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Clueless
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Clueless is a 1995 American teen comedy of manners, written and directed by Amy Heckerling.The film is loosely based on Jane Austen's Emma, but updates its Regency England setting for a Beverly Hills high school. The "handsome, clever, and rich" heroine is spoiled and shallow, but essentially good-hearted, teenager Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone). After she successfully matchmakes two of her teachers, Cher realizes that she enjoys bettering the lives of others around her, even though her ex-stepbrother Josh (Paul Rudd) doesn't believe she does it out of altruism.Cher decides her next project will be the mousy new transfer student, Tai (Brittany Murphy). In her attempt to transform Tai into a pretty and popular girl, shenanigans ensue. Cher grows up a little and realizes that she might not be so infallible after all.The film contains funny, but affectionate, jabs at early '90s teen culture, high school, and Valley Girls, and introduced a fresh wave of California slang across the world. Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, and Wallace Shawn also star.Three YA novels (Cher Negotiates New York, An American Betty in Paris, and Achieving Personal Perfection) actually carried on the story after the movie's end; when the TV series was developed, the novels became based on the show.Later inspired a TV adaptation that ran for three seasons (first on ABC and later on UPN) featuring much of the same cast as the film, with the notable exceptions of Silverstone (replaced in the lead by Rachel Blanchard), Murphy, and Rudd, who all went on to have successful film careers after the original was released.A Jukebox Musical adaptation had a short run off-Broadway from December 2018 through January 2019, but was poorly received. A new musical adaptation, featuring original music by KT Tunstall and lyricist Glenn Slater, is opening in the West End in 2024. A series of graphic novels based on the film (co-written by Amber Benson), Senior Year and Our Last Summer, were released by Boom! Studios in 2017 and 2018. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: While most of the time Dionne and Murray are snapping at each other, Cher notes they really are affectionate with each other when they think no one's looking. Same with Josh and Cher, as most of the time when the two are bickering, neither can stand it when the other gets hurt. (Cher disapproves of Tai liking Josh because she likes Josh; Josh argues with a lawyer who insults Cher over a minor mistake.) | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: The moment Cher declares high school boys "not boyfriend material", Christian walks in. (Subverted because it does turn out he's not boyfriend material, at least not for a girl.) Tai enters a party and immediately falls down the stairs, and worries that everyone will think of her as the fall-down-the-stairs girl. Cher reassures her that no one even saw it, but is interrupted by a random guy asking Tai if she's okay, since that fall looked really bad. | |
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Butch Lesbian | |
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Butch Lesbian: Cher describing her gym teacher Miss Stooger, who dresses and behaves in a masculine way but also gives good girl advice to some of her students on getting over bad break-ups form boys. She even wears a tuxedo to Mr. Hall and Ms. Geist's wedding at the end. | |
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Related Differently in the Adaptation | |
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Related Differently in the Adaptation: An unusual case in which the characters are technically no longer related. In Emma (upon which Clueless is loosely based), George Knightley is the brother of Emma's brother-in-law (her sister is married to his brother). In this film, Cher is an only child and the Knightley analog Josh is her ex-stepbrother (her father has since divorced his mother) who hangs around because he still has a good relationship with her dad. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: At the beginning, Cher helps give Tai a makeover and attempts to make her "fit in" as one of the new popular girls. This winds up backfiring on her later in the film when Tai's popularity at school skyrockets due to her "near-death experience" at the mall, leaving Cher less popular (if for a while, depending). | |
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Remake Cameo | |
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Remake Cameo: Brittany Murphy (Tai in the movie), Breckin Meyer (Travis) and Paul Rudd (Josh) all guest-starred on the series (respectively as Jasmine in "Driving Me Crazy," Harrison in "Do We With Bad Haircuts Not Feel?" and Sonny in "I Got You Babe"). | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Travis seems to lead a depressing teenage life, though he faces it all with a smile. He tries to commit suicide when he sees the grades on his report card and cheerfully thanks his parents for never giving him a ride to school, hinting at either Parental Neglect or simply them not having the means to help their kid ride to school (or both). This is all Played for Laughs. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Both Cher and Amber subvert this. Cher is rich, beautiful, and one of the most popular girls in school, but she doesn't act like a typical alpha bitch (though she is dismissive of Travis in the beginning). Amber does act like an alpha bitch, but a milder one, and Cher is higher on the high school social pecking order. Also, while the two snipe at each other, they don't seem to hate each other or try to destroy each other's lives. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Amber on taking her SAT and getting into Harvard: | |
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Parental Fashion Veto | |
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Parental Fashion Veto: Cher is about to head to a party (on a date with Christian) when Josh asks her dad if he's going to let her go out in what she's wearing, a white mini-dress. Cher's father asks her if that's what they're calling dresses these days, tells her it looks more like underwear and makes her put something on top. Which turns out to be a transparent wrap. | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Downplayed with Heather, who misquotes Shakespeare ("To thine own self be true") only to be corrected by the thus-far ditzy Cher. The irony is that she was quoting Hamlet (with a totally un-nuanced interpretation thereof) in order to back up her (rather vocal) opinion on a subject. | |
