Case File 054: Mean Girls

April 20, 2022 / Christopher Schrader

Get in losers, we're going podcasting! We've been to Elm Street, Crystal Lake, and Haddonfield, but this week we're visiting the most terrifying location of all... high school.

No one's more surprised by the success of Mean Girls or the scope of its pop culture imprint than the people who made it. So we wanted to go back to the beginning and investigate how a modest teen comedy based on a self-help book became a perennial favorite and one of the most quotable films of all-time.

Topics include: the unconventional source of inspiration, some of the differences between the original R-rated version of the script and the finished film, how Mean Girls transcends its genre and taps into something a lot more universal, the musical chairs aspect of the casting process, the original ending, plans for a sequel, and much more!

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