Personal Fact: I nicknamed my dog Zoe 'Regina' because she'd never bring the ball back when I threw it - in other words, she refused to allow 'Fetch' to happen.
@@krismarshall3803 The play musical version was fine, it was the movie that was kinda meh(because they dialed down the unhingedness a bit too much, which made it very average)
Yess girls are brutal!!! I laugh about the things the mean girls in my childhood/teenage years said about me 😂 I couldn’t even take it seriously because it was such random things . Like I was in awe on how quick they came up with rumors
Notable memes that came from Mean Girls: - On Wednesdays we wear pink - Get in loser, we're going shopping - It's October 3rd - You go Glen Coco! - Stop trying to make fetch happen - We should totally just stab Caesar!! - She doesn't even go here - (the gasp when the crown breaks)
I love how the only girl is trying to explain the irrationality of teen girl school experience and the dudes just retort back "couldn't be me" like it was a competition. Most girls didn't like girl world either. It was just what society shaped and showed to us what we are and should be in media, and we replicated. Anything else was looked down upon.
"Like it was a competition" - so real. Those moments in the reaction were rough to watch for me. Like congrats on living within a different social dynamic, I guess
I'm a guy, so maybe I'm biased, but I got it less like a competition and more like they just didn't get it at all. To me they were more like "Why the fuck you would do that, I don't get it"
What people don’t realize is that this movie is only a *slight* exaggeration of how teenage girls are irl. Idk about nowadays but when i was in high school in the 2010s the girls (including me) were just….Like That. Same when my sisters were in high school in the early 2000s. Teenage girls are constantly just navigating a “Game of Thrones” level social hierarchy ALL THE TIME 😭
At least where I grew up (I'm 22) it really was like game of thrones lol, I got lucky and found my group but as (At the time) the only open gay every girl wanted me as their GBF and itself to me felt like game of thrones lol
@@Kriliska I am glad for you lol. I was in an unstable not so good group. But my whole school was and they acted like that. I always felt like the kady lol
The rumor supposedly started bc Regina can’t say or got confused about her religion or background she’s Lebanese or Jewish but Regina thought she said lesbian. lol
I’m glad Bree was here because she definitely gave the insider scoop to what happens as a teenage girl, don’t cut her off plsss , boys go through a complete different experience
This is one of those movies that most dudes who haven't seen it, they assume it is some kind of chick flick. Every dude I know that has seen it loves it though. Proof that a well written movie is for everyone.
I’m glad y’all had Bree there to educate you on the reality of being a teenage girl 😂😂😂 it must be absolute hell nowadays with social media I can’t imagine. It was hard enough with MSN 😂
Fun fact: one of my classmates in sophomore year was hit by a bus, he was blonde and popular too. he updated his social media with a mean girls reference from the hospital
Everyone, but I'm this instance girls, have something that personally hurts/annoys them the most. It may come from trauma or what ever but when a person reminds you of said trait you hate you hold onto that hatred for the rest of your life because you never associated that person with a positive emotion/feeling. Which is why it's so easy to talk shit about random people from high school that you probably shouldn't remember. Because the most memorable feeling is rage or anger.
27:20 Things were different for guys, I remember girls coming after me *for* not giving a shit(some boys too) but I also remember girl friends I had that went through some insane bullying and pressure that guys just didn't have (I was lucky enough that the majority of boys in my school were caring enough to step in *for me* if the girls or guys tried to go too far or say something untrue since I was friends with most of them since daycare days, but so many of the other girls I knew didn't get to have that support) Edit: Also girls mostly grow up with different expectations anyway, so I was insanely lucky but most girls around me grew up being taught that they had to outdo each other in order to be properly liked to the point where even in elementary girls would dogpile hate on a girl if enough guys liked her
I definitely saw other girls trying to outdo each other, but for me, it was the boys that were the cruelest. One time I was walking to class minding my own business and these three guys in an older grade decided to scream in my face and then walk away laughing. There was another time where I was on the bus to go to softball practice and I had my art project on the side of my book bag. I noticed it was gone and someone told me that the baseball players had snatched it and started throwing it around. I never found it again and was crying because art class was very strict about not losing anything. Middle and High school boys were the worst.
@@changingmind2522 I am *so* sorry that happened to you, I honestly think it also depends on the type of girls and boys you just happen to be unfortunate enough to be around. One girl was straight-up stabbed at a Dunkin' Donuts after about 2 months of girls constantly slut-shaming her(even though she was a virgin) and she died from that stab. The girls at my school were way worse, and while the boys did have issues(I do remember the sexual harassment from some) the worst I remember was them tripping someone in the hallway. However, I can *absolutely* imagine boys being monsters, my own older brother was horrible to his peers when *he* was in school, so timing seems to be a factor as well.