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Good Bad Girl | |
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Good Bad Girl: Most everyone, but especially Cher. The primary theme of the movie comes down to it being possible to be vapid, shallow, and even a little naughty (Cher is shown drinking and smoking a little at a party) while still having a good heart with good intentions. | |
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Retail Therapy | |
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Retail Therapy: Cher goes shopping whenever she's feeling down. This is actually used as a joke at one of the more serious parts of the movie, as she's mulling over how much of a mess she's unintentionally made of things while walking past a store. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: In an early Cher voiceover in the movie, she says that she and Dionne were "both named for famous singers who now do infomercials." The first season episode "I Got You Babe" is, of course, named for the famous Sonny & Cher song, and brings it all full circle, since the plot centers around Cher falling for a college student named... Sonny. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Several. Most involving Elton. One has him admiring his reflection in one of his CD's during one of Cher's inner monologues, another has him flossing his teeth during Ms. Geist's lecture on the Pismo Beach disaster. | |
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Birds of a Feather | |
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Birds of a Feather: Tai and Travis, who are both to some extent "stoners", end up becoming a couple. | |
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Scholarship Student | |
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Scholarship Student: Sean, even though he attends a public school. See Mock Millionaire. | |
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Token Minority Couple | |
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Token Minority Couple: Dionne and Murray, the only plot-relevant black characters, are dating. | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Bronson Alcott High is full of these. Cher's friends laugh when they find out Cher plans to get an after school job, they think she's joking. Dionne even calls her plan drastic. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: The Horowitzes. The series makes it more explicit with Cher singing "I Have a Little Dreidel". | |
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Gossip Evolution | |
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Gossip Evolution: By the time news of Tai's incident gets back to Cher (who witnessed it), it's turned into an attempted gang execution. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: When Travis donates his bong to the Pismo Beach disaster relief Cher is in charge of, Cher wonders where to put it until she guesses in the box labeled "kitchenware". Travis responds, "That's where I always put it." | |
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Suicide as Comedy | |
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Suicide as Comedy: Travis tries to jump out a (first story) window when he sees his report card. Mr. Hall nonchalantly holds him back. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Due to Christian being gay, there is no Jane Fairfax equivalent. | |
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Clique Tour | |
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Clique Tour: Cher shows Tai the ropes of high school by showing her the cliques as they walk up to the school entrance. She points out the people who run the TV station, the "Persian mafia", and the popular boys before the conversation is derailed. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: For accidentally screwing up the paperwork she helped her father label to "September files", one of the lawyers working for Cher's father gets mad and tells her to "go back to the mall or something". Cher leaves in tears and Josh berates the lawyer for doing that. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Subverted. The scene where Cher and Josh admit their feelings for each other and kiss is immediately followed by a wedding scene... at which point, Cher's voice-over points out how gross it is for anyone to assume that it's her getting married, seeing as she's only sixteen and "this is California, not Kentucky." The wedding is actually for the teachers she set up earlier in the movie. Also serves as commentary on the reality of Austen’s times, where girls very much did get married at 16 after four "dates." | |
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Status Cell Phone | |
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Status Cell Phone: The main characters all having mobile phones despite being in high school was intended as a joke about how spoilt and well-off they were. Modern viewers tend not to understand why a high school student with a mobile phone is supposed to be funny. | |
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Affair Hair | |
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Affair Hair: Dionne finds an entire braided hair extension in Murray's car, and accuses him of infidelity. When Murray jokingly suggests it may have fallen off Dionne herself, she reacts angrily, yelling, "I do not wear polyester hair!" | |
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Love Epiphany | |
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The setting of Cher's Love Epiphany (with the fountain suddenly coming to life) is one to Gigi; this is actually Lampshaded in the novelisation, where Cher talks about the setting being just like this movie she watched the other week with Christian,where a guy suddenly realizes he's in love with a girl he's known for years. It even has the theme from Gigi playing in the background of this scene. | |
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You Need to Get Laid | |
