Valley Girl

Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a valley girl
And there is no cure

— Frank Zappa, "Valley Girl"

Oh my God! I'm, like, so totally glad to see you!

Except you. Put some pants on, already! Gross!

Like, anyway, I'm what some of you, like, call a "Stalk Parody Character", and yes, there are some totally creepy guys who—

Oh, "Stock Parody Character"! I am SOOOOOO completely embarrassed! I gotta watch out for homophobes. Wait, that's, like, something else.

So if you want to, like, put someone like me in a story, you need these four totally important traits. Leave one out, and you just have some cheap knockoff of me, and that would just be, like, so tacky. Oh my God.

1. The way I talk is, like, way important. Aside from my fabulous clothes, it's the easiest way to tell it's my hot self. You can do, like, degrees of it, but if I don't hear a hint of it, you're not truly from The Valley. Go, like, screw yourself, impostor!
2. I am so fashion-conscious, everybody. See what I'm wearing? Does any of it, like, clash? I don't think so! Unlike those skanky bitches on Sex and the City, I don't throw on just anything I feel like. A dress isn't like a car. You can't just, like, turn the key and drive off. It's like the space shuttle, or something. Everything has to be, you know, totally perfect before takeoff.
3. Some people say I'm dumb, and I say those people are fat. But I just, like, don't have room in my head for too much. I mean, The American Revolution was what, like, a hundred years ago? All the available Revlon lipstick colors are around right now. I think we all know which is more important.
4. ...right? Yeah, 4. Being rich, is like, totally awesome, but you just need a good credit card. And if there isn't a mall or shopping district to hang out, or something, there should be some good stores around to shop in. If there isn't either, you totally have my sympathies. Heck, give my friends and me a call, and we'll help you move. I am so, like, dead serious. Towns like that are for, like, no one.

Okay, even though I'm best known for being from California, I can be, like, global, or something. The Valley isn't like, just in the Valley. Oh my God, was that like, totally deep or something?

Oh, and I totally know that I'm, like, not a real person in real life, or anything. I'm some kind of stereotype, you know, like parroting teens in The '80s and The '90s, or some junk. Even nowadays, though nobody seriously talks like this anymore, I've become, like, the default "vapid white girl" dialect. And I'm also, like, intertwined with the Dumb Blonde troop now, I mean trope. And I don't care what what Mitzy Connor said, this is NOT a dye job! Puhleez!

Anyway, compare Totally Radical, The Ditz, Surfer Dude (who's, like, totally hot, couldn't you just die?), Brainless Beauty, Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense, Socialite, and some junk.

Also, totally not related to that Uncanny Valley Girl. She's, like, soooooo weird. For sure!

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Examples, like, totally:

Advertising

• Some advertisements in the UK promoting imported American teen dramas will use Valley Girl-esque voiceovers. It can get very annoying when they're on every ad break.
  "HellooOOOOooo it's your mom!"

Anime & Manga

• When Nelvana dubbed Cardcaptor Sakura and converted it into Cardcaptors, they had Madison Tailor (Tomoyo Daidouji) talk like one.
• In the English dub of Digimon Adventure, Mimi's characterization is exaggerated to where she often comes across as vain and vapid, though she still has her moments of Character Development that she had in the original.
• In the English dub of D.N.Angel, Mio Hio was given a Valley Girl accent as a substitute for the character's Gratuitous English dialogue in the Japanese.
• Fairy Tail: At some point, after finding out she just lost her father and visitng his grave, Lucy goes for a walk with Natsu and Happy. As fate would have it, two Valley Girls appear soon after and bitch about how they hate their stupid, bossy, smelling fathers — right in front of Lucy, who is so sad that she is not even able to cry. Natsu does not take it well.
• To translate her idiosyncratic way of speaking, Tsuruya-san in the Haruhi Suzumiya dub is given this type of accent.
• A couple of minor duelists in the English translation of Hayate X Blade use Valley Girl speak.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers: Gender-Inverted Trope. Poland has a Nagoya highschooler dialect in the original Japanese strips, and this was translated into valley girl–speak in most of the English scanlations. It's questionable if this was an accurate translation, since the dialect is seen as very rude and tomboyish when a girl speaks it, but it happened to fit his character perfectly as he's an effeminate, blond airhead.
• The Viz Media translation of Hot Gimmick turns Hatsumi (and every other female character) into a Valley Girl, even though she is a quiet, unconfident and rather poor Japanese teenager; many fans find this annoying as middle-aged conservative Japanese housewives saying, "Oh my God, Asuza is, like, such a hottie," is very, very jarring.
• K: Lost Small World: Aya Oogai's speech is usually translated like this.
• Tokyopop's translation of the Magic Knight Rayearth manga had Caldina (or Gardina, as Tokyopop put it) talk like one in an attempt to tranaslate her Osaka accent for English speakers.
• My Hero Academia has Camie Utsushimi from Shiketsu High, always integrating trendy slang in her dialogue.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Misty's sisters talk like this in the English dub as a contrast to Misty's no-nonsense demeanor.
  • In Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns, Domino talked this way at first, but it turned out to be an act.
  • The episode "Battle Aboard the St. Anne" has Jessie and James pretend to be teenage Valley Girls. In the Japanese version, they were Gyaru Girls.
• The North American DiC dub of Sailor Moon used valley girl slang for the first two seasons. "I'm outie!" and "Whatevah!" were frequently uttered, to the chagrin of the viewers. Under Cloverway, the next two seasons switched to gangsta...
• Touken Ranbu: Gender-Inverted Trope; Kashuu Kiyomitsu is very into maintaining his appearance, and his body language and tone come off this way. He is neither dumb nor rich, but the overall effect is still there.
• While Princess Rose acts more like actual royalty in the original version of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, she is portrayed as this trope in the English dub.
• The English dub of Yurikuma Arashi has Chouko Oki speak like one, with all the usual Verbal Tics in place; every two or so words out of her mouth are punctuated with "like", "way", or, "totally". Of course, she also has the accent to boot.

