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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Bianca is trying to fire her bow, Joey tries to talk to her. The result is that the arrow misses the target and hits the teacher instead. [[hottip:*:The Coach was kind of asking for it standing in front of the firing line. He ''was'' clearly away from the line of fire but Bianca had turned about 60 degrees to her left between Joey's appearance and letting the arrow go. Regardless, that's why the general rule is to stay behind the firing line.]]
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Bianca is trying to fire her bow, Joey tries to talk to her. The result is that the arrow misses the target and hits the teacher instead. [[hottip:*:The instead[[note]]The Coach was kind of asking for it standing in front of the firing line. He ''was'' clearly away from the line of fire but Bianca had turned about 60 degrees to her left between Joey's appearance and letting the arrow go. Regardless, that's why the general rule is to stay behind the firing line.]]line[[/note]].
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* SmallReferencePools: Kat complains about not discussing women authors in English class, but only names JaneAusten and CharlotteBronte.
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* FetishFuel: Used in-universe. [[spoiler:Knowing that Mandella is obsessed over Shakespeare, Michael goes with her to prom with both in period outfits and talking in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Kat and Bianca's last name (after Stratford-on-Avon), as well as [[RomeoAndJuliet Pat]][[TwoGentlemenOfVerona rick's]] last name, and [[Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew Padua]] High School.
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* MeaningfulName: Kat and Bianca's last name (after Stratford-on-Avon), as well as [[RomeoAndJuliet Pat]][[TwoGentlemenOfVerona [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Pat]][[Theatre/TwoGentlemenOfVerona rick's]] last name, and [[Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew Padua]] High School.
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* HeyYouHaymaker: [[spoiler:Bianca]]'s pulls one off at the dance.
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* HeyYouHaymaker: [[spoiler:Bianca]]'s pulls [[spoiler:Bianca lays one off on Joey]] at the dance.
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Also has a sitcom based on it, which airs on ABCFamily. More information on it can be found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You_(TV_series) here.]] Despite only lasting two years, it amassed an impressive fanbase and was generally considered better than expected for a [[RecycledTheSeries series recycled from a film]].
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* LighterAndSofter: Everyone in the series is much nicer than their movie counterparts, especially Joey. Plus other things like the Stratford's MissingMom being deceased as opposed to abandoning them.
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* ActorSharedBackground: They worked in Heath Ledgers Australian background to be an actual part of the character, including having Kat ask him if the accent was real or faked.
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Despite being a teen romcom, ''10 Things'' received some good reviews for acting, writing and general amusement value. It's still fondly remembered years later because of that. Most notably, it put its two leads on the map as dramatic actors to watch in the future. Yes, JuliaStiles and HeathLedger had their break-out roles in a teen comedy. In the meanwhile, {{Joseph Gordon-Levitt}} (''ThirdRockFromTheSun'') and Larisa Oleynik (the title character from ''TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'', not to mention JGL's girlfriend on ''Third Rock'') played the roles of Cameron and Bianca. Creator/ChrisZylka from Film/{{The Amazing Spider-man}} as Flash Thompson plays Joey. Lastly, David Krumholtz of ''{{Numb3rs}}'', ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''TheSantaClause'' played Michael, and AllisonJanney had a OneSceneWonder role as "Miss Perky," the school's [[ThereAreNoTherapists incredibly-messed up]] guidance counselor. (This film is a shining example of HeyItsThatGuy and RetroactiveRecognition.)
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* StalkingIsLove: Patrick goes to pretty great lengths to follow Kat around. Turns into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he follows her into a bookstore and claims to be looking for a copy of ''The Feminine Mystique'', and she shuts him down by pushing him away with that very book.
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* OneSceneWonder: Allison Janney as Ms Perky. Technically a Two Scene Wonder.
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* DawsonCasting: One of the most notable aversions, all of the main cast was between 18 and 20 during the filming of the movie playing high schoolers (Krumholtz was the oldest, and he was barely 21 when the movie premiered). Some of the supporting cast were a little older, though.
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* SmallReferencePools: Kat complains about not discussing literature by women, and [[strike:only]] mentions JaneAusten and Charlotte Bronte.
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** She also mentions Sylvia Plath and Simone De Beauvoir, but they arguably fit under Small Reference Pools as well.
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->''"I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.\\
I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare.\\
I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind;\\
I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes me rhyme.\\
I hate the way you're always right, I hate it when you lie,\\
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.\\
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call,\\
[[WhyCantIHateYou But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all]]."''
''10 Things I Hate About You'' is a 1999 HighSchool film which was, essentially, a sort of murky, updated HighSchoolAU-style take on ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew''. The plot is fairly standard for a romantic comedy, and runs as such:
Something is rotten in the house of Stratford. It has come to light that Katerina Stratford, the feminist, intelligent, and well, shrewish elder sister, has received an acceptance letter to a college her overprotective father doesn't want her to go to. Bianca, the bubbly, popular younger sister, got a ride home from a boy today. There's much anger and words are exchanged that cannot be taken back, and from all of this a new rule sprouts forth: Bianca can date when Kat does. This is pretty much the end of it for Bianca, as Kat doesn't really do the whole dating thing, preferring to snark and study. However, when Bianca spills this to Cameron, the new kid in town who has a crush on her and is her French Tutor, he develops a plan: Find someone who'll date Kat. But who?
