Mean Girls

Mean Girls is a 2004 film written by and costarring Tina Fey. It stars Lindsay Lohan and featured several Saturday Night Live-- cast members, including Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, and Amy Poehler. Its director, Mark Waters, younger brother of writer Daniel Waters, described the movie as Clueless meets Heathers http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2001913326_waters27.html, the latter of which was written by his brother. It was based on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes how female high school social cliques operate, and the effect they can have on girls.

Cliques

In the film, the following cliques are mentioned:

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• Asexual Band Geeks
• Sexually Active Band Geeks
• Desperate Wannabes
• Thin Girls (Girls who don?t eat anything)
• Burnouts
• Art Freaks (e.g. Janis & Damien)
• J.V. Jocks
• J.V. Cheerleaders
• ROTC Guys
• Plastics (Regina George, Karen Smith, Gretchen Wieners)
• Asian Nerds
• Unfriendly Black Hotties
• Cool Asians (e.g. Trang Pak)
• Girls Who Eat Their Feelings (fat girls)
• Varsity Jocks.
• Preps

Each clique has their own cafeteria table, as seen in the montage narrated by Janis.

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