Day 142 - Tuesday 4th August 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

Lockdown

A staple sleepover film when I was growing up was Clueless. It was and still is a brilliant film.

I re-watched it today - it's a bit like having a catch up with an old friend, I know it so well.

Clueless was one of my generation's defining films - everyone coveted Cher's tartan mini-skirt suit and had fluffy topped pens sticking out of their pencil cases. Clueless was responsible for key phrases such as:

"What-ever!"

"Ugh, as if!"

And these gems:

“Do you prefer fashion victim or ensembly challenged?”

“She’s my friend because we both know what it’s like to have people be jealous of us.”

“She’s a full-on Monet. It’s like a painting, see? From far away, it’s okay. But up close, it’s a big old mess.”

And to us over here in the UK, I think we imagined all American secondary schools to be just like the one in this film.

If you haven't seen it for a while or (gasp!) have never seen it, find it on Netflix now!

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