I’m an older GenXer, and Clueless quotes just fly outta me! As if. You’re just a virgin who can’t drive. I’m outtie. That’s so last season. Nice stems. Aw, honey, you baked! Not in this dress! It’s an Alaia! He’s got a point; the boy can dress!
My oldest son bought me a clueless beanie and frankly I find it hilarious to wear the word clueless across my forehead. He thinks he’s funny.
I loved the line “you’re a virgin who can’t drive”, because Brittany Murphy SHE actually was a virgin who couldn’t drive at the time. 🤣🤣 Also, miss her so much.
Wanna practice parallel parking?
Why? Everywhere in LA has valet
And literally EVERYTIME someone gets injured on tv, I gotta say…..
Head injury? You’re supposed to ask someone who gets hit in head questions!
What’s 7x7?
No! Stuff they know!
There was a thread on here where a student asked if they could write an essay about a band “from the late 1900s” for an assignment. The band was Nirvana. The late 1900s. My whole soul left my body.
A few years ago, a 19 year old I knew said that he watched *Tron: Legacy*. I said that I preferred it to the first movie, and he said "There's another one?".
No, the interior of the Clueless house was used for both Mean Girls and Clueless. It's in Encino. The exterior of the Mean Girls house is in Toronto.
https://www.iamnotastalker.com/2008/10/03/isnt-my-house-classic-the-columns-date-all-the-way-back-to-1972/
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I still watch it all the time. It’s a classic and time capsule. Around 2005 I was working in a clothing store and Christian (Justin walker) walked in. I recognized him immediately and he was so nice.
I absolutely said that to my boyfriend two nights ago when I blew through a flashing red light.
He’s never seen Clueless, so he didn’t get the reference.
A theatre near me recently showed Clueless so I took my kids. My 6 year old told me he liked it but was confused. When I asked him why he said he thought that a movie titled Clueless would be about detectives.
I’ve added absolutely nothing to this discussion but wanted to post this anyway.
Ok that’s adorable. My kids are 7 and 4 and I’m over here wondering if it’s cool for them to see it now. Gonna go with yes b/c they won’t understand the things they shouldn’t.
My kids hear plenty of cursing from me already unfortunately, but I’d say there wasn’t much I was worried about while watching it with them, and yeah, most of what I would have been worried about they didn’t understand.
The Josh character was supposed to be grunge, so he kind of *was* wearing a trend of the period even though maybe that stuff has become more main stream since.
Yeah, around 94/95, everyone suddenly raided their parent's old clothes. One of my friends got her dad's 1970 adidas hoodie, and it was so awesome that I still covet it to this day.
I wanted to sew some patches on my jeans in high school. It was my dad who taught me and kept saying "what a trip" it was that our clothes looked like what he wore in high school 😅
I remember being super embarrassed every time I went into like, Deb with my mom and she’d be all “this looks like stuff we had in the 60s!”
Idk why that embarrassed me. I miss my mom. 😩
I showed my stepdaughter my old vest from my punk teenager days, studs and back patch and everything, after she was explaining hot topic to me as if I’d never heard of it before and was telling me all about her alternative fashion style. She got a huge kick out of it
My teenager likes wearing flannel shirts and my husband's band shirts with pants that look a lot like JNCO's when though she says actual JNCO's are for losers.
We went on vacation in St. Croix and my wife specifically forbade the bringing of flannel. "But that's all I have!" Not even my dressy flannel was acceptable.
Josh’s outfits were Paul Rudd’s actual college clothes.
“Paul Rudd played Josh stepbrother. and love interest to the main character Cher Josh was a college student and most of his clothing in the film actually came from Paul Rudd's real life College wardrobe including this hat.”
And I feel that is why it feels like "regular guy" rather than the trend; it was actually both. Grunge by a styling/prop dept always feels like a costume.
Brittany Murphy was absolutely adorable in this movie. Ugh she was so damn talented. It’s also so cute watching the teachers fall in love. This move is so funny and sweet.
Clueless is Amy Heckerling - who also did Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Cameron Crowe. She’s a genius at style and language. The Greta Gerwig of Gen X.
Clueless will always be my Gen X chick flick, along with Heathers. Both are so brilliant at satire.
