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Think you know every line and joke from Mean Girls? Think again. We uncover sneaky Easter eggs, continuity goofs, and sly foreshadowing that flew under your radar — from Glen Coco’s unlikely origin and the Burn Book handwriting to Regina’s foreshadowed bus accident, Ms. Norbury’s wrist cast turned plot detail, the silicone/silicon blackboard gag and the cafeteria map that maps out the social jungle. Spoilers ahead!
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00:00Could you give us some privacy for like one second?
00:03Yeah, sure.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:07And today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 details you probably missed in Mean Girls.
00:13Beware of spoilers.
00:15I don't care how long it takes. I will keep you here all night.
00:19We can't keep them past four.
00:21I will keep you here until four.
00:24Number 20. You go, Glen Coco.
00:27Without saying a word or showing his face properly,
00:31Glen Coco became one of the most iconic characters in Mean Girls.
00:35Remember the Christmas scene?
00:36Damien, dressed as Santa Claus, bursts into the class and hands out candy canes,
00:42only to give Glen Coco four.
00:44Four for you, Glen Coco. You go, Glen Coco.
00:47It's such a random moment made unforgettable by Damien's wild enthusiasm.
00:52But here's the kicker.
00:53The actor who played Glen didn't even know he'd be in the movie.
00:58Actor David Rael had wandered onto set for a free lunch
01:01and somehow ended up immortalized in pop culture.
01:05Isn't that cool?
01:06Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
01:08Candy cane grounds.
01:10Okay, hurry up.
01:11Even more amazing is the fact that Tina Fey named the character after her brother's friend.
01:16So Glen Coco is real.
01:18That's so fetch.
01:19I was just like using random names and it's just like my brother's friend.
01:22And now I've ruined his life.
01:26Number 19.
01:28Foreshadowing of Regina's accident.
01:31After Janice exposes everything she and Katie did to sabotage Regina,
01:36things get heated up.
01:37Furious and betrayed, Regina storms out while Katie chases her.
01:41Then she steps into the street and bam, she's hit by a bus.
01:46So don't try to act so innocent.
01:48You can take that fake apology and shove it right up your hairy...
01:51It's quite shocking, but not so random.
01:56Early in the film, Katie nearly gets hit by a bus on her first day.
02:00I'm okay.
02:01Sorry.
02:02I'll be careful.
02:03It's quick and easy to miss, but it could have been a clue.
02:06There's also Katie's unforgettable line about falling for Aaron,
02:10feeling like being hit by a big yellow school bus.
02:13Sounds like a metaphor for love, but was it just that?
02:17But this one hit me like a big yellow school bus.
02:19With all these little hints,
02:20it feels like Regina's accident was foreshadowed right from the beginning.
02:24We should have seen it coming.
02:27Number 18.
02:28Tim Meadows' injury.
02:29Principal Duvall is one of the few people who sees how ridiculous all the teen drama is.
02:35As the school's weary but grounded authority,
02:38he does his best to hold things together.
02:40Hell no.
02:41I did not leave the South Side for this.
02:47Oh, crap.
02:48My hair.
02:49All junior girls report to the gymnasium immediately.
02:55Immediately.
02:57Here's a fun detail you might have missed.
02:59Throughout most of the movie, he's wearing a wrist cast,
03:03mostly noticeable during the chaotic gym assembly.
03:06How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George?
03:19In the story, it's blamed on the carpal tunnel.
03:22But in real life, Tim Meadows had broken his wrist before filming.
03:26Instead of recasting or hiding it, the filmmakers cleverly worked it into the script.
03:31How was your summer?
03:32I got divorced.
03:33Oh.
03:35My carpal tunnel came back.
03:37I win.
03:38Yes, you do.
03:39That's brilliant, isn't it?
03:41Because it kind of fits that an overworked principal will also have a chronic wrist illness.
03:46Number 17.
03:48The Wrong Class.
03:49We all know Katie grew up in Africa and eventually transformed into one of the plastics.
03:55But there's a small detail on her first day that feels off.
03:58In a quick montage, we see Katie walk into a classroom only for her teacher to yell at her in German.
04:04It doesn't add up because Damien checks her schedule later and says she's taking Spanish, not German.
04:12Help.
04:13Spanish.
04:14You're taking 12th grade calculus?
04:17So what happened?
04:18Did Katie walk into the wrong class?
04:20Or does her Spanish teacher yell in German when angry?
04:24The film doesn't explain it, but it sticks out for its inconsistency.
04:27Maybe it's just Katie being overwhelmed on her first day, a painfully relatable experience we've all had.
04:34Either way, it's a fun little mystery.
04:37The first day of school was a blur.
04:39A stressful, surreal blur.
04:42Number 16.
