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— Cher Horowitz

Clueless is a 1995 teen comedy of manners, written and directed by Amy Heckerling.

Loosely based on Jane Austen'southward Emma, Clueless is fix in Beverly Hills and focuses on the spoiled and shallow, but essentially good-hearted, teenager Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) as she helps to amend the lives of everybody around her. The picture show contains funny, merely appreciating, jabs at early '90s teen culture, high schoolhouse, and Valley Girls, and introduced a fresh wave of California slang across the world. Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Donald Faison, and Wallace Shawn too star.

Three YA novels (Cher Negotiates New York, An American Betty in Paris, and Achieving Personal Perfection) actually carried on the story after the movie'due south end; when the TV series was developed, the novels became based on the show.

Afterwards inspired a TV adaptation that ran for three seasons (first on ABC and later on UPN) featuring much of the same bandage as the pic, with the notable exceptions of Silverstone (replaced in the atomic number 82 past Rachel Blanchard), Irish potato, and Rudd, who all went on to have successful film careers after the original was released. A 2nd idiot box adaptation, reportedly styled as a mystery dramedy in line with Riverdale, was announced to exist in development in Oct 2019. It was afterward stated in August 2020 that the new serial would air on Peacock, with a shift in perspective to that of Dionne, as she investigates the unexplained disappearance of Cher.

A Jukebox Musical accommodation has been rumoured to be in the works since 2015, while a series of graphic novels based on the movie (co-written by Amber Benson), Senior Year and Our Last Summer, were released by Boom! Studios in 2017 and 2018.

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• The '90s: An odd merely valid example — the whole motion picture seems really dated looking back, but at the time it was made, nobody dressed or talked like the characters in Clueless. The movie influenced the '90s, non the other way effectually. It should be noted that some of the clothing, specifically the looks sported by the teen guys, is even so relevant and prevalent as of The New '10s.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Even though Heather's his girlfriend (at the time) and he's been engaged in Snark-to-Snark Gainsay with Cher up to this signal in the movie, Josh laughs at Cher's line about how she remembers who said "To thine ain cocky be truthful". (see Shout-Out to Shakespeare below).
• Accommodation Title Alter: Clueless is loosely based on Emma.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Christian, Frank Churchill'due south equivalent, is homosexual in this moving-picture show.
• Adjusted Out: Due to Christian existence gay, there is no Jane Fairfax equivalent.
• Thing Hair: Dionne finds an entire braided hair extension in Murray's car, and accuses him of adultery. When Murray jokingly suggests it may have fallen off Dionne herself, she reacts angrily, yelling, "I do not clothing polyester hair!"
• All Women Love Shoes/Distracted by the Luxury: Cher's cocky-pitying internal monologue is interrupted when she passes a window brandish of shoes and goes "Ooh! I wonder if they have that in my size?"
• Alpha Bitch: Both Cher and Amber subvert this. Cher is rich, beautiful, and ane of the most popular girls in school, simply she doesn't act like a typical alpha bowwow (though she is dismissive of Travis in the kickoff). Amber does human action like an alpha bitch, only a milder one, and Cher is college on the high schoolhouse social pecking order. Besides, while the two snipe at each other, they don't seem to hate each other or attempt to destroy each other's lives.
• Ambiguously Jewish: The Horowitzes. The series makes it more explicit with Cher singing "I Have a Little Dreidel".
• Answer Cut: After Christian ends his date with Cher early, she wonders why he didn't answer to her:

  Cher: What's wrong with me?

  Dionne: (in the car the next day) Cipher! Perhaps he really was tired.

• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Cher calls Josh for a ride abode from a party considering her commuter abased her:

  "This guy with a gun held me up, took my money and my phone, and he yelled at me and he forced me to ruin my dress!"

• Cocked Beret: Josh briefly has a pretentious college girlfriend, who talks condescendingly about philosophy and wears a beret. She's not quite as intellectual as she thinks she is, as she mangles a Shakespeare quote that Cher knows correctly.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • While virtually of the time Dionne and Murray are snapping at each other, Cher notes they actually are affectionate with each other when they think no one's looking.
  • Same with Josh and Cher, as most of the fourth dimension when the ii are bickering, neither tin can stand information technology when the other gets injure. (Cher disapproves of Tai liking Josh because she likes Josh; Josh argues with a lawyer who insults Cher over a minor mistake.)
• Becoming the Mask: I of the big themes of the movie. While some of Cher'due south deportment have the pretense of altruism, she does grow genuinely altruistic and becomes humbled by the experience, be it successful or a mishap.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Cher and Josh who spend near of the time bickering and fighting before falling for one another and eventually dating.
• Big Eater: Josh is ofttimes seen eating. Lampshaded when his female parent calls Cher and jokingly asks if her son is looting the Horowitzes' fridge.
• Large Fancy Business firm:
  • Cher'southward mansion. It's big plenty to throw Mr. Hall and Ms. Geist's wedding.
  • Also Dionne'southward house, which is enormous and beautiful, even if it'southward not a mansion.
• Birds of a Plume: Tai and Travis.
• Breathy Lies: When Christian asks Cher if she likes Billie Vacation. Cher replies: "I love him." Christian clearly sees through the lie, even if Cher remains clueless.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Cher, Dee and Tai, respectively, with Dee as the Token Minority blazon. Amber replaces Tai in the show.
• Bouquet Toss: At the end of the moving-picture show, the girls take a pocket-size catfight over Ms. Geist's bouquet. It helps that their dates made a bet on which one of them will get the bouquet.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Cher Horowitz is a expert example of the smarter (if still shallow and naive) version and is also unusual in beingness the actual protagonist. She's also sweeter and more considerate than the usual case in several ways, in that she's constantly fretting well-nigh her father's stress levels and need to take a proper breakfast, and reaches out to make friends with the awkward and unfashionable newcomer to the schoolhouse (for pretty shallow reasons at the time, merely still).
• Dotterel Beauty: Cher, undoubtedly and her friends to lesser extent.
• Break-Up Blaze: While they weren't actually together, Tai decides to burn the items she held on to that reminded her of Elton in Cher'south fireplace.
• Butch Lesbian: Cher describing her gym teacher Miss Stooger, who dresses and behaves in a masculine way but besides gives practiced girl advice to some of her students on getting over bad pause-ups class boys. She even wears a tuxedo to Mr. Hall and Ms. Geist's wedding ceremony at the stop.

