Mean Girls

Corrected entry: When Regina was evicted from the Plastics dinner table, she said that her sweat pants are all that fit her. Yet, coming from Cady's party,she is wearing slim jeans. You can see them better when she is flooding the hallway with the photocopies of the Burn Book flyers. (00:59:30 - 01:04:20)

keith summers

Correction: She probably went and bought a pair of jeans that fit her after school.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Aaron goes into the room during the party, he picks up a picture of a young Cady astride an Indian elephant, though she grew up in Africa.

Correction: Since her parents love the outdoor experience, they might have travelled to India and snapped a shot of Cady on an elephant.

Corrected entry: At the mall scene when Regina calls Taylor's mom pretending to be a planned parenthood doctor she faints, then instantly calls Taylor right away after fainting. If she fainted then it would've taken longer to wake up and call her.

Correction: Fainting spells usually only last a few seconds. There's nothing to indicate she was so unconscious that she had to "wake up" from it.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: Cady's Math teacher tells her that her parents need to sign a test so they know she's failing. They wouldn't have known she was failing from the test; it was a high D (68). It even says "D" on the test. How does that work out to an F?

Correction: Some schools have the policy that anything under a C- is failing.

Correction: Also, Ms. Norbury may have meant that Cady is on the way to failing. Cady's recent behavior and performance were unusual. She probably wanted the parents to know.

Corrected entry: The Burn Book is an awfully slim volume, considering it contains something nasty about nearly every girl in a good-sized school (one girl per page) and that, when Regina pastes her own picture in it, there are several blank pages at the end. (01:02:35)

Correction: It only contains "burns" about girls in their Junior class, not the entire school.

Ral0618

Corrected entry: When Karen is explaining to Cady how her breasts can tell when it's going to rain, you see a shot of both of them and Cady is beginning to smile/laugh, but then it cuts to just Cady and she has a straight face again.

Correction: In this scene, Cady is trying to take Karen seriously to gain her trust. She could have found Karen's idiotic "breasts can tell the weather" revelation amusing, and smiled, but then quickly made herself stop smiling before Karen noticed whilst the camera was on Karen.

Corrected entry: When Mr. Duvall calls all the junior girls to the gym, he says, "I have parents calling the school asking, 'Did someone get shot?'" But how would they even know about what was going on with the girls fighting? Even if they had parked outside waiting for dismissal (like Mrs. George did), there is no indication of any chaos until Cady and Regina burst out of the doors fighting, which is no cause for alarm.

Correction: Almost all of the kids have cell phones and one young lad is shown calling his mom and saying he's scared.

Corrected entry: The girl standing on the table with a red t-shirt on who said that she had a lot of feelings admitted that she did not attend the school. Yet we can see her when all the girls met in the gym just after they all got soaked by the fire sprinkler in the front row. She also raised her hand stating that she was personally victimized by Regina George. So when and how did she get there in the first place? (01:05:45 - 01:11:15)

keith summers

Correction: Entering the school would be relatively easy - she could have hidden in a group of students at some point, and simply walked into a building when everyone else did. As for the Regina George question, I think she raised her hand because (1) so many other people raised their hands, and she wanted to fit in, or (2) she spends enough time at the school that Regina has actually bullied her before.

Correction: It wouldn't be very hard for her to get into the school, even if she didn't go there. Perhaps she was visiting.

Correction: In the 2024 remake, the character says she's there for a track meet. As good an explanation as any.

Brian Katcher

Corrected entry: When Cady comes out of the bathroom at her party to talk to Aaron, she puts a cup down on top of a stack of CD's. In the next shot the cup has moved considerably.

Correction: I found this on the mistakes page for this film. "When the main character is confronted by her crush in her room, she puts her drink on a pile of CDs, the CD pile starts to fall in the background as there is a shot of the guy, a split second later the cup is on the table next to the CDs, and the CDs are piled differently." Please check for repeats before submitting.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: When Tina Fey asks all the girls if they have ever been called a slut or a whore, everyone raises their hands including the big female teacher behind Tina Fey, but the very next shot shows the teacher behind Tina with her hand suddenly down. (01:13:05)

leyesalot82789

Correction: This has been corrected before. She was raising her hand up tentatively, so she pulled it down quickly.

