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* RealityIsUnrealistic: A clique of [[TheFundamentalist Christian Fundamentalists]] and a homophobic school principal in ''[[StrawmanPolitical California]]?'' It's more likely then you think. Not all of California is as 'Leebrul' as [[StrawmanNewsMedia Fox News]] likes to make people think.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: A clique of [[TheFundamentalist Christian Fundamentalists]] and a homophobic school principal in ''[[StrawmanPolitical California]]?'' It's more likely then than you think. Not all of California is as 'Leebrul' as [[StrawmanNewsMedia Fox News]] likes to make people think.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Olive unjustly gets this reputation. Her mom embodied this trope in her youth.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Olive unjustly gets this reputation. [[spoiler: Her mom mom]] embodied this trope in her youth.
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* JerkAss: Every guy who pretends to have slept with Olive, except for Brandon, and he skips town before she can ask the favor she needs of him. [[spoiler:Rhiannon also turns into one. -- seems more like she was one the whole time, it's just the changes in her relationship with the main framed her behavior to be more unacceptable to the audience]]
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* JerkAss: Every guy who pretends to have slept with Olive, except for Brandon, and he skips town before she can ask the favor she needs of him. [[spoiler:Rhiannon also turns into one. -- seems more like she was one the whole time, it's just the changes in her relationship with the main character framed her behavior to be more unacceptable to the audience]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Parodied. How does Marianne account for the fact that her boyfriend has been held back in senior year not once, but ''thrice''? "It's His choice! If God had wanted him to graduate, He would have given him the right [test] answers!"
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** The movie was initially written as a hard-R adult comedy which featured, according to the writer Bert Royal, [[ClusterFBomb 47 F-bombs]]. This gives a little more credence to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous Olive's response to Nina]], knowing that "twat" was probably originally a case of CountryMatters -- it would certainly make the principal's reaction a bit more justified.
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*WholePlotReference - This movie mirrors the plot of ''TheScarletLetter'' and its characters.
**[[spoiler:Rhiannon is Rev. Dimmesdale who pretends to be a pillar of moral character]],
**Olive is Hester in that she is unjustly accused of being a whore.
**Olive is also [[spoiler:Hester's husband Chillingworth when she exposes Rhiannon's infidelities but comes to regret it]].
**[[spoiler:Rhiannon is Rev. Dimmesdale who pretends to be a pillar of moral character]],
**Olive is Hester in that she is unjustly accused of being a whore.
**Olive is also [[spoiler:Hester's husband Chillingworth when she exposes Rhiannon's infidelities but comes to regret it]].
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* ShoutOut: By the bucket load. Olive's excitement at having "a gentleman caller" may be one to ''TheGlassMenagerie''; references are made to, complete with clips, the many films of JohnHughes, with several of their more climactic scenes re-enacted in the film. The [[WholePlotReference majority of the plot]] is also a reference to ''TheScarletLetter''.
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* ShoutOut: By the bucket load. Olive's excitement at having "a gentleman caller" may be one to ''TheGlassMenagerie''; references are made to, complete with clips, the many films of JohnHughes, Creator/JohnHughes, with several of their more climactic scenes re-enacted in the film. The [[WholePlotReference majority of the plot]] is also a reference to ''TheScarletLetter''.
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The quote is actually \"Let\'s bucket list this bitch,\" not \"Let\'s watch The Bucket List, Bitch.\"
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* EasterEgg: If you look hard enough, you'll be able to notice that an orange is placed somewhere in every scene.
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** This may or may not have been intentional, but the actress who played the lead in the 1926 TheScarletLetter was known to be undyingly loyal and a favourite to a man she called "[[NamesTheSame Mr. Griffith]]".
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* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Marianne seem to suffer worse from her own actions then it hurts Olive, and it's not from some kind of retributive Karma either. She seem to mean well, but be ''horribly'' misguided.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Referenced. Melody Bostic parents let her have a party ever time she catches them having sex in the pool which, according to Olive, is about once a week.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Referenced. Melody Bostic parents let her have a party ever time she catches them having sex in the pool which, according to Olive, is about once a week.
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* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Marianne Marianne's seem to suffer worse from her own actions then it hurts Olive, and it's not from some kind of retributive Karma either. She seem to mean well, but be ''horribly'' misguided.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Referenced. MelodyBostic Bostic's parents let her have a party ever time she catches them having sex in the pool which, according to Olive, is about once a week.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Referenced. Melody
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** Olive gets paid in gift cards for every business from Home Depot to Bed, Bath, & Beyond.
*** Except for Lobster Shack, a [[BlandNameProduct Bland Name]] for Carrows Restaurant. Or Red Lobster.
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***Beyond. Except for Lobster Shack, a [[BlandNameProduct Bland Name]] for Carrows Restaurant. Or Red Lobster.
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** Every computer is a Sony, and every mobile phone is a Sony-Ericsson
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** Olive's family makes sure to scratch "Watch TheBucketList" off of TheBucketList
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* ChekhovsSkill: During the "Pocket Full Of Sunshine" montage, Olive is seen sewing. She later uses this skill to [[BuffySpeak sluttify]] her wardrobe.
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** GeniusBonus: Hester Prynne, the protagonist of ''TheScarletLetter'', worked as a seamstress.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Some of the people watching Olive's webcast do not seem to understand, even at the end, that she is not going to be taking off her clothes.
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* NoDressCode: No is suddenly wearing stuff bordering on bondage gear to school, and for the most part gets away with it.
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* NoDressCode: No Olive is suddenly wearing stuff bordering on bondage gear to school, and for the most part gets away with it.
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* GenreSavvy: Olive, who regularly references other teen highschool movies (and how things don't seem to be going quite the same way).
