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I think that one reason this movie is the best teen movie is because it actually feels somewhat realistic. In some movies the mean girl will just say, "Your purse is so ugly! ewww," while in Mean Girls, they talk behind each others back and it's more passive-aggressive. Also, it's just quotable as heck and me and my friends quote it all the time.

the fact that mean girls is literally the story of Julius Cesar is my favorite thing ever

i especially love the end, where you can see how each plastic has become a normal person. it shows that after all, the whole plastics thing was just a mask

The script is insanely good and they got the perfect actresses, both are extremely hard to come by for a movie about teens.

I mean present day people still say “On Wednesdays we wear pink!” and celebrate October 3rd. So iconic.

My favorite part of Mean Girls is that Regina George gets a good ending. So many teen movies need to show the antagonist being punished, but these are just teenagers. They move on, learn, become better people. Regina George gets to move on and not forever be a mean girl.

What I didn't understand was that Cady got blamed for the entire Burn Book when she was a new student that year. There's no way she could have known the secrets and rumors of all of the girls in her class. Also, she had a point when she said that Janis made her into a Plastic to get back at Regina.

Mean Girls is proof that as weird as the plot is, the execution is what matters.

I legit never realized the only reason Regina befriended Cady was to keep her close because she perceived her as a threat.... This movie has so many layers that give it ultimate rewatch value lol

Fun fact: the principal’s carpal tunnel was a last minute addition to the script because the actor broke his hand a week before filming started

5:51 Rachel McAdams does a GREAT job. The way her smile is so wide, she's being friendly but you can sense the hostility and her high-pitched sugary sweet voice. like if I were cady i'd be thinking that something about her is so slightly off, but I wouldn't worry about it because she seems so nice! only when you look back, you start to see through it and how vicious she actually is (ok I don't know what I'm saying you get the point) dang she's good

The dumb popular girl trope being so overplayed is what makes Booksmart such a good movie. The girls assume that they are better academically than all the popular kids who party, but then they find out that the popular kids are going to yale too

the fact that janis was lebanese and that why regina thought that she was a lesbian is still the best part of the movie

I love how Glen Coco is the most referenced, popular character, yet he has barely ANY screentime, no lines, and we only see the back of his head! Thanks a million for all of your likes!

Shane’s kinda a real one in the sense he still liked and dated Regina when she thought she was “at her worst”, not ‘skinny’, not super fashionable, not flanked by her two minions, not ‘queen bee’

I'm a dude in my mid 30's and this is unironically one of my favorite movies any time the guys want to have a movie night. It just nails joke after joke after joke and then has a cheesy wholesome ending. Everyone makes fun of it until they watch it. It's just a great movie.

"That's why her hair is so big. IT'S FULL OF SECRETSSSSSSSSS."

The scariest line for me is Regina’s ‘So you agree?’ after telling Cady she’s pretty Legit gives me chills and reminds me people in my dad’s family who I never want to be around

"let me tell you something about aaron. all he cares about is school and his mom and his friends." honestly sounds like a pretty good guy to me

Janis shooting back “YOUR MOM’S CHEST HAIR” at a random kid makes me laugh so hard for no reason.

Mean girl was actually relatable, unlike those recent teen movies with the so forced “im not like other girls, but im actually like EVERY GIRL” that are very cringy

“You need permission to go to the bathroom? What is this prison?” Yes it is love....yes it is

I hate actually the way janis blaming cady for become like plastic when she is the one who insisting her to join the plastics. She's literally using Cady only to take her personal revenge and then throw her away just because she is infested with the plastics. And she didn't even apologize after that. Nahh Janis is worst than Regina

I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 12 with my cousin who was 10 and our moms. They definitely thought the movie was inappropriate for us being that young, but they loved loved loved the message at the mathletes competition where it finally sinks in to Cady about how calling other girls names and tearing them down doesn’t build you up at all and you have to actually focus on yourself and build yourself up.

Cady: The thing about regina is that I could hate her but at the same time still wanted her to like me. That's gotta be the most relatable thing I have ever heard.

"These sweatpants are the only thing that fit me right now." made me really sad

ok, lets be real, he got the slim/fat dynamic for girls, LITERALLY PERFECT. and people wonder why were crazy

"Homeschooled kids are freaks" That always offended me since I've been homeschooled my whole life😭😭😂

mean girls is actually so realistic. its dramatized, but accurate to how girls in high school really are. it works so well because of that

The joke about Janis at the end of the film went over my head for so many years. Regina got lesbian an Lebanese mixed up, and thats why she wasn't friends with her.

I love your message at the end. Lindsey and Amanda and all the other young ones around that time were making some really good stuff and it is very sad how the industry consumed them.

i feel like this movie singlehandedly changed the teen novel genre for over a decade before we got the more realistic one that doesnt revolve around popular kids vs. quiet kids

"She doesn't even go here." Is my favorite movie reference. Never gets old.