  Cher: And in the k tradition of all gym teachers, Miss Stooger seemed to be same-sex activity oriented.

• Tin can't Have Criticism: Downplayed with Cher, who thinks grades are something to be negotiated, instead of a reason to improve her schoolwork.
• Captain Obvious: Cher helpfully explaining how to attract a boy'southward attention, and the reasoning behind her methods:

  Cher: Sometimes yous accept to show a little skin. This reminds boys of existence naked, so they recall of sex.

• Catchphrase: "As if!"
• Chekhov's Gunman: Christian is mentioned early when Mr. Hall is distributing report cards. It's explained that he's missing considering his parents take articulation custody and thus he spends every other semester in Chicago. He comes back at the kickoff of the new term by the midpoint of the movie and Cher gets an instant crush on him.
• Clique Tour: Cher shows Tai the ropes of loftier school by showing her the cliques as they walk up to the schoolhouse entrance. She points out the people who run the TV station, the "Persian mafia", and the popular boys earlier the conversation is derailed.
• Clingy Jealous Daughter: Dionne. When she finds an thing hair in Murray's jeep, she calls him out on it. And then, at the house party, she sees another woman suggestively with Murray, grabs her by the back of her hair and pulls her away. And then she hits Murray, demanding to know "who was that?!".
• Comically Missing the Point:
  • Amber accuses Cher of talking nigh "some picayune party", simply Cher points out that it was her dad's fiftieth birthday, which is hardly picayune.
  • Travis thinking his record of getting to class belatedly the most times is crusade for celebration - complete with acceptance speech.
• Completely Off-Topic Written report: Cher summarizes Haitian/American relations for her grade debate this style:

  And then similar, right now for case. The Haitians need to come to America. Only some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?" Well it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I put R.S.V.P. 'crusade it was a sit-down dinner. But some people came that similar did not R.S.V.P. I was like totally buggin'. I had to haul donkey to the kitchen, redistribute the food, and squish in actress place settings. Merely by the end of the mean solar day it was, like, the more the merrier. And and so if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in determination may I please remind yous it does not say R.Southward.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty. Thanks very much.

• Cultured Badass: Christian is a Rat Pack lover, knowledgeable well-nigh the arts, and has a taste for Billie Holiday and vintage films... only y'all do anything then stupid that could threaten someone else'southward rubber, he won't be afraid to face up you with the threat of a physical throw-down.
• Cute Impuissant Girl: Tai takes a handful of spills throughout the story. Information technology'south part of her charm.
• Daddy's Girl: Cher and her father are very shut and share many heartwarming moments. She always watches later his diet and he obviously loves her just equally much.
• Deadpan Snarker: Josh. Cher also has her moments, especially when she's interacting with him.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Cher undoes her pigtails to become her pilus down and Josh gets distracted, much to their lawyer'southward badgerer, and gets chosen out on it.
• The Ditz: Tai Fraiser's affable airhead. To a bottom extent, Cher herself — she is not actually unintelligent as such, but she certainly isn't a deep thinker or specially perceptive. Cher has a abrupt mind (unlike Tai); she just doesn't really utilise information technology all fourth dimension. She'southward not exactly upwardly on her geography either, as this commutation while she and Josh are watching a news report virtually war in Bosnia demonstrates:

  Josh: You expect confused.

  Cher: It's only that, I idea they alleged peace in The Middle East.

• Don't Tell Mama: When Dionne finds out Murray is shaving his head at the party, she gets aroused and tells him she's going to call his mother. Murray, who had been mocking her upwardly to this betoken, immediately gets upset and pleads with her not to phone call his mother.
• Drives Like Crazy: Cher is very careless backside the wheel. Which leads to...
• Driving Test: Failed, spectacularly.
• Entertainment Below Their Age: Cher and Josh are shown watching The Ren & Stimpy Show on TV. Josh judges Cher, questioning why she all the same watches cartoons equally a 16-twelvemonth-former, but Cher reassures him past stating that Ren and Stimpy are "existential". It's downplayed, though, because Ren and Stimpy, while officially a kids' show, was inappreciably appropriate for young children.
• Entitled Bastard: Elton, who'southward a snob and a half.
• Erotic Eating: Cher does this eating chocolates she bought herself in order to make the guy she likes jealous.

