The New Yorker
Why "Mean Girls" Is a Classic
Richard Brody - 30/04/2014
When I
mentioned to my daughters that it’s the tenth anniversary of the release of
“Mean Girls,” it was no news to them: the firstborn, now twenty-one, is wearing
her “You can’t sit with us” T-shirt, and her sister, sixteen, is dressed in
pink (it’s Wednesday). They knew the movie by heart long before they knew from
high school. To the catchphrases that were common coin at home, from “Singin’
in the Rain,” “Marnie,” “The Gang’s All Here,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Mary
Poppins,” and “Legally Blonde,” there was added a torrent of word vomit:
“Four for
Glenn Coco! You go, Glenn Coco! None for Gretchen Wieners.”
“You can’t
just ask people why they’re white.”
“You will
get chlamydia and die.”
“It’s like
I have ESPN or something.”
“Brutus is
just as cute as Caesar, right?”
“I’m the
cool mom.”
And, of
course, the inevitable “I can’t help it if I’ve got a heavy flow and a wide-set
vagina.” And “Well, this has been sufficiently awkward.”
XOXO
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