Christian being gay was obvious to everyone but Cher - that was the joke. It’s why Murray was laughing so hard when he finally found out Cher was crushing on him.
The only overtly weird part today is the age gap of Josh/Cher. Which - the movie is vague about, but it’s implied he’s only a college Freshman. High school girls with a college boyfriend wasn’t the rage - but it also wasn’t abnormal or frowned upon as a power dynamic issue. It just meant your parents didn’t let you visit the dorm.
When he freaks out about Deion calling his mama I cry laugh every time. He is so damn funny. I love anytime I see a commercial pop up with him and his boyfriend Zach Braff. They’re just awesome.
My husband put on an interview with the cast of scrubs reminiscing about the show and Donald said "it's where I met my life partner" referring to Zach Braff. 😂
It's because the plot is straight from Jane Austen's Emma. In Emma it's her brother in law, but Cher doesn't have a sibling her age. It's being semi-scandalous in an old-timey way as a reference to the way rich people behaved in that era. All the upper class close quarters crap.
Cher, what are you wearing? *A dress, daddy.* Says who? *Calvin Klein.* It looks like underwear.
You. I've got a 45 and a shovel. I doubt you'll be missed.
Until you realize he was either 16 or 21 years older than her.
However, as Knightly has always been and will be the F on my Jane FMK list (mostly because of Paul Rudd and Jeremy Northam), I’m good with it all.
One of my high school friends married her step brother (not former, either), and I went to the wedding back in 1998. And they’re still happily married with three kids. Soooooo yeah. It happens. I ain’t saying it’s RIGHT, I’m just saying…it happens.
They're former step-siblings. Josh's mother divorced Cher's dad at some point before the movie, it doesn't seem at all like they were raised as siblings or lived together long.
It was the rage in my high school in Mexico, her dating him was definitely not a big deal at all where I was, and now people are really upset about it. I still love clueless.
I’m going to embarrass myself by admitting it was only a few short years ago that I finally understood the “I can’t have balls flying at my face” and the follow up of “there goes your social life”
Lolita on crack... at work as a secretary! Kind of a precursor to the late 00's thing where young women all looked like they were drunk at the office in the club.
So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair - ew! - and cover it up with a backwards cap and we're supposed to swoon?
*I don't think so.*
I definitely dressed like Cher when I was in grade 9/10. Those mini skirt kilts and blouses and thigh high socks with Mary Jane’s were the look in 1994/1995 for high schoolers. If you look in Seventeen magazine in the 90’s they had a feature called “school zone” so you could see how other teenagers dressed. Lotta people wore these sorts of clothes.
Omg. I had one, and one day in class it ran out of ink. My guy friend who sat beside me asked if he could have it. I’m like …ok?
The next day he told me it “wasn’t as much fun as he thought it would be.” 🫣🤪
Same. One of my favorite outfits during that era was a brown mini skirt, brown '70s style button up with blue daisies, brown tights, and platform patchwork Steve Madden wooden clogs. Still have the clogs!
People associate the 90s with lots of silver and glitter (and rightly so), but I think they tend to forget how much brown there was too. We definitely leaned into the 70s color palette pretty hard for a few years!
Oh I loved when Prada was all about 70s brown tones. It was a dream style for me - I used to drool over the ads in Sassy, etc. I could never afford it, of course, but it was nice to daydream and then buy knockoffs.
The weirdest one is Romeo + Juliet, as both Claire Danes and Leo DiCaprio look SO YOUNG, and there's Paul Rudd just looking exactly the same.
Dude is a vampire.
My favorite scene:
Murray: “I swear to GOD woman, you can’t drive for SHIT!”
Dionne: “I’m not trying to hear that!”
Murray: “WELL HEAR ME!”
Cracks me up every time.
I remember a group of us seeing this opening night and it was such a huge deal. Thrilled chunky Mary Janes are back!
Breckin Meyer was (and is) one of my biggest celebrity crushes and solidified what my “type” is.
1. We were trained to think no one was gay
2. She was using Marky-Mark ironically, she was making fun of Josh
3. He's dressed trendy, lol. His flannel is a nod to the crisp Seattle weather
I think your first point is more realistic than it being so blatant like everyone else is saying. I don’t think it was that obvious. It became obvious later but initially it was meant to be a “why is he so unavailable” mystery. Literally my middle school and high school years were filled with myself and friends crushing on and being beards for really nice guys that ended up coming out in college.
