Line #26 Film/ItsABoyGirlThing


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2	''It's a Boy Girl Thing'' is a 2006 [[FreakyFridayFlip body-swap]] GenderBender romantic comedy starring Creator/SamaireArmstrong and Creator/KevinZegers.
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4	Nell (Armstrong) and Woody (Zegers) are high school students and life long neighbours who have always got on each other's nerves: she is an uptight straight-A student and he is a [[BigManOnCampus popular football jock.]] On a field trip to a museum they start arguing in front of the statue of an [[{{Mayincatec}} Aztec god]]. The following morning they wake up in each other's bodies and HilarityEnsues...
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6	!!This film contains examples of:
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8	* AlphaBitch: Breanna, though she's more stupid and shallow than actually malicious. She does admit she is only dating Woody because he's Football team captain and she's using him to stay on top of the social pecking order, unfortunately for her one of the people she says it too is [=Woody-in-Nell=]. She also confesses to wanting to become a GoldDigger in the future by going after rich and famous guys.
9	* TheArtOfBraRemoval: [=Woody-in-Nell=] is frustrated when he tries to put Nell's bra on for the first time he thinks he finds taking them off his girlfriend is hard enough let alone putting one on.
10	* BadHairDay: One of Nell's difficulties the day of the field trip, the result of the RoadsideWave while walking to school.
11	* BelligerentSexualTension: Nell and Woody, though only after being forced to cooperate with one another. Beforehand, all indications are that they genuinely hated each other.
12	* BookDumb: Woody is a classic example, being a genius on the football field but a lousy student at best. He does have a good knack for thinking on his feet, or on Nell's feet as the case may be when he comes up with comparing various rappers to famous poets.
13	* BrainyBrunette: The intellectual Nell who has short brown hair.
14	* CallBack: Woody (in Nell's body) turns on Nell's stereo, hears "Candle In The Wind" by Music/EltonJohn and promptly turns it off in annoyance after a few seconds. Later on, Nell (in Woody's body) tries to get Horse to listen to the same song in the car - he doesn't like it either. This is also kind of BitingTheHandHumor, because Elton John was the executive producer of the movie itself.
15	* CharacterDevelopment: Noticeable for both protagonists, but especially for Woody, who starts off as a major [[JerkJock jerk]] toward more people than just Nell.
16	* ChekhovsGun: Over and over, we are shown Woody's love of early 2000s rap. When he needs to instead express his love of modern poetry to the Yale interviewer, what better medium is there than Eminem?
17	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Woody's cunning plan to get Nell a reputation as being a slut falls apart when Woody realizes just who is going to be experiencing the drunken sex.
18	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: While they're all various states of undress in the boys' locker room, Horse says he'd like Woody to [[AccidentalInnuendo rub his purple helmet for luck]]; meaning a football helmet Horse has right there with him. Why, what did you think he meant?
19	* EveryoneHasStandards: As Horse noted to Nell (in Woody's body), Woody has always been the "faithful type" when it comes to relationships whilst Horse gloats that he regularly cheats on his girlfriend. This shows that even in the past, as much of a jerk Woody was, he would never cheat on his girlfriend.
20	* EvilDetectingDog: Or cat, in this case. Nell's pet cat is somehow able to detect the body swap and definitely does not like Woody in Nell's body, hissing and scratching at "her" the morning after the swap.
21	* FreakyFridayFlip: Nell and Woody wake up in each other's bodies after an Aztec statue casts a spell on them.
22	* FutureLoser: What Woody fears being, deep down. Thankfully, he and Nell both [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned their happy ending and learned to respect each other]].
23	* GagPenis: Horse claims to have a 9 and a half inch one, and if the reaction when he turns up at the Homecoming Dance naked and the statement "My lord it's like the second coming" is uttered he's right. However at the dance this is just a source of embarrassment as he's been tricked into being naked.
24	* GenderBender: Via the FreakyFridayFlip.