Comedy

• Gabriel Iglesias uses this as his default white girl voice.
• Pauly Shore made a name for himself playing a male version of this, dubbed "The Weasle", who spoke almost entirely in broad San Fernando Valley slang and an exaggerated Surfer Dude voice, with a habit of pausing in-between words for emphasis (such as "B-uh-DY!" or "FUH-ker!").

Comic Books

• House of M featured a story involving the New X-Men as being part of a private academy. While many characters had similar personalities as their main universe selves, Sooraya Qadir is a radical departure as she goes from a modest, fundamentalist Muslim to a quintessential Valley Girl that rivals Tabitha "Boom Boom" Smith in vapidness. This is on account of being friends with actual Valley Girl (from L.A. no less) Jubilee in that reality. Their fellow students know them as "the Shallow Twins" and live in dread at their passing. (Still, they're just as willing to get involved in the story's adventure as everyone else.)
• Comet Queen from Legion of Super-Heroes is a 31st Century version of a Valley Girl that speaks her own brand of slang, much to annoyance of nearly everyone she's around because half the time, they have no idea what she's talking about.
• Toola from Pocket God acts like one, but she's also very motherly.
• X-Men: Kitty Pryde is book smart, but has been portrayed as ditzy and slightly shallow at times. This was exaggerated almost beyond recognition in the first episodes of X-Men: Evolution.

Fan Works

• In K-On! The Abridged Series, Mugi talks like one, like, yar.
• Exaggerated with Misty's sisters in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines. There's also Paul's Pokédex, who starts to talk like one after Ash's notices its personality matrix is too underdeveloped, and now he can't stand it.
• Ultra Fast Pony: Rainbow Dash is, like, totally weird. She has the talk down, but she's totally into sports, and instead of money, she has a hilariously tragic backstory. Series creator Wacarb has said he originally planned to make Dash an absolutely straight example of a Valley Girl, but he improvised all her lines so she quickly evolved into a distinct, but Valley-influenced, brand of idiocy.

Films — Animation

• The mermaids in Barbie: Mariposa are obsessed with fashion and completely ignore Mariposa's attempts to ask them about the antidote to save Queen Marabella. When the protagonist's companions Rayna and Rayla offer to bargain with them by giving them rare combs, they're much more interested.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: Sonata Dusk has the clothes, the dumbness, and the way of talking of one.
• In Turning Red, Stacy Frick tends to speak this way given her use of "OMG" twice. She seems very fashion-conscious and wealthy.^note She immediately buys a panda headband and tail from Mei and her friends. She is implied to be not that smart since Mei's friends believe they can convince her that she imagined seeing Mei in panda form twice.

