Elisha Cuthbert

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q188500: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Mean Girls (2004). Count them as actor (2 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Heathers (1988): 2 lines

  1. theme (genre DNA) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Mean Girls is described as part Heathers and part after-school special; the ending was pushed away from Heathers toward the relatable.
    “This movie is like part Heathers and part after school special.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:54 · Juliet Litman (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. theme (character descent) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Regina George is framed as the legacy of the original Heather (Kim Walker), the first Heather killed.
    “Regina George. To me is the legacy of the 3 Heathers and Heathers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:29:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Clueless (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand.
    “Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls.
    “I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Pretty Woman (1990): 1 line

  1. industry (awards crossover) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes.
    “We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Mean Girls (2024): 3 lines

  1. unmapped (meta-joke) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (remake) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming.
    “they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (tone shift) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy.
    “the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Knocked Up (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
    “I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Patricia Clarkson: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they were tied to as actor (lost the part of Regina George): Mean Girls ⇒ Patricia Clarkson (the host's read). Clarkson's cool-mom scene is a slight nod to Amy Poehler's cool mom in Mean Girls.
    “This is like a slight nod to mean girls, Amy Poehler, your dance is funny.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:13:41 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career comparison): Elisha Cuthbert → The Girl Next Door. Cuthbert's best film work, with a cast Chris wanted more from; Cuthbert's movie career stalled after rom-coms died.
    “She pretty much never made another comedy after the girl next door.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:50 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Elisha Cuthbert → Mean Girls. Cuthbert lost the part of Regina George.
    “Somebody who lost the part of Regina George.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:52:53 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Elisha Cuthbert: Aged-the-worst: Luke Wilson sleeping with a high school girl, who may be 17 or 18. Compared to the Stefania Simonetti situation in The Godfather.
    “She's either 17 or 18.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)