[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys The bad boy in town, of course.]] Enter Patrick Verona. He's mean, he's tough, and he scares off Cameron when he's approached with the idea. However, Michael, Cameron's new friend(ish), comes up with an idea: get Joey, a popular guy with a crush on Bianca, to cough up money for them to bribe Patrick with. This succeeds, and in the end, Patrick woos Kat by essentially being as cantankerous and stubborn as she is, only more romantic. He ends up asking her to the prom, having been given 300 bucks to do it, and while she doesn't go at first, she eventually accepts. The problem? He's actually really starting to like this girl...
Despite being a teen romcom, ''10 Things'' received some good reviews for acting, writing and general amusement value. It's still fondly remembered years later because of that. Most notably, it put its two leads on the map as dramatic actors to watch in the future. Yes, JuliaStiles and HeathLedger had their break-out roles in a teen comedy. In the meanwhile, {{Joseph Gordon-Levitt}} (''ThirdRockFromTheSun'') and Larisa Oleynik (the title character from ''TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'', not to mention JGL's girlfriend on ''Third Rock'') played the roles of Cameron and Bianca. Lastly, David Krumholtz of ''{{Numb3rs}}'', ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''TheSantaClause'' played Michael, and AllisonJanney had a OneSceneWonder role as "Miss Perky," the school's [[ThereAreNoTherapists incredibly-messed up]] guidance counselor. (This film is a shining example of HeyItsThatGuy and RetroactiveRecognition.)
Also has a sitcom based on it, which airs on ABC Family. More information on it can be found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You_(TV_series) here.]] Despite only lasting two years, it amassed an impressive fanbase and was generally considered better than expected for a [[RecycledTheSeries series recycled from a film]].
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActorSharedBackground: They worked in Heath Ledgers Australian background to be an actual part of the character, including having Kat ask him if the accent was real or faked.
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler: Bianca does this to Joey]] near the end of the movie. It's immensely satisfying.
* AngryBlackMan: The English teacher Mr. Morgan, sort of.
* BadGuysPlayPool: Just to reinforce his badassitude, Patrick is shown smoking and playing pool in a bar before Cameron comes to tell him how to impress Kat.
* BadNewsInAGoodWay:
-->'''Cameron''': We're screwed.\\
'''Michael''': Hey, no, hey. I don't want to hear that defeatist attitude. I want to hear you upbeat.\\
'''Cameron (upbeat)''': We're ''screwed''!\\
'''Michael''': There you go.
* BecauseISaidSo: Their father, sort of, and also Kat towards Bianca's wish to date Joey. She doesn't explain why till the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Kat slept with Joey once. When she said she didn't want to do it again, he dumped her.]]
* TheBet: Subverted and, in a way, played straight. Joey is actually just after Bianca because his friends bet him he couldn't sleep with her, whilst Patrick is not actually betting, he's getting paid up front. But he and Kat play the rest out exactly as promised.
* BettyAndVeronica: Cameron and Joey for Bianca.
* BlackBraAndPanties: Bianca takes this as a sign that her sister wants to eventually have sex.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The guidance counselor.
--> '''Cameron''': Did you just say ... am I in the right room?
* CompensatingForSomething: Joey's expensive sports car (see TeenyWeenie).
* DawsonCasting: One of the most notable aversions, all of the main cast was between 18 and 20 during the filming of the movie playing high schoolers (Krumholtz was the oldest, and he was barely 21 when the movie premiered). Some of the supporting cast were a little older, though.
* DeadpanSnarker: See WorldOfSnark
* DecoyProtagonist: The film follows Cameron as the main character before the introduction of Kat and Patrick.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Kat.
* DistractedbyTheSexy: Kate deliberately invokes this to get Patrick out of detention.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Kat, in keeping with the original. It's eventually subverted, however.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The movie opens with perky pop song playing over fun, bouncing credits, as four perky [[TheBeautifulElite pretty girls]] roll up to a stop sign in a brightly-coloured sports car... then the pop music is rapidly drowned out by Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation", as a lone, sour-faced young woman rolls up next to them in a beat-up Ford, ''glaring''. Six minutes before we learn her name, five minutes before she ever ''speaks'', and we already know Kat's basic character.
** Also captured in that wonderful exchange with Miss Perky:
--> '''Ms. Perky:''' People perceive you as somewhat...\\
'''Kat:''' Tempestuous?\\
'''Ms. Perky:''' "[[PrecisionFStrike Heinous bitch]]" is the term used most often.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: After HeathLedger finished his audition, the director turned to his mostly female staff and said "I'm not gay. But if I was, that is the kind of guy I'd want to sleep with."
* FaceDoodling: Actually took place while the character was awake. Joey doodles on Michael's face as he's trying to speak.
--> '''Michael:''' I have a dick on my face, don't I?
* FetishFuel: Used in-universe. [[spoiler:Knowing that Mandella is obsessed over Shakespeare, Michael goes with her to prom with both in period outfits and talking in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe.]]
* FlatCharacter: well averted. Kat, Bianca and Patrick all turn out to have HiddenDepths.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Bianca is trying to fire her bow, Joey tries to talk to her. The result is that the arrow misses the target and hits the teacher instead. [[hottip:*:The Coach was kind of asking for it standing in front of the firing line. He ''was'' clearly away from the line of fire but Bianca had turned about 60 degrees to her left between Joey's appearance and letting the arrow go. Regardless, that's why the general rule is to stay behind the firing line.]]