Yep, being a teenage girl is hell. When I tried to impress other people I got harassed so awfully that I had to change schools (mostly by the boys though), then when I stopped caring I ended up being a complete social outcast I'm sure it's bad for boys in high school too but I've only ever found sympathy in other girls
"Do guys do that (the 3 way call thing)?" Y'all, I'm a guy and when I was like 11 and my nextdoor neighbor (who was also gay and closed like me) 3 way called me trying to get me to out myself to one of the other neighborhood kids. I didn't fall for it but still. 3 way calling was a MENACE.
interestingly the girls I graduated high school with behaved like normal human beings, but everyone older or younger than us had mean girls level drama going on all the time. the younger ones in particular, even as young as 5th-6th grade, it was wild to hear about what they got up to. the older ones just kept getting pregnant but the KIDS were out here stealing drugs & money from their parents. idk how my class was the most un-problematic group in the entire school lmao
I think the craziest thing to happen at my school, that I experienced anyway, was either the time someone set the bathroom on fire or when the Polish exchange student brought a machete into school and started waving it about
I find the conversation at around 27:00 really interesting, because my school experience (I'm a woman) was not like this at all. Sure, people had their groups that they hung out with, and some were more well-known than others, but most of the girls were really just chill and normal people. Even the "popular" girls were just really nice once you got to know them. I usually hung out with the geeky group, but I also knew the popular people and the church people. I'd play with the band geeks and talk with the athletes and go hang in the library with my fellow book nerds. I'm not saying nasty things didn't happen that I didn't know about (because I'm sure it did; people are people after all), but not every girl cared about popularity and dressing "right" and "trying to fit in". That stuff really only mattered if you let it.
The discussion of girl warfare is so interesting because it’s such a widely thought thing that they’re inherently catty to each other. But I think girls being taught that other girls are competition for popularity, male attention and validation, is a big driving force to the sometimes cut throat dynamic of being a pre-teen and teenage girl. More attention on the importance of female friendships should be fostered.
Yeah she was simultaneously filming Mean Girls and The Notebook, and she was using her real hair for the notebook so she couldn't get it bleached or dyed, hence her needing the blonde wig for mean girls.
I graduated in 2022… Highschool was really chill and there weren’t really any popular kids or anything… But MIDDLESCHOOL on the other hand… There was a clear hierarchy and definitely the worst years of my life
We can make a good guess, though. When the flashback to Cady’s childhood crush was being shown, the subtitles said they were speaking in Afrikaans. It is a language in Southern Africa and while it mainly is in the countries of South Africa and Namibia who speak the language, other ones like Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe also have small populations who speak the language. Considering racial and ethnic demographics from each of those countries, my best guess would be she is South African, since that is the country with the highest population of people of European descent. It’s a shame they couldn’t hire an accent coach to let Lindsay try taking on a South African accent. I think it would have been a nice touch. Anyway, the more you know!
My hs experience was in the early 2010s and there was some of this going around. It was like 75% clique-y and 25% floaters just going around socializing with everyone and doing their own thing. I was part of a mean girls group until freshman year, when I grew tired of their bs and formed a geeky/otaku group of friends which was MUCH healthier in comparison.
To be honest, I am convinced Rockstar did try stealing her likeness. When I was in University 11 years ago, a representative from Rockstar’s Edinburgh company came in to assign my Animation class and students from a Video Game Design course to come up with a game concept for a chance to temporarily work with them on future projects. Me and my team came up with a few things including an idea of a mission where you play as the main character’s dog. Our team didn’t win in the end. No one did from my course if I remember correctly. But a year later, GTA 5 came out and my friend who was on the team pointed out there was a mission where you control a dog in it. Some say it might be a coincidence but I am with my friend in thinking they stole our idea.
The problem is it doesn't even look like her. There is another character that's supposed to be a parody of her but it's not the one from the loading screen. You can look up the person whose likeness they actually used. Her name is Shelby Welinder. Whether or not they stole your idea is irrelevant.
I remember when we learned that "the limit doesn't exist" in highschool and the whole class recognized it from Mean Girls but honestly not a difficult thing to know.
@@popejaimie I think it was a bizarre mixture of like Zulu, Xhosa and maybe Afrikaans? I only said that because for some reason the subtitles said Afrikaans.
Y'all need to watch Bottoms now (also El Tigre - Manny Rivera for a cartoon like danny phantom, maybe for when y'all are done with it. It's underrated af and needs more love)
24:04 I remember my high school talent show one year. It was the kind with just students and two of the male students sung songs and at some point during one of their performances there was a bunch of girls saying takeoff your shirt and he did.
27:00 I’m a dude but I didn’t transition till after high school and it’s pretty accurate. I wish I made more guy friends or realized I was trans sooner cause growing up in that environment when you care WAYY too much what people thought of you was so deteriorating and exhausting
My 7th grade history teacher got arrested and fired for having relations with a student. He was married with 2 young children too. Also, a high school teacher was fired and arrested for taking in appropriate photos of his students. So gross.
