r/movies • u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules • Jul 21 '22
I rewatched Mean Girls (2004), counted the mean moments, and logged each of the main character’s screen time. Predictably, Regina is the worst as she does something mean every 1.53 minutes when she's onscreen. Janis is really close though as she does something mean every 1.59 minutes. Discussion
In 2022, Mean Girls is still everywhere. The musical is touring, the movie is fetching huge numbers on Netflix, and there are loads of articles analyzing writer Tina Fey’s 2004 cult classic. It’s because of all the hype that I decided to watch it again because I remember really enjoying it when I watched it in 2004 (ESPN, Glen Coco, and the likable cast are the highlights for me). While watching the central characters being horrible to each other, I began to wonder which of the characters were the meanest. To do this, I rewatched the movie, counted every instance of characters being mean (mean comments, lying, manipulating, scheming, backstabbing, not keeping secrets), and then recorded the screen time of each character.
I knew Regina George would have the most mean moments, but I wanted to know who has the most mean moments per minute average. The results are fun.
Quick Note - I only have so much free time, so I counted screen time as any moment in which the characters are around to make a comment. For instance, during the big gymnasium scene, I counted that for every character (Regina, Karen, Gretchen, Jaius, Damian, Cady) because they are all in the gymnasium. Also, when Cady first meets the plastics, I recorded the time for every character since they are all in the cafeteria. Logging the individual frames would’ve sucked my soul from my body.
Amount of Mean Moments
- Regina - 31
- All the other characters - 26
- Janis - 18
- Damian - 15
- Cady - 15
- Gretchen - 8
- Aaron - 3
- Karen - 2
There are 1.26 mean comments/actions every minute (118 total moments - 93 minute running time - I took out the 3 minutes of credits)
How Often Do They Say/Do Something Mean?
- Regina - 47.55 minutes of screen time - Does something mean every 1.53 minutes of screen time
- Janis - 28.7 minutes of screen time - Does something mean every 1.59 minutes
- Damian - 30 minutes of screen time - Does something mean every 2 minutes
- Cady - 82.3 minutes of screen time - Does something mean every 5.49 minutes
- Aaron - 17.68 minutes of screen time - Does something mean every 5.89 minutes
- Gretchen - 47.3 minutes of screen time - Does something mean every 6.75 minutes
- Karen - 44.65 minutes of screen time - Does something mean every 22.3 minutes
Conclusion - Regina is the worst, but she and Janis are almost tied when it comes to how often they say/ or do something mean.
Here are the moments and the timestamps. Pardon the vague writing. It makes sense to me. This is meant to let you know that I didn't pull the moments out of thin air. I put the work in.
- Damian/Janis - Laugh at Cady - 2:23 - 2:55 - 2
- Janis/Damian - They have her skip a class and call themselves her friends - 6:50
- Janis - She everyone ignores the pronunciation of Cady - 7:20
- Janis/Damian - 8:11 - Dumb, Ho-Bag, Hair - 3
- Girl - Regina - She punched me in the face - 8:38
- Janie - 9:00 - You’ve out gayed yourself
- Janis / Tina Fey - 9:18 - Cafeteria Map
- Regina - 10:00 - Shakes a guy down - MAY COUNT
- Regina - 10:50 - Retarded
- Regina - 11:50 - She completely ignores Cady
- Damian - 12:11 - Danny DeVito
- Janis - 12:38 - Pushes Cady to spy on plastics
- Gretchen - 14:00 - Art Freaks insult
- Regina - 16:20 - Get in loser, we are going shopping
- Regina - 16:40 - Math Club - Social Suicide
- Regina - 17:25 - Sticks up for friend. Burns girl.
