Friday
Sep062013
Cher Keeps Gym Class Classy
Friday, September 6, 2013 at 10:00AM Anne Marie here with a question: did anybody actually enjoy gym in high school? I was a varsity athlete, and I still hated it. I hated getting gross and sweaty in the middle of the day, I hated walk-running a mile around the track, and I especially hated my gym wardrobe: either highwater sweatpants or shorts that by rule had to extend past your fingertips. (Catholic school, am I right?)
Fortunately, gym in Clueless was an entirely classier affair.
Clueless was the first high school movie I remember seeing, and I was deeply disappointed when high school did not turn out to be as chic/clever/classy as I had been led to believe.
So, what was your least favorite class in high school?
Reader Comments (9)
Oh Clueless. Whenever I am having a hard time going to sleep I put on Clueless. The pop fizzy happiness of that movie is exactly how I want to feel when I drift off at night.
Worst class? Gym's awkward cousin: health. By all means teach me more about birth control, but don't waste my time with Lifetime movies about DJ from Full House getting raped by frat boy Zach Morris.
Yes, gym class in high school was the WORST. I remember they divided ours up into different activities each month (I think), and on the day when we picked our new one, everyone would always run to the same one or two (floor hockey, ultimate frisbee, etc.) and if you weren't one of the first people to get there, it would fill up, so you had to find something else, which by that point usually ended up being walking. Yes, walking. Which was great if you had a friend with you, as you could just talk for the entire period while walking around the track, but otherwise was just as awful as it sounds.
I wish everything in my high school life was as amazing as the high school in Clueless, which probably wins the title of coolest movie high school ever.
High school? I've blocked that from my memory.
Definitely Drafting 101. Good grief, that was so freaking boring. I didn't mind Gym - I just hated the way the men's locker room smelled!
Clueless is amazing. Don't you love loose adaptations of classic works?
When people talk about movies that remind them of their high school experiences, I always think about Clueless. This is not because my high school was like Cher's Beverly Hills High (far from it, actually). It's because after Clueless came out, a huge clique of girls in my rural high school started dressing and accessorizing just like Cher. People who doubt the power of movies obviously didn't go to my high school.
Great post! I don't think anyone had the Cher Horowitz high school experience. After attending an all-girls school for seven years, I can say that I certainly didn't!
I quote that lie constantly! It's amazing.
Whoever creates a TV show about teens needs to study this show inside and out.
Tyler-- Loose adaptations of classic works are THE BEST! 10 Things I Hate About You, anyone? Or Blue Jasmine, i guess, if you're feeling current.
I so loved Clueless that when I applied for admission to Occidental College, one of its primary shooting locations, I wrote about the movie in my application essay. I have no idea whether that worked for or against me in the process...
Health: I had an awkwardly peppy health teacher whose lips peeled all the way back from her teeth when she smiled, which was all the time, to show just how unembarrassing sex ed could be. Needless to say, that approach backfired, and it didn't help that her last name was Guglielmo ("googly-Elmo"). When I saw the shot of the eager sex ed teacher in Juno sliding the condom over the banana, it reminded me of Ms. Guglielmo demonstrating the genitals in her pop-up book. Yes, a pop-up book. To her credit, she was one of the most respected gynecologists in the area, and her class was full of information with lots (and lots) of visual aids, but her grinning camp counselor approach to sex ed always kept everyone in the class exchanging awkward glances.