8:31 i'm dying the fact that it says "speaks afrikaans" but she couldn't be farther from it lol, she's either saying sth in one of the other languages in Africa or just gibberish 😂😭 (I'm south african and speak Afrikaans)
I’ve known a lot of girls in hs who would purposely only have male friends because there wasn’t any drama with them. Even my gf kept getting threatened by girls wanting to fight her over the stupidest and pettiest reasons.
I am 20 this year. This movie isn't accurate but I love it so so much. Granted I live in Asia so even the environment was totally different. All the popular girls were really nice and a lot of them were really smart too. As long as you were skinny and attractive, you were popular for girls. The guys are popular when they're extroverted. Everyone else is just normal. There wasn't any drama that I knew of, the only people I hated were guys that were constantly sexist and racist, some SA'd girls or literally text making fun and ask for n*d*s but nothing ever happened to them, so I hate them till this day. Girls were kinda taught to stay silent and be pretty and the popular ones were super nice. Plus we had school uniforms and makeup wasn't allowed. I did know a few mean girls but none of them were popular, they were just b words. The hierarchy was very apparent tho. I was never a popular girl but they were all friendly. They would go out to malls or cafes and I used to want that. Their posts on social media were just so cool and I just stayed home every weekend. They were even aesthetic in the school uniform somehow. They didn't act better than anyone but everyone just saw them as better. And the thing is now their socmeds are empty like they're so private but we all know they're still popular in uni. Sometimes they post and their social life is still super grand but they don't even highlight their story or anything. It's like they don't even care if people see how great they're doing. I still want that aesthetic life and I have it more now but I'll never be them yknow
This is not like high school. In current day high school no one gives a shit about anyone outside your friend group except for people that are weird, annoying, or rude.
10:12 as someone who played soccer for over 20 years, from 1995 to 2019, I feel attacked 😆 so many concussions...so many red cards 😆💀😆 Also, the unison gasp from the 3 musketeers to Regina calling another students ma, pretending to be Planned Parenthood and at 41:17 their reaction to someones "lady problems about wide-set vaginas" deceased me 🤣
As someone who is currently in high school, girls really still do multiple person calls. We'll be with each other in person and call someone, or call one person on one app and another on a different app. "Popular girls" like the Plastics are liked or feared, but instead called TCs (Too Cool). The girls who are popular (at least at my school) are the ones who are nice and helpful to everyone and the one friend that your parents like. Also, teenage girls hold grudges for the longest time, it's insnae.
Tina Fey ( Mrs Norbury ) wrote the script for this movie an took a lot of her inspiration from her HS which was also my HS ( Upper Darby High School ) & when this movie came out, She came to do a dateline or a 2020 interview for the movie an I remember the principal over the loudspeaker in the morning saying you all better be on your best behavior and act like responsible young adults… cut to the interview starting in our cafeteria and a group of us running throw an fucking up the shot, the interviewer got scared an tensed up& Tina was just chilling bullshitin with us & she turned to the interviewer and was like naw this is how UDHS does it 😂 Tina Rocks 👏🏼👏🏼
I'm with Boom. I just hung out with whoever. I played sports, dressed how I wanted, and eventually got to the point I was even doing breakfast runs first hour for the Study Hall and Office staff. I was also one of the few people you went to fill your iPod. I'd rip everything, delete duplicates, and hold a giant library of music on my login since computers had shared memory. It was more after Senior year where I fell back on the "any two people will talk over a bowl," concept. We still sort of had cliquey groups but I just didn't care. If I wasn't playing sports, I was sitting with the band. It only mattered if you let it. We had a few floaters like me that would just get along with anyone. It helps when you have something they all need be it a ride, music, tech-know-how, or help on homework. I didn't even get the "Senior hazing of freshmen" because they weren't about to mess with the new kid who gets what the teacher is saying. Had a senior teach me how to spin a pencil around my finger in exchange for Geometry help. It was my theory that people only cliqued up because they thought that was the "natural order."
Omg I’m so happy you reacted to this movie!!❤️ We need more movie reactions like this, I would recommend the Pitch Perfect trilogy and White Chicks if you haven’t seen those yet!
14:32- This statement is biggest Stereotype I have heard today. 😂 I also was a freshman in high school when this came out. This is EXACTLY how school was, actually the girls were a little more savage with each-other in real life. The map of the cafeteria is the the most realistic thing I have ever seen (for 2004).
Im a girl and I didn’t have a group. There’s many groups at my high school and I would bounce around with friends. Even girls that didn’t like each other. I hated drama and stuff. Even some popular people were friends with me. But at my school there wasn’t an actual popular people. They were just really liked people because they were nice.
