The Blue Oyster Bar is a fictional bar, and the setting of a recurring gag-scene of the comedy movie series Police Academy. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Police Academy is a long-running series of comedy films, the first six of which were made in the 1980s. ...
The bar is a stereotypical hardcore gay bar, featuring patrons dressed up as bikers in leather clothing, sailors, and other gay fashion archetypes made famous by the members of the Village People and the Australian residents Mark Taylor, Dirk Armit and Craigo, wearing their customary hot pink leather pants, with target sewn to rear. For other articles with similar names, see Gay (disambiguation). ... A Biker is someone who rides a motorcycle (motorbike). ... Village People is a novelty disco band of the late 1970s. ...
Within the Police Academy film series, unsuspecting characters periodically enter the bar unaware of its nature (this usually happens as a prank by the lead characters). Once inside, a group of leering patrons forces the frightened victims to dance with them, invariably to a tango called "El Bimbo". Tango music is traditionally played by an orquesta tÃpica, a sextet which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons. ...
The Blue Oyster Bar only appeared in the first four Police Academy movies. Among those lured into the place were...
Cadets Blankes and Copeland (twice in the first movie)
Sweetchuck (as a civilian in the second movie, although he manages to escape after a brief tango)
Pleasant bar that is separated from the dining room by a porthole-pocked wall.
However, for a place called an oysterbar, the oyster choices were only five deep during my visits.
Speaking of Asian, the Bluepoint OysterBar has a selection of maki sushi, and that is all I will say about that (except for two more words: inflated prices).
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