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I think that one reason this movie is the best teen movie is because it actually feels somewhat realistic. In some movies the mean girl will just say, "Your purse is so ugly! ewww," while in Mean Girls, they talk behind each others back and it's more passive-aggressive. Also, it's just quotable as heck and me and my friends quote it all the time.
My favorite part of Mean Girls is that Regina George gets a good ending. So many teen movies need to show the antagonist being punished, but these are just teenagers. They move on, learn, become better people. Regina George gets to move on and not forever be a mean girl.
Cady: The thing about regina is that I could hate her but at the same time still wanted her to like me. That's gotta be the most relatable thing I have ever heard.
And that part is relatable for Janice too. Notice when Cady lied to her that she wasn't in the book she said "those bitches!" She hated them and and she would've gotten angry about it if she knew what it said about her. But not being in the book was an even bigger insult. It meant that they didn't give enough shit about her to even care if she was in the book or not.
@@imsickoflifeanditstactics5063 yeah I never noticed that but it's true . This entire quote represents regina and Janice's relationship. Janis hates her with a burning passion but she still is obsessed with her and wants her to acknowledge her existence.
@@imsickoflifeanditstactics5063 I think she said "those bicthes" cause she knew cady was lying about her NOT being in the book, so she knew she was in the book thats why she got mad
i especially love the end, where you can see how each plastic has become a normal person. it shows that after all, the whole plastics thing was just a mask
And that they are allowed to have that redemption, you see a lot of those movies treat those characters with some awful fate like thats the only way anyone can coexist with them. Like they aren’t literal kids capable of growing as people.
This is especially hilarious for german viewers, as it is mentioned just once in the movie rather randomly, but a lot of people seem to associate mean girls and october 3rd. Which just happens to be german reunification day.
@@lavalu1137 well I dunno for other countries, but in the Netherlands in specifically the city Leiden its their freedom day from the Spanish. Seriously if you wanna party in the Netherlands, October 3rd Leiden is the place to be
I legit never realized the only reason Regina befriended Cady was to keep her close because she perceived her as a threat.... This movie has so many layers that give it ultimate rewatch value lol
There is soooo much thought into it. Every time I rewatch it, I notice new thing. And I watched tons on videos about it, even one about the signification of the clothes in it (it was extremely interesting). The movie truly is wonderful to watch again and again.
Tbh I always thought it was just cause Cady was naive and didn't understand how the school worked, so she was easily controllable. She was pretty enough to be in her posse and easily fooled into thinking Regina was sweet and generous and she should feel honoured to get to be her friend.
The scariest line for me is Regina’s ‘So you agree?’ after telling Cady she’s pretty Legit gives me chills and reminds me people in my dad’s family who I never want to be around
Ikr it's like thanking someone for a compliment is bragging, that's why I find it hard to accept compliments in the first place, I think I'm bragging when I do
@@2Ten1Ryu exactly it’s also scary how manipulative it is, and she can be more subtle about it if she wanted but that’s just how much power she has that she doesn’t care about being subtle about what questions she asks It’s like a huntress testing out her prey and seeing how they’ll respond when put on the spot
@@yusurkassem4174 Yeah, those scenes in the movie can actually be somewhat triggering if you have been bullied before. Sometimes I have a hard time watching scenes likes this. It just makes me angry. I used to be quiet and submissive, now I would utterly flip my shit if I were to even witness something like this.
@@rw2452 pfp = profile picture. uwu = smiley face. It's like a pleasant, calm, chill look of happiness, like you're just vibing with something. So what they were saying was, 'I like your profile picture!'
I want to say “nice!” but it’s not nice he broke his hand. I guess it’s more of a “nice”’ in the sense that they wrote his painful inconvenience into the script LOL! I’m a sucker for real life Easter eggs in movies.
I remember in fifth grade the popular girls like these would go around asking if you wanna join their group and do everything they want or if don't and in that case they would bully you. That's when I was like "oooh shit, this ain't gonna be good" and it wasn't. Long story short school is just like prison, and you gotta survive until you get out of it to safety. At the end of the 8th grade those bullies cried cause school was over and they would move away to go to high school, while the bullied were just happy that they will finally have peace and quiet for once without it bothering some asshole for no reason. Teachers don't even care ever since democracy has been instilled they weren't allowed to punish kids so they just gave up cause there's no way to control them or they just like to give you petty punishments for nothing just to pretend to be good teachers.
5:51 Rachel McAdams does a GREAT job. The way her smile is so wide, she's being friendly but you can sense the hostility and her high-pitched sugary sweet voice. like if I were cady i'd be thinking that something about her is so slightly off, but I wouldn't worry about it because she seems so nice! only when you look back, you start to see through it and how vicious she actually is (ok I don't know what I'm saying you get the point) dang she's good
IKR and her acting range is great, like it’s crazy how she played Regina George in Mean Girls and ALSO Allie from The Notebook?? I almost didn’t realize she starred in both of those movies-
Mean girl was actually relatable, unlike those recent teen movies with the so forced “im not like other girls, but im actually like EVERY GIRL” that are very cringy
This reminded me about what i randomly wrote in my notebook a few years ago in a boring class.. everyone's trying to be different without realizing that they only end up looking the same Something like that ;-;
I love how Glen Coco is the most referenced, popular character, yet he has barely ANY screentime, no lines, and we only see the back of his head! Thanks a million for all of your likes!
Yeah, its brilliant on Regina's part. If you do the math, 8th grade would have been around the same time as 9/11. Janis was forced between letting people think she was gay or letting people know she was Arabic right when Islamophobia skyrocketed.
What I didn't understand was that Cady got blamed for the entire Burn Book when she was a new student that year. There's no way she could have known the secrets and rumors of all of the girls in her class. Also, she had a point when she said that Janis made her into a Plastic to get back at Regina.
I’m pretty sure they were trying to get her to name her fellow writers but she wouldn’t, she just said she wrote some of it, so they blamed her for it all!
I mean there was also the other two plastics blamed as well. Also this over the course of months as they go through multiple seasons, so Cady would hear and learn about others.
Actually if you watched movie most people were aware of it . But cady wrote something which put teacher in trouble with law enforcement. Somebody had to take responsibility to say it was a prank and cady had to
I would just like to say, that the reason Regina wanted to bring Cady into the group was because of her beauty, and Regina saw her as a threat to her, so to stop that from happening she kept Cady in her control
Omg exactly, deep down regina only associated with cady in the first place was because she was threatened by her "beauty" and especially her authenticity. Cady was normal when coming to America. Regina was just your typical spoiled American girl. Regina "helped" cady assimilate not to help her,but to ruin her.
Honestly, that may be an unpopular opinion, but I found it unfair that Cady was faulty for everything in the end, even if Janis used her to get revenge on Regina and then everyone was framing Cady for becoming a bad/fake person and that she literally had to apologize for everything, when others made bad mistakes themselves...Cady did something bad once and she was the scapegoat
Tbh from what Ive seen on movies and heard from my friends in the states, American high school system does seem pretty messed up lol. Idk if it’s just me but in my school there’s no “bullying”. Like ppl are either nice to your face and then talk behind your back, or ignore your existence completely but no bullying or fights. Or Maybe my school is just boring but yeah🤷♀️
@@silveryraven4723 When I was in school there was bullying, but not to the same degree shown it apparently happen in High School. I mean, the whole not inviting people to parties and talking behind their backs or making "fun" of them, yeah, that was a thing, but actually attacking them physically? Yeah, nah, that didn't happen. Those strange cliques? Nope that didn't happen either. Hall passes? I was acutally confused what they were when I first heard of them.
@@silveryraven4723 that's how it is in pretty much every school I have attended and I have been to 7 different schools by now- I'm 15 😒 I will probably need to go to a new school again next year.
@@swanpride At my place, Highschool was pretty chill, middle school was horrible, especially when we were influenced by k pop and Korean culture to respect our "seniors" even if they bullied us
The dumb popular girl trope being so overplayed is what makes Booksmart such a good movie. The girls assume that they are better academically than all the popular kids who party, but then they find out that the popular kids are going to yale too
It's a good way to go about that trope. Most "popular" people i went to school with were indeed very smart, like how Alex describes. It almost seems like that dumb athlete trope came from some jealous "reject" with a grudge lol
Or Legally Blonde - cute and bubbly protagonist is left by her boyfriend for being "too stupid", so she goes to Harvard law school to get him back by proving him wrong. But then she finds real happiness XD
And now we're getting an adaptation of the Broadway musical of this movie into a movie that's very weird yes it's probably going to be more ridiculous than this
Istg since the best time of my life to this point where I'm about to die I've seen you through it all everywhere here, nice. Reminded me of my fairytail days, good seeing you one last time
"she doesnt even go here!" "on wednesdays we wear pink" "If youre from Africa, why are you white" "Is butter a carb?" "YOU CANT SIT WITH US" "WE SHOULD TOTALLY JUST STAB CEASAR" "So you agree? you think youre really pretty?" these are my favorite quotes
Precisely, you're basically herded around a building for six/seven hours per day with people whom you might not have anything in common with, being taught subjects which you may NEVER need in real life.
@@trinaq Absolutely, it's a freaking hell hole, you have to adapt to the f***ed up stereotypes in order to survive. Everything that you learn is absolutely useless, you start learning about the real world in university. Even that happens only if you study some specific degrees.
I had a coworker one time tell me she didn't realize another coworker was from Africa because he's white. People like this actually exist and it scares me.
also whats with the american accent yet shes from africa? as far as i know my continent is one of the most diverse but i promise, there are no american accents here lmao
@@liliapaig were are you from im from algeria and have an amirican acent it dépends how you learn it i started learning english with m'y national laguage so that helped to have an amirican acent
The joke about Janis at the end of the film went over my head for so many years. Regina got lesbian an Lebanese mixed up, and thats why she wasn't friends with her.
That's hilarious, and SUCH a Regina thing to do. It's also possible that Regina was counting on OTHER people to mix the two words up, or convince them that they'd simply heard "Lesbian" instead of "Lebanese."
