Fan-Preferred Couple: Despite Virgil being in love with Stephanie to the point that the film ends with them getting a Maybe Ever After, you will find next to no fanfiction pairing him with her. Instead, most fans prefer to pair him with either of his co-male leads, Zeke or Charlie. Zeke/Virgil is arguably the most popular due to the chemistry between Jason Dolley and Nicholas Braun and Zeke being the most popular character from the film. Charlie/Virgil is popular because of the large amount of screentime dedicated to their friendship and is also more popular than Charlie's canon relationship with Jeanette.
The Scrappy: Most modern reviewers will comment on how creepy and annoying Jeanette is; her crush on Charlie is uncomfortable, and her quirkiness is more irritating than endearing.
Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: With the exception of Virgil (who does jump onto being an asshole in the third act but gets better), Charlie, and Zeke, a huge chunk of the cast are popular assholes, the students the Minutemen do save just become assholes and just like the popular kids, and the staff (especially Vice Principle Tolkan) do nothing about it since it'd be "breaking the food chain".
The Band:
Harsher in Hindsight: In the early-mid 1980s, "Corona" was written after the band took a day-trip to Mexico during Independence Day in 1982 and D. Boon caught wind of the more downtrodden elements of the area.note The Title Drop was referring to the beer brand; the morning after, Boon had witnessed a woman picking up empty beer bottles on the beach to bring to a redemption center. In 2020, the song became an unofficial anthem of the COVID-19 Pandemic, as the things that happened during this time period were eerily reminiscent of the song's lyrics.
Memetic Mutation: Mike Watt's flannel. Later on, this was referenced by fIREHOSE's Flyin' the Flannel, which fittingly featured a closeup of a flannel shirt on the cover.
More Popular Spin-Off: George Hurley, Mike Watt, and D. Boon were initially in a band called The Reactionaries, which was essentially Minutemen with Martin Tamburovich on lead vocals.
Sampled Up: "Get Out" by Sublime samples the drum intro to "It's Expected I'm Gone". The drum part to Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice" is also suspiciously similar. The drum part was used yet again by Pinback in their song "Hurley", named after George Hurley.
