Please turn your life around and repent.🙏 the clock is ticking....

[@reilea9977]

Booooooring. Who cares

[@KayKay-pz7er]

Well you took the time to comment so

[@fuglyandsmexybitch]

Oh yeah, no, please don't use some of this 13 minute video to explain what cinema scope is. 🙄🙄