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Mean Girls

What’s Aged the Worst?

Four-way calls, the coach subplot and Africa generalizations

In the discussion (12)
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  • Four-way telephone calls feel obsolete beside FaceTime
  • The soundtrack is criticized as underselling its young female audience
  • Kelis’s Milkshake is defended as an exception
  • Budget limitations are suggested as a possible explanation for music choices
  • Jonathan Bennett’s narrow subsequent screen identity is lamented
  • The surprise of Lacey Chabert having grown up is harder for later viewers to share
  • Fetch not catching on is raised, then reconsidered because the rejection phrase endured
  • The teacher-underage-student joke feels uncomfortable
  • Samantha Ronson’s song evokes the later celebrity relationship for one host
  • Cady lowering her grades for Aaron is criticized and defended as intentional satire
  • Racial stereotypes and treating Africa as one homogeneous place are criticized
  • Final preferences split among technology, the coach plot and Africa references