** Made even funnier due to the fact that Biance actually stops to look, before going ''right back to her conversation''.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Unsurprising, given that this also applies to the original.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Bianca to [[JerkJock Joey]] after finding out he placed a bet to nail her on prom night.]] And the audience cheers.
** A NoodleIncident equivalent happens in Kat's backstory. ("I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.")
** When Michael is on his bike and accidentally goes tumbling down a hill, he shouts "My balls!" during one of the bounces.
* TheGrovel: After getting Kat so royally pissed off at him that she won't speak to him, Patrick is instructed to "sacrifice yourself on the altar of dignity and even the score." No actual groveling is involved - Patrick opts for a marching-band-assisted rendition of "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" in the middle of her soccer practice instead - but the effect is the same, especially as it also nets him detention.
* HeelRealisation
-->'''Cameron''': Have you always been this selfish?
-->'''Bianca''': Yes.
* HeyYouHaymaker: [[spoiler:Bianca]]'s pulls one off at the dance.
* HighSchoolAU: It's pretty much just ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' with high school and more modern things.
* HighSchoolDance: Well, yes.
* HilariousOuttakes: "Can I get a prophylactic?"
** "[[NoSell Is that the best you got?]]"
* HollywoodGeography: Anyone who's ever lived in Seattle will be somewhat bemused by how quickly they get from various points of the city to others.
** An example: It's a 45 minute drive from Stadium High School in Tacoma (where the actual school building is located) to the docks where they rent the boat when they escape detention.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Played pretty straight with Bianca, Cameron, and Joey; spectacularly averted with Kat.
* LighterAndSofter: ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' was a good bit more misogynistic.
* MeaningfulName: Kat and Bianca's last name (after Stratford-on-Avon), as well as [[RomeoAndJuliet Pat]][[TwoGentlemenOfVerona rick's]] last name, and [[Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew Padua]] High School.
** Cameron James is named after King James, who ruled during Shakespeare's life.
* MegaphoneHanging: Stacks of Shakespeare references.
* MillsAndBoonProse: A guidance counselor, who writes bad sex novels, wants to know another word for "engorged".
** Turgid.
** Tumescent!
** Perfect!
** ''Bratwurst.''
** I'll let you get back to Reginald's quivering member.
** I've got deviants to see and a novel to finish... now SCOOT!
* MissingMom: Kat and Bianca's mother is absent, and only gets a mention whenever Bianca puts on a set of her pearls before going out.
** She gets a few more mentions, the implication being that she left the family, and that left the dad feeling out of control, explaining why he's so overprotective of his daughters. She seemed to have been a character in an older version of the script.
*** Whether she left in a taxi or a hearse is never established, but frankly it doesn't change much.
*** In the original script, their mother was present, but spent all of her time at the computer writing romance novels. All of the gags surrounding Ms. Perky's novels originally belonged to Mrs. Stratford.
** In the series, it's confirmed that she's dead.
* MissingTrailerScene: Kat rejecting Patrick at the lockers then the camera zooms in on his grinning face *swoon*.
* TheNineties: {{Ska}} (lots of it), TheRealWorld and [[MySoCalledLife Jared Leto]] references.
* NonindicativeName: "Ten Things I Hate About You" is catchy, but Kat's poem lists more than ten things.
** Actually, some of the items may be listed together. The words "I hate" appear in the poem ten times; the words that follow may be lumped together. Thus "I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind" would be one item.
* OldShame: Averted, a lot of people expected HeathLedger to continue in the teen comedy genre but he instead refused a lot of similar roles until he started to get the parts he wanted like in ''ThePatriot'' and ''AKnightsTale''. Despite this, he ''didn't'' consider this film to be an old shame, just not where he wanted to take his career.
* OneSceneWonder: Allison Janney as Ms Perky. Technically a Two Scene Wonder.
** Or a Three-Scene Wonder [[spoiler: if you count a deleted scene where she's shown making out with the soccer coach]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Played with. HeathLedger occasionally slips into his native accent, but this is mentioned as because his character spent some years growing up in Australia.
* OverprotectiveDad: in addition to the whole MissingMom thing, he's also a natal specialist who evidently deals with a lot of teenagers.
-->'''Walter:''' Kissing isn't what keeps me up to my elbows in placentas all day!
* PaintballEpisode: A variation in the paintballoon-throwing scene.
* PairTheSpares: Chastity ends up with Joey; Michael starts dating Kat's best friend Mandella.
* ParkingPayback: Kat's least favourite person parks his shiny new sports car behind her, in the middle of the road. This is, itself, illegal and done specifically to annoy her, but Kat takes it a bit too far when she backs right into him, destroying the side.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: TropeNamer.
* PrettyBoy: Patrick's prettyness gets lampshaded in the movie.
-->'''Cameron''': And Kat likes ''pretty'' guys.
-->'''Patrick''': Are you saying I'm ''not'' a pretty guy?
* RecycledTheSeries
* RomanceOnTheSet: Joseph Gordon-Levitt dated both Larissa Oleynik ''and'' Julia Stiles after filming... not at the same time. The main cast apparently became fairly close friends, regardless.
* RooftopConcert: The movie ends with a crane shot, revealing the band Letters to Cleo playing on top of Padua High School.
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Bianca believes she can manipulate Cameron's feelings for her based on this. When he finds out, as seen in the WhatTheHellHero examples below, Cameron disagrees.
