History Film / Clueless

->''Ugh, As if!''

* DawsonCasting: Silverstone and Murphy are ''almost'' young enough to pull off their roles, but they're the youngest. The ''oldest'' is 29-year-old Stacey Dash as Dionne; she would carry over into the spin-off series, until she was 33.

* HypocriticalHumor: Lucy gets mad when Cher mistakes her for a Mexican (she's from El Salvador). After she storms out of the room, Cher comments to Josh that she doesn't see what the big deal is, and Josh says, "You get upset if anyone thinks you live below Sunset."
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Cher unintentionally offends her Salvadorian maid that she doesn't speak "Mexican"

* TechnicalVirgin: Dionne claims to be this and that she satisfies Murray in other ways. The final episode of the series confirms that she still is.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This movie ''screams'' mid-nineties. Surprisingly, the movie still holds up very well, thanks to some good writing and genuinely funny moments.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This movie ''screams'' mid-nineties.

* FourthDateMarriage: Subverted. The scene where Cher and Josh admit their feelings for each other and kiss is immediately followed by a wedding scene... at which point, Cher's voice-over points out how gross it is for everyone to assume that it's ''her'' getting married, seeing as she's only seventeen and has only been going out with Josh for a few months by that point. The wedding is actually for her teachers.

!!! "Sex. Tropes. Popularity. Is there a problem here?":

* {{Crossover}}: With ''{{Moesha}}''. Shar Jackson and Lamont Bentley appeared on "Prom Misses, Prom Misses" (Season 3, Episode 20) as their respective characters, Niecy Jackson and Hakeem Campbell.

* RemakeCameo: BrittanyMurphy, who was Tai in the movie, plays Jasmine on the Season 1 episode "Driving Me Crazy."

* GeekyTurnOn: Tai and Travis bond over [[LooneyTunes Marvin the Martian]].

--> '''Murray:''' Your man Christian is a cake boy! He's a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy, know what I'm saying?

* MissingMom: Cher's mother died during a freak complication in a routine liposuction. Granted, Cher doesn't really remember her that much, although she does pretend she's watching over her and greets the large picture of her at the front door. Josh also teases her about this being her motive for wanting to make over Tai and treat her like one of her dolls. There is one surprisingly touching scene where, when she's insecure that she isn't a good person, her father tells her he hasn't seen such good-doing since her mother, which seems to greatly comfort her.

* TheNineties: An odd but valid example -- the whole movie seems really dated looking back, but at the time it was made, nobody dressed or talked like the characters in Clueless. The movie influenced the 90s, not the other way around.

!!This film provides examples of:

* TechnicalVirgin: Dionne claims to be this and that she satisfies Murray in other ways.

!!The show provides examples of:
* Most of the above (well duh!)

* {{Reconstruction}}: It's difficult to imagine now but the whole Teen Movie genre was moribund in the early 90's; ''{{Clueless}}'' was the first commercial and critical success in many years, perhaps because it was such an exuberant return to the optimism of the 80's genre films.

* SettingUpdate: Of ''{{Emma}}''. Most of the plot stays the same, except it gets rid of some of the ValuesDissonance of the JaneAusten novel, such as the marriage focus (having the Frank Churchill stand-in, Christian, turn out to be gay rather than secretly engaged, for example) and the class issues. Cher lampshades the former difference when her [[spoiler: TheyDo moment and kiss-fest with Josh]] flips straight to a wedding where she says "Ew, no, I'm only 16! As if!" and reveals it to be Miss Geist and Mr Hall's wedding.

* StraightGay: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Christian does indeed have some CampGay tendencies but Cher is too naïve to realise. Her father doesn't appear to notice either, thinking him instead a [[FrankSinatra Sinatra]]-[[TheDandy wannabe]]. Must be a California thing. Murray's {{Gaydar}} is very sharp though.

* ChannelHop: From Creator/{{ABC}} to {{UPN}} after the first season.

* "''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''": Cher's phone serves as TheMonolith while this plays in the background. Cher explains that boys calling when they say they would is extremely rare, so she is appropriately surprised and impressed when Christian does call the following day.

* GeekyTurnOn: Tai and Travis bond over Marvin the Martian.

* AlsoSprachZarathustra: Cher's phone serves as TheMonolith while this plays in the background. Cher explains that boys calling when they say they would is extremely rare, so she is appropriately surprised and impressed when Christian does call the following day.