I actually can’t believe this is the first time he’s doing mean girls it’s so iconic

"She doesn't even go here!" "Do you even go to this school?" "No, I just have a lot of feelings." "Alright, go home" 😂😭😭😭

I feel like the early 2000’s would have been the greatest time to be a teen. So many great movies like this and great music. Sadly only got my early childhood in that awesome decade, would’ve loved to be in high school then, but it still is like how the movie portrays high school now and probably always will be. The most truthful movie about high school and how it’s a thing you’ll hate when you’re there but after always wish you could still be there having fun and being young and free.

This movie is actually pretty realistic, from what I experienced in my high school at least

alternative title : Alex Meyers roasting American high school for 18 minutes and 55 seconds straight.

“Tell me about it sister! Sometimes I get possessed by the spirit of Kathulu and I’m like BLEHHHHHHHHH” had me rolling on the floor (fr tho) 💀💀💀

This movie is actually good,but one time me and my grandad were watching netflix and I asked to watch mean girls,at the time he had no clue what it was at the time,but when I put it on,he didn't move,he just watched it,then the next time I came to his house,he was watching it again,no joke

I would just like to say, that the reason Regina wanted to bring Cady into the group was because of her beauty, and Regina saw her as a threat to her, so to stop that from happening she kept Cady in her control

Everyone’s talking about the “She doesn’t even go here!” but “Janice, I can not stop this car, I have a CURFEW!” is the best line.

"after somehow becoming friends with the plastics" got me laughing my cheeks off

The fact that mean girls was made 20 years ago is crazy ❤

The fact that the whole movie is based on the fact that Regina didn't know the difference between lesbian and Lebanese is sooo funny for me 😭😭

My favourite joke in Mean Girls is that Regina spreads the rumour about Janice being a lesbian when they were younger and she probably just didn’t understand that Janice was Lebanese 😂

I find it interesting that this movie essentially popularised the high school movie trope of having the group of three popular girls who rule the school or whatever, yet this wasn't actually the first movie to do it. The dynamic of the main characters feels really similar to the movie Heathers, even down to the roles taken

Mean girls is a perfect representation of a teenagers life- male and female. Although there are many comical advances in the movie, it delivers a good meaning and solution in the very end.

This movie is such a weird phenomenon. Its not a genre that I usually like, but Mean Girls was just such a force of nature that I can't help but consider it a classic.

"If you're from Africa...why are you white?" 😂😂😂😂💀 had me rolling

The fact that they kept saying she's from Africa and not saying which country pisses me off for some reason,like Africa is a whole continent🙃

5:28 "showchoir kids who still watch glee" no need to call me out like that😭😭😭

“Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that’s not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!”

YOU COMPLETELY MISSED THE ENTIRE JOKE OF THE MOVIE WHERE JANICE SAYS SHES LEBANESE AND REGINA THOUGHT SHE MEANT LESBIAN LMFAOO

6:45 I don't even have kids, but that right there, made me feel something lmfaooo or it might be the depression, work has been TOUGH

4:16 We never thought we’d wind up in a time where that character was smarter than real S.E. teachers but whoops we’re here now

"she doesn't even go here" is by far my favourite line of all time

The fact you just brushed over Regina getting hit by a bus so quickly kills me 💀😂

I had to hold my phone away from me during Regina screaming part cause oh my lord- just gosh💀

Mean Girls also “borrows” very heavily from a movie called Jawbreakers (like the candy). It was released in 1999, and it’s more of a dark comedy than Mean Girls. However, there are A LOT of similarities in their plots. Jawbreakers wasn’t very popular … so I guess the Mean Girls team thought they could get away with it. And they basically did. It’s like Divergent vs. The Hunger Games, but MUCH more obvious.

I was literally a home schooled girl white girl who immigrated from Africa. My first experience in public school was grade 9 in Canada. This movie is super realistic to me.

Cady being like "Well can I have the hall pass?" And then the teacher denying it made me realise how stupid school rules are

This is so true. Me and my friend used to say like cringy memes ironically and this has gotten to the point that we are just making cringy memes and references. This is my humor now and I hate it but I can’t stop.

When at the spring fling Aaron said “grool” to kind of make fun of cady, it reminded me of every time in liv and Maddie where Maddie says “ sUp dIgGiE” and dIgGiE says “sTuFf” then they just say that as a joke in literally every next heartbreaking/reuniting moment they have together.

When Alex started talking about how you have to be thicc and skinny at the same time I lost it because the beauty standards really are that stupid 😂😭😭

The sad thing is that Cady doesn't have any friends. Janis made her spy on Regina, the only time Cady, Janis and Damian spent some time together was when they were planning how to get a revenge on Regina.Janis and Damian make fun of her interest (to join a mathematic club means that she would be a loser) and they are all hurt when Cady doesn't invite them to her party. Why would she even do that? By the way it was so stupid how Janis spent all four years by hateing Regina, claiming that she destroyed Janis' life when in reality the only people who remember that Regina called Janis a lesbian are Janis, Damian and Regina.