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You Need to Get Laid: In describing how unpleasant Mr. Hall is and how he doesn't have much of a life: "What this man needs is a good healthy boinkfest!" | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Cher has spent most of the movie using the power of persuasion to get her way, from earning higher grades in debate class rather than putting in actual work. Her dad encourages this behavior, as a lawyer. Then she tries the same tactics during her driving test after she makes some minor mistakes and then scrapes several parked cars. Her instructor isn't impressed by how she tries to talk her way into a passing grade and tells her that's not how life or road safety works. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Cher helpfully explaining how to attract a boy's attention, and the reasoning behind her methods: | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: When Christian asks Cher if she likes Billie Holiday. Cher replies: "I love him." Christian clearly sees through the lie, even if Cher remains clueless. | |
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Leg Focus | |
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Leg Focus: At one point Christian compliments Cher on her "nice stems" after he (and the camera) get a nice look at them. | |
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Teen Pregnancy | |
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Teen Pregnancy: The episode "PG Seventeen" focuses on the characters helping a classmate who finds out she's pregnant. | |
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Rip Tailoring | |
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Rip Tailoring: While making Tai over, Cher does this to her shirt to bare her midriff. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Cher's mansion. It's big enough to throw Mr. Hall and Ms. Geist's wedding. Also Dionne’s house, which is enormous and beautiful, even if it’s not a mansion. | |
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The Monolith | |
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The Monolith: Cher's phone, when she's waiting for Christian to call her back. | |
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All Periods Are PMS | |
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All Periods Are PMS: When Murray and Dionne have another one of their typical fights and they accuse the other of commiting infidelity, Murray asks her "Is it that time of the month again?". Cue the gasps of many students gathered around the couple listening and Dionne shooting Murray an angry look. | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms: When Murray is telling Cher that Christian is gay. | |
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure | |
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: When Tai expresses a crush on Josh and sees Cher's disapproval of it, she eventually snaps and says, "Why should I take advice from you? You're a virgin who can't drive." It's downplayed because Cher is obviously hurt; Tai immediately regrets saying that and they reconcile a few scenes later. | |
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Clueless / int_564caaae | |
Clueless / int_58fed037 | type |
It's Fake Fur, It's Fine | |
Clueless / int_58fed037 | comment |
It's Fake Fur, It's Fine: Cher responds to Dionne's giving her a hard time about her fur purse: "It's faux!" | |
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1.0 | |
Clueless / int_58fed037 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_58fed037 | |
Clueless / int_5a365ed2 | type |
Incompatible Orientation | |
Clueless / int_5a365ed2 | comment |
Incompatible Orientation: Cher and Christian (as he's gay). | |
Clueless / int_5a365ed2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_5a365ed2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_5a365ed2 | |
Clueless / int_5eff8cf | type |
High School AU | |
Clueless / int_5eff8cf | comment |
High School AU: The work takes the Regency England setting of Emma and relocates it to a 1990s California high school. | |
Clueless / int_5eff8cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_5eff8cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_5eff8cf | |
Clueless / int_5f4097ba | type |
Not Distracted by the Sexy | |
Clueless / int_5f4097ba | comment |
Not Distracted by the Sexy: To his credit, the street criminal who robs Cher doesn't even look down when she shows him her dress, explaining that it's an Alia. | |
Clueless / int_5f4097ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_5f4097ba | |
Clueless / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
Clueless / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Cher's report card. The comment from her (male) geometry teacher is "Nice shapes". | |
Clueless / int_62f9d08e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_62f9d08e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_62f9d08e | |
Clueless / int_644eca71 | type |
Rich Bitch | |
Clueless / int_644eca71 | comment |
Rich Bitch: Amber. She's bitchy and snobby enough to make one guy she dated (who's from the Valley and would later (briefly) date Cher as well) hate everyone from Beverly Hills, thinking everyone from the area is just like her, causing a problem when Cher later tries to date him on her undercover mission to buy her father a gift with her own money. | |
Clueless / int_644eca71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_644eca71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_644eca71 | |
Clueless / int_64f3ea6e | type |
Disneyfication | |
Clueless / int_64f3ea6e | comment |
Disneyfication: Even though Dionne and Murray had sex in the movie, they do not hook-up until the last episode of the show. | |
Clueless / int_64f3ea6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_64f3ea6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_64f3ea6e | |
Clueless / int_65bc92fc | type |
Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Clueless / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Cher (Sanguine), Dionne (Choleric), Christian (Melancholic), and Tai/Murray (Phlegmatic). | |
Clueless / int_65bc92fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_65bc92fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_65bc92fc | |
Clueless / int_668d2146 | type |
Progressively Prettier | |
Clueless / int_668d2146 | comment |