* SerenadeYourLover: The famous "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" scene in the stadium. With a parade.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Kat and Patrick have this effect on one another.
* ShowSomeLeg: It isn't exactly her leg.
** [[DontExplainTheJoke It was her boobs.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: Patrick Verona is supposed to have eaten a live duck, sold his liver on the black market for a new set of speakers, lit a State Trooper on fire, known Marilyn Manson, slept with a Spice Girl (he thinks) and been a porn star, among other things. Kat has a bit of a reputation too. Amusingly, when they discuss this later, it turns out the only thing that's actually true is Kat pulling a GroinAttack on a guy who tried to grope her in the lunch line.
-->'''Ms. Perky:''' His testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you're wondering.
--> '''Kat:''' I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.
* ShutUpKiss: Bianca does this to Cameron when he calls her out on her actions at the party (He was technically her date, but she spent more time with Joey only to recognize Joey for what he was. Cameron was being a gentleman by driving her home). Probably the best way to get back in his good graces.
** Subverted later when Kat finally finds out that Patrick was paid to date her. He tries resorting to this to convince her that he really did love her, but she was too angry and pushed him away.
** Played straight again at the very end of the movie, after [[spoiler: Patrick finally wins Kat back by buying her dream guitar for her.]]
* SmallReferencePools: Kat complains about not discussing literature by women, and [[strike:only]] mentions JaneAusten and Charlotte Bronte.
** She also mentions Sylvia Plath and Simone De Beauvoir, but they arguably fit under Small Reference Pools as well.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps because,]] given the extremely well-known nature of these authors, it's a pretty [[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame egregious]] error that even they aren't being taught?
* TheSnarkKnight: Kat is quite a good example of this character-type.
* TeenyWeenie: Joey, apparently. Kat threatens to reveal this to the cheerleading team if he tells anyone that he slept with her.
* TotallyRadical: Played for laughs in-universe; Walter Stratford's various attempts at speaking 'teen' in an effort to get his point across to his daughters aren't as successful as he hopes.
* {{Tsundere}}: Kat is a definitive type A.
* TwoTeacherSchool: The gym teacher/soccer coach and the English teacher are the only ones seen.
* UnusualEuphemism:
-->'''Patrick:''' Joey can plough whatever he wants.
-->'''Cameron:''' Hey! There will be no ploughing!
** "Bratwurst? Well, aren't we the optimist."
* VanityIsFeminine: Poked fun at when Patrick is told Katerina prefers "[[PrettyBoy pretty guys]]." "... Are you telling me I'm not a pretty guy?"
* WedlockBlock: The premise of the movie (but with dating instead of marriage).
* WhatTheHellHero: Cameron gives Bianca a piece of his mind when he learns that she was just manipulating him and his feelings towards her to try and get closer to another guy. This is, of course, [[WrongGuyFirst after Bianca has decided that maybe he's the better choice after all]].
--> '''Cameron''': Just 'cause you're beautiful, that doesn't mean that you can treat people like they don't matter.
* WhyCantIHateYou: Exemplified perfectly in the poem.
* WildTeenParty: [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed In which Kat gets drunk, dances on a table, and throws up in the park.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Kat runs out on Patrick a total of three times over the course of the movie: once after the drunk AlmostKiss (which Patrick [[AboveTheInfluence didn't go for]]), once after he accidentally pulled a cigarette, and (of course) at the prom after the truth comes out.
* WorldOfSnark: [[StepfordSnarker Kat]], [[LittleMissSnarker Bianca]], [[SarcasticDevotee Michael]], to name only a few, and plenty of SnarkToSnarkCombat, [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry especially between the Stratfords]]
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Parodied.
--> '''Michael''': ''(in character)'' The shit hath hitteth the fan... eth.
!!The series contains examples of:
* CassandraTruth: Bianca tries to explain to people that she didn't have sex with her teacher but no one listened and he was arrested (although he was having sex with another girl)
* TheCastShowoff: The talent show episode may have been created so [[CampRock Meaghan Martin]] could sing.
* TheCheerleader: Bianca, [[AlphaBitch Chastity]], [[BrainlessBeauty Dawn]] etc.
* CliffHanger: The season one finale, which became the series finale when the show wasn't renewed. [[OverProtectiveDad Walter]] walked in on Kat and Patrick right after they finished having sex. Bianca and Dawn quit the cheerleading squad in protest over their Chastity being unfairly kicked off, only to find out that Chastity is transferring schools and they didn't have to quit. Joey had become a contestant on a reality show and Bianca tunes in just in time to see him kissing another one of the contestants. [[WordOfGod The creator]] of the show was nice enough to tell fans [[http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/07/10-things-i-hate-about-you-season-two/ how things would have developed if the series had continued]] Basically, [[spoiler: Kat and Patrick's relationship would grow closer, though they'd eventually clash about college.(Kat wants to go and wants Patrick to go, Patrick doesn't think college is his thing.) We'd meet Patrick's mom and stepdad, and Walter would become a sort of father figure to Patrick. Kat's other possible love interest, Blank, would be around, but it wasn't quite going to turn into a full-fledged love triangle. Joey would get kicked off the reality show, causing him to lose a bit of his spark. His and Bianca's problems(from his cheating and bit of a personality change) would lead to Bianca confiding in Cameron, which would lead to a Bianca/Joey/Cameron love triangle. Chastity was going to be gone for good, since the actress quit the show, and Dawn would be given a bigger role to compensate]].
