Catholic School Girls Rule: Difference between revisions

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You've [[Seen It a Million Times]]. The widely held belief that Roman Catholic school girls are sexy and/or promiscuous by their very nature. (After all, how else do you end up with all those [[Naughty Nuns]]?) This perception is, of course, explicitly the child of an overlap between [[Fetish Fuel]] and [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]]. Any accurate resemblance to reality is purely accidental.

When this outfit shows up in films and TV shows, it's almost always done through [[Dawson Casting]]. Likewise, when it's done by [[Sexy Schoolwoman|fully-grown women]], it's almost always a case of [[Fan Service]] in action.

 

 

 

A subtrope of [[Adults Dressed as Children]].

 

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* ''[[Empowered]]'': While these girls are indeed beautiful, they got their looks by [[Deal with the Devil|selling their souls]]. Yes, all of them.

 

 

* Tom Stahl's wife does a cheerleader routine before having sex with him in ''[[A History of Violence]]''.

* ''[[The Kentucky Fried Movie]]'': This is the entire point of the [[Show Within a Show]] parody sexploitation film ''Catholic High School Girls in Trouble''. The clothing doesn't actually make an appearance. Because there is very little clothing involved.

** ''Scary Movie 3'': Has Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy in schoolgirl outfits.

* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' : Chiaki Kurayama as Gogo Yubari really was the perfect [[Ax Crazy|naughty]] Asian schoolgirl (although dressed in the Catholic attire rather than the more appropriate seifuku). It's a shame she had to get stabbed in the brain with two nails.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': in the increasingly rare moments when the girls in are actually in their uniforms.

* Referenced in ''A Life Apart: Hasidism in America'' when one Hasidic woman says that the Hasidic school uniform skirts extend at least four inches below the knee and claims that the longest Catholic school skirts are five inches above the knee. She's obviously ill-informed.

* Diane, in ''[[Trainspotting]]''. Subverted in the fact that Renton has no idea she's underage when she picks him up (out of uniform, natch) at a club.

* ''[[Mallrats]]'': Tricia Jones, the 15-year-old sex researcher, dons a schoolgirl uniform.

* ''[[5ive Girls]]'' : This [[Syfy]] original movie revolves around "sinners" who are sent to a Catholic reform school and are forced to wear naughty schoolgirl outfits. The events of the movie turn two of them into lesbians for [[Les Yay|some]] [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|reason]]. Bizarrely, this may even be justified, since everyone involved is either part of a conspiracy with a demon or being manipulated by someone who is, and the girls are being groomed for sacrifice.

* The second ''[[The Sweeney|Sweeney]]'' movie has Jack Regan meeting an informant in the park when a group of schoolgirls walk by and one of them [[Panty Shot|bends over to pick something up]]. Seeing how Regan is [[Distracted by the Sexy]] the informant quips: "I could be arrested for doing what you're thinking!"

{{quote|"Catholic school was great! I mean, the teachers kind of sucked, and they were supposedly way more strict, but you could get away with ''murder''."}}

* In the opening of ''[[The Transporter]] 2'', Frank is unsuccessfully carjacked by a [[Zettai Ryouiki]] girl in a pleated tartan skirt. After wiping the floor with her carjacking gang, he suggests she's got some homework to do. She runs off.

 

* In the [[Kate Daniels]] novel ''Magic Strikes'', Kate asks Raphael if he has a costume kink: [[Naughty Nurse Outfit|nurse]], [[French Maid Costume]], et cetera. He responds instantly with "Catholic schoolgirl". He then starts imagining his crush wearing a Catholic school uniform and tunes out of the conversation with Kate.

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''Hearts in Atlantis'', one of the main characters, Pete Riley, remarks that Catholic school girls give the best handjobs; he's changed his mind about a lot of things, but that's not one of them.

* In ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'', Aislinn and co go to a Catholic school. It isn't gone into much, given that the series tends to be pretty cynical/dark/serious in tone, but Leslie definitely fits this stereotype. At least until [[Rape as Redemption|She was raped]]. The guys who harass Aislinn in the first book also comment on this, pulling on her skirt, etc.

 

* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'': Jennifer Garner dressed as a Catholic schoolgirl.

* Mischa Barton did it in ''[[The OC]]''. Not surprisingly, it was Sweeps Week.

