History Fridge / MeanGirls

* Lest we forget amid all the funny, Coach Carr sexually assaulted at least two sixteen-year-old girls.[[note]]And given that the Burn Book may have been made from the previous year's yearbook, since Regina hadn't even looked at it in forever, they might have been ''even younger'' when the abuse began.[[/note]]

* Janus is the name of a Roman god with two faces.

** Also, [[TruthInTelevision a lot of real-life Jews externally celebrate Christmas with gentile friends or even relatives]] (as mixed religious marriages are increasingly common and accepted), especially those who grew up in mostly gentile public schools and neighborhoods, not private Jewish schools or neighborhoods.

** Likely because Regina is [[BookDumb book dumb]]

* Not exactly FridgeHorror, but if Janis choreographed the sexy Jingle Bell Rock dance when she was still friends with Regina, that means that she, Regina, and the other Plastics were no older than 12 or 13 years old when they started performing it at school talent shows (and presumably wearing the costumes).
** To be fair, those costumes probably covered more back then...
** A lot of girls do tend to copy dancing they see their favourite pop stars doing. Dance is a bit suggestive on its own, so while it's a bit icky, it's unfortunately TruthInTelevision. It's already a bit icky that these are sixteen-year-old girls performing this dance.
** Yeah, let's not forget that BritneySpears was 16 when she filmed the video for ''...Baby One More Time''. You know, the one where she dresses in a sexed-up Catholic schoolgirl uniform and dances suggestively? And that came out in 1998. For 2004, this seems about on-par.

* Lest we forget amid all the funny, Coach Carr sexually assaulted at least two sixteen-year-old girls.

** Lest we forget amid all the funny, Coach Carr sexually assaulted at least two sixteen-year-old girls.

!! FridgeLogic
* Why would the inventor of Toaster Strudels need to put his daughter in public school? Surely the resident RichBitch would be just one of many in some ritzy private academy?
** Plenty of kids with rich parents go to public schools. It might be because the parents do want to save money (even if you're rich, a good private school can still be rather expensive), though sometimes the kid goes to public school for the general environment. More exposure to different types of people and whatnot.
** In some areas of the country, public schools can be just as good (and just as expensive as, due to a combination of taxes and books) as private schools.
** This movie was apparently set in the North Shore of Chicago, an area known for very wealthy residents and some of the best public schools in the nation. Private schools in that area are not significantly better than the public schools, and if the parents don't want to ship the children off to boarding school...it makes a great deal of sense that Gretchen goes to public school.
** Many of the top schools in America are actually public schools--only 10% of American kids actually go to private schools (and not every who goes to a private school comes from a rich family) while 87% go to public schools (the remaining 3% are probably homeschooled or something). Also, statistically-speaking, public school teachers make way more money than private school teachers.
* Why does Cady speak English with a perfect American accent when she's spent her entire life in Africa?
** Cady didn't spend her whole life in Africa, just all of her school years. She could have been five or six when she went over, so English isn't a problem. As for the accent, she could have picked that up from her parents.
*** As a Britain-born OopNorth and raised in Spain for my schooling years, I can tell you people do tend to lose their original accent after a while. Just chalk it up to NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
*** When she was in Africa she spoke the native language when talking to others. However she still spoke English with her parents at home. She learned how to speak English first and so she kept her accent from speaking with them.
*** But English is a lingua franca in South Africa and other parts of the continent, a dialect that is very different from Midwestern American English. If Cady spoke to ''anyone'' other than her parents, it would rub off eventually. NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent, I say.
*** As a Filipino-born American, having come to U.S. at age 12, my accent actually changes depending on who I'm talking to. The natural accent I came with remains intact when I'm addressing family or other Tagalog speaking Filipinos. My accent becomes more Americanized when I talk to my friends out of habit, having forced a more Americanized accent when I first arrived. Because I managed to force my way into an accent, after the first few months upon my arrival, I naturally switch between the two accents, and now it's a subconscious thing with me. That being said, assuming Cady's parents had native English speaking coworkers, what could have happened was that she spoke a certain way with her parents' coworkers, while she spoke another way to the African children she played with. Or another possibility is that she mimics her parents' accents when they reached the United States, having caught on that her parents' accents are more common in the country than the South African accent she had developed. With that possibility, it could be that she naturally a South African accent, and then after forcing an American accent, it eventually would become her natural accent. While how long it would take to change her accent is difficult to pinpoint, as everyone's different, it is believable that she speaks with the accent she speaks with in the movie because it's probably a forced accent.
** Maybe she didn't have a lot of friends in Africa and she mainly spoke to her parents? If she spoke to them in English most of the time (and from what we see of them in the movie, we could assume that) then that's how. And she could have watched a lot of American television and movies and picked the accent up that way.
* How did the Plastics get away with wearing such short skirts in high school? I didn't go to a particularly conservative school, but we still had a dress code. (Moreover, how did all the girls get away with cutting cup-revealing holes in their blouses when most schools will call girls out for letting their bra straps accidentally slip down their arms?)
** I noticed that when Ms. Norbury asks who has felt victimised by Regina, the teachers and even Mr Duvall raise their hands too. So it might be that Regina is so effective as an AlphaBitch that even the teachers don't question her. As for the cut blouses, we only see them wearing the clothes like that for one afternoon - so maybe the teachers did forbid them. It's just that they didn't have replacement tops they could change into that day.
* Since the movie, Gretchen's "fetch" has gained some use as slang for a ForcedMeme. Does that mean she really ''did'' make "fetch" happen?

** Some studies have shown that public schools are actually better than private schools--you also make more money if you work at a public school instead of a private school.

** A lot of girls do tend to copy dancing they see their favourite pop stars doing. Dance is a bit suggestive on its own, so while it's a bit icky, it's unfortunately TruthInTelevision. It's already a bit icky that these are sixteen-year-old girls performing this dance.P