* DarkhorseVictory: Joey wins the talent show rather than any of the main characters
* DumbBlonde: Joey, who also represents DumbIsGood
** Though Bianca isn't as smart as Kat, she is not dumb as stated by her teacher being dragged away by cops
*** "Was this because I gave you an A-?"
* HeyItsThatGuy: Walter Stratford from the film plays Walter Stratford in the series.
** Kat's car in the series was Cameron's in the movie.
* HideYourGays: Mandella is hinted at being a lesbian and appears sporadically, until it's confirmed and she disappears. [[spoiler: Michael]] disappears for several episodes only to return to come out.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: It's yet another show that names episodes after songs, [[ShoutOut I Want You To Want Me]] was episode two.
* {{Irony}}: Walter constantly gets on Bianca for the slightest things when in reality she hasn't done anything nearly as bad as Kat did.
* MistakenForGay: Bianca thinks this of Cameron when Michael [[spoiler:who really is gay]] gives him a makeover
* NoAntagonist: Bianca and Joey are both much nicer than their movie counterparts, Chastity is sort of a LovableAlphaBitch, even Blank is actually a pretty nice guy. The closest thing would be Walter but he's just trying to look out for his daughters
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Bianca on several occasions uses the term slore which is a portmanteau of slut and whore
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bianca is actually quite good at delivering them and has on more than one occasion called Chastity out.
** She also receives a brutal one from Cameron. It's not exactly true as it is his false perception of her.
* SuddenSchoolUniform
* TalentShow: In the episode 'The Winner Takes All'.
* ThirdActMisunderstanding
* WhatTheHellHero: After Cameron hears Bianca's date wants to have sex with her he goes out of his way to sabotage the date rather than telling her. She hates him briefly when she finds out
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Patrick, who is supposed to be 17, was played by a 21 year old and looked like it, mainly due to his muscular build, very deep voice, mature facial features, and the way he dressed. Walter even pointed this out in one episode, calling him out to Kat as 'your friend with the disturbingly deep voice who looks much older than 17.'
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->''"I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.\\
I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare.\\
I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind;\\
I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes me rhyme.\\
I hate the way you're always right, I hate it when you lie,\\
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.\\
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call,\\
[[WhyCantIHateYou But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all]]."''
''10 Things I Hate About You'' is a 1999 HighSchool film which was, essentially, a sort of murky, updated HighSchoolAU-style take on ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew''. The plot is fairly standard for a romantic comedy, and runs as such:
Something is rotten in the house of Stratford. It has come to light that Katerina Stratford, the feminist, intelligent, and well, shrewish elder sister, has received an acceptance letter to a college her overprotective father doesn't want her to go to. Bianca, the bubbly, popular younger sister, got a ride home from a boy today. There's much anger and words are exchanged that cannot be taken back, and from all of this a new rule sprouts forth: Bianca can date when Kat does. This is pretty much the end of it for Bianca, as Kat doesn't really do the whole dating thing, preferring to snark and study. However, when Bianca spills this to Cameron, the new kid in town who has a crush on her and is her French Tutor, he develops a plan: Find someone who'll date Kat. But who?
[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys The bad boy in town, of course.]] Enter Patrick Verona. He's mean, he's tough, and he scares off Cameron when he's approached with the idea. However, Michael, Cameron's new friend(ish), comes up with an idea: get Joey, a popular guy with a crush on Bianca, to cough up money for them to bribe Patrick with. This succeeds, and in the end, Patrick woos Kat by essentially being as cantankerous and stubborn as she is, only more romantic. He ends up asking her to the prom, having been given 300 bucks to do it, and while she doesn't go at first, she eventually accepts. The problem? He's actually really starting to like this girl...
Despite being a teen romcom, ''10 Things'' received some good reviews for acting, writing and general amusement value. It's still fondly remembered years later because of that. Most notably, it put its two leads on the map as dramatic actors to watch in the future. Yes, JuliaStiles and HeathLedger had their break-out roles in a teen comedy. In the meanwhile, {{Joseph Gordon-Levitt}} (''ThirdRockFromTheSun'') and Larisa Oleynik (the title character from ''TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'', not to mention JGL's girlfriend on ''Third Rock'') played the roles of Cameron and Bianca. Lastly, David Krumholtz of ''{{Numb3rs}}'', ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''TheSantaClause'' played Michael, and AllisonJanney had a OneSceneWonder role as "Miss Perky," the school's [[ThereAreNoTherapists incredibly-messed up]] guidance counselor. (This film is a shining example of HeyItsThatGuy and RetroactiveRecognition.)
Also has a sitcom based on it, which airs on ABC Family. More information on it can be found [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You_(TV_series) here.]] Despite only lasting two years, it amassed an impressive fanbase and was generally considered better than expected for a [[RecycledTheSeries series recycled from a film]].
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActorSharedBackground: They worked in Heath Ledgers Australian background to be an actual part of the character, including having Kat ask him if the accent was real or faked.
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler: Bianca does this to Joey]] near the end of the movie. It's immensely satisfying.
* AngryBlackMan: The English teacher Mr. Morgan, sort of.
* BadGuysPlayPool: Just to reinforce his badassitude, Patrick is shown smoking and playing pool in a bar before Cameron comes to tell him how to impress Kat.
