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Tropes used by the film:

• All Just a Dream: About a third of the movie.
• Broken Aesop: The Aesop of the movie is ostensibly ' be yourself!' and is highlighted when Romy and Michele change from their business women suits into the bright, colorful clothes that they made themselves and everyone likes it! Of course, at the end, the goth aggressively frumpy chick is seen getting a make over from Romy and Michele. Apparently, you should follow your own style, but only if it's cheery, bright and sexy. Goth Aggressive frumpiness is not acceptable.
  • Unless you're being goth frumpy as a defense mechanism because being yourself in a high school setting leaves you open for others to take advantage of you.
• Class Reunion: Duh
• Conversational Troping: The movie opens with Romy and Michele watching Pretty Woman and commenting on one of the Tear Jerker scenes. They are also rather Genre Savvy about their own genre: High School movies and comedy movies in general.
• Deadpan Snarker: As usual, Janeane Garofalo's character.
• Dumb Blonde: Dumb but loveable Romy and Michele. Hell, the Tag Line for this film is "The Blonde Leading The Blonde."
• Feigning Intelligence: They try to pass themselves off as inventors of the Post-It note... it doesn't work out so well
• Girl Posse: Christie, Kelly, and Lisa. Except Lisa left the group and made something out of herself.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Romy and Michele to a T.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Romy's alleged fatness as a teenager.
• Inventor Of The Mundane: Michele claims she invented Post-It Notes (it's a lie to impress her old high school people).
• Kissing Cousins: Michele lost her virginity to her cousin Barry.
• Rebel Relaxation: The Cowboy
• The Slacker: Rare female example.
• Spell My Name with an S: One L in Michele, people.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Romy to Christie:
  What the hell is your problem, Christie? Why the hell are you always such a nasty bitch? I mean, okay, so Michele and I did make up some stupid lie! We only did it because we wanted you to treat us like human beings. But you know what I realized? I don't care if you like us, 'cause we don't like you. You're a bad person with an ugly heart, and we don't give a flying fuck what you think!
• Throw It In: Lisa Kudrow (who, let the record show, has a biology degree from Vassar) made up the entire glue formula on the spot.
  Um, well, ordinarily when you make glue first you need to thermoset your resin and then after it cools you have to mix in an epoxide, which is really just a fancy-schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? And then I thought maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process and it turns out I was right.
• Valley Girl: They act so much like one but aren't rich.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?: An interpretive dance between three people as an act of rebellion in their high school reunion, and then taking off in a helicopter.