Mean Girls - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[russell]

James Franco was considered for the role of Aaron Samuels, which was eventually given to Jonathan Bennett.

[caroline]

Damien's line '...And I want my pink shirt back!' was improvised by actor Daniel Franzese. Tina Fey later approved it.

[jesse]

This movie nearly earned an R rating for explicit, risqué gags and jokes, which were subsequently cut.

[norma]

This movie was unusual among Mark Waters-directed films, as there are no supernatural elements in the plot.

[cassandra]

The Asian girl who makes out with the coach in the projection room above the auditorium has the name "Trang Pak." Later at the mathletes finals, the Asian guy on Cady's team has the name "T. Pak", for Tim Pak, Trang's brother.

[ivan]

When Tina Fey planned to adapt "Queen Bees and Wannabes" into a film, she did not realize it was a guidebook with no fictional narrative. She feared she had backed herself into a corner after finalizing the deal with Paramount.

[carla]

Despite playing characters in high school all the main actors - Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Diego Klattenhoff, Daniel DeSanto, Daniel Franzese, Lizzy Caplan and Jonathan Bennett - were in real life 18, 19, 22, 23, 24 , 25 and 26.

[nora]

At the end of the movie, Kevin asks Janis about her ethnic background, and she answers that she is Lebanese. This is a payoff to a joke that has run through the entire movie: people bullying Janis persistently call her a lesbian, only to have her clarify at the end of the movie that she is in fact Lebanese instead. The aural similarity of the two words had been fodder for jokes for several decades before this; two famous examples include the 1986 "Golden Girls" episode in which Blanche confusedly thinks that Dorothy's friend Jean is Lebanese instead of lesbian ("I've never known any personally, but isn't Danny Thomas one?") and Ellen Degeneres's joke during her 1997 appearance on "The Rosie O'Donnell" show in advance of the "Coming Out" episode of "Ellen," that "we [will actually] find out that the character is Lebanese."

[bessie]

The song 'Obsessed' by Mariah Carey contains the famous line by Regina George, 'Why are you so obsessed with me?'.

[fred]

Lindsay Lohan's character, Cady Heron, spent most of her life in Africa, as her parents were zoologists. This is remarkably similar to the premise of the Nicktoon The Wild Thornberrys (1998). Lacey Chabert (Gretchen Wieners) voiced that show's main character, Eliza.

[miriam]

In Germany the film in is known as 'Girls Club'. Rajiv Surendra, who later lived in Munich for a brief period, revealed that the film has a massive fan following among German teenage girls.

[linda]

This was the feature film screenwriting debut for Tina Fey.

[tom]

Kevin Gnapoor's phone number on his business card uses the North Shore's real area code, 847.

[toni]

Daniel DeSanto (Jason) and David Reale (Glen Coco) have in fact worked with each other before, as voice actors for the anime Beyblade: The Movie - Fierce Battle (2004).

[chris]

This movie is based upon the book "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence" by Rosalind Wiseman, even though it is a non-fiction parental self-help guide with no narrative at all.