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* {{Mascot}}: Woodchuck Todd, formerly known as Blue Devil Todd (The school mascot was changed after protests from the Christian group, who claimed the mascot depicted their school as devil worshippers).
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* {{Mascot}}: Woodchuck Todd, formerly known as Blue Devil Todd (The (the school mascot was changed after protests from the Christian group, who claimed the mascot depicted their school as devil worshippers).worshipers).
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* ShoutOut: By the bucketload.bucket load. Olive's excitement at having "a gentleman caller" may be one to ''TheGlassMenagerie''; references are made to, complete with clips, the many films of JohnHughes, with several of their more climactic scenes re-enacted in the film. The [[WholePlotReference majority of the plot]] is also a reference to ''TheScarletLetter''.
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** This seems to be Brandon's favourite trope: "I'm drunk, bitches, what's up?" and the quote above.
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* TheCastShowoff: Emma Stone is definitely not a bad singer.
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** Looked more like gulls to me.
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* ComicallySmallBribe: Olive is usually paid for pretending to have sex with people in gift cards from various stores. The lowest price she ever accepts is soon-to-expire vouchers for the foreign language arthouse cinema, with a close second being a 20% Off gift certificate. She also mentions receiving a coupon for ''15 cents off of hand soap'', although it is not stated whether this was the sole coupon received in that payment.
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-->'''Todd:''' Screw these people, Olive.
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Olive]]:''' Haven't you heard? I already did.
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[[DeadpanSnarker Clean-cut high-schooler Olive Penderghast]] does not want to spend the weekend camping with her best friend [[JerkAss Rhiannon]] and her family, so she explains that she has a date (with "George") and explains that he is a friend of her brother at college. Afterwards, when Rhiannon presses her for details, she is overheard insinuating that she lost her virginity over the weekend.
Rumors begin to spread and, after she spends an afternoon in detention with her gay friend Brandon, she agrees to pretend to have sex with him to help convince the school he is straight. Several boys learn what she has done and beg her to perform the same service for them, hoping to benefit from their "lost virginities". This eventually turns into a full-fledged business, lucrative for Olive and socially beneficial for the boys, but her new reputation as [[ReallyGetsAround tramp/slut/skank/etc.]] gets her the attention of the local [[HolierThanThou Christian club]]. They want to "save" Olive, but also feel that it is vitally important to get her the hell out of the school first.
Olive's life begins to resemble that of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''TheScarletLetter''. Olive then decides to use the rumors to her own advantage, affixing a red A to her clothing in reference to the embattled heroine of the novel. However, the glamour and mystery quickly deteriorates, and Olive must figure out how to reclaim her good reputation.
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!Contains examples of:
* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: Marianne's group is shown doing this. First against the basketball team, then against Olive. To the point of picketing ''fellow students'' with hateful slogans, Westboro Baptist Church-style.
* {{Adorkable}}: Olive during her date at the Lobster Shack.
* AfterSchoolCleaningDuty: Olive and Brandon reconnect after a period of not talking when they are both performing detention clean-up.
* AlmostKiss: Olive and Woodchuck Todd when they were in eighth grade. Woodchuck Todd chickened out, and later shared his first kiss with [[spoiler:[[JerkAss Rhiannon]]]].
* AlphaBitch: Marianne Bryant. First exaggerated, then lampshaded (at one point, she holds a meeting in a place called Libbey Park), then deconstructed.
* AndStarring: EmmaStone is credited last in the opening titles despite being the lead. She is first in the end credits though.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with; although no actual sex is had, Olive starts trading on her reputation to allow guys to ''pretend'' they had sex with her in order to boost their standing around school.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Marianne, which would make her an [[ArmouredClosetGay Armoured Closet Lesbian]].
* BadGirlSong: Subverted by Olive InUniverse: her big musical number at the end, "Knock on Wood," would be a magnificent example of this, except for the fact that Olive is, of course, a good girl.
* TheBeard: Olive for Brandon.
* BigBreastsBigDeal: [[JerkAss Rhiannon]], who is very proud to learn that she is referred to as "Big Tits" when Olive is listing her personal identifiers.
* BigYes: During the fake sex scene in the party.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Mrs. Griffith
* BiTheWay:
** Olive's dad. He claims he was "[[TooMuchInformation gay for a while]]" when he was younger, but is now HappilyMarried to a woman and has two children with her.
** Olive's mom, too.
-->"[[TooMuchInformation I slept with a lot of people... mostly guys]]"
* BilingualBonus: Olive sees ''Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe'' at the "stupid foreign movie theatre". This is the 1973 German adaptation of ''TheScarletLetter''. Ironically, this was lost on viewers of the German dub, since it looked just like someone photoshopped the translation in.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The webcast, serving as a narration device throughout the whole movie.
* BrickJoke: The ''[[AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huckleberry Finn]]'' joke.
-->'''Olive:''' "Ironically we were studying "TheScarletLetter". Isn't it always the way? The book you read in class always seems to have strong connection with whatever angsty adolescence trauma is going on. Except for ''HuckleberryFinn'', 'cause I don't know any teenage boy who ran away with big hulking black guy"
-->'''-later-'''
-->'''Girl:''' [[spoiler: "Oh my god. Did you hear that Brandon ran away from home? Yeah, totally; he left his parents a note that said "I'm gay, bitches" and then he skipped town with some big hulking black guy!"]]
--> '''Olive:''' ''My apologies to MarkTwain.''
-->'''-later again-'''
-->[[spoiler:At the end, almost every major character in the film is shown on a computer, watching Olive's confessional webcast. In this sequence, we also see Brandon and the aforementioned black guy watching the film adaptation of ''HuckleberryFinn''.]]
