Mean Girls

Corrected entry: In the scene when Regina, Gretchen, Karen, and Cady are at the mall, Regina asks to use Gretchen's cell phone. Considering all the money that Regina has, don't you think she would have her own cell phone?

Correction: She asks to use her cell phone because she doesn't want her number to be the one to show up on caller ID. Gretchen is the only one stupid enough to let her have it.

Correction: That's because it's not a Burmese Python but an African Rock Python (which are found in Africa). You can tell the difference by the pattern.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie when Cady is leaving her parents to go to school she almost gets hit by a bus you can hear her mom scream. In the next shot of her mom you see her scream but nothing comes out.

Stephen Edmonds 1

Correction: Cady's mom only screamed once. Her mouth is still open from her scream. When most people scream, they rarely shut their mouth right away.

RareJewel

Corrected entry: When Cady and Gretchen call Regina, without Regina knowing Gretchen is on the line, and then Karen is called, it is definitely night time outside the windows of Cady and Gretchen's. However, daylight pours in Karen and Regina's windows. They are all calling each other at the same time.

Correction: There was no daylight pouring into Karen's windows. If you look closely, it's just her lamps.

Corrected entry: Cady admits to writing the Burn Book. It's not possible for her to have been able to write the entire book by herself seeing as she's a new student, and all the events in the book did not occur in her time being at the school.

Correction: Either she could have collected stories from other students (either blatantly asking for them or just overhearing gossip), or it simply did not occur to the faculty in light of her confession.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Cady is at the math competition, she remembers the limits written on the blackboard behind Aaron's head. However, he was blocking the board and her attention was primarily focused on him, so she wouldn't be able to see what was behind him and therefore be able to picture it.

curiouskid

Correction: Well since she was able to pass calculus, she obviously looked at the board at least once, hence knowing what it looked like.

shortdanzr

Corrected entry: After the principal pulls the fire alarm and the sprinklers go off, the girls all get wet. They are told to go directly to the gym, but when they go into the gym they're all dry.

Correction: Actually, if you look closely, you can see dark patches on Cady's shirt underneath her hair. This would suggest that her hair had recently been wet enough to create these splotches. Also Cady's hair looks damp. This is seen when she walks into the gym and everyone is staring at her.

Corrected entry: After the "Jingle Bell Rock" performance, the Plastics are standing together side-stage when Kevin G. comments to Cady "Good job, Africa." As Cady looks at him her Santa hat is almost down over her eyes, but the very next shot of her shows it pushed back up on her head perfectly.

Vanessa Moman

Correction: The camera is away from her for a short moment so it's possible she quickly pushed it back up.

Corrected entry: When the girls are outside of Regina's house Gretchen tells Cady to check out Regina's mom's boob job. As Gretchen walks away you hear "they're hard as rocks" but neither Gretchen's mouth nor jaw is moving.

Correction: Gretchen's face isn't visible in the shot in question, therefore, it isn't possible to tell if her mouth is moving.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: Wouldn't someone recognize Regina's handwriting? Surely at least a teacher would recognize Regina's handwriting after a whole year, or a student would recognize it.

Correction: Regina's handwriting wasn't so distinct that someone would instantly recognise it. The color or the style wasn't something that would immediately alert them to it being Regina. A teacher may recognise it, but with the large number of students unless they were paying special attention to everyone's individual style, then there is no way to say with certainity someone would have been able to tell it was Regina's.

Lummie

Corrected entry: When Cady is in the mall with the plastics, one of the girls decides to play a trick on another girl by calling the girl's mother and pretending to have her pregnancy test results. The mother immediately faints. A moment later, however, the girl receives a call from her mother.

Correction: It is possible to only faint for a little while. I passed out once, hit the floor, thenn woke up a second or two later.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Cady and the other two girls are in the principal's office, the big female teacher comes in and says that the girls have gone wild. The principal goes out to look and you will see a girl in a red shirt to the left of him just as he walks in and you she is doing one of the fakest fights with another girl I have ever seen. (01:07:35)

leyesalot82789

Correction: No, actually, they are just lazy, and you can see that they are crying, and hitting each other with a metal bat, beat that. They're just being girl, softly cat-fighting.

Corrected entry: On the first day of school, Cady has a class with Janice and Damien and Ms. Norberry is the teacher. Throughout the rest of the movie, Ms. Norberry is Cady's math teacher in a different classroom and Janice and Damien aren't in the class.