I'm a dude in my mid 30's and this is unironically one of my favorite movies any time the guys want to have a movie night. It just nails joke after joke after joke and then has a cheesy wholesome ending. Everyone makes fun of it until they watch it. It's just a great movie.
This movie is such a weird phenomenon. Its not a genre that I usually like, but Mean Girls was just such a force of nature that I can't help but consider it a classic.
many "teen girl drama" tried to emulate the iconic legacy of mean girls, but a lot of them failed. probably cuz mean girls had a genuinely interesting (and hilarious) theme of using the american public high school setting as an allegory of authoritarian tyrants and rebellions
“Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that’s not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!”
Fr Like you have to ask your teacher to do literally anything including go to the bathroom and most of the time when people ask to go to the bathroom at my high school they’re denied like People can really not control when they need to use the bathroom and five minutes in the hall mind you sometimes it takes five minutes just to walk from wherever you were before your next class is not enough to use the bathroom for many people
(Sorry if my english is bad, it's not my native language ^^") By no way I'm saying your complaints aren't valid, because they are, but at the same time you're so lucky. Like, you got a hall pass! I'm in a French school, and we don't have hall pass. It's forbidden for us to leave a classroom, or even to go to the toilets (bathroom) during interclass(es ?). The toilets are literally locked, and you can only go there during breaks. And then they complain that the toilets are always crowded istg 🙄
Shane’s kinda a real one in the sense he still liked and dated Regina when she thought she was “at her worst”, not ‘skinny’, not super fashionable, not flanked by her two minions, not ‘queen bee’
i thought so as well at first but then that means he "liked" her even when she cheated on aaron with him, when she started dating aaron again and through the whole chaos, meaning he was probably in it for the 🍑💎
Saddest part about this movie is that there are people like this that actually exist. Thankfully I've never met any. I've always been stuck in the real world.
also whats really sad is that the school literally did nothing about the fact that the main character never went to a new school. like its so weird tbh, why didnt they help her adjust to the school or have someone walk with her and explain stuff? it seems messed up to me
I was once close friends with toxic people like that. I started becoming like them without even realising it. Even the teachers noticed the change in me and informed my Mom about this. She then helped me out to distance myself from them. I'm so glad I left that group.
I have met two girls like regina, one when I was in primary school and one when I was in secondary school. Both of them were attention whores and thought that they’re above everyone else. They also had gretchen/karen type girls by their side lmao. And those reginas that I met would do anything to get a guy’s attention. They will literally throw anyone else under the bus so that they could have all the attention lol
The sad thing is that Cady doesn't have any friends. Janis made her spy on Regina, the only time Cady, Janis and Damian spent some time together was when they were planning how to get a revenge on Regina.Janis and Damian make fun of her interest (to join a mathematic club means that she would be a loser) and they are all hurt when Cady doesn't invite them to her party. Why would she even do that? By the way it was so stupid how Janis spent all four years by hateing Regina, claiming that she destroyed Janis' life when in reality the only people who remember that Regina called Janis a lesbian are Janis, Damian and Regina.
So true. I was always wondering even as a kid why Janis would be angry that she wasn’t invited, cause I really disliked the fact when they just made fun of her being interested in mathematics. Nothing bad in saying that I don’t like the subject, but no reason to laugh about that. And just being there for someone for revenge. I wouldn’t have invited her either tbh xD
My favourite joke in Mean Girls is that Regina spreads the rumour about Janice being a lesbian when they were younger and she probably just didn’t understand that Janice was Lebanese 😂
Holy shit after all these years, I just realized that because Regina doesn’t know the difference between Lebanese and lesbian, that’s the whole reason why this movie even happens the way it does 🤣
@@newheights2029I mean the musical is different than the actual movie( or book?) And in the movie Regina gave the backstory of why she said that Janice was a lesbian and it was because when they were friends when they were younger and Regina had a boyfriend she spent so much time with her boyfriend that Janice got jealous and then she said that she is so obsessed with her she must be in love with her
I was literally a home schooled girl white girl who immigrated from Africa. My first experience in public school was grade 9 in Canada. This movie is super realistic to me.
@Tracker X I disagree, I think both boys and girls have so many unrealistic standards they feel they need to follow because of social media and celebrities today who alter their bodies. We aren't taking the time to really empathize with each other. I think the average girl really doesn't care about those things as much as you might think. And I also don't think it's wrong to not want someone who's obese, and same goes for someone who's anorexic ✋ they should be in a healthy place before being in a relationship with someone
@Tracker X Well, that would mostly be misandrists. There are more feminists than misandrists, misandrists are just the louder part of the crowd, so it looks like modern feminists actually don't strive for equality. Kinda like with the beauty standards thing. Most girls wouldn't really care for you to meet all beauty standards, and a lot of guys wouldn't care either, it's just that society pushes this idea.
@Tracker X iam not trying to say that boys don't have standards but still girls need to be nor fat nor skinny and be thick in some parts of our body i experienced boys at school body shaming me for being skinny unlike other girls that have an hourglass shape of body Men also have these strict standards , i agree. but you shouldn't say that women are lucky for being accepted for who they are . i mean yeah, they are some gentlemens out there who aren't picky but according to my life and experience i only met people who prefer certain type of body and pretty girls and body shame skinny girls and laugh at them :)
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 12 with my cousin who was 10 and our moms. They definitely thought the movie was inappropriate for us being that young, but they loved loved loved the message at the mathletes competition where it finally sinks in to Cady about how calling other girls names and tearing them down doesn’t build you up at all and you have to actually focus on yourself and build yourself up.
I had just turned 14. It was the end of 8th grade year and I was about to enter high school that fall. I loved the movie a lot and still do, but as an 8th grader it gave me wild and unrealistic expectations of what high school was going to be like.
i think mean girls is still iconic as it’s realistic (to the most part except for the jungle fight scene mood) 1) the whole school atmosphere is normal, busy corridors, lunch hall set up etc 2) regina, gretchen and karen act like modern girls where their bitchy behaviour is similar and not outrageous (like the flop sequel) 3) you kind of don’t want to root for anyone in the end as janis set it all up, cady became a plastic and the plastics were not good people to begin with and finally it’s quotable and a masterpiece
on the "not wanting to root for anyone" point - it's even better because nowadays movies would make Cady, Janis and Damian "the good guys" and the plastics "the bad guys" but in the end Janis was just as bad and manipulative as Regina + it kind of mirrors how all girls turned on each other and there were no bad and good girls
@@yonicorn1641 I think that was such a great touch because it shows how it wasn’t anyone’s fault entirely. It varied between the plastics and Cady’s group of friends. It makes it a lot more realistic since a lot of times in life it’s either circumstance and/or it wasn’t just one person and one action that caused problems. So, I definitely agree with what you’re saying. 👌😊
more proof that real life can't be separated into just 'good and bad' like most movies and shows (esp teen rom coms) go bc even of theyre shown to not be good the writers pretend its good, not actually acknowledging it like this movie, kind of defeating the purpose and removing some layers from the characters imo. anyways i personally havent actually seen super bitchy girls in highschool yet but a couple years ago i sure as hell was as bad as regina to my cousin since we werent on the best of terms at the time. i think some of that leaked into my current self or maybe its just hidden deep within me waiting to awaken cause whenever my friends and i roleplay they always choose me as a villain or bitchy person because "i can act the part" or im "best at it." ngl its kinda flattering if youre looking at it from an acting standpoint
*saw in another comment* If you do the math, 8th grade was around 9/11, so Janice either had to tell everyone she was Arabic when Islamophobia was skyrocketing, or let everyone believe she was gay.
I hate the way Janis blamed Cady for slowly becoming like one of the plastics when she's the one asking her to join the plastics. She used Cady for her own personal revenge to Regina and then throw Cady away just because she is always with the plastics, I mean they're a better friends to Cady anyway. And she didn't even apologize after that. Nahh Janis is worst than Regina.
I think that was kind of the point. The plastics were the stereotypical “mean” girls not the movie males it pretty clear that all the girls were pretty mean to each other…in every group
My fave quotes: "Shut up!" "If you're from africa how are you white?" "Evil takes a human form in regina george" That last one applies to the rich girls in my school
Clueless was good because Cher defied ‘high school popular girl’ stereotypes. I loved that she was actually the sweet girl who cared about school even if she wasn’t a natural genius, and she actually had morals. Yeah they poke fun at her a bit but the fact that the ‘quirky, alternative’ girl for once wasn’t immediately the better girl just because she didn’t dress like everyone else or take interest in popular teen culture of the time flips the common ‘im not like other girls’ narrative on its head, like a decade before people caught on
I love your message at the end. Lindsey and Amanda and all the other young ones around that time were making some really good stuff and it is very sad how the industry consumed them.
@@dhdhdhrrr What? 😂😂I literally said this to myself like yesterday. I take an inordinate amount of satisfaction in never having been a relationship, never having kissed ANYONE...ever, etc. etc. Because IF any of it ever happens, my partner would have extra evidence of how special they are to me. Until then, ✨Bichi naneun solo!✨
You know what would've been an interesting twist? If the plastics were actually really nice and friendly, and the unpopular kids were just being super bitter and unkind because they resented the kids who were more popular. I've seen that IRL and no fiction has ever really mentioned it.
Tine Fey kind of did that in an episode of 30 Rock. Her character goes to her high school reunion, dreading seeing the other students, and it turns out she was the one who was mean to them, even when they tried to be nice to her.
It really does hold up well. They modernised it for the broadway musical and didn’t change any major plot details they just kinda added social media and it’s still great
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear bbe
Yeah but also I felt like they didn't really add anything new or interesting, so I felt like the musical was kind of a letdown. I just wish they had put more of a spin on it.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley You didn't knew!? It's okay but i think it's closed now because of the stuff that happened. The music is really good though and the actors are 👏 so accurate with the movie too.
3:35 As a European that always baffles me that you need permission to go to the bathroom and can also be DENIED to go. We could just stand up and leave the room no questions asked
"Teacher complains about having to grade papers but like NO ONE ASK YOU TO GIVE OUT HOMEWORK MRS.SWANSON" is the best line ever on the chalkboard, so relatable. I hate when my teachers complain, I'm like, that's on you buddy.