Progressively Prettier: The original Mel Horowitz was portrayed as balding, pudgy & tough. The second was noticeably softer and had regained a full head of hair, while third one◊ that's presented is even more relaxed, reasonable & mellow, noticeably taller as well as having, shall we say a different appeal. This was lampshaded in the voiceover in the first episode of season 2: "Thanks to a summer of my encouragement, calorie counting and booby-trapping the refrigerator, my totally prominent attorney daddy ... looks like a brand-new man." | |
Clueless / int_668d2146 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_668d2146 | featureConfidence |
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Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_668d2146 | |
Clueless / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
Clueless / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Cher's mother died during a freak complication during a routine liposuction. Granted, Cher doesn't really remember her that much, although she does pretend her mother watches over her and greets the large picture of her at the front door. Josh also teases her about this being her motive for wanting to make over Tai and treat her like one of her dolls. There is one surprisingly touching scene where, when she's insecure that she isn't a good person, her father tells her he hasn't seen so much good-doing since her mother, which seems to greatly comfort her. | |
Clueless / int_66dfe36a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_66dfe36a | |
Clueless / int_6db06839 | type |
The Stoner | |
Clueless / int_6db06839 | comment |
The Stoner: Travis He later gives up the drugs but keeps up the stoner vibe. Tai is depicted as a former stoner. | |
Clueless / int_6db06839 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_6db06839 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_6db06839 | |
Clueless / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
Clueless / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Likely what happened with Heather, who was just trying to make a point about living the life you want to live. | |
Clueless / int_71152dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_71152dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_71152dd | |
Clueless / int_71268450 | type |
Adaptation Title Change | |
Clueless / int_71268450 | comment |
Adaptation Title Change: Clueless is loosely based on Emma. | |
Clueless / int_71268450 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_71268450 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_71268450 | |
Clueless / int_714342fb | type |
Erotic Eating | |
Clueless / int_714342fb | comment |
Erotic Eating: Cher does this eating chocolates she bought herself in order to make the guy she likes jealous. | |
Clueless / int_714342fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_714342fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_714342fb | |
Clueless / int_71de9062 | type |
Zettai Ryouiki | |
Clueless / int_71de9062 | comment |
Zettai Ryouiki: Cher's iconic yellow plaid schoolgirl skirt/vest combo. Dionne wears some as well. | |
Clueless / int_71de9062 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_71de9062 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_71de9062 | |
Clueless / int_725583e8 | type |
Good Feels Good | |
Clueless / int_725583e8 | comment |
Good Feels Good: The premise is Cher coming to realize this. She starts out meddling in her teachers' love lives to schmooze them for better grades, then befriends the new girl she originally saw as a project. By the end, she volunteers to head a donation drive at school. | |
Clueless / int_725583e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_725583e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_725583e8 | |
Clueless / int_75d6bf40 | type |
Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
Clueless / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Cher and Josh who spend most of the time bickering and fighting before falling for one another and eventually dating. | |
Clueless / int_75d6bf40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_75d6bf40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_75d6bf40 | |
Clueless / int_77d826c7 | type |
Stern Teacher | |
Clueless / int_77d826c7 | comment |
Stern Teacher: The DMV instructor refuses to pass Cher on her driver's test — with good reason. | |
Clueless / int_77d826c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_77d826c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_77d826c7 | |
Clueless / int_7a2d9301 | type |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
Clueless / int_7a2d9301 | comment |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Cher and Josh are working on Mel's lawsuit. | |
Clueless / int_7a2d9301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_7a2d9301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_7a2d9301 | |
Clueless / int_7a54c458 | type |
Mock Millionaire | |
Clueless / int_7a54c458 | comment |
Mock Millionaire: Sean in "Graduation" is revealed to be this by faking his address to be at Cher's house (with the help of Mel), despite actually living in South Central, which violates the law to attend public school in Beverly Hills. He did it to be able to attend a good public school, since he couldn't afford private school, due to his mom working as a waitress at the restaurant where Mel usually eats. | |
Clueless / int_7a54c458 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_7a54c458 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_7a54c458 | |
Clueless / int_7ad2c23d | type |
ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
Clueless / int_7ad2c23d | comment |
Shout-Out to Shakespeare: When Josh and Heather (his then-girlfriend) are giving Cher a ride home and having a discussion: | |
Clueless / int_7ad2c23d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_7ad2c23d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_7ad2c23d | |
Clueless / int_7d04af5f | type |
Completely Off-Topic Report | |
Clueless / int_7d04af5f | comment |
Completely Off-Topic Report: On "City Beautification", the students are assigned to interpret the phrase "no man is an island". None of the students do it right (except Cher), as they instead tell about actual islands along with their experience vacationing there, how the phrase is actually a typo, and even how the phrase (and words in general) unfairly put the word "man" in it, instead of woman. | |
Clueless / int_7d04af5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_7d04af5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_7d04af5f | |