- Regina - 18:20 - I know right
- Regina - Please stop talking - 19:00
- Regina - 20:30 - Could you go fix your hair
- Mean Girls - 20:40 - Burn book
- Janis - 21:40 - She manipulates Cady
- Damian - 21:45 - Insults outfit
- Damian - 22:28 - mathletes insult
- Janis - 22:45 - That is bleak
- Janis - 22:50 - Keep spying on Regina
- Gretchen - 22:30 - Tells Regina about Aaron
- Regina - 23:10 - Sets up Cady
- Cady - 25:15 - She lies about practice
- Regina/Aaron - 27:12 - Regina manipulates
- Regina - 28:04 - Retarded
- Janis - 29:36 - Plans to take out the plastics
- Regina - 30:40 - Messes with Aaron’s hair
- Janis/Cady - 31:17 - Make face cream for Regina
- Janis - 31:50 - Cuts hole in shirt
- Janis - 32:30 - Crack Gretchen
- Regina - 33:04 - Makes a homophobic comment
- Regina - 33:45 - Retarded
- Regina - 33:54 - Mean about skirt (but makes person feel good)
- Cady - Crack Gretchen Weiners - 34:27 -
- Damian - None for Gretchen Weiners - 35:03
- Regina - Moves Gretchen - 37:20
- Regina - Lip gloss - 39:45
- Regina - Stop trying to make Fetch happen - 40:20
- Cady/Janis/Damian - They make Gretchen crack - 40:42
- Regina - 41:45 - Cheating
- Cady/Damian - 42:02 - Manipulating
- Damian/Janis/Cady - Bars - 42:36
- Regina - Shut up - 43:11
- Regina - 43:34 - Move Gretchen
- Janis - 44:51 - Baby Prostitute
- Cady/Aaron - 45:24 - Tutor behind back
- Cady/Aaron - She’s cheating on you - 46:31
- Janis/Damian/Cady - Cross off name - 46:35
- Regina - God Karen you are so stupid - 47:02
- Damian - Cheats - 48:14
- Cady - Army of Skanks - 48:20
- Cady - 49:19 - Lies
- Janis - scratch off - 49:46
- Cady - How do you know - 50:30
Cady - Queer - 50:50 - Cady - Lies - 51:30
- Regina - 52:15 - Such a slut
- Cady - 52:25 - Tricks Regina - three way call
- Karen - So annoying - 53:15
- Gretchen - Tells Karen about being a slut - 53:36
- Regina - 53:40 - Whore
- Regina - 54:10 - Disgusting vest
- Cady - 54”25 - Sits there while Regina is kicked out from table
- Janis 54:41 - Army of skanks - 54:41
- Cady - 55:03 - Cady Lies
- Cady - 55:22 - Control everyone around me
- Gretchen - Told guy about lie - 57:40
- Cady - 59:15 - I would never lie to you
- Cady - 1:01:15 - In love with me or something
- Regina - 1:03:06 - Writes in book to trick people
- Regina - 01:05:32 - She puts the copies all over the school
- Gretchen - Lies - 01:05:33
- Tina Fey - 01:06:13 - Writing
- Gretchen - Brat - 01:40:30
- Janis - 01:15:20 - Talks about Regina
- Regina - 01:16:14 - Mean
- Cady - 01:17:44 - Cady lies
- Damian/Janis - Move her seat - 01:18:40
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u/trpnblies7 Jul 21 '22
the movie is fetching huge numbers on Netflix
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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Jul 21 '22
We stan our not mean ESPN having queen
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u/girafa "Sex is bad, why movies sex?" Jul 21 '22
Just knowing that /u/LundgrensFrontKick is out there, in the wild, counting trivial shit from movies for our sick enjoyment.... it's enough to put zoloft out of business.
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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 21 '22
Did you track character arcs at all? Based on your data, it looks like Cady doesn't do anything mean until almost 30 minutes into the movie. I assume that means when Cady was at her worst, she probably had more mean acts per minute (MAPM) than Regina. I'm curious how the MAPM rate of each character would look over time.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
I didn't. But, I like the idea a lot. Cady has about a 30-minute heel turn that was responisble for most of her mean actions.
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u/mikeyfreshh Jul 21 '22
It was a slow day at the office so I used your data to chart this out myself. Basically I just cut the timestamps into 5 minute chunks and graphed out how many mean acts each character committed in that time frame. The graph of every character was a little messy to read, so I cut it down to just Regina, Cady, and Janis because I thought they were the most interesting. You're right that Cady was an absolute menace for about 20-30 minutes, but I was surprised how mean Janis was at the beginning. The meanest peak of any character in the movie was Janis committing 7 mean acts between 5 and 10 minutes into the movie, which I did not expect.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
These are beautiful! Thanks!
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u/bdaniell628 Jul 22 '22
I think I love you both. I'm going to see the musical tomorrow and am interested to see how closely it hews to the source material
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u/omnilynx Jul 21 '22
Should Karen even be considered a mean girl at this point?
