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career (career):
Amanda Seyfried → Mean Girls.
The film comes shortly after Mean Girls and just before "end time" (as transcribed) and Jennifer's Body, with Seyfried going for the brass ring.
“It's shortly after Mean Girls.”
The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:59:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Rachel McAdams → Mean Girls.
Her Send Help charisma echoes the Regina George mix of evil and charming.
“it's the Rachel McAdams Regina George thing where it is, it can be evil or it can be really charming”
The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:57:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Amanda Seyfried → Mean Girls.
Seyfried, a Mean Girls costar, became the most visible and commercially viable of that cast.
“You got Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfrid.”
The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:08:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (remake):
Mean Girls → Mean Girls.
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) -
unmapped (meta-joke):
Mean Girls → Mean Girls.
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) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Every October 3rd the Aaron Samuels meme returns, and the new film makes a choir sing it.
“So every October 3rd, you get that meme of the Aaron Samuels turning around and Katie being like, it's October 3rd.”
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) -
craft (tone shift):
Mean Girls → Mean Girls.
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) -
theme (genre translation):
The Favourite → Mean Girls.
Lanthimos films are read as his takes on familiar genres; The Favourite is his Mean Girls.
“Like the favorite is his version of Mean Girls.”
The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:35:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them) -
theme (genre translation):
The Favourite → Mean Girls.
Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility.
“The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie”
The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Mean Girls → Knocked Up.
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) -
programming (programming):
Knocked Up → Mean Girls.
Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle.
“Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them) -
people (people):
Tina Fey → Mean Girls.
Bill notes Tina Fey wrote Mean Girls while the group argues it is a teen movie rather than a rom-com.
“So I was thinking, like, Tina Fey wrote that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Easy A → Mean Girls.
Easy A bridges the 1997-2004 wave of teen movies (peaking with Mean Girls) and the Netflix-era revival.
“from 1997 to like 2004-ish peaking with mean girls.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:07:27 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Easy A → Mean Girls.
Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious.
“You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
people (people):
Mean Girls → Rachel McAdams.
Juliet argues Rachel McAdams, not Lindsay Lohan, is the real protagonist of Mean Girls.
“Do you think that I guess you would make that would be arguing that she's the protagonist of Mean Girls”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:17:44 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Patricia Clarkson → Mean Girls.
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) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Mean Girls is dated April 30, 2004, but fans celebrate Mean Girls Day on October 3rd, after the line about the date; Simmons only learned of it while researching.
“People think Mean Girls Day is October 3rd, but actually it came out on April 30th.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:01:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Mean Girls → Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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) -
theme (genre commentary):
Mean Girls → Cruel Intentions.
Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99.
“That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
unmapped (timeline slot):
Mean Girls → Scream.
Scream gets slotted between Clueless and Mean Girls in the smart-teen-movie lineage.
“can I throw that in between clueless and mean girls?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:04:52 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (shared family):
Heathers → Mean Girls.
Heathers was written by Daniel Waters, brother of Mean Girls director Mark Waters.
“It was written by Daniel Waters, who is the brother of Mark Waters, who directed Mean Girls.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:06:57 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Mean Girls → Clueless.
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) -
unmapped (overqualified lead):
Mean Girls → Easy A.
Emma Stone in Easy A is the other candidate for an actress overqualified for a teen movie, alongside Lohan.
“Emma Stone would be the other candidate for just, Completely overqualified to be in one of these movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
career (career run):
Mean Girls → Freaky Friday.
Freaky Friday made $92 million; Lohan's run went Freaky Friday, Confessions, Mean Girls, then the wheels came off.
“Uh, did confessions of a teenage drama queen, then it goes well on that mean girls.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:09:26 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
people (same producer):
Mean Girls → Wayne's World.
Wayne's World, Mean Girls and Tommy Boy are the nominees for best Lorne Michaels movie; Mean Girls wins as he lets talent paint the canvas.
“Wayne's World, Mean Girls and Tommy Boy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:16:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
people (same producer):
Mean Girls → Tommy Boy.
Tommy Boy is the third Lorne Michaels nominee, whose stars also did not peak as expected.
“All 3 of those, I feel like the stars didn't really hit the peak you thought they were going to.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:16:45 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
verdict (favorite teen movie):
Mean Girls → She's All That.
Asked for a favorite high school movie, one guest picks She's All That, itself a ripoff of an earlier film.
“I like really loved she's all that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:19:27 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (trope):
Secret Admirer → Mean Girls.
The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek.
“Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Most rewatchable scene picks: the talent show (Jingle Bell Rock), the sabotage montage, the four-way phone call, the lunch scene, the burn book blowup, Tim Meadows in the gym; Simmons picks the burn book blowup into the gym.