Clueless / int_7ebb1b7b | type |
Anti-School Uniforms Plot | |
Clueless / int_7ebb1b7b | comment |
Anti-School Uniforms Plot: The season one episode "The Party's Over" sees the school gain a new principal, who is disgusted with what he saw as the students' lack of discipline. His decision is to institute uniforms overnight, leading to Cher imagining the school becoming a place of robotic clones. The episode ends with Cher reworking the "I Have A Dream" speech into a speech about individual freedom with the principal conceding he was wrong. | |
Clueless / int_7ebb1b7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_7ebb1b7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_7ebb1b7b | |
Clueless / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
Clueless / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Several episodes involve Cher attempting to make people's lives better in some way and failing, or, as in "Secrets and Lies," the first Season Finale, tells someone an unpleasant fact that creates trouble. | |
Clueless / int_7fbb2a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_7fbb2a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_7fbb2a3 | |
Clueless / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
Clueless / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: In the first scene after the opening montage, we see Cher use a computer program to choose a suitably co-ordinated outfit for school, after which she heads to the kitchen and tries to persuade her dad to have a glass of orange juice with breakfast, reminding him that his doctor is concerned about his health. This establishes her as placing significant value on both personal appearance and the well-being of those she cares about, and it provides an early hint that she's not as shallow as she initially seems. | |
Clueless / int_7febc23b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_7febc23b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_7febc23b | |
Clueless / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
Clueless / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: Even though Heather's his girlfriend (at the time) and he's been engaged in Snark-to-Snark Combat with Cher up to this point in the movie, Josh laughs at Cher's line about how she remembers who said "To thine own self be true". (see Shout-Out to Shakespeare below). | |
Clueless / int_8042e814 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_8042e814 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_8042e814 | |
Clueless / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Clueless / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Cher calls Josh for a ride home from a party because her driver abandoned her: | |
Clueless / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_808cbaeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_808cbaeb | |
Clueless / int_8d4799d1 | type |
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl | |
Clueless / int_8d4799d1 | comment |
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Cher and Josh - she always pushes him to go out and have fun. | |
Clueless / int_8d4799d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_8d4799d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_8d4799d1 | |
Clueless / int_8df19151 | type |
Bouquet Toss | |
Clueless / int_8df19151 | comment |
Bouquet Toss: At the end of the film, the girls have a minor catfight over Ms. Geist's bouquet. It helps that their dates made a bet on which one of them will get the bouquet. | |
Clueless / int_8df19151 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_8df19151 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_8df19151 | |
Clueless / int_9b178667 | type |
Broke Episode | |
Clueless / int_9b178667 | comment |
Broke Episode: Cher and her father went broke in the season 2 finale, "Cashless", until "Back from Bakersfield" in season 3 when they're back to being wealthy. | |
Clueless / int_9b178667 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_9b178667 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_9b178667 | |
Clueless / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Clueless / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In his introductory scene, Christian (who's later revealed to be gay) stands in front of a sign saying "End Discrimination." In the scene where Cher is packing for her father and is surprised by Christian's call, he is at a museum; the painting behind him is of two men affectionately in an embrace, another foreshadow of his sexuality. The films that Christian watches on video with Cher, Some Like It Hot and Spartacus, provide clues to his sexual orientation. The first movie deals with cross-dressing men (who are escaping from a mob hit). The second includes the famous scene where a Roman master (Laurence Olivier) tries to seduce his male servant (Tony Curtis). The book Christian is reading during class, Junky by William S. Burroughs, is another clue and indication of his sexual orientation, as its author had strong homosexual desires. When Christian first appears at the class, Cher has new hopes for high school boys. However, as the shot pans from her gaze to him in the doorway, just over his left shoulder on the wall in the classroom is a cutout headline from the newspaper which reads, "On the Road to Nowhere." When Cher comes downstairs in her white Calvin Klein dress for her date with Christian, the Reaction Shot of her arrival is given to Josh and not Christian. | |
Clueless / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Clueless / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
Clueless / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Tai is unfazed by her habit of falling and hitting her head at every party she goes to. | |
Clueless / int_9d17b859 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_9d17b859 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_9d17b859 | |
Clueless / int_9f8a12d7 | type |
Who's on First? | |
Clueless / int_9f8a12d7 | comment |
Who's on First?: When Tai first meets Cher and Dionne, she asks them for an "herbal refreshment" meaning marijuana. Cher and Dionne, not understanding what she means, assume she is talking about tea and tells her that they don't have any tea to drink but they do have Coke. Tai excitedly asks if they really do have Coke here, assuming they're referring to cocaine. When in actuality Cher and Dionne were talking about the soda beverage Coke. | |