The thing is; teachers have to in order to grade students. And that comes from the higher ups as well. So pressure is on the teachers. I could go on about the wonderful world of teaching but this would be a longer comment.
@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin So they just take out their frustration of unfair pressure put on them on the kids which have nothing to do with it? If people are going to act on frustration then it should be applied where it ought to be. It's not as if higher ups have any option other than to change if the majority of teachers refuse to hold up a silly system and instead push for a different way to grade that is fair on them as well as the students. This is on the teachers, they're adults, either take the burden on the chin or make productive moves to change it. To complain or take frustration out on those in their care is the immature way to go and harms everyone.
@@unataz2454 exactly! They get paid so taking frustrations out on the kids is kind of dumb. If they don't like the extra work then transfer schools or don't be a teacher. Also, I have a teacher this year giving me only 5 assignments this quarter, because I'm a senior and its covid, and I appreciate teachers still giving us work, but not killing us with it. But then I have other teachers still giving me work daily and pretending like they are "forced" to
exactly like my parents wanted me to watch it earlier but back then i was young and didnt care but a couple years later here i am, one of my favourite movies of all time after watching it after turning 14
As someone who was homeschooled and moved a lot in my life, I did really relate to the main character even today. Like, being asked how I survived, how I knew stuff even though I was homeschooled, having to get used to the social norms of a school, all that jazz. I remember crying at recess on the wall of the school and I didn't know that was a timeout zone, so everyone thought on my first day I was put into the timeout zone when in reality no one would play with me (this was 5th grade).
As someone who grew up and went to school in a different country, all those american high school movies don't really work for me. Most of the time I am more baffled about them and wonder how realistic they are. But if they are realistic, American High school sucks. I mean..hall passes? Really? Strange cliques which fight each other? gun detectors at the entrances?
@@ninjaked1265 Yes, but occasionally there are gun detectors in my school, we live in the suburbs. I imagine it’s an everyday thing in cities but it still happens in other areas when they think something suspicious is going on
@@ninjaked1265 metal detectors are put into schools either based off of the area they are in or based off of precious incidents that caused the school board to decide to install them. My high school was in a super low crime-rate area. But a couple kids made bomb threats for shits and giggles to disrupt the school day and the school decided to install them
@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access We are getting old arent we? Soon the new generation will take over and we will be obsolete. What a fun prospect to look forward to. Im 27 and teenagers react to me like im their grandpa. Im not that old. But then again, I reacted the same thing to people who were 27 when I was a teenager.
@@Greendalewitch I feel a bit odd because though I just turned 32 today, I still like things teens like. My older brother got me and my younger sibling into playing Pokemon online so we've all been battling each other recently (speaking of which, I promised him a thrashing today with a new deck I built). We still enjoy video games, and for me and my younger sibling, we really enjoy anime. Heck, even our mom likes anime. So though it's been many years since my childhood, I've just not dropped all the things I liked as a teen...but explaining that to a teen gets you the "You're weirding me out and trying too hard" look. I must have missed the memo on what fun things adults are supposed to be into, lol. Oh, should also mention I don't want children, so that also probably adds to the lack of any urgency to "act like an adult". I pay bills and file taxes, that's adult enough to me 😂
When at the spring fling Aaron said “grool” to kind of make fun of cady, it reminded me of every time in liv and Maddie where Maddie says “ sUp dIgGiE” and dIgGiE says “sTuFf” then they just say that as a joke in literally every next heartbreaking/reuniting moment they have together.
Means Girls is amazing, it has actual bullies that aren’t flat puppets that say what they’re going to do to make your life hell. It has a lot of jokes, but it also shows how a lot of people see high school, the mean girls always act nice, and you even have different roles in this kind of high school hierarchy. You have Regina, the leader and mastermind with a lot of confidence. She knows how to find people’s weaknesses. You have Gretchen, the follower who really wants to follow a leader. It’s honestly sad, because it just seems like they want to be approved of, and don’t know their worth. You have Karen, the one who has potential to be like Regina the leader with her looks, but not skill wise. And then you have Cady, a new girl, a lump of clay who can be molded in any way, making her the perfect input for the audience. And even Janis, who should be on our side is basically Regina without popularity, having the same skill of knowing how to make people tick. At the end of the day, it’s a cinematic masterpiece with references that still live up to this day, and something that isn’t so black and white, and has characters that actually have dimension.
"in the midwest where people eat like they can actually afford to go to the hospital" oh wow i never knew mean girls took place in the town i spent the first five years of my life
Man! How the hell haven't I ever come across your channel before?! I've been binge watching for over an hour now. Great writing and content, freaking loving it man.
the movie was based on a book called "queen bees and wannabes" by rosalind wiseman and tina fey (ms. norberry) had a huge hand in the production which is a big reason why the script was and remains accurate to young girls and high school in general what, almost 20 years later
“I wish we could all get along like we did in middle school.” Maybe it’s just that I go to a private school, but nobody ever gets along in middle school.
Yes, Mean girls is more similar to how middle school was for me. I'm in high school now I only have a year and a half of true experience due to covid but it's a lot easier to get lost in the crowd when your in high school unless you have classes with people who talk behind your back.
The '80s had"Heathers". The '90s had"Jawbreaker". The 2000s had"Mean Girls". But for some reason everyone always *skips* "Jawbreaker".It's not fair!That movie is *brilliant* as much as the other 2!
I like that Cady is just average in the best way. She has a subject she excels in (math) but isn't some super A+ 4.0 GPA super genius, she hangs with her friends but shes not really popular or unpopular (yet lol), she doesn't dress in some extreme like overly frilly or overly frumpy, and shes not comparing herself to other girls in the most cliche way, ie the nerdy/"outcast" cliches with giant glasses and hipster clothes saying shes not like "other girls"- aka the most stereotypical and damaging idea of what women are- because she likes something a man in the 50s would think women don't like (cars, books, sports). Like the idea that majority of these "other girls" are all vapid 1950s Beverly Hills barbies who love shopping, are either bitchy or dumb as rocks, and hate icky things like "*gasp* outdoors?! Uh, gag me with a spoon!" is just the most out of touch cliche that hasn't been true for at least 25 years now But seriously Mean Girls is amazing
What? I love Mean Girls but I'm pretty sure average people don't look like Hollywood stars. Her beauty and weird background is why Regina took an interest in her in the first place.
“Aka the most stereotypic and damaging idea of what women are” lmfao, okay. Sure. Also, you fail to realize plenty of modern women act like the “stereotypes” you mentioned, so there’s truth to the stereotypes.
@@rileysjonger4192 You're a man you shouldn't be saying what women are or aren't, because if some are like that it's because of their PERSONALITY and the way they were RAISED, it has nothing to do with gender so don't just talk crap like that about women without barely even knowing normal ones
Cady's mom didn't lose her job, she got tenure at a university :( Also you're so right about the popular kids being smart too. That's why they were popular because they did it all and were good at it. The "nerds" were usually the ones into comic books, videogames, anime, fantasty/DnD etc
Nah my nerds was the popular kids/bullies, I had/have a learning difficulty and because of this I was bullied by those shit nerds, pretty much everyone was if you didn't get straight A's you got bullied.
@@Ilivepuppys different schools have different cliques, but usually nerd wasn't always a connotation meaning "smart", it just meant you were into non-mainstream stuff. It's just that these days comic books/superheroes, videogames and anime are extremely popular. Because I'm a girl I was always "cool" for being into typical nerdy stuff, but I did witness a lot of my guy friends get made fun of for playing DnD during lunch. Now all that stuff is cool and we're all adults anyway so no one gives a crap.
This is so true. Me and my friend used to say like cringy memes ironically and this has gotten to the point that we are just making cringy memes and references. This is my humor now and I hate it but I can’t stop.
Basically when they’re apologizing after all the chaos, Janis tells everybody how her and Cady tried to break up Aaron and Regina. Regina gets mad and storms out with Cady trying to apologize. So Reginas in the middle of saying “You can take that fake apology and shove it right down your hairy- and then bam she gets hit. Or just search it up.
Mean girls is a movie that really stands the test of time and was so unique in it's outline of interfemale relationships in school. Nowadays movies could never
The number of times Alex hits the nail on the head with societal contradictions about women and how the movie shows it really makes this whole video for me. Super funny and unfortunately also super relatable
'If you are african, why are you white?' As a white african that moved to the west, I have been asked that unironically more times than you would think 😂
You’re so smart. Taking the “this is weird” or “this sucks” and breaking it down the way you do? It will garner responses from people who agree and then you’re gonna get super fans who BLOW UP at the thought that someone else doesn’t like it. I applaud you. Please keep doing these. Very entertaining.
Just like to point out, Tim meadows and Tina Fey as the Principal and the Math teacher were some of the best teacher characters i’ve ever seen in a teen high school film
Tim Meadows delivers probably two of my favorite lines in the gym during the big therapy session. "I will keep you here all night!" "We can't keep them past 4:00." "I will keep you here til 4:00!" And "I oughta cancel your damn Spring Fling...but I won't...because we already paid the DJ."
Yes, but the problem is the degree of misinformation. Like, he literally can’t spell some STDs, he says “you’ll die”. That’s a problem if it’s being applied to the education system
I find it interesting that this movie essentially popularised the high school movie trope of having the group of three popular girls who rule the school or whatever, yet this wasn't actually the first movie to do it. The dynamic of the main characters feels really similar to the movie Heathers, even down to the roles taken
Hey guess what?? The video got copyright claimed anyway haha. If you enjoyed it, please consider watching a few of my other videos.
These videos take a long time to make so you can probably understand how rough it is for me to have one of them make zero revenue heh heh 😥
Will you be my freinds
Pls
ah yes such an iconic movie
Imagine sitting next to him in a movie🤣🤣🤣
alex in da past 😳
I think that one reason this movie is the best teen movie is because it actually feels somewhat realistic. In some movies the mean girl will just say, "Your purse is so ugly! ewww," while in Mean Girls, they talk behind each others back and it's more passive-aggressive. Also, it's just quotable as heck and me and my friends quote it all the time.
