However, even though “fetch” subsequently disappears from Mean Girls, it has outlived the film in surprising and unpredictable ways.
#MATHLETE MEME FULL#
That is so fetch.” This time, Regina asserts the full force of her alpha-female social capital to shut her friend up, exclaiming, “Gretchen, stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen.”Īt this moment, “fetch” is cast from the remainder of the film. Gretchen woefully misunderstands the situation, and after a brief interchange, she tells Cady, “You love him, and he totally complimented you. Finally, following Cady and the Plastics’ performance at the school talent show, her mathletes teammate Kevin (Rajiv Surendra) offers her some brief but sincere praise offstage. from England.” In a later scene, Regina plays a mean-spirited trick on a fellow classmate, and Gretchen applauds her again with, “Ok, that was so fetch.” Regina smiles half-heartedly, slow-blinks, and walks away.
Early on in the film, Cady joins the Plastics for lunch, and Regina compliments her bracelet, calling it “so adorable.” Joining the chorus, Gretchen agrees with, “So fetch,” to which Regina disgustedly responds, “What is ‘fetch’ ?” Surprised to have been dismissed publicly, Gretchen responds with a hint of exasperation: “Oh, it’s, like, slang. That group, led by queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams), also includes Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert) and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). After transferring to a new high school in a new country, Cady Heron (played by Lindsay Lohan) must determine whether-and if so, how-to join the school’s most popular female clique, the Plastics. The 2004 film Mean Girls (written by Tina Fey and based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 self-help guide Queen Bees and Wannabees) gets a lot of things right, including something that, I would argue, a lot of scholars get wrong: those who coin new words just aren’t as important as they are often credited with being.
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