Clueless / int_9f8a12d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_9f8a12d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_9f8a12d7 | |
Clueless / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
Clueless / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: When it's pointed out to Cher that she's genuinely done something wrong or crossed the line, she feels genuine guilt over it. For example, when she casually assumes that Lucy the family maid is from Mexico when she's actually from El Salvador, once it's sunk in that this is actually quite rude and offensive of her, she's genuinely apologetic. | |
Clueless / int_a1b141f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_a1b141f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_a1b141f4 | |
Clueless / int_a3f1531b | type |
Standard Snippet | |
Clueless / int_a3f1531b | comment |
Standard Snippet: Cher's phone serves as The Monolith while Also sprach Zarathustra plays in the background. Cher explains that boys calling when they say they would is extremely rare, so she is appropriately surprised and impressed when Christian does call the following day. | |
Clueless / int_a3f1531b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_a3f1531b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_a3f1531b | |
Clueless / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
Clueless / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: At one point, the narration of Cher's rather glum introspection on her feelings for Josh and how everything seems to be going wrong for her is suddenly interrupted when she notices some nice clothes in a store window. The house party starts out fun, switches to Dionne throwing a dramatic fit over her boyfriend Murray shaving his head, and then back to the fun again. | |
Clueless / int_a4c37cbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_a4c37cbe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_a4c37cbe | |
Clueless / int_a5e0c01 | type |
As Himself | |
Clueless / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
As Themselves: The band Luscious Jackson, on "Sharing Cher" Salt-N-Pepa, whose song "Shoop" appeared on the film's soundtrack, make a cameo in an episode. | |
Clueless / int_a5e0c01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_a5e0c01 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_a5e0c01 | |
Clueless / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
Clueless / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: The actor who played Sean had a very small role (as a different character) in the film, but was elevated to main cast for the show. | |
Clueless / int_a65288e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_a65288e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_a65288e2 | |
Clueless / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
Clueless / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: The mugger gets no comeuppance for his assault on the high-schoolers. He vanishes into the night and is never seen or heard from again. | |
Clueless / int_a70223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_a70223 | |
Clueless / int_a90f0639 | type |
Entitled Bastard | |
Clueless / int_a90f0639 | comment |
Entitled Bastard: Elton, who Cher characterizes as a snob and a half after he says he couldn't date Tai because "do you even know who my father is?" | |
Clueless / int_a90f0639 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_a90f0639 | |
Clueless / int_aa98ca9a | type |
Artsy Beret | |
Clueless / int_aa98ca9a | comment |
Artsy Beret: Josh briefly has a pretentious college girlfriend, who talks condescendingly about philosophy and wears a beret. She's not quite as intellectual as she thinks she is, as she mangles a Shakespeare quote that Cher knows correctly. | |
Clueless / int_aa98ca9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_aa98ca9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_aa98ca9a | |
Clueless / int_abdc0b3f | type |
Held Gaze | |
Clueless / int_abdc0b3f | comment |
Held Gaze: One long held gaze happens between Cher and Josh towards the end which becomes The Big Damn Kiss with that as the lead-in. | |
Clueless / int_abdc0b3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_abdc0b3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_abdc0b3f | |
Clueless / int_af4d6174 | type |
Setting Update | |
Clueless / int_af4d6174 | comment |
Setting Update: Of Emma. Most of the plot stays the same, except it gets rid of some of the Values Dissonance of the Jane Austen novel, such as the marriage focus (having the Frank Churchill stand-in, Christian, turn out to be gay rather than secretly engaged, for example) and the class issues. Cher lampshades the former difference when her Relationship Upgrade moment and kiss-fest with Josh flips straight to a wedding where she says, "As if! I'm only 16!" and reveals it to be Miss Geist and Mr. Hall's wedding. | |
Clueless / int_af4d6174 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_af4d6174 | |
Clueless / int_b2280b66 | type |
Retcon | |
Clueless / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: Dionne's house in the movie is shown as Amber's house in the TV series. | |
Clueless / int_b2280b66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_b2280b66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_b2280b66 | |
Clueless / int_b5c56995 | type |
Corrupt the Cutie | |
Clueless / int_b5c56995 | comment |
Corrupt the Cutie: Cher and Dionne's makeover to Felice unintentionally causes a sweet, nerdy, studious, smart girl turning into a beautiful, school-skipping, flirty, (deliberately) stupid girl. | |
Clueless / int_b5c56995 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_b5c56995 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_b5c56995 | |
Clueless / int_b6db5695 | type |
Political Overcorrectness | |
Clueless / int_b6db5695 | comment |
Political Overcorrectness: Cher mockingly asks Amber if she prefers to be called "ensemble-y challenged". Dionne claims that being a virgin, and not just a technical virgin, is called "hymenally challenged". | |
Clueless / int_b6db5695 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Clueless / int_b6db5695 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clueless | hasFeature |
Clueless / int_b6db5695 | |
Clueless / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