  Cher: (narrating) Too, anything you tin can do to depict attention to your rima oris is good.

• Expy: Several characters, as the motion picture is basically a Setting Update of Jane Austen's Emma.
  • Cher is Emma Woodhouse.
  • Josh is Mr. Knightley.
  • Cher's male parent is Mr. Woodhouse.
  • Tai is Harriet Smith.
  • Christian is Frank Churchill.
  • Travis is Robert Martin.
  • Elton is Mr. Elton.
  • Bister is Mrs. Elton.
  • Ms. Geist is Miss Taylor/Mrs. Weston.
  • Mr. Hall is Mr. Weston.
  • To a lesser extent, Dionne and Murray are Isabella and John Knightley.
• Fashion Hurts: Cher implies that her party clothes are so binding that they make it difficult to relax.
• The Fashionista: Mainly Dionne, just also Christian and of course Cher herself. This is the woman that gave human knee socks to The '90s.
• The Film of the Book: Emma by Jane Austen.
• First Guy Wins: Josh is the showtime guy and potential romantic interest nosotros see Cher talk to and, after a string of failed attempts at finding a fellow, Cher realizes that she loves Josh and they cease upwards dating.
• Flirty Stepsiblings: Cher and Josh. It helps that their parents are no longer married.
• Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Cher'southward feather boa on the movie cover, and an outfit in the film with which her cell phone clashes.
• 4th Date Marriage: Subverted. The scene where Cher and Josh acknowledge their feelings for each other and buss is immediately followed by a hymeneals scene... at which point, Cher'southward voice-over points out how gross it is for anyone to assume that information technology's her getting married, seeing every bit she'south only sixteen and "this is California, non Kentucky." The wedding is actually for the teachers she set up earlier in the movie. Also serves as commentary on the reality of Austen's times, where girls very much did get married at 16 later four "dates."
• Iv-Daughter Ensemble: Dionne (sexy and glamorous), Tai (ditzy and clueless), Amber (snarky and haughty), and Cher (conflicted protagonist).
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Cher (Sanguine), Dionne (Choleric), Christian (Melancholic), and Tai/Murray (Phlegmatic).
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Cher's report card. The annotate from her (male person) geometry instructor is "Nice shapes".
• Funny Background Result: Several. Near involving Elton. One has him admiring his reflection in ane of his CD's during one of Cher's inner monologues, another has him flossing his teeth during Ms. Geist's lecture on the Pismo Embankment disaster.
• Genius Ditz: Cher is highly intelligent in a few areas, simply in virtually she'due south, well, clueless.
• Geeky Analogy: Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for significant in a Pauly Shore moving picture.
• Geeky Turn-On: Tai and Travis bail over Marvin the Martian.

• Glad-to-Exist-Alive Sex: Dionne and Murray do this later she almost gets into an accident while driving on the state highway.

  Cher: (voiceover) And that's when Dionne's virginity went from "technical" to "non-existent".

• Global Ignorance: Cher thinks Bosnia is a Center Eastern country. She doesn't know where State of kuwait is either. No wonder she mistakes her housekeeper as Mexican.

  Mel: (calling from his phone) Where are you?

  Cher: (lying, while at Travis's party) I'm just having a snack with my girlfriends.

  Mel: Where? In Kuwait?

  Cher: Is that in the Valley?

• Gone Horribly Correct: At the beginning, Cher helps requite Tai a makeover and attempts to make her "fit in" as one of the new popular girls. This winds upwardly backfiring on her later on in the film when Tai'southward popularity at school skyrockets due to her "nearly-death experience" at the mall, leaving Cher less popular (if for a while, depending).
• Good Bad Girl: Most anybody, but especially Cher. The primary theme of the movie comes downwardly to it existence possible to be vapid, shallow, and fifty-fifty a picayune naughty (Cher is shown drinking and smoking a little at a party) while still having a good eye with adept intentions.
• Proficient Feels Practiced: The premise is Cher coming to realize this. She starts out meddling in her teachers' love lives to schmooze them for better grades, then befriends the new girl she originally saw as a project. Past the end, she volunteers to head a donation drive at school.
• Gossip Evolution: By the fourth dimension news of Tai's incident gets back to Cher (who witnessed information technology), it's turned into an attempted gang execution.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Cher becomes jealous when Tai becomes the new popular girl at school and starts crushing on Josh.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gilt: Cher. She is, despite coming off as shallow and superficial, a really good person at heart.
• Hates Their Parent: Cher's dad.

  Mr. Horowitz: Don't tell me those brain-dead low-lives are calling me again.

  Cher: Well, they are your parents.

• Held Gaze: One long held gaze happens betwixt Cher and Josh towards the end which becomes The Big Damn Buss with that as the lead-in.
• Heroic Bystander: Christian ends up being this while on a shopping engagement with Tai and Cher. Several jerks grab Tai and jokingly hold her over the second-floor railing while she'due south screaming for help. They back off when Christian gets Tai downwardly and tells them off for endangering one of his friends.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Cher and Dionne.
• Hidden Depths: Cher isn't quite The Ditz you might look her to exist on first glance. While she's definitely quite naive and shallow, and has plenty of gaps in her knowledge base, she'southward also got a pretty shrewd mind, is quite effective at hatching schemes and manipulating people to attain her desired outcomes, is skilled at debate and organising, and tin be very sharp at identifying and exploiting loopholes. She also can recall facts and knowledge when given a reason to care about them on her terms (for case, she remembers the Polonius quote from Village non out of particular reverence for Shakespeare, simply because she likes Mel Gibson, who starred in a flick adaptation of it). In short, perhaps thanks to her parentage, she's got the makings of a pretty good lawyer.
• High Schoolhouse A.U.: Of Emma.
• Hurricane of Euphemisms: When Murray is telling Cher that Christian is gay.

