It's a Boy Girl Thing
It's A Boy Girl Thing is a 2006 body-swap Gender Bender romantic comedy starring Samaire Armstrong and Kevin Zegers.
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Nell (Armstrong) and Woody (Zegers) are high school students and life long neighbours who have always got on each others nerves: she is an uptight straight-A student and he is a popular football jock. On a field trip to a museum they start arguing in front of the statue of an Aztec god. The following morning they wake up in each others bodies and Hilarity Ensues...
Tropes used in It's a Boy Girl Thing include:
- Alpha Bitch: Breanna, though she's more stupid and shallow than actually malicious.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Nell and Woody, though only after being forced to cooperate with one another. Beforehand all indications are that they genuinely hated each other.
- Black Best Friend: Horse, though he's a bit of a subversion since he turns out to be a Jerk Jock.
- Book Dumb: Woody is a classic example, being a genuis on the football field but a lousy student at best.
- Character Development: Noticable for both protagonists, but especially for Woody, who starts off as a major Jerkass towards more than just Nell.
- The Cheerleader: Breanna
- Dawson Casting: Samaire Armstrong was in her mid-20's at time of filming.
- Didn't Think This Through: Woody's Cunning Plan to get Nell a reputation as being a slut falls apart when Woody realises just who is going to be experiencing the drunken sex.
- Freaky Friday Flip
- Gender Bender: Via a Freaky Friday Flip.
- Girl Posse: Breanna has one.
- Going Commando
- Grammar Nazi: Nell and her father.
- Hollywood Nerd: Nell is played by the really cute Samaire Armstrong who clearly went to the same 'nerd' school as Alyson Hannigan.
- Jerk Jock: Horse, who's a serial womaniser. We're not really given any indications that he's ever been a bad friend to Woody though.
- Meaningful Name: Woody, who evidently wakes up every morning with one.
- Naked People Are Funny: Invoked with Horse, to some extent.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Sharon Osbourne makes no effort to get rid of her British accent even though she is supposed to be as American as the rest of the cast.
- Slap Slap Kiss: The entire premise.
- Trickster: The oh-so slippery Tezcatlipoca.
- Voices Are Mental: When Woody and Nell swap bodies their voices stay with the bodies, but the thoughts of the characters are given as voiceovers in the possessors' voice.
- Your Cheating Heart: Horse cheats on Shanelle constantly.