Clueless / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Lucy gets mad when Cher mistakes her for a Mexican (she's from El Salvador). After she storms out of the room, Cher comments to Josh that she doesn't see what the big deal is, and Josh says, "You get upset if anyone thinks you live below Sunset." | |
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Previously Overlooked Paramour | |
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Previously Overlooked Paramour: Near the end of the movie, Cher realizes that she is in love with Josh, her idealist "ex-stepbrother", who is not afraid to call Cher out on her superficiality. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: A modern-day adaptation of Emma by Jane Austen. | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Cher, Dee and Tai, respectively, with Dee as the Token Minority type. Amber replaces Tai in the show. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Episode 8 of Season 3 was titled "Never P.E.T.A. Squirrel". | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Josh claims he would "die of shock" if Cher ever did something that was less than 90% selfish, and she replies that that would be reason enough for her, making it 100% selfish no matter what it was. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Though at first nearly every character from the movie appeared in some capacity on the TV series, this was gradually whittled down to just the core five of later seasons. | |
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Informed Judaism | |
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Informed Judaism: Cher and her dad, mentioned only when the plot demands it. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In "The Party's Over", after Cher hears that the new principal might institute uniforms at Bronson Alcott High, she envisions a dystopian nightmare much like the music video to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall." | |
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Four-Girl Ensemble | |
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Four-Girl Ensemble: Dionne (sexy and glamorous), Tai (ditzy and clueless), Amber (snarky and haughty), and Cher (conflicted protagonist). | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Cher gets called out on the more self-interested aspects of her 'altruism' at several points, most frequently by Josh. She gradually takes these criticisms on board and tries to improve herself, becoming genuinely altruistic in the process. | |
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Unlimited Wardrobe | |
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Unlimited Wardrobe: Since the leads all come from families with tons of money and are interested in fashion, they are understandably shown in a variety of outfits. Lampshaded in that Cher has a computer program to assist her in matching clothes and takes Polaroids when trying to decide between different outfits. | |
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Longing Look | |
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Longing Look: Tai shows one for Travis. Travis shows several for Tai when Cher tried to fix her up with Elton. Josh and Cher exchange these multiple times to each other without the other knowing, much to a lawyer's annoyance. | |
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Flirty Stepsiblings | |
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Flirty Stepsiblings: Cher and Josh, who initially fight like siblings but end up getting together romantically. It helps that their parents are no longer married. | |
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Reaction Shot | |
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When Cher comes downstairs in her white Calvin Klein dress for her date with Christian, the Reaction Shot of her arrival is given to Josh and not Christian. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: While narrating how she was trying to find a suitable Ms. Right for Mr. Hall, Cher narrates how "the evil trolls from the Math department" were actually married, then momentarily gets distracted by their Snickers candy bar before moving on to describe gym teacher Miss Stoger and last but not least Ms. Geist. | |
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Can't Take Criticism | |
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Can't Take Criticism: Downplayed with Cher, who thinks grades are something to be negotiated, instead of a reason to improve her schoolwork. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Mel Horowitz. He seems scary at first but is actually open-minded and understanding. It's also implied he's aware of Josh's crush on Cher and approves. | |
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Don't Tell Mama | |
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Don't Tell Mama: When Dionne finds out Murray is shaving his head at the party, she gets angry and tells him she's going to call his mother. Murray, who had been mocking her up to this point, immediately gets upset and pleads with her not to call his mother. | |
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex | |
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Dionne and Murray do this after she almost gets into an accident while driving on the freeway. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: The movie has no central antagonist. Amber, the character who butts heads with Cher and her friends the most, never outright tries to sabotage them at anything and isn't always wrong in her criticisms of Cher. A lot of the conflict or manipulation from the film comes from Cher's own well-meaning (or at least non-malicious) poor decisions. Elton and the mugger are certainly antagonistic, but only for brief scenes without much impact on the main story. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: Cher apparently thinks the rule to "pause" at intersections is about mentally pausing, and breezes through one without stopping. | |
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Interrupted Intimacy | |
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Interrupted Intimacy: Josh is busy making out with his girlfriend when Cher phones him to come pick her up. | |
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Reconstruction | |