{{quote|'''Stanley:''' "That's my daughter. She goes to private school and I'm taking the picture down right now."}}

* ''[[Grange Hill]]'': Mostly [[Averted Trope|averted]]. The students (except for the sixth form, 17 & 18 y/o) all wear school uniforms, but as they're played by actual school-aged children, they dress appropriately in actual school uniforms. A few of the 15 and 16 y/o girls do seem to get away with wearing high-heeled Mary-Janes, but that's the extent of it.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''

** Darla, a vampire who's at least four hundred years old, dresses as a Catholic schoolgirl because she is taunting Angel for being in love with teenage Buffy, despite the fact that Sunnydale High doesn't require uniforms. Darla's also wearing that outfit to get boys. As in 'to get dinner'. Check out the opening sequence of the pilot episode, when she's wearing that same outfit to lure a leather-jacket-clad tough guy into a place where she can bite him. It's a great take on the usual [[Death by Sex]] scene in slasher films. If you don't know Darla's a vamp, it's got a huge HSQ.

** Similarly, in its spin-off series ''[[Angel]]'', Lilah dresses as a schoolgirl to jointly seduce Wesley and mock him for being in love with the bookish geek girl, Fred.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had Time Lady companion Romana wearing a very ''[[St Trinian's]]'' style uniform in the "City of Death" serial. Lalla Ward, judging by interviews and the production notes, came up with the idea and had no concept it was a fetish.

* ''Lingo'': [[Ms. Fanservice|The female co-host]] of this [[Game Show]] once wore a classic schoolgirl uniform.

** In another episode, Kelso states that he likes Catholic school girls because "they were never taught about sex so they don't know what not to do".

* ''[[NCIS]]'':

** Abby has also been known to dress up like that.

* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'': most of the girls have a very...[[Stripperiffic|unique]]...take on the Constance Billiard uniform. One reviewer commented that the St Jude's boys must feel like they're on the set of a porno every single day.

* Defied in ''[[Degrassi]]''. First Clare wore something approaching your standard schoolgirl uniform. But it was played as childish, not sexy. Fiona's time in a New York prep school included her attempt to redesign them to be this, but we never got to the end point on that. Now that Degrassi itself has moved to using school uniforms... they are designed to be as unflattering as possible. This [[Truth in Television]]; as is the fact that the girls seem to have wasted no time figuring out how to shorten the skirts without permanently doing so.

* In ''[[Grounded for Life]]'', Lily has to go pick up uniforms as part of her school's switch to a uniform dress code. As Lily tries on a uniform and shows it to her dad and his brother, she laments [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|"Who's gonna find me attractive in this?"]] Sean and Eddie look at each other as if they're both thinking "Don't say it. Let it drop!"

{{quote|'''Scully:''' Snake handling... didn't learn that in Catechism class.

'''Mulder:''' That's funny, I remember a couple of Catholic school girls [[Double Entendre|that were experts at it.]] }}

** It might also be worth mentioning that Scully was raised a Catholic...

* [[Dark Action Girl|Gretchen]] in an episode of ''[[Prison Break]]''. [http://blog.hdscreencaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/jodi_lyn_o_keefe_0006.jpg Obligatory pic].

* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Shawn gets excited when he finds on the subway a group of Catholic schoolgirls who "ditched their nun" (and yes, they were wearing the uniform).

 

* ''"Catholic Schoolgirls Rule"'' by the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] is the [[Trope Namer]].

* Lyn-Z Way of [[Mindless Self Indulgence]] often wears a slightly-less [[Stripperiffic]] version of this outfit during live shows.

 

* Stacy Kiebler showed up on the runway wearing a Roman Catholic schoolgirl uniform. Her appearance was the height of hotness. The reactions from the middle-age-or-older men around the runway were the height of [[Nightmare Fuel]].

 

* [http://www.herobuilders.com/08.htm This Sarah Palin School Girl action figure.]

 

* ''Varicella'': If you look in palace courtesan Miss Sierra's wardrobe, a Catholic school uniform is one of her fetishistic outfits.

* ''[[Escape From St. Mary's|Escape From St Marys]]'': The group of girls you talk to wear uniforms without using this trope, but the fashion show features students modeling uniforms to the sounds of "I'm Too Sexy."

 

* The Bad Catholic Girls, of John Kricfalusi's ''Goddamn George Liquor Program''.

* An exchange from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''...

'''Ellen:''' A ''naughty'' Catholic schoolgirl?

'''Nanase:''' No. }}

** Then Sabine tries to seduce Roy, who throws her out a window.

{{quote|'''Roy''': Nice piercings, by the way.}}

* Subverted in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' by Carrie, who is a devout Catholic, but goes to a public high school and dresses like everyone else.

* In ''[[Fansadox/Birthday Gift|Birthday Gift]]'', Anna tries to seduce a new student, Ginger. [[Magnificent Bastard|She's half way there]] by the first... meeting.

 

 

* Fruity of MTV's ''[[Downtown]]'' dated a Catholic schoolgirl who turned out to be utterly psycho.

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'s'' Olga Pataki.

 

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