Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger is an independent 2008 Australian teenage comedy film, written and directed by debut filmmaker Cathy Randall, starring newcomer Danielle Catanzariti, Toni Collette, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Jonny Pasvolsky. It was shot in Adelaide, South Australia, and Sydney, New South Wales.
This film provides examples of:
- Alpha Bitch: Pretty much everyone at Esther's school.
- Blatant Lies: Sunnie and Esther's "experiment" relies on both
- Call-Back: Esther's "introduction" poem
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Esther and her brother Jacob are this trope in spades
- Disappeared Dad: Sunnie's is out of the picture, having apparently gone back to New Zealand
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Cheeseburger" for Esther
- Free the Frogs: Poor little Normal.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Jacob gets out of stabbing his friend with a compass by claiming the other kid, and indeed his entire school, is rabidly anti-Semetic. His parents respond by pulling him out of school and putting him in a Jewish school. This turns out to have made him uber-Jewish, and his parents are visibly annoyed when he makes them wait to start eating to say a berakhah, and grumbling that his roast beef isn't kosher
- Jerkass: most of the students at Esther's private school. Missy and the prefect get special attention.
- Jewish and Nerdy: Esther and her brother are more Jewish and weird
- Oh, Crap!: Esther, when she realizes that Jacob isn't joking about stabbing his friend in the head with a compass
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The Slug, the overweight girl with the umbrella (which she uses to fend off being splashed by juice at lunch time) whom Esther essentially mugs for her raincoat
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Normal the duck chick. Doesn't save him from being killed for dissection though
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sunnie to Esther when she basically mugs the Slug for her raincoat