** Also, Olive and Mr. Griffith talk about "TheScarletLetter," and how most students only watch the movie, and talk about how hot DemiMoore is. At the end of the movie, one student is watching the webcast, and when he realizes that Olive is ''not'' going to do anything risque, he states that DemiMoore at least got to take her top off.
* BriefAccentImitation:
** During part of the narration, Olive makes fun of Demi Moore's British accent in ''The Scarlet Letter'' film by briefly putting on a Cockney accent.
** Olive does an imitation of a [[SouthernBelle Southern Belle's]] accent when her mother jokingly tells her that Brandon has come to ask for her hand in marriage.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Olive is a straight-A student who has never been in trouble before, but when she gets sent to the principal for nothing more serious than using a bad word (and not even that bad a word), he threatens to expel her if she is ever in trouble again.
* ChekhovsSkill: During the "Pocket Full Of Sunshine" montage, Olive is seen sewing. She later uses this skill to [[BuffySpeak sluttify]] her wardrobe.
* [[ClusterFBomb Cluster S Bomb]]: Mrs. Griffith's breakdown when she decides to [[spoiler: confess that she has been sleeping with a student, and that she has given him an STD]].
** "Goddamn shit!"
* ComicallySmallBribe: Olive is usually paid for pretending to have sex with people in gift cards from various stores. The lowest price she ever accepts is soon-to-expire vouchers for the foreign language arthouse cinema, with a close second being a 20% Off gift certificate. She also mentions receiving a coupon for ''15 cents off of hand soap'', although it is not stated whether this was the sole coupon received in that payment.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Some of the people watching Olive's webcast do not seem to understand, even at the end, that she is not going to be taking off her clothes.
* {{Confessional}}: Olive attempts to confess and seek advice from a priest, but the other half of the confessional is empty. "Shoulda seen that one coming."
* CoolLoser: Olive.
* CoolTeacher: Mr. Griffith. He also has some PsychologistTeacher in him when it comes to Olive. Plus, he is ''hilarious.''
* DateRapeAverted: [[spoiler:Anson will not take "no" for an answer]].
* DawsonCasting: All the high school kids, to the point that the joke about Micah being several years older than the others does not work since they all look the same age. Made more jarring since they managed to get actual 14-year-olds for the flashback sequence, making it look like the characters aged 10 years from 8th to 12th grade.
* DeadpanSnarker: Olive.
-->'''Marianne:''' A higher power will judge you for your indecency.
-->'''Olive:''' TomCruise?
** "I thought fake losing my virginity would have been more special. JudyBlume should have prepared me for that."
** Also, Mr. Griffith.
** And Todd to a degree.
** Lampshaded at least once;
--> "Turns out she bore her punishment with humble silence: two concepts I'm not familiar with."
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Any friend of Olive's is a friend of our daughter's!"
** "I hope you don't mind, but we had a few pre-cocktail party cocktails... like before the cocktail party. With cocktails."
** "Brandon was just in the middle of telling me this ''really'' funny thing, which was ''really'' funny."
* DisturbedDoves: Parodied. When Marianne finds out that Micah has chlamydia, she screams. A video playing in the foreground shows doves taking off at that same moment.
* [[DoubleEntendre Triple Entendre]]: The title itself refers to a school course with a reputation for being easy to do well in, to Olive's reputation for being sexually easy, and to how easily the actually virginal Olive gets a reputation for promiscuity.
** [[spoiler: As well as the letter she pins on herself - an "A", a sign of being "easy."]]
* DoubleStandard: Examined; while the guys who pretend to have sex with Olive get a reputation boost, Olive herself starts to be pilloried as a slut.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Micah is sent to live with his grandparents for a while, while recovering from his "condition".
* TheDragon: Nina.
* EarWorm: In-Universe example: "Pocketful of Sunshine," by Natasha Bedingfield. Olive's grandmother sends her a birthday card that plays this song, which Olive initally says she hates. Its earworming becomes a RunningGag through the movie.
* EatingLunchAlone: Olive after she's become ostracized by much of her school.
* EdibleThemeNaming: Everyone in the Penderghast family is named after food. Olive, her mother Rosemary, her father Dill and brother Chip.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Rhiannon.]]
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Three different film versions of ''TheScarletLetter'' are cited:
** The 1926 B&W film, from which clips are shown.
** The 1995 DemiMoore version. Both Olive and Mr. Griffith comment upon the mediocrity of this adaptation, and reflect that most of the students watched this film instead of reading the book or seeing the original.
** ''Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe'', the film showing at the foreign cinema Olive attends, is a 1973 German adaptation.
* FramingDevice: Olive's ConfessionCam webcast to the entire school explaining the movie/situation.
* TheFundamentalist: Marianne.
* GainaxEnding: In universe- [[spoiler:The characters think that the webcast is a buildup to her taking her clothes off (that's the case with at least one of the characters), but when Olive gives AnAesop and goes away to meet Todd, some of them get pretty angry.]]
* GenreSavvy: Olive, who regularly references other teen highschool movies (and how things don't seem to be going quite the same way).
* TheGhost: Olive's older brother, who is mentioned in passing as how she met her so-called hook-up.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Invoked by Olive in her big musical number wherein she kisses Rhiannon on the cheek and lays her feather boa around Rhiannon's neck; she then gives one of the female dancers a playful smack on the derriere.
* GoodParents: Olive's, very much so.
* HappilyAdopted: Olive's brother Chip, who is black, meaning it has never been much of a secret. The film makes fun of ObliviousAdoption when Chip remarks that "I'm adopted" and Dill, the dad, exclaims "What! Who told you?!"
