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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Charlie learns about what masturbation is at one point. This leads to an incredibly [[Narm|narmful]] passage in which he describes it in awe opening one of his letters.▼
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Averted. Charlie is.▼
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Charlie is just said to be "emotionally disturbed".
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Charlie picks ''the worst'' possible time to invoke this when asked in a Truth or Dare game to {{spoiler|"kiss the prettiest girl." He kisses Sam.}}
* [[Camp Gay]]: Patrick, mostly when contrasted with Brad.▼
* [[California Doubling]]: Averted. Most of the locations for the movie, right down to the theater where they see ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Rocky Horror]]'', are filmed in their original locations in [[Pittsburgh]].
▲* [[Camp Gay]]: Patrick, mostly when contrasted with Brad.
* [[Cool Teacher]]: Charlie's English teacher Bill.
▲* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Charlie learns about what masturbation is at one point. This leads to an incredibly [[Narm|narmful]] passage in which he describes it in awe opening one of his letters.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: averted by the nightmares {{spoiler|Charlie}} suffers after being sexually abused.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
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* [[First Kiss]]: Sam to Charlie. She specifies that even though she has a boyfriend and sees Charlie strictly as a friend, she want his first kiss to be with someone he loves ({{spoiler|see [[Rape as Backstory]]}}).
* {{spoiler|[[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]}}: Averted by {{spoiler|Charlie's sister.}}
* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Brad.▼
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Brad has shades of this, and pretty much evolves into a full-fledged one {{spoiler|when his dad catches him and Patrick and beats the shit out of him.}}
▲* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Averted. Charlie is.
* [[May-December Romance]]: while Charlie was held back a couple grades and should have been a junior, he's still a freshman dating a senior (Mary Elizabeth).
* [[No Name Given]]: Charlie's sister never has a name mentioned out loud, nor do his parents or brother. And for that matter, there's hints that "Charlie" is a pen name adopted for reasons of anonymity. (Charlie's sister has been named "Candace" in the film, probably for reasons of practicality.)
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. Charlie's English teacher, Bill, shares a name with the limo driver for prom (Billy).
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Sam was molested, if not outright raped, as a young girl by a friend of her father.}} Also, Charlie's aunt was raped as a young girl, which [[Freudian Excuse|led to her having serious psychological issues]], which is why {{spoiler|she herself molested Charlie.}}
▲* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Brad.
* [[Their First Time]]: Both versions are played straight: an unanticipated tryst is interrupted by something.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Past]]: Published in 1999, takes place over the '91-92 school year.
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