04:43Ms. Norbury's Pants.
04:45In the chaos of Katie's first day, it's easy to miss tiny slip-ups, like Ms. Norbury's magically changing pants.
04:52When Katie bumps into her, soda spills all over her baggy brown trousers.
04:57Hey, everybody.
04:58Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
05:02Moments later, when she's wiping them before Principal Duvall walks in, they're suddenly black and more fitted.
05:08Like we said earlier, it's easy to miss.
05:11My t-shirt's stuck to my sweater, isn't it?
05:13Yeah.
05:13Fantastic.
05:15Is everything all right in here?
05:16Still, we can't help but wonder, did Ms. Norbury change her trousers in front of her students?
05:21If she did, why is she still cleaning them?
05:24Unless she got a spare hidden in her desk.
05:27Unlikely.
05:28The only real explanation is that it's a continuity error.
05:32Let's be honest, it doesn't take away from the hilarious awkwardness that made Katie's first day unforgettable.
05:38Well, welcome, Katie, and thank you, Mr. Duvall.
05:41Well, thank you.
05:42Number 15.
05:44Friday the 13th.
05:45Janice and Damien are enjoying a scary movie night all alone when Katie walks in, delivering a perfect jump scare.
05:52For hardcore horror fans, it's pretty clear they're watching towards the ending of Friday the 13th Part 2.
06:04So it's understandable why they're so visibly shaken when Katie walks in dressed like a zombie bride from the Halloween party.
06:11That's not the only oddity worth noticing in the scene.
06:14After Katie takes them by surprise, the popcorn flies everywhere.
06:19Yet, in the very next shot, it seems to be all in the bowl.
06:22Did someone perform some sort of magic, or is it yet another plot hole?
06:26Look, she's not going to get away with this again, okay?
06:28We're going to do something.
06:30We are?
06:30Number 14.
06:32Misspelled word on the board.
06:34Even if you've seen Mean Girls a dozen times, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment hidden in Katie's awkward first-day montage.
06:41When she asks to use the bathroom, look behind her science teacher.
06:46On the blackboard, silicon is clearly misspelled as silicone.
06:50Big difference.
06:52Nice try.
06:53Have a seat.
06:54Silicon is one of the elements taught in a science class, while silicone is used in plastic surgery.
07:00What we don't know is if it's an intentional joke showing how clueless or underqualified the teachers are.
07:06Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die.
07:10Don't have sex in the missionary position.
07:12Don't have sex standing up.
07:14Just don't do it, promise?
07:16Or perhaps it's just a genuine filming oversight.
07:19Or maybe it's a clever nod to the name plastics.
07:22After all, silicone fits the theme all too well.
07:26Whatever the case may be, it gives you another reason to re-watch this teen classic.
07:31Of course all the plastics are in the same gym class.
07:34Who are the plastics?
07:35They're teen royalty.
07:37If North Shore was Us Weekly, they would always be on the cover.
07:40Number 13.
07:42Mrs. George wears pink on Wednesdays.
07:44One of the most ridiculous rules of being part of the plastics?
07:48On Wednesdays, they wear pink.
07:50So we'll see you tomorrow.
07:51On Wednesdays, we wear pink.
07:53While Mrs. George isn't officially part of this elite group, it appears she adheres to
07:58their rules.
08:00When Katie visits Regina's home for the first time, Mrs. George is rocking a pink tracksuit,
08:05the plastic signature color for Wednesdays.
08:08Welcome to our home.
08:12We all know she tries really hard to be a cool mom, throwing around slang, gossiping like
08:18a teen, and showing off awkward dance moves.
08:20She's like this hyper-involved, attention-seeking parent.
08:24She's cringy already, but following the plastics rules, that's next-level embarrassing if you
08:30ask us.
08:31Mom?
08:32Could you go fix your hair?
08:34Okay.
08:35You girls keep me young.
08:36Ugh, I love you so much.
08:38Number 12.
08:39Animal Kingdom Metaphors.
08:41In Mean Girls, Katie often compares high school to the African jungle, where animals struggle
08:46to survive.
08:47In her fantasies, classmates morph into wild animals, fighting over cheese, gathering around
08:53fountains, aggressively flirting.
09:00She even imagines pouncing on Regina like a jungle cat in the cafeteria.
09:04Since she knows the African jungle, it makes sense that this is how she processes high school
09:17chaos.
09:18The truth is, North Shore High indeed feels like a jungle where the strong prey on the
09:23weak.
09:23Even the school's lion mascot somehow reinforces this animal kingdom metaphor.
09:28The plastics are like the lions of the school.
09:31Just as lions rule the jungle, they rule North Shore.
09:35Beware of the plastics.
09:37Number 11.
