* ActorAllusion: A bottle of Herbal Essences can be seen as Lucy gets out of the shower. Britney Spears endorses Herbal Essences.
* {{Blooper}}: When the three girls are partying in the Louisiana Hotel Room, Lucy can be heard saying "Zoe" instead of Kit.
* CelebrityParadox: When Lucy's dad is talking to her in the hospital, a copy of USA Today with Britney Spears on the cover can be seen.
* CreatorBacklash: In later years, Britney Spears admitted that she didn't put enough effort into learning to act and thought that she could just show up on-set and essentially play herself, which ended up hurting the film. This trope is averted by writer Shonda Rhimes; while she might not consider it a high point for her career, she's also defended this film against its detractors and said that the critics "didn't get it."
* CreatorInJoke: The girls sing "Bye Bye Bye" at one point - a song by Music/NSync. Music/BritneySpears and Music/JustinTimberlake had dated.
* CreatorKiller: In addition to torpedoing Britney Spears as both an actress and film producer from the get-go, the film also wrecked the career of director Tamra Davis, who hasn't directed a single theatrically-released film -- aside from a few self-produced documentaries -- in the years since, and has been working almost entirely in television. Averted, however, by screenwriter Creator/ShondaRhimes, whose career wasn't harmed in the slightest by working on this film.
* DawsonCasting:
** Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning were twenty-two playing girls who just graduated high school. Britney Spears by contrast was the same age as Lucy.
** Anson Mount may have been an example of this. He was about thirty when this film was shot, playing a character who appears to be in his early-to-mid-twenties.
* FakeAmerican: Both Lucy's mother and her father are played by Canadians (Creator/KimCattrall and Creator/DanAykroyd).
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This became one of the highest grossing movies in Japan - thanks to the popularity of Britney Spears over there.
* HeyItsThatPlace: That is indeed the same hospital used in ''{{Series/Scrubs}}''.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The movie was for the longest time not available on any streaming services and hadn't been reprinted on DVD for nearly twenty years, which made it a bit tough to find legally. However it did return in theaters from October 23-25 2023 to promote Britney's memoir ''The Woman In Me'' and it is now available to stream on Netflix.
* ProductPlacement: In addition to Herbal Essences above, Pepsi is featured prominently in the film. Britney Spears of course endorses that too.
* RealLifeRelative: Jamie Lyn Spears, Britney's little sister, plays the young Lucy in the film's prologue.
* StarDerailingRole: Granted, odds are Britney Spears' acting career wouldn't have gone anywhere anyway, due to her taking time out to start a family and then her well-documented personal problems, but the dismal reception of the film and her having been involved in its production at such a high level very firmly put the skids on her attempt to break into film.
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