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Clueless

year 1995decade 90sdirector Amy Heckerlinggenre Drama
host Juliet Litmanhost Amanda Dobbinshost K. Austin Collins
All 9 categories

Most Rewatchable Scene · 10:03

Dionne on the freeway

Dionne on the freeway is one pick, with the clip played: a cascade of ludicrous disasters including the biker gang, the old lady flipping the bird, the truck and the screaming, and it is what eventually leads Dionne to lose her virginity according to Cher; preceded by finding out Christian is gay, it is called a perfect, frenetic five minutes of pure comedy.

The freeway scene is infinitely referenceable for anyone who moved to Los Angeles late in their driving career; the hosts think it was filmed in Long Beach, probably the 405, because of a Long Beach sign in the back, and say the film takes on a whole new look once you live in LA; one navigated by Clueless for six months and mistook the Beverly Center for the Westside Pavilion where Ty had her near-death experience.

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie · 36:23

"If I'm too good for him, then how come I'm not with him?"

Nominations open with Cher's 'if I'm too good for him, then how come I'm not with him', called an eternal truth and eternal question; 'she could be a farmer in those clothes' has many uses; and 'let's do a lap before we commit to a location' is excellent party advice.

The film

Clueless (1995)

Directed by Amy Heckerling · Drama

97 minutes

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Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Alicia Silverstone Cher Horowitz
Paul Rudd Josh Lucas
Stacey Dash Dionne Davenport
Brittany Murphy Tai Frasier
Dan Hedaya Melvin "Mel" Horowitz
Jeremy Sisto Elton Tiscia
Breckin Meyer Travis Birkenstock
Justin Walker Christian Stovitz
Wallace Shawn Mr. Wendell Hall
Twink Caplan Miss Toby Geist
Julie Brown Coach Millie Stoeger
Donald Faison Murray Duvall
Elisa Donovan Amber Mariens
Sabastian Rashidi Paroudasm Banafshein
Herb Hall Principal
Susan Mohun Heather
Nicole Bilderback Summer Han
Ron Orbach DMV tester
Sean Holland Lawrence
Roger Kabler college guy
Josh Lozoff Logan

Everything from the episode

In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.

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Casting What-Ifs

Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar were up for Cher; Paul Rudd reportedly wanted Christian or Murray; Jeremy...

Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar were up for Cher; Paul Rudd reportedly wanted Christian or Murray; Jeremy Renner was up for Christian and, the host thinks, turned it down; Terrence Howard for Murray; Lauryn Hill for Dion; Owen Wilson tried out for Travis; Leah Remini auditioned for Ty; Zooey Deschanel was up for Amber and Cher

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:03:15Read transcript
  • The casting names are called almost more fun than Titanic's, which the same three hosts covered two weeks earlier, because people did not want to own up to passing on Titanic; Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar were both up for Cher, the Gellar name recalled through Cruel Intentions.
  • A tangent: Cruel Intentions came a couple of years later, Clueless is a G rated movie by comparison, and one host cannot believe their parents let them watch Cruel Intentions all the time.
  • Paul Rudd, who played Josh, apparently wanted to be Christian or Murray; the hosts could see him as Christian but are glad he did not do it, and one was deep in Paul Rudd fandom in the nineties through the show Sisters, where he was Swoozie Kurtz's son-in-law married to Ashley Judd's character (names as transcribed).
  • Clueless and Paris in Romeo and Juliet are called the peak Paul Rudd run for one host, who says he never gets enough credit for sustained relevance but will never matter more than he did then.
  • The best what-if is Jeremy Renner being up for Christian, which the host thinks he turned down; the hosts can see it and wonder whether his career would have looked different, joking about his status in the Marvel movies.
  • More names in the mix: Terrence Howard for Murray, Lauryn Hill for Dion (she was acting then, as in Sister Act), Owen Wilson trying out for Travis, Leah Remini auditioning for Ty, and Zooey Deschanel up for both Amber and Cher; a Deschanel Cher is agreed to be a very different and worse movie.
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