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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Okay, fine''
''Fer sure, fer sure''
''She's a valley girl''
''And there is no cure"''
|'''[[Frank Zappa]]''', ''Valley Girl''}}
Oh my God! I am like—so totally glad to see you!
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{{examples|[[Like Is, Like, a Comma|Like]], Examples of, like, Valley Girl, like, include:}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* Played with in [[Paris Hilton]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131026113520/http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d/paris-hilton-responds-to-mccain-ad-from-paris-hilton-adam-ghost-panther-mckay-and-chris-henchy parody presidential campaign].
* Some advertisements in the UK promoting imported American teen dramas will use Valley Girl-esque voiceovers. Can get very annoying when they're on every ad break.
{{quote|"HellooOOOOooo it's your mom!"}}
* The NA dub of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' used valley girl slang for the first two seasons. "I'm outie!" and "Whatevah!" were frequently uttered, to the chagrin of the viewers. Then the next two seasons switched to gangsta . . .▼
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* The NA dub of [[Sailor Moon]] used valley girl slang for the first two seasons. "I'm outie!" and "Whatevah!" were frequently uttered, to the chagrin of the viewers. Then the next two seasons switched to gangsta . . .
* In the English dub of ''[[D.N.Angel]]'', Mio Hio was given a Valley Girl accent as a substitute for the character's [[Gratuitous English]] dialogue in the Japanese.
* Poland from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has a Nagoya schoolgirl dialect in the original Japanese strips, and this was translated into Valley Girl speak as the closest English equivalent in the scanlations. It totally fits with his [[Wholesome Crossdresser|crossdressing habits]] and [[Ambiguously Gay]] bearing. Also his being somewhat of a [[Dumb Blond]].
* Misty's sisters talk like this in the English dub of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''.
** In ''[[Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns]]'', Domino talked this way at first, [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|but it turned out to be an act]].
* Rather annoying, the Viz Media translation of ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'' turns Hatsumi (and every other female character) into a Valley Girl even though she is a quiet, unconfident and rather poor Japanese teenager (seeing middle-aged conservative Japanese housewives saying "oh my god, Asuza is, like, such a hottie" is very, very jarring).
* To translate her idiosyncratic way of speaking, Tsuruya-san in the ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' dub is given this type of accent.
* A couple of minor duelists in the English translation of ''[[Hayate
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Lucy at some point finds out that she just lost her father. After visiting his grave, she goes for a walk with Natsu and Happy. As fate would have it, two Valley Girls appear soon after and bitch about how they hate their stupid, bossy, smelling fathers - right in front of Lucy who is so sad that she is not even able to cry. Natsu does not take it well.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* Tabby Smith of ''[[Nextwave]]''.▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* ''[[House of M]]'' featured a story involving the New X-Men as being part of a private academy. While many characters had similar personalities as their main universe selves, Sooraya Qadir is a radical departure as she goes from a modest, fundamentalist Muslim to a quintessential valley girl that rivals Tabitha "Boom Boom" Smith in vapidness.▼
▲* Tabby Smith of [[Nextwave]].
▲* [[House of M]] featured a story involving the New X-Men as being part of a private academy. While many characters had similar personalities as their main universe selves, Sooraya Qadir is a radical departure as she goes from a modest, fundamentalist Muslim to a quintessential valley girl that rivals Tabitha "Boom Boom" Smith in vapidness.
* Comet Queen from ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' is a 31st Century version of a valley girl, one that speaks her own brand of slang, much to annoyance of nearly everyone she's around because half the time they have no idea what she's talking about.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Sailor Venus from Megami33's ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.▼
* Also, Azula in GanXingBa's ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series]]''▼
* In ''[[K-On! The Abridged Series]]'', Mugi talks like one, [[Catch Phrase|like, yar]].▼
==
* The movie ''[[Valley Girl (film)|Valley Girl]]'', of course!
* Cher from ''[[Clueless]]''
* Romy of ''[[Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion]]'' is a born-again member of this group, since she walks the walk, talks the talk, but isn't rich and is actually from Arizona. (Michelle does the same things, but doesn't ''sound'' so, like, totally Valley, dihoood).
* Buffy in the original film incarnation of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
** In the first couple of episodes of the TV series the girls at Sunnydale High spoke like valley girls. ('Neg!' 'Pos!!') Thankfully dropped in favour of [[Buffy-Speak]].
* The three [[Alpha Bitch]]es in ''[[Mean Girls]]''.
* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' fan-film ''[[Pink Five]]'', a hilarious look at what happens when you send a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100611034740/http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/pink5/ Valley Girl to attack a Death Star].
* Elle and her two girlfriends in [[Legally Blonde]].
* Samantha from ''[[Night of the Comet]]''. Her only concern throughout [[The End of the World as We Know It]] is whether or not she'll get laid.
* For some reason, the three main girls in the ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' remake were turned into this. Particularly Lynda, who added "like" and "totally" to every other sentence.