  Murray: Your homo Christian is a cake boy!
  Cher & Dionne: A what?
  Murray: He'southward a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand-ticket-holding friend of Dorothy, know what I'1000 proverb?

• Hypocrite: Early in the film, Murray confronts his girlfriend Dionne and accuses her of adulterous on him. Yet he has a lock of someone else'due south hair in his own machine, further implying that he hasn't been entirely faithful and honest to Dionne either.

  Murray: Woman, why don't you be answering whatever of my pages?

  Dionne: I hate when you telephone call me "woman"!

  Murray: What's upwards? You jeepin' backside my back?

  Dionne: Jeepin'? No. But speaking of vehicular sexual practice... possibly you lot could explicate how this cheap K-Mart hair extension got in the back seat of your car!

• Hypocritical Sense of humour: Lucy gets mad when Cher mistakes her for a Mexican (she'south from El Salvador). After she storms out of the room, Cher comments to Josh that she doesn't see what the large deal is, and Josh says, "You get upset if anyone thinks you live below Dusk."
• Incompatible Orientation: Cher and Christian (as he's gay).
• Insistent Terminology:

  Tai: Cher, you're a virgin?

  Cher: You say that like it's a bad thing.

  Dionne: Besides, the PC term is "hymenally challenged".

  Cher: It's not like I'm a prude or anything. I'm just... highly selective.

• Instantly Proven Wrong: The moment Cher declares loftier schoolhouse boys "not boyfriend material", Christian walks in.
• Irony: Josh claims he would "dice of stupor" if Cher e'er did something that was less than 90% selfish, and she replies that that would exist reason enough for her, making it 100% selfish no matter what it was.
• It's Imitation Fur, Information technology's Fine: "It'due south faux!"
• Interrupted Intimacy: Josh is decorated making out with his girlfriend when Cher phones him to come pick her up.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Mr. Hall fails Cher on her debate report. His reasons are legitimate: Cher didn't put in any bodily work and instead used her time to win the grade's sympathy past using an analogy about having too many people at a political party. Cher refuses to learn and instead conspires to matchmake, setting him up with another instructor.
• Wiggle with a Eye of Gold: Mel Horowitz is a feared litigation attorney who terrifies anybody around him with his blunt manner, only he clearly loves Cher and is a devoted begetter to her and Josh (see Parental Abandonment beneath). Mr. Hall is a downplayed version of this trope.
• Jewish American Princess: Cher is a subversion of this.
• Karma Houdini:
  • Elton never actually does get his comeuppance for sexually assaulting Cher and then ditching her in a rundown neighborhood where she gets mugged at gunpoint .
  • Neither does the mugger, who vanishes into the night and is never seen or heard from over again.
• Kick the Domestic dog: For accidentally screwing up the paperwork she helped her father label to "September files", one of the lawyers working for Cher'southward father gets mad and tells her to "become back to the mall or something". Cher leaves in tears and Josh berates the lawyer for doing that.
• Know-Nothing Know-Information technology-All: Downplayed with Heather, who misquotes Shakespeare ("To thine own self be true") only to be corrected by the thus-far ditzy Cher. The irony is that she was quoting Village in order to back upwards her (rather song) opinion on a subject area.
• Literal-Minded: Cher apparently thinks the rule to "break" at intersections is about mentally pausing.
• Longing Look: Tai shows one for Travis. Travis shows several for Tai when Cher tried to prepare her upwardly with Elton. Josh and Cher exchange these multiple times to each other without the other knowing, much to a lawyer's annoyance.
• Love Epiphany: "Oh my God, I honey Josh!"
• Honey Triangle:
  • Travis/Tai/Elton
  • Tai/Elton/Cher
  • Cher/Josh/Tai
• The Makeover: Two: One for Tai, and one for Cher after she tries to smarten upwards.
• The Matchmaker: Cher, of class, with Dionne's assistance. In this case, information technology's to go better grades; only since Cher is genuinely happy for her teachers, it doesn't veer into Jerk with a Centre of Jerk or Manipulative Bowwow territory. She too seems to want Tai and Elton to be together due to wanting happiness for Tai, and non just equally a "projection".
• Meaningful Name: Travis'south last proper noun is 'Birkenstock'; Birkenstock is besides a brand of shoe that, when introduced in the U.S., first became pop among hippies and general counter-civilisation types, who tended to also smoke a lot of weed. Word of God is that Travis is heir to the Birkenstock fortune, explaining why a slacker pothead attends an elite school.
• Missing Mom: Cher'due south mother died during a freak complication during a routine liposuction. Granted, Cher doesn't actually call back her that much, although she does pretend her female parent watches over her and greets the large film of her at the front door. Josh also teases her about this being her motive for wanting to make over Tai and care for her like ane of her dolls. There is 1 surprisingly touching scene where, when she's insecure that she isn't a good person, her male parent tells her he hasn't seen so much adept-doing since her mother, which seems to greatly condolement her.
• The Monolith: Cher'southward phone, when she's waiting for Christian to phone call her back.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • At one indicate, the narration of Cher's rather glum introspection on her feelings for Josh and how everything seems to be going wrong for her is suddenly interrupted when she notices some squeamish clothes in a store window.
  • The house party starts out fun, switches to Dionne throwing a dramatic fit over her boyfriend Murray shaving his head, and then back to the fun once more.
• My God, What Take I Done?: When it's pointed out to Cher that she's genuinely done something incorrect or crossed the line, she feels genuine guilt over it. For instance, when she casually assumes that Lucy the family maid is from United mexican states when she's actually from El salvador, once it'south sunk in that this is actually quite rude and offensive of her, she's genuinely apologetic.
• Nice Girl: Whilst definitely spoiled and somewhat self-centered, Cher is very much this. She'due south friendly, willing to admit mistake, a romantic at eye, has a genuinely donating side that comes out more than equally the film goes on, and overall has more than of a sense of decency than one would expect from an Alpha Bitch.
• No Antagonist: The moving picture has no primal antagonist. Bister, the character who butts heads with Cher and her friends the well-nigh, never outright tries to sabotage them at anything and isn't always incorrect in her criticisms of Cher. A lot of the disharmonize or manipulation from the film comes from Cher's own well-pregnant (or at least non-malicious) poor decisions. Elton and the mugger are certainly combative, but only for cursory scenes without much impact on the main story.
• Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Tai is the kind, klutzy new daughter with dyed bright cerise hair. While she's not as well alternative, it does come when conventionally feminine and pretty Cher and Dionne befriend her. When they give her a makeover, their start lodge of business concern is to remove the dye from her hair. She spends the residual of the picture show with natural brownish hair.
• Not Blood Siblings: Cher and Josh. Ex-stepsiblings in this case; Josh's mother and Cher'due south father had married and subsequently divorced each other when Cher and Josh were younger.
• Not Distracted past the Sexy: To his credit, the street criminal who robs Cher doesn't fifty-fifty wait down when she shows him her dress explaining that it'southward an Alia.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: Josh accuses Cher of doing this a couple of times, pointing out that while she might exist doing good things for several people, she'due south also doing and so in large part because she'll benefit from it in some way. This somewhen provokes a bit of a crisis in conscience for Cher, who begins to wonder whether she actually is a good person.
• Oblivious to Love:
  • Cher is adamant about setting Tai up with Elton, despite the fact that Elton clearly has a matter for her instead. If non just how he looks at her, how about how he's e'er grabbing her from behind and kissing her cheeks whenever he gets the chance. Hi!
  • Played with, however, in that it's not so much 'love' to which Cher is oblivious, merely 'lust' — it's ultimately fabricated pretty articulate that Elton doesn't really desire much more than to become into Cher's pants. He as well likes the thought of them every bit a power couple.
• One Dialogue, 2 Conversations: Likely what happened with Heather, who was only trying to make a signal about living the life you want to alive.

