
There are blog posts devoted to solving the calculus problems in the movie's many math class scenes. There are all-black and all-gay parodies. Its fandom runs deep, to the point of obsession.

When he was president, Barack Obama posted a photo of one of his dogs with a tennis ball in its mouth, with the caption: " Bo, stop trying to make fetch happen." Mariah Carey has a song reportedly based on one of Regina's lines: " Why are you so obsessed with me?" Some have used the "Mean Girls" cast and plot to explain the hierarchy of the Trump presidency. 3 - the day Cady's crush, Aaron, asked her what day it was - as Mean Girls Day.
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The movie is a frequent reference point in pop culture. ( You go, Glen Coco!) Are all of these jokes going over your head? Then sorry, you can't sit with us. For 13 years, we've been saying "Boo, you whore" and reminding people that Wednesdays is when we wear pink, and cheering for Glen Coco. (It's not going to happen.) The movie has endured the test of time because it's so true, and because it's so endlessly quotable. "Mean Girls" is about teenage morality, and being true to yourself, and the eternal quest to make "fetch" happen. Now in high school for the first time, she must learn to survive among the cliques of " unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes, burnouts, sexually active band geeks," and the Plastics, a fearsome trio that's popular, pretty and mean - queen bee Regina George, rich girl Gretchen Wieners and sweet-but-dumb Karen Smith. Cady is a home-schooled girl who has recently moved to the United States from Africa. But there's a 30 percent chance it's already grool (I meant to say "cool" but then I started to say "great").Įvery few years there's a definitive high school movie that perfectly encapsulates what it means to be an American teen: In 1982, it was "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" in 1985, "The Breakfast Club" in 1995, "Clueless." And in 2004, it was " Mean Girls," the Tina Fey-penned story of Cady Heron, played by a pre-rehab Lindsay Lohan. The show's tryout run at the National Theatre began previews Tuesday, and it has its formal opening night Nov.

Get in, loser, we're going to the theater.

Are you a late 20- to early-30-something excited to see "Mean Girls: The Musical?" (Is butter a carb? The answer to both questions: Yes.)