* HeadButtOfLove: During Olive and Brandon's "sex scene." Although completely platonic considering one of them was gay it still was a pretty [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming adorable]] moment.
* HolierThanThou: Marianne.
* JerkAss: Every guy who pretends to have slept with Olive, except for Brandon, and he skips town before she can ask the favor she needs of him. [[spoiler:Rhiannon also turns into one. -- seems more like she was one the whole time, it's just the changes in her relationship with the main framed her behavior to be more unacceptable to the audience]]
** JerkAssWoobie: Despite their behavior, they ''are'' still social outcasts- not an excuse, but an explanation.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Rhiannon, despite her nastiness, does bring up fair talking points against Olive, such as the one about "not mistaking popularity for infamy."
* KidsAreCruel: A key theme, though there are plenty of exceptions in the cast.
* KnightInSourArmor: Olive is definitely this. For all her [[DeadpanSnarker snarkerness]], she gets into this mess in the first place because she was defending Brandon from bullying. When she agrees to take the blame for [[spoiler:Micah's catching chlamydia, it is to prevent the break-up of Mr. and Mrs. Griffith's marriage]].
* LovableAlphaBitch: Melody Bostik, - who according to Olive, "is the most popular girl at school, because she's really pretty and has perfect hair" - actually seems to be decently friendly.
* MarshmallowHell: During the flashback with Rhiannon's parents, Olive gets a face-full of hippie boob. She was not amused.
* {{Mascot}}: Woodchuck Todd, formerly known as Blue Devil Todd (The school mascot was changed after protests from the Christian group, who claimed the mascot depicted their school as devil worshippers).
* MeaningfulName : not only is Olive an anagram of I Love, Her whole name is an anagram of I Love Pretend Shag.
* MonochromeCasting: One common criticism of the film is that it's so very blatantly ''white''.
* MoodWhiplash: It's a pure comedy until a [[spoiler: DateRapeAverted scene]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Olive has this ''seconds'' after [[spoiler: informing Mr. Griffith that his wife is sleeping with a student, gave him an STD and is trying to blame it on Olive.]]
* MsFanservice: Olive and Rhiannon.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer never mentions Olive's lie about losing her virginity with a college boy, making it seem like the whole thing starts with her fake hookup with Brandon. It also shows some scenes out of order, giving the impression that Olive starts wearing the red A after she starts up her "business," instead of the other way around, even digitally removing the A in some scenes.
** The movie channel trailers are even less trustworthy, eliminating the ''fake'' aspect completely and making it look like it's the story of a hot high school girl actually turning into a total slut.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Rhiannon's parents. Olive says that they are weird even by {{California}} standards, and that they are the reason why she did not go on the camping trip with Rhiannon. In a brief flashback to the last time she hung out with them, the mom is shown with GodivaHair, and the dad is offering Olive a bong hit.
* NiceGuy: Todd and Brandon seem to be Olive's two real constant friends throughout the film.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Olive. So very much.
* OhCrap: Olive has one when she goes into the second church and realizes that the pastor she is talking to [[spoiler:is Marianne's dad]].
* {{Open Minded Parent}}s:
** Olive's parents... almost to the point of being creepy.
** Rhiannon's parents... way past the point of being creepy.
* OrangeBlueContrast
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Well, a place worse than [[spoiler:Chlamydia]], at any rate:
-->"And if there's one thing worse than [[spoiler:Chlamydia]], it's Florida."
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision T Strike]]: Olive delivers one of these to Nina (one of Marianne's friends), in retaliation to an insult. Naturally, it gets her sent to the principal's office.
* ProductPlacement:
** Olive tells her brother that her pants are from Costco.
** Olive gets paid in gift cards for every business from Home Depot to Bed, Bath, & Beyond.
*** Except for Lobster Shack, a [[BlandNameProduct Bland Name]] for Carrows Restaurant. Or Red Lobster.
** The very obvious (and totally random) Quiznos Man.
-->'''Olive''': Not now Quiznos Guy!
-->'''Quiznos Guy''': You're a slut.
* ReallyGetsAround: Olive unjustly gets this reputation. Her mom embodied this trope in her youth.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: A clique of [[TheFundamentalist Christian Fundamentalists]] and a homophobic school principal in ''[[StrawmanPolitical California]]?'' It's more likely then you think. Not all of California is as 'Leebrul' as [[StrawmanNewsMedia Fox News]] likes to make people think.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played straight with Mr. Griffith, averted with Principal Gibbons, and subverted with Mrs. Griffith, who seems like a reasonable and empathetic guidance counselor, but then refuses to actually listen to Olive just when Olive is offering to open up to her, and instead assumes that the rumors about Olive are true, even though her husband had already told her they weren't. And that is before she is [[spoiler:revealed to be pure evil]], though [[YMMV/EasyA your mileage may vary]].
* RipTailoring: Olive's creation of her "A" outfits.
* RunningGag: "I've got a pocket full of pocket full of sunshine..."
* ShallowLoveInterest: Woodchuck Todd. Except for his role as the school mascot and the only person to not accept every rumor as fact, no part of his character is developed.
* ShoutOut: By the bucketload. Olive's excitement at having "a gentleman caller" may be one to ''TheGlassMenagerie''; references are made to, complete with clips, the many films of JohnHughes, with several of their more climactic scenes re-enacted in the film. The [[WholePlotReference majority of the plot]] is also a reference to ''TheScarletLetter''.
** Her awful guitar playing followed by her proclamation "Not one lesson!" is a ShoutOut to Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff (a brief scene where he's badly playing the clarinet).