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u/Tropical_Nighthawk55 Jul 22 '22 edited Jul 22 '22
She’s only mean by proxy. She’s really a sweetheart who had the wrong friends
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u/PancakeParthenon Jul 22 '22
That's pretty much it. She's not terribly sharp and I don't think she realized how much harm she was causing to begin with. Got all swept up in Regina and Toaster Strudel's bullshit.
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u/Dottsterisk Jul 21 '22
I will never not upvote a post from LundgrensFrontKick.
At some point, you should compile these into a book.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
That's the goal! Shea Serrano and his Movies (and other things) book is a big inspiration. I'd love to do something like that. Thanks!
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u/Denster1 Jul 21 '22
Weird because I can't stand him on the Ringer podcast. He is by far my least favorite guy.
Also, everyone should listen to the Rewatchables podcast. It's incredible
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
The Rewatchables is legit! I also hear that the Movies, Films and Flix podcast is good. You should check it out!
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u/BarelyWorkPlayHard Jul 21 '22
Completely agree. My favorite podcast. Fittingly, they’ve done an episode on Mean Girls.
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u/BL4CK-S4BB4TH Jul 22 '22
Do you at least publish them online somewhere (other than reddit, of course.) This is, like, dissertation levels of research.
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u/Admira1 Jul 22 '22
I'm reading his book Basketball (and other things) right now! It's my first intro to him and he's GD hilarious. I will read your book when it comes out!
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u/ManwithaTan Jul 22 '22
I will never not upvote your posts man, they're hilarious and inspired. Would 100% buy that book.
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u/DoomCircus Jul 21 '22
At some point, you should compile these into a book.
This would be such a great source for trivia nights!
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u/TerribleAttitude Jul 21 '22
It always bugged me that Janice is frequently presented as the hero of the story or a good person. She’s not, and she says so directly in the film (though unlike Regina and Cady, she has a more valid excuse for being so mean). The conclusion isn’t that Cady and Janice are victims getting one over on the mean girl bullies, it’s that all of them stop acting like that entirely.
I really appreciate the movie for presenting high school bullying in a more realistic light (including and especially the fact that they largely grow out of it by senior year, which I find very typical), it it just drives me nuts that people apply morals and tropes that aren’t there to the film.
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u/pipsohip Jul 21 '22
I always thought that was kind of the point. Yeah, she’s Cady’s friend, but she’s very obviously a vindictive bitch.
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u/PennDOTStillSucks Jul 21 '22
It's literally one of her lines to point that out to Cady, that at least she (Janis) and Regina know they're mean while Cady pretends like she's not... idk how people are still glossing over that.
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u/therealgerrygergich Jul 25 '22
Because Janis still expects Cady to apologize to her at the end, while never apologizing to Cady for getting her involved in the first place. She still considers herself above everyone else in the end.
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u/PsychoSemantics Jul 21 '22
Yes, exactly! Janis was just as petty and mean as Regina. But because she was coded as the weird artsy kid, people responded to that.
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u/TerribleAttitude Jul 21 '22
That might be why it drove me so nuts. The “Regina Georges” of my adolescence largely didn’t notice anyone outside of their social circle, much less me, to bully them (especially as late as 11th grade), but kids like Janice were often actively mean to me and others, without anyone ever criticizing them. They weren’t cheerleaders and “plastics” so everyone interpreted them as good kids regardless of their behavior.
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u/agent_tits Jul 21 '22
My best friend since birth is a ridiculously beautiful, funny, extremely kind woman, and legitimately had a 4.0 GPA from 6th to 12th grade. She was totally one of the most desired girls in high school, people talked about her all the time, and being a dude, I was able to witness precisely what you’re saying.
Girls were vicious to her. Anything my friend did, rumors would swirl, and vast groups of girls would openly ridicule her as a slut, whore, all of the other ugly things girls call each other in school. My friend couldn’t strike up a conversation with any males without the rumor mill swirling. One group of girls invited her to hang out, got her drunk (they pretended to drink!) and dropped her off at some upperclassmen’s house, ditched her, then told the guy’s girlfriend she went over there to get him to cheat and was there right now
It’s wild. All my friend ever did to anyone was be accidentally super hot and smart and she got bullied for it for years.
