History Film / JosieAndThePussyCats

** To ''[[RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion]]'', which also starred Alan Cumming.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Dujour. They managed to safely land the plane after Wyatt and the pilot jumped out and left them for dead... only they landed it in the parking lot of a {{Metallica}} [[OhCrap concert]].]]

* ErIMean: Was an OverlyLongGag with Fiona

* FakeNationality: [[spoiler:Alan Cumming's character turns out to be an American. In other words, you've got a Scottish man [[FakeAmerican playing an American]] who's [[FakeBrit pretending to be British]].]] That sound you just heard was [[YourHeadASplode your head exploding]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Scrubs}} Donald Faison]], [[{{Buffy}} Seth]] [[AustinPowers Green]], and [[RoadTrip Breckin Meyer]] are members of Du Jour.

** That example is really more superliminal. But for a true example, in the scene where Fiona explains the goal of MegaRecords, the message "Can't Hardly Wait is under-rated" scrolls by on the wall in the background. This movie and that one were written and directed by the same people.

On the DVD commentary they say it's because she's the bass player.
** Well, he's trying to force the Pussycats into ''his'' vision of the band (Josie as the FaceOfTheBand, with Valerie and Melody as backup). The reason he isn't grinding down Mel too is because she's [[TheDitz obviously going to be far less trouble]]. On a more sinister level, he might even be deliberately laying future seeds of conflict to keep the Pussycats too distracted with infighting to stumble across the truth like Dujour did.

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[strike: [[DragonballEvolution Goku]]]] [[Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds Tom Cruise's whiny son]] plays a recurring Josie fan.
** [[GingerSnaps Ginger Fitzgerald]] is a member of the GirlPosse that goes from laughing at the Pussycats to embracing them as {{Teen Idol}}s.

* Hey,It'sThatGuy: [[{{Scrubs}} Donald Faison]], [[{{Buffy}} Seth]] [[AustinPowers Green]], and [[RoadTrip Breckin Meyer]] are members of Du Jour.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: [[{{Scrubs}} Donald Faison]], [[{{Buffy}} Seth]] [[AustinPowers Green]], and [[RoadTrip Breckin Meyer]] are members of Du Jour.

* [[AnAesop An Aesop... or several dozen]]: "[[LampshadeHanging So, what's the moral of the story here]]? [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop Freaks should date other freaks]]?" "No, I think the moral of the story here is you should be happy with who you are. This whole time we've been spending all this money on expensive clothes trying to impress people, it never made ''me'' happy. No... no, oh my gosh, happiness is on the inside. I'm not ''this'', I'm not what I wear. ''I'm not what I wear!'' You should think about this."

* FetishFuel: See {{Brainwashed}} (also a case of EvilIsSexy).

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Has a reptuation among some of Rachael Leigh Cook's fans as the film that derailed her career (though ironically, they tend to enjoy the actual movie itself).
** It's shown that the record label kills those who find out about the subliminal messages. Now, take a look at the recent wave of celebrity deaths. [[ParanoiaFuel Kind of makes you not want to be famous, doesn't it?]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the first song the girls play in the movie ("Three Small Words," over the opening credits), there's a subtle line about looking like pornstars.
** Also the signs that Melody holds leads to a car crash when the "cats" in Pussycats gets blocked.

* HilariousInHindsight: Hey, do you remember a time when it wasn't that unrealistic to say that the record industry and {{MTV}} commanded the tastes and buying habits of the youth of America? Like, say, the year this movie was released? [[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15137581/the_record_industrys_decline Welcome to the future.]]
** Also, the movie was ''dead-on'' in predicting [[DeaderThanDisco the death]] of {{boy band}}s and the rise of [[PopPunk pop-punk]] in the early TurnOfTheMillennium.

* MoralEventHorizon: "Puppies turn into dogs who grow old and '''''die'''''."

* ShoutOut: To ''Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion'', which also starred Alan Cumming. Also the line "''[[CharliesAngels Barrymore, Diaz & Liu to play Pussycats in Josie Movie!]]''"

* StrangledByTheRedString: Alan M seems like a genuinely nice guy, and apparently he and Josie have a history full of chemistry and common interests, but most of their relationship shown in the movie is them staring deeply into each others' eyes as they realise they love each other, with none of the relationship actually ''visible''.
* SubliminalAdvertising: The record company is putting subliminal messages into music in order to sell consumer products. The movie itself does this with one scene, where the words "''Josie and the Pussycats'' is the best movie ever!" are quickly flashed up on the screen and read out by Mr. Moviefone, with the words "Join the Army" in smaller print below.

* BeautifulAllAlong: Inverted. [[spoiler:The divaish record executve Fiona turns out to be Lisa Snyder, a nerdy girl with buck teeth who speaks with a lisp, and tries to put subliminal messages into her label's music to get everybody to like her. Meanwhile, Wyatt Frame, the suave Brit, turns out to be "White-Ass Wally," an albino American with a beer gut ? and one of Fiona/Lisa's former classmates. They cover up their looks using makeup, veneers and fake accents.]]

* MythologyGag: Alex asks why his sister is even with them. She says it's because she was in the comics.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[strike: [[DragonballEvolution Goku]] [[WarOfTheWorld Tom Cruise's whiny son]] plays a recurring Josie fan.

** [[DragonballEvolution Goku]] is a recurring Josie fan.

* BigDamnHeroes: Dujour, previously thought to be dead in a plane crash, at the end.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[YourMileageMayVary Regardless of what people think about the movie itself]], the soundtrack (featuring Kay Hanley of Letters To Cleo fame on lead vocals) was very well received, went certified Gold within a month and a half of its release, and still holds a place in the top 100 best-selling albums at Amazon.com ''almost a decade later''.

* HamAndCheese[=/=]StealthParody

* LargeHam: Parker Posey and Alan Cumming are practically ''dueling'' for this title.
* LesYay: The friendship between Josie and Valerie seems a lot more fleshed-out and real than Josie and Alan M, who are [[StrangledByTheRedString just about ready to turn pass out from asphyxiation]].

* BigDamnHeroes: Dujour at the end.

** [[strike: [[DragonballEvolution Goku]]]] [[DisContinuity Justin Chatwin]] is a recurring Josie fan.