*pulls up to pick my sister up from volleyball* get in loser we're going shopping!
While this is good I’d say the best teen movie is Superbad
stop trying to make fetch happen, it's not gonna happen
she doesn't even go here
and many more
Not the best teen movie. I could argue Clueless was better and more iconic as it predates this.
Right? It’s soooiconic! I love it
My favorite part of Mean Girls is that Regina George gets a good ending. So many teen movies need to show the antagonist being punished, but these are just teenagers. They move on, learn, become better people. Regina George gets to move on and not forever be a mean girl.
She finds a healthy way to take out her emotions, which really is the reason she was so bad :(
I don't know about you but being hit by a freaking school bus was a pretty traumatic punishment for me.
@@anisanurraudah8383 she was better later 💀
@@mightychondria666 she still got hit by a school bus though lol
I was hoping she'd be in a full-body cast.
Cady: The thing about regina is that I could hate her but at the same time still wanted her to like me.
That's gotta be the most relatable thing I have ever heard.
Bruh fr. I'll hate my classmates but a little part of my brain will be like "yea but like don't you want them to like you"
And that part is relatable for Janice too. Notice when Cady lied to her that she wasn't in the book she said "those bitches!" She hated them and and she would've gotten angry about it if she knew what it said about her. But not being in the book was an even bigger insult. It meant that they didn't give enough shit about her to even care if she was in the book or not.
@@imsickoflifeanditstactics5063 yeah I never noticed that but it's true . This entire quote represents regina and Janice's relationship. Janis hates her with a burning passion but she still is obsessed with her and wants her to acknowledge her existence.
Same I had an ex-best friend and that’s exactly how I felt about her
@@imsickoflifeanditstactics5063 I think she said "those bicthes" cause she knew cady was lying about her NOT being in the book, so she knew she was in the book thats why she got mad
i especially love the end, where you can see how each plastic has become a normal person. it shows that after all, the whole plastics thing was just a mask
And that they are allowed to have that redemption, you see a lot of those movies treat those characters with some awful fate like thats the only way anyone can coexist with them. Like they aren’t literal kids capable of growing as people.
Except for Karen, she was always that plastic personality
Except for Karen, she was always that plastic personality
@@iEatMinors yeah but she was never a bad person, she just hung around bad people. She was lowkey sweet. My fav plastic fr
@@poingucac idk.
I mean present day people still say “On Wednesdays we wear pink!” and celebrate October 3rd. So iconic.
This is especially hilarious for german viewers, as it is mentioned just once in the movie rather randomly, but a lot of people seem to associate mean girls and october 3rd.
Which just happens to be german reunification day.
What’s the significance of October 3rd
@@lavalu1137 well I dunno for other countries, but in the Netherlands in specifically the city Leiden its their freedom day from the Spanish.
Seriously if you wanna party in the Netherlands, October 3rd Leiden is the place to be
@@lavalu1137 It’s Mean Girls day because in the movie, Aaron asks Cady what day it is and she replies “October 3rd”.
ikr! me and my friends still quote mean girls all the time too
I legit never realized the only reason Regina befriended Cady was to keep her close because she perceived her as a threat.... This movie has so many layers that give it ultimate rewatch value lol
There is soooo much thought into it. Every time I rewatch it, I notice new thing. And I watched tons on videos about it, even one about the signification of the clothes in it (it was extremely interesting). The movie truly is wonderful to watch again and again.
@@Hadeshy ModernGurlz channel?
Yup. Cant have another pretty girl as competition. Keep your enemies closer type of thing
Regina thought Cady was the only one she thought she could relate to.
Tbh I always thought it was just cause Cady was naive and didn't understand how the school worked, so she was easily controllable. She was pretty enough to be in her posse and easily fooled into thinking Regina was sweet and generous and she should feel honoured to get to be her friend.
The scariest line for me is Regina’s ‘So you agree?’ after telling Cady she’s pretty
Legit gives me chills and reminds me people in my dad’s family who I never want to be around
Reminds me of being put on the spot by nosy girls in middle school :(
Ikr it's like thanking someone for a compliment is bragging, that's why I find it hard to accept compliments in the first place, I think I'm bragging when I do
I know what you mean. It has to be a talent to be able to be this degrading while actually being casual. holy crap
@@2Ten1Ryu exactly it’s also scary how manipulative it is, and she can be more subtle about it if she wanted but that’s just how much power she has that she doesn’t care about being subtle about what questions she asks
It’s like a huntress testing out her prey and seeing how they’ll respond when put on the spot
@@yusurkassem4174 Yeah, those scenes in the movie can actually be somewhat triggering if you have been bullied before. Sometimes I have a hard time watching scenes likes this. It just makes me angry. I used to be quiet and submissive, now I would utterly flip my shit if I were to even witness something like this.
The script is insanely good and they got the perfect actresses, both are extremely hard to come by for a movie about teens.
Your pfp uwu !
@anonymouslearner2454 what are you trying to say ? Say the long version lol 😊
@@rw2452 pfp = profile picture. uwu = smiley face. It's like a pleasant, calm, chill look of happiness, like you're just vibing with something. So what they were saying was, 'I like your profile picture!'
@@rw2452lmao 😭😭
@@itzskye7074 I'm old ok. Lol
Fun fact: the principal’s carpal tunnel was a last minute addition to the script because the actor broke his hand a week before filming started
Wait really? I had no idea that’s why they did that!
I want to say “nice!” but it’s not nice he broke his hand. I guess it’s more of a “nice”’ in the sense that they wrote his painful inconvenience into the script LOL! I’m a sucker for real life Easter eggs in movies.
Yeah and Tina Fey didn’t want to let him quit cause she wrote the part specifically for him
It’s mentioned in their zoom cast reunion
@@nicolelove4313
Haha "cast"
mean girls is actually so realistic. its dramatized, but accurate to how girls in high school really are. it works so well because of that
right !! it’s so funny and people talk about how dramatic it is but this is exactly how people (girls) talked in my high school
Yeah, people keep fixating on the three girls can't rule the whole school..like do people understand the concept of a satires and parodies.
I remember in fifth grade the popular girls like these would go around asking if you wanna join their group and do everything they want or if don't and in that case they would bully you. That's when I was like "oooh shit, this ain't gonna be good" and it wasn't. Long story short school is just like prison, and you gotta survive until you get out of it to safety. At the end of the 8th grade those bullies cried cause school was over and they would move away to go to high school, while the bullied were just happy that they will finally have peace and quiet for once without it bothering some asshole for no reason. Teachers don't even care ever since democracy has been instilled they weren't allowed to punish kids so they just gave up cause there's no way to control them or they just like to give you petty punishments for nothing just to pretend to be good teachers.
It is?? I've always been wondering if American high schools are actually as weird as the movies make it seem.
@@j3ssijee Yeah pretty much
"She doesn't even go here." Is my favorite movie reference. Never gets old.
😂😂
same lol
Same 🤣
I never found that funny
@@LostBoy606 cool? Why are you here then?
5:51 Rachel McAdams does a GREAT job. The way her smile is so wide, she's being friendly but you can sense the hostility and her high-pitched sugary sweet voice. like if I were cady i'd be thinking that something about her is so slightly off, but I wouldn't worry about it because she seems so nice! only when you look back, you start to see through it and how vicious she actually is (ok I don't know what I'm saying you get the point) dang she's good
@Ks yeah I can't believe I forgot her name smh 🤦♀️
She's like a predator "smiling", she's just showing her teeth
This exactly why the acting in the original is so much better than the musical movie 😭 not sure why they even adapted the musical into a movie
IKR and her acting range is great, like it’s crazy how she played Regina George in Mean Girls and ALSO Allie from The Notebook?? I almost didn’t realize she starred in both of those movies-
Mean girl was actually relatable, unlike those recent teen movies with the so forced “im not like other girls, but im actually like EVERY GIRL” that are very cringy
You would find that in the hated mean girls 2 as well
Exactly it was a satire of a satire but it's not like every girl was trying to be so so different
@@avastars3393 💀
This reminded me about what i randomly wrote in my notebook a few years ago in a boring class.. everyone's trying to be different without realizing that they only end up looking the same
Something like that ;-;
"I'm not like other girls!"
Said by literally every girl.
I love how Glen Coco is the most referenced, popular character, yet he has barely ANY screentime, no lines, and we only see the back of his head!
Thanks a million for all of your likes!
you go glenn coco!!!
Four for you Glen Coco, you go Glen Coco!
I'll randomly be out in public and out of nowhere be like "you go Glen Coco" haha such a iconic inspirational character!
We love Glen Coco here
Yo I love your profile pic! My school just did the Addams Family Musical❤️
the fact that janis was lebanese and that why regina thought that she was a lesbian is still the best part of the movie
Bruh💀💀
Josh Dun energy
Damn only realised this now
there's also a theory that Regina is a lesbian or bi and that's why she's so homophobic towards Janice when she thinks she's a lesbian. 🤣
Yeah, its brilliant on Regina's part. If you do the math, 8th grade would have been around the same time as 9/11. Janis was forced between letting people think she was gay or letting people know she was Arabic right when Islamophobia skyrocketed.
What I didn't understand was that Cady got blamed for the entire Burn Book when she was a new student that year. There's no way she could have known the secrets and rumors of all of the girls in her class. Also, she had a point when she said that Janis made her into a Plastic to get back at Regina.
I’m pretty sure they were trying to get her to name her fellow writers but she wouldn’t, she just said she wrote some of it, so they blamed her for it all!
I mean there was also the other two plastics blamed as well. Also this over the course of months as they go through multiple seasons, so Cady would hear and learn about others.
And even if she had written it, she didn't make any of it public, so there's nothing to punish her.
Actually if you watched movie most people were aware of it . But cady wrote something which put teacher in trouble with law enforcement. Somebody had to take responsibility to say it was a prank and cady had to
@@NehaJha-t8l More a rumor than a prank.