  Heather: Excuse me, I think I remember Hamlet [the play] accurately.

  Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and [Village] (the character) didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.

• Operation: Jealousy: Cher starts sending herself gifts and beloved notes to make it announced to Christian that she's very sought later and desirable. This is a subversion, since at that place really isn't anyone for Christian to get jealous of.
• Overprotective Dad

  Mel Horowitz: Anything happens to my daughter, I accept a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone would miss you.

• Parental Abandonment:
  • Subverted with Josh; despite being divorced from his mother and having no blood relation, Mel makes a point of being a devoted father-effigy to him.

  Mel Horowitz: You lot divorce wives, not children.

  • Travis seems to be a instance of emotional parental abandonment at least.
• Parental Fashion Veto: Cher is almost to head to a political party (on a date with Christian) when Josh asks her dad if he's going to let her become out in what she's wearing, a white mini-dress. Cher'southward begetter asks her if that's what they're calling dresses these days, tells her it looks more like underwear and makes her put something on peak. Which turns out to be a transparent wrap.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: When Tai expresses a crush on Josh and sees Cher's disapproval of it, she eventually snaps and says, "Why should I take advice from you lot? You're a virgin who tin't bulldoze." It's downplayed because Cher is obviously hurt; Tai immediately regrets saying that and they reconcile a few scenes later.
• Politically Motivated Instructor: Miss Geist, who wants to inspire her students to save the environment and aid disaster victims. She's portrayed as dorky only likable.
• Popular-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Cher and Josh are working on Mel'southward lawsuit.

  Cher: You look like Forrest Gump. (Beat out) Who'due south Pippi Longstocking?