09:39Lesbian Lebanese Joke.
09:41What sparked the beef between Janice and Regina?
09:44It goes way back to 8th grade, when Regina spread a rumor that Janice was a lesbian, leading
09:49to her being ostracized.
09:51Oh my god, it's her dream come true, diving into a big pile of girls.
09:57Towards the end of the film, Janice tells Kevin she's Lebanese.
10:01You're Puerto Rican?
10:03Lebanese.
10:04I feel that.
10:05They share a dance and even start dating.
10:11So Janice isn't a lesbian, at least not in this continuity.
10:16Let's be real, Regina isn't the brightest.
10:18It wouldn't be surprising if an 8th grade Regina confused lesbian with Lebanese.
10:24She's probably never even heard of the country.
10:26Even though the film doesn't confirm this mix-up, the joke plays into a long-running
10:30gag in pop culture, where the two words get hilariously confused.
10:35She ruins people's lives.
10:36When we were 13, she made people sign this petition saying that Janice was a-
10:40Damien, please!
10:41Number 10.
10:42Gretchen Gets to Wear Hoops.
10:44The Plastics click and the primary source of the film's title is run by Regina George,
10:50at least initially.
10:51An evil takes a human form in Regina George.
10:54She dictates not only to the school at large, but also to her hangers-on, Karen Smith and
11:00Gretchen Wieners.
11:01So fetch.
11:03What is fetch?
11:04Oh, it's like slang.
11:05Oh, England.
11:06This includes forbidding them from wearing articles of clothing, like hoop earrings,
11:11because they're her thing, despite Gretchen receiving a pair of them from her parents
11:15as a Hanukkah gift.
11:16And then for Hanukkah, my parents got me this pair of really expensive white gold hoops,
11:21and I had to pretend like I didn't even like them, and it was so sad.
11:26However, once the plastics have broken up at the film's end, Gretchen can be seen sporting
11:30a pair after all.
11:32Number 9.
11:33Regina's Homeschooler Beloved Book
11:35Regina is hardly an intellectual, but she's still quite a cunning, if cruel girl.
11:41Don Schweitzer is a fat virgin.
11:43Still half true.
11:44She's also oddly disparaging and dismissive of homeschooling and those who experience it.
11:50So you've actually never been to a real school before?
11:54Shut up.
11:56Shut up!
11:58Why is this odd?
11:59Because one of the books in her room, The Lively Art of Writing, is one often favored
12:04by homeschoolers and their parents and or teachers.
12:07Whether the book's presence in her room is a hint that Regina has hidden depths, an interest
12:12in writing beyond a burn book, or just a fun easter egg from the set dressers, we can
12:17only guess.
12:18This girl is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met.
12:28Number 8.
12:29The Wrong Elephant
12:30Katie Heron is the protagonist, and is dropped into high school life after being homeschooled
12:36while living in Africa.
12:38She naturally has trouble adjusting, but she does make friends who have positive and negative
12:42influences on her.
12:44Katie also develops a crush on Regina's ex-boyfriend, Aaron.
12:48Even though I wasn't allowed to like Aaron, I was still allowed to look at him, and think
12:55about him, and talk to him.
12:59When she shows Aaron around her room, a picture is seen of Katie riding an elephant.
13:04Despite Katie growing up in Africa, the elephant seen in the photo is an Asian one.
13:10While we'll grant that it could have been rehabilitated back from a zoo or something, it still seems
13:15far more likely that it was intended to be an African one, and this was just a mistake.
13:20You're not listening to me.
13:21Oh no, it was coming up again.
13:23Word vomit.
13:24Nope, wait a minute.
13:25What is this?
13:27Actual vomit.
13:28Number 7.
13:29Odd Time for a Talent Show
13:31Mean Girls features a famed talent show sequence, featuring a rapping performance and a risqué
13:44performance of Jingle Bell Rock by The Plastics.
13:47This in itself is fairly obvious, but what's really odd about the talent show is when it
13:52takes place.
13:53According to a poster in the girls' bathroom, the date the event was held on was November
13:5827, 2003.
14:00Not only is the month a little premature for something Christmas-related, you heard us
14:05retailers, but the 27th was also that year's Thanksgiving.
14:09You're telling us the kids attended an event at school on a U.S. national holiday?
14:13As if.
14:14That is so fetch.
14:16Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen.
14:19It's not going to happen.
14:21Number 6.
14:22A Flimsy Ruse
14:23Oh my god, I remember this.
14:25Ugh, I haven't looked at that in forever.
14:27Here, check it out, Katie.
14:28We mentioned Regina George's poison pen earlier.
14:32The main evidence is her burn book, a journal filled with hurtful gossip about everyone in
14:37school, students and teachers included.