* All the girls in ''[[White Chicks]]'' had some form of this throughout the film. Including the Wayans. Karen, Lisa, and Tori to a lesser degree.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Goss and Kylie in the ''[[Corinna Chapman]]'' series are Valley Girls, but they do actually help the protagonists occasionally.▼
==
▲* Goss and Kylie in the [[Corinna Chapman]] series are Valley Girls, but they do actually help the protagonists occasionally.
* Jennifer from ''[[Square Pegs]]''.
* Parodied in "deleted scenes" from ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' where actresses Lisa Edelstein and Jennifer Morrisson perform some of their scenes together while speaking and acting like valley girls.
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* Debbie from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Claire herself is [[Totally Radical|kind of borderline]].
* Hilary Banks from ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''.
* During one "Hollywood Director Game" on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', Colin demanded that his "actors" portray the scene again as "clueless teenage girls" - Valley Girl was the first thing on their minds, except Wayne Brady went with a [[Sassy Black Woman|Sassy Black Girl]] portrayal instead. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaLJb5Byqb8 Watch it here.]
* The original ''[[All That]]'' had a recurring sketch called "Whateverrr!" which was a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhNsMS-Ykg talk show hosted by two valley girls], played by Amanda Bynes and Christy Knowings.
* ''[[The X-Files]]''. "Syzygy" shows the terrible consequences of two valley girls gaining cosmic powers.
* ''[[X-Play]]''{{'}}s eighties flashback episode had Morgan Webb act like one of these.
* ''[[Dharma and Greg]]''; Dharma acted like this when [[It Makes Sense in Context|shopping for a dress to wear on a date to a prom with a high school kid]].
{{quote|'''Shop owner:''' What's the dress for?
'''Dharma:''' [[Comically Missing the Point|For, like, my body.]] }}
* Jackie from ''[[That '70s Show]]'' has elements of this (though she's from Wisconsin).
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' and ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' portrayed the [[Love Goddess]] Aphrodite as a Valley Girl played by Alexandra Tydings.
* In the episode
{{quote|'''Maddie:''' And I'm totally getting my license, like, this year!}}
** Lampshaded by Esteban when Moseby gives a skeptical look
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* For a British chick, [[Catherine Tate]] can be, like, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fGZtrBeDcQ&feature=fvst totally Val!]
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* The [[Frank Zappa]] song "Valley Girl" like, totally counts. It's, like, ''totally'' the [[Ur Example]] fer shure!
* Ke$ha's "Tik Tok", which is literally the Valley girl anthem. Her voice even has the trademark inflection, with autotune added for some reason. This doesn't mean she actually is one herself, though.
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* "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aseQzJI4zg Laura Pérez, la sin par de Caurimare]" by Venezuelan comedy group Medioevo, shows a portrait of a local specimen as they were in the early 1980's. The song is from the perspective of the titular Laura, trying to fend off the accusations of being a "sifrina" (the local word for this trope, albeit with insulting connotations) [[Hypocritical Humor|while demonstrating every and each one of the associated stereotypes]].
==
* Ini Miney in the second ''[[Phoenix Wright]]'' game. {{spoiler|Except that it's an act adopted in imitation of the ''real'' Ini Miney. The one you meet is actually her sister.}}
* ''[[City of Villains]]'' has Becky the Tarantula Mistress, who doesn't let being a hideously-mutated psychic trapped in a spider-like exoskeleton armour detract from her giddy enthusiasm upon meeting the player character.
* Cipher Admin Lovrina from ''[[Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness]]'' shows most of the characteristics of a typical valley girl, but definitely not the lack of intelligence; she is, in fact, the [[Evil Genius]], and singlehandedly developed a way to make Lugia impossible to purify (through standard methods, at least).
* Josephine from the obscure SNES game ''[[Kendo Rage]]''.
* Goombella from ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' is an [[Genius Ditz|odd hybrid]] of this and the [[Geek]].
* ''[[Gaia Online]]'
* Rosa from ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* Um... Like, Nao-Nao from ''[[The World Ends With You]]''.
* Priel from ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' is portrayed like this.
* MIO from ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]''. The dialect is part of the reason many consider her [[The Scrappy]].
* The, like, ''red-headed'' elf-girl in ''[[Might and Magic
* There was, like, that quarian girl from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' whose oblivious conversation with a lovestruck turian on Illium was one of the funniest moments of the game. She also [[Lampshade Hanging|echoed many of the comments]] made by fans who desired [[Wrench Wench]] Tali from the first game as a love interest.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Fsng6KUX4 Uh, excuse me, human, private conver-say-shee-yun?! Ugh!]
* The fauns in ''[[Spyro the Dragon|Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage]]'' level "Fracture Hills".
* Veronika Lee and Britney Bloodrose from ''[[All Points Bulletin]]''.
* ''[[BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
* ''[[The Last Remnant
* Perky villagers in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' series are often described as this.
* Berri from ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]''.
* Ayane the resident kogal, (see Real Life folder) is this in ''[[Persona]]''.