• Previously Overlooked Paramour: Near the end of the movie, Cher realizes that she is in love with Josh, her idealist "ex-stepbrother", who is non agape to call Cher out on her superficiality.
• Product Placement:
  • "Ooh, Snickers..."
  • As well in that location are a few brands mentioned in the motion picture, such as Calvin Klein and Fred Segal, and the outfit Cher buys during her walk in Rodeo Drive is from Christian Dior, equally seen after from her shopping handbag.
  • Cher is also seen with a Starbucks cup in few scenes.
  • Diet Coke cans are seen multiple times during the pic.
• Proud Dazzler: Cher. Also Elton.
• Reconstruction: It's hard to imagine now but the whole Teen Movie genre was moribund in the early '90s; Clueless was the get-go commercial and critical success in many years, perhaps because it was such an exuberant render to the optimism of the '80s genre films.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Mel Horowitz. He seems scary at offset only is actually open-minded and understanding. It's besides implied he's aware of Josh's beat on Cher and approves.
• Related Differently in the Accommodation: An unusual example in which the characters are technically no longer related. In Emma (upon which Clueless is loosely based), George Knightley is Emma'due south brother-in-law (her sister is married to his brother). In this motion-picture show, Cher is an only child and the Knightley analog Josh is her ex-stepbrother (her begetter has since divorced his mother) who hangs around because he even so has a skillful relationship with her dad.
• Retail Therapy: Whenever Cher's feeling down, she goes shopping.
• Rip Tailoring: While making Tai over, Cher does this to her shirt to bare her midriff.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Cher and Josh - she always pushes him to go out and have fun.
• Setting Update: Of Emma. Near of the plot stays the same, except it gets rid of some of the Values Noise of the Jane Austen novel, such every bit the marriage focus (having the Frank Churchill stand-in, Christian, turn out to be gay rather than secretly engaged, for example) and the course problems. Cher lampshades the former departure when her They Do moment and osculation-fest with Josh flips straight to a wedding where she says "Equally if! I'thou only 16!" and reveals it to be Miss Geist and Mr. Hall's wedding.
• She'due south Got Legs: At one bespeak Christian compliments Cher on her "dainty stems" later he (and the camera) get a dainty expect at them.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Mr. Horowitz picks up on Josh's (admittedly subtle) crush on Cher early on and, judging by his sly grin when Josh ditches work in social club to "watch over Cher", he approves of information technology.
  • Cher for Tai and Elton until he reveals his truthful intentions.
• Shout-Out: The setting of Cher'south Love Epiphany (with the fountain suddenly coming to life) is i to Gigi; this is actually Lampshaded in the novelisation, where Cher talks about the setting being just like this movie she watched the other week with Christian,where a guy of a sudden realizes he'southward in honey with a girl he'southward known for years. It even has the theme from Gigi playing in the background of this scene.
  • Josh thinks Marky Marker might use his celebrity for something good, like planting trees.
  • While attempting to seduce Christian on a sleepover, Cher narrates how his favorite movies that they're watching are works starring actor Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot and Spartacus.
  • Cher narrates on how she compares Dionne and Murray's volatile relationship, "I think they've seen that Ike and Tina Turner movie way as well many times."
  • Cher also lampshades how she and Dionne are named for Cher and Dionne Warwick.
  • Subverted with Elton, who is not named for Elton John, simply for the character Mr. Elton in Emma, merely the fact that the name is associated with the musician is the reason why Dionne and Cher are named for singers.
• Shout-Out to Shakespeare: When Josh and Heather (his so-girlfriend) are giving Cher a ride dwelling house and having a discussion:

  Heather: It'due south just like Hamlet said; "To thine own self be truthful."

  Cher: Uh, Village didn't say that.

  Heather: I think that I call back Hamlet accurately.

  Cher: Well, I recall Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.

• Spoiled Sugariness: Cher, definitely. Despite being rich and pop, she is genuinely sweet to people and usually motivated by skilful feelings.
• Standard Snippet: Cher's phone serves equally The Monolith while Also sprach Zarathustra plays in the background. Cher explains that boys calling when they say they would is extremely rare, then she is accordingly surprised and impressed when Christian does telephone call the post-obit day.
• Status Cell Phone: The master characters all having mobile phones despite being in high schoolhouse was intended as a joke about how spoilt and well-off they were. Modern viewers tend not to sympathize why a high school student with a mobile telephone is supposed to be funny.
• Stern Teacher:
  • Mr. Hall is the only teacher Cher can't sweet-talk or 'negotiate' her grades with and is a chip long-suffering with the eccentricities and antics of his students, simply is a fairly reasonable beau otherwise (not least since Cher probably didn't entirely deserve getting her grades adjusted). He certainly lightens up considerably after existence (unwittingly) ready up with Miss Geist.
  • The DMV teacher refuses to laissez passer Cher on her driver'south test — with practiced reason.
• The Stoner:
  • Travis He later gives up the drugs but keeps up the stoner vibe.
  • Tai is depicted as a former stoner.
• Straight Gay: Played with. Christian does have some Camp Gay tendencies, but the girls and Cher'south dad don't realize. It'due south straight boys Murray and Josh (he clues in at the dance when he realises Christian is flirt-dancing with the boys around him rather than with Cher) who pick upwards on Christian being gay.
• Foreign Minds Call back Alike: When Travis donates his bong to the Pismo Beach disaster relief Cher is in charge of, Cher wonders where to put it until she guesses in the box labeled "kitchenware". Travis responds, "That'due south where I ever put information technology."
• Students Playing Matchmaker: Cher decides to set her teachers upward together, thinking that if she makes them happy they will requite into her demands for higher grades. Information technology actually works, every bit the teachers plow out to have a lot in common and are actually happy together, and Cher ends up genuinely supporting their human relationship despite information technology coming from a selfish place initially.
• Suicide as Comedy: Travis tries to leap out a (kickoff story) window when he sees his written report card. Mr. Hall nonchalantly holds him dorsum.
• Surprisingly Realistic Issue: Cher has spent most of the movie using the ability of persuasion to go her way, from earning higher grades in debate class rather than putting in bodily piece of work. Her dad encourages this beliefs, as a lawyer. Then she tries the same tactics during her driving test later she makes some minor mistakes and then scrapes several parked cars. Her instructor isn't impressed past how she tries to talk her way into a passing grade and tells her that's not how life or road safe works.
• Technical Virgin: Dionne claims to be this and that she satisfies Murray in other means. This changes afterward the freeway incident, although that was waved away for the series.
• Teens Beloved Shopping: Cher, Dionne, and all their friends from schoolhouse's favorite hobby and way to relax is shopping and hanging out at the mall.
• Token Black Friend: Dionne "Dee" Davenport, of the Sassy Blackness Adult female variation.
• Token Minority Couple: Dionne and Murray, the just plot-relevant black characters, are dating.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Tai, post makeover. Cher's influence took a scrap too strongly. Fortunately it doesn't stick.
• Theme Naming: Cher and her friend Dionne share first names with '70s singers, apparently then the leading male person character could be called Elton, like his analogue in Emma (although in the case of the novel character, that was his last proper noun).
• Tsundere: Dionne has some serious shades of this in her relationship with Murray.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Given the type of characters that star...
• Valley Girl: Several primary characters are Valley Girls.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: When Cher is having an inner monologue nearly people finding love, information technology cuts to a few teenage couples outside the Christmas party making out, i of whom is puking his guts up into the swimming puddle while his girlfriend aids him.
• Wedding Bells... for Someone Else: After Cher and Josh get a Human relationship Upgrade, Cher's narration says that the viewer can probably guess what happened adjacent. The scene then cuts to a wedding... it'southward not theirs though, it'due south the teachers' Cher was 'shipping at the beginning, and she berates the viewer for thinking the former.

