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** In ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' an Army unit is sent to rescue the kidnapped Sixth Formers... And is quickly captured, needing to be rescued by the Fourth Formers. In their defense, [[JustifiedTrope it was a mobile bath unit, not an actual combat unit]].
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** In ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' an Army unit is sent to rescue the kidnapped Sixth Formers... And is quickly captured, captured by [[PityTheKidnapper people battered due repeated failed attempts at subduing their victims]], needing to be rescued by the Fourth Formers. In their defense, [[JustifiedTrope it was a mobile bath unit, not an actual combat unit]].
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* PityTheKidnapper: In ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' the Sixth Formers are kidnapped with a ruse by an emir who [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe wants them to marry his sons]]. Upon realizing the situation, the Sixth Formers barricade themselves in a wing of the emir's palace and beat up any servant who tries to actually enforce the emir's orders, no matter how many of them come at a time.
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* ArmiesAreUseless: The British Army shows up twice, and twice is humiliated:
** In ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'' the Army is sent in to keep the girls contained after Miss Fritton disappears and the rest of the staff leaves. They suffer many wounded, soldiers disappear either kidnapped or deserted, and the Fourth Formers even stole a machine gun.
** In ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' an Army unit is sent to rescue the kidnapped Sixth Formers... And is quickly captured, needing to be rescued by the Fourth Formers. In their defense, [[JustifiedTrope it was a mobile bath unit, not an actual combat unit]].
** In ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'' the Army is sent in to keep the girls contained after Miss Fritton disappears and the rest of the staff leaves. They suffer many wounded, soldiers disappear either kidnapped or deserted, and the Fourth Formers even stole a machine gun.
** In ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' an Army unit is sent to rescue the kidnapped Sixth Formers... And is quickly captured, needing to be rescued by the Fourth Formers. In their defense, [[JustifiedTrope it was a mobile bath unit, not an actual combat unit]].
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* RunningGag: In ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's, the silly pastoral dance to calm down... And the number of dancers increasing every time it shows up.
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** At the start of ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' the students burn down the main school building, and at the trial they have an appalling attitude. They're quickly convicted with the Ministry of Education being ready to shut down the school, and only get away with no real punishment due a combination of a Sixth Former ''seducing the judge'' and someone else proposing a rehabilitation program.
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** By ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'', sergeant Ruby Gates and superintendent Kemp-Bird have been engaged for years, with their professional relation and St. Trinian's coming between them and keeping them from tying the knot... And by now their relationship is suffering, with Gates almost leaving Kemp-Bird when someone else starts courting her.
*** Their issues continue in ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'', with Gates catching Kemp-Bird in an ambiguous attitude with a beatiful secretary. Later Kemp-Bird is quite happy when St. Trinian's isn't shut down for burning down their school building and thus has to postpone their wedding, and at the end [[spoiler:[[RunawayBride he flat-out abandons her at the altar]] when told that St. Trinian's new school building is on fire]].
*** Their issues continue in ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'', with Gates catching Kemp-Bird in an ambiguous attitude with a beatiful secretary. Later Kemp-Bird is quite happy when St. Trinian's isn't shut down for burning down their school building and thus has to postpone their wedding, and at the end [[spoiler:[[RunawayBride he flat-out abandons her at the altar]] when told that St. Trinian's new school building is on fire]].
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** Given their reputation, St. Trinian's has serious trouble finding someone who will carry their students on the European tour.
** At the start of ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' the students burn down the main school building, and at the trial they have an appalling attitude. They're quickly convicted with the Ministry of Education being ready to shut down the school, and only get away with no real punishment due a combination of a Sixth Former ''seducing the judge'' and someone else proposing a rehabilitation program.
** At the start of ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' the students burn down the main school building, and at the trial they have an appalling attitude. They're quickly convicted with the Ministry of Education being ready to shut down the school, and only get away with no real punishment due a combination of a Sixth Former ''seducing the judge'' and someone else proposing a rehabilitation program.
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* TheCaper:
** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At times the girls' antics run into this:
** The first film starts with Virginia Fritton, the headmistress' niece, having been ''expelled'' from St. Trinian's for burning down a building. As tolerant as headmistress Fritton is, she has to draw the limit to burning down school buildings, especially ''uninsured'' ones, and the only reason Virginia is readmitted is that the school is desperate for money and her back fees will help with it.
** Between the burned down school building and many students being overdue with the fees, the school starts the first film in ''massive'' debt and risking foreclosure, and the teachers haven't been paid since Easter.
** When the Sixth Formers lock the Fourth Formers in their dorms and barricade themselves in the corridor, the teachers try and rescue the Fourth Formers... And are repelled, as they're outnumbered and their opponents are behind a barricade.
*** The second attempt, however, is successful: while the Sixth Formers have been reinforced by hooligans, the teachers are now backed by the Old Girls (the past students), that both Sixth Formers and hooligans are ''terrified'' of, mining their ability to resist. Their use of shields as cover only helps the storming.
** A school with students such as St. Trinian's has a high teacher turnout rate: in the first movie the school lacks many teachers and is said to be constantly looking for new ones, at the start of ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'' the teachers have left after the students locked away Mrs. Fritton, and at the start of ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' there's no staff at all.
** In the first movie police sergeant Ruby Gates infiltrates the school in disguise, and is found out only because Flash Harry looked in a letter she had sent to her superintendent. In ''Blue Murder'' she does it again... And Flash Harry immediately informs the Sixth and Fourth Formers of her real identity.
** When St. Trinian's wins a UNESCO contest that will allow them to visit various European capitals (or rather cheat their way into it), the Ministry of Education is appalled, and writes to the new headmistress, Dame Maud Hackshaw, to have them retire - not knowing she's already been kidnapped by the students and replaced with a thief in drag. And when Dame Hackshaw escapes and quits the job they waste no time to send people to bring back St. Trinian's, as they need a headmistress for the tour (why the students were forcing the thief with them).
** The first film starts with Virginia Fritton, the headmistress' niece, having been ''expelled'' from St. Trinian's for burning down a building. As tolerant as headmistress Fritton is, she has to draw the limit to burning down school buildings, especially ''uninsured'' ones, and the only reason Virginia is readmitted is that the school is desperate for money and her back fees will help with it.
** Between the burned down school building and many students being overdue with the fees, the school starts the first film in ''massive'' debt and risking foreclosure, and the teachers haven't been paid since Easter.
** When the Sixth Formers lock the Fourth Formers in their dorms and barricade themselves in the corridor, the teachers try and rescue the Fourth Formers... And are repelled, as they're outnumbered and their opponents are behind a barricade.
