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17 Again (2009)

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17 Again is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Burr Steers.Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is the Big Man on Campus. He's the star of the high school basketball team, his girlfriend is the hottest girl in school, and he's about to be offered a scholarship. But his life takes a turn for the worse after he discovers his girlfriend is pregnant.Flash Forward twenty years, and Mike (Matthew Perry)'s life hasn't improved. His wife Scarlet (Leslie Mann) has kicked him out, his kids Alex (Sterling Knight) and Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) both hate him, he's just been fired, and he's living with his geeky but much richer best friend Ned Gold (Thomas Lennon). After going to his old school to pick up his kids, Mike is approached by a mysterious janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) whom he tells that he'd do anything to relive the Glory Days. On his way home, Mike sees the same janitor about to jump off a bridge. Rushing to save him, he topples over the edge and lands in a whirlpool.When he crawls out and gets back to his friend's place, Mike discovers he's been turned into his 17-year-old self. Now he has a chance to sneak into the lives of his family and get another chance at the life he wanted.Not to be confused with the film Seventeen Again (2000) starring Tia and Tamera Mowry and Tahj Mowry, or the film 18 Again! (1988) starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. Meanwhile, a South Korean remake called 18 Again was released in 2020 as a television series.
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Mike finally proves to Scarlet who he is and that everything he has done was to help his family.
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: Ned is particularly well-versed on what kind of fiction tropes would've triggered Mike's transformation, as shown when he tries to figure out:
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Maggie gets the hots for 17-year-old Mike, whom she doesn't realize is her father, because he comforts her when Stan breaks up with her because she didn't want to have sex.
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: Zac Efron gets a couple shirtless scenes showing his well-toned physique.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: Don't make fun of Mike's son, Alex while the latter is watching.
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Parents as People
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Parents as People: Both of the O'Donnell parents are shown as flawed and sympathetic. Justified by the fact Mike and Scarlet were both teenage parents, and unprepared to deal with raising kids. Mike needing to get over this is the whole point of the movie.
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Girl Posse
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Girl Posse: Maggie has a trio of friends who hang around her composed of Jamie, Samantha, and Lauren.
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Training Montage
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Training Montage: After bonding with Alex as a teenager and learning he's got a budding talent in basketball, Mike coaches his son and they both make it into the school team.
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Time Marches On
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Time Marches On: Compare the 1989 cheerleaders with the later ones. Also, guys fighting in school would have been common enough back in 1989, but everyone recording the fight on their hand-held devices and uploading it to YouTube nowadays is kind of a new feature.
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That Was Not a Dream
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That Was Not a Dream: In a Shout-Out to Back to the Future, Mike deliriously tells his daughter that he dreamed he was 17 again.
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Sexy Soaked Shirt
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Sexy Soaked Shirt: When Mike returns home and looks in the mirror, he sees his seventeen-year-old self completely soaking wet... and wearing a complete suit.
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Be Yourself
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Be Yourself: Ned's pursuit of the principal is ineffectual as long as he's playing up his Man of Wealth and Taste persona; it's only after he reveals himself to be a Lovable Nerd that they connect, as she's a closet nerd as well.
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Bookends
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Bookends: Mike is playing basketball; Scarlet walks into the room; he resumes playing basketball; she starts to leave; and he abandons the ball and chases after her. The parallel plays out up until the dramatic twirl, when he strains his back and has to put her down.
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Mistaken for Gay
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Mistaken for Gay: Maggie concludes that (17-year-old) Mike is gay after he is obviously squicked by her advances.
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Likes Older Women
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Likes Older Women: Due to his attraction to Scarlet, this is how 17-year-old Mike's tastes would appear to everyone else.
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Parental Incest
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Parental Incest: Mike's daughter falls for him briefly, albeit without knowing that he's her dad. Thankfully it goes no further than that.
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: When Mike convinces Ned to pose as his dad and enroll him in high school. Used in both the movie and the trailer.
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Full-Name Ultimatum
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Full-Name Ultimatum: "Margaret Sarah O'Donnell!"
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Flexibility Equals Sex Ability
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Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Lauren, one of Maggie's friends, flirts with Mike by bragging she's so flexible she got kicked off the cheerleading squad.
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Unwanted Harem
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Unwanted Harem: Several school girls and eventually, his daughter and his somewhat confused wife, fall for Mark, actually Mike.
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Almighty Janitor
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Almighty Janitor: With a title like 17 Again, it was inevitable.
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Hated by All
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Hated by All: Alex is hated by literally everyone in the school, especially Stan.
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Alex has a major crush on the head cheerleader Nicole and actually gets her.