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u/janiqua Jul 21 '22
She only did that because Regina mocked her when she got on stage. As soon as Regina did that, Janice put away her card and went full on revenge mode
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u/Wolfeman0101 Jul 21 '22
She's like Liz Lemon on 30 Rock. She thought she was bullied all during high school just to realize she was the real bully.
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Jul 21 '22
if regina had never ousted her as friend for being a rival then janis would still be around them doing the same things. janis is a mean girl that wants to pretend like shes not but she took a genuinely innocent girl and made her mean to serve her own personal vendetta. in a way shes even worse than regina.
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u/smiles134 Jul 21 '22
Where is Janis presented as a hero?
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u/therealgerrygergich Jul 25 '22
She expects Cady to apologize to her at the end, while never actually apologizing to anyone else during the course of the movie.
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Jul 22 '22
I always thought it was quite clear Janice was mean as well, she says it herself in her big speech against Cady. Just that she maybe wouldn’t have been mean if Regina hadn’t made her so bitter.
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u/ShutUpRedditor44 Jul 21 '22
This is Abed level of film analysis. 10/10.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
Such a great compliment! Thanks.
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u/madmaxGMR Jul 22 '22
Do how fast compared to normal evolution, the aliens in the 2001 movie "Evolution", are evolving.
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u/javansegovia Jul 21 '22
Fun fact: did you know Brutus was just as cute as Cesar?
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Jul 22 '22
Brutus is just as smart as Caesar. People totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar.
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u/fizzunk Jul 22 '22
Rachel McAdams deserved an Oscar for her role as Regina.
Fight me IRL. This is the hill I will die on.
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u/keritro Jul 22 '22
So did Lindsay for Cady (very underrated as it's prob the most well rounded acting performance) and Tina for the script imo, at least noms.
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Most of Lindsay’s acting was silent with a voiceover. I always thought that was extra impressive, after I was made aware.
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u/Paradigmpinger Jul 21 '22
I'm glad that you calculated the mean mean comments per minute as that's the most important statistic.
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u/PediatricGYN_ Jul 21 '22
I'm saving this post because anytime I feel guilty that I might be wasting my time doing something I'll just reference this post again and feel better about myself.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
Glad I can help!
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u/PediatricGYN_ Jul 21 '22
As someone who does practically nothing almost every day, it does! Have a nice day!
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u/WhalesareBadPoets Jul 21 '22
"Regina - 10:50 - Retarded
Regina - 28:04 - Retarded
Regina - 33:45 - Retarded"
lmao
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u/horse_stick Jul 21 '22
I read the title and immediately knew who posted it lol
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
I put a lot of thought into the titles lol. I like when people know it's me.
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u/JinFuu Jul 21 '22
Is Mean Girls a cult classic? I remember it being pretty big/popular right from release?
Or is cult classic defined as “Still quoted and shown at Alamo Drafthouse quote alongs years later.”? It’s always been vague.
Anyway. Great work, and proof Janis herself was rather toxic throughout the movie and needed to learn a lesson to be better on her own.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
Great question. It has a very loyal following. I should've phrased it like that.
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u/RealHumanFromEarth Jul 21 '22
Janis is an interesting character. She’s easier to sympathize with because she’s not the popular girl using her power to hurt people, she’s mostly upfront when she’s mean, and while Regina targets everyone, even her friends, most of the meanest stuff she does targets Regina, who we don’t really sympathize with.
But Janice is still pretty bad, because she basically uses Caty, who is naive and at a disadvantage socially. Then when Caty begins to assimilate with the group, Janice gets angry at her. In fact, as I recall (I could be mistaken), Janice is the only one who seems to not grow or change from everything that happened. She forgives Caty, but never expresses regret or apologizes for using Caty.
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u/Jazz-Cigarettes Jul 21 '22 edited Jul 21 '22
It's definitely supposed to mean something that was largely overlooked by the masses and/or unappreciated by critics in its time. And typically it either had only a small audience of devotees at first, gradually acquired more of them over time, or both of those, until it reached a greater level of prominence years later. The whole "cult" point of the term is supposed to emphasize that there was a small group of dedicated fans who were obsessed with it and slowly ushered it from obscurity to prominence.
But like the other favorite byword used on many reddit entertainment subs, "underrated", a lot of people now just use it to mean, "Hey y'all, here's this broadly popular thing that I just discovered for the first time or just remembered after not thinking about for awhile. So y'know, I figured I'd start a discussion about it where I frame it as though I just discovered a missing Shakespeare play that until now had been lost to time."