*** The second attempt, however, is successful: while the Sixth Formers have been reinforced by hooligans, the teachers are now backed by the Old Girls (the past students), that both Sixth Formers and hooligans are ''terrified'' of, mining their ability to resist. Their use of shields as cover only helps the storming.
** A school with students such as St. Trinian's has a high teacher turnout rate: in the first movie the school lacks many teachers and is said to be constantly looking for new ones, at the start of ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'' the teachers have left after the students locked away Mrs. Fritton, and at the start of ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' there's no staff at all.
** In the first movie police sergeant Ruby Gates infiltrates the school in disguise, and is found out only because Flash Harry looked in a letter she had sent to her superintendent. In ''Blue Murder'' she does it again... And Flash Harry immediately informs the Sixth and Fourth Formers of her real identity.
** When St. Trinian's wins a UNESCO contest that will allow them to visit various European capitals (or rather cheat their way into it), the Ministry of Education is appalled, and writes to the new headmistress, Dame Maud Hackshaw, to have them retire - not knowing she's already been kidnapped by the students and replaced with a thief in drag. And when Dame Hackshaw escapes and quits the job they waste no time to send people to bring back St. Trinian's, as they need a headmistress for the tour (why the students were forcing the thief with them).
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* TheCaper:
** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
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** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
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** One clear example is in the first film, when the Old Girls (former students) get in a scuffle against the sixth formers and an actual street gang... And not only the Old Girls win, the gangsters ''fall immediately'', with the sixth formers being left to hold the line.
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* TheDreaded: The people living around the school are ''terrified'' of the students. Best shown in ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'', when the local reaction to the start of the new term is to ''barricade everything'', with the local constable locking himself in a cell and calling his superintendent to announce "They're back", prompting said superintendent to [[INeedAFreakingDrink go for the bottle]].
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St Trinian's is a film series based on a series of cartoons by Ronald Searle (who also was responsible for the ''Literature/{{Molesworth}}'' books and ''Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done''). The films are set in a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors disreputable girls' school]] where the only rule is that there are no rules. The girls themselves are teen and pre-teen horrors who are not above using their feminine wiles to get away with murder. The teachers? They are teaching the girls how to get away with crime in foreign countries, and mixing drinks. The headmistress, Miss Fritton, has no interest in maintaining any form of order. And there is a local spiv, Flash Harry, who makes money from whatever schemes the girls cook up (usually).
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* ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'' (1954): The decrepit school is desperately in need of some money, so the headmistress allows the girls to place bets on a horserace. Things get out of hand when the classes place bets on rival horses.
* ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'' (1957): Flash Harry (George Cole here) sets up a marriage agency, resulting in a prince wanting to meet the girls. Problems arise when the jewel-thief father of one of the girls decides to hide out at the school.
* ''The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's'' (1960): The girls are kidnapped and forced to defend themselves against the sons of an Arabian Emir, who want them as their wives.
* ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' (1966): The school takes over a mansion in which thieves have hidden money.
The series was revived in 1980 with ''The Wildcats of St. Trinian's''. In this movie, Joe Melia replaced George Cole as Flash Harry, and the film was not a success.
The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Creator/ColinFirth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Film/AnotherCountry'', ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Creator/RupertEverett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', in 2009 (featuring Creator/DavidTennant as the villain).
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* ZettaiRyouiki: Worn by several senior girls.
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* FeigningIntelligence : Done as part of a GambitRoulette when the girls partake in a nation-wide quiz to find the smartest school in Britain. They use increasingly underhanded tactics to win each round (including sleeping with the other contestants and drugging one unfortunate team) and use the Internet to look up the answers, which are then relayed to the girls on stage. It does help that they know some of the answers.
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The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Creator/ColinFirth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Film/AnotherCountry'', ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Creator/RupertEverett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', in 2009 (featuring Creator/DavidTennant as the villain). A third film is planned.
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The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Creator/ColinFirth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Film/AnotherCountry'', ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Creator/RupertEverett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', in 2009 (featuring Creator/DavidTennant as the villain). A third film is planned.
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** ''Creator/StephenFry'' award points to a team for concluding that the volume of a sphere is πr[[superscript:3]]. A fourteen-year-old could probably tell you that it's (4πr[[superscript:3]])/3.
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** ''Creator/StephenFry'' award points to a team for concluding that the volume of a sphere is πr[[superscript:3]]. A fourteen-year-old could probably tell you that it's (4πr[[superscript:3]])/3.(4πr[[superscript:3]])/3.
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* InspiredBy: St. Trinnean's School in Edinburgh, established by Miss C. Fraser Lee in 1922 and was believed to operate on an extremely relaxed theory of educational freedom. Ronald Searle created the first of the St. Trinian's cartoons after meeting his friend's daughters who couldn't wait to go back to school. He tried to imagine a boarding school so exciting that girls would be eager to return to it, and could only guess that it must be one where the pupils were allowed to anything they pleased, up to and including criminal mayhem. In the process, he created a British institution.\\
Fans of the movies may be disappointed to learn that the reality is nothing like fiction. The school differed from other middle-class girls' boarding schools only in that the students were allowed to determine their own homework schedules. At the time, though, this was seen as revolutionary and somewhat suspect. (Also, the school had a lacrosse team rather than field hockey.)
Fans of the movies may be disappointed to learn that the reality is nothing like fiction. The school differed from other middle-class girls' boarding schools only in that the students were allowed to determine their own homework schedules. At the time, though, this was seen as revolutionary and somewhat suspect. (Also, the school had a lacrosse team rather than field hockey.)
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* InspiredBy: St. Trinnean's School in Edinburgh, established by Miss C. Fraser Lee in 1922 and 1922. St. Trinnean's was believed to operate on an extremely relaxed theory of educational freedom. Ronald Searle created freedom.[[note]]In reality, the first of school differed from other middle-class girls' boarding schools only in that the students were allowed to determine their own homework schedules, which at the time was seen as revolutionary and somewhat suspect. Also the real St. Trinian's cartoons after Trinnean's school sport was lacrosse, not field hockey.[[/note]] After meeting his friend's daughters who couldn't wait to go back to school. He St. Trinnean's, Ronald Searle tried to imagine a boarding school so exciting that girls would be eager to return to it, and could only guess that it must be one where the pupils were allowed to anything they pleased, up to and including criminal mayhem. In the process, he created a British institution.\\
Fans of the movies may be disappointed to learn that the reality is nothing like fiction. The school differed from other middle-class girls' boarding schools only in that the students were allowed to determine their own homework schedules. At the time, though, this was seen as revolutionary and somewhat suspect. (Also, the school had a lacrosse team rather than field hockey.)