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Cultural Translation
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Cultural Translation: In the trailer, Michael says to his friend, "You look like Clay Aiken!". In the Russian version of the trailer, his line was replaced with "You look like Elton John!". Apparently, this is done because most Russian viewers don't watch American Idol and have absolutely no idea who the hell Clay Aiken is, while Elton John is quite famous. But the problem is that this guy does resemble Clay and in fact doesn't look like Elton.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mike gives one to Stan the first time they talk, utterly annihilating him in front of the entire lunchroom. It begins with a Stealth Insult, followed by three cited Freudian Excuses for Stan's Jerk Jock personality.
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Jerk Jock
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Jerk Jock: Maggie O'Donnell is going out with Stan, captain of the basketball team, bully, and petty douche, in contrast to Lovable Jock Mike who's just as skilled in basketball as he is but doesn't use that as an excuse to bully.
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Bratty Teenage Daughter
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Bratty Teenage Daughter: Mike is not well respected at all by his daughter, Maggie, who speaks to him with impudence.
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Wild Teen Party
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Wild Teen Party: Mark hosts a massive party at Ned's house after the basketball game.
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Kissing Cousins
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Kissing Cousins: Technically, Maggie attempts to invoke this relationship with "Mark Gold", supposedly the son of her uncle Ned. Although "Mark" and Maggie wouldn't actually be related as Ned and Mike are only friends, not siblings. The kids just call him Uncle Ned.
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Fountain of Youth
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Fountain of Youth: Mike falls into the river, and comes out of it in his 17-year-old body.
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Subverted. Mike/Mark thinks this is what he is supposed to do, regarding making his own life better by getting the scholarship; but then he realizes that he could be improving his children's lives instead. Eventually, he makes the same decision which he did 20 years earlier, and reunites with Scarlet.
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Chick Magnet
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Chick Magnet: 17-year-old Mike manages to attract the (unwanted) attention of multiple high school girls, including his own daughter, in the present day. See Unwanted Harem below.
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Cannot Talk to Women
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Cannot Talk to Women: Alex is incredibly awkward with girls and can't hold a conversation with his crush Nicole without saying something weird, like complimenting her hair by comparing her to his dogs.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Mike O'Donnell wishes that he could go back in time to change his life. Courtesy of a whirlpool, he does, by turning into his 17-year-old self, which is not what he had in mind.
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Time-Shifted Actor
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Time-Shifted Actor: Mike, Ned and Scarlet have different actors for their teenagers and adult versions, although Ned and Scarlet teen versions are only seen in the opening. Teen Mike is played by Zac Efron, while his adult version is played by Matthew Perry Teen Ned is played by Tyler Steelman, while his adult version is played by Thomas Lennon Teen Scarlet is played by Allison Miller, while her adult version is played by Leslie Mann
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Bully Magnet
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Bully Magnet: Alex is bullied by Stan even at his own home.
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Wedgie
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Wedgie: Ned receives one at the beginning.
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Jerkass to One
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Jerkass to One: Stan is a Lovable Jock to everyone EXCEPT Alex.
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You're Not My Father
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You're Not My Father: Maggie says to Mark that he's not her father after Mark forbids Maggie from moving in with Stan. She has no idea that he actually is her father.
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The '80s
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The '80s: Mike was 17 in 1989.
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Aesop Amnesia
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Aesop Amnesia: The girls who are touched by the abstinence speech Mike gave to their class still try to entice him with sex later on. However, one could say that they became even more attracted to him because of the speech.
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Mirror Reveal
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Mirror Reveal: Mike drives home after falling into a river, looks into the mirror while showering the mud off of his clothes, and sees his transformed teenage self in the mirror, causing him to freak out.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Mike claims to be the illegitimate son of his best friend, Ned - or, as they repeatedly refer to him, “a bastard�. Guess what touchstone of nerd culture also centers around Ned’s bastard? When Ned and "Mark" walk into court in the trial of Mike and Scarlet's divorce: When Ned mistakes the newly transformed Mike for a thief. When Mike wakes up after taking a punch from Stan in his daughter's bed, he recounts the events so far as a horrible nightmare he had, only to realize it wasn't a dream and his daughter is hitting on him. Mike is tricked into the magical whirlpool that turns his age back when he sees his "spirit guide" apparently committing suicide off the bridge.
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Nerds Speak Klingon
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Nerds Speak Klingon: The wealthy but nerdy Ned tries several lavish schemes to win over the heart of the principal, but all fail. He finally captures her heart when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same way.
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: Literally. Teen!Mike makes himself a huge sandwich, then leaves after just one bite.
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Trust Password
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Trust Password: Subverted. Mike gives several to Ned when trying to prove his identity, and Ned gives reasons why each one could've been faked. It takes looking at a picture of them both during their high school days to convince him.