The book bathroom thing is so real, I have it and my Dad gets it- the older the books the more the effect, libraries especially 😅. I think I read once it has to do with manilla pages breaking down or something
I graduated highschool in 2013, and this movie was low key still accurate. I had a best friend who believed a complete stranger who didn't like me that I was talking behind her back. She legit walked up to me during lunch and was like I heard from your little red head friend what you been saying about me. I was in shock cause one I didn't know any red heads and two this best friend was the first person I ever told I was adopted which was so fresh for me. We had a sleepover and shared manga with each other. I thought she was amazing, but even years later we saw each other at a convention center as grown adults, and she gave me a death glare. I never did anything to her and it still haunts me.
As a senior in high school I will say that this way not my high school experience but I'm the constantly out of the loop wall-flower so I only hear about drama months after the fact.
fun fact: the movie was filmed in toronto canada. The mall scene I actually live close by to it, its changed over the years, and the shampoo store where Lindsay sees her friend working, my mom actually used to shop at that same store. I laugh every time I see this scene
Personal Fact: I nicknamed my dog Zoe 'Regina' because she'd never bring the ball back when I threw it - in other words, she refused to allow 'Fetch' to happen.
i love that
That’s fucking genius
That's so smart omfg
Did you feel personally victimized as well?
@@chrisjacobsen7265 By Zoe effectively making me do double the cardio? Well.....yes. Yes, I did.
Mean Girls holds up way too well considering its age. lol
Because no matter the generation people like this will always exist, welcome to generational trauma😆
I always say that this movie holds up INSANELY well for for a 20 year old movie.
Even after they made a modern Musical remake!
Which they should now do!
@@Otisboy121 eh......the remake is kinda....eh.....(the musical)
@@krismarshall3803 The play musical version was fine, it was the movie that was kinda meh(because they dialed down the unhingedness a bit too much, which made it very average)
Watching the guys unravel at finding out how sinister girls are with each other is the best part
No sisters I guess.
haha
@@LA_HA I have 10 sister but I still have no idea how girls interact with each other lol
@@alanscott6005 You are very lucky. Do everything you can to keep it that way. Especially if you're younger. That's when you get pulled in. ha
Yess girls are brutal!!! I laugh about the things the mean girls in my childhood/teenage years said about me 😂 I couldn’t even take it seriously because it was such random things . Like I was in awe on how quick they came up with rumors
Lmao right it has me busting out laughing
Notable memes that came from Mean Girls:
- On Wednesdays we wear pink
- Get in loser, we're going shopping
- It's October 3rd
- You go Glen Coco!
- Stop trying to make fetch happen
- We should totally just stab Caesar!!
- She doesn't even go here
- (the gasp when the crown breaks)
-The limit does not exist!
Why are you so obsessed with me?
Is "You can't just ask people why they're white" a meme too?
can we please count “danny devito i love your work” i used to say that so much as a wain
“in girl world, halloween is the only day where a girl can dress like a total slut, and no other girl can say anything”
I love how the only girl is trying to explain the irrationality of teen girl school experience and the dudes just retort back "couldn't be me" like it was a competition. Most girls didn't like girl world either. It was just what society shaped and showed to us what we are and should be in media, and we replicated. Anything else was looked down upon.
Men that "can't relate to female characters" because they're "men"
"Like it was a competition" - so real. Those moments in the reaction were rough to watch for me. Like congrats on living within a different social dynamic, I guess
I'm a guy, so maybe I'm biased, but I got it less like a competition and more like they just didn't get it at all. To me they were more like "Why the fuck you would do that, I don't get it"
@@barroslucascthey werent actually curiously listening to her explanations though.. just interrupting all the time to say how THEY arent like that 🙄
they were trying so hard to seem special when that wasnt even the point lmao
I love how the reaction slowly becomes the boys trying to understand girls
What people don’t realize is that this movie is only a *slight* exaggeration of how teenage girls are irl. Idk about nowadays but when i was in high school in the 2010s the girls (including me) were just….Like That. Same when my sisters were in high school in the early 2000s. Teenage girls are constantly just navigating a “Game of Thrones” level social hierarchy ALL THE TIME 😭
At least where I grew up (I'm 22) it really was like game of thrones lol, I got lucky and found my group but as (At the time) the only open gay every girl wanted me as their GBF and itself to me felt like game of thrones lol
I don't recall me or my friends being like this ever. Or maybe I just stayed far away from all that...
@@Kriliska I am glad for you lol. I was in an unstable not so good group. But my whole school was and they acted like that. I always felt like the kady lol
You were like that?
My friend and I just talked about funny stuff, like my friend's hilarious obsession with Nicholas Cage💀
The guys freaking out about three way call attacks being a real thing is so funny to me
The boys being flabbergasted over what the plastics do is amazing. They started questioning women and everything🤣
The rumor supposedly started bc Regina can’t say or got confused about her religion or background she’s Lebanese or Jewish but Regina thought she said lesbian.
lol
she said she was Lebanese, not Jewish, which Regina mistook for Lesbian
Makes sense since Regina is supposed to be a "dumb blonde" lol.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 that's not Regina, that's the other girl
I think the only explicitly Jewish character is Gretchen
Lebanese people are mostly Muslim and Christian, only a small percentage that are Jewish, which makes it very unlikely.