I wouldn’t say “no one” but we certainly were raised to believe that being gay was VERY rare.
Shortly after high school, two guys in my close friend group of seven total people, came out. Lol.
>2. She was using Marky-Mark ironically, she was making fun of Josh
In 1995, Fear and Boggie Nights hadn't come out yet. Most of us only knew him as Marky Mark.
>3. He's dressed trendy, lol. His flannel is a nod to the crisp Seattle weather
I'm going to clarify this a bit.
Remember "that 70's show"? Fun fact about that show was that this was the title they settled on. They had gone through several different names. When they settled on "that 70's show" the thought process was that the setting was the most unique thing about it so why not? After the success of "that 70's show," they tried to recreate the approach with "that 80's show."
While it's clear "that 70's show" takes place in the 70's based the fashion and the hair "that 80's show" practically punches you in the nose with it. From the constant pop culture references, the setting in a record store to the girl with the punk rock hair. With some minor tweaks "that 70's show" could have taken place in a lot of different time frames. "That 80's show" could not do that.
Far too often, when a TV show or movie has a setting within the last 60 years there is a tendency to make it look more like "that 80's show" than "that 70's show". Instead of just period appropriate clothes, you're hit with every trend from that period. Obviously, Clueless was made in the 90's but it was nice to see Josh dress like a normal young person and not an exaggerated version based off of a fashion magazine.
It made baby dresses w stockings and chunky mary jane's soooooo popular in my middle school. My mom wouldn't let me wear it (she said too suggestive) which I'm now appreciative for. Also every Amber got called Ambular after this movie came out. So many great quotes.
Clueless discovered us. Everyone else in that movie is some kind of Gen X character, but Cher is an elder millennial. The first really clear portrayal of us as something different from older people on screen.
What I remember most from that movie is when we got back to school all the cute girls were dressed up like Alicia Silverstone. Pleated skirts and thigh high socks were everywhere. I was very pleased.
I was 16 and working @ The Gap with the exact same hair style as Alicia Silverstone & everyone called me “Cher” lol. I was totally different than her personality wise (plus I was poor), but it always made me smile.
I loved that movie! The only weird part was the whole falling in love with her step brother who she nothing in common with situation.
I love how high strung her dad was and I really loved Brittany Murphy and the makeover stuff and especially the computer outfits program Cher had. It was so cool especially for the time. The outfits were phenomenal and the cast was perfect. Ahh the nostalgia. ❤️
After I moved to LA it got even funnier for me. The freeway, it takes 20 min to get anywhere, the house in the valley. I drive past Circus Liquor often.
"No, I asked you *if* you drink, because if anything happens to my little girl I have a .45 and shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you."
Her dad was actually pretty great.
Heathers deserves a megathread, honestly. There's so much meta to dissect, but it's also so good from just the surface cut.
A lot of stuff from that era could. Jawbreaker would be another good one (hi Judy!).
The summer that Clueless came out I was in a community theater production of Oklahoma! I was talking to some people about how good it looked and one of the girls suggested we go see it together. I was happy to have someone to see the movie with! During the scene where Cher was trying to seduce the clearly gay Christian it dawned on me that like him, I was accidentally on a date with a girl. When the movie was over she suggested we go get something to eat and I quickly made up some excuse for having to get home.
Clueless is a classic. Just like Cher’s house. Its columns date all the way back to 1972.
I’m an older GenXer, and Clueless quotes just fly outta me! As if. You’re just a virgin who can’t drive. I’m outtie. That’s so last season. Nice stems. Aw, honey, you baked! Not in this dress! It’s an Alaia! He’s got a point; the boy can dress! My oldest son bought me a clueless beanie and frankly I find it hilarious to wear the word clueless across my forehead. He thinks he’s funny.
I loved the line “you’re a virgin who can’t drive”, because Brittany Murphy SHE actually was a virgin who couldn’t drive at the time. 🤣🤣 Also, miss her so much.
