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Question: Girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything...

yellowbinder — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:28:06 -0800

What movies have high school clique introduction scenes?

I'm watching Disturbing Behaviour (shuddup) and it has a fairly lengthy scene in the cafeteria, where the new kid is told all about the various factions in the student body.

What other movies/tv shows have used this scene? I know Mean Girls is a fairly well known recent example, but I'm sure it's happened in countless teen films. These are usually set in the cafeteria, but if you can think of such a scene in another location that's cool too.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:30:32 -0800

Heathers.

By: jschu

jschu — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:32:30 -0800

High School Musical.

By: itchie

itchie — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:33:25 -0800

Clueless.

By: dearest

dearest — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:33:49 -0800

Mean Girls (which is a really great movie by the way.)

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:34:08 -0800

Clueless.

By: dearest

dearest — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:35:05 -0800

Aw damn, I didn't even read your question.
Sheesh. Many apologies.

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:35:31 -0800

Oh, I forgot. Also, 10 Things I Hate About You. Which was brilliant.

By: twiki

twiki — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:38:22 -0800

Save the Last Dance.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:40:46 -0800

The Breakfast Club.

By: cestmoi15

cestmoi15 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:42:37 -0800

A lot of John Hughes movies, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club...

By: i love cheese

i love cheese — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:44:03 -0800

Can't Buy Me Love

By: supermedusa

supermedusa — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:53:14 -0800

I think Fast Times At Ridgemont High has a scene of this sort....

By: pluckemin

pluckemin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:06:19 -0800

Based on the trailer, Bratz: The Movie also has a scene like this.

By: randomstriker

randomstriker — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:07:33 -0800

Election, which is superficially about high school but meant neither for a high school audience nor for those nostalgic about high school...and is probably the best high school movie I've ever seen.

By: lifeaskew

lifeaskew — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:11:50 -0800

Twilight?

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:17:43 -0800

In Ferris Bueller's Day Off there is no "introduction" of the cliques, but Ed Rooney's secretary, Grace lists a bunch of them: "The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. "

By: dws

dws — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:12:33 -0800

The Craft, for a variation on the theme.

By: gursky

gursky — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:15:44 -0800

Freedom Writers

By: kdern

kdern — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:22:35 -0800

I'm pretty sure 16 Candles has a specific scene like that.

+1 for Heathers, too.

By: incessant

incessant — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:38:10 -0800

The Babysitters. You will not be disappointed.

By: pixxie

pixxie — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:01:05 -0800

Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis

Disturbing Behavior with Katie Holmes

By: brina

brina — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:40:44 -0800

Okay, tons of stuff missing here:

In Ten Things I Hate About You, a new kid is being shown around and there is a fairly comprehensive lunchroom clique scene. This, in my opinion, is one of the best modern clique movies out there.

Never Been Kissed focuses on breaking into the "popular" clique; there aren't enough groups to give the audience much insight beyond popular/nerdy, but there is some exploration of the concept. In the same vein, Election portrays a jock, an overachiever, and a loner in a high school setting.

John Tucker Must Die is an absolutely awful movie, but it revolves around four girls from completely different social circles coming together to get revenge on one guy who has been dating girls from every clique in school.

Lucas (early Winona Ryder!) is a great movie that explores cliques, nerdiness, and revolves around a tiny little dorky kid who goes out for football.

There are also end-of-the-year films, including Say Anything and Can't Hardly Wait, in which the audience gets to know various characters by their "types."

Of these, I'd say Heathers, Ten Things, Can't Hardly Wait and Mean Girls get into the greatest variety of cliques in the most depth. ... And of course, The Breakfast Club definitely explores that issue, but with only a few categories.

... Wait. Did no one specifically mention Sixteen Candles? Great party scene.

By: prinado

prinado — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:46:24 -0800

The Head Over Heels scene in Donnie Darko.

By: carbide

carbide — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:15:23 -0800

The unaired Buffy pilot does an outdoor one, along the steps and the lawn outside school.

Veronica Mars does it for the one pertinent clique in the pilot - it picks through that clique in the cafeteria as Veronica sits alone nearby.

By: adipocere

adipocere — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:47:01 -0800

Why the one in the unaired Buffy pilot was left out of the final product was beyond me. "Dirty girls?" "They have issues with hygiene."

Yes, the one in Disturbing Behavior is so fantastic, it's practically lyrical. Plus, it blows apart all of the preconceived notions of having a group of druggies by assigning each and every clique a "drug of choice" and then redefining each as freaks (freaks who squeak, freaks so chic, etc).

Alex: There (he points to a table of greasy looking guys) you got your motorheads. Car jocks. All the world's a gasket and a lube job and a pack of Luckys. Music of choice: posi-traction overdrive. Drug of choice: beer, Miller Genuine Draft. Keggers can't be choosers.

Michael: Freaks who fix leaks.

By: bleucube

bleucube — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:24:36 -0800

Three O'Clock High
Great movie BTW.

By: kimota

kimota — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:28:50 -0800

Did The Faculty include such a scene? Seems like it must have, but it's been so long since I've seen it.

By: iviken

iviken — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:00:10 -0800

Grease.

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:19:00 -0800

Thanks so far! Great answers, keep 'em coming. I'm mostly interested in these scenes, not so much with movies that deal with cliques in general. The nebulous idea is to get a hold of a bunch of them and edit them together for lulz.

Good call on the Buffy unaired pilot! I could vaguely remember something from Buffy, but I've seen the aired pilot enough times to know it's not there if I didn't have a fairly solid memory of it. The unaired pilot on the other hand I've only seen once or twice.

Yeah, Disturbing Behaviour is what prompted the question. It's a good one, with a pretty hilarious movie attached to it. I love how Katie Holmes is trying to look tough, and I remembered from when I saw it in the theatre that she wasn't selling it even back in 1998.

By: assasinatdbeauty

assasinatdbeauty — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:28:33 -0800

Jawbreaker does, i believe

By: Midnight Rambler

Midnight Rambler — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:58:58 -0800

SLC Punk has a good monologue about different cliques.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:45:41 -0800

Brick. Kind of.

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:47:26 -0800

The Chocolate War - but it might just be the theme, not a specific scene, can't remember.