History YMMV / ValleyGirl

* HilariousInHindsight: The entire scene with Randy and Fred and the sushi, considering that [[Creator/NicolasCage Nicolas Cage's]] current wife is a waitress at a sushi restaurant!

** Loryn is played by E.G. Daily who later plays the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls kind of character]] who would not stand for slut-shaming and gaslighting jerkasses like Randy.

* ValuesDissonance: The sleepover scene where the girls discuss dieting and gossip about a girl who binges and purges to keep slim (as they eat chips, ice cream, and cookies). When Julie eats a cookie, the girls tell her to be careful because Randy might like the lean, Hollywood look and because Tommy doesn't date fat girls. At the prom, Stacey tells another girl that she won't eat anything until after she and her date leave so that she can "scarf up half the menu" at the hotel that they'll be going to. While the film doesn't seem to promote the idea of eating disordered behavior and framed the behavior as shallow, in the era of an awareness of body image and the effects of fat-shaming, this scene would not fly.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Loryn is Creator/ElizabethDaily- [[Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure Dotty]], [[Series/{{Rugrats}} Tommy]] [[Series/AllGrownUp Pickles]], and [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Buttercup]], among other roles.

* StalkingIsLove: Though Randy is the penultimate example of this trope, the scene where Skip decides to go to Suzi's house to see if Beth is home could qualify; when no one answers the door, Skip actually enters the house to look for Beth, who he apparently finds taking a shower.
** Subverted when [[spoiler:Skip is apparently having sex with Beth when Suzi comes home and goes upstairs, but the way the scene is presented shows that [[TheReveal when the bedroom door opens, Beth was the one who had been out and has come home, and Suzi had been in the shower and is caught in bed with Skip]].]]
*** The subversion seems to indicate that [[spoiler:either Skip is a horndog who decided to "settle" for Suzi, or that he discovered that he liked Suzi after all. Skip and Suzi do end up going to the prom together and Loryn figures out that they had gotten together, but it's still not clear if they are now an item.]]

** The famous soundtrack, which, for at least 10 years after the film's release, was not available in wide release until Rhino Records released not just one, but two soundtrack [=CDs=].

* ValuesDissonance: The sleepover scene where the girls discuss dieting and gossip about a girl who binges and purges to keep slim, when Julie sits down and eats chips, the girls tell her to be careful because Randy might like the lean, Hollywood look and because Tommy doesn't date fat girls; later at the prom one girl says she is not having anything at the prom because she plans to "scarf" on the room service at the hotel she'll be going with her date. While the film doesn't seem to promote the idea of eating disordered behavior and framed the behavior as shallow, in the era of an awareness of body image and the effects of fat-shaming, this scene would not fly.

*** The subversion seems to indicate that [[spoiler:either Skip is a horndog who decided to "settle" for Suzi, or that he discovered that he liked Suzi after all. Skip and Suzi do end up going to the prom together and Loryn figures out that they had gotten together, but it's still not clear if they are now an item.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Michael Bowen (Randy) went on to play bigger jerkasses in ''Film/KillBill'' (Buck) and ''Series/BreakingBad'' (Uncle Jack).

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The famous soundtrack, which, for at least 10 years after the film's release, was not available in wide release until Rhino Records released not just one, but two soundtrack [=CDs=].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Loryn is Creator/EGDaily- [[Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure Dotty]], [[Series/{{Rugrats}} Tommy]] [[Series/AllGrownUp Pickles]], and [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Buttercup]], among other roles.

