Dirty Dancing/YMMV
- Crowning Music of Awesome: Hungry Eyes, Love is Strange, and Time of My Life, the latter of which won an Oscar.
- Ear Worm: Watch this movie once, and try not to hear "Time of My Life" repeating over and over in your head for hours afterward.
- Memetic Mutation: "Nobody puts Baby in a corner!"
- Narm Charm: See Memetic Mutation.
- Retroactive Recognition: Jake is Briscoe and Marge is Emily. In addition, Penny is Tina Tech and was lead female singer for Animotion as well.
- In addition, Newman is the resort's social director.
- This also applies to those working behind the scenes as well. Choreographer Kenny Ortega previously choreographed St. Elmo's Fire and later went on to direct and choreograph Newsies and High School Musical, while his assistant, Miranda Garrison, later went on to choreograph Selena, Baseketball, and Caroline in The City. Ironically, Jerry Orbach later worked for Walt Disney himself, when he was cast as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. In addition, director Emile Ardolino later went on to direct Sister Act. Also, music supervisor Michael Lloyd simultaneously worked as music producer for the Kidsongs franchise, while producer Linda Gottlieb served as executive producer of One Life to Live from 1991 to 1994.