** Mr. Griffith also tells Olive to [[TheOutsiders "Stay golden."]]
* SourPrudes: The main antagonists have this mindset and bring it down hard on our poor protagonist.
* {{Squee}}: Marianne does one when she and Olive make friends.
* StepfordSmiler: Marianne.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Olive's wardrobe for much of the movie. Lampshaded, naturally.
-->'''Olive's Mom:''' No judgment, but you kind of look like a stripper.
-->'''Olive:''' Mom!
-->'''Olive's Dad:''' A high end stripper, for governors and athletes.
* StrawmanPolitical: All of the members of the school's Christian club, particularly Marianne.
* {{Tagline}}: Let's Not and Say We Did.
* TakeThat: Against the Demi Moore film version of ''TheScarletLetter''. So many times.
* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Between Mrs. Griffith and Micah. She gave him chlamydia.]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Let's watch TheBucketList, Bitch."
** [[spoiler: "I'm gay, bitches."]]
** This seems to be Brandon's favourite trope: "I'm drunk, bitches, what's up?" and the quote above.
* ThisIsReality: Olive frequently remarks about how certain things only happen in movies or books. [[SubvertedTrope Most of these things end up happening to her, or to Brandon, later on.]] [[InvokedTrope Often after she has spoken about how she wants that specific thing to happen]].
** Made funnier since one of the books she cites is GossipGirl and the actor [[CelebrityParadox playing Woodchuck Todd]] is in the series.
* TooMuchInformation: Olive's parents do not hesitate to share info about their sex lives.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Marianne seem to suffer worse from her own actions then it hurts Olive, and it's not from some kind of retributive Karma either. She seem to mean well, but be ''horribly'' misguided.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Referenced. Melody Bostic parents let her have a party ever time she catches them having sex in the pool which, according to Olive, is about once a week.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Olive's is the entire plot.
* WasActuallyFriendly: Marianne really hated Olive. But when Olive showed her a bit of kindness and support, she quickly changed her attitude and wanted to be friends instead. It didn't last long, but that's for entirely different reasons. [[spoiler: Marianne's boyfriend cheated on her and got a venereal disease, then lied and pretended he got it from Olive.]]
* WaxingLyrical: Olive still has the "Pocketful Of Sunshine" {{earworm}} mentioned earlier, so when talking about her fictitious weekend with "George" she ends up mentioning that she feels like "I got a love, and I know that it's all mine".
* WellIntentionedExtremist: It really seems like the Cross Your Heart Club is trying to ''help'' Olive, at least until word gets out that she banged Micah; then it was more of a grudge match.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The movie was initially written as a hard-R adult comedy which featured, according to the writer Bert Royal, [[ClusterFBomb 47 F-bombs]]. This gives a little more credence to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous Olive's response to Nina]], knowing that "twat" was probably originally a case of CountryMatters -- it would certainly make the principal's reaction a bit more justified.
** {{Emma Stone}}'s audition, included as a special feature on the DVD and Blu-Ray releases, reveals that the original script had ''Brandon'' as the source of Olive's middle-school crush, and he was the boy that she lied about kissing during "Seven Minutes of Heaven."
* WhatTheHellHero: Say what you want about Rhiannon but she was the first to call Olive out on her growing reputation but Olive shoots her down saying she's just jealous of her new "popularity".
* WildTeenParty: Melody Bostic's. Subverted; all references to sexual activities at her parties involve Olive, and both involve her lying about what happened (Olive and Todd lie about kissing in eighth grade, and Brandon and Olive are not actually having sex in the spare bedroom now).
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Olive and Rhiannon.
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-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Olive]]:''' Haven't you heard? I already did.
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[[DeadpanSnarker Clean-cut high-schooler Olive Penderghast]] does not want to spend the weekend camping with her best friend [[JerkAss Rhiannon]] and her family, so she explains that she has a date (with "George") and explains that he is a friend of her brother at college. Afterwards, when Rhiannon presses her for details, she is overheard insinuating that she lost her virginity over the weekend.
Rumors begin to spread and, after she spends an afternoon in detention with her gay friend Brandon, she agrees to pretend to have sex with him to help convince the school he is straight. Several boys learn what she has done and beg her to perform the same service for them, hoping to benefit from their "lost virginities". This eventually turns into a full-fledged business, lucrative for Olive and socially beneficial for the boys, but her new reputation as [[ReallyGetsAround tramp/slut/skank/etc.]] gets her the attention of the local [[HolierThanThou Christian club]]. They want to "save" Olive, but also feel that it is vitally important to get her the hell out of the school first.
Olive's life begins to resemble that of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''TheScarletLetter''. Olive then decides to use the rumors to her own advantage, affixing a red A to her clothing in reference to the embattled heroine of the novel. However, the glamour and mystery quickly deteriorates, and Olive must figure out how to reclaim her good reputation.
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!Contains examples of:
* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: Marianne's group is shown doing this. First against the basketball team, then against Olive. To the point of picketing ''fellow students'' with hateful slogans, Westboro Baptist Church-style.
* {{Adorkable}}: Olive during her date at the Lobster Shack.
* AfterSchoolCleaningDuty: Olive and Brandon reconnect after a period of not talking when they are both performing detention clean-up.
* AlmostKiss: Olive and Woodchuck Todd when they were in eighth grade. Woodchuck Todd chickened out, and later shared his first kiss with [[spoiler:[[JerkAss Rhiannon]]]].
* AlphaBitch: Marianne Bryant. First exaggerated, then lampshaded (at one point, she holds a meeting in a place called Libbey Park), then deconstructed.