Films — Live-Action

• Although Halloween is set in Illinois, Lynda is famed for saying "like" and "totally" at the end of every other sentence.
• A few minor characters in In a World…; Lake Bell recruits them for her vocal training service to teach them to sound like "women" and not "sexy babies".
• Elle and her two girlfriends in Legally Blonde. Elle is an interesting variant: she has a pretty strong intellect, it's just that she likes the lifestyle and (at first) lacks ambition.
• Mean Girls: The Plastics are a vain Girl Posse of Alpha Bitches who typically aren't the brightest bulbs in the box.
• Night of the Comet: Samantha's only concern throughout The End of the World as We Know It is whether or not she'll get laid.
• The Star Wars fan-film Pink Five, a hilarious look at what happens when you send a Valley Girl to attack a Death Star. Two more films were made with the same character, set in each of the sequels.
• Romy of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a born-again member of this group, since she walks the walk, talks the talk, but isn't rich and is actually from Arizona. Michelle does the same things, but doesn't sound so, like, totally Valley, dihoood.

Literature

• Despite being set in London, the Bridget Jones series had a twenty-something assistant named Patchouli who behaves in a similar manner, yet subverts the trope by being very respectful (esp. to Bridget) and more competent than their incompetent and drug-addicted Bad Boss Richard Finch.
• In Bubble World, every girl in Agalinas is like this, partially due to memory erasure, partially due to an extreme focus on shopping, hair, and makeup, and partially due to the education system being tailored to their wants, not needs.
• Golem¹⁰⁰ by Alfred Bester opens with a group of eight futuristic versions, attempting to summon the Devil out of boredom.
• A Mage's Power: Parodied by Mia when Tiza calls her a "smiling pink haired ditz". She affects the accent while threatening to give Tiza a mission that she knows Tiza will hate. Tiza immediately recants.
• In Murderess, Bridget and her posse are the English equivalent, Essex girls.
• Paladin of Shadows: In A Deeper Blue, Katya takes up this sort of persona as a disguise.

Live-Action TV

• The original All That had a recurring sketch called "Whateverrr!" which was a talk show hosted by two Valley Girls, played by Amanda Bynes and Christy Knowings.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Cordelia was presented as this initially, but Hidden Depths were revealed pretty quickly, and she was revealed to be quite smart.
  • In Season 2, Buffy's appearance was tweaked to properly resemble a Valley Girl — bleached blonde hair, fashionable clothes, a lot of bubblegum-coloured nails, etc. This was to make the dissonance between her appearance, and the fact that she was a fearsome Action Girl even more pronounced. A flashback to her life before she was a Slayer shows that she fit the Valley Girl trope through and through.
• For a British chick, Catherine Tate can be, like, totally Val!
• Amy and Allison, Those Two Girls from Degrassi Junior High share many of the stereotypical Valley Girl attributes, despite hailing from Toronto and not California.
• Dharma & Greg: Dharma acts like this when shopping for a dress to wear on a date to a prom with a high school kid.
  Shop owner: What's the dress for?
  Dharma: For, like, my body.
• Hilary Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; even though she has all the mannerisms down, she's actually from Bel-Air and in one episode describes hell as being "like, the Valley".
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess portrayed the Love Goddess, Aphrodite as a Valley Girl played by Alexandra Tydings.
• Parodied in "deleted scenes" from House where actresses Lisa Edelstein and Jennifer Morrison perform some of their scenes together while speaking and acting like Valley Girls.
  Cuddy: You just go and you, like, write something. And then, like, you end up in this really fancy office with like a huge desk and fancy shoes and, like, people will call you and they'll be like, "Omg, we like totally wanna work with Eric Foreman", and you'll be like "I have so many totally mean things to say to you."
  Cameron: I get, like, fancy shoes?
  Cuddy: Yeah, that's the best part.
• Li'l Horrors: Despite hailing from ancient Egypt, Mummy girl Cleo Patra is a mixture of New Age Granola Girl and this, and uses a lot of of Valley Girl filler in her speech.
• Orphan Black: Krystal Goderitch, one of the Project Leda clones — loves pink, blonde hair, hot guys on her locker, she has it all… except there are hints dropped all throughout her introductory episode in Season 3 that show she's a bit wiser than you'd expect.
• Power Rangers:
  • Kimberly starts off Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Season 1) as a stereotypical Valley Girl, but matures throughout the series.
  • Power Rangers Ninja Storm (Season 9) has Kapri and Marah; played with in that they had been pretending to be ditzy when they had made their plans to defeat the Power Rangers once and for all, and later double cross Lothor, but they still retain their Valley Girl traits throughout, e.g. commenting on their new looks.
• The Psych episode "Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" features an entire sorority of Valley Girls. Juliet, going undercover as a member of their national organization, has to embrace their mentality to fit in.
• In the Pushing Daisies episode "Robbing Hood", Elise, the gold-digging wife of the Victim of the Week, talks like a Valley Girl. ("Oh, my God! You think I totally did it!")
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch:
  • Morgan is a little more capable than most examples but she's vain, fashion-obsessed and materialistic