Fans of the movies may be disappointed to learn that the reality is nothing like fiction. The school differed from other middle-class girls' boarding schools only in that the students were allowed to determine their own homework schedules. At the time, though, this was seen as revolutionary and somewhat suspect. (Also, the school had a lacrosse team rather than field hockey.)
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The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Creator/ColinFirth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Film/AnotherCountry'', ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Creator/RupertEverett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', in 2009 (featuring Creator/DavidTennant as the villain). A third film is planned.
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The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Creator/ColinFirth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Film/AnotherCountry'', ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'' ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Creator/RupertEverett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', in 2009 (featuring Creator/DavidTennant as the villain). A third film is planned.
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* CustomUniformOfSexy: In most English boarding schools, younger students are expected to abide by the dress code, whereas older students have a bit more liberty. In Real Life, this "liberty" usually amounts to older students ditching their ugly berets or hemming their skirts a tiny bit higher than regulation, but an old in-joke is that by the time a student reaches top form, they're barely wearing a uniform at all, and that the older the girl, the more figure-flattering her uniform becomes. Since St. Trinian's is already a wild exaggeration of schoolgirl stereotypes, the Trinian sixth-formers take this trope UpToEleven, with uniforms verging on {{Stripperiffic}}.
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The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Creator/ColinFirth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Film/AnotherCountry'', ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Rupert Everett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', in 2009 (featuring former ''Series/DoctorWho'' star Creator/DavidTennant as the villain). A third film is planned.
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The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Creator/ColinFirth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Film/AnotherCountry'', ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'' and ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Rupert Everett Creator/RupertEverett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'', in 2009 (featuring former ''Series/DoctorWho'' star Creator/DavidTennant as the villain). A third film is planned.
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* CliqueTour: New girl Annabelle is shown the boarding school cliques in the dormitories. She is introduced to the chavs (loudmouthed, brash girls), the posh totties (fashionable social-climbers), the geeks, the emos, and the first-years.
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St Trinian's is a film series based on a series of cartoons by Ronald Searle (who also was responsible for the ''Literature/{{Molesworth}}'' books and ''Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done''). The films are set in a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors disreputable girls' school]] where the only rule is that there are no rules. The girls themselves are teen and pre-teen horrors who are not above using their feminine wiles to get away with murder. The teachers? They're teaching the girls how to get away with crime in foreign countries and mixing drinks. The headmistress, Miss Fritton, has no interest in maintaining any form of order. And there's a local spiv, Flash Harry, who makes money from whatever schemes the girls cook up (usually).
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St Trinian's is a film series based on a series of cartoons by Ronald Searle (who also was responsible for the ''Literature/{{Molesworth}}'' books and ''Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done''). The films are set in a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors disreputable girls' school]] where the only rule is that there are no rules. The girls themselves are teen and pre-teen horrors who are not above using their feminine wiles to get away with murder. The teachers? They're They are teaching the girls how to get away with crime in foreign countries countries, and mixing drinks. The headmistress, Miss Fritton, has no interest in maintaining any form of order. And there's there is a local spiv, Flash Harry, who makes money from whatever schemes the girls cook up (usually).
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* FingerInTheMail: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] while they are pondering how to find the money to save the school. Flash dismisses it as "too medieval", though.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Invoked ''and'' averted; While the girls do say that "No use relying on the grown-ups. We need to sort this out ourselves," Miss Fritton turns out to be helpful in the end.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Invoked ''and'' averted; While the girls do say that "No use relying on the grown-ups. We need to sort this out ourselves," Miss Fritton turns out to be helpful participates fully in planning and performing the end.heist.
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* GoAmongMadPeople: A staple of the movies is showing how normal people react to being thrown into the school. Usually, they wind up either becoming paranoid or joining in the craziness. In the 2007 film an official at the Ministry of Education is shown to still suffer twitches and tics because of his brief exposure to the school.
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* GoAmongMadPeople: A staple of the movies is showing how normal people react to being thrown into the school. Usually, they wind up either becoming paranoid or joining in the craziness. In the 2007 film an official at the Ministry of Education is shown to still suffer twitches and tics because of his brief exposure to the school.school, while in the original ''Belles of St. Trinian's,'' two police inspectors who went missing while investigating the school are found to have gone native and acquired jobs there, and are now as corrupt as the rest of the staff.
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* InspiredBy: St. Trinnean's School in Edinburgh, established by Miss C. Fraser Lee in 1922 and was believed to operate on an extremely relaxed theory of educational freedom. Ronald Searle created the first of the St. Trinian's cartoons after meeting the daughters of a couple he knew, who went to the real school. He tried tried to imagine what kind of school would produce the pair of pre-teen hellraisers, and created a British institution.\\
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* InspiredBy: St. Trinnean's School in Edinburgh, established by Miss C. Fraser Lee in 1922 and was believed to operate on an extremely relaxed theory of educational freedom. Ronald Searle created the first of the St. Trinian's cartoons after meeting the his friend's daughters of a couple he knew, who went couldn't wait to the real go back to school. He tried tried to imagine what kind of a boarding school so exciting that girls would produce be eager to return to it, and could only guess that it must be one where the pair of pre-teen hellraisers, pupils were allowed to anything they pleased, up to and including criminal mayhem. In the process, he created a British institution.\\
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* UnflinchingWalk: The unexpected explosion of the shack that formally initiates the surprise visit to St Trinian, while it causes a gaggle of jhournalist to crouch and jump in fear, doesn't seem to faze Thwaites whatsoever.
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* UnflinchingWalk: The unexpected explosion of the shack that formally initiates the surprise visit to St Trinian, while it causes a gaggle of jhournalist journalist to crouch and jump in fear, doesn't seem to faze Thwaites whatsoever.
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* EnfantTerrible: A general rule of St. Trinian's is that the smaller the girl, the more vicious she tends to be.
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*** Many of the cast have some connection to ''P&P'': Colin Firth was Mr. Darcy and Anna Chancellor (Miss Bagstock) was Miss Bingley in the 1995 miniseries; Talulah Riley (Annabelle) was Mary Bennet in the 2005 film version; and Gemma Arterton (Kelly) was Elizabeth Bennet in the 2008 miniseries ''LostInAusten''.