Now Bree has to bully them into watching Legaly Blonde
and wear pink
defooo, omg
AND 10 Things I Hate About You.
I’m glad Bree was here because she definitely gave the insider scoop to what happens as a teenage girl, don’t cut her off plsss , boys go through a complete different experience
The guys: "How evil can girls get in high school?"
Cady: "The limit does not exist."
they were way more serious watching this movie than i was expecting lmaooo
I think that's what mde it funnier honestly haha.
Frrr
This is one of those movies that most dudes who haven't seen it, they assume it is some kind of chick flick. Every dude I know that has seen it loves it though. Proof that a well written movie is for everyone.
I’m glad y’all had Bree there to educate you on the reality of being a teenage girl 😂😂😂 it must be absolute hell nowadays with social media I can’t imagine. It was hard enough with MSN 😂
Thank you for bullying them into it Bree❤😂
Doing the Lord's work
Fun fact: one of my classmates in sophomore year was hit by a bus, he was blonde and popular too. he updated his social media with a mean girls reference from the hospital
Fun fact and happy pride month xd: all of the 3 main male characters came out as gay (Damian, Aaron and Kevin) 23:09 loool 😂
Love wins
YOOOO A WIN FOR US
Well, Damian already was too gay to function anyway .......😉😅.
you should've released this Wednesday, because that's when we wear pink
Maybe they filmed it on a Wednesday…..
The birth of a million memes. SHE DOESN'T EVEN GO HERE!
Everyone, but I'm this instance girls, have something that personally hurts/annoys them the most. It may come from trauma or what ever but when a person reminds you of said trait you hate you hold onto that hatred for the rest of your life because you never associated that person with a positive emotion/feeling.
Which is why it's so easy to talk shit about random people from high school that you probably shouldn't remember. Because the most memorable feeling is rage or anger.
27:20 Things were different for guys, I remember girls coming after me *for* not giving a shit(some boys too) but I also remember girl friends I had that went through some insane bullying and pressure that guys just didn't have (I was lucky enough that the majority of boys in my school were caring enough to step in *for me* if the girls or guys tried to go too far or say something untrue since I was friends with most of them since daycare days, but so many of the other girls I knew didn't get to have that support)
Edit: Also girls mostly grow up with different expectations anyway, so I was insanely lucky but most girls around me grew up being taught that they had to outdo each other in order to be properly liked to the point where even in elementary girls would dogpile hate on a girl if enough guys liked her
I definitely saw other girls trying to outdo each other, but for me, it was the boys that were the cruelest. One time I was walking to class minding my own business and these three guys in an older grade decided to scream in my face and then walk away laughing. There was another time where I was on the bus to go to softball practice and I had my art project on the side of my book bag. I noticed it was gone and someone told me that the baseball players had snatched it and started throwing it around. I never found it again and was crying because art class was very strict about not losing anything. Middle and High school boys were the worst.
@@changingmind2522 I am *so* sorry that happened to you, I honestly think it also depends on the type of girls and boys you just happen to be unfortunate enough to be around. One girl was straight-up stabbed at a Dunkin' Donuts after about 2 months of girls constantly slut-shaming her(even though she was a virgin) and she died from that stab. The girls at my school were way worse, and while the boys did have issues(I do remember the sexual harassment from some) the worst I remember was them tripping someone in the hallway. However, I can *absolutely* imagine boys being monsters, my own older brother was horrible to his peers when *he* was in school, so timing seems to be a factor as well.
@@shanajeangedeon9060 moral of the story is people are horrible. Getting stabbed to death? Evil.
@@changingmind2522 Agreed, people suck😔
Yep, being a teenage girl is hell. When I tried to impress other people I got harassed so awfully that I had to change schools (mostly by the boys though), then when I stopped caring I ended up being a complete social outcast
I'm sure it's bad for boys in high school too but I've only ever found sympathy in other girls
Next, you guys need to watch 'Heathers'. Winona Ryder plays the main character, it's basically Mean Girls but with murder
The fact Regina’s parents didn’t even go check on her when she was screaming through the house says so much
"Do guys do that (the 3 way call thing)?"
Y'all, I'm a guy and when I was like 11 and my nextdoor neighbor (who was also gay and closed like me) 3 way called me trying to get me to out myself to one of the other neighborhood kids. I didn't fall for it but still. 3 way calling was a MENACE.
41:43 Fun fact the girl didn't say that. It was a mistranslation (on purpose im guessing). She actually said something like "come on, please."
I think the actress pursued the writers for defamation because of it. Recent re-releases of the movie don't have subtitles
@@panfanwithaplan I'm 99% sure that is completely untrue.