14:41To get back at Katie and the other plastics after she's ousted from the group, Regina omits
14:46their names from the book and includes some dirt on herself to make it seem like they were
14:51responsible for writing it, making them social pariahs.
14:55Except, it's all handwritten, and no one thinks to check Karen, Gretchen, or Katie's handwriting
15:00against the writing in the burn book.
15:02Seems like it would be pretty easy to exonerate them.
15:05Yeah, she's trying to make it look like we wrote it, but really, she wrote it.
15:09Miss Wieners, why would Regina refer to herself as a fugly slut?
15:16Number 5.
15:17Shakespearean Queen Bees
15:18In another Christmas-related moment, Damien delivers candy canes to students, leading to
15:24the aforementioned Glen Coco line.
15:26While most are probably paying more attention to Damien's admittedly hilarious delivery,
15:36the background of the scene contains a classical easter egg related to the film's plot.
15:41The Shakespeare quote on the blackboard is from The Two Noble Kinsmen, which features
15:46three queens asking for revenge for the deaths of their husbands.
15:50Three queens fit well with the three queen bees, or four of the plastics, yeah?
15:55Fine.
15:57You can walk home, bitches.
16:00That's where you're going, fat ass.
16:04Number 4.
16:05Ms. Norbury is a piano virtuoso
16:07During the aforementioned talent show, the Plastics nearly faced disaster during their
16:12performance after losing their CD player and the music they'd prepared.
16:20However, Katie begins singing Jingle Bell Rock and is joined by the others, with Ms.
16:25Norbury joining them on piano.
16:27Now, in case you didn't know, playing by ear can be quite difficult, even for professionals.
16:41So Ms. Norbury is not only an overworked, underpaid high school teacher slash bartender
16:46who drives a Trans Am.
16:48What?
16:48But she's also an amazing piano player.
16:51Maybe her third job is as a music teacher or a lounge player.
16:55I pushed myself into working three jobs.
16:58And now I'm gonna push you, because I know you're smarter than this.
17:01Number 3.
17:02Katie copies Regina before replacing her.
17:04In her attempts to take Regina and the rest of the Plastics down from within the group,
17:10Katie inadvertently becomes more like Regina over time.
17:13Why were you talking to Janice Ian?
17:15I don't know.
17:15I mean, she's so weird.
17:16She just, you know, came up to me and started talking to me about crack.
17:20While this can easily be seen after she's already taken Regina's place,
17:25given that Katie starts wearing hoop earrings, there are some signs beforehand too.
17:29Hey guys.
17:32You look awesome.
17:35I know, right?
17:35One of the more prominent indicators is the necklace with the letter C on the end
17:40that Katie begins wearing, in imitation of the R1 that Regina wears.
17:45Subtle foreshadowing is always fun to find, no matter the film.
17:49That Katie girl is hot.
17:51She might even be hotter than Regina George.
17:53Number 2.
17:54Katie's weird racism.
17:56Although generally pretty intelligent,
17:58Katie makes a surprisingly dumb and racist mistake early on in the film.
18:03While trying to get to know her fellow students,
18:06she attempts to speak Swahili to black kids in the cafeteria.
18:10Jumbo.
18:12What?
18:13Trying to fit in and falling back on something familiar is one thing,
18:17but did Katie honestly believe that the students were from Africa?
18:21Did she, someone who grew up there,
18:23not realize that Swahili is just one of literally thousands of languages spoken on the continent?
18:29Is she unaware of American history and that most black people in the U.S.
18:33had ancestors who were African slaves who lost much of their culture?
18:37Like, what the actual hell, Katie?
18:39So if you're from Africa, why are you white?
18:42Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white.
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19:02Number 1.
19:03Janice and Damien's Map.
19:05When she first arrives at North Shore High,
19:07Katie is completely ignorant of the social hierarchy of the school.
19:11Here, this map is going to be your guide to North Shore.
19:14Thankfully, her new friends Janice and Damien
19:17managed to fill her in on everything she needs to know.
19:20Part of their education includes a map of the cafeteria
19:23and the surrounding environs.
19:26Cool Asians,
19:28varsity jocks,
19:30unfriendly black hotties,
19:32girls who eat their feelings.
19:34This map contains plenty of blink and you'll miss it details,
19:38including where each click sits in the lunchroom,
19:40the typical menu items served,
19:42as well as a warning that the nearby woods
19:44are prone to make out sessions and sexual activity.
19:48Useful info indeed.
19:50What other juicy details have you noticed in Mean Girls?
19:53Share with us in the comment section.
19:56Can I just say that we don't have a click problem at this school
19:58and some of us shouldn't have to take this workshop
20:01because some of us are just victims in this situation?
20:03Don't turn it open!
20:12Oke
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