* BadNewsInAGoodWay:
-->'''Cameron''': We're screwed.\\
'''Michael''': Hey, no, hey. I don't want to hear that defeatist attitude. I want to hear you upbeat.\\
'''Cameron (upbeat)''': We're ''screwed''!\\
'''Michael''': There you go.
* BecauseISaidSo: Their father, sort of, and also Kat towards Bianca's wish to date Joey. She doesn't explain why till the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Kat slept with Joey once. When she said she didn't want to do it again, he dumped her.]]
* TheBet: Subverted and, in a way, played straight. Joey is actually just after Bianca because his friends bet him he couldn't sleep with her, whilst Patrick is not actually betting, he's getting paid up front. But he and Kat play the rest out exactly as promised.
* BettyAndVeronica: Cameron and Joey for Bianca.
* BlackBraAndPanties: Bianca takes this as a sign that her sister wants to eventually have sex.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The guidance counselor.
--> '''Cameron''': Did you just say ... am I in the right room?
* CompensatingForSomething: Joey's expensive sports car (see TeenyWeenie).
* DawsonCasting: One of the most notable aversions, all of the main cast was between 18 and 20 during the filming of the movie playing high schoolers (Krumholtz was the oldest, and he was barely 21 when the movie premiered). Some of the supporting cast were a little older, though.
* DeadpanSnarker: See WorldOfSnark
* DecoyProtagonist: The film follows Cameron as the main character before the introduction of Kat and Patrick.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Kat.
* DistractedbyTheSexy: Kate deliberately invokes this to get Patrick out of detention.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Kat, in keeping with the original. It's eventually subverted, however.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The movie opens with perky pop song playing over fun, bouncing credits, as four perky [[TheBeautifulElite pretty girls]] roll up to a stop sign in a brightly-coloured sports car... then the pop music is rapidly drowned out by Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation", as a lone, sour-faced young woman rolls up next to them in a beat-up Ford, ''glaring''. Six minutes before we learn her name, five minutes before she ever ''speaks'', and we already know Kat's basic character.
** Also captured in that wonderful exchange with Miss Perky:
--> '''Ms. Perky:''' People perceive you as somewhat...\\
'''Kat:''' Tempestuous?\\
'''Ms. Perky:''' "[[PrecisionFStrike Heinous bitch]]" is the term used most often.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: After HeathLedger finished his audition, the director turned to his mostly female staff and said "I'm not gay. But if I was, that is the kind of guy I'd want to sleep with."
* FaceDoodling: Actually took place while the character was awake. Joey doodles on Michael's face as he's trying to speak.
--> '''Michael:''' I have a dick on my face, don't I?
* FetishFuel: Used in-universe. [[spoiler:Knowing that Mandella is obsessed over Shakespeare, Michael goes with her to prom with both in period outfits and talking in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe.]]
* FlatCharacter: well averted. Kat, Bianca and Patrick all turn out to have HiddenDepths.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Bianca is trying to fire her bow, Joey tries to talk to her. The result is that the arrow misses the target and hits the teacher instead. [[hottip:*:The Coach was kind of asking for it standing in front of the firing line. He ''was'' clearly away from the line of fire but Bianca had turned about 60 degrees to her left between Joey's appearance and letting the arrow go. Regardless, that's why the general rule is to stay behind the firing line.]]
** Made even funnier due to the fact that Biance actually stops to look, before going ''right back to her conversation''.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Unsurprising, given that this also applies to the original.
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: Bianca to [[JerkJock Joey]] after finding out he placed a bet to nail her on prom night.]] And the audience cheers.
** A NoodleIncident equivalent happens in Kat's backstory. ("I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.")
** When Michael is on his bike and accidentally goes tumbling down a hill, he shouts "My balls!" during one of the bounces.
* TheGrovel: After getting Kat so royally pissed off at him that she won't speak to him, Patrick is instructed to "sacrifice yourself on the altar of dignity and even the score." No actual groveling is involved - Patrick opts for a marching-band-assisted rendition of "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" in the middle of her soccer practice instead - but the effect is the same, especially as it also nets him detention.
* HeelRealisation
-->'''Cameron''': Have you always been this selfish?
-->'''Bianca''': Yes.
* HeyYouHaymaker: [[spoiler:Bianca]]'s pulls one off at the dance.
* HighSchoolAU: It's pretty much just ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' with high school and more modern things.
* HighSchoolDance: Well, yes.
* HilariousOuttakes: "Can I get a prophylactic?"
** "[[NoSell Is that the best you got?]]"
* HollywoodGeography: Anyone who's ever lived in Seattle will be somewhat bemused by how quickly they get from various points of the city to others.
** An example: It's a 45 minute drive from Stadium High School in Tacoma (where the actual school building is located) to the docks where they rent the boat when they escape detention.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Played pretty straight with Bianca, Cameron, and Joey; spectacularly averted with Kat.
* LighterAndSofter: ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' was a good bit more misogynistic.
* MeaningfulName: Kat and Bianca's last name (after Stratford-on-Avon), as well as [[RomeoAndJuliet Pat]][[TwoGentlemenOfVerona rick's]] last name, and [[Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew Padua]] High School.
** Cameron James is named after King James, who ruled during Shakespeare's life.
* MegaphoneHanging: Stacks of Shakespeare references.
* MillsAndBoonProse: A guidance counselor, who writes bad sex novels, wants to know another word for "engorged".
