Doody, is a member of the T-Birds . He is Frenchy's boyfriend. He is portrayed by Barry Pearl.
Grease[]
Physical Appearance[]
Doody is a slim older teenage boy, curly hair. He is usually seen wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt, black Converse high tops, and his brown leather jacket with the T-Birds logo on the back. He uses a yellow squirt gun to prank Putzie at the National Dance-Off, and drops his pants at the blue moon song, exposing his white briefs.
In the novelization, he is described as a redhead and as having a penchant for ludicrous attire, such as shirts with loud prints, mismated socks and mixed patterns.
Personality[]
Playful, goofy, and a touch brave, having insulted Kenickie's newly acquired rustbucket car, which would later be overhauled and re-christened Greased Lightning, which Danny Zuko called him on. "What do you drive?" "Yeah, I.. ooh, whuh..." "That's what I thought." When faced with intimidating the Scorpions, Doody's `weapon' of choice was a clear yellow plastic squirt gun*, which he wielded when the Scorpions rolled by the Rydell Bonfire. He'd used it prior to Summer Nights, squirting Putzie up the nose for hiding under the bleachers, looking up girl's skirts. At the same event, he was one of the three T-Birds (Doody,Sonny,Putzie) who `Mooned' the TV camera, pulling his pants down the whole way, briefly exposing his white underpants.
During the end of school announcements by Principal McGee, Doody perked up when she stated that 'anyone' could be a president Eisenhower, or even a Vice President Nixon.
Notes and Trivia[]
- Doody was one of the first who saw - and were deeply stunned by - Sandy Olsson's radical transformation from schoolgirl sweetheart to biker beauty.
- In the movie, his real name is never really made known, but from a quote in the dance scene when he gives Danny and Sandy's points to himself and Frenchy: 'Fred and Ginger' we could assume his real name is Fred. In the play, his real name is Ronnie Dell. In the novelization, his surname is never stated but his real first name is given as Donald.
- When asked Doody's squirt gun, Barry Pearl elaborated on Facebook that, "We were brought to the prop trunk and told to pick out anything we wanted that we felt would fit our character. I loved squirt guns when I was a kid in the '50's, so I grabbed the yellow squirt gun. Sensibilities were different in the '50's. The world was a much nicer place, in many ways (a song sung by every generation that has preceded us)."
- [[1]] | Joe Hart plays him on Glee's production of Grease.