I sat in the bar with about 50 other people, waiting impatiently for the big event. I first heard about it after taking a neon pink flier from under my windshield wiper and noticing the half-naked girl gracing the front of it. Intrigued, I read on. “The hottest bartenders in Lawrence,” it said. “Coyote Ugly Night every Friday night at The Moon Bar.” My first thought was wow, I love that movie. I had to see this.

Coyote Ugly, for those of you who don’t know, is a movie about a bar called Coyote Ugly and the girls who work there. The bartenders dance on the bar, sing, drench themselves with water and pour shots straight from the bottle into the bar patrons’ mouths. Did I mention that all of the Coyote Ugly bartenders are tall, thin and beautiful?

The local Coyote Ugly takes place at The Moon Bar, 821 S. Iowa. At midnight and 1:00 a.m., the bartenders take the stage. Their variation is a little different and not so complex. There are six bartenders in all: Meghann, Kelley, Aya, Jessica, Michelle and Christina. The girls bartend all night and then at the top of the hour, they come from behind the bar. One by one they get up on the bar, liquor bottles in hand.

This particular night was their debut. The beat of Ciara’s “1, 2 Step” signals the first dance of the night for the Coyotes. Trying to appear confident, the girls strut out from behind the bar. Hesitantly, they walk in a single-file line trying not to laugh and looking to each other on how to act. The routine starts out with choreography making it appear that there is a method to their madness. Once on the bar, the routine begins. All six girls start on a different beat and the choreography lasts less than two minutes giving way to six different free-style dances. “The first night I was so nervous to do it,” Christina says. “I was like, I cannot do this in front of all these people. It’s cool now, it’s like I’m just dancing with my girls.”

Every girl has on a variation of the same outfit: black shirt, denim bottoms and tennis shoes. Since then, the uniforms have changed. Now, each girl wears jeans, a Coyote Ugly T-shirt (a different color every week), and some type of stylish shoe with traction, Christina says.

The girls have liquor bottles full of Kamikaze and Red-Headed Slut shots. A guy approaches the bar, picks his Coyote and gives her a dollar. She bends down, grabs him to bring him closer and pours the shot in his mouth. “We are different from real Coyotes,” Aya says. “They are out there doing their thing the whole time. We are just bartenders that dance twice a night.”

“It was a pretty good idea,” says Sean Leon, Las Vegas senior. “They didn’t play the role of the Coyote Ugly girl very well. It was something different though.”

As for the claim of having the hottest bartenders in Lawrence, “I didn’t think they were the hottest,” says Landon Henson, Lawrence resident. “Brother’s has the hottest bartenders in Lawrence.”