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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'', when Twilight tells Fluttershy that she's going to run for Princess of the Fall Formal in order to prevent Sunset Shimmer from getting her crown, Fluttershy tells her that she needs to convince everyone in the school to vote for her and she lists off the cliques of the school: the athletes, the fashionistas, the dramas, the eco-kids, the techies, and the rockers.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/StretchArmstrongAndTheFlexFighters'', new student Ricardo [[GenreSavvy immediately realizes that Jake is going to give him one of these]], and tells him that it's unnecessary as [[ReallyMovesAround he's been to several different high schools before]] and knows each group by heart -- the bullying jocks, the cheerleaders who hang around said jocks, the nerds, the theater dorks, etc. Jake then reveals that things are different at the Academy of Future Leadership -- namely, the ''nerds'' bully and make fun of the ''jocks'', while the cheerleaders go for the ''theater dorks''.

->''"Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because you got everybody there. You got your [[NaiveNewcomer Freshmen]], [[MilitarySchool ROTC Guys]], [[RichBitch Preps]], [[JerkJock JV Jocks]], [[AsianAndNerdy Asian Nerds]], [[AsianAirhead Cool Asians]], Varsity Jocks, [[SassyBlackWoman Unfriendly Black Hotties]], [[BigEater Girls Who Eat Their Feelings]], [[WeightWoe Girls Who Don't Eat Anything]], Desperate Wannabes, [[{{Delinquents}} Burnouts]], [[Film/AmericanPie Sexually Active]] {{Band Geek}}s, [[CoolLoser the Greatest People You Will Ever Meet]], and the Worst. Beware of [[GirlPosse The Plastics]]."''

-->-- '''Janis''', ''Film/MeanGirls''

->''"Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because you got everybody there. You got your [[NaiveNewcomer Freshmen]], [[MilitaryAcademy ROTC Guys]], [[RichBitch Preps]], [[JerkJock JV Jocks]], [[AsianAndNerdy Asian Nerds]], [[AsianAirhead Cool Asians]], Varsity Jocks, [[SassyBlackWoman Unfriendly Black Hotties]], [[BigEater Girls Who Eat Their Feelings]], [[WeightWoe Girls Who Don't Eat Anything]], Desperate Wannabes, [[{{Delinquents}} Burnouts]], [[Film/AmericanPie Sexually Active]] {{Band Geek}}s, [[CoolLoser the Greatest People You Will Ever Meet]], and the Worst. Beware of [[GirlPosse The Plastics]]."''

->''"Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because you got everybody there. You got your Freshmen, ROTC Guys, Preps, JV Jocks, Asian Nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity Jocks, Unfriendly Black Hotties, Girls Who Eat Their Feelings, Girls Who Don't Eat Anything, Desperate Wannabes, Burnouts, Sexually Active Band Geeks, The Greatest People You Will Ever Meet, and the Worst. Beware of The Plastics."''

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Janis points out the high school's social groups to new girl Cady in the cafeteria. Also the page quote at the top.

If half of all stories are "a stranger comes to town," then someone has to show that stranger around town. Said NaiveNewcomer is likely to get a Clique Tour. Someone points out the area's cliques and groups -- which are usually {{Stereotype}}s or other familiar archetypes -- to the newcomer and explains the PopularityFoodChain. Sometimes, there will be one clique/group that is humorously out of place or otherwise emphasized; in the case of the latter, this marks them as important. The tour may be paired with stereotypical activities or otherwise quick {{Establishing Character Moment}}s for the entire clique, such as jocks introduced tossing footballs and [[JerkJock shoving nerds into lockers]], the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse verbally bullying someone, or {{nerd}}s working [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork on homework]]. One variation is to excise the newcomer entirely and have the society exposition done via AsYouKnow dialogue or as narration to the audience. In an AbsurdlyDividedSchool situation, this tour can serve to emphasize the division.

The Clique Tour is a quick way to introduce the societal dynamics of a new location to both the newbie and the audience. This can take place in any location, such as schools (in this case, the work is usually a teen comedy/drama, and this trope is used to acclimate the AudienceSurrogate, the NewTransferStudent, or the ForeignExchangeStudent), new towns/cities, or jails.