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*** Many of the cast have some connection to ''P&P'': Colin Firth was Mr. Darcy and Anna Chancellor (Miss Bagstock) was Miss Bingley in the 1995 miniseries; Talulah Riley (Annabelle) was Mary Bennet in the 2005 film version; and Gemma Arterton (Kelly) was Elizabeth Bennet in the 2008 miniseries ''LostInAusten''.''Series/LostInAusten''.
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The battle's to the strongest, [[MightMakesRight might is always right\\
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The battle's to the strongest, [[MightMakesRight might is always right\\right]]\\
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* VillainSong: If you do view the students as {{Villain Protagonist}}s, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Yt9FOkxuk St. Trinian's Chant]] would be this. It fits pretty well in any case, with the girls revelling in the mayhem they cause.
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* VillainSong: If you do view the students as {{Villain Protagonist}}s, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Yt9FOkxuk St. Trinian's Chant]] would be this. It fits pretty well in any case, with the girls revelling in the mayhem they cause. The school song from the original series also fits:
--> Maidens of St Trinians, gird your armor on\\
Grab the nearest weapon, never mind which one\\
The battle's to the strongest, [[MightMakesRight might is always right\\
Trample on the weakest, glory in their plight!\\
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St. Trinian's, St. Trinian's, our battle cry!\\
St. Trinian's, St. Trinian's, will never die!\\
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Stride towards your fortune, boldly on your way\\
Never once forgetting there's one born every day\\
Let our motto be broadcast, [[DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs "Get your blow in first"]] --\\
She who draws her sword last always comes off worst!
--> Maidens of St Trinians, gird your armor on\\
Grab the nearest weapon, never mind which one\\
The battle's to the strongest, [[MightMakesRight might is always right\\
Trample on the weakest, glory in their plight!\\
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St. Trinian's, St. Trinian's, our battle cry!\\
St. Trinian's, St. Trinian's, will never die!\\
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Stride towards your fortune, boldly on your way\\
Never once forgetting there's one born every day\\
Let our motto be broadcast, [[DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs "Get your blow in first"]] --\\
She who draws her sword last always comes off worst!
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!!The ''St. Trinian's'' films include the following tropes:
* AccidentalAthlete: Annabelle Fritton is recruited for the hockey team after she smashes a bust with a mobile phone she belted with a hockey stick.
* AdultsAreUseless: Invoked ''and'' averted in the 2007 film: While the girls do say that "No use relying on the grown-ups. We need to sort this out ourselves," Miss Fritton turns out to be helpful in the end.
* AccidentalAthlete: Annabelle Fritton is recruited for the hockey team after she smashes a bust with a mobile phone she belted with a hockey stick.
* AdultsAreUseless: Invoked ''and'' averted in the 2007 film: While the girls do say that "No use relying on the grown-ups. We need to sort this out ourselves," Miss Fritton turns out to be helpful in the end.
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* AccidentalAthlete: Annabelle Fritton is recruited for the hockey team after she smashes a bust with a mobile phone she belted with a hockey stick.
* AdultsAreUseless: Invoked ''and'' averted in the 2007 film: While the girls do say that "No use relying on the grown-ups. We need to sort this out ourselves," Miss Fritton turns out to be helpful in the end.
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* BeautifulAllAlong: In the 2007 film, Annabelle's rapid-fire montage of makeovers twists and subverts this trope before ending in a standard expression that puts her in Posh Totty territory.
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* BlackComedyRape: Implied in the 2007 movie, where Geoffrey Thwaites has a drink with his old lover, Miss Fritton, passes out due to a combination of the alcohol and unspecified prescription medication, and wakes up naked in her bed the next morning to her euphemistic implications.
* {{Blackface}}: In the ''Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' Creator/FrankieHowerd's character gets a face full of soot, which he then uses to impersonate a Pakistani worker (with a dreadful accent) to evade capture.
* {{Blackface}}: In the ''Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' Creator/FrankieHowerd's character gets a face full of soot, which he then uses to impersonate a Pakistani worker (with a dreadful accent) to evade capture.
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* BriefAccentImitation: In the 2007 film, Flash Harry briefly disguises himself as a German art collector...with a hilariously awful accent.
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* CelebrityParadox: When looking at ''The Girl With A Pearl Earring'', one girl comments that Creator/ColinFirth (who plays Geoffrey) was justified in [[Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring wanting to shag her]].
* CloudCuckoolander: The receptionist, Beverly. It's established in the first episode that this is partially because she's often very, very high.
* ContinuityReboot: The 2007 film borrows plot elements of ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'' and isn't explicitly linked to the previous six films.
* CorruptTheCutie: Princess Fatima in ''The Belles of St Trinian's''. Annabel Fritton in the 2007 movie.
* CrossCastRole: Alistair Sim (original series) and Rupert Everett (remake series) as the headmistress.
* CustomUniform: Due to the [[{{Understatement}} rather relaxed]] rules at St. Trinian's, all the girls wear custom uniforms apart from Annabel at first. Averted for laughs in one scene, where instead of scolding a student for dangling a girl off of the stairs, a teacher demands that she tuck her shirt in.
* DancePartyEnding: In both the 2007 and 2009 movies.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'', the girls are not a united group, but are instead acting at cross purposes. The 6th Form's actions also explicitly endanger the survival of the school, while later films have the 4th and 6th Forms form a united group and protecting the school is usually their main priority.
* FamousNamedForeigner: In the 2007 film, there is a French teacher called Miss [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maupassant Maupassant]]
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted in ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'': the girls have explicitly managed to steal a machine gun from the army.
* FeigningIntelligence : Done as part of a GambitRoulette in the 2007 film when the girls partake in a nation-wide quiz to find the smartest school in Britain. They use increasingly underhanded tactics to win each round (including sleeping with the other contestants and drugging one unfortunate team) and use the Internet to look up the answers, which are then relayed to the girls on stage. It does help that they know some of the answers.
* FilleFatale: The Posh Totties run a phone-sex operation.
* GargleBlaster: The vodka some of the girls distill in the 2007 movie is labelled "100% proof". It's powerful enough that a tiny taste makes Geoffrey quite drunk for a few minutes, and a shot glass full of it is powerful enough to knock a Russian girl unconscious. Previous versions apparently made people go blind and may have killed a woman.
* CloudCuckoolander: The receptionist, Beverly. It's established in the first episode that this is partially because she's often very, very high.
* ContinuityReboot: The 2007 film borrows plot elements of ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'' and isn't explicitly linked to the previous six films.