* AndStarring: EmmaStone is credited last in the opening titles despite being the lead. She is first in the end credits though.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with; although no actual sex is had, Olive starts trading on her reputation to allow guys to ''pretend'' they had sex with her in order to boost their standing around school.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Marianne, which would make her an [[ArmouredClosetGay Armoured Closet Lesbian]].
* BadGirlSong: Subverted by Olive InUniverse: her big musical number at the end, "Knock on Wood," would be a magnificent example of this, except for the fact that Olive is, of course, a good girl.
* TheBeard: Olive for Brandon.
* BigBreastsBigDeal: [[JerkAss Rhiannon]], who is very proud to learn that she is referred to as "Big Tits" when Olive is listing her personal identifiers.
* BigYes: During the fake sex scene in the party.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Mrs. Griffith
* BiTheWay:
** Olive's dad. He claims he was "[[TooMuchInformation gay for a while]]" when he was younger, but is now HappilyMarried to a woman and has two children with her.
** Olive's mom, too.
-->"[[TooMuchInformation I slept with a lot of people... mostly guys]]"
* BilingualBonus: Olive sees ''Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe'' at the "stupid foreign movie theatre". This is the 1973 German adaptation of ''TheScarletLetter''. Ironically, this was lost on viewers of the German dub, since it looked just like someone photoshopped the translation in.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The webcast, serving as a narration device throughout the whole movie.
* BrickJoke: The ''[[AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huckleberry Finn]]'' joke.
-->'''Olive:''' "Ironically we were studying "TheScarletLetter". Isn't it always the way? The book you read in class always seems to have strong connection with whatever angsty adolescence trauma is going on. Except for ''HuckleberryFinn'', 'cause I don't know any teenage boy who ran away with big hulking black guy"
-->'''-later-'''
-->'''Girl:''' [[spoiler: "Oh my god. Did you hear that Brandon ran away from home? Yeah, totally; he left his parents a note that said "I'm gay, bitches" and then he skipped town with some big hulking black guy!"]]
--> '''Olive:''' ''My apologies to MarkTwain.''
-->'''-later again-'''
-->[[spoiler:At the end, almost every major character in the film is shown on a computer, watching Olive's confessional webcast. In this sequence, we also see Brandon and the aforementioned black guy watching the film adaptation of ''HuckleberryFinn''.]]
** Also, Olive and Mr. Griffith talk about "TheScarletLetter," and how most students only watch the movie, and talk about how hot DemiMoore is. At the end of the movie, one student is watching the webcast, and when he realizes that Olive is ''not'' going to do anything risque, he states that DemiMoore at least got to take her top off.
* BriefAccentImitation:
** During part of the narration, Olive makes fun of Demi Moore's British accent in ''The Scarlet Letter'' film by briefly putting on a Cockney accent.
** Olive does an imitation of a [[SouthernBelle Southern Belle's]] accent when her mother jokingly tells her that Brandon has come to ask for her hand in marriage.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Olive is a straight-A student who has never been in trouble before, but when she gets sent to the principal for nothing more serious than using a bad word (and not even that bad a word), he threatens to expel her if she is ever in trouble again.
* ChekhovsSkill: During the "Pocket Full Of Sunshine" montage, Olive is seen sewing. She later uses this skill to [[BuffySpeak sluttify]] her wardrobe.
* [[ClusterFBomb Cluster S Bomb]]: Mrs. Griffith's breakdown when she decides to [[spoiler: confess that she has been sleeping with a student, and that she has given him an STD]].
** "Goddamn shit!"
* ComicallySmallBribe: Olive is usually paid for pretending to have sex with people in gift cards from various stores. The lowest price she ever accepts is soon-to-expire vouchers for the foreign language arthouse cinema, with a close second being a 20% Off gift certificate. She also mentions receiving a coupon for ''15 cents off of hand soap'', although it is not stated whether this was the sole coupon received in that payment.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Some of the people watching Olive's webcast do not seem to understand, even at the end, that she is not going to be taking off her clothes.
* {{Confessional}}: Olive attempts to confess and seek advice from a priest, but the other half of the confessional is empty. "Shoulda seen that one coming."
* CoolLoser: Olive.
* CoolTeacher: Mr. Griffith. He also has some PsychologistTeacher in him when it comes to Olive. Plus, he is ''hilarious.''
* DateRapeAverted: [[spoiler:Anson will not take "no" for an answer]].
* DawsonCasting: All the high school kids, to the point that the joke about Micah being several years older than the others does not work since they all look the same age. Made more jarring since they managed to get actual 14-year-olds for the flashback sequence, making it look like the characters aged 10 years from 8th to 12th grade.
* DeadpanSnarker: Olive.
-->'''Marianne:''' A higher power will judge you for your indecency.
-->'''Olive:''' TomCruise?
** "I thought fake losing my virginity would have been more special. JudyBlume should have prepared me for that."
** Also, Mr. Griffith.
** And Todd to a degree.
** Lampshaded at least once;
--> "Turns out she bore her punishment with humble silence: two concepts I'm not familiar with."
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Any friend of Olive's is a friend of our daughter's!"
** "I hope you don't mind, but we had a few pre-cocktail party cocktails... like before the cocktail party. With cocktails."
** "Brandon was just in the middle of telling me this ''really'' funny thing, which was ''really'' funny."
* DisturbedDoves: Parodied. When Marianne finds out that Micah has chlamydia, she screams. A video playing in the foreground shows doves taking off at that same moment.
* [[DoubleEntendre Triple Entendre]]: The title itself refers to a school course with a reputation for being easy to do well in, to Olive's reputation for being sexually easy, and to how easily the actually virginal Olive gets a reputation for promiscuity.
