Where is mean girls based

A decade after its release, here are some fun facts about a made-in-Canada comedy that remains, well, fetch. Stop trying to make fetch happen.

The math competition was filmed inside Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto. In real life, this would be a biological miracle, given that Poehler is only seven years older than McAdams.

In fact, only Lohan and Seyfried were in their teens when they made Mean Girls. The other students were in their 20s. In addition to London, Ont. Choreography for the talent show dance numbers in Mean Girls was done by Donna Feore, whose husband is veteran Ontario-based character actor Colm Feore.

Meadows broke his arm prior to filming his scenes. Canadians may also have caught a glimpse of a Roots gift certificate sitting next to a phone in a kitchen scene with Lohan.

Tim Meadows was the only original cast member to reprise his role. If any of the actors had questions about their characters, she could fill in the blanks for them. Amy Poehler, who plays Mrs. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler coached Rajiv Surendra on how to rap for his on-screen performance in the school's winter talent show. Tim Meadows broke his hand before shooting and had to wear a cast, so the explanation that his character, Mr.

Duvall, had carpal tunnel was added. Damien's line ' And I want my pink shirt back! Tina Fey later approved it. The scene in which Cady walks in on Jason and Gretchen kissing at her party is much different in the first draft of the script. Originally, she walks in on Gretchen performing oral sex on Jason no nudity, nothing graphic , but this was subsequently cut from the final print in order to achieve a PG rating.

Amanda Seyfried, who played Karen in the film, was initially supposed to play Cady, but producer Lorne Michaels thought she would be better as the "dumb girl. The skirts for the Christmas talent show are made of plastic; the costume designer says they were made of that material to "represent the Plastics. To film one of the scenes, Amy Poehler Mrs. George pinned a piece of cocktail wiener into her bra to encourage the chihuahua dog to nibble there.

Ian's song, "At Seventeen," can be heard playing in the background when the girls are fighting at Regina's house. Other characters bullying Caplan's character persistently call her a lesbian throughout the movie; the real Janis Ian is openly lesbian.

Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams played characters who attend the same school and are in the same grade, despite an eight-year age difference between the two actresses, with Lindsay Lohan being younger than Rachel McAdams. In the scene where Christmas candy canes are being distributed in the classroom, Damian, dressed in a Santa suit, reads out the name "Glenn Coco.

In the book upon which the movie is based, the most popular girl in a school is given the title "Queen Bee. As it was becoming difficult to keep the "wide-set vagina" joke to receive a PG rating, the director argued that the film Anchorman also had a similar dialogue, and still received that rating.

James Franco was considered for the role of Aaron Samuels, which was eventually given to Jonathan Bennett. When Tina Fey planned to adapt "Queen Bees and Wannabes" into a film, she did not realize it was a guidebook with no fictional narrative. She feared she had backed herself into a corner after finalizing the deal with Paramount. Cady gets very excited at the dance when she "actually recognizes" one of the songs being played. About four years after the release of this movie, and after several years of press speculation, Lindsay Lohan and Ronson acknowledged they were in a romantic relationship.

On August 13, , the White House tweeted a photo of the Obamas' dog, Bo, holding a tennis ball in his mouth with the caption "Bo, stop trying to make fetch happen. Daniel Franzese, who played the gay character Damien, would himself come out as gay in The slang term "fetch" short for "fetching" was invented by Tina Fey. She didn't want to use an expression teenagers actually use because she didn't want it to become outdated later. At the top of the lunch map Janis makes for Cady, she wrote a cautious note for the woods behind the school, saying, "Make-out zone - warning!

Glen Coco was, of course, a minor, if not virtually nonexistent, Mean Girls character. Glen Coco, however, has, awesomely and inexplicably, become a meme. Mark Waters made me look good; he made me funny. And Tina Fey wrote the coolest script of all time. Seyfried almost played the role of Regina George, Waters told Vulture. She was more frightening, but oddly, less intimidating. Janis Ian was the first musical guest on SNL. I think we fell in together because we had things in common.

We both felt fat. We both had bad skin.