15:13 Regina gets hit by a bus, saying it so casually

The real villain of the movie Janice because you wanted this girl to become friends with them and be like them to fit in what did you think was going to happen everyone hating her didn’t make sense the only one who should have been made was the boy she liked because she lied to him

"Don't have sex, 'cause you'll get pregnant and die" I'm just glad I'm a Virgin

i think mean girls is still iconic as it’s realistic (to the most part except for the jungle fight scene mood) 1) the whole school atmosphere is normal, busy corridors, lunch hall set up etc 2) regina, gretchen and karen act like modern girls where their bitchy behaviour is similar and not outrageous (like the flop sequel) 3) you kind of don’t want to root for anyone in the end as janis set it all up, cady became a plastic and the plastics were not good people to begin with and finally it’s quotable and a masterpiece

ALEX I NOTICED THE SHINING FORCE MUSIC DURING THE SURFSHARK AD. I NEEDED THAT 😭❤️

Alex just made up a way to describe unrealistic body standards better then anyone can

“A city in the Midwest where everyone eats like they can afford to go to the hospital” 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭

watching mean girls is literally a coming of age right of passage

As a German, at first I didn't even understand what the German Teacher said.

fun fact: my seccond cousin played janis. shes a pretty famous actress who lives in ny and she actually really nice

I love how he casually mentions Regina gets hit by a bus Edit: thanks for all of the likes

You know what would've been an interesting twist? If the plastics were actually really nice and friendly, and the unpopular kids were just being super bitter and unkind because they resented the kids who were more popular. I've seen that IRL and no fiction has ever really mentioned it.

You’re so smart. Taking the “this is weird” or “this sucks” and breaking it down the way you do? It will garner responses from people who agree and then you’re gonna get super fans who BLOW UP at the thought that someone else doesn’t like it. I applaud you. Please keep doing these. Very entertaining.

it may be weird or abnormal, but mean girls will always remain classic

'If you are african, why are you white?' As a white african that moved to the west, I have been asked that unironically more times than you would think 😂

I've used the "oh my god Karen you can't just ask people why they're white" quote more often than I wish I had to.

3:05 the fact this joke went so far over my head... alex made me realise after he spelt it out omg how did i not clock that

3:50 fun fact, what the german teacher says doesn't make any sense at all. "Bleiben Ihren vorgenannten Platz" would roughly translate to something along "Stay your aforementioned (or previously assigned) spot". I mean, its probably supposed to be something like "Remain seated" or "Stay where you are", which then would be something like "Bleiben Sie auf Ihrem Platz". It's only a small detail, but being German, I think the teacher being, like, a full on catastrophe in what they're trying to teach, adds to the humour of the scene. I wonder if they did it on purpose tho.

My fave quotes: "Shut up!" "If you're from africa how are you white?" "Evil takes a human form in regina george" That last one applies to the rich girls in my school

Saddest part about this movie is that there are people like this that actually exist. Thankfully I've never met any. I've always been stuck in the real world.

Tbh this represents more of high school than any other movie and the plastics are so much easier to believe as bullies then the othe movies

one of my favorite lines in the movie is when cady goes crying to janis and damian after the halloween party and she asks "why would regina do something like that?" and janis goes, "because she a life-ruiner, she ruins peoples lives."

It really does hold up well. They modernised it for the broadway musical and didn’t change any major plot details they just kinda added social media and it’s still great

In my head there’s the big four: Mean Girls, the Devil Wears Prada, Legally Blonde, and Clueless.. they’re all just a special breed of movie

10:50 At this exact time, I got an ad where they were ripping a bunch of things 😂

“Mean girls is the best teen high school movie” Heathers: HEY YALL-

"you need someone else's permission to go to the bathroom...what is this, a prison?" Yes. Yes it is.

You saying "almost 20 years later" gave me whiplash bc I was born in 04 and I refuse to believe I'm growing up

I got literally screamed at in the face when I was in first grade by a teacher for just simply accidentally dropping my notebook on the floor. Teachers are just so unnecessarily mean sometimes. ( And that's coming from being a teacher myself. )

Getting permission to go to the bathroom in school is actually so they know where to find you if there was an emergency. Some of my classes in college made you put your name on a paper before going to the restroom. It's all safety reasons. I mean there's more to it in highschool and lower but that's a big one.

I love this movie

When Alex starting explaining the double-standard of needing to be "slim thick" and needing to be thick in some areas but slim in others, I felt seen. Thankyou, this means alot to your female viewers ❤ Edit: Love how everyone in the comments section put me and other women down for caring what people say about us and turned it into a political debate, I just wanted to express my thanks to Alex.

As a former teacher, allow me to explain the reasoning behind draconian bathroom rules. With "normal human sane" bathroom rules in place(ex: yeah you can go but please wait like two minutes so I can explain what we're doing so you're not lost when you get back okay?), some kids just... go to the bathroom and never come back. And then their parents blame the teachers when they don't learn. Or they go to the bathroom and bang. Which is also somehow the teachers' fault. Or they just flat leave. Which is, you guessed it, the teachers' fault. Or they go to the bathroom 500 times per class and fail because they were never there which... you get the pattern. Teachers get sick of getting blamed, so they have to punish everyone (including themselves! Teachers don't like the mental load of having to regulate bathrooms like this either!) because some kids do dumb stupid shit.