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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The popsicle scene.

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* %%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The popsicle scene.



* HighSchoolDance: The final location of the movie, and the site of...

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* %%* HighSchoolDance: The final location of the movie, and the site of...



* InWithTheInCrowd: Fern and Julie both apply. Marcie's talk with her father implies that this is also what happened to her.

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* %%* InWithTheInCrowd: Fern and Julie both apply. Marcie's talk with her father implies that this is also what happened to her.



* MeaningfulName: Fern. Lampshaded when she is renamed Vylette for this very reason.

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* %%* MeaningfulName: Fern. Lampshaded when she is renamed Vylette for this very reason.
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* HatedByAll: [[spoiler:The moment Courtney's exposed as Liz's murderer, the entire student body immediately turn on her and start calling her all sorts of horrible things as they pelt her with corsages.]]


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* LovedByAll: Liz was adored by just about everyone because she was a kind person who was nice to everybody. [[spoiler:Courtney being exposed as her murderer leads to all the other students immediately hating her with a passion for killing someone as good as Liz was.]]
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* ShamedByAMob: As soon as [[spoiler:Courtney is exposed as Liz's killer at the prom, she's assaulted by a barrage of corsages as everyone screams vulgarities at her and call her a murderer.]]
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* ClassPrincess: Liz was described by the narrator as the “Princess Di” of Reagan High, ruling with kindness, which really pissed off her AlphaBitch friend, Courtney, and which made her early tragic death all the more awful.

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* ClassPrincess: Liz was described by the narrator as the “Princess Di” "Princess Di" of Reagan High, ruling with kindness, which really pissed off her AlphaBitch friend, Courtney, and which made her early tragic death all the more awful.



* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Said practically verbatim by Courtney, but kinda subverted due to the fact that what she “did” was get some poor loser charged with Liz’s murder just to save her own ass.

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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Said practically verbatim by Courtney, but kinda subverted due to the fact that what she “did” "did" was get some poor loser charged with Liz’s Liz's murder just to save her own ass.



* MassOhCrap: This is pretty much everyone’s reaction at Prom when [[spoiler:they first hear the EngineeredPublicConfession. But that shock lasts for all of five seconds once they realize that it’s Courtney’s voice.]]

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* MassOhCrap: This is pretty much everyone’s everyone's reaction at Prom when [[spoiler:they first hear the EngineeredPublicConfession. But that shock lasts for all of five seconds once they realize that it’s Courtney’s it's Courtney's voice.]]



* PunnyName: Detective Vera Cruz's name sounds like the Mexican port city "Veracruz"

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* PunnyName: Detective Vera Cruz's name sounds like the Mexican port city "Veracruz" "Veracruz".



* {{Tuckerization}}: Fern’s alter ego “Vylette” was named after a good friend of director Darren Stein.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: Fern’s Fern's alter ego “Vylette” "Vylette" was named after a good friend of director Darren Stein.
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-> '''Courtney''': They'll believe it, because it's their worst nightmare. Elizabeth Purr, the very picture of teenage perfection, obliterated by perversion?

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-> --> '''Courtney''': They'll believe it, because it's their worst nightmare. Elizabeth Purr, the very picture of teenage perfection, obliterated by perversion?
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* NaughtyByNight: The lie Courtney wants to use to explain how Liz died was that she was killed by one of her many lovers, who just got a little too rough one night. Since SchoolIdol Liz's reputation was spotless, Julie says no one is going to believe it. Courtney argues that is precisely the reason why.
-> '''Courtney''': They'll believe it, because it's their worst nightmare. Elizabeth Purr, the very picture of teenage perfection, obliterated by perversion?
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** Courtney wears a cropped sweater during her MakeWayForThePrincess PowerWalk after Liz's death.

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** Courtney wears a cropped sweater during her MakeWayForThePrincess PowerWalk walk after Liz's death.

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