* CorruptTheCutie: Princess Fatima in ''The Belles of St Trinian's''. Annabel Fritton in the 2007 movie.
* CrossCastRole: Alistair Sim (original series) and Rupert Everett (remake series) as the headmistress.
* CustomUniform: Due to the [[{{Understatement}} rather relaxed]] rules at St. Trinian's, all the girls wear custom uniforms apart from Annabel at first. Averted for laughs in one scene, where instead of scolding a student for dangling a girl off of the stairs, a teacher demands that she tuck her shirt in.
* DancePartyEnding: In both the 2007 and 2009 movies.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'', the girls are not a united group, but are instead acting at cross purposes. The 6th Form's actions also explicitly endanger the survival of the school, while later films have the 4th and 6th Forms form a united group and protecting the school is usually their main priority.
* FamousNamedForeigner: In the 2007 film, there is a French teacher called Miss [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maupassant Maupassant]]
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted in ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'': the girls have explicitly managed to steal a machine gun from the army.
* FeigningIntelligence : Done as part of a GambitRoulette in the 2007 film when the girls partake in a nation-wide quiz to find the smartest school in Britain. They use increasingly underhanded tactics to win each round (including sleeping with the other contestants and drugging one unfortunate team) and use the Internet to look up the answers, which are then relayed to the girls on stage. It does help that they know some of the answers.
* FilleFatale: The Posh Totties run a phone-sex operation.
* GargleBlaster: The vodka some of the girls distill in the 2007 movie is labelled "100% proof". It's powerful enough that a tiny taste makes Geoffrey quite drunk for a few minutes, and a shot glass full of it is powerful enough to knock a Russian girl unconscious. Previous versions apparently made people go blind and may have killed a woman.
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* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: In the 2007 film, the girls band together to effect this trope on new girl Annabelle Fritton as she showers, filming the resulting nekkid antics on hidden cameras and broadcasting it on Website/YouTube.
* HandcarPursuit: One takes place at the climax of ''The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery''.
* HandcarPursuit: One takes place at the climax of ''The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery''.
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* LaserHallway: The 2007 film gives us just about every heist movie trope in the space of thirty minutes, which means that the girls have to negotiate one of these en route to stealing the ''Girl with a Pearl Earring''.
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* LowerClassLout: The 2007 film has a clique of chavs.
* MadBomber: The explosive-mad twins in the 2007 film.
* MythologyGag: Several in the 2007 ContinuityReboot.
** The bust that Annabelle shatters is of Alistair Sim, the actor who portrayed Miss Fritton in the earlier films.
** Similarly, the painting in Miss Fritton's office is also of Sim.
** The animated heist plan mimics the artistic style of Ronald Searle, whose cartoons inspired the films.
** The uniforms the Posh Totties wear to the School Challenge are based on the uniforms from the earlier films.
** On the way to the School Challenge final, the camera lingers on the visible tops of Annabelle's stockings. The fact that the girls wore this style in the 50s movies was seen as shocking and scandalous.
** A deleted scene has a ministry official suggest "Let Those Wildcats Beware" as a news headline for the Minister's plan to make St. Trinian's an example; this is a reference to ''Wildcats of St. Trinian's''. Thwaite shoots it down as stupid, which may itself be a reference to how bad ''Wildcats'' was.
** At least one of the pictures the camera pans over in the Art Room is based on one of the original Searle drawings (The original caption to which is "...And this is Rachel, our Head girl.")
* NaiveNewcomer:
** Annabelle when she first shows up at school and comes around to being a full fledged St. Trinian's girl by the time the first half of the movie is over.
** Miss Dickinson is the new English teacher and she's completely overwhelmed on her first day. She appears to have gotten a decent grasp of what's going on by the time the film ends.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Miss Dickinson comments that they have lost "four English teachers in six months," prompting Ms Fritton to observe: "Very careless of us. I expect they'll turn up."
* OhCrap: In ''Train Robbery'', the mastermind behind the crime syndicate only appears to his subordinates as the unchanging image of an eye on a TV screen. Unchanging, that is, until they tell him that the school that's taken over the house where they hid the loot is St. Trinian's.
* OneGenderSchool: Only females. The school only involves two males (the bursar and the art teacher).
* OnlySaneMan:
** The undercover policewoman Ruby, compared to the other teachers.
** Oddly enough, Flash himself brief falls into this role during ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'', upon learning the girls plan to take the train robbery money for themselves, he exclaims they'll never get away with something like that. Subverted in that he goes along with the plan when one of the girls points out how much they ''have'' gotten away with before.
* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: In the 2007 film, reporters are at the school and Colin Firth's character stands nude at the window of the headmistress' room.
* PowerWalk: The girls have one in the 2007 film.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts in ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'', played by Creator/TerryThomas.
* MadBomber: The explosive-mad twins in the 2007 film.
* MythologyGag: Several in the 2007 ContinuityReboot.
** The bust that Annabelle shatters is of Alistair Sim, the actor who portrayed Miss Fritton in the earlier films.
** Similarly, the painting in Miss Fritton's office is also of Sim.
** The animated heist plan mimics the artistic style of Ronald Searle, whose cartoons inspired the films.
** The uniforms the Posh Totties wear to the School Challenge are based on the uniforms from the earlier films.
** On the way to the School Challenge final, the camera lingers on the visible tops of Annabelle's stockings. The fact that the girls wore this style in the 50s movies was seen as shocking and scandalous.
** A deleted scene has a ministry official suggest "Let Those Wildcats Beware" as a news headline for the Minister's plan to make St. Trinian's an example; this is a reference to ''Wildcats of St. Trinian's''. Thwaite shoots it down as stupid, which may itself be a reference to how bad ''Wildcats'' was.
** At least one of the pictures the camera pans over in the Art Room is based on one of the original Searle drawings (The original caption to which is "...And this is Rachel, our Head girl.")
* NaiveNewcomer:
** Annabelle when she first shows up at school and comes around to being a full fledged St. Trinian's girl by the time the first half of the movie is over.
** Miss Dickinson is the new English teacher and she's completely overwhelmed on her first day. She appears to have gotten a decent grasp of what's going on by the time the film ends.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Miss Dickinson comments that they have lost "four English teachers in six months," prompting Ms Fritton to observe: "Very careless of us. I expect they'll turn up."
* OhCrap: In ''Train Robbery'', the mastermind behind the crime syndicate only appears to his subordinates as the unchanging image of an eye on a TV screen. Unchanging, that is, until they tell him that the school that's taken over the house where they hid the loot is St. Trinian's.