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Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: After Mike's de-aged and returns home, his suit's noticeably oversized and baggy on his now-teenage frame. When he reverts at the end of the film, the high school basketball uniform his teen self was wearing is now too small and tight on his now adult-sized frame.
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Writers Cannot Do Math: The present seems to take place in 2009, which would be 20 years after Scarlet's pregnancy, which would make Maggie 19 years old—yet she's still in high school; hence, no actual "now" date is given after the Time Skip. Also, though Vanilla Ice wasn't entirely unheard of in 1989, it wasn't actually until the next year that he hit it big and would have been known well enough for Mike's coach to call him "Vanilla Ice" while telling him to knock off his antics with the cheerleaders.
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Manchild
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Manchild: Ned is an excellent example. Still holding on to his geeky interests, spends all day playing video games, refuses to go out unless Mike absolutely needs him to, eats entirely junk food, has little social skills, and doesn't have any other companion aside from Mike. The only reason he doesn't have his parents looking over him is because he is rich, which may or may not be inherited money or being a Self-Made Man. Justified as he was bullied in high school.
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The Talk
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The Talk: Mike gives an abstinence talk in health class. Ironically, it would have been even more effective if he was an adult, as he is a poster boy for what happens to your life because of teen pregnancy.
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Love Martyr
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Love Martyr: Maggie is completely forgiving of her boyfriend Stan, even making excuses when he picks on her little brother in their own house. She eventually draws the line after he tries to force himself onto her and they break up.
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Geeky Turn-On
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Geeky Turn-On: After trying lavish schemes to win over the heart of Principal Jane, Ned finally captures her heart when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same way.
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Digging Yourself Deeper
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Digging Yourself Deeper: This happens quite often with Mike.
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Distracted by the Sexy
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Distracted by the Sexy: Scarlet's first run-in with 17-year-old Mike. She's so dumbstruck over how much he looks like a younger version of her husband that she ignores her friend's advice to stop acting like a fool. She eventually has to be physically stopped from going over to smell him. It helps that she's also quite drunk, having just returned from a "happy hour" with her friend.
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Brainless Beauty
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Brainless Beauty: Most of the girls chasing after Mike.
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Closet Geek
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Closet Geek: The principal, Jane Masterson, whom Ned Gold spends the movie trying to win over, is a big fan of the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars franchises, and corrects Ned regarding Gandalf the Grey, from the former, being Gandalf the White in Two Towers.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Mike not only gets back with Scarlet (especially after returning to his present-day self), but he is able to start a new job as the coach for his high school basketball team. As for everyone else, Alex remains on the team as a respected star player (even getting the girl of his dreams), Ned also gets together with the high school principal, and Maggie is able to go to college free of Stan's toxic influence.
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Bittersweet 17
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Bittersweet 17: A washed-up divorcee is returned to his 17-year-old body in order to affect change in his life when it was most important.
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 17 Again (2009) / int_fee272c3
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Age-Down Romance
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Age-Down Romance: Mike is aged down 20 years from 37 to 17. When he starts attending high school again in the present day he's a Chick Magnet (due to being played by Zac Efron). He has to deal with an Unwanted Harem of teenage girls including his own daughter, who are attracted to him and don't know his real age. This trope is one-sided: he is not interested in any of these girls, instead trying to win over his wife, who now thinks he's a high school student who weirdly resembles her husband and Likes Older Women.
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Stacy's Mom
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Stacy's Mom: Mark, actually Mike in a 17-year-old body, isn't actually a teen attracted to an older woman, but that's what Mike claims when his son, Alex, catches him talking about her.
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Age-Down Romance / int_afa8187a
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Big Man on Campus / int_afa8187a
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Bitch Alert / int_afa8187a
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Bittersweet 17 / int_afa8187a
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Buffy Speak / int_afa8187a
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Check, Please! / int_afa8187a
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Cultural Translation / int_afa8187a
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Fountain of Youth / int_afa8187a
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Full-Name Ultimatum / int_afa8187a
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Geeky Turn-On / int_afa8187a
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Glory Days / int_afa8187a
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High-School Sweethearts / int_afa8187a
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Incest Subtext / int_afa8187a
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Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! / int_afa8187a
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Mirror Reveal / int_afa8187a
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Mistaken for Gay / int_afa8187a
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Nerds Speak Klingon / int_afa8187a
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Overly Stereotypical Disguise / int_afa8187a
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Red-and-White Comedy Poster / int_afa8187a
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School Stories / int_afa8187a
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Sexy Soaked Shirt / int_afa8187a
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Shapeshifting Squick / int_afa8187a
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Stacy's Mom / int_afa8187a
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Surprise Incest / int_afa8187a
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That Was Not a Dream / int_afa8187a
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The '80s / int_afa8187a
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The '80s / int_afa8187a
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Trust Password / int_afa8187a
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