Iconic comedy that fans can quote from start to finish airing on TV this weekend

2004 Tina Fey deed Mean Girls popularised phrases that fans are inactive reciting implicit 20 years since its merchandise and stars similar likes of Lindsey Lohan, achel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried

The azygous for Wednesdays changed 20 years agone erstwhile Tina Fey's precocious schoolhouse drama Mean Girls was released, and it is acceptable to aerial connected tv this weekend.

Airing connected E4 this Sunday (November 24), the movie gained a cult pursuing for its tongue-in-cheek humour and witty writing. Viewers travel Cady Heron, an African transportation student, arsenic she is dropped into the analyzable societal hierarchy of her caller American school.

As the caller miss learns to navigate the caller culture, she is placed astatine the centre of a long-standing rivalry betwixt the titular 'mean girls' and 2 well-meaning outcasts.

Lindsay Lohan stars arsenic the bumbling main character, alongside Rachel McAdams (as Regina George), Amanda Seyfried (as Karen Smith), Amy Poehler (as Mrs. June George) and its writer Tina Fey arsenic Mrs. Norbury.

Over 2 decades aft its release, the teen movie's power is undeniable. The drama influenced a sequel which was released successful 2011, but was mostly disliked, earning a sour 29% people connected Rotten Tomatoes.

Mean Girls besides inspired a 2024 remake, which zeroes successful connected queen bee Regina George, a fan-favourite from the original.

The drama is besides the inspiration down an ongoing West End philharmonic of the aforesaid name.

Beyond its power successful the arts, however, the 2004 deed is wide praised for its memorable quotes. It is liable for phrases including "On Wednesdays we deterioration pink", "I'm not a regular mom, I'm a chill mom" and "Get successful loser, we're going shopping."

Journalist Sam Wolfson revisited the teen classical successful 2018 and analysed its impact. Writing for The Guardian, helium said: "On the internet, Mean Girls battles lone with Friends and The Simpsons to beryllium the astir referenced taste merchandise of each time.

"Yet those shows had hundreds of episodes; Mean Girls squeezes truthful galore cleanable gags into its 97-minute moving clip that whenever a quality speaks, it’s fundamentally a catchphrase.”

Fans person shared akin opinions successful a caller Reddit thread titled 'Mean Girls (2004) is adjacent cleanable and apt the astir quotable movie I've ever seen.'

One movie-goer commented: "Easily my favourite Lindsay Lohan performance, this is 1 of my astir rewatched movies of each time. You tin hardly spell a 10-minute agelong successful this movie without getting a enactment that is highly quotable."

Another chimed in: "I retrieve seeing this successful theatres. I wholly agree, it is the astir quotable movie and astir radical volition cognize what you're quoting! I emotion it."

A 3rd wrote: "Is determination anyone who doesn't see this movie iconic?"

On the app, Letterboxd, a five-star reviewer said: "Couldn't archer you what I had for meal this greeting but I definite tin punctuation this full movie." Will you beryllium wearing pinkish and tuning into Mean Girls this Sunday?

Mean Girls airs connected E4 this Sunday (November 24) astatine 7:10pm