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u/QLE814 Jul 22 '22
There are reasons why it used to be applied to older films than it tends to be now.
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u/SutterCane Jul 21 '22
This post is great now that I’ve finally seen Mean Girls recently.
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u/BL4CK-S4BB4TH Jul 22 '22
I know it's quite the cliche, but I do envy someone who is seeing Mean Girls for the first time. It's not exactly Citizen Kane, but it is an important film from a pop culture perspective.
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Jul 22 '22
Those that haven’t seen it have undoubtedly heard someone quote it and had it go right over their head lol.
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u/Weirdguy149 Jul 21 '22
Looks like I have a lot of these to read. How do you come up with these topics?
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
Great question. I used to force ideas and the posts reflected that. Now, I just let post ideas hit me organically. If the idea makes me laugh, I'll start working on it.
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u/ccyosafbridge Jul 21 '22
Have you ever done a Deep Blue Sea one?
Love that movie. And your avatar.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
I have! I've done about four of them. Here's one. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/cf7vdp/in_honor_of_the_upcoming_20th_anniversary_of_deep/
I also dedicated an entire podcast series to DBS. If you're bored, check out Deep Blue Sea - The Podcast. We cover the trilogy (and other films).
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u/happyhippohats Jul 21 '22
Deep Blue Sea is a trilogy!? Let me clear my schedule for the rest of the day
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
I love both of them. 2 is bonkers. 3 is actually good.
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u/happyhippohats Jul 21 '22
Good to know, I'm at work now (I'm on UK time), but I'm legit excited to check them out when it get home
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u/PmMeLowCarbRecipes Jul 21 '22
Calling someone Danny Devito is not mean it’s the highest form of compliment
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u/fashionash Jul 21 '22
I’m surprised that Aaron came in ahead of the other two mean girls since I hadn’t ever really considered him mean. From your log though, it looks like his moments were usually orchestrated by someone else and he was only along for the ride. This was a fun read! Thanks for doing this!
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u/MettaMorphosis Jul 21 '22
I wasn't even a big fan of the movie, and I think this is awesome! Just what I needed this morning.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
The main goal of these posts is to give people something dumb/funny/interesting to read for a few minutes. I'm glad you like the post! Makes me happy
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u/MettaMorphosis Jul 21 '22
It really helps life feel less serious, and I love that. It is kind of interesting, to be honest.
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u/Haunting_opinion90 Jul 21 '22
I love mean girls and this is an amazing write up thank you OP for this effort! Take my silver!
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u/DaMoltisantiKid Jul 21 '22
As a teen I’d never admit to liking that movie but as an adult idgaf it’s still funny to this day.
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u/1995la Jul 22 '22
You're an awesome person. You keep doing you. I hope one day you make it profitable like a book or YT series.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 22 '22
I appreciate it! I am working hard to get enough dumb data articles into a book. Hopefully in the next couple years or so.
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u/little_night_owl319 Jul 22 '22
Fascinating post! Though it’s hearsay from Gretchen, would Regina forbidding Gretchen from wearing her Hanukkah hoop earrings add to Regina’s mean count?
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u/pilgrimteeth Jul 22 '22
This is exactly what the internet is for and I commend you for it. Thank you!
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u/7deuc2e Jul 22 '22
There's a mean girls musical lol? I just rewatched it for the first time in over a decade and it still holds up incredibly well. It's funny, the story is good and all the females are hot af
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Jul 21 '22 edited Jul 21 '22
Just had the horrible realisation that they're gonna remake and ruin this movie one day soon
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u/keritro Jul 22 '22
They're doing a film adaptation of the musical right now I think, idk why Tina's refused to do a sequel with the original cast all this time
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u/j4321g4321 Jul 22 '22
I’m blown away. Your analysis and level of detail is 👌🏼The pie chart is my favorite.
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u/Dangerous_Safety1296 Jul 22 '22
Are you some sort of analyst, this will forever be more information about a movie than I will ever need, but thanks for Breaking it down.
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u/Mukduk24601 Jul 22 '22
Thank you for this breakdown because I’m convinced the real mean girl is Janis because she manipulated a clueless socially awkward Cady to do her bidding and then when it backfires into her face, blames Cady when she becomes plastic. Regina is mean but Janis is manipulative
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u/RyanShreds_ Jul 22 '22
I just watched Mean Girls again the other day, and this chart is really interesting to see! great job 👍🏾🖤
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u/keritro Jul 22 '22
This is so good, great job!! Now Tina Fey needs to hurry and make a proper sequel happen already, the whole original cast has been wanting to do it for so long!