Correction: She is NOT bald. In the commentary, they say that as a JOKE, commenting on how perfect her hair is.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: After the Halloween party, Cady walks back to Damian and Janyce's house. In that shot her face is white, but in the next shot when they're looking at the chalkboard, her face is painted green.

Correction: Her face is painted greenish-white at both the party and Janis' house. The white shows up more in bright lights like the party, but the green shows up more in low light like the streets and Janis' garage.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: After the pages of the Burn Book are scattered among the halls, classes let out, and a few of the students already have pages in their hands as if they were posted in the classrooms.

Correction: They have pages in their hands because Regina slid papers under the doors into the classrooms.

moviemogul

Corrected entry: When Regina is scattering copies of the "burn book's" pages around, she sticks some of them to walls and lockers, but there is no sign of tape or any reason for them to actually adhere. (01:05:15)

Correction: Regina licks her finger before grabbing the papers and sticking them to a glass surface, and then a locker. It's possible (I've tried) for a single paper to stick on metal and glass with saliva.

Corrected entry: When KG is performing at the talent show at the end of the rap the microphone changes from his right hand to his left.

Correction: If you look closely, right before the shot changes, you will see KG switch the mike from his right hand to his left.

Corrected entry: When Regina gives Principal Duvall the Burn Book, she states that there are only three girls in the whole school who aren't in it. Following this scene, as the girls are fighting in the hallways, Principal Duvall calls on all the girls in the junior class to the gymnasium. Why would he assume that all the girls in the hallways are juniors seeing as Regina had just told him the Burn Book contained all the girls in the school, not just the juniors? (01:03:55 - 01:08:20)

Correction: Regina, a junior, gave him the Burn Book, and made him think that three other juniors made it. Since four juniors are involved, he probably guessed that most of the fights involved girls of that class.

Correction: He wouldn't assume but maybe he recognized all the students and realised that all them were from the junior class. He knew the students.

Corrected entry: In one of the final scenes where Cady is competing against contestant Kraft, Kraft states that the answer to the math problem is 'the limit is negative one' and is told the answer is incorrect. It is actually correct.

Correction: Actually, Cady got it right and Kraft got it wrong. If you use L'Hopital's rule on that problem, and then plug 0 in, you'll get -2 over a very small number. That's not -1, it's a huge number, which only gets larger as you approach 0. Therefore the limit does not exist, as Cady said. Check the graph of the function at x=0 for further proof.

Corrected entry: At Cady's party, when she is in her room with Aaron and she is sick, she is sick below his waistline, ie. either on his pants or on the floor and not on his shirt. However in the next scene when he walks out of the house he is wiping sick off his shirt.

Liam D

Correction: People can, and often do, eject vomit more than once per incident. She must have done it again before he could move out of the way.

Correction: If you watch carefully, we never actually see Karen set the bag down the first time. She may have hesitated for some reason, then finally decided where to put it.

Corrected entry: In the canteen when the different groups are being described to Lindsay Lohan, the music being played is the theme music from Futurama. The composer of this film, Chris Tyng, also composed for Futurama.

SexyIrishLeprechaun

Correction: Christopher Tyng did not work on Mean Girls. (See his imdb pages). The composer for Mean Girls was Rolfe Kent. The song in the scene and the Futurama theme song are both based on the same song: Pierre Henry - Psyche Rock. Mean Girls uses the Fatboy Slim Malpase Remix.

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Continuity mistake: After the Halloween party, when Cady walks into Damian and Janis' house, Damian gets scared and tosses all of the popcorn out of his bowl. In the next shot of Damian his bowl is full again. (00:29:05)

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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.

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