Valley Girl/Playing With
- Basic Trope: A girl or woman (usually a teenage girl) who is more concerned with fashion than smarts.
- Played Straight: Alice is a very fashion-conscious and spoiled Dumb Blonde, who, like, always, like, totally talks like this.
- Exaggerated: Alice is such a Brainless Beauty as to go beyond merely being The Ditz and being The Ditz.
- Alternatively, Alice is not so much Spoiled Sweet as the Alpha Bitch.
- Inverted: Alice doesn't really care about fashion (indeed, may be something a Tomboy or Shorttank), and speaks articulately.
- Bob is, like, totally a gnarly Surfer Dude
- Justified: Alice was taught to be this way by her mother, the media, etc. who encourage this sort of behavior in young girls.
- Alice is an Idiot Heroine
- Subverted: Alice is a book-smart brunette who doesn't normally overuse like or care too much about her looks.
- Alice overuses like but is smart
- Alternatively, Alice appears to be pretty smart.
- Double Subverted: But she sees a love interest, and becomes like this either because Love Makes You Stupid, or she is Obfuscating Stupidity to avoid intimidating him with her brains.
- But not book smart.
- Deconstructed: Looks will only get you so far in life, and most everyone thinks that someone who, like, talks this way is totally a moron.
- Reconstructed: Alice develops her smarts as well as keeping up her looks (and may put those to use in a field that welcomes both smarts and fashion-savviness, such as fashion design). She becomes very respected and successful.
- Parodied: Alice's mother is an aging porn star who behaves like this...as is Alice
- Every girl in the series is like this.
- Lampshaded: "Oh, my God, I, like, totally-" "Alice, stop talking like a bitch, will you?"
- Averted: Alice is smart and not afraid to show it, and while she does make an effort to look nice and presentable, she is not fashion-obsessed.
- Enforced: Chickification combined with SoCalization
- We need to show that this character is a Brainless Beauty and a Bratty Teenage Daughter.
- Invoked: Alice goes to a new school where these girls are the highest up the popularity daisy chain and get all the boys. Alice decides to act like this to fit in better...then it takes on a life of its own.
- Defied: Alice decides that she'll get further in the long run if she remains true to herself and doesn't hide her intelligence. And she does: her good grades get her further, and she finds a guy with a Geeky Turn On who is far more appreciative of her than those Jerk Jock guys the popular girls are dating.
- Discussed: "I hate how Alice, like, always, totally, talks like this!"
- Conversed: "It's annoying when smart girls act stupid to get popular."
- Played For Laughs: Almost always, like totally, is.
- Played For Drama: A young girl learns the hard way that this doesn't fly in real life and needs to develop her smarts and personality.