* Bratty and Catty, the Alley Shopkeeps in ''[[Undertale]]''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Drowtales]]'' with the
▲* [[Played for Laughs]] in [[Drowtales]] with the humerously named Val'erie Val'ley'gurl.
* The GM from ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' seems to play (here as NPC) [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Mon Mothma]], out of all the ''[[Star Wars]]'' characters, this way.
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' has a [http://yafgc.net/?id=1805 Valley Elf].
* Sister America in ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]''.
* ''Arcane Times'' got [[Fan Dumb|
== [[Web Originals]] ==
▲* Sailor Venus from Megami33's ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.
▲* Also, Azula in GanXingBa's ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series]]''
* There's a ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' parody called "valleygirl15". She recaps the series with a valley girl voice and liberal quantities of [[Take That]]s and snark.
* [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] pretended to be one for [https://web.archive.org/web/20100510134108/http://blip.tv/file/3246275 his review] of "Party Mania".
* Since the stories center around [[Super-Hero School|a high school]] in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', it shouldn't be surprising that some of the girls from California sound like this. Scrambler may be the worst, since she is a speedster and tends to talk faster than she thinks.▼
▲* In [[K-On! The Abridged Series]], Mugi talks like one, [[Catch Phrase|like, yar]].
* Like, Bizarro Sister from like, ''[[Mall Fight]]'', like, ya know?▼
▲* Since the stories center around [[Super-Hero School|a high school]] in the [[Whateley Universe]], it shouldn't be surprising that some of the girls from California sound like this. Scrambler may be the worst, since she is a speedster and tends to talk faster than she thinks.
* Kelly from Liam Sullivan's ''[[Kelly]]'' series.▼
▲* Like, Bizarro Sister from like, [[Mall Fight]], like, ya know?
▲* Kelly from Liam Sullivan's Kelly series.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode, "Summer of 4 ft. 2", has Lisa befriending a group of cool surfer kids on vacation. Besides dressing in hippy/surfer clothes, Lisa uses valley girl speech to disguise herself as one of them, instead of a shy nerd . . . like, you know, whatever.▼
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* [[The Simpsons]] episode, "Summer of 4 ft. 2", has Lisa befriending a group of cool surfer kids on vacation. Besides dressing in hippy/surfer clothes, Lisa uses valley girl speech to disguise herself as one of them, instead of a shy nerd . . . like, you know, whatever.
▲** In "Lard of the Dance", the new student, '''Alex Whitney''' shares this trope.
* The girls of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', especially Clover.
** [[Captain Obvious|Totally]].
* This is why the ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' version of Shadowcat is, like, way infamous. (Fortunately, she shed this habit by the end of the first season.)
** Ironically, the
* Debbies from ''[[The Oblongs]]''.
* Shirley the Loon from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' is like, a mondo primo example. If only she had more fashion sense instead of, like, being a hippie new age girl, or some junk. Cha.
** It should, like, be noted that the voice actress who did Shirley's voice is
* Kelly, Bobby's sister in ''[[Bobby's World]]''.
* Like, Jett from ''[[Beverly Hills Teens]]'', fer sure.
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* The two mermaids from ''[[Barbie Mariposa]]''.
* Veronica in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''.
* Ditzy June (in ''[[KaBlam!]]
* There's an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' where Garfield encounters a niece of Jon's who is explicitly referred to as a valley girl. Her accent is so bad Garfield even hires a professional linguist to add annotations explaining what she's saying to the audience. See the full episode [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoTtX4C8hk&NR=1 here].
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' has [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Lumpy Space]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess]], and pretty much everyone else from [[Cloudcuckooland|Lumpy Space]] for that matter.
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' had dear sweet Lindsay. Although she took a lesson in badass when {{spoiler|she cussed out Heather in season one just before getting eliminated,}} she reverted back to herself right after word.
** Heather started as one, and there are still traces of it, but it's less noticeable in later seasons.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Brattina from ''[[Pound Puppies]]'', with her constant use of the term "mummy dearest" and referring to practically everything doesn't like as "icky".
* Ophelia from ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' would occasionally talk like a valley girl despite being a gothic punk girl.
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* [[Recess]] has this with [[Alpha Bitch|The Ashleys]]. "[[Catch Phrase|SCANDALOUS!]]"
* Debbie from ''[[The Wild Thornberries]]''
* A rare male example, but Jinks from ''[[The Huckleberry Hound Show
* The ''[[My Little Pony:
== [[Real Life]] ==
* If you, like, actually think we don't exist in [[Real Life]], you can, like, go to hell, or something. Oh, and, like, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJuEkDo-i_o&feature=related watch this video]. You can totally see one of us about, like, a minute in.
* Kogals, the Japanese counterpart. There's also Ganguro, which is Valley Girl taken [[Up to Eleven]] with heavy tans.
* The British equivalent is the Essex girl, although it's more insulting as it focuses more on [[Really Gets Around|being sexually promiscuous]] and unintelligent (very much like the [[Dumb Blonde]]).
* The Mexican equivalent is the "Niña Fresa" (Strawberry Girl) or "Chica Nice" (Nice Chick/Girl).
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