"That's why her hair is so big. IT'S FULL OF SECRETSSSSSSSSS."
And then in the end of the movie, notice she has straight and flat hair? I think it means something...🤔
It wasn't even big lol
@@jaydehar4537 it’s a quote from the movie?
@@anahigomez3351 and the musical
Peluca guera de la villana
I would just like to say, that the reason Regina wanted to bring Cady into the group was because of her beauty, and Regina saw her as a threat to her, so to stop that from happening she kept Cady in her control
OH
@@Pebbles.3 yeah HAHA
Omg exactly, deep down regina only associated with cady in the first place was because she was threatened by her "beauty" and especially her authenticity. Cady was normal when coming to America. Regina was just your typical spoiled American girl.
Regina "helped" cady assimilate not to help her,but to ruin her.
Honestly, that may be an unpopular opinion, but I found it unfair that Cady was faulty for everything in the end, even if Janis used her to get revenge on Regina and then everyone was framing Cady for becoming a bad/fake person and that she literally had to apologize for everything, when others made bad mistakes themselves...Cady did something bad once and she was the scapegoat
@@Kiki_snakebunny3929 IKRR 😭😒
alternative title : Alex Meyers roasting American high school for 18 minutes and 55 seconds straight.
Tbh from what Ive seen on movies and heard from my friends in the states, American high school system does seem pretty messed up lol. Idk if it’s just me but in my school there’s no “bullying”. Like ppl are either nice to your face and then talk behind your back, or ignore your existence completely but no bullying or fights. Or Maybe my school is just boring but yeah🤷♀️
@@silveryraven4723 When I was in school there was bullying, but not to the same degree shown it apparently happen in High School. I mean, the whole not inviting people to parties and talking behind their backs or making "fun" of them, yeah, that was a thing, but actually attacking them physically? Yeah, nah, that didn't happen. Those strange cliques? Nope that didn't happen either. Hall passes? I was acutally confused what they were when I first heard of them.
@@silveryraven4723 that's how it is in pretty much every school I have attended and I have been to 7 different schools by now-
I'm 15 😒 I will probably need to go to a new school again next year.
@@swanpride At my place, Highschool was pretty chill, middle school was horrible, especially when we were influenced by k pop and Korean culture to respect our "seniors" even if they bullied us
@khalilur rahman percy jackson is that you ?
The dumb popular girl trope being so overplayed is what makes Booksmart such a good movie. The girls assume that they are better academically than all the popular kids who party, but then they find out that the popular kids are going to yale too
It's a good way to go about that trope. Most "popular" people i went to school with were indeed very smart, like how Alex describes. It almost seems like that dumb athlete trope came from some jealous "reject" with a grudge lol
Or Legally Blonde - cute and bubbly protagonist is left by her boyfriend for being "too stupid", so she goes to Harvard law school to get him back by proving him wrong. But then she finds real happiness
XD
Oh my gosh I love that movie! So much better than Mean girls
This movie is actually pretty realistic, from what I experienced in my high school at least
And now we're getting an adaptation of the Broadway musical of this movie into a movie that's very weird yes it's probably going to be more ridiculous than this
Istg since the best time of my life to this point where I'm about to die I've seen you through it all everywhere here, nice. Reminded me of my fairytail days, good seeing you one last time
It’s you
WTF, dude?! This is the last video I expected to see you at! 😂 On another note, glad you survived that high school.
Your ever where!
"These sweatpants are the only thing that fit me right now." made me really sad
Ikr 😭 I felt so bad for Regina
She sounded so sad 🙁
As a person that lost so much weight after so long and gaining it back because of grief (for my late father) I can relate so much to her
She still looks skinny I really don’t get it
My weight fluctuates so much I felt that in my soul
Everyone’s talking about the “She doesn’t even go here!” but “Janice, I can not stop this car, I have a CURFEW!” is the best line.
and followed by AND I WANT MY PINK SHIRT BACK, I WANT MY PINK SHIRT BAAACK
LMAO
Mine is "boo you wh*e" and "guess I've got a big L E S B I A N CRUSH ON YOU. SUCK ON *THAT* "
Ikrrrr
"Nice wig Janis, what's it made of? " "YOUR MOTHER'S CHEST HAIR!"
Mean Girls is proof that as weird as the plot is, the execution is what matters.
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the fact that mean girls is literally the story of Julius Cesar is my favorite thing ever
wha-?
How?
this makes sense but i cant explain how
@@Clementine3107 backstabbers
some of y’all haven’t seen both movies if you don’t get it-
"she doesn't even go here" is by far my favourite line of all time
😂😂
"sHE DOESN'T EVEN gO HErE!"
"..."
"Do you even go to this school..? O_o"
"no :(.."
"Okay go home ;-;"
"she doesnt even go here!"
"on wednesdays we wear pink"
"If youre from Africa, why are you white"
"Is butter a carb?"
"YOU CANT SIT WITH US"
"WE SHOULD TOTALLY JUST STAB CEASAR"
"So you agree? you think youre really pretty?"
these are my favorite quotes
@Katia S gleno coco? 4 for you glen coco!!
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I actually can’t believe this is the first time he’s doing mean girls it’s so iconic
Correct
Long as he doesn’t review mean girls 2 it’s so shit
@@ge0rgialiv doesn’t a bad movie make this even better?
@@josepho3366 not in this case man
@@ge0rgialiv we dont know what that movie is. Real fans dont acknowledge its existence
Janis shooting back “YOUR MOM’S CHEST HAIR” at a random kid makes me laugh so hard for no reason.
“You need permission to go to the bathroom? What is this prison?”
Yes it is love....yes it is
I literally was thinking about that today while in jym
@@mewesquirrel6720 exactly! or getting water. My teacher got mad at me and my friends cause we all went up to drink water.....
@@iluvorchids9o wat?
Precisely, you're basically herded around a building for six/seven hours per day with people whom you might not have anything in common with, being taught subjects which you may NEVER need in real life.
@@trinaq Absolutely, it's a freaking hell hole, you have to adapt to the f***ed up stereotypes in order to survive. Everything that you learn is absolutely useless, you start learning about the real world in university. Even that happens only if you study some specific degrees.
"If you're from Africa...why are you white?"
😂😂😂😂💀 had me rolling
I had a coworker one time tell me she didn't realize another coworker was from Africa because he's white. People like this actually exist and it scares me.
@@melissaa2369 Same that happend to me a super goest liké pale from Africa
also whats with the american accent yet shes from africa? as far as i know my continent is one of the most diverse but i promise, there are no american accents here lmao
@@liliapaig were are you from im from algeria and have an amirican acent it dépends how you learn it i started learning english with m'y national laguage so that helped to have an amirican acent
Oh my God Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white!!!
The joke about Janis at the end of the film went over my head for so many years. Regina got lesbian an Lebanese mixed up, and thats why she wasn't friends with her.
I was today's years old when I got the joke.
Holy hell! That's amazing and I never realized!
Right over my head.
That's hilarious, and SUCH a Regina thing to do. It's also possible that Regina was counting on OTHER people to mix the two words up, or convince them that they'd simply heard "Lesbian" instead of "Lebanese."
She didn't get them confused. She literally said I think you are obsessed with me and therefore a lesbian. I mean not quite that but still
I'm a dude in my mid 30's and this is unironically one of my favorite movies any time the guys want to have a movie night. It just nails joke after joke after joke and then has a cheesy wholesome ending. Everyone makes fun of it until they watch it. It's just a great movie.
This movie is such a weird phenomenon. Its not a genre that I usually like, but Mean Girls was just such a force of nature that I can't help but consider it a classic.
And then mean girls 2 was made 🤦🏻♀️
@@rashianand7534 There was really a Mean Girls 2? I had no idea. How did I miss that?
@@Applepoisoneer oh you're lucky to miss that. Don't even bother watching
@@Applepoisoneer Please don't watch that trash movie
many "teen girl drama" tried to emulate the iconic legacy of mean girls, but a lot of them failed. probably cuz mean girls had a genuinely interesting (and hilarious) theme of using the american public high school setting as an allegory of authoritarian tyrants and rebellions
“Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that’s not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!”
Oop-
Yess. Gotta love those parallels!!
When you realize this line by gretchen is the literal plot of the movie
This scene has the same energy as the infamous Caesar dressing bottle with a steak knife sticking out of it.
the biggest rant of ancient Rome 😂😂
Cady being like "Well can I have the hall pass?" And then the teacher denying it made me realise how stupid school rules are
Ikr,
Running in the halls makes half sense
Blame the douchebags who use it to ditch. That's what causes the distrust.
Fr Like you have to ask your teacher to do literally anything including go to the bathroom and most of the time when people ask to go to the bathroom at my high school they’re denied like People can really not control when they need to use the bathroom and five minutes in the hall mind you sometimes it takes five minutes just to walk from wherever you were before your next class is not enough to use the bathroom for many people
(Sorry if my english is bad, it's not my native language ^^")
By no way I'm saying your complaints aren't valid, because they are, but at the same time you're so lucky. Like, you got a hall pass!
I'm in a French school, and we don't have hall pass. It's forbidden for us to leave a classroom, or even to go to the toilets (bathroom) during interclass(es ?). The toilets are literally locked, and you can only go there during breaks.
And then they complain that the toilets are always crowded istg 🙄
Shane’s kinda a real one in the sense he still liked and dated Regina when she thought she was “at her worst”, not ‘skinny’, not super fashionable, not flanked by her two minions, not ‘queen bee’
Exactly 💯
i thought so as well at first but then that means he "liked" her even when she cheated on aaron with him, when she started dating aaron again and through the whole chaos, meaning he was probably in it for the 🍑💎
@@wul09 oh yah, I won’t deny his likely shallow intentions for dating her as well, and being the “other man” lol
EXACTLY WHEN I WAS WATCHING IT A FEW DAYS AGO I WAS SAYING THE SAME THING
Saddest part about this movie is that there are people like this that actually exist. Thankfully I've never met any. I've always been stuck in the real world.