Boys bathrooms are so much worse, if people arnt hotboxing it they’re throwing wet toilet paper and sticking it on the ceiling 😭
We did the wet toilet paper balls on the ceiling too in our girls bathroom. And it always smelled like cigarette smoke in there
interestingly the girls I graduated high school with behaved like normal human beings, but everyone older or younger than us had mean girls level drama going on all the time. the younger ones in particular, even as young as 5th-6th grade, it was wild to hear about what they got up to. the older ones just kept getting pregnant but the KIDS were out here stealing drugs & money from their parents. idk how my class was the most un-problematic group in the entire school lmao
I think the craziest thing to happen at my school, that I experienced anyway, was either the time someone set the bathroom on fire or when the Polish exchange student brought a machete into school and started waving it about
The funny thing is, my guy friends were the most dramatic and drama-filled things happening than my gal friends.
I find the conversation at around 27:00 really interesting, because my school experience (I'm a woman) was not like this at all. Sure, people had their groups that they hung out with, and some were more well-known than others, but most of the girls were really just chill and normal people. Even the "popular" girls were just really nice once you got to know them. I usually hung out with the geeky group, but I also knew the popular people and the church people. I'd play with the band geeks and talk with the athletes and go hang in the library with my fellow book nerds. I'm not saying nasty things didn't happen that I didn't know about (because I'm sure it did; people are people after all), but not every girl cared about popularity and dressing "right" and "trying to fit in". That stuff really only mattered if you let it.
"College is anarchy... and it is beautiful." what a quote.
The discussion of girl warfare is so interesting because it’s such a widely thought thing that they’re inherently catty to each other. But I think girls being taught that other girls are competition for popularity, male attention and validation, is a big driving force to the sometimes cut throat dynamic of being a pre-teen and teenage girl. More attention on the importance of female friendships should be fostered.
the patreon promotion at the middle was amazing lmaooooo
Rachel McAdams wouldn't allow them to bleach her hair, so they had to have a $10,000 wig made for her.
i love the video of drag queens watching this movie and immediately clocking the wig
Yeah she was simultaneously filming Mean Girls and The Notebook, and she was using her real hair for the notebook so she couldn't get it bleached or dyed, hence her needing the blonde wig for mean girls.
Amanda Seyfried is SUCH an underrated actress and singer. I'll always be sad she'll never get to play Rapunzel in a live-action "Tangled."
This film is the definition of iconic.
51:30
Erik: I was joking!
Movie: So was I!
I graduated in 2022… Highschool was really chill and there weren’t really any popular kids or anything… But MIDDLESCHOOL on the other hand… There was a clear hierarchy and definitely the worst years of my life
I was class of 2017. That’s a hard agree from me. I was still bullied a little bit in hs but middle school was something else. 💀
Fun fact, my parents went to high school with Shane Owmen. After he graduated he went to work with Tina Fey and she wrote him into the movie
Someone should really arrest the bus driver. Also this girl apparently lives in the entire Africa since she never mentions a country
We can make a good guess, though. When the flashback to Cady’s childhood crush was being shown, the subtitles said they were speaking in Afrikaans. It is a language in Southern Africa and while it mainly is in the countries of South Africa and Namibia who speak the language, other ones like Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe also have small populations who speak the language.
Considering racial and ethnic demographics from each of those countries, my best guess would be she is South African, since that is the country with the highest population of people of European descent.
It’s a shame they couldn’t hire an accent coach to let Lindsay try taking on a South African accent. I think it would have been a nice touch.
Anyway, the more you know!
My hs experience was in the early 2010s and there was some of this going around. It was like 75% clique-y and 25% floaters just going around socializing with everyone and doing their own thing. I was part of a mean girls group until freshman year, when I grew tired of their bs and formed a geeky/otaku group of friends which was MUCH healthier in comparison.
To be honest, I am convinced Rockstar did try stealing her likeness.
When I was in University 11 years ago, a representative from Rockstar’s Edinburgh company came in to assign my Animation class and students from a Video Game Design course to come up with a game concept for a chance to temporarily work with them on future projects. Me and my team came up with a few things including an idea of a mission where you play as the main character’s dog.
Our team didn’t win in the end. No one did from my course if I remember correctly. But a year later, GTA 5 came out and my friend who was on the team pointed out there was a mission where you control a dog in it. Some say it might be a coincidence but I am with my friend in thinking they stole our idea.
The problem is it doesn't even look like her. There is another character that's supposed to be a parody of her but it's not the one from the loading screen. You can look up the person whose likeness they actually used. Her name is Shelby Welinder.
Whether or not they stole your idea is irrelevant.
43:45 the fact that the whole things is shes lebanese 😭😂
I remember when we learned that "the limit doesn't exist" in highschool and the whole class recognized it from Mean Girls but honestly not a difficult thing to know.