** Turgid.
** Tumescent!
** Perfect!
** ''Bratwurst.''
** I'll let you get back to Reginald's quivering member.
** I've got deviants to see and a novel to finish... now SCOOT!
* MissingMom: Kat and Bianca's mother is absent, and only gets a mention whenever Bianca puts on a set of her pearls before going out.
** She gets a few more mentions, the implication being that she left the family, and that left the dad feeling out of control, explaining why he's so overprotective of his daughters. She seemed to have been a character in an older version of the script.
*** Whether she left in a taxi or a hearse is never established, but frankly it doesn't change much.
*** In the original script, their mother was present, but spent all of her time at the computer writing romance novels. All of the gags surrounding Ms. Perky's novels originally belonged to Mrs. Stratford.
** In the series, it's confirmed that she's dead.
* MissingTrailerScene: Kat rejecting Patrick at the lockers then the camera zooms in on his grinning face *swoon*.
* TheNineties: {{Ska}} (lots of it), TheRealWorld and [[MySoCalledLife Jared Leto]] references.
* NonindicativeName: "Ten Things I Hate About You" is catchy, but Kat's poem lists more than ten things.
** Actually, some of the items may be listed together. The words "I hate" appear in the poem ten times; the words that follow may be lumped together. Thus "I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind" would be one item.
* OldShame: Averted, a lot of people expected HeathLedger to continue in the teen comedy genre but he instead refused a lot of similar roles until he started to get the parts he wanted like in ''ThePatriot'' and ''AKnightsTale''. Despite this, he ''didn't'' consider this film to be an old shame, just not where he wanted to take his career.
* OneSceneWonder: Allison Janney as Ms Perky. Technically a Two Scene Wonder.
** Or a Three-Scene Wonder [[spoiler: if you count a deleted scene where she's shown making out with the soccer coach]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Played with. HeathLedger occasionally slips into his native accent, but this is mentioned as because his character spent some years growing up in Australia.
* OverprotectiveDad: in addition to the whole MissingMom thing, he's also a natal specialist who evidently deals with a lot of teenagers.
-->'''Walter:''' Kissing isn't what keeps me up to my elbows in placentas all day!
* PaintballEpisode: A variation in the paintballoon-throwing scene.
* PairTheSpares: Chastity ends up with Joey; Michael starts dating Kat's best friend Mandella.
* ParkingPayback: Kat's least favourite person parks his shiny new sports car behind her, in the middle of the road. This is, itself, illegal and done specifically to annoy her, but Kat takes it a bit too far when she backs right into him, destroying the side.
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: TropeNamer.
* PrettyBoy: Patrick's prettyness gets lampshaded in the movie.
-->'''Cameron''': And Kat likes ''pretty'' guys.
-->'''Patrick''': Are you saying I'm ''not'' a pretty guy?
* RecycledTheSeries
* RomanceOnTheSet: Joseph Gordon-Levitt dated both Larissa Oleynik ''and'' Julia Stiles after filming... not at the same time. The main cast apparently became fairly close friends, regardless.
* RooftopConcert: The movie ends with a crane shot, revealing the band Letters to Cleo playing on top of Padua High School.
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Bianca believes she can manipulate Cameron's feelings for her based on this. When he finds out, as seen in the WhatTheHellHero examples below, Cameron disagrees.
* SerenadeYourLover: The famous "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" scene in the stadium. With a parade.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Kat and Patrick have this effect on one another.
* ShowSomeLeg: It isn't exactly her leg.
** [[DontExplainTheJoke It was her boobs.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: Patrick Verona is supposed to have eaten a live duck, sold his liver on the black market for a new set of speakers, lit a State Trooper on fire, known Marilyn Manson, slept with a Spice Girl (he thinks) and been a porn star, among other things. Kat has a bit of a reputation too. Amusingly, when they discuss this later, it turns out the only thing that's actually true is Kat pulling a GroinAttack on a guy who tried to grope her in the lunch line.
-->'''Ms. Perky:''' His testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you're wondering.
--> '''Kat:''' I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.
* ShutUpKiss: Bianca does this to Cameron when he calls her out on her actions at the party (He was technically her date, but she spent more time with Joey only to recognize Joey for what he was. Cameron was being a gentleman by driving her home). Probably the best way to get back in his good graces.
** Subverted later when Kat finally finds out that Patrick was paid to date her. He tries resorting to this to convince her that he really did love her, but she was too angry and pushed him away.
** Played straight again at the very end of the movie, after [[spoiler: Patrick finally wins Kat back by buying her dream guitar for her.]]
* SmallReferencePools: Kat complains about not discussing literature by women, and [[strike:only]] mentions JaneAusten and Charlotte Bronte.
** She also mentions Sylvia Plath and Simone De Beauvoir, but they arguably fit under Small Reference Pools as well.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Perhaps because,]] given the extremely well-known nature of these authors, it's a pretty [[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame egregious]] error that even they aren't being taught?
* TheSnarkKnight: Kat is quite a good example of this character-type.
* TeenyWeenie: Joey, apparently. Kat threatens to reveal this to the cheerleading team if he tells anyone that he slept with her.
* TotallyRadical: Played for laughs in-universe; Walter Stratford's various attempts at speaking 'teen' in an effort to get his point across to his daughters aren't as successful as he hopes.
* {{Tsundere}}: Kat is a definitive type A.