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Reconstruction: It's difficult to imagine now but the whole Teen Movie genre was moribund in the early '90s; Clueless was the first commercial and critical success in many years, perhaps because it was such an exuberant return to the optimism of the '80s genre films. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Several characters, as the film is basically a Setting Update of Jane Austen's Emma. Cher is Emma Woodhouse. Josh is Mr. Knightley. Cher's father is Mr. Woodhouse. Tai is Harriet Smith. Christian is Frank Churchill. Travis is Robert Martin. Elton is Mr. Elton. Amber is Mrs. Elton. Ms. Geist is Miss Taylor/Mrs. Weston. Mr. Hall is Mr. Weston. To a lesser extent, Dionne and Murray are Isabella and John Knightley. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: | |
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Not Blood Siblings | |
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Not Blood Siblings: Cher and Josh. Ex-stepsiblings in this case; Josh's mother and Cher's father had married and subsequently divorced each other when Cher and Josh were younger. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: With Moesha. Shar Jackson and Lamont Bentley appeared on "Prom Misses, Prom Misses" (Season 3, Episode 20) as their respective characters, Niecy Jackson and Hakeem Campbell. | |
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Adaptational Angst Downgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Downgrade: The scene in which Cher carelessly offends Lucy with her "I don't speak Mexican" comment and is chided by Josh is a loose, and much less serious, equivalent to the pivotal scene from Emma in which Emma publicly insults Miss Bates at the picnic and is sternly reprimanded by Mr Knightley. However, numerous other events, such as the failure of her driving test and her fight with Tai, collectively send Cher into the same inner turmoil that the events at the picnic induced for Emma. | |
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Geeky Analogy | |
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Geeky Analogy: Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot: When Cher is having an inner monologue about people finding love, it cuts to a few teenage couples outside the Christmas party making out, one of whom is puking his guts up into the swimming pool while his girlfriend aids him. | |
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Geeky Turn-On | |
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Geeky Turn-On: Tai and Travis bond over Marvin the Martian. | |
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The Glasses Gotta Go | |
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The Glasses Gotta Go: Cher and Dionne give Mrs. Geist a speedy makeover that mostly consist of removing her glasses, tucking her shirt and fluffing her hair. | |
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Fallen Princess | |
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Fallen Princess: Cher (when she was broke), from a rich and popular Beverly Hills princess, to a Greasy Spoon waitress, as described by Dionne below: | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Cher undoes her pigtails to get her hair down and Josh gets distracted, much to their lawyer's annoyance, and gets called out on it. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Cher interrupts her voiceover with "Ooh, Snickers..." when she's looking around the teacher's lounge. Also there are a few brands mentioned in the movie, such as Calvin Klein and Fred Segal, and the outfit Cher buys during her walk in Rodeo Drive is from Christian Dior, as seen later from her shopping bag. Cher is also seen with a Starbucks cup in few scenes. Diet Coke cans are seen multiple times during the film. | |
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Teens Love Shopping | |
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Teens Love Shopping: Cher, Dionne, and all their friends from school's favorite hobby and way to relax is shopping and hanging out at the mall. | |
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Wedding Bells... for Someone Else | |
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Wedding Bells... for Someone Else: After Cher and Josh get a Relationship Upgrade, Cher's narration says that the viewer can probably guess what happened next. The scene then cuts to a wedding... it's not theirs though, it's the teachers' Cher was 'shipping at the beginning, and she berates the viewer for thinking the former. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Amber accuses Cher of talking about "some little party" instead of their assigned debate topic, but Cher points out that it was her dad's fiftieth birthday, which is hardly little. Travis thinking his record of getting to class late the most times is cause for celebration - complete with acceptance speech. | |
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Answer Cut | |
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Answer Cut: After Christian ends his date with Cher early, she wonders why he didn't respond to her: | |
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Break-Up Bonfire | |
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Break-Up Bonfire: While they weren't actually together, Tai decides to burn the items she held on to that reminded her of Elton in Cher's fireplace. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Cher and her friend Dionne share first names with '70s singers, apparently so the leading male character could be called Elton, like his counterpart in Emma (although in the case of the novel character, that was his last name). | |
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Overcomplicated Menu Order | |
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Overcomplicated Menu Order: In the TV show version, Cher and Dee have a favorite restaurant to go to for lunch period, which has "the best" Chinese Chicken Salad - which they order without the chicken or dressing. They pay $12 for a bowl of lettuce. | |
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Doting Parent | |
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Doting Parent: Amber's dad spoils her rotten, so rotten that he is willing to move his entire family to Cher's house when her family is broke and later move back to his family's old house when Cher regains her wealth, all because of Amber. His wife despises him for being one. | |
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