I love pointing out that she was NOT speaking Afrikaans LMAO.🤣
I don't speak Afrikaans but I was pretty sure it didn't sound like Afrikaans lol
@@popejaimie I think it was a bizarre mixture of like Zulu, Xhosa and maybe Afrikaans? I only said that because for some reason the subtitles said Afrikaans.
It's implied that Regina confused Janis being Lebanese with being a lesbian hence how the rumor got started.
Y'all need to watch Bottoms now
(also El Tigre - Manny Rivera for a cartoon like danny phantom, maybe for when y'all are done with it. It's underrated af and needs more love)
This movie made me feel like I had way too much oxygen, but I loved every second of it
mean girls is REAL cinema
24:04 I remember my high school talent show one year. It was the kind with just students and two of the male students sung songs and at some point during one of their performances there was a bunch of girls saying takeoff your shirt and he did.
The discussions in this one were great, ya'll have an awesome dynamic.
Hearing about guys and girls experiences as teens is interesting to me, as someone who's neither a guy nor a girl and knew that in their teens.
It's also interesting hearing about fights among friends and shit because,, I never fought with friends?
42:56 is my favorite part of the movie 😂😂 I’ll just randomly say “she doesn’t even go here”😭😭
that moment when a reaction is so good you have to go back because you missed a part
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I’m a dude but I didn’t transition till after high school and it’s pretty accurate. I wish I made more guy friends or realized I was trans sooner cause growing up in that environment when you care WAYY too much what people thought of you was so deteriorating and exhausting
My 7th grade history teacher got arrested and fired for having relations with a student. He was married with 2 young children too. Also, a high school teacher was fired and arrested for taking in appropriate photos of his students. So gross.
Are you from WV by chance, bc same.
No, unfortunately this is yet another example I guess.
36:49 that photo is ICONIC!!!
8:31 i'm dying the fact that it says "speaks afrikaans" but she couldn't be farther from it lol, she's either saying sth in one of the other languages in Africa or just gibberish 😂😭 (I'm south african and speak Afrikaans)
It's highly probable that the filmmakers just got one of their daughters and tried to make her mimic Afrikaans.
Awesome awesome reaction. Also, the guy in the pink polo is a whole vibe lol
I’ve known a lot of girls in hs who would purposely only have male friends because there wasn’t any drama with them. Even my gf kept getting threatened by girls wanting to fight her over the stupidest and pettiest reasons.
7:26 This movie set the stereotypes that other movies from the era tried to recreate!
These boys watching The New Guy would be hilarious
I love that movie
I definitely didn't expect this
Oh now I'm DEFINITELY gonna need y'all to watch Heathers. It was the Mean Girls of the '80s, only SO much more extreme lmao
To further your discussions on classic high-school experiences, you've got to put "Clueless" on the list!!! 😁
I am 20 this year. This movie isn't accurate but I love it so so much. Granted I live in Asia so even the environment was totally different. All the popular girls were really nice and a lot of them were really smart too. As long as you were skinny and attractive, you were popular for girls. The guys are popular when they're extroverted. Everyone else is just normal. There wasn't any drama that I knew of, the only people I hated were guys that were constantly sexist and racist, some SA'd girls or literally text making fun and ask for n*d*s but nothing ever happened to them, so I hate them till this day. Girls were kinda taught to stay silent and be pretty and the popular ones were super nice. Plus we had school uniforms and makeup wasn't allowed. I did know a few mean girls but none of them were popular, they were just b words.
The hierarchy was very apparent tho. I was never a popular girl but they were all friendly. They would go out to malls or cafes and I used to want that. Their posts on social media were just so cool and I just stayed home every weekend. They were even aesthetic in the school uniform somehow. They didn't act better than anyone but everyone just saw them as better. And the thing is now their socmeds are empty like they're so private but we all know they're still popular in uni. Sometimes they post and their social life is still super grand but they don't even highlight their story or anything. It's like they don't even care if people see how great they're doing. I still want that aesthetic life and I have it more now but I'll never be them yknow
Current middle school teacher
We confiscated a burn book this year.
I blame the musical
YAYYY 💕 I love Mean Girls, it’s one of my favorite movies. You guys will love it 👏🏼
One of the few chick flicks that's genuinely worth watching as a man lol and Amanda Seyfried (karen) is one of my first celebrity crushes 😍
Love watching the guys realise how mean teenage girls really are and the one girl just like uhm yeah that's pretty accurate 😂😂
This is not like high school. In current day high school no one gives a shit about anyone outside your friend group except for people that are weird, annoying, or rude.