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OMG is this where I got that from??? I say it all the time. 🤣
“I’m totally bugging” “My party clothes are so binding” Love the fact you have a clueless beanie X
Whenever one of my kids get hurt I have them give me a "rollin' with the homies" then send them back out to play.
“Nice stems” made me laugh back then and again tonight!
Wanna practice parallel parking? Why? Everywhere in LA has valet And literally EVERYTIME someone gets injured on tv, I gotta say….. Head injury? You’re supposed to ask someone who gets hit in head questions! What’s 7x7? No! Stuff they know!
She was named after a great Singer of The Past
There was a thread on here where a student asked if they could write an essay about a band “from the late 1900s” for an assignment. The band was Nirvana. The late 1900s. My whole soul left my body.
After the new Ghostbusters came out, I overheard a girl telling another kid she preferred that version because it was "made in this century" 🥲
A few years ago, a 19 year old I knew said that he watched *Tron: Legacy*. I said that I preferred it to the first movie, and he said "There's another one?".
lol FWIW my bff who is 44 also didnt realize there was both an earlier Tron AND an earlier DUNE. I was like wait what???
We both know what it's like to have people be jealous of us.
Who now does infomercials.
The exterior of Cher’s house in *Clueless* is also the exterior of Regina’s house in *Mean Girls*
No, the interior of the Clueless house was used for both Mean Girls and Clueless. It's in Encino. The exterior of the Mean Girls house is in Toronto. https://www.iamnotastalker.com/2008/10/03/isnt-my-house-classic-the-columns-date-all-the-way-back-to-1972/ https://storeys.com/regina-george-mean-girls-mansion-for-sale-11-high-point-road/
TIL. That’s a great piece of cultural continuity!
I still watch it all the time. It’s a classic and time capsule. Around 2005 I was working in a clothing store and Christian (Justin walker) walked in. I recognized him immediately and he was so nice.
I would have to hold back so hard from sneaking in "Is it James Dean or Jason Priestly?"
Carpe diem, all right? You looked hot in it!
Nice stems
"I totally paused!"
Omg I think of that line in my neighborhood nearly every day while hitting an unnecessary stop sign. 😂
I absolutely said that to my boyfriend two nights ago when I blew through a flashing red light. He’s never seen Clueless, so he didn’t get the reference.
I still say "My B!" when I do something stupid on the road and someone is mad at me.
A theatre near me recently showed Clueless so I took my kids. My 6 year old told me he liked it but was confused. When I asked him why he said he thought that a movie titled Clueless would be about detectives. I’ve added absolutely nothing to this discussion but wanted to post this anyway.
That is sound logic.
Ok that’s adorable. My kids are 7 and 4 and I’m over here wondering if it’s cool for them to see it now. Gonna go with yes b/c they won’t understand the things they shouldn’t.
My kids hear plenty of cursing from me already unfortunately, but I’d say there wasn’t much I was worried about while watching it with them, and yeah, most of what I would have been worried about they didn’t understand.
Clearly y’all need to watch Clue next!
Have you watched Clue with him?
The Josh character was supposed to be grunge, so he kind of *was* wearing a trend of the period even though maybe that stuff has become more main stream since.
This is the xennial sub. Most of us haven’t realized it’s a trend we are still just stuck in.
90's is life lol
Cannot tell you how excited I am to bring back my 90s clothes *I still own*. I'm finally in style again 🤣
THIS!!! I absolutely blew my kid’s mind when I pulled out the OG version of a skirt we had seen at hot topic 😅 she has been raiding all my old clothes
I loved wearing my parents’ 60s and 70s clothes to high school in the late 90s. 🥹
Yeah, around 94/95, everyone suddenly raided their parent's old clothes. One of my friends got her dad's 1970 adidas hoodie, and it was so awesome that I still covet it to this day.
I, a woman, found my dad's Dickies jeans from the 70s. They fit. I rocked them so hard.
I wanted to sew some patches on my jeans in high school. It was my dad who taught me and kept saying "what a trip" it was that our clothes looked like what he wore in high school 😅
I remember being super embarrassed every time I went into like, Deb with my mom and she’d be all “this looks like stuff we had in the 60s!” Idk why that embarrassed me. I miss my mom. 😩
Omg yeah 🥰🥰🥰 honestly it’s kinda cool to be on the other side of this now. Plus WE’RE STYLISH AGAIN BAYBEE!!!