* TwoTeacherSchool: The gym teacher/soccer coach and the English teacher are the only ones seen.
* UnusualEuphemism:
-->'''Patrick:''' Joey can plough whatever he wants.
-->'''Cameron:''' Hey! There will be no ploughing!
** "Bratwurst? Well, aren't we the optimist."
* VanityIsFeminine: Poked fun at when Patrick is told Katerina prefers "[[PrettyBoy pretty guys]]." "... Are you telling me I'm not a pretty guy?"
* WedlockBlock: The premise of the movie (but with dating instead of marriage).
* WhatTheHellHero: Cameron gives Bianca a piece of his mind when he learns that she was just manipulating him and his feelings towards her to try and get closer to another guy. This is, of course, [[WrongGuyFirst after Bianca has decided that maybe he's the better choice after all]].
--> '''Cameron''': Just 'cause you're beautiful, that doesn't mean that you can treat people like they don't matter.
* WhyCantIHateYou: Exemplified perfectly in the poem.
* WildTeenParty: [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed In which Kat gets drunk, dances on a table, and throws up in the park.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Kat runs out on Patrick a total of three times over the course of the movie: once after the drunk AlmostKiss (which Patrick [[AboveTheInfluence didn't go for]]), once after he accidentally pulled a cigarette, and (of course) at the prom after the truth comes out.
* WorldOfSnark: [[StepfordSnarker Kat]], [[LittleMissSnarker Bianca]], [[SarcasticDevotee Michael]], to name only a few, and plenty of SnarkToSnarkCombat, [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry especially between the Stratfords]]
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Parodied.
--> '''Michael''': ''(in character)'' The shit hath hitteth the fan... eth.
!!The series contains examples of:
* CassandraTruth: Bianca tries to explain to people that she didn't have sex with her teacher but no one listened and he was arrested (although he was having sex with another girl)
* TheCastShowoff: The talent show episode may have been created so [[CampRock Meaghan Martin]] could sing.
* TheCheerleader: Bianca, [[AlphaBitch Chastity]], [[BrainlessBeauty Dawn]] etc.
* CliffHanger: The season one finale, which became the series finale when the show wasn't renewed. [[OverProtectiveDad Walter]] walked in on Kat and Patrick right after they finished having sex. Bianca and Dawn quit the cheerleading squad in protest over their Chastity being unfairly kicked off, only to find out that Chastity is transferring schools and they didn't have to quit. Joey had become a contestant on a reality show and Bianca tunes in just in time to see him kissing another one of the contestants. [[WordOfGod The creator]] of the show was nice enough to tell fans [[http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/07/10-things-i-hate-about-you-season-two/ how things would have developed if the series had continued]] Basically, [[spoiler: Kat and Patrick's relationship would grow closer, though they'd eventually clash about college.(Kat wants to go and wants Patrick to go, Patrick doesn't think college is his thing.) We'd meet Patrick's mom and stepdad, and Walter would become a sort of father figure to Patrick. Kat's other possible love interest, Blank, would be around, but it wasn't quite going to turn into a full-fledged love triangle. Joey would get kicked off the reality show, causing him to lose a bit of his spark. His and Bianca's problems(from his cheating and bit of a personality change) would lead to Bianca confiding in Cameron, which would lead to a Bianca/Joey/Cameron love triangle. Chastity was going to be gone for good, since the actress quit the show, and Dawn would be given a bigger role to compensate]].
* DarkhorseVictory: Joey wins the talent show rather than any of the main characters
* DumbBlonde: Joey, who also represents DumbIsGood
** Though Bianca isn't as smart as Kat, she is not dumb as stated by her teacher being dragged away by cops
*** "Was this because I gave you an A-?"
* HeyItsThatGuy: Walter Stratford from the film plays Walter Stratford in the series.
** Kat's car in the series was Cameron's in the movie.
* HideYourGays: Mandella is hinted at being a lesbian and appears sporadically, until it's confirmed and she disappears. [[spoiler: Michael]] disappears for several episodes only to return to come out.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: It's yet another show that names episodes after songs, [[ShoutOut I Want You To Want Me]] was episode two.
* {{Irony}}: Walter constantly gets on Bianca for the slightest things when in reality she hasn't done anything nearly as bad as Kat did.
* MistakenForGay: Bianca thinks this of Cameron when Michael [[spoiler:who really is gay]] gives him a makeover
* NoAntagonist: Bianca and Joey are both much nicer than their movie counterparts, Chastity is sort of a LovableAlphaBitch, even Blank is actually a pretty nice guy. The closest thing would be Walter but he's just trying to look out for his daughters
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Bianca on several occasions uses the term slore which is a portmanteau of slut and whore
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bianca is actually quite good at delivering them and has on more than one occasion called Chastity out.
** She also receives a brutal one from Cameron. It's not exactly true as it is his false perception of her.
* SuddenSchoolUniform
* TalentShow: In the episode 'The Winner Takes All'.
* ThirdActMisunderstanding
* WhatTheHellHero: After Cameron hears Bianca's date wants to have sex with her he goes out of his way to sabotage the date rather than telling her. She hates him briefly when she finds out
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Patrick, who is supposed to be 17, was played by a 21 year old and looked like it, mainly due to his muscular build, very deep voice, mature facial features, and the way he dressed. Walter even pointed this out in one episode, calling him out to Kat as 'your friend with the disturbingly deep voice who looks much older than 17.'
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