Karen was just chilling 😂
The writing and acting of this movie is brilliant
why do you guys invite her if you’re just gonna cut her off and disregard all the important stuff she says? 😭😭
she literally talks way too much crap
@@leejaix8792 yeah but they kept asking questions relating to the movie and girlhood and when she’d try to respond they’d cut her off
10:12 as someone who played soccer for over 20 years, from 1995 to 2019, I feel attacked 😆 so many concussions...so many red cards 😆💀😆
Also, the unison gasp from the 3 musketeers to Regina calling another students ma, pretending to be Planned Parenthood and at 41:17 their reaction to someones "lady problems about wide-set vaginas" deceased me 🤣
As someone who is currently in high school, girls really still do multiple person calls. We'll be with each other in person and call someone, or call one person on one app and another on a different app. "Popular girls" like the Plastics are liked or feared, but instead called TCs (Too Cool). The girls who are popular (at least at my school) are the ones who are nice and helpful to everyone and the one friend that your parents like. Also, teenage girls hold grudges for the longest time, it's insnae.
Tina Fey ( Mrs Norbury ) wrote the script for this movie an took a lot of her inspiration from her HS which was also my HS ( Upper Darby High School ) & when this movie came out, She came to do a dateline or a 2020 interview for the movie an I remember the principal over the loudspeaker in the morning saying you all better be on your best behavior and act like responsible young adults… cut to the interview starting in our cafeteria and a group of us running throw an fucking up the shot, the interviewer got scared an tensed up& Tina was just chilling bullshitin with us & she turned to the interviewer and was like naw this is how UDHS does it 😂 Tina Rocks 👏🏼👏🏼
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Ruff: guys either talk or fight it out and are friends after
Boom: and they kiss
Ruff:yeah
😂😂😂😂
I'm with Boom. I just hung out with whoever. I played sports, dressed how I wanted, and eventually got to the point I was even doing breakfast runs first hour for the Study Hall and Office staff.
I was also one of the few people you went to fill your iPod. I'd rip everything, delete duplicates, and hold a giant library of music on my login since computers had shared memory.
It was more after Senior year where I fell back on the "any two people will talk over a bowl," concept.
We still sort of had cliquey groups but I just didn't care. If I wasn't playing sports, I was sitting with the band.
It only mattered if you let it. We had a few floaters like me that would just get along with anyone. It helps when you have something they all need be it a ride, music, tech-know-how, or help on homework. I didn't even get the "Senior hazing of freshmen" because they weren't about to mess with the new kid who gets what the teacher is saying. Had a senior teach me how to spin a pencil around my finger in exchange for Geometry help.
It was my theory that people only cliqued up because they thought that was the "natural order."
Even as a 30 year old man, this is one of my favorite movies of all time
Omg I’m so happy you reacted to this movie!!❤️ We need more movie reactions like this, I would recommend the Pitch Perfect trilogy and White Chicks if you haven’t seen those yet!
Now yall got to watch the main inspiration for this movie, Heather's. I think you'll love it.
Gretchen Weiners was the original voice actress of Meg Griffin
15:40 if this happens in your real life you need to examine because I have never experienced anything close to this
One of my favorite movies - it was such a cultural icon alongside Legally Blonde at that point in time
14:32- This statement is biggest Stereotype I have heard today. 😂
I also was a freshman in high school when this came out. This is EXACTLY how school was, actually the girls were a little more savage with each-other in real life. The map of the cafeteria is the the most realistic thing I have ever seen (for 2004).
Im a girl and I didn’t have a group. There’s many groups at my high school and I would bounce around with friends. Even girls that didn’t like each other. I hated drama and stuff. Even some popular people were friends with me. But at my school there wasn’t an actual popular people. They were just really liked people because they were nice.
The book bathroom thing is so real, I have it and my Dad gets it- the older the books the more the effect, libraries especially 😅. I think I read once it has to do with manilla pages breaking down or something
I graduated highschool in 2013, and this movie was low key still accurate. I had a best friend who believed a complete stranger who didn't like me that I was talking behind her back. She legit walked up to me during lunch and was like I heard from your little red head friend what you been saying about me. I was in shock cause one I didn't know any red heads and two this best friend was the first person I ever told I was adopted which was so fresh for me. We had a sleepover and shared manga with each other. I thought she was amazing, but even years later we saw each other at a convention center as grown adults, and she gave me a death glare. I never did anything to her and it still haunts me.
As a senior in high school I will say that this way not my high school experience but I'm the constantly out of the loop wall-flower so I only hear about drama months after the fact.
If you like Mean Girls, you should watch the 90s movie Heathers.
Heathers is an 80s movie, 1988 to be exact.
fun fact: the movie was filmed in toronto canada. The mall scene I actually live close by to it, its changed over the years, and the shampoo store where Lindsay sees her friend working, my mom actually used to shop at that same store. I laugh every time I see this scene
You guys should really watch Atlantis the lost empire and treasure planet, both are incredibly good movies
LOL, I was joking about the BUS that was the coolest reaction.
Mean girls is the best movie ever
Love the reaction
Love the characters
You all are HILARIOUS!!
my first time watching one of your vids and gotta say…you sound exactly like me and my friends lolllll
"Bullied"? Give it 5-10 minutes, you'll be glad you were "forced" to watch this AWESOME movie
19:57 The gaslighting