Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The opening of "The Blame Game" features Miss Kisskillya imagining herself in a parody of the opening of Scream where she ominously threatens to give Lemonjella and Orangejella detention over the phone. While it's implied to be a result of Kisskillya's toothache causing her to imagine things, it's got no bearing on the plot and never gets mentioned in the rest of the episode.
Cult Classic: The show is seen as decent these days, although some see it as a rip off of Recess.
"Boyz 'N the Parenthood": Emmitt sitting on the curb waiting his father to come and pick him up so they can spend the weekend together, but he never shows.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: It has often been accused of being a Recess rip-off, even though the only things the shows share are being late '90s animated series about kids in a school dealing with a mean teacher. Other than that, both shows are completely different and don't follow the same formula.
Toy Ship: Shareena and Emmitt. All the friends had histories dealing with each other's quirks, but a few of Emmitt's charismatic yet comically misled moments really brought out the snark in Shareena.
One of the bullet points in Taylor's guide to not being a total reject states "your lack of faith in the durability of Kesha is disturbing." That joke became funny once Kesha did indeed fall from mainstream popularity… only to became a lot less funny come 2016 once people learned precisely why her career flatlined so quickly. Then it became funny again when, come 2017, Taylor was proven right and Kesha enjoyed a Career Resurrection.
Sander being motivated to murder people because Riley won't put out is harder to watch in the wake of multiple mass shootings, especially Isla Vista, which were committed for similar reasons.
Hilarious in Hindsight: A girl named Taylor gets thrown out a window and lands on top of a car in a film directed by Joseph Kahn. Is this the opening scene of Detention, or the opening of the video for "Bad Blood"? (Though in the latter case, she gets better.) Even the way in which they're splayed out◊ atop the car◊ looks eerily similar.
Similarly, the mention of Hoobastank in the "BITCH" acronym seemed like just a weird and dated reference when the film came out… fast forward to 2017 and the release of Sonic Forces, which includes vocals by the lead singer of Hoobastank in its main theme.
Hollywood Homely: Toyed with. Riley's injured foot and clumsyness may be a reference to the high school film cliche.
One-Scene Wonder: Taylor Fisher. She would have become The Scrappy if she had gotten more than one scene… but oh, what a scene.
Andrea Perron went from battling a psycho killer to battling a haunting.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Taylor Fisher. A lot of the movie's haters considered her to be the only funny part and wish she'd lasted longer.
Unintentional Period Piece: The opening scene is as much a "Mister Sandman" Sequence for 2011 as the actual "Mister Sandman" Sequence that we get for 1992, while the rest of the film is filled with gags about Torture Porn films, fad diets, '90s nostalgia, and the culture clash between the teens of the early '90s and the early '10s.
◊ atop the car