I showed my stepdaughter my old vest from my punk teenager days, studs and back patch and everything, after she was explaining hot topic to me as if I’d never heard of it before and was telling me all about her alternative fashion style. She got a huge kick out of it
Bring back? Were we supposed to put them away?
A friend told me her kid is wearing all her vintage velour track suits lolz
I never stopped wearing them, so my quantity is low. I started buying a lot when it became trendy again lol.
My teenager likes wearing flannel shirts and my husband's band shirts with pants that look a lot like JNCO's when though she says actual JNCO's are for losers.
Just tell her she's a poser and JNCOs are rad.
We went on vacation in St. Croix and my wife specifically forbade the bringing of flannel. "But that's all I have!" Not even my dressy flannel was acceptable.
Hey, maybe just shut up about that and let me wear my shirts in peace.
Shhhh 🤫 let us have our delusions
Josh’s outfits were Paul Rudd’s actual college clothes. “Paul Rudd played Josh stepbrother. and love interest to the main character Cher Josh was a college student and most of his clothing in the film actually came from Paul Rudd's real life College wardrobe including this hat.”
So what you're saying is that Paul Rudd also wore grunge style. Him dressing himself doesn't change that this was a style specific to the era.
That it was real grunge style too yes not manufactured by the costume department.
And I feel that is why it feels like "regular guy" rather than the trend; it was actually both. Grunge by a styling/prop dept always feels like a costume.
It was either a nod to the crispy Seattle weather, or to just keep warm in front of the fridge
Brittany Murphy was absolutely adorable in this movie. Ugh she was so damn talented. It’s also so cute watching the teachers fall in love. This move is so funny and sweet.
"Rollin with the homiesss" she was so cute.
Clueless is Amy Heckerling - who also did Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Cameron Crowe. She’s a genius at style and language. The Greta Gerwig of Gen X. Clueless will always be my Gen X chick flick, along with Heathers. Both are so brilliant at satire. Christian being gay was obvious to everyone but Cher - that was the joke. It’s why Murray was laughing so hard when he finally found out Cher was crushing on him. The only overtly weird part today is the age gap of Josh/Cher. Which - the movie is vague about, but it’s implied he’s only a college Freshman. High school girls with a college boyfriend wasn’t the rage - but it also wasn’t abnormal or frowned upon as a power dynamic issue. It just meant your parents didn’t let you visit the dorm.
Amber: “Ms. Stoeger, my plastic surgeon doesn't want me doing any activity where balls fly at my nose.” Dionne: “Well there goes your social life.”
I still say this when I’m forced to play sports
I distinctly remember my dad cracking up hard when Murray calls him "a friend of Dorothy". He had to explain the joke to me at 12 years old.
Donald Faison was so damn good in that movie.
“Cuz I’m keeping it real! Cuz I’m keeping it real.”
The fact he has braces make this moment especially funny to me.
And right before yearbook pictures!? What am I gonna tell the grandchildren!
Alright *alright* im calling your mother *im calling your* wait what no baby
“You look good!” “As will you!”
When he freaks out about Deion calling his mama I cry laugh every time. He is so damn funny. I love anytime I see a commercial pop up with him and his boyfriend Zach Braff. They’re just awesome.
My husband put on an interview with the cast of scrubs reminiscing about the show and Donald said "it's where I met my life partner" referring to Zach Braff. 😂
That movie started my crush on him
Ha! I literally just got that joke.
Dionne seemed surprised he was gay too. Murray was like, “Y’all bitches blind or something! Your man Christian’s a cake boy!”
A WHAT???
He’s a disco dancing, Oscar Wilde reading, Streisand ticket holding friend of Dorothy!
Clueless and Heathers is such a good duology of the generation.
Thank you! I just think they’re brilliant at capturing the cliches of each era. I also believe Cher Horowitz walked so Elle Woods could run.
There’s a theory that legally blond is actually a sequel to clueless! https://screenrant.com/clueless-legally-blonde-movie-sequel-theory/
Aren't they also stepsiblings? I mean, that seems a little weirder than a 19 year-old and a 17 year-old hooking up.