* OneGenderSchool: Only females. The school only involves two males (the bursar and the art teacher).
* OnlySaneMan:
** The undercover policewoman Ruby, compared to the other teachers.
** Oddly enough, Flash himself brief falls into this role during ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'', upon learning the girls plan to take the train robbery money for themselves, he exclaims they'll never get away with something like that. Subverted in that he goes along with the plan when one of the girls points out how much they ''have'' gotten away with before.
* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: In the 2007 film, reporters are at the school and Colin Firth's character stands nude at the window of the headmistress' room.
* PowerWalk: The girls have one in the 2007 film.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts in ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'', played by Creator/TerryThomas.
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* LowerClassLout: The 2007 film has a clique OneGenderSchool: St. Trinian's is an all girls school, and the majority of chavs.the staff are female.
* MadBomber: ** The explosive-mad twins Bursar and the art teacher are male in the 2007 film.
* MythologyGag: Several in the 2007 ContinuityReboot.
** The bust that Annabelle shatters is of Alistair Sim, the actor who portrayed Miss Fritton in the earlier films.
** Similarly, the painting in Miss Fritton's office is also of Sim.
** The animated heist plan mimics the artistic style of Ronald Searle, whose cartoons inspired the films.
** The uniforms the Posh Totties wear to the School Challenge are based on the uniforms from the earlier films.
** On the way to the School Challenge final, the camera lingers on the visible tops of Annabelle's stockings. The fact that the girls wore this style in the 50s movies was seen as shocking and scandalous.
** A deleted scene has a ministry official suggest "Let Those Wildcats Beware" as a news headline for the Minister's plan to make St. Trinian's an example; this is a reference to ''Wildcats of St. Trinian's''. Thwaite shoots it down as stupid, which may itself be a reference to how bad ''Wildcats'' was.
** At least one of the pictures the camera pans over in the Art Room is based on one of the original Searle drawings (The original caption to which is "...And this is Rachel, our Head girl.")
* NaiveNewcomer:
** Annabelle when she first shows up at school and comes around to being a full fledged St. Trinian's girl by the time the first half of the movie is over.
** Miss Dickinson is the new English teacher and she's completely overwhelmed on her first day. She appears to have gotten a decent grasp of what's going on by the time the film ends.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Miss Dickinson comments that they have lost "four English teachers in six months," prompting Ms Fritton to observe: "Very careless of us. I expect they'll turn up."
* OhCrap: In ''Train Robbery'', the mastermind behind the crime syndicate only appears to his subordinates as the unchanging image of an eye on a TV screen. Unchanging, that is, until they tell him that the school that's taken over the house where they hid the loot is St. Trinian's.
* OneGenderSchool: Only females. The school only involves two males (the bursar and the art teacher).
* OnlySaneMan:
** The undercover policewoman Ruby, compared to the other teachers.
** Oddly enough, Flash himself brief falls into this role during ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'', upon learning the girls plan to take the train robbery money for themselves, he exclaims they'll never get away with something like that. Subverted in that he goes along with the plan when one of the girls points out how much they ''have'' gotten away with before.
* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: In the 2007 film, reporters are at the school and Colin Firth's character stands nude at the window of the headmistress' room.
* PowerWalk: The girls have one in the 2007 film.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts in ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'', played by Creator/TerryThomas.reboot.
* MythologyGag: Several in the 2007 ContinuityReboot.
** The bust that Annabelle shatters is of Alistair Sim, the actor who portrayed Miss Fritton in the earlier films.
** Similarly, the painting in Miss Fritton's office is also of Sim.
** The animated heist plan mimics the artistic style of Ronald Searle, whose cartoons inspired the films.
** The uniforms the Posh Totties wear to the School Challenge are based on the uniforms from the earlier films.
** On the way to the School Challenge final, the camera lingers on the visible tops of Annabelle's stockings. The fact that the girls wore this style in the 50s movies was seen as shocking and scandalous.
** A deleted scene has a ministry official suggest "Let Those Wildcats Beware" as a news headline for the Minister's plan to make St. Trinian's an example; this is a reference to ''Wildcats of St. Trinian's''. Thwaite shoots it down as stupid, which may itself be a reference to how bad ''Wildcats'' was.
** At least one of the pictures the camera pans over in the Art Room is based on one of the original Searle drawings (The original caption to which is "...And this is Rachel, our Head girl.")
* NaiveNewcomer:
** Annabelle when she first shows up at school and comes around to being a full fledged St. Trinian's girl by the time the first half of the movie is over.
** Miss Dickinson is the new English teacher and she's completely overwhelmed on her first day. She appears to have gotten a decent grasp of what's going on by the time the film ends.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Miss Dickinson comments that they have lost "four English teachers in six months," prompting Ms Fritton to observe: "Very careless of us. I expect they'll turn up."
* OhCrap: In ''Train Robbery'', the mastermind behind the crime syndicate only appears to his subordinates as the unchanging image of an eye on a TV screen. Unchanging, that is, until they tell him that the school that's taken over the house where they hid the loot is St. Trinian's.
* OneGenderSchool: Only females. The school only involves two males (the bursar and the art teacher).
* OnlySaneMan:
** The undercover policewoman Ruby, compared to the other teachers.
** Oddly enough, Flash himself brief falls into this role during ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'', upon learning the girls plan to take the train robbery money for themselves, he exclaims they'll never get away with something like that. Subverted in that he goes along with the plan when one of the girls points out how much they ''have'' gotten away with before.
* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: In the 2007 film, reporters are at the school and Colin Firth's character stands nude at the window of the headmistress' room.
* PowerWalk: The girls have one in the 2007 film.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts in ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'', played by Creator/TerryThomas.
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* ShoutOut: The 2007 film is ''rife'' with them:
** ''Pride and Prejudice'' gets ''a lot'':
*** Many of the cast have some connection to ''P&P'': Colin Firth was Mr. Darcy and Anna Chancellor (Miss Bagstock) was Miss Bingley in the 1995 miniseries; Talulah Riley (Annabelle) was Mary Bennet in the 2005 film version; and Gemma Arterton (Kelly) was Elizabeth Bennet in the 2008 miniseries ''LostInAusten''.
*** Miss Fritton's dog is named for Mr. Darcy. This becomes distinctly "meta" in that the dog is kicked out the window while attempting to hump the Education Minister's leg - even Mr Darcy wants Colin Firth!
*** Colin Firth's slow-motion walk to the hockey field in wet white shirt with his jacket over his arm mimics a similar scene he did in the 1995 ''Pride and Prejudice''.