  Cher: As if! I'1000 only 16, and this is California, non Kentucky.

• What the Hell, Hero?: Cher gets called out on the more self-interested aspects of her 'altruism' at several points, most frequently by Josh. She gradually takes these criticisms on board and tries to improve herself, condign genuinely altruistic in the process.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: While narrating how she was trying to find a suitable Ms. Right for Mr. Hall, Cher narrates how "the evil trolls from the Math department" were really married, then momentarily gets distracted past their Snickers candy bar before moving on to describe gym teacher Miss Stoger and last but not least Ms. Geist.

  Cher: Ooh, Snickers...

• Yous Need to Go Laid: "What this man needs is a good healthy boinkfest!"
• Zettai Ryouiki: Cher's iconic yellow plaid schoolgirl skirt/vest combo. Dionne wears some as well.

"In her globe, she'south an ordinary troper" - Tropes featured in the Television receiver series include:

• Affectionate Parody: The episodes "Scream Murray Scream! (Part i)" and "Scream Again Murray, Scream Once again (Role 2)" are this, of the 1996 movie Scream.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Amber's mom.
• As Themselves:
  • The band Luscious Jackson, on "Sharing Cher"
  • Salt-N-Pepa, whose song "Shoop" appeared on the picture show's soundtrack, brand a cameo in an episode.
• Anti-Schoolhouse Uniforms Plot: The flavour ane episode "The Political party'south Over" sees the school gain a new principal, who is disgusted with what he saw as the students' lack of discipline. His decision is to institute uniforms overnight, leading to Cher imagining the school becoming a place of robotic clones. The episode ends with Cher reworking the "I Have A Dream" speech into a speech near individual freedom with the master conceding he was wrong.
• Ascended Extra: The actor who played Sean had a very small office (as a different character) in the film, but was elevated to primary cast for the show.
• Broke Episode: Cher and her father went broke in the flavour 2 finale, "Cashless", until "Back from Bakersfield" in season iii when they're back to being wealthy.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Though at start virtually every graphic symbol from the movie appeared in some capacity on the Television receiver series, this was gradually whittled downward to just the cadre five of after seasons.
• Completely Off-Topic Report: On "City Beautification", the students are assigned to interpret the phrase "no man is an isle". None of the students do information technology right (except Cher), every bit they instead tell about actual islands forth with their experience vacationing there, how the phrase is actually a typo, and even how the phrase (and words in full general) unfairly put the discussion "man" in it, instead of adult female.
• Decadent the Cutie: Cher and Dionne'southward makeover to Felice unintentionally causes a sweet, nerdy, studious, smart girl turning into a beautiful, schoolhouse-skipping, flirty, (deliberately) stupid girl.
• Crossover: With Moesha. Shar Jackson and Lamont Bentley appeared on "Prom Misses, Prom Misses" (Season 3, Episode 20) as their corresponding characters, Niecy Jackson and Hakeem Campbell.
• Daddy's Girl: Cher (only like in the movie) and Amber.
• Disneyfication: Even though Dionne and Murray had sex in the movie, they exercise not claw-upward until the last episode of the testify.
• Doting Parent: Amber's dad spoils her rotten, then rotten that he is willing to move his entire family to Cher'south business firm when her family is broke and later move back to his family's old house when Cher regains her wealth, all because of Amber. His wife despises him for being one.
• Fallen Princess: Cher (when she was broke), from a rich and pop Beverly Hills princess, to a Greasy Spoon waitress, as described by Dionne below:

  Dionne: (voiceover) Were forced by economics, she must use the v saddest words a Beverly Hills princess can ever utter.
  Cher: (working as a greasy spoon waitress in Bakersfield) Can I take your society?