“Um, the burn book blowout bra.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Amanda picks the first lunch scene as most rewatchable: Regina introducing the Plastics in about three minutes.
“I think I'm going with the 1st lunch scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:25:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career before):
Mean Girls → The Hot Chick.
McAdams had been in Canada and The Hot Chick before Mean Girls made her career.
“She was in the hot chick, but I didn't see that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (character descent):
Mean Girls → Heathers.
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) -
craft (craft):
Christina Aguilera → Mean Girls.
Damian's talent-show number is a Christina Aguilera song, "Beautiful", named as a favorite moment.
“And then he sings beautiful, right? Yes, he does. Christina Aguilera song?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:33:57 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
It was an early meme movie, with Tumblr-era life and even the Obama campaign using Mean Girls memes.
“the Obama campaign was using mean girl means and it had this 2nd internet life”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:34:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Worst-aged: four-way phone calls, Africa/jungle references, the coach plotline; Simmons notes teens would group FaceTime now.
“There's just nobody would ever have a 4 way call now”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:35:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Soundtrack rant: the film is aimed at young women but the music sounds like a deodorant commercial; no hip-hop in 2004; probably budget.
“instead of actually being good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Kelis → Mean Girls.
Kelis's "Milkshake" needle-drop is singled out as the best use of music in a soundtrack the speaker otherwise finds weak.
“The best part is when they use Khalis, when she like sees everything, it's like a jungle in the milkshake.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (cast shock parallel):
Mean Girls → Spring Breakers.
Claudia from Party of 5 looking grown up in Mean Girls was a 2004 shock, like Vanessa Hudgens in Spring Breakers.
“It was kind of like when Vanessa Hudgens was in spring breakers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:39:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (awards crossover):
Mean Girls → Pretty Woman.
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) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
The reverse Vivian Award for worst clothes: wide-waistband mini skirts, kitten heels, blue eyeshadow, the party dress; the Henley top and short skirt also hated.
“Now you want to do the reverse Vivian.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:35 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
people (casting context):
Mean Girls → Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
Lohan said she had just played Confessions and Freaky Friday, not the cool girl, which is why she wanted Regina.
“I just played in Confessions of a teenager drama queen in Freaky Friday, not the cool girl in school.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:51:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
what-if (casting what-if):
James Franco → Mean Girls.
Considered for Aaron Samuels; would have been darker, taken up space, and played up the satire.
“he kind of changes the energy of the, of the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:52:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
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) -
people (cast overlap):
Mean Girls → The Girl Next Door.
Cuthbert's other film, with Paul Dano in the cast, is called a great teen movie (transcribed 'Backstore').
“Backstore is a great teen movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:53:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Original title was 'Homeschooled'; the script was R-rated before changing 'cherry popped' and hot-dog lines for PG-13.
“The original title this movie was?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career springboard):
Tina Fey → Mean Girls.
Fey's Apex Mountain: writing Mean Girls gave her the power to do 30 Rock, with Sarah Palin on top.
“Writes Mean Girls has an incredible amount of power that then allows her to do 30 rock.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (Apex Mountain comparison):
Mean Girls → Wedding Crashers.
Debating McAdams' Apex Mountain, they weigh Wedding Crashers as the third of her trilogy with career power.
“So at the end, by the end of the trilogy of this notebook wedding crashers, she has so much career power at that point”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:04:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (calorie-counting):
Mean Girls → Bridget Jones's Diary.
Calorie knowledge memorized like multiplication tables, as in Bridget Jones, shows Regina would not fall for the Kalteen bar.
“There's a good passage in Bridget Jones about how she just, like, has calorie counts memorized, like multiplication tables.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:08:36 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (nitpick parallel):
Mean Girls → Clueless.
Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick.
“It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Best nitpick: Regina George falling for the Kalteen bar, and Katie winning prom queen after the burn book, which they explain as a rejection vote.
“This is a rejection vote.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:09:54 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (genre DNA):
Mean Girls → Heathers.
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) -
fun, about
Mean Girls:
Best quote picks: 'Stop trying to make fetch happen' is the iconic line; others include 'I'm a cool mom' and 'On Wednesdays, we wear pink'.
“Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:13:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (remake vibe):
Mean Girls → Election.
A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick.
“I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (timeless):
Mean Girls → The Princess Bride.
Simmons says the film will live on like The Princess Bride, a short list.
“Princess Bride, I think, is like that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:20:20 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them) -
unmapped (timeless social dynamics):
Mean Girls → Clueless.
Clueless and The Princess Bride are named alongside Mean Girls as films that will live on because they capture transcendent social dynamics.
“Clueless is like that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:20:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)