Correction: Cady has homeroom with Janice and Damien. Ms. Norberry is also Cady's math teacher. In American schools, homeroom is a short non-instructional period before actual classes start for administrative purposes, roll-taking, announcements, etc. During the rest of the day, the teacher teaches a subject and a student in her homeroom might be in her class.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: When Cady is in her athlete's uniform, her hair is poker straight in a pony tail; afterwards when she goes to the Spring Fling she's still in her uniform (suggesting she hasn't gone home to change) yet her hair is perfectly curled.

Correction: Her hair isn't styled. It is just let down out of the ponytail.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: When Cady comes downstairs for her party, Gretchen and Karen comment on how good she looks in the dress, as if they haven't seen it. Shouldn't they have already seen her in that dress? It's known from earlier in the film that none of the girls would buy a dress without asking your friends if it looks good on you first.

Correction: They would have seen the dress before, but most people don't change their hair and make-up in the fitting room.

Corrected entry: When Cady bumps into Ms. Norbury on her first day of school, coffee is spilled all over the teacher's shirt. However if you look closely, you'll see the VERY deliberate way Ms. Norbury holds the coffee cup, horizontally so that it is still spilling, instead of picking it up right after it falls against her shirt.

Correction: Actually, I do that, too. Sometimes it's better to let the bad thing happen than try to correct it in a panic and fling coffee all around the room. The shirt's ruined anyway.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: During a half-hour special on sky movies when the film was released, they quoted that the girl with the brown cap on during the brawl in the hallway was Lindsey Lohan. Apparently she wanted to be in the scene, so they had to disguise her as best as they could. She could not be in two places at once. And looking at all the actors and actress in the film, she is the only one who is disguising her face. And the red hair might also be a giveaway. (01:04:40)

keith summers

Correction: Ok, whomever at Sky Movies quoted this was misinformed. Upon closer examination (freeze frama, frame by frame) the girl in the brown cap is NOT Lindsay Lohan. Her name is Randi Lee Butcher. According to the IMDB, she also did stunts in Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen which would explain her looking like Lindsay Lohan. Also why would Lohan want to be in a scene that she is already in? She plays Cady in ALL scenes.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: Gretchen somehow manages to knock over the CD Player on stage at the Winter Talent Show although it is not clear how. They are a lot further back than where the CD player is at the front of the stage but when Regina pushes her around in the right direction she suddenly appears quite a few feet ahead of her and manages to knock it off.

Correction: Are you talking about when she walks over to it and kicks it? She's not standing back away from it, she deliberately walks right up to it and kicks it off the stage.

Correction: That girl is NOT Lindsay Lohan.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: When Cady, Janis and Damien are trying to get Aaron to catch Regina cheating, Damien steals Cady's purse to get Aaron to follow him. Cady is wearing jeans in this scene, but according to two lines by Gretchen earlier in the film, she shouldn't be. "We only wear jeans or track pants on Fridays" and "Every Thursday, Aaron thinks she's doing SAT prep, but really, she's cheating on him in the projection room above the auditorium." So if it was Thursday, why was Cady wearing jeans?

Correction: It was stated by Gretchen that if anybody wore jeans/track pants on any other day then Friday, they couldn't sit with them at lunch. We never see Cady sitting with the others at the canteen, or even hanging with them. She could have forgot about the rule and not sat with them and maybe even not been able to hang out with them that day.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Cady is chasing Damien's car and talking to Janis, when Janis says 'he still doesn't want you' two extras in dark clothing walk up a pathway behind Cady. However when the shot cuts back to her, they have totally vanished. Even though they were wearing dark clothing, you'd still be able to have seen them, and there was not enough time between the different shots for them to have walked into the house.

Liam D

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Damian: Health, Spanish... You're taking 12th Grade calculus?
Cady: Yeah, I like math.
Damian: Eww. Why?
Cady: Because it's the same in every country.
Damian: That's beautiful. This girl is deep.

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Trivia: Tim Meadows, who plays Mr. Duvall, broke his wrist a week before filming started and had to wear a cast. They explained this away in the movie by saying that Mr. Duvall had carpal tunnel syndrome.

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Chosen answer: The first time she goes in with Damian and Janice is their homeroom and when she is with Aaron it is the actual class.

Movieman123

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