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• The band playing during the party scene is the Boston-based Ska band, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
  
  
• When Christian first appears at the class, Cher has new hopes for high school boys. But as the shot pans from her gaze to him in the doorway, just over his left shoulder on the wall in the classroom is a cut out headline from the newspaper which reads On the Road to Nowhere.
  
  
• Cher's last name is given as Horowitz, but shown on her report card as Hamilton. This may be an in-joke, as director Amy Heckerling's previously directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), which featured a Stacey Hamilton.
  
  

• The films that Christian watches on video with Cher - Some Like It Hot (1959) and Spartacus (1960) provide clues to his sexual orientation. The first movie deals with cross-dressing men. The second includes the famous scene where a Roman master (Laurence Olivier) tries to seduce his male servant (Tony Curtis).
  
  
• The book Christian is reading during class, Junky by William S. Burroughs is another clue and indication of his sexual orientation - as the author, Burroughs had strong homosexual desires.
  
  
• The scene where Cher wanders around and realizes her true feelings for Josh as fountains erupt is borrowed from Gigi (1958), where Gaston does the same thing. The music playing when Cher stands at the top of the stairs in her white dress before her date with Christian is taken from the same movie. Gigi, incidentally, wears a white dress both times that particular theme is played.
  
  
• The film had a 40-day shooting schedule.
  
  
• The episode of "Beavis and Butt-Head" (1993) that Cher and Josh watch is called The Great Cornholio.
  
  
• Alicia Silverstone did not know how to correctly pronounce "Haitians" in the classroom scene. Amy Heckerling told the crew not to correct her because she liked it so much and wanted it to be in the film.
  
  
• One of the promotional items distributed to tie-in with the film was a booklet called How to Speak Cluelessly; in it was a lexicon of many of the invented terms used for the Clueless world (some of which became part of real teen lingo at the time). An example: a Baldwin is a very handsome male, as in the famous sibling actors.
  
  
• Scenes were included in the trailer that were not in the film. Among them is one in which Cher and Dionne are in the girl's bathroom primping when Amber walks in on them. Noting her appearance, Cher quips, Did I miss something? Is big hair back?
  
  
• Loosely based on Jane Austen's novel Emma.
  
  
• A promo was filmed for MTV that showed Dionne and Cher ordering food at a diner. Their waitress was their moonlighting lesbian P.E. teacher Miss Stoger (Julie Brown). In it they get freaked out by the idea of brine in their ceasar salad, and instead just order lemon wedges to suck on.
  
  
• Writers sat in classes in Beverly Hills High to get the flavor of the students.
  
  
• The high school where the students attend is "Bronson Alcott High School". Bronson Alcott was a nineteenth-century Transcendentalist writer best known for starting an ultimately unsuccessful Utopian community called "Fruitlands" and for being the father of "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott. At one time, Amy Heckerling dated Bronson Pinchot (whose middle name is Alcott, after the author).
  
  
• The part of Mr. Hall was based on real Beverly Hills High debate teacher Herb Hall, a friend of director Heckerling. As a favour the real Herb Hall was given the part of the school Principal.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Amy Heckerling] Miss Geist's maid of honor at the wedding scene; she is also in the bouquet catching scene and is the source of most of the struggling.
  
  
• During the game of "Suck and Blow" the cast was unable to sustain the breath to make a real credit card pass from mouth to mouth; a prop card made of cardboard was substituted that still did not work. Holes were drilled into it to make it easier, and when this failed also, the whole cast's lips were heavily coated in chapstick to force the card to stick.
  
  
• Cher's "Haitians" speech in debate class was initially a full minute longer; it was used in its entirety as the first half of an original theatrical trailer. It was cut for the final film but featured additional comparisons to her garden party including a rant on "mismatched chairs which was totally icky".
  
  
• Ranked at #7 on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies (2006)
  
  
• Although Paul Rudd's character, Josh, is in college and is older than the other characters who are still in high school, Stacey Dash, who plays the best friend Dionne, is actually 3 years older than Paul Rudd.
  
  
• During the film, there are 53 different kinds of tartan/plaid used, seven of which are worn by Cher, and twelve by other major characters.
  
  
• The baseball hat that Josh (Paul Rudd) wears is a KU hat for Kansas University. Paul Rudd is from Kansas and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School.
  
  

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