Line #15 Fridge/MeanGirls


1	Fridge examples for ''Film/MeanGirls''.
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3	!! FridgeBrilliance
4	* Regina's line referring to Gretchen's nomination for Spring Fling Queen, saying that "She's not pretty." In the original script, Gretchen was intended to be scrawny and have a “snivelling face” and was only supposed to be in the Plastics due to her wealth and expensive clothes. When the obviously pretty Creator/LaceyChabert was cast for the role, this line was left in, and rather than just a statement, it becomes an insight into Regina's character. She truly believes that she is the queen bee because she deserves it. YMMV on which girl is most attractive, but fans can all agree that each of them are gorgeous, and only Regina's inflated ego could have resulted in such a surprise at Gretchen's nomination. It also possibly gives Regina's bullying anti-Semitic undertones, which goes with her [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain homophobic bullying of Janice]].
5	* Why did Janis receive [[KarmaHoudini no comeuppance]] for her actions against Regina, while Cady received very harsh reactions from the rest of the school? Because Cady was a newcomer, and the rest of the school had no idea what Regina might have done to her, while Janis had known Regina for years. They could chalk up Janis’ behaviour to a TheDogBitesBack reaction, while assuming Cady was just a massive {{Jerkass}}.
6	** One could also argue that Janis' actions in the movie were balanced by the humiliation she received in the events before the movie.
7	** Another argument may have been that considering how almost every female in that scene was victimized by Regina George, so for them to hear all the bad thing that happened to Regina must have been too satisfying to condemn Janis for.
8	** There's also a difference between humiliating Regina in front of the whole school, something most of the girls probably already dreamed of. But pushing her in front of a bus equals trying to kill her which is even for girls who were "personally victimized by Regina George" a tad bit too much. So Cady is treated as insane.
9	** One might also recall that Janis did have what appeared to be an actual apology written down and ready to go, all the way up until Regina makes one quip too many right before Janis was about to give it, and that's when Janis chose to deliver the massive fake apology that revealed herself to be behind everything instead. The rest of the student body perceived it as Regina bringing it down upon herself, with the "it" being both Janis's revenge scheme, and also the public reveal of the specific details of said scheme.
10	* Janis isn't a lesbian, but she is Lebanese. Her whole falling out with Regina was probably the result of Regina confusing the two.
11	** Or it was a result of Regina becoming threatened by Janis's popularity and wanting to take her down. Regina could have been depending on ''others'' having heard that Janis was Lebanese, and being able to easily convince them that they had heard "lesbian" instead.
12	** Which drifts into a bit of averted FridgeHorror. Janis may have revealed her Lebanese heritage to her best friend (at the time) Regina in confidence because Arab heritage would have become problematic after 9-11. This movie did come out in 2004. While Regina innocently misconstruing Lebanese for lesbian sucked a lot for Janis, it could have been much much worse - as in Regina and the school ostracizing her as an “Arab terrorist”
13	* Minor but {{facepalm}}-worthy: "Fetch", which seems like such a random word, is probably short for "fetching", which ''would'' make sense in the contexts she uses it.
14	* -1 is actually entirely plausible as an incorrect answer to the limit at the end. If you mistakenly say sin 0 = 1 and cos 0 = 0, instead of the other way around, it evaluates to -1.
15	* In the musical, Karen's first music segment has this musical build that ends with a gag, "My name is Karen, I may not be smart... that's it." But her breezy personality, and her later kindness to Cady, also immediately tells the audience that she has a big heart. And she didn't even need the explicit rhyme to say a lot about her.
16	* The teenage characters don't bat an eye at Coach Carr having sex with underage girls; at best treating it like an oddity, at worst praising how he managed to "score" some hot chicks. However, the adults all treat it with the horror and severity it deserves. This is probably because a lot of teenagers feel more adult than they really are, and might not see adult/teen relationships as a big deal. But with maturity and hindsight, most adults (hopefully) understand what a severe [[UnequalPairing abuse of power]] it is, and how it can mess up young people's psyches in the long run.
17	* At one point, Gretchen mentions that Regina won't let her wear hoop earrings because Regina decided that they're ''her'' thing, yet Regina is never shown wearing hoop earrings throughout the movie. This is just another example of Regina controlling her friends by preventing them from having something she knows they want by claiming only ''she'' can have it even if she doesn't want it, like how she won't let Cady date Aaron even though she doesn't want him either (and cheats on him shortly after taking him back.)
18	** This is also evidenced when Regina is rejected from sitting with the rest of the Plastics; when it comes to her wearing sweatpants on Monday, she says that the rules aren’t real. But Karen says that they were real when she wore a vest Regina didn’t like. Just from that exchange, it’s pretty easy to infer that Regina views herself as being above the fashion rules, whereas the others get penalised if they break the rules.
19	* Janus is the name of a Roman god with two faces. And “Cady” sounds like “catty.”
20	** Actually, it's pronounced "Katie". [[https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c8ce7f1e-c258-4dcf-9db2-ede5a6b4ee84 She says so herself.]]
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22	!!FridgeHorror
23	* The scene where everyone refuses to catch Gretchen after her BackhandedApology is supposed to be funny, and is used as another instance of Karen being dumb. But if Karen had backed away like all the other girls, Gretchen probably would have died from that fall. And nobody seemed uncomfortable about almost letting that happen. [[AdultsAreUseless Even the teachers.]]
24	** Ms Norbury and Mr Duvall look like they're talking when Gretchen falls - so they didn't see the other girls backing away.
25	* Lest we forget amid all the funny, Coach Carr sexually assaulted at least two sixteen-year-old girls.
26	** Even worse, the only reason Carr's crimes became public knowledge was because of Regina leaking the pages of the Burn Book. Aaron and Damian discovered the abuse and Damian presumably told Cady and Janis yet none of them said anything to any adults.
27	** As mentioned above, the students didn’t say anything about Carr’s relationships with underage students because teenagers have a very different view of minor-adult relationships to adults. It’s easy for teenagers to see these relationships as unproblematic because they see themselves as mature, whereas adults have the hindsight of being through teenagehood and knowing that they wouldn’t have been at the same maturity level as a fully grown adult at that point.
28	* Cady sabotaging Regina's "perfect body" by making her gain weight could have had far more severe consequences in real life. For someone as insecure about their body as Regina ends up shown to be, believing that just dieting wasn't making her lose weight, and in fact realizing that she had ''gained'' weight, could very easily have pushed her into developing an eating disorder.
29	** In a deleted scene, Cady sabotages Regina’s weighing scales to always show the same weight. If Regina was to believe that her weight was staying the same, whilst she's actively trying to lose weight, all whilst she's noticing the effects of the kalteen bars making her gain weight - it could have severe repercussions on her body image and eating habits.
30	* In the musical, it's established that there's a porn site focusing on thirteen year old girls that's easy enough for a teenaged boy to access...
31	* Regina contacting Taylor Wedell’s mother and giving her the idea that Taylor (a teenager) has been going to Planned Parenthood and has ‘urgent test results’ is mainly played for laughs, and the outcome is never really shown besides Taylor’s mother calling her, and Taylor attending Cady’s get-together. However, what Regina did could have had severe consequences for Taylor - her mother could restrict her from being social (particularly with boys), and at the least Taylor would have to prove that she’s not been involved with Planned Parenthood and isn’t pregnant. She’s not even in the wrong in the situation, as Jason is the one who’s supposed to be romantically involved with Gretchen, Taylor may not have even been aware of this (or perhaps Jason lied to her).
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