** [[spoiler: As well as the letter she pins on herself - an "A", a sign of being "easy."]]
* DoubleStandard: Examined; while the guys who pretend to have sex with Olive get a reputation boost, Olive herself starts to be pilloried as a slut.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Micah is sent to live with his grandparents for a while, while recovering from his "condition".
* TheDragon: Nina.
* EarWorm: In-Universe example: "Pocketful of Sunshine," by Natasha Bedingfield. Olive's grandmother sends her a birthday card that plays this song, which Olive initally says she hates. Its earworming becomes a RunningGag through the movie.
* EatingLunchAlone: Olive after she's become ostracized by much of her school.
* EdibleThemeNaming: Everyone in the Penderghast family is named after food. Olive, her mother Rosemary, her father Dill and brother Chip.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Rhiannon.]]
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Three different film versions of ''TheScarletLetter'' are cited:
** The 1926 B&W film, from which clips are shown.
** The 1995 DemiMoore version. Both Olive and Mr. Griffith comment upon the mediocrity of this adaptation, and reflect that most of the students watched this film instead of reading the book or seeing the original.
** ''Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe'', the film showing at the foreign cinema Olive attends, is a 1973 German adaptation.
* FramingDevice: Olive's ConfessionCam webcast to the entire school explaining the movie/situation.
* TheFundamentalist: Marianne.
* GainaxEnding: In universe- [[spoiler:The characters think that the webcast is a buildup to her taking her clothes off (that's the case with at least one of the characters), but when Olive gives AnAesop and goes away to meet Todd, some of them get pretty angry.]]
* GenreSavvy: Olive, who regularly references other teen highschool movies (and how things don't seem to be going quite the same way).
* TheGhost: Olive's older brother, who is mentioned in passing as how she met her so-called hook-up.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Invoked by Olive in her big musical number wherein she kisses Rhiannon on the cheek and lays her feather boa around Rhiannon's neck; she then gives one of the female dancers a playful smack on the derriere.
* GoodParents: Olive's, very much so.
* HappilyAdopted: Olive's brother Chip, who is black, meaning it has never been much of a secret. The film makes fun of ObliviousAdoption when Chip remarks that "I'm adopted" and Dill, the dad, exclaims "What! Who told you?!"
* HeadButtOfLove: During Olive and Brandon's "sex scene." Although completely platonic considering one of them was gay it still was a pretty [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming adorable]] moment.
* HolierThanThou: Marianne.
* JerkAss: Every guy who pretends to have slept with Olive, except for Brandon, and he skips town before she can ask the favor she needs of him. [[spoiler:Rhiannon also turns into one. -- seems more like she was one the whole time, it's just the changes in her relationship with the main framed her behavior to be more unacceptable to the audience]]
** JerkAssWoobie: Despite their behavior, they ''are'' still social outcasts- not an excuse, but an explanation.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Rhiannon, despite her nastiness, does bring up fair talking points against Olive, such as the one about "not mistaking popularity for infamy."
* KidsAreCruel: A key theme, though there are plenty of exceptions in the cast.
* KnightInSourArmor: Olive is definitely this. For all her [[DeadpanSnarker snarkerness]], she gets into this mess in the first place because she was defending Brandon from bullying. When she agrees to take the blame for [[spoiler:Micah's catching chlamydia, it is to prevent the break-up of Mr. and Mrs. Griffith's marriage]].
* LovableAlphaBitch: Melody Bostik, - who according to Olive, "is the most popular girl at school, because she's really pretty and has perfect hair" - actually seems to be decently friendly.
* MarshmallowHell: During the flashback with Rhiannon's parents, Olive gets a face-full of hippie boob. She was not amused.
* {{Mascot}}: Woodchuck Todd, formerly known as Blue Devil Todd (The school mascot was changed after protests from the Christian group, who claimed the mascot depicted their school as devil worshippers).
* MeaningfulName : not only is Olive an anagram of I Love, Her whole name is an anagram of I Love Pretend Shag.
* MonochromeCasting: One common criticism of the film is that it's so very blatantly ''white''.
* MoodWhiplash: It's a pure comedy until a [[spoiler: DateRapeAverted scene]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Olive has this ''seconds'' after [[spoiler: informing Mr. Griffith that his wife is sleeping with a student, gave him an STD and is trying to blame it on Olive.]]
* MsFanservice: Olive and Rhiannon.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer never mentions Olive's lie about losing her virginity with a college boy, making it seem like the whole thing starts with her fake hookup with Brandon. It also shows some scenes out of order, giving the impression that Olive starts wearing the red A after she starts up her "business," instead of the other way around, even digitally removing the A in some scenes.
** The movie channel trailers are even less trustworthy, eliminating the ''fake'' aspect completely and making it look like it's the story of a hot high school girl actually turning into a total slut.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Rhiannon's parents. Olive says that they are weird even by {{California}} standards, and that they are the reason why she did not go on the camping trip with Rhiannon. In a brief flashback to the last time she hung out with them, the mom is shown with GodivaHair, and the dad is offering Olive a bong hit.
* NiceGuy: Todd and Brandon seem to be Olive's two real constant friends throughout the film.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Olive. So very much.
* OhCrap: Olive has one when she goes into the second church and realizes that the pastor she is talking to [[spoiler:is Marianne's dad]].
* {{Open Minded Parent}}s:
** Olive's parents... almost to the point of being creepy.
** Rhiannon's parents... way past the point of being creepy.
* OrangeBlueContrast
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Well, a place worse than [[spoiler:Chlamydia]], at any rate:
-->"And if there's one thing worse than [[spoiler:Chlamydia]], it's Florida."
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision T Strike]]: Olive delivers one of these to Nina (one of Marianne's friends), in retaliation to an insult. Naturally, it gets her sent to the principal's office.