If half of all stories are "a stranger comes to town," then someone has to show that stranger around town. Said NaiveNewcomer is likely to get a Clique Tour. Someone points out the area's cliques and groups -- which are usually {{Stereotype}}s or other familiar archetypes -- to the newcomer and explains the PopularityFoodChain. Sometimes, there will be one clique/group that is humorously out of place or otherwise emphasized; in the case of the latter, this marks them as important. The tour may be paired with stereotypical activities or otherwise quick {{Establishing Character Moment}}s for the entire clique, such as jocks introduced tossing footballs and [[JerkJock shoving nerds into lockers]], the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse verbally bullying someone, or {{nerd}}s working [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork on homework]]. One variation is to excise the newcomer entirely and have the society exposition done via AsYouKnow dialogue or as narration to the audience.

!!Examples

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls2013'', when Twilight tells Fluttershy that she's going to run for Princess of the Fall Formal in order to prevent Sunset Shimmer from getting her crown, Fluttershy tells her that she needs to convince everyone in the school to vote for her and she lists off the cliques of the school: the athletes, the fashionistas, the dramas, the eco-kids, the techies, and the rockers.

[[folder:WesternAnimation]]

* Parodied in the opening of ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'' when the freshman orientation guide tells the students that there are no cliques or exclusive groups at the school, then immediately separates his tour group by stereotypes and tells them that those people will be their only friends for the next 4 years.

* In the opening sequence of ''Film/EasyA'', as Olive begins narrating her story, the camera takes a one-shot of various cliques in her school, culminating in her getting shoved out of the way by a nameless AlphaBitch and having her stuff dropped, papers flying away and all.

* Gentaro naturally gets one in [[ ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' when he tries to sit at the cheerleader table. Being an AllLovingHero, he takes this as a challenge to make friends with ''every single clique.'' [[spoiler: And he ''does.'']]

* Subverted in ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'' when Schmidt and Jenko are surveying the high school they're infiltrating. It should be noted that the duo are nearly a decade removed from high school and are unfamiliar with the drastically different social climate of high schools in the early-[=2010s=].

-->"Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads -- they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."
* ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' has Amsterdam Vallon return after a fifteen-year exile to the neighborhood called Little Five Points. His old friend Johnny acquaints him with the factions that control it now, including the Natives that slew Amsterdam's father; the Tonies, a mostly Italian band destined to become TheMafia; and the Gussies, mostly hookers and pimps. While the gangs aren't at each others throats, they are fiercely territorial and viciously vindictive.

* In the opening credits of ''Film/EasyA'', as Olive begins narrating, the camera takes a one-shot of various cliques in her school, culminating in her getting shoved out of the way by an AlphaBitch and having her stuff dropped, papers flying away and all.

* Subverted in ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'' when Schmidt and Jenko are surveying the high school they're infiltrating. It should be noted that the duo are nearly a decade removed from high school and are unfamiliar with the drastically different social climate in today's high schools.
-->'''Jenko:''' Those are jocks, those are nerds...\\

''[then they pass by a clique of alternative kids]''\\

* A list of cliques is recited by the secretary Grace in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' to demonstrate how universally loved Ferris is in his school:

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Janis points out the high school's social groups to new girl Cady in the cafeteria. Also the page quote above.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/StretchArmstrongAndTheFlexFighters'', new student Ricardo [[GenreSavvy immediately realizes that Jake is going to give him one of these]], and tells him that it's unnecessary as [[ReallyMovesAround he's been to several different high schools before]] and knows each group by heart -- the bullying jocks, the cheerleaders who hang around said jocks, the nerds, the theater dorks, etcetera. Jake then reveals that things are different at the Academy of Future Leadership -- namely, the ''nerds'' bully and make fun of the ''jocks'', while the cheerleaders go for the ''theater dorks''.

* A list of cliques is recited by the secretary Grace in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'':

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Janis points out the high school's social groups to new girl Cady in the cafeteria.

If half of all stories are "a stranger comes to town," then someone has to show that stranger around town. Said NaiveNewcomer is likely to get a Clique Tour. Someone points out the area's cliques and groups -- which are usually {{Stereotype}}s or other familiar archetypes -- to the newcomer and explains the PopularityFoodChain. Sometimes, there will be one clique/group that is humorously out of place or otherwise emphasized; in the case of the latter, this marks them as important. The tour may be paired with stereotypical activities or otherwise quick {{Establishing Character Moment}}s for the entire clique, such as jocks introduced tossing footballs and [[JerkJock shoving nerds into lockers]], the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse verbally bullying someone, or {{nerd}}s working [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork on homework]].