Same for me. I mean there are jerks here and there, but overall, I never had to deal with people like The Plastics.
also whats really sad is that the school literally did nothing about the fact that the main character never went to a new school. like its so weird tbh, why didnt they help her adjust to the school or have someone walk with her and explain stuff? it seems messed up to me
Pray you never do meet any
I was once close friends with toxic people like that. I started becoming like them without even realising it. Even the teachers noticed the change in me and informed my Mom about this. She then helped me out to distance myself from them. I'm so glad I left that group.
I have met two girls like regina, one when I was in primary school and one when I was in secondary school. Both of them were attention whores and thought that they’re above everyone else. They also had gretchen/karen type girls by their side lmao. And those reginas that I met would do anything to get a guy’s attention. They will literally throw anyone else under the bus so that they could have all the attention lol
The sad thing is that Cady doesn't have any friends. Janis made her spy on Regina, the only time Cady, Janis and Damian spent some time together was when they were planning how to get a revenge on Regina.Janis and Damian make fun of her interest (to join a mathematic club means that she would be a loser) and they are all hurt when Cady doesn't invite them to her party. Why would she even do that? By the way it was so stupid how Janis spent all four years by hateing Regina, claiming that she destroyed Janis' life when in reality the only people who remember that Regina called Janis a lesbian are Janis, Damian and Regina.
I feel like Janis took it more to heart & it stuck with her since the insult came from someone she respected
Don't take this in a bad way but i just had a stroke reading this
I see your point and get where your coming from, but go back to school and learn how to write properly
So true. I was always wondering even as a kid why Janis would be angry that she wasn’t invited, cause I really disliked the fact when they just made fun of her being interested in mathematics. Nothing bad in saying that I don’t like the subject, but no reason to laugh about that. And just being there for someone for revenge. I wouldn’t have invited her either tbh xD
I genuinely really dislike Janice
My favourite joke in Mean Girls is that Regina spreads the rumour about Janice being a lesbian when they were younger and she probably just didn’t understand that Janice was Lebanese 😂
Holy shit after all these years, I just realized that because Regina doesn’t know the difference between Lebanese and lesbian, that’s the whole reason why this movie even happens the way it does 🤣
@Elena Jaimes Bahena I know I was stating that I can’t believe the whole reason behind the plot of this movie is because Regina made a dumb mistake
That's not it
@@Grace-to6hn it is…..Tina Fey ended up letting this fact slip when she was writing the book for Mean Girls the Musical….😂
@@newheights2029I mean the musical is different than the actual movie( or book?) And in the movie Regina gave the backstory of why she said that Janice was a lesbian and it was because when they were friends when they were younger and Regina had a boyfriend she spent so much time with her boyfriend that Janice got jealous and then she said that she is so obsessed with her she must be in love with her
ok, lets be real, he got the slim/fat dynamic for girls, LITERALLY PERFECT. and people wonder why were crazy
I've used the "oh my god Karen you can't just ask people why they're white" quote more often than I wish I had to.
Are you black
@@jeongyeon1358 I'm grey.
@@woolf2796 cool that's better
I was literally a home schooled girl white girl who immigrated from Africa. My first experience in public school was grade 9 in Canada. This movie is super realistic to me.
Oh lol
So Cady irl but Shirley?
Sure
did u meet a popular clique ?
Surely you can't be serious.
When Alex started talking about how you have to be thicc and skinny at the same time I lost it because the beauty standards really are that stupid 😂😭😭
@Tracker X I disagree, I think both boys and girls have so many unrealistic standards they feel they need to follow because of social media and celebrities today who alter their bodies. We aren't taking the time to really empathize with each other. I think the average girl really doesn't care about those things as much as you might think. And I also don't think it's wrong to not want someone who's obese, and same goes for someone who's anorexic ✋ they should be in a healthy place before being in a relationship with someone
@Tracker X yeah that's why I don't call myself a feminist 💀💀
@Tracker X Well, that would mostly be misandrists. There are more feminists than misandrists, misandrists are just the louder part of the crowd, so it looks like modern feminists actually don't strive for equality.
Kinda like with the beauty standards thing. Most girls wouldn't really care for you to meet all beauty standards, and a lot of guys wouldn't care either, it's just that society pushes this idea.
@Tracker X Yeah, those are called misandrists. Unfortunately many today. Still many feminists out there though, not just women too.
@Tracker X iam not trying to say that boys don't have standards but still girls need to be nor fat nor skinny and be thick in some parts of our body
i experienced boys at school body shaming me for being skinny unlike other girls that have an hourglass shape of body
Men also have these strict standards , i agree. but you shouldn't say that women are lucky for being accepted for who they are . i mean yeah, they are some gentlemens out there who aren't picky but according to my life and experience i only met people who prefer certain type of body and pretty girls and body shame skinny girls and laugh at them :)
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 12 with my cousin who was 10 and our moms. They definitely thought the movie was inappropriate for us being that young, but they loved loved loved the message at the mathletes competition where it finally sinks in to Cady about how calling other girls names and tearing them down doesn’t build you up at all and you have to actually focus on yourself and build yourself up.
I had just turned 14. It was the end of 8th grade year and I was about to enter high school that fall. I loved the movie a lot and still do, but as an 8th grader it gave me wild and unrealistic expectations of what high school was going to be like.
i think mean girls is still iconic as it’s realistic (to the most part except for the jungle fight scene mood)
1) the whole school atmosphere is normal, busy corridors, lunch hall set up etc
2) regina, gretchen and karen act like modern girls where their bitchy behaviour is similar and not outrageous (like the flop sequel)
3) you kind of don’t want to root for anyone in the end as janis set it all up, cady became a plastic and the plastics were not good people to begin with
and finally it’s quotable and a masterpiece
on the "not wanting to root for anyone" point - it's even better because nowadays movies would make Cady, Janis and Damian "the good guys" and the plastics "the bad guys" but in the end Janis was just as bad and manipulative as Regina + it kind of mirrors how all girls turned on each other and there were no bad and good girls
@@yonicorn1641 I think that was such a great touch because it shows how it wasn’t anyone’s fault entirely. It varied between the plastics and Cady’s group of friends. It makes it a lot more realistic since a lot of times in life it’s either circumstance and/or it wasn’t just one person and one action that caused problems. So, I definitely agree with what you’re saying. 👌😊
more proof that real life can't be separated into just 'good and bad' like most movies and shows (esp teen rom coms) go bc even of theyre shown to not be good the writers pretend its good, not actually acknowledging it like this movie, kind of defeating the purpose and removing some layers from the characters imo.
anyways i personally havent actually seen super bitchy girls in highschool yet but a couple years ago i sure as hell was as bad as regina to my cousin since we werent on the best of terms at the time. i think some of that leaked into my current self or maybe its just hidden deep within me waiting to awaken cause whenever my friends and i roleplay they always choose me as a villain or bitchy person because "i can act the part" or im "best at it." ngl its kinda flattering if youre looking at it from an acting standpoint
The only person we can root for in this movie is Glen Coco and I would like to see somebody tell me otherwise.
@@kaichiskai5246 that’s so true!! YOU GO GLEN COCO
YOU COMPLETELY MISSED THE ENTIRE JOKE OF THE MOVIE WHERE JANICE SAYS SHES LEBANESE AND REGINA THOUGHT SHE MEANT LESBIAN LMFAOO
Omg. 😭
I NEVER REALISED THAT OMG
That's why I got confused when Janice ended up with a guy 😭😭😭
*saw in another comment*
If you do the math, 8th grade was around 9/11, so Janice either had to tell everyone she was Arabic when Islamophobia was skyrocketing, or let everyone believe she was gay.
Omgggggggggg havent noticed iiiiiit
The fact you just brushed over Regina getting hit by a bus so quickly kills me 💀😂
It nearly killed her too
@@Doctor_Straing_Strange I mean no duh, it was a whole bus
@@chenmae9747 yeah, maybe she could've tanked a 3rd of a bus though, think her durability feats are good enough
@@MagillanicaLouM nah, her stats are weak, at least she's got intelligence cranked up
Ikr
I hate the way Janis blamed Cady for slowly becoming like one of the plastics when she's the one asking her to join the plastics.
She used Cady for her own personal revenge to Regina and then throw Cady away just because she is always with the plastics, I mean they're a better friends to Cady anyway.
And she didn't even apologize after that. Nahh Janis is worst than Regina.
What she did was wrong but I don’t think we have a reason to say that she is worst than Regina.
@@Heidibell20 I like Regina more than her
I think that was kind of the point. The plastics were the stereotypical “mean” girls not the movie males it pretty clear that all the girls were pretty mean to each other…in every group
My fave quotes:
"Shut up!"
"If you're from africa how are you white?"
"Evil takes a human form in regina george"
That last one applies to the rich girls in my school
My favorite from this show is “Gretchen stop trying to make fEtch happen it’s never going to happen”
“Get in loser we’re going shopping”
“You go glen coco”
“AND I WANT MY PINK SHIRT BACK”
“Hey Kylie!”
“💃🏾 hey💃🏾”
The fact that the whole movie is based on the fact that Regina didn't know the difference between lesbian and Lebanese is sooo funny for me 😭😭
wait Janice is lebanese and that's the joke? how did I not know that lol I just thought Regina made that shit up😭
She was a kid when that happened, and even so she could have know and pretended not to
Oh my god, you just reminded me of the fact that I’ve watched this like a gagillion times and barely found this out like...3 months ago
@@char4980 In the prom scene when shes dancing with Kevin G (the math guy), He asks if she's Puerto Rican. She replies shes Lebanese
@@5h3nn0ng OMG. I was today years old when I finally got it
In my head there’s the big four: Mean Girls, the Devil Wears Prada, Legally Blonde, and Clueless.. they’re all just a special breed of movie
Be sure to check out Heathers! It's a teen movie classic.
@@AhmedX8 I love heathers!
