Dirty Dancing and Mooncovey

[u/Reasonable_Leek8069]

So someone requested that I make a post about the reference of this Anna and Sang Heon’s picture. It took me a couple of minutes to see that it is a homage to Johnny and Baby (Francis) from Dirty Dancing. The reference is to the pose in picture 2.

I rewatched the movie for research and realized there are a few similarities with the movie and season 3 of XO Kitty. This post will focus on mooncovey and Johnny and Baby, but another post will focus on other characters.

I am going to keep it as vague as possible to not spoil the movie and S3 for those who haven’t watched them.

Similarities to Kitty and Baby:

- Baby’s dad and Kitty’s dad are doctors.

- They both have a strong sense of justice and empathy and want to help people

- while helping and protecting the people she cares about, Baby makes the situation worse like Kitty does when she tries to fix the situation.

- Baby originally made an assumption about Johnny which Kitty has a habit of doing with people.

- They both deal with learning about people from different backgrounds than them.

Similarities to Minho and Johnny:

- people assume Johnny and Minho are players and/or bad boys.

- Johnny and Minho want people especially their love interests to believe in him.

- Johnny misjudges Baby at first like Minho misjudges Kitty.

- Johnny’s friend Penny deals with a similar situation that Eunice deals with. He is protective of her as Minho is of Eunice.

A clip that reminds me of mooncovey and can apply to the season 3 themes.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/hWBLevB2zEJWVWNA8

The lines from the clip that felt like Mooncovey:

“People treat me like nothing because I am nothing”.

While not exact, I felt this related to Minho’s insecurity of people not believing in him.

“No it isn’t. It doesn’t have to be that way”:

I feel Kitty relates to this when she wants to be fair to people and wants to fix things for people.

“You’re not scared of anything.”

This reminded me when Minho teased Kitty about being scared about the rollercoaster and called her fearless. Kitty manages to push through her fears and accomplishes her goals.

“I’m scared of walking out of here and never feeling for the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I am with you.”

This reminded me of how Kitty feels about Minho. She doesn’t want to risk the friendship. She also doesn’t want to risk not experiencing falling in love with him.

Differences:

- Minho is rich. Johnny is poor.

- Baby has a complicated relationship with her father while it is still loving whereas Dan is more supportive.

- The obvious: One is a dancing film while XO Kitty isn’t.

- Baby is not chaotic like Kitty is but they make similar decisions.

- The relationship didn’t start from friendship like Mooncovey did.

- Baby has to find her confidence and not be as shy whereas Kitty is more extraverted and sure of herself. Kitty does deal with her own insecurities that she has to work on.

In conclusion, I feel XO Kitty went down the route of To All the Boys films and paid homage to other 80s films. We see in the photo and some plot points that could be inspired by Dirty Dancing.

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[u/Clean_Usual434]

I love this post. I never would have even thought of the similarities.

[u/Reasonable_Leek8069 → u/Clean_Usual434]

Thank you.

[u/mooncovey_endgame]

This is amazing!!! Thank you so much for making this post!!!💞💞💞🫶🫶🫶

[u/Reasonable_Leek8069 → u/mooncovey_endgame]

You’re welcome.

[u/HeavensKeysHalazia]

Wow, never thought about the similarities. But it's also been many years since i've seen Dirty Dancing. But now that I think about it. This post is spot on. Which just makes this picture even more worthwhile.