* StalkingIsLove: Though Randy is the penultimate example of this trope, the scene where Skip decides to go to Suzi's house to see if Beth is home could qualify; under normal circumstances, if no one answered the door someplace that someone was visiting, that someone would leave. Skip, however, not only does not go away, but actually enters the house (either he is an expert lockpicker, or he found a hidden key) and tries to ascertain if Beth is home. Though he knows that what he is doing is crazy, he still goes upstairs to look for Beth and seemingly finds her taking a shower. [[spoiler:Subverted when Skip is apparently having sex with Beth when Suzi comes home and goes upstairs, but the way the scene is presented shows that [[TheReveal when the bedroom door opens, Beth was the one who had been out and has come home, and Suzi had been in the shower and is caught in bed with Skip]].]]
** [[spoiler:The subversion seems to indicate that either Skip is a horndog who decided to "settle" for Suzi since Beth wasn't home, or that he discovered that he liked Suzi after all. It's never said either way, but the fact that Skip and Suzi go to the prom together and Loryn figuring out that they had gotten together seems to indicate the latter.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: NicolasCage as Randy (his first-ever role credited as "Nicolas Cage") and actress/singer/voice actress E.G. Daily (''PeeWeesBigAdventure, RugRats'') as Loryn; she is credited as "Elizabeth Daily." [[TwoAndAHalfMen Jon Cryer]] makes an uncredited appearance in the sequence in which Randy is hiding in the bathroom at Suzi's party, hoping that Julie will come in; he is the Valley guy sharing a joint with two Valley girls.
** Looks like [[Series/BreakingBad Uncle Jack]] was always an asshole.

* HeyItsThatGuy: NicolasCage as Randy (his first-ever role credited as "Nicolas Cage") and actress/singer/voice actress E.G. Daily (PeeWeesBigAdventure, RugRats) as Loryn; she is credited as "Elizabeth Daily." [[TwoAndAHalfMen Jon Cryer]] makes an uncredited appearance in the sequence in which Randy is hiding in the bathroom at Suzi's party, hoping that Julie will come in; he is the Valley guy sharing a joint with two Valley girls.

* StalkingIsLove: Though Randy is the penultimate example of this trope, the scene where Skip decides to go to Suzi's house to see if Beth is home could qualify; under normal circumstances, if no one answered the door someplace that someone was visiting, that someone would leave. Skip, however, not only does not go away, but actually enters the house (either he is an expert lockpicker, or he found a hidden key) and tries to ascertain if Beth is home. Though he knows that what he is doing is crazy, he still [[spoiler:goes upstairs to look for Beth and seemingly finds her taking a shower. He is apparently having sex with her when Suzi comes home and goes upstairs, but [[TheReveal when the bedroom door opens, it turns out that Beth was the one who had been out and has come home, and Suzi had been in the shower and is caught in bed with Skip]].]]

** Modern English's "I Melt With You" plays during the montage of Julie's dates with Randy, as well as when [[spoiler:they escape the Valley High junior prom, heading to the Valley Sheraton in Tommy's rented limousine]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The famous soundtrack, which, for at least 10 years after the film's release, was not available in wide release until Rhino Records released not just one, but two soundtrack CDs.
** Modern English's "I Melt With You" plays during the montage of Julie's dates with Randy, as well as when [[spoiler:they escape the Valley High junior prom, heading to the Valley Sheraton in Tommy's rented limousine]].

* StalkerWithACrush: Randy, after he resolves to win Julie back. After accosting her on her carpool (which doesn't go well), he plants photo booth pictures of himself in her schoolbooks, dedicates a song to her on the radio ("Eyes of a Stranger," the song that played when they first met at Suzi's party), and goes all about the Valley, getting jobs in places where she just happens to go. Julie furtively expresses contentment at seeing Randy, but seeing that he had spent the night in a sleeping bag on her front lawn proves too much for her; she closes the shutters of her bedroom window as he protests loudly. Though Randy's actions can be interpreted as expressions of how deeply in love he is with Julie, in a real-life context, such actions may inspire the recipient of such attention to contact law enforcement.

* StalkerWithACrush: Randy, after he resolves to win Julie back. After accosting her on her carpool (which doesn't go well), he plants photo booth pictures of himself in her schoolbooks, dedicates a song to her on the radio ("Eyes of a Stranger," the song that played when they first met at Suzi's party), and goes all about the Valley, getting jobs in places where she just happens to go. Julie furtively expresses contentment at seeing Randy, but seeing that he had spent the night in a sleeping bag on her front lawn proves too much for her; she closes the shutters of her bedroom window as he protests loudly.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - The famous soundtrack, which, for at least 10 years after the film's release, was not available in wide release until Rhino Records released not just one, but two soundtrack CDs.
** Modern English's "I Melt With You" plays during the montage of Julie's dates with Randy, as well as when [[spoiler:they escape the Valley High junior prom, heading to the Valley Sheraton in Tommy's rented limousine]].