6 Not-So-Great Things I Noticed While Watching Clueless as an Adult

The movie trope of a nerdy or outcast girl being made over into a popular high school queen was way too prominent in the '90s and early 2000s. To Cher, Tai only had value after she gave her a makeover, which, Cher claimed, Tai was "in desperate need of." It plays on the idea that a teenage girl's value is measured by how she looks, and that's not healthy for anyone. Watching this sequence as an adolescent conditioned me to believe that notion was accurate.