History Headscratchers / EasyA

** It's not like they signed a legal contract. And given that not a one of them was willing to help when she was in distress, screw the lot of them.

* Now that Olive has revealed that all those guys never slept with her, will they demand a refund? Are they entitled to?..

* Pretty much everything about Rhiannon bugs me, but let's start with the most glaring piece of FridgeLogic: When Olive first "confesses" to losing her virginity, Rhiannon sqeals, ''"Finally!"'' Then, like a minute later, it's implied that she herself is still a virgin. Why would she feel it's high time that Olive had sex when she herself never has? Aren't they the same age?

* Brandon [[spoiler: '''running away from home to shack up with an older man''']]. I certainly feel his pain, but that's what we in the gay community call "A bad idea."

* Early in the movie, in the podcast framing device, Olive talks about how the book you study in English always ends up being relevant to your life and makes the Huckleberry Finn comment. Since this happens early on, it counts as a BrickJoke / {{Foreshadowing}} when [[spoiler: Brandon runs away with a big black man]]. However, in the film's chronology, Olive filmed the podcast ''after'' she found out about Brandon, which begs the question of why she made the comment in the first place and why she made the "My apologies to Mark Twain" comment after she found out.

** They probably didn't think it would be confusing and would be taken as a joke.

** Him ''not'' being Olive's biological father, and Olive (and her mother) calling him her "father" don't have to be mutually exclusive. Specifically, some children whose parent re-marries, regard their stepfather/stepmother unequivocally as their father/mother and call them that, especially if they get along very well (which certainly Olive did seem to with both her parents), and if the step-parent has been a parent figure in the child's life since the child was young [[note]]according to a WMG theory, Olive (and her older brother who's only mentioned but not shown in the movie)'s biological father could be a previous husband of her mother's, after which her mother remarried to her currant husband, and with him, adopted Olive's youngest brother; that little brother doesn't seem to differ ''that'' much in age from Olive, which would mean Olive has known the man she now calls her father from a young age on.[[/note]].

**** Yes, they never say that he's older, just tall. If he was, that would have made the HuckleberryFinn reference ''very'' [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]].

* When Olive's dad says to her, "You must be related to me," she replies, "Only by marriage," which I assumed was implying he's her stepdad. Later on, her mom refers to him as "your father" in a context that strongly implies he's her biological father. But if that's the case, what's the point of confusing viewers with that "only by marriage" joke?

** She was describing everything she felt/ did in the moment, so maybe she thought, in order to be honest, she had to say everything, even if she already knew it was wrong

*** Plus, I felt that it was preferable that Todd just wait until he got Olive's side of the story, rather than one of the stories where the LoveInterest just strides in and magically fixes everything wrong in the heroine's life. The point was that A) Olive started the rumour, Olive decided to lie and it's Olive's story, she has to be the one to take responsibility and fix it. And B) Whenever someone gets involved in Olive's business, it's because they want something from her or are trying to control the situation somehow (Brandon wanted her to lie, then others guys asked for the same thing, Marianne wanted to run Olive out of schoo, etc.) For Todd not to get involved, aside from to ask Olive herself, implies to me that he's not asking because he's going to demand something off Olive or expect a favour, he's doing it because he's her friend.

*** She originally only fed it to help Brandon, who's sexuality was getting him bullied constantly and resulting in him being blamed for all his trouble. And even there, she only did so because no one else would. After that, she got annoyed at how people were treating her and talking about her because of it, so she basically decided 'Screw it, you want a tramp, HERE!' Her feeding it was merely her reaction to the rumours. There's also the fact that she, at least to some extent, enjoyed the new-found fame she got as it gave her an identifier, something she didn't have previously. Like Elliot in ''Scrubs'', it may not be the ideal way to be known, but at least she's known. Of course, doing so was childish and the reality of her reputation soon became clear to her, which was why she realized she had to fix it. The film is largely a WayToBreakItHero plot; she 'broke' her reputation by allowing herself to be known as 'the one that ReallyGetsAround', and she had to try and fix it. There's also the fact that, as she says at the end, it shouldn't ''matter'' if she's a virgin or not, or if she's slept with all these people or not, its, frankly, ''nobody else's damn business WHO she sleeps with''.

** Maybe she did it deliberately, because she thought it was funny.

**** She was talking about painful urination and bloody discharge while they were eating- its fairly safe to that that's unattractive first date etiquette.

** I took it as Olive's inexperience in relationships. She honestly thought that the marriage breaking up was worse than him not knowing[[hottip:*:probably forgetting that he might get chlamydia if they ever had sex again...yeah]]. It's the sort of thing that doesn't make sense if you think about it, but Olive wasn't thinking anything but "happy in relationship->my doing something->broken relationship", so blamed the step from point A to point B, her action.

* Early in the movie, in the podcast framing device, Olive talks about how the book you study in English always ends up being relevant to your life and makes the Huckleberry Finn comment. Since this happens early on, it counts as a BrickJoke / {{Foreshadowing}} when [[spoiler: Brandon runs away with a big black man]]. However, in the film's chronology, Olive filmed the podcast ''after'' she found out about Brandon, which begs the question of why she made the comment in the first place and why she made the "My apologies to Mark Twain" comment after she found out.

** If this is a reference to Mr. Griffith, he never believed the rumors. Yes, Olive essentially announced to the school that she was going to have sex with Todd during the podcast. But in some ways, Mr. Griffith is Olive's closest friend at the school. He would have some idea whether or not the announcement was other than what it seemed. He may also be wondering about the background to Olive's long, shouted one-liner about how his wife was cheating on him. He may have been even hoping to see Olive in a risque situation, just to see that she has changed and restore his faith in his wife. There are several reasons he might have been watching besides the one that motivated most of the rest of the viewers.

** Exactly as others put, its not really his business to interfere with her, or he's too busy with his own stuff. I mean, for all the good parts of the film, he's largely a ShallowLoveInterest, who exists for her to desire him. All that's important is he's aware of the rumours, he doesn't particularly believe in them because he knows her, but in spite of those rumous, he's not after sex. He just happens to like her as a person.