The Hairy Bird

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Also known as All I Wanna Do (USA, new title) Also known as Strike! (original title)

In this film set in 1963, Odette Sinclair is sent by her parents to an all-girls boarding school, Miss Godard's Preparatory School for Girls, after planning to lose her virginity to her boyfriend, Dennis. Odette meets the dynamic young women of the DAR, Daughters of the American Ravioli — Verena, Tinka, Tweety and Momo — and they become friends. The girls get together to eat stolen canned food and share their most secret desires — and then pledge to help one another achieve them, no matter what the cost. One night they find out that the school is going co-ed, joining St. Ambrose Academy, due to lack of funding. Once it's proved that the boys can't be trusted, the girls mount an elaborate scheme to stop the boys’ invasion, hoping that they can save Miss Godard's from becoming "Miss Gonads".

The movie is based loosely on writer/director Sarah Kernochan's experiences at Rosemary Hall around that time.

Tropes used in The Hairy Bird include:

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council:

Abby: Odette Sinclair, the Committee has decided not to recommend expulsion and to give you another chance. However, you are grounded for the remainder of the school year. Odette: I would like to rebut. Susie: You're not allowed a rebuttal. Odette: It's a filibuster. I have the floor. Abby: We don't allow that, either. Odette: What is this, a junta?

• Alpha Bitch: Abby.
• Anachronism Stew: The cherry-picker truck used by the Flat Critters to get to Tinka's window was a Ford C-Series cab-over. While this truck was manufactured between 1957 and 1990, the cowl insignia combined with reflectors indicates this is a model made after 1968, five years after this movie takes place.
• Boarding School
• Calling the Old Man Out: Abby, to Page Singer. After Page announces that the school is going coed, the girls rebel, but Page wants Abby to take charge of them, at which point Abby tells her off.
• Deadpan Snarker: Verena
• Everybody Smokes: Even though smoking is said to be prohibited on school grounds, it's shown that even the headmistress, Miss McVane, smokes.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck: "Up your ziggy with a wah-wah brush!" and "None of your floppin' buggies!"
• Heel Face Turn: Abby
• Hey, It's That Guy!: The lead Flat Critter is a young Vincent Kartheiser.
• Hideous Hangover Cure: Ipecac
• How Did That Get in There?: The plot against Mr. Dewey
• Lipstick and Load Montage
• Naked People Trapped Outside: A few of the boys from St. Ambrose become these after the Flat Critters attack them.
• New Transfer Student: Odette "Odie"
• One-Gender School
• Parental Neglect: Verena, whose parents are divorced, and they dropped her at boarding school, which made her think they don't want anything to do with her.
• Parental Obliviousness: Tinka's mom, while talking to her, is not even paying attention what Tinka's doing, and doesn't even notice her running off with Snake at the end.
• Plucky Girl: Odie. And Verena.
• Porn Stash: Or what Ms. McVane and Mrs. Dewey think is Mr. Dewey's porn stash, is actually from Verena's father's stash.
• Spirited Young Lady: Verena and Odie
• Straw Feminist:

Odette: You hypocrite. I thought you hated boys. Verena: I know, but I've been thinking, perhaps they are like dogs. If we don't take them in, they run wild and are a danger to society.

• The Three Faces of Eve: Verena accuses Tweety of being this around boys.
• Vomit Chain Reaction: At the concert, after the dance.
• Where Are They Now? Epilogue
• Yellow Sash of Power: Abby