*** The quizmaster's question "What book was originally titled ''First Impressions''?" references the original title of ''Pride and Prejudice''.
** Similarly, there are a number of shoutouts surrounding "The Girl With A Pearl Earring", starting with Creator/ColinFirth's role in the [[Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring 2003 film of the same name]], the explicit reference to Colin Firth wanting to shag her, and Chelsea initially thinking that the idea is to "steal Scarlett Johansson''.
** To ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', when the twins use a little too much explosive during the heist rehearsal.
--->You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
** In her mannerisms and mode of dress, Camilla Fritton parodies Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
** When Thwaites and Camilla meet, she says "Another time!" and he answers "Another country!" His response is the title of [[Film/AnotherCountry a 1984 film]] in which Rupert Everett and Colin Firth first starred together.
** When Annabelle is entering the school for the first time, she calls it "[[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pikey Pikeys]]".
** A deleted scene has the girls running a Film/FightClub, which of course no one talks about.
** ''Pride and Prejudice'' gets ''a lot'':
*** Many of the cast have some connection to ''P&P'': Colin Firth was Mr. Darcy and Anna Chancellor (Miss Bagstock) was Miss Bingley in the 1995 miniseries; Talulah Riley (Annabelle) was Mary Bennet in the 2005 film version; and Gemma Arterton (Kelly) was Elizabeth Bennet in the 2008 miniseries ''LostInAusten''.
*** Miss Fritton's dog is named for Mr. Darcy. This becomes distinctly "meta" in that the dog is kicked out the window while attempting to hump the Education Minister's leg - even Mr Darcy wants Colin Firth!
*** Colin Firth's slow-motion walk to the hockey field in wet white shirt with his jacket over his arm mimics a similar scene he did in the 1995 ''Pride and Prejudice''.
*** The quizmaster's question "What book was originally titled ''First Impressions''?" references the original title of ''Pride and Prejudice''.
** Similarly, there are a number of shoutouts surrounding "The Girl With A Pearl Earring", starting with Creator/ColinFirth's role in the [[Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring 2003 film of the same name]], the explicit reference to Colin Firth wanting to shag her, and Chelsea initially thinking that the idea is to "steal Scarlett Johansson''.
** To ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', when the twins use a little too much explosive during the heist rehearsal.
--->You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
** In her mannerisms and mode of dress, Camilla Fritton parodies Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
** When Thwaites and Camilla meet, she says "Another time!" and he answers "Another country!" His response is the title of [[Film/AnotherCountry a 1984 film]] in which Rupert Everett and Colin Firth first starred together.
** When Annabelle is entering the school for the first time, she calls it "[[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pikey Pikeys]]".
** A deleted scene has the girls running a Film/FightClub, which of course no one talks about.
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* TheCaper:
** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
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* WalkingInRhythm: In the original films, Flash Harry had a "theme" which played while he sneaked in.
* WritersCannotDoMath: One scene in the 2007 film had ''Creator/StephenFry'' award points to a team for concluding that the volume of a sphere is πr[[superscript:3]]. A fourteen-year-old could probably tell you that it's (4πr[[superscript:3]])/3.
* WritersCannotDoMath: One scene in the 2007 film had ''Creator/StephenFry'' award points to a team for concluding that the volume of a sphere is πr[[superscript:3]]. A fourteen-year-old could probably tell you that it's (4πr[[superscript:3]])/3.
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* {{Blackface}}: In the ''Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' Creator/FrankieHowerd's character gets a face full of soot, which he then uses to impersonate a Pakistani worker (with a dreadful accent) to evade capture.
* CorruptTheCutie: Princess Fatima
* CrossCastRole: Alistair Sim as the headmistress.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'', the girls are not a united group, but are instead acting at cross purposes. The 6th Form's actions also explicitly endanger the survival of the school, while later films have the 4th and 6th Forms form a united group and protecting the school is usually their main priority.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted in ''Blue Murder at St. Trinian's'': the girls have explicitly managed to steal a machine gun from the army.
* HandcarPursuit: One takes place at the climax of ''The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery''.
* OhCrap: In ''Train Robbery'', the mastermind behind the crime syndicate only appears to his subordinates as the unchanging image of an eye on a TV screen. Unchanging, that is, until they tell him that the school that's taken over the house where they hid the loot is St. Trinian's.
* OnlySaneMan:
** The undercover policewoman Ruby, compared to the other teachers.
** Oddly enough, Flash himself brief falls into this role during ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'', upon learning the girls plan to take the train robbery money for themselves, he exclaims they'll never get away with something like that. Subverted in that he goes along with the plan when one of the girls points out how much they ''have'' gotten away with before.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts in ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'', played by Creator/TerryThomas.
* WalkingInRhythm: In the original films, Flash Harry had a "theme" which played while he sneaked in.
* TheCaper:
** The break-in at the Ministry in ''Blue Murder at St.Trinian's'', where the girls break into the ministry, break through a ceiling, crack a safe and carry out their plan to [[spoiler: substitute some test answers, to make sure they win a prize of a European tour so they can get to Italy and the VI form can meet their Italian suitors]]. They get away with it undetected even though [[spoiler: they left a huge hole in the ceiling which, though papered over, is discovered in the morning]].
** The train robbers in ''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'' pull off the perfect heist, hide the millions and look set to get away with it, until [[spoiler: it turns out they hid the loot in a house that's since been acquired as St. Trinian's new base of operations]]. They then plan another caper, hoping to get the money back.
!!The ''St. Trinian's'' (2007) film includes the following tropes:
* AccidentalAthlete: Annabelle Fritton is recruited for the hockey team after she smashes a bust with a mobile phone she belted with a hockey stick.
* AdultsAreUseless: Invoked ''and'' averted; While the girls do say that "No use relying on the grown-ups. We need to sort this out ourselves," Miss Fritton turns out to be helpful in the end.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Annabelle's rapid-fire montage of makeovers twists and subverts this trope before ending in a standard expression that puts her in Posh Totty territory.
* BlackComedyRape: Implied when Geoffrey Thwaites has a drink with his old lover, Miss Fritton, and passes out due to a combination of the alcohol and unspecified prescription medication. He then wakes up naked in her bed the next morning to her euphemistic implications.
* BriefAccentImitation: Flash Harry briefly disguises himself as a German art collector...with a hilariously awful accent.
* CelebrityParadox: When looking at ''The Girl With A Pearl Earring'', one girl comments that Creator/ColinFirth (who plays Geoffrey) was justified in [[Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring wanting to shag her]].