Clueless was good because Cher defied ‘high school popular girl’ stereotypes. I loved that she was actually the sweet girl who cared about school even if she wasn’t a natural genius, and she actually had morals. Yeah they poke fun at her a bit but the fact that the ‘quirky, alternative’ girl for once wasn’t immediately the better girl just because she didn’t dress like everyone else or take interest in popular teen culture of the time flips the common ‘im not like other girls’ narrative on its head, like a decade before people caught on
Sorry I just kind of went into depth but I’m a big fan of clueless! Great film
@@blkbarbie2671 it’s also an adaptation of Emma by Jane Austen which adds an extra layer to me of things to love about it
I love your message at the end. Lindsey and Amanda and all the other young ones around that time were making some really good stuff and it is very sad how the industry consumed them.
"Don't have sex, 'cause you'll get pregnant and die"
I'm just glad I'm a Virgin
Said no one ever
@@dhdhdhrrr not true. Please respect others choices
just be safe and use protection when that time comes for you :)
@@dhdhdhrrr What? 😂😂I literally said this to myself like yesterday. I take an inordinate amount of satisfaction in never having been a relationship, never having kissed ANYONE...ever, etc. etc. Because IF any of it ever happens, my partner would have extra evidence of how special they are to me. Until then, ✨Bichi naneun solo!✨
@@jenme2390 stan u girl! Same with me!!
I love how he casually mentions Regina gets hit by a bus
Edit: thanks for all of the likes
Imagine watching this without having seen the movie and thinking that she died until the last scene.
AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
Lol I thought the same thing.
"you need someone else's permission to go to the bathroom...what is this, a prison?"
Yes. Yes it is.
omg and the lines, like I get being quiet in the halls but why the lines? so unnecessary
@rubina stanikzai I get that lol (it was a joke)
@@raqchealv8719 ikr- (I love ur pfp)
@rubina stanikzai Uh, yeah but no. They make you wait and it’s bad to hold your bladder
My high school used to be a prison. I only had 2 classes ever that had windows. Needless to say getting a window seat was a prized procession
4:16 We never thought we’d wind up in a time where that character was smarter than real S.E. teachers but whoops we’re here now
You saying "almost 20 years later" gave me whiplash bc I was born in 04 and I refuse to believe I'm growing up
as someone who was born in 2002 and is now considered "grownup" i fully understand you
Same, and same
Same
Me too (I’m born in 2005) but omg it’s A PANDA!!
Hiiiiiii
As a 2001 baby I can confirm time flies
You know what would've been an interesting twist? If the plastics were actually really nice and friendly, and the unpopular kids were just being super bitter and unkind because they resented the kids who were more popular. I've seen that IRL and no fiction has ever really mentioned it.
Someone needs to make that into a movie, I so watch!
Uuuuum legally blonde???
legally blonde 😭😭😭😭
Tine Fey kind of did that in an episode of 30 Rock. Her character goes to her high school reunion, dreading seeing the other students, and it turns out she was the one who was mean to them, even when they tried to be nice to her.
Well legally blonde doesn't like count because it's focused on Adults rather than teenagers
It really does hold up well. They modernised it for the broadway musical and didn’t change any major plot details they just kinda added social media and it’s still great
There's a musical?! Oh, I'm intrigued!
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear bbe
Yeah but also I felt like they didn't really add anything new or interesting, so I felt like the musical was kind of a letdown. I just wish they had put more of a spin on it.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley You didn't knew!? It's okay but i think it's closed now because of the stuff that happened. The music is really good though and the actors are 👏 so accurate with the movie too.
WORLD BURN IS SO GOOD
3:35 As a European that always baffles me that you need permission to go to the bathroom and can also be DENIED to go. We could just stand up and leave the room no questions asked
"Teacher complains about having to grade papers but like NO ONE ASK YOU TO GIVE OUT HOMEWORK MRS.SWANSON" is the best line ever on the chalkboard, so relatable. I hate when my teachers complain, I'm like, that's on you buddy.
The thing is; teachers have to in order to grade students. And that comes from the higher ups as well. So pressure is on the teachers. I could go on about the wonderful world of teaching but this would be a longer comment.
@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin So they just take out their frustration of unfair pressure put on them on the kids which have nothing to do with it? If people are going to act on frustration then it should be applied where it ought to be.
It's not as if higher ups have any option other than to change if the majority of teachers refuse to hold up a silly system and instead push for a different way to grade that is fair on them as well as the students. This is on the teachers, they're adults, either take the burden on the chin or make productive moves to change it. To complain or take frustration out on those in their care is the immature way to go and harms everyone.
@@unataz2454 exactly! They get paid so taking frustrations out on the kids is kind of dumb. If they don't like the extra work then transfer schools or don't be a teacher. Also, I have a teacher this year giving me only 5 assignments this quarter, because I'm a senior and its covid, and I appreciate teachers still giving us work, but not killing us with it. But then I have other teachers still giving me work daily and pretending like they are "forced" to
@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin they don’t tho lol. homework isn’t necessary for determining grades.
@@gloomy.y right, HW is like 5 points.....
Even the side characters that barely showed up were memorable, that's how good this movie is
"mom, can you pick me up? I'm scared."
Ikr « I don’t hate because you’re fat, you’re fat because I hate you ! »
"Oh crap my hair!"
Kevin Gnapoor lol.
@@kryptoskillet1131 honestly dude, the extras in those movies were unreal 😂
watching mean girls is literally a coming of age right of passage
Couldn't agree more
Annabeth?? using youtube attracts monsters?!
exactly like my parents wanted me to watch it earlier but back then i was young and didnt care but a couple years later here i am, one of my favourite movies of all time after watching it after turning 14
The pjo replies are amazing
It seems like it took the place of Clueless as the rite of passage for any teen girl 😄😄
"Homeschooled kids are freaks"
That always offended me since I've been homeschooled my whole life😭😭😂
Good
I mean, I was homeschooled for a bit and I think it's accurate 🤷♀️
Same! But honestly, knowing some of the kids I did when I was homeschooled, yeah, it's more accurate than I want to admit XD
And here you are, commenting under TH-cam videos like the rest of us freaks......
“A city in the Midwest where everyone eats like they can afford to go to the hospital” 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
I burst out laughing when he said that 🤣
I came from one of these small towns and it was exactly like that though...even though they're Podunk asf
dude listening to him describing my actual city like that lololol had me dead
Michigan is the watered down version of that
If you saw the text that came after that it was even funnier
It has become a tradition for me to binge watch Alex Meyers videos while eating lunch.
I too
i do this too 😭
LMAO ME TO
Yeah that’s what I’m doing right now too
Lunch, dinner breakfast, washing the dishes, doing homework.. Everytime... 🙌🏽😂😂
As someone who was homeschooled and moved a lot in my life, I did really relate to the main character even today. Like, being asked how I survived, how I knew stuff even though I was homeschooled, having to get used to the social norms of a school, all that jazz. I remember crying at recess on the wall of the school and I didn't know that was a timeout zone, so everyone thought on my first day I was put into the timeout zone when in reality no one would play with me (this was 5th grade).
As someone who grew up and went to school in a different country, all those american high school movies don't really work for me. Most of the time I am more baffled about them and wonder how realistic they are. But if they are realistic, American High school sucks. I mean..hall passes? Really? Strange cliques which fight each other? gun detectors at the entrances?
@@swanpride gun detectors and hall passes are true but groups of friends don’t actually fight each other, that’s just a ridiculous stereotype in film
@@swanpride gun detectors are only in dangerous cities
@@ninjaked1265 Yes, but occasionally there are gun detectors in my school, we live in the suburbs. I imagine it’s an everyday thing in cities but it still happens in other areas when they think something suspicious is going on
@@ninjaked1265 metal detectors are put into schools either based off of the area they are in or based off of precious incidents that caused the school board to decide to install them. My high school was in a super low crime-rate area. But a couple kids made bomb threats for shits and giggles to disrupt the school day and the school decided to install them
“Tell me about it sister! Sometimes I get possessed by the spirit of Kathulu and I’m like BLEHHHHHHHHH” had me rolling on the floor (fr tho) 💀💀💀
🤣🤣 I honestly did not see that coming, lol
I love this movie
aH- hi alex! ur videos are so funny!
Me too alex
Huh alex watches alex
Oh my god it's Alex Clark
you got taste
My favourite moment was the..."She doesn't even go here!"
And him wearing a hoodie with sunglasses just makes it even funnier
mine is, "that is the ugliest effing skirt i've ever seen"
Lmao
Same 😂😂
Mine was mom I'm scared pick me up
when you were alive (barely) in 2004 and Alex says "almost 20 years ago" and you get half an existential crisis
Same lol
When you were a teenager during that time and now you feel like the Crypt Keepers older sibling.
@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access We are getting old arent we? Soon the new generation will take over and we will be obsolete.
What a fun prospect to look forward to.
Im 27 and teenagers react to me like im their grandpa. Im not that old.
But then again, I reacted the same thing to people who were 27 when I was a teenager.
@@Greendalewitch I'm 17 and already realizing that kids nowadays put their hands flat against their ear to mime a phone 😩
@@Greendalewitch I feel a bit odd because though I just turned 32 today, I still like things teens like. My older brother got me and my younger sibling into playing Pokemon online so we've all been battling each other recently (speaking of which, I promised him a thrashing today with a new deck I built). We still enjoy video games, and for me and my younger sibling, we really enjoy anime. Heck, even our mom likes anime. So though it's been many years since my childhood, I've just not dropped all the things I liked as a teen...but explaining that to a teen gets you the "You're weirding me out and trying too hard" look. I must have missed the memo on what fun things adults are supposed to be into, lol.
Oh, should also mention I don't want children, so that also probably adds to the lack of any urgency to "act like an adult". I pay bills and file taxes, that's adult enough to me 😂
When at the spring fling Aaron said “grool” to kind of make fun of cady, it reminded me of every time in liv and Maddie where Maddie says “ sUp dIgGiE” and dIgGiE says “sTuFf” then they just say that as a joke in literally every next heartbreaking/reuniting moment they have together.
Means Girls is amazing, it has actual bullies that aren’t flat puppets that say what they’re going to do to make your life hell.
It has a lot of jokes, but it also shows how a lot of people see high school, the mean girls always act nice, and you even have different roles in this kind of high school hierarchy.