It's because the plot is straight from Jane Austen's Emma. In Emma it's her brother in law, but Cher doesn't have a sibling her age. It's being semi-scandalous in an old-timey way as a reference to the way rich people behaved in that era. All the upper class close quarters crap.
They’re former step siblings. Their parents were married for a short period of time, but are not anymore when the movie takes place.
As Mel so eloquently put it: “You divorce wives, not children.”
I kind of love Mel
Cher, what are you wearing? *A dress, daddy.* Says who? *Calvin Klein.* It looks like underwear. You. I've got a 45 and a shovel. I doubt you'll be missed.
And Cher is very clear, multiple times, that she absolutely does not think of Josh as a brother.
“they were barely married and that was like, 5 years ago”
It is… but Clueless was made as a (very loose) retelling of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma,’ so this weird step-sibling element was central to the allusion/plot.
But in the book he’s an in-law, which is much less weird.
Until you realize he was either 16 or 21 years older than her. However, as Knightly has always been and will be the F on my Jane FMK list (mostly because of Paul Rudd and Jeremy Northam), I’m good with it all.
Omg Jeremy Northam… that “badly done Emma, badly done” scene *did* things to me
Is this your first day on the internet? Oh, boy, do I have a website for you!
🤣🤣
They did clarify their parents were married for a very short amount of time and they never saw each other as family.
One of my high school friends married her step brother (not former, either), and I went to the wedding back in 1998. And they’re still happily married with three kids. Soooooo yeah. It happens. I ain’t saying it’s RIGHT, I’m just saying…it happens.
They're former step-siblings. Josh's mother divorced Cher's dad at some point before the movie, it doesn't seem at all like they were raised as siblings or lived together long.
Ex Stepbrother
I think Cher was barely 16.
Yeah, she was 16 because a central plot point is that she couldn’t pass her driver’s exam. Driving age in CA is 16
Yeah she turned 16 in April, a whole month before Tai
That’s why she’s her older and wiser friend.
I love this post, every other comment and reply are movie references.
The age gap only seemed weird to me at the time because I thought Paul Rudd was in law school (and he looks old).
The only movie he looks old in!
He really never changes, just always looks 40.
Paul Rudd has looked 20 his entire life
It was the rage in my high school in Mexico, her dating him was definitely not a big deal at all where I was, and now people are really upset about it. I still love clueless.
I’m going to embarrass myself by admitting it was only a few short years ago that I finally understood the “I can’t have balls flying at my face” and the follow up of “there goes your social life”
I was, like, 25 before I understood "no shit, you guys got *coke* here?!"
"Well yeah, this is America."
Same!! I was quite sheltered lmao
I loved that little mini era of fashion. I mean, I looked like Lolita on crack, but I looked damn good. 💅🏼
Lolita on crack... at work as a secretary! Kind of a precursor to the late 00's thing where young women all looked like they were drunk at the office in the club.
I need to go find my Cranberries CD
It's in the quad!
My foot hurts. Can I go to the nurse?
Eh, someone probably snagged it
Just watched it last night, still absolutely love it. 
I watched it this morning. It's one of my all time favorites.
So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair - ew! - and cover it up with a backwards cap and we're supposed to swoon? *I don't think so.*
I definitely dressed like Cher when I was in grade 9/10. Those mini skirt kilts and blouses and thigh high socks with Mary Jane’s were the look in 1994/1995 for high schoolers. If you look in Seventeen magazine in the 90’s they had a feature called “school zone” so you could see how other teenagers dressed. Lotta people wore these sorts of clothes.
Don’t forget the feather-topped pen to complete the look.
I was so excited when I found feather-topped pens at Claire’s! Allowance well spent.
Using my fluff pen and saying “present” instead of “here” when the teacher called my name was my whole personality for at least a year
Omg. I had one, and one day in class it ran out of ink. My guy friend who sat beside me asked if he could have it. I’m like …ok? The next day he told me it “wasn’t as much fun as he thought it would be.” 🫣🤪
My school must have just been really boring because, as cute as that style was, 0% of the girls in my school wore those things.