• Fun with Acronyms: Episode 8 of Season 3 was titled "Never P.E.T.A. Squirrel".
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Cher, although this is revised later on.
• Idle Rich: Every unmarried educatee of Bronson Alcott High. Too many of them seem to have some serious Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense tendencies as wall.
• Informed Judaism: Cher and her dad, mentioned only when the plot demands it.
• The Makeover: Just similar the flick, Cher and Dionne also give a makeover in the Tv set series to a nerdy Teen Genius, Felice, who tries to dumb herself down to go guys, because they want her to take both beauty and brain. Information technology works, merely sadly, it makes her a flirty Dumb Blonde who focuses more on the boys than school.
• Miss Conception
• Mock Millionaire: Sean in "Graduation" is revealed to be this by faking his accost to exist at Cher's house (with the help of Mel), despite really living in South Central, which violates the law to attend public schoolhouse in Beverly Hills. He did it to exist able to nourish a good public school, since he couldn't beget individual schoolhouse, due to his mom working as a waitress at the eating place where Mel usually eats.
• Mythology Gag: In an early Cher voiceover in the movie, she says that she and Dionne were "both named for famous singers who now do infomercials." The beginning flavor episode "I Got You Babe" is, of class, named for the famous Sonny & Cher song, and brings it all full circle, since the plot centers around Cher falling for a college student named... Sonny.
• Nice Chore Breaking It, Hero: Several episodes involve Cher attempting to brand people's lives better in some way and failing, or, as in "Secrets and Lies," the get-go Flavor Finale, tells someone an unpleasant fact that creates problem.
• Overcomplicated Carte Gild: In the TV testify version, Cher and Dee accept a favorite eatery to go to for lunch menstruum, which has "the best" Chinese Chicken Salad - which they club without the chicken or dressing. They pay $12 for a bowl of lettuce.
• Progressively Prettier: The original Mel Horowitz was portrayed as balding, pudgy & tough. The 2d was noticeably softer and had regained a total head of hair, while third one ◊ that's presented is even more relaxed, reasonable & mellow, noticeably taller as well equally having, shall nosotros say a unlike appeal. This was lampshadeed in the voiceover in the start episode of season 2: "Thank you to a summer of my encouragement, calorie counting and booby-trapping the refrigerator, my totally prominent attorney daddy ... looks similar a brand-new homo."
• Remake Cameo: Brittany Murphy (Tai in the movie), Breckin Meyer (Travis) and Paul Rudd (Josh) all guest-starred on the series (respectively as Jasmine in "Driving Me Crazy," Harrison in "Do We With Bad Haircuts Not Feel?" and Sonny in "I Got You Babe").
• Retcon: In the movie, Cher says, "I hate muscles." On an episode about a boys' swim meet, she says, "Ab alert."
  • Non necessarily. Cher's comment was in response to Dionne's dismissing of a waiter who was obviously very fit every bit "puny." Obviously Dionne likes very big muscles, non like the lithe grade of a swimmer.
  • Dionne'southward house in the movie is shown every bit Bister's business firm in the Goggle box series.
• Rich Bowwow: Amber. She's dyspeptic and snobby enough to make one guy she dated (who'southward from the Valley and would later (briefly) date Cher also) detest everyone from Beverly Hills, thinking anybody from the area is only similar her, causing a problem when Cher afterward tries to appointment him on her surreptitious mission to buy her father a gift with her ain money.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Bronson Alcott High is total of these.
  • Cher's friends laugh when they notice out Cher plans to get an subsequently school chore, they think she's joking. Dionne even calls her plan drastic.
• Scholarship Student: Sean, even though he attends a public school. Come across Mock Millionaire.
• Screw the Rules, I Take Money!: Amber on taking her Sat and getting into Harvard:

  Amber: I spoke to daddy and he told me not to worry about this pesky exam, he'll just... make a substantial donation to Harvard, so don't be surprised if next year there'due south an "Bister Hall".

• Shout-Out: In "The Party's Over", afterward Cher hears that the new primary might plant uniforms at Bronson Alcott Loftier, she envisions a dystopian nightmare much similar the music video to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall."
• Shout-Out: To Shakespeare/Whole Plot Reference: "Romeo and Cher"
• Teen Pregnancy: "PG Seventeen".
• Two-Teacher School: Mr. Hall & Ms. Geist as well as Coach Stoger.
• Valley Daughter: Cher, Dionne and Amber.
  • Interestingly, in one episode, Cher had to act and dress as one to become an subsequently-school job in the Valley in order to buy her begetter his altogether present with her own coin, so people from her neighborhood and also her Beverly Hills-hating boss, who happened to be her crush, wouldn't detect out. Also, according to Cher and Dionne, Valley girls are unfashionable and outdated when it comes to style.
• Very Special Episode: This became egregious in later on seasons, especially since they went all out, correct downwardly to the actors Breaking the Fourth Wall in The Tag and discussing the Very Special Event with the audience.

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