You have Regina, the leader and mastermind with a lot of confidence. She knows how to find people’s weaknesses.
You have Gretchen, the follower who really wants to follow a leader. It’s honestly sad, because it just seems like they want to be approved of, and don’t know their worth.
You have Karen, the one who has potential to be like Regina the leader with her looks, but not skill wise.
And then you have Cady, a new girl, a lump of clay who can be molded in any way, making her the perfect input for the audience.
And even Janis, who should be on our side is basically Regina without popularity, having the same skill of knowing how to make people tick.
At the end of the day, it’s a cinematic masterpiece with references that still live up to this day, and something that isn’t so black and white, and has characters that actually have dimension.
👏👏👏👏
And it’s barely about boys.
@@spongebobsjellyfish well its called mean girls for a reason
"in the midwest where people eat like they can actually afford to go to the hospital"
oh wow i never knew mean girls took place in the town i spent the first five years of my life
It's set in a Chicago suburb
“Nice wig, Janis, what’s it made of?”
“Your mom’s chest hair”
Why does it smell like ICON in here?
Man! How the hell haven't I ever come across your channel before?! I've been binge watching for over an hour now. Great writing and content, freaking loving it man.
the movie was based on a book called "queen bees and wannabes" by rosalind wiseman and tina fey (ms. norberry) had a huge hand in the production which is a big reason why the script was and remains accurate to young girls and high school in general what, almost 20 years later
“I wish we could all get along like we did in middle school.” Maybe it’s just that I go to a private school, but nobody ever gets along in middle school.
Fr. I went to public middle school and it was ruthless. It breaks you. My experience in highschool has been much more chill and drama free
Yes, Mean girls is more similar to how middle school was for me. I'm in high school now I only have a year and a half of true experience due to covid but it's a lot easier to get lost in the crowd when your in high school unless you have classes with people who talk behind your back.
I had the WORST middle school experience EVER lol Nobody got along 😂
Its not just private, noone gets along in any school.
What kind of schools are y’all going to? People at my middle school got along with people they didn’t even know
I couldn't believe the title when I saw it. My life is complete.
Indeed! Alex Meyers + Mean Girls = Life Complete! ❣️
Ikr..
hi mikasa
Yes
My exact comment was “my time has come
"after somehow becoming friends with the plastics" got me laughing my cheeks off
"She doesn’t even go here"
Never misses to make me burst out laughing😂
My favorite quote I still say today
I also love the fact that nobody cares that he just stayed in an assembly that was meant for girls.
Okay, but Clueless was definitely the progenitor of Mean Girls. Cher Horowitz 'As if'ed so Damian could 'She doesn't even go here!'
The '80s had"Heathers".
The '90s had"Jawbreaker".
The 2000s had"Mean Girls".
But for some reason everyone always *skips* "Jawbreaker".It's not fair!That movie is *brilliant* as much as the other 2!
@@Nicamon same never forget the importance of Heathers and Jawbreakers
@@Nicamon I love Jawbreakers.
I think clueless better. 🤷🏾♀️ I just don't see why I mean girls is so iconic.
@@Mickeii617 I've never seen"Clueless".😅I feel I should,eventually.
I like that Cady is just average in the best way. She has a subject she excels in (math) but isn't some super A+ 4.0 GPA super genius, she hangs with her friends but shes not really popular or unpopular (yet lol), she doesn't dress in some extreme like overly frilly or overly frumpy, and shes not comparing herself to other girls in the most cliche way, ie the nerdy/"outcast" cliches with giant glasses and hipster clothes saying shes not like "other girls"- aka the most stereotypical and damaging idea of what women are- because she likes something a man in the 50s would think women don't like (cars, books, sports). Like the idea that majority of these "other girls" are all vapid 1950s Beverly Hills barbies who love shopping, are either bitchy or dumb as rocks, and hate icky things like "*gasp* outdoors?! Uh, gag me with a spoon!" is just the most out of touch cliche that hasn't been true for at least 25 years now
But seriously Mean Girls is amazing
My favorite movie lmao
Past me SHUT UPPP OMGGG also great message
What? I love Mean Girls but I'm pretty sure average people don't look like Hollywood stars. Her beauty and weird background is why Regina took an interest in her in the first place.
“Aka the most stereotypic and damaging idea of what women are” lmfao, okay. Sure.
Also, you fail to realize plenty of modern women act like the “stereotypes” you mentioned, so there’s truth to the stereotypes.
@@rileysjonger4192 You're a man you shouldn't be saying what women are or aren't, because if some are like that it's because of their PERSONALITY and the way they were RAISED, it has nothing to do with gender so don't just talk crap like that about women without barely even knowing normal ones
ALEX I NOTICED THE SHINING FORCE MUSIC DURING THE SURFSHARK AD. I NEEDED THAT 😭❤️
Cady's mom didn't lose her job, she got tenure at a university :(
Also you're so right about the popular kids being smart too. That's why they were popular because they did it all and were good at it. The "nerds" were usually the ones into comic books, videogames, anime, fantasty/DnD etc
Nah my nerds was the popular kids/bullies, I had/have a learning difficulty and because of this I was bullied by those shit nerds, pretty much everyone was if you didn't get straight A's you got bullied.
@@Ilivepuppys different schools have different cliques, but usually nerd wasn't always a connotation meaning "smart", it just meant you were into non-mainstream stuff. It's just that these days comic books/superheroes, videogames and anime are extremely popular. Because I'm a girl I was always "cool" for being into typical nerdy stuff, but I did witness a lot of my guy friends get made fun of for playing DnD during lunch. Now all that stuff is cool and we're all adults anyway so no one gives a crap.
@@emilycanfield2634 To be a nerd you need to be smart too, no one is calling a guy who lives in Mum's basement playing DnD a nerd
@@Ilivepuppys they do
@@MarieTheOstrich Actually they are called geeks.
The modern day three way calling is hanging out in person with one friend, texting another friend, and showing your first friend the texts
I thought it was just sending screenshots.
This is so true. Me and my friend used to say like cringy memes ironically and this has gotten to the point that we are just making cringy memes and references. This is my humor now and I hate it but I can’t stop.
„ I know that you think, home-schooled kids are weird.“
*Almost every kid right now*
: 🤫
dude idk how old u are but stay in school and figure out how to spell
@@Gabi-tp7fz dude idk how old you are but stay in school and learn that people make simple spelling mistakes
@@Gabi-tp7fz auto correct: I'm not even here baby I'm a hallucination
@@Gabi-tp7fz Is it right now ?
@@Gabi-tp7fz OP is German, not a native speaker of English - no need to be rude
" . . . Regina gets hit by a bus . . . "
Me who haven't watched the movie: Wut?
With no context it's an interesting statement.
Dude watch the movie it's so good and funny. This does not do it justice
💀
Basically when they’re apologizing after all the chaos, Janis tells everybody how her and Cady tried to break up Aaron and Regina. Regina gets mad and storms out with Cady trying to apologize. So Reginas in the middle of saying “You can take that fake apology and shove it right down your hairy- and then bam she gets hit. Or just search it up.
Watch it! It's really good. The plots, character development and more like- it's really good
"at first I was like "mmm plastic" as a joke. But bro, I don't think it's a joke anymore"
@Suravi Balaji how does this have over 300 likes its just a dumb joke haha
As a German, at first I didn't even understand what the German Teacher said.
Mean girls is a movie that really stands the test of time and was so unique in it's outline of interfemale relationships in school. Nowadays movies could never
@Namu Situ ”bUt wE hAvE tHe kIsSinG bO-”💥🔫
@@bitchmaffia9956 lmaoo
The number of times Alex hits the nail on the head with societal contradictions about women and how the movie shows it really makes this whole video for me. Super funny and unfortunately also super relatable
'If you are african, why are you white?'
As a white african that moved to the west, I have been asked that unironically more times than you would think 😂
did you ever reply with "Oh my god karen, you cant just ask someone why theyre white!"?
@@Duckyletsplay Once, but the person didnt get the quote and got really upset. So I have never done it since 😅
@@starkiller23610 Do it again!! 😄😄 sorry, it’s just funny to me coz I’m African too but dark skinned
@@folayemi_aina Usually they dont mean it to be rude, they genuinely dont think there are light skinned people in Africa.
that’s not even what she said
You’re so smart. Taking the “this is weird” or “this sucks” and breaking it down the way you do? It will garner responses from people who agree and then you’re gonna get super fans who BLOW UP at the thought that someone else doesn’t like it. I applaud you. Please keep doing these. Very entertaining.
2:20 "Katie's dad was a research Zoologist in Africa"
**Shows snake native to South-East Asia**
Oh gods, who brought a non-native species to bumfuck-nowhere somewhere in Africa?
I swear I thought I was the only one to notice
*Cady
Hollywood is lazy as hell
Just like to point out, Tim meadows and Tina Fey as the Principal and the Math teacher were some of the best teacher characters i’ve ever seen in a teen high school film
Mrs Norbury was a drug pusher,kinda awful if you ask me.
Tim Meadows delivers probably two of my favorite lines in the gym during the big therapy session.
"I will keep you here all night!"
"We can't keep them past 4:00."
"I will keep you here til 4:00!"
And
"I oughta cancel your damn Spring Fling...but I won't...because we already paid the DJ."
Tim going "step away from the teenage girls" and "OH HELL NO" always gets me laughing
From personal experience, that sex ed class was pretty progressive in comparison to the private school I went to that now no longer exists
Yes, but the problem is the degree of misinformation. Like, he literally can’t spell some STDs, he says “you’ll die”. That’s a problem if it’s being applied to the education system
@@comicbooknerdisme i mean the fact that he was a hypocrite and making out with his underage student is also a thing..
Bruh in primary you don't wanna know what happened.
Literally they still do this lmao💀just a week ago in health class we had sex Ed and I couldn’t stop thinking about that scene
I find it interesting that this movie essentially popularised the high school movie trope of having the group of three popular girls who rule the school or whatever, yet this wasn't actually the first movie to do it. The dynamic of the main characters feels really similar to the movie Heathers, even down to the roles taken