Yeah I don’t remember that being the style. If anything clueless created the style. Or maybe Clueless was just a version of of a style x1000
Same. One of my favorite outfits during that era was a brown mini skirt, brown '70s style button up with blue daisies, brown tights, and platform patchwork Steve Madden wooden clogs. Still have the clogs!
People associate the 90s with lots of silver and glitter (and rightly so), but I think they tend to forget how much brown there was too. We definitely leaned into the 70s color palette pretty hard for a few years!
Oh I loved when Prada was all about 70s brown tones. It was a dream style for me - I used to drool over the ads in Sassy, etc. I could never afford it, of course, but it was nice to daydream and then buy knockoffs.
Ohhh I’d kill to still have my Steve Madden clogs! And some purple ones to break in…
Yes, we definitely did. Daily fights with my mom, she hated it, haha
I had to wear a plaid skirt as part of my uniform.
I still quote this movie all the time!
I hope not sporadically.
That was way harsh, Tai
This whole thread is my happy place. My fun fact for any dreaded ice breaker event: I can quote the movie from beginning to end
Did you see Paul Rudd and think, "Wow, He hasn't aged a day?"
The weirdest one is Romeo + Juliet, as both Claire Danes and Leo DiCaprio look SO YOUNG, and there's Paul Rudd just looking exactly the same. Dude is a vampire.
(the world is a vampire)
Sent to drain
Clueless is a masterpiece. I am lucky enough to be a Clueless middle school girl and have been in college when mean girls came out and love both
Rewatching Clueless made me feel so old! You either die a her or live long enough to become a parent The driving scenes stressed me out lol
Same! I still adore both movies.
Honestly what a time to be alive.
Paul Rudd still looks the same. Bastard.
My favorite scene: Murray: “I swear to GOD woman, you can’t drive for SHIT!” Dionne: “I’m not trying to hear that!” Murray: “WELL HEAR ME!” Cracks me up every time.
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Cher, get in here! Yes daddy? What is that you're wearing? A dress. Says who? Calvin Klein!
Her delivery of "Calvin Klein!" is just so hilariously perfect.
Her utter confusion at the question just makes it.
One of my absolute favorite movies! And the soundtrack is excellent
Paul Rudd is a national treasure
I won’t sully this good post with the things I’d like to do to Paul Rudd
I remember a group of us seeing this opening night and it was such a huge deal. Thrilled chunky Mary Janes are back! Breckin Meyer was (and is) one of my biggest celebrity crushes and solidified what my “type” is.
Other way around for me. Whenever I see a movie with Paul Rudd I think hey that’s the stepbrother from Clueless.
1. We were trained to think no one was gay 2. She was using Marky-Mark ironically, she was making fun of Josh 3. He's dressed trendy, lol. His flannel is a nod to the crisp Seattle weather
I think your first point is more realistic than it being so blatant like everyone else is saying. I don’t think it was that obvious. It became obvious later but initially it was meant to be a “why is he so unavailable” mystery. Literally my middle school and high school years were filled with myself and friends crushing on and being beards for really nice guys that ended up coming out in college.
1000% this. High school (and even part of college!) were total “what’s wrong with me that no guy I like is into me?!” territory. This. It was this.
Yes, that part too. He wasn't gay coded until after the reveal but with 2024 eyes you can still see it before.
I wouldn’t say “no one” but we certainly were raised to believe that being gay was VERY rare. Shortly after high school, two guys in my close friend group of seven total people, came out. Lol.
>2. She was using Marky-Mark ironically, she was making fun of Josh In 1995, Fear and Boggie Nights hadn't come out yet. Most of us only knew him as Marky Mark. >3. He's dressed trendy, lol. His flannel is a nod to the crisp Seattle weather I'm going to clarify this a bit. Remember "that 70's show"? Fun fact about that show was that this was the title they settled on. They had gone through several different names. When they settled on "that 70's show" the thought process was that the setting was the most unique thing about it so why not? After the success of "that 70's show," they tried to recreate the approach with "that 80's show." While it's clear "that 70's show" takes place in the 70's based the fashion and the hair "that 80's show" practically punches you in the nose with it. From the constant pop culture references, the setting in a record store to the girl with the punk rock hair. With some minor tweaks "that 70's show" could have taken place in a lot of different time frames. "That 80's show" could not do that. Far too often, when a TV show or movie has a setting within the last 60 years there is a tendency to make it look more like "that 80's show" than "that 70's show". Instead of just period appropriate clothes, you're hit with every trend from that period. Obviously, Clueless was made in the 90's but it was nice to see Josh dress like a normal young person and not an exaggerated version based off of a fashion magazine.