25	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Played With, Nell wears panties with the days of the week printed out on them, which Woody-in-Nell's body is rather weirded out by. Amusingly given his macho jock persona, he seems more outraged by the print itself than by the prospect of having to wear girl's underwear.
26	* GoingCommando: After being unable to figure out how to put on Nell's bra Woody gives up and declares "Looks like we're going ''au naturel''."
27	* GrammarNazi: Nell and her father.
28	* JerkJock: Horse, who's a serial womanizer and philanderer. We're not really given any indications that he's ever been a bad friend to Woody though.
29	* MarketBasedTitle: In Denmark, the movie has been renamed to ''He's the Girl'', probably to capitalize on the popularity of ''Film/ShesTheMan''.
30	* MissedTheBus: One of Nell's difficulties the day of the field trip.
31	* MeaningfulName: Woody, who evidently [[StealthPun wakes up every morning with one]].
32	* NakedFreakOut: Nell when her top is torn off and she's accidentally topless in front of Woody.
33	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Invoked with Horse, he has no shame with changing for football and just stands around making [=Nell-As-Woody=] visibly uncomfortable. He also gets trapped outside mostly naked at the end of the movie.
34	* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Chanel takes vengeance on Horse for all his cheating by convincing him she wants to have sex with him in the bushes on the way to the Homingcoming Dance and then steals his clothes and drives away, leaving him wandering around town wearing nothing but a bowtie, socks, and shoes.
35	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Sharon Osbourne makes no effort to get rid of her British accent even though she is supposed to be as American as the rest of the cast.
36	* ProneToTears: It's not clear if Nell is always tearful, but she cries a lot in the few days she spends in Woody's body much to his embarrassment as he worries she'll make him look unmanly.
37	* RagingStiffie: When Nell first wakes up in Woody's body she has morning wood, much to her horror. After a few days waking as him she realises this happens to Woody's body every morning.
38	* RoadsideWave: One of Nell's difficulties the day of the field trip, intentionally caused by Woody and Horse as she walks to school after missing the bus.
39	* TheScream: Heard from afar when Woody-as-Nell [[ClothFu towel-flicks]] a classmate in the showers.
40	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: In order to ruin Nell's reputation, Woody begins dressing extremely provocatively while in her body. He quits when, as mentioned above, he realizes just who is the one experiencing all this.
41	* SlobsVsSnobs: Nell's mother Katherine looks down on Woody's family because they are not "the right sort of people" - they are rough, his mother swears, and they are much more working class than her.
42	** Katherine also thinks Woody won't amount to anything and has instilled this viewpoint on Nell, spending time with his parents whilst in Woody's body makes Nell realise his parents are good people with a lot of common sense wisdom. Woody's father Stan also reveals that he and Nell's father Ted used to be good friends till Katherine put a stop to it.
43	* ShipperOnDeck: Woody's parents and Nell's father Ted all approve of the idea of Nell and Woody as a couple. Woody's Mom encourages Nell to chase after Woody after the Homecoming game, and Ted and Stan can both be seen nodding approvingly at each other when [[spoiler:Nell and Woody head off into the sunset together at the end of the movie]].
44	* SlutShaming: We everyone thinks Nell has lost her virginity to Nicky on a whim rumours start circulating around the school about her and [=Nell-in-Woody's body=] finds her locker has been graffitied with the words "Slut Stuff" by someone.
45	* StrippingSnag: Nell's pajama top is ripped off when it gets caught in her window, causing her to flash her neighbor by accident.
46	* ToplessnessFromTheBack: When Woody in Nell's body is trying to put on a bra.
47	* TrainingMontage: [=Woody-in-Nell=] is being taught by [=Nell-in-Woody=] how to play football it is done over a montage set to music.
48	* TheTrickster: The oh-so slippery Tezcatlipoca.
49	* UptightLovesWild: With Nell as the uptight to Woody's wild.
50	* VoicesAreMental: When Woody and Nell swap bodies their voices stay with the bodies, but the thoughts of the characters are given as voiceovers in the possessors' voice.

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