Mean Girls: Difference between revisions

Has a [[Nintendo DS]] game adaptation and a [[Direct to Video|direct-to-DVD]] sequel.

 

 

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* [[Badass Teacher]]: Principal Duvall. Doesn't do anything typically badass during the film, but sometimes sheer presence is enough: looking at the man, especially when he's giving a stern lecture whilst wielding a baseball bat, just tell me you wouldn't a) hang on to his every word or b) not want to take him on in a fight.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Most of Gretchen's outfits do this.

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Subverted.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Cady's transformation into the [[Alpha Bitch]].

* [[Billing Displacement]]: When a ''Mean Girls'' game came out for the [[Nintendo DS]] in 2010, [[Lindsay Lohan]], the film's star, wasn't on the cover. The tabloids [http://perezhilton.com/2010-04-12-fill-in-the-blank-330#respond had a field day with this.]

* [[Blatant Lies]]:

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Regina.

{{quote| "You can take that fake apology, and shove it right up your hairy c--" ({{spoiler|Regina gets hit by a school bus.}})}}

* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: Gretchen is forced to change her usual place in "Jingle Bell Rock". As a result, [[Epic Fail|she stumbles on Cady, then on the stereo that starts skipping, and kicks the thing on her crush's face.]]

* [[Dance of Romance]]: Subverted with Damian, then almost immediately played straight with Kevin.

* [[Informed Judaism]]: Gretchen mentions receiving Hanukkah gifts.

* [[Inventor of the Mundane]]: Gretchen's father invented toaster strudel.

* [[Jerkass]]: Regina George.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Janis, who, despite influencing and encouraging Cady to join the Plastics specifically to damage Regina, gets zero comeuppance when she reveals it to the entire crowd of girls following the revelation of the Burn Book. In fact, she gets ''applauded'' for it! Cady, in the meantime, is treated as a bitch by everyone because of what she's done, even though Janis admitted that she was the mastermind behind all that!

* [[Lucky Translation]]: Karen goes to the Halloween party dressed as a sexy mouse. In the Italian version, when asked what she is dressed as, she answers "Sono una topa". "Topa" means "female mouse", but is also a slang word for female genitalia and a rude compliment to a pretty girl.

* [[The Makeover]]: Caddy goes from normal student to "plastic".

* [[The Mall]]: Janis works here. Cady also compares the kids hanging out here to the wild animals she grew up with in Africa.

* [[Meaningful Name]]:

** And in the same vein, it's surely no accident that on many different occasions, a character will mispronounce Cady's name, thinking it's pronounced "catty."

** Janis Ian shares her name with the singer of "At Seventeen", a song about discovering that the "pretty girls" get the love. The real Janis Ian is a lesbian, and was the musical guest on the first episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', [[Shout-Out|the show screenwriter Tina Fey first became famous for]].

** Gretchen isn't all that malicious either, just desperately insecure and hungry for attention, which makes her extremely prone to gossip and over dramatize things ("Pusher? Like a ''drug pusher''?"). Makes more sense if you consider that in the original script she was described as ugly.

* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: During Cady's party, Aaron sees a picture of Cady back in Africa riding an elephant. An ''Asian'' elephant.

* [[Pair the Spares]]: Mocked. Janis and Damian kiss at the dance for a second, then quickly separate from each other in disgust.

** But then arguably played straight when {{spoiler|she hooks up with Kevin at the end.}}

{{quote| '''[[Amy Poehler|Mrs. George]]:''' You kids need anything? Snack? [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|Condom?]] Ah, God love ya!}}

* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]