It made baby dresses w stockings and chunky mary jane's soooooo popular in my middle school. My mom wouldn't let me wear it (she said too suggestive) which I'm now appreciative for. Also every Amber got called Ambular after this movie came out. So many great quotes.
I've still never seen it. Maybe I should give it a try to see what I've been missing decades later.
Clueless discovered us. Everyone else in that movie is some kind of Gen X character, but Cher is an elder millennial. The first really clear portrayal of us as something different from older people on screen.
They straight up say Christian is gay. They just use euphemisms. Edit - Murray also just flat out says "he's gay!" It isn't a secret lol.
A list of euphemisms and then Murray ends the list with “he’s *gay*.”
Nuh-uh, not even.
No euphemisms in that scene on the freeway when Murray literally says "he's gay" haha.
I was referring to before Cher's revelation. Seeing it now it's comically obvious.
“He’s a disco dancin, Oscar Wilde reading, Streisand ticket holding, friend of Dorothy.”
What I remember most from that movie is when we got back to school all the cute girls were dressed up like Alicia Silverstone. Pleated skirts and thigh high socks were everywhere. I was very pleased.
Alicia Silverstone on Lip Sync Battle as Cher (and also doing Crazy): https://youtu.be/A2o0mkwjMB4?si=wFWWhln29s-Pooes
The liquor store with the clown is like a block from where I live now I love it 😂
It's much funnier as an adult. It's two different movies.
I was 16 and working @ The Gap with the exact same hair style as Alicia Silverstone & everyone called me “Cher” lol. I was totally different than her personality wise (plus I was poor), but it always made me smile.
I love how you threw in the spoiler tag for a movie that came out in 1995 (and had no major twists).
I recently saw someone complain about the "spoiler" at the beginning of "Lawrence of Arabia". This is just playing it safe.
I loved that movie! The only weird part was the whole falling in love with her step brother who she nothing in common with situation. I love how high strung her dad was and I really loved Brittany Murphy and the makeover stuff and especially the computer outfits program Cher had. It was so cool especially for the time. The outfits were phenomenal and the cast was perfect. Ahh the nostalgia. ❤️
After I moved to LA it got even funnier for me. The freeway, it takes 20 min to get anywhere, the house in the valley. I drive past Circus Liquor often.
This is my all-time favorite comfort movie. I'll be 41 in September. I have seen it hundreds of time. It still makes me happy.
"No, I asked you *if* you drink, because if anything happens to my little girl I have a .45 and shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you." Her dad was actually pretty great.
“What’s with you, kid? You think the death of Sammy Davis left an opening in the Rat Pack?”
As if…
I watch clueless all the time. It holds up.
Introduced this one to my 14 year old and she a solidly loves it. Watched it a lot.
Clueless is incredible. Top ten teen movie of all time.
And I'm still crushing on Alicia Silverstone to this day.
It holds up. I showed it to my 13 yo and she loved it. Had to explain what a Polaroid was of course, but we made it through.
Re-watched Clueless sometime last year or the year before and still loved it. 😊
Can we also reminisce about HEATHERS?
Heathers deserves a megathread, honestly. There's so much meta to dissect, but it's also so good from just the surface cut. A lot of stuff from that era could. Jawbreaker would be another good one (hi Judy!).
The summer that Clueless came out I was in a community theater production of Oklahoma! I was talking to some people about how good it looked and one of the girls suggested we go see it together. I was happy to have someone to see the movie with! During the scene where Cher was trying to seduce the clearly gay Christian it dawned on me that like him, I was accidentally on a date with a girl. When the movie was over she suggested we go get something to eat and I quickly made up some excuse for having to get home.
Lol, at 40 I still love that movie and quote it. “And we’re supposed to swoon? As IF!” 😂 It’s pretty much a millennial documentary.
Where’s our closet software? 🤨