Trivia / Odd Girl Out

• Actor-Shared Background: Alexa PenaVega knew first hand about bullying, having experienced it in middle school over her acting career.
• Blooper:
  • When the girls follow Vanessa off to the restroom just to gossip about her, Nikki then snaps a picture of her feet on the floor underneath the stall and posts said picture on her hate website even though Vanessa was crouching on the toilet at the time.
  • Upon arriving at the disastrous party, Barbara tells Vanessa to lock the car door while she investigates. It was already locked when she said this.
  • When the camera fades to black right after Barbara discovers that Vanessa overdosed on sleeping pills, there's a split-second of a faint stifle of laughter.
• Dawson Casting: While most of the actors were teens, Elizabeth Rice (Nikki) was actually twenty. Alicia Morton was also eighteen playing Tiffany.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Initially averted, as Alexa Vega just wore a wig for Vanessa's post haircut scenes. However, in the actual haircut scene, she accidentally snipped some of her own instead of the fake hair pieces she was meant to.
• Follow the Leader: As a film about girl-on-girl bullying, Based on an Advice Book, this is basically Mean Girls Played for Drama. It debuted almost a year after Mean Girls was in theaters.
• Technology Marches On: It's very obvious this is a mid 2000s work. While it does touch on cyber-bullying, the taunts are delivered via a website set up to humiliate Vanessa and instant messages. In fact, one of the reasons the principal can't take harsher action on the bullies is because she can't prove their identities via the screen names. The fact that there's not a mention of Facebook is very telling. Especially since one of the stunts involves telling Vanessa there's a party on somewhere when there isn't; in the days where anything is done with an event invite, Vanessa likely would have caught on to the ruse. Finally Vanessa is filmed being taken into an ambulance by a guy using a video camera rather than a smartphone.
• Tom Hanks Syndrome: Alexa PenaVega sought the role out to show people she wasn't just lighthearted children's films like Sleepover.
• Typecasting:
  • Leah Pipes played a near identical self-obsessed Alpha Bitch in Sorority Row a couple of years later.
  • Elizabeth Rice basically played Nikki in the 1960s in Mad Men too.
• What Could Have Been: The film was originally going to be adapted as a HBO telefilm, but ended up on Lifetime instead.