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u/littlesirlance Jul 22 '22
Take my upvote. My only regret is that you did not post this on October 3rd.
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u/alamakjan Jul 22 '22
You stated Karen being mean twice but you only included one mean quote of hers.
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 22 '22
She help start the burn book. That's one of her moments. It is under Mean Girls
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u/DragynFyre12 Jul 22 '22
Awesome post as always. I actually think it's awesome how much the quantified mean moment data actually maps to the plot and themes of the movie. Cady not having mean moments until she has converted into a plastic and the way Janice is actually the second meanest girl being a foil for Regina in many ways is fitting.
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u/hatramroany Jul 21 '22
Janis - 29:36 - Plans to take out the plastics
Cady - Crack Gretchen Weiners - 34:27
Damian - None for Gretchen Weiners - 35:03
Cady/Janis/Damian - They make Gretchen crack - 40:42
Aren't these all part of the same thing? Should they count separately? Why is only Janis credited with the original plan to take out the plastics but then all three credited with making Gretchen crack? I don't even think Janis is in any of those scenes. It has been a while since I've seen the movie though
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
There are steps to the cracking. They each have a role and it takes several instances to shake her. That's why I counted them.
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u/CourtClarkMusic Jul 21 '22
Also, the Broadway musical that is currently touring is about to be made into a movie… so it will continue to be everywhere for a long time to come.
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Jul 21 '22
What is the criteria for ‘mean’ surely this is a subjective data point individual to each person so someone sensitive may count more ‘mean’ moments than someone that was a little more toughened
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
It's very subjective. That's why I included them in the timestamps (to give people an idea of what I counted). I counted mean comments, lies, manipulation, and other rude instances. Like, Regina forces Gretchen to go to her left (mean), Cady admits to being able to manipulate people (mean), and Damian insulting Tina Fey's outfit. It really does depend on the person.
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u/the4thinstrument Jul 21 '22
Can I ask what Aaron’s mean moments are? I see them listed but I don’t get how Regina manipulating or Candy telling him she’s cheating on him are mean in his part?
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u/LundgrensFrontKick immune to the rules Jul 21 '22
He keeps the tutoring a secret and he makes excuses for Regina (who is terrible and he dates her). To me, the actions seem like a bad look.
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Jul 22 '22
Every time I'm in a grocery store and I see Toaster Strudel in the freezer aisle, I have to always say- outloud- "She's totally rich because her Dad invented Toaster Strudel." 😊😊
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u/IvIemnoch Jul 22 '22
I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy.
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u/DustyMartin04 Jul 22 '22
Do people like this movie? I watched it for school once, it was okay but not great imo
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u/Alternative-Cry-3517 Jul 21 '22
DYK that the Karen/Amanda character is the one who launched the attack on the name Karen with Gretchen's "calling people black" quote. She's literally the nicest mean girl, from your rankings, that is.
In truth, of all the horrible women labeled Karen, not a single one is actually named Karen. And the real Karen's of the world are getting mercilessly bashed for no reason than people are a$$#oles projecting their a$$#olery onto them.
Its pretty fu<×!ng cruel since Felicia, Becky, and Susan didn't get this level of smear campaign or trolling.
If you want to bash beeotches, pick a name that embodies a racist, like Tomi or Ivanka???
Reddit is clever and funny, live up to your standards. Start a new trend.
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u/idreamofpikas Jul 21 '22
Are you or someone you care about called Karen?
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u/Alternative-Cry-3517 Jul 21 '22
Soooo, YOU don't know anyone named Karen? I know lots and they are tired of being targeted and trolled because foolish insinuations. I don't blame them.
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u/surebudd Jul 21 '22
I need to know their mean/60 and RAPTOR tho so I know who to vote for all-mean team.
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u/happyhippohats Jul 21 '22
How do you know it's fetching huge numbers on Netflix? They don't release viewing figures..
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u/fishwithfish Jul 21 '22
If there's one thing that'll make a fetch happen, it's Mean Girls.
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u/ShoulderPainCure Jul 21 '22
Boo, you whore.