The Clique Tour is a quick way to introduce the societal dynamics of a new location to both the newbie and the audience. One variation is to excise the newcomer entirely and have the society exposition done via AsYouKnow dialogue or as narration to the audience.

This can take place in any location, such as schools (in this case, the work is usually a teen comedy/drama, and this trope is used to acclimate the AudienceSurrogate, the NewTransferStudent, or the ForeignExchangeStudent), new towns/cities, or jails.

* A list of cliques is recited by the secretary Grace in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': "Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads -- they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."

* ''Film/LemonadeMouth'': A variation occurs when Stella, on her first day of class, is given a tour of all the clubs operating in the school's underground- such as the drama club, the newspaper, and the lone member of the chess club.

* A list of cliques is recited by the secretary Grace in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'': "Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."

* In the opening credits of ''Film/EasyA'', s Olive begins narrating, the camera takes a one-shot of various cliques in her school, culminating in her getting shoved out of the way by an AlphaBitch archetype and having her stuff dropped, papers flying away and all.

* Subverted in ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'' when Schmidt and Jenko are surveying the high school they're infiltrating. %%Note: markup doesn't work in TLP, will fix this after launch

'''Schmidt:''' What the fuck are those things?

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', in the mission "This is Your School", Gary shows Jimmy the four cliques of Bullworth Academy at the cafeteria: [[MadScientist the Nerds]], [[AristocratsAreEvil the Preppies]], [[GreaserDelinquents the Greasers]] and [[JerkJock the Jocks]].

In half of all stories are "a stranger comes to town," then someone has to show that stranger around town. Said NaiveNewcomer is likely to get a Clique Tour. Someone points out the area's cliques and groups -- which are usually {{Stereotype}}s or other familiar archetypes -- to the newcomer and explains the PopularityFoodChain. Sometimes, there will be one clique/group that is humorously out of place or otherwise emphasized; in the case of the latter, this marks them as important. The tour may be paired with stereotypical activities or otherwise quick {{Establishing Character Moment}}s for the entire clique, such as jocks introduced tossing footballs and [[JerkJock shoving nerds into lockers]], the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse verbally bullying someone, or {{nerd}}s working [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork on homework]].

If half of all stories are "a stranger comes to town," then someone has to show that stranger around town. Said NaiveNewcomer is likely to get a Clique Tour. Someone points out the area's cliques and groups -- which are usually {{Stereotype}}s or other familiar archetypes -- to the newcomer and explains the PopularityFoodChain. Sometimes, there will be one clique/group that is humorously out of place or otherwise emphasized; in the case of the latter, this marks them as important. The tour may be paired with stereotypical activities or otherwise quick {{Establishing Character Moment}}s for the entire clique, such as jocks introduced tossing footballs and [[JerkJock shoving nerds into lockers]], the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse verbally bullying someone, or {{nerd}}s working [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork on homework]].

This list of examples has been alphabetized.

[[folder: Comic Books]]

[[folder: Film - Animated]]

[[folder: Film - Live-Action]]

--> '''Jenko''': Those are jocks, those are nerds...
-->[they pass by a clique of {{hipster}}s]
-->'''Jenko''': I don't know what those are...
-->'''Schmidt''': What the fuck are those things?

-->'''Meredith:''' You have the goths, the skaters, the disco dorks, the beat boy blingers, the gangstas, the wanna-be gangstas,the pretzel people who are into yoga, very different from the greenies who hate anything not made of plants. Then you have the nerds, the kids who like to dress like dinosaurs, and the football jocks.

[[folder: Literature]]
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the eleven-year old Pteppic arrives at the Assassins' Guild School. After a shaky start when he comes to the attention of his housemaster for all the wrong reasons, he is befriended by the savvier Chidder, who takes a shine to him and tells him what to loook out for and who to avoid.

[[folder: Live-Action TV]]

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If half of all stories are "a stranger comes to town," then someone has to show that stranger around town. Said NaiveNewcomer is likely to get a Clique Tour. Someone points out the area's cliques and groups -- which are usually {{Stereotype}}s or other familiar archetypes -- to the newcomer and explains the PopularityFoodChain. Sometimes, there will be one clique/group that is humorously out of place or otherwise emphasized; in the case of the latter, this marks them as important. The Clique Tour is a quick way to introduce the societal dynamics of a new location to both the newbie and the audience. One variation is to excise the newcomer entirely and have the society exposition done via AsYouKnow dialogue or as narration to the audience.