* CloudCuckoolander: The receptionist, Beverly. It's implied that this is partially because she's often very, very high.
* ContinuityReboot: The 2007 film borrows plot elements of ''The Belles of St. Trinian's'' and isn't explicitly linked to the previous six films.
* CorruptTheCutie:
** Annabel Fritton starts out as a NaiveNewcomer who ends up becoming a fully fledged St. Trinian's girl towards the end of the film.
** Miss Dickinson remains fairly kind hearted and eager to teach, she just learns how to get them interested on a more St. Trinian's level.
* CrossCastRole: Creator/Rupert Everett as the headmistress Miss Fritton.
* CustomUniform: Due to the [[{{Understatement}} rather relaxed]] rules at St. Trinian's, all the girls wear custom uniforms apart from Annabel at first. Averted for laughs in one scene, where instead of scolding a student for dangling a girl off of the stairs, a teacher demands that she tuck her shirt in.
* DancePartyEnding: With Music/GirlsAloud, no less.
* FamousNamedForeigner: There is a French teacher called Miss [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maupassant Maupassant]]
* FeigningIntelligence : Done as part of a GambitRoulette when the girls partake in a nation-wide quiz to find the smartest school in Britain. They use increasingly underhanded tactics to win each round (including sleeping with the other contestants and drugging one unfortunate team) and use the Internet to look up the answers, which are then relayed to the girls on stage. It does help that they know some of the answers.
* FilleFatale: The Posh Totties run a phone-sex operation.
* GargleBlaster: The vodka some of the girls distill is labelled "100% proof". It's powerful enough that a tiny taste makes Geoffrey quite drunk for a few minutes, and a shot glass full of it is powerful enough to knock a Russian girl unconscious. Previous versions apparently made people go blind and may have killed a woman.
* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: The girls band together to effect this trope on new girl Annabelle Fritton as she showers, filming the resulting nekkid antics on hidden cameras and broadcasting it on Website/YouTube.
* LaserHallway: This film gives about every heist movie trope in the space of thirty minutes, which means that the girls have to negotiate one of these en route to stealing the ''Girl with a Pearl Earring''.
* LowerClassLout: One of the cliques is known as The Chavs.
* MadBomber: The explosive-mad twins.
* MythologyGag: Several taken from the older films;
** The bust that Annabelle shatters is of Alistair Sim, the actor who portrayed Miss Fritton in the earlier films.
** Similarly, the painting in Miss Fritton's office is also of Sim.
** The animated heist plan mimics the artistic style of Ronald Searle, whose cartoons inspired the films.
** The uniforms the Posh Totties wear to the School Challenge are based on the uniforms from the earlier films.
** On the way to the School Challenge final, the camera lingers on the visible tops of Annabelle's stockings. The fact that the girls wore this style in the 50s movies was seen as shocking and scandalous.
** A deleted scene has a ministry official suggest "Let Those Wildcats Beware" as a news headline for the Minister's plan to make St. Trinian's an example; this is a reference to ''Wildcats of St. Trinian's''. Thwaite shoots it down as stupid, which may itself be a reference to how bad ''Wildcats'' was.
** At least one of the pictures the camera pans over in the Art Room is based on one of the original Searle drawings (The original caption to which is "...And this is Rachel, our Head girl.")
* NaiveNewcomer:
** Annabelle when she first shows up at school and comes around to being a full fledged St. Trinian's girl by the time the first half of the movie is over.
** Miss Dickinson is the new English teacher and she's completely overwhelmed on her first day. She appears to have gotten a decent grasp of what's going on by the time the film ends.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Miss Dickinson comments that they have lost "four English teachers in six months," prompting Ms Fritton to observe: "Very careless of us. I expect they'll turn up."
* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: Reporters and paparazzi are at the school and Colin Firth's character just happens to stands nude at the window of the headmistress' room.
* PowerWalk: The girls do this after having successfully pulled off their heist.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Pride and Prejudice'' gets ''a lot'':
*** Many of the cast have some connection to ''P&P'': Colin Firth was Mr. Darcy and Anna Chancellor (Miss Bagstock) was Miss Bingley in the 1995 miniseries; Talulah Riley (Annabelle) was Mary Bennet in the 2005 film version; and Gemma Arterton (Kelly) was Elizabeth Bennet in the 2008 miniseries ''LostInAusten''.
*** Miss Fritton's dog is named for Mr. Darcy. This becomes distinctly "meta" in that the dog is kicked out the window while attempting to hump the Education Minister's leg - even Mr Darcy wants Colin Firth!
*** Colin Firth's slow-motion walk to the hockey field in wet white shirt with his jacket over his arm mimics a similar scene he did in the 1995 ''Pride and Prejudice''.
*** The quizmaster's question "What book was originally titled ''First Impressions''?" references the original title of ''Pride and Prejudice''.
** Similarly, there are a number of shoutouts surrounding "The Girl With A Pearl Earring", starting with Creator/ColinFirth's role in the [[Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring 2003 film of the same name]], the explicit reference to Colin Firth wanting to shag her, and Chelsea initially thinking that the idea is to "steal Scarlett Johansson''.
** To ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', when the twins use a little too much explosive during the heist rehearsal.
--->You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
** In her mannerisms and mode of dress, Camilla Fritton parodies Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
** When Thwaites and Camilla meet, she says "Another time!" and he answers "Another country!" His response is the title of [[Film/AnotherCountry a 1984 film]] in which Rupert Everett and Colin Firth first starred together.
** When Annabelle is entering the school for the first time, she calls it "[[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pikey Pikeys]]".
** A deleted scene has the girls running a Film/FightClub, which of course no one talks about.
* WritersCannotDoMath:
** ''Creator/StephenFry'' award points to a team for concluding that the volume of a sphere is πr[[superscript:3]]. A fourteen-year-old could probably tell you that it's (4πr[[superscript:3]])/3.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: In an oddly comic way. The girls are criminal [[KarmicHoudini Karmic Houdini]]s who should be in juvenile detention at the very least. In spite of this they are usually not as bad as their enemies, and they are loyal to their friends and their school. Whatever they get up to is however usually very funny as well.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: In an oddly comic way. The girls are criminal [[KarmicHoudini Karmic Houdini]]s {{Karma Houdini}}s who should be in juvenile detention at the very least. In spite of this they are usually not as bad as their enemies, and they are loyal to their friends and their school. Whatever they get up to is however usually very funny as well.
