I caught Clueless on TV when I was in high school, and Alicia Silverstone is all I need to love the movie. The fact that it was fun is just a plus.
Oh MAN, I love this movie. This was such a huge part of my childhood… if you count being eleven or so as childhood, which yeah, it pretty much is. I’m kind of surprised that I don’t hate this movie, since it came out at a time when I’d just switched schools and was being bullied by a bunch of girls who tried to take a lot of their aesthetics from this movie–actually, I was their Tai when I wasn’t their victim, since at the time I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup, my mom picked my clothes, and I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV or listen to their music or anything. I didn’t get to see it until I rented it, since it was PG-13 and I wasn’t allowed to see those in theaters but I’d been badgering my mom to let me watch stuff with her supervision at home and finally won a few arguments, and identified with Tai pretty hardcore. (I would also like to point out that there were a LOT of jokes I didn’t get until fairly recently 
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What I loved about the movie more than that, though, was that it was actually kind of smart for all that Cher was presented as incredibly sheltered and shallow. I loved that it was basically an update of Emma but hidden and presented in a way to be appealing to kids and teens of the mid-nineties, which I don’t think was quite as in vogue as it became later (tell me if I’m wrong.) It was pretty lighthearted, fun, and incredibly quotable, and years later all you have to do is say “Haiti-ans” to set me off giggling.
Great movie, and I don’t think anyone should ever have to defend themselves for liking it. Also the soundtrack takes me back, and I think I’m going to have to listen to the nineties station on XM for a while on the way home.
Or for not having an interest in watching it;)
That’s “Lawn Guyland South.”
Oh my Gawd!
There I go again…getting a little fah-klempt. Tawk amongst yaselves, I’ll giev you a tawpic. The Jelly Bean is neither made of jelly, nor is it a Bean…discuss…
My Grandmother used to make me tape that for her. She never expected to hear anyone else talking Yiddish like that on TV.
Technically, that’s not Yiddish (a German dialect with a bunch of Hebrew loanwords.) I’m not sure what it’s actually called, though. “New Yawk Jewish?”
ETA: The GF informs me it’s “Larchmont Lockjaw”
Yeah, you’re right. The only truly Yiddish word in all of the was varklepmt(not sure I spelled that right). I only truly learned how to swear in Yiddish. Bubbie on the other hand, was fluent.
Yeah, mine was fluent in Polish, but all I can do is offer a toast.
What can I say…growing up in an ethnic family was grand!!
Chuck, I got to ask, what was your company name that sounds dirty?
(if you are allowed to say).
You can still get polaroids - the digital kind
You take the picture like a digital camera, then you can review and choose the picture you want. Press the button and voila…A polaroid picture.
My son had his first clarks shoes (A brand of shoe that almost every child in england has to have at one point in their childhood - a rite of passage).
90’s clothing was
Puffa Jackets
Shell Suits
Silver Cross Hi Tec trainers
Fade
Designs in afro hair (one mate had the batman logo - got suspended from school)
After a quick google search (because I wanted to know too), I think Christian’s little yellow convertible car in Clueless is a Nash Metropolitan. I’m not sure what year it was, but they were produced from 1954 to 1962. If anyone has more details I’d love to hear it.
~Shooter Out
I dunno why thats a stereotype we dont sound like that
I dunno why thats a stereotype we dont sound like that
Naw. Jewsey though, dats how they tawk.
I will agree that it is a stereo type taken to the extreme. But, the conversation started with Ty’s accent in the movie which is without question a Norther Jersey/New York Accent. Hate to say it, but its true. Once had the unfortunate task of telling a friend of mine from Brainerd Minnesota, after watching Fargo, “Yes you do talk like that.” One way or the other, each of us sounds different to people from a different part of the country.
Some of you do. It’s the same with New Englanders. You’d be hard pressed to tell I’m from there, but some of my friends…
For the most part we have very neutral accents but I mean we CAN. Cause that’s fun.
In reference to Sean talking about the “fig leaf dancers,” it is definitely something that belongs at an event like Otakon.
Fellow GWCers, I give you the ORIGINAL fig leaf dancers:
(Fair warning, once seen, it cannot be unseen.)