* ProductPlacement:
** Olive tells her brother that her pants are from Costco.
** Olive gets paid in gift cards for every business from Home Depot to Bed, Bath, & Beyond.
*** Except for Lobster Shack, a [[BlandNameProduct Bland Name]] for Carrows Restaurant. Or Red Lobster.
** The very obvious (and totally random) Quiznos Man.
-->'''Olive''': Not now Quiznos Guy!
-->'''Quiznos Guy''': You're a slut.
* ReallyGetsAround: Olive unjustly gets this reputation. Her mom embodied this trope in her youth.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: A clique of [[TheFundamentalist Christian Fundamentalists]] and a homophobic school principal in ''[[StrawmanPolitical California]]?'' It's more likely then you think. Not all of California is as 'Leebrul' as [[StrawmanNewsMedia Fox News]] likes to make people think.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played straight with Mr. Griffith, averted with Principal Gibbons, and subverted with Mrs. Griffith, who seems like a reasonable and empathetic guidance counselor, but then refuses to actually listen to Olive just when Olive is offering to open up to her, and instead assumes that the rumors about Olive are true, even though her husband had already told her they weren't. And that is before she is [[spoiler:revealed to be pure evil]], though [[YMMV/EasyA your mileage may vary]].
* RipTailoring: Olive's creation of her "A" outfits.
* RunningGag: "I've got a pocket full of pocket full of sunshine..."
* ShallowLoveInterest: Woodchuck Todd. Except for his role as the school mascot and the only person to not accept every rumor as fact, no part of his character is developed.
* ShoutOut: By the bucketload. Olive's excitement at having "a gentleman caller" may be one to ''TheGlassMenagerie''; references are made to, complete with clips, the many films of JohnHughes, with several of their more climactic scenes re-enacted in the film. The [[WholePlotReference majority of the plot]] is also a reference to ''TheScarletLetter''.
** Her awful guitar playing followed by her proclamation "Not one lesson!" is a ShoutOut to Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff (a brief scene where he's badly playing the clarinet).
** Mr. Griffith also tells Olive to [[TheOutsiders "Stay golden."]]
* SourPrudes: The main antagonists have this mindset and bring it down hard on our poor protagonist.
* {{Squee}}: Marianne does one when she and Olive make friends.
* StepfordSmiler: Marianne.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Olive's wardrobe for much of the movie. Lampshaded, naturally.
-->'''Olive's Mom:''' No judgment, but you kind of look like a stripper.
-->'''Olive:''' Mom!
-->'''Olive's Dad:''' A high end stripper, for governors and athletes.
* StrawmanPolitical: All of the members of the school's Christian club, particularly Marianne.
* {{Tagline}}: Let's Not and Say We Did.
* TakeThat: Against the Demi Moore film version of ''TheScarletLetter''. So many times.
* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Between Mrs. Griffith and Micah. She gave him chlamydia.]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Let's watch TheBucketList, Bitch."
** [[spoiler: "I'm gay, bitches."]]
** This seems to be Brandon's favourite trope: "I'm drunk, bitches, what's up?" and the quote above.
* ThisIsReality: Olive frequently remarks about how certain things only happen in movies or books. [[SubvertedTrope Most of these things end up happening to her, or to Brandon, later on.]] [[InvokedTrope Often after she has spoken about how she wants that specific thing to happen]].
** Made funnier since one of the books she cites is GossipGirl and the actor [[CelebrityParadox playing Woodchuck Todd]] is in the series.
* TooMuchInformation: Olive's parents do not hesitate to share info about their sex lives.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Marianne seem to suffer worse from her own actions then it hurts Olive, and it's not from some kind of retributive Karma either. She seem to mean well, but be ''horribly'' misguided.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: Referenced. Melody Bostic parents let her have a party ever time she catches them having sex in the pool which, according to Olive, is about once a week.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Olive's is the entire plot.
* WasActuallyFriendly: Marianne really hated Olive. But when Olive showed her a bit of kindness and support, she quickly changed her attitude and wanted to be friends instead. It didn't last long, but that's for entirely different reasons. [[spoiler: Marianne's boyfriend cheated on her and got a venereal disease, then lied and pretended he got it from Olive.]]
* WaxingLyrical: Olive still has the "Pocketful Of Sunshine" {{earworm}} mentioned earlier, so when talking about her fictitious weekend with "George" she ends up mentioning that she feels like "I got a love, and I know that it's all mine".
* WellIntentionedExtremist: It really seems like the Cross Your Heart Club is trying to ''help'' Olive, at least until word gets out that she banged Micah; then it was more of a grudge match.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The movie was initially written as a hard-R adult comedy which featured, according to the writer Bert Royal, [[ClusterFBomb 47 F-bombs]]. This gives a little more credence to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous Olive's response to Nina]], knowing that "twat" was probably originally a case of CountryMatters -- it would certainly make the principal's reaction a bit more justified.
** {{Emma Stone}}'s audition, included as a special feature on the DVD and Blu-Ray releases, reveals that the original script had ''Brandon'' as the source of Olive's middle-school crush, and he was the boy that she lied about kissing during "Seven Minutes of Heaven."
* WhatTheHellHero: Say what you want about Rhiannon but she was the first to call Olive out on her growing reputation but Olive shoots her down saying she's just jealous of her new "popularity".
* WildTeenParty: Melody Bostic's. Subverted; all references to sexual activities at her parties involve Olive, and both involve her lying about what happened (Olive and Todd lie about kissing in eighth grade, and Brandon and Olive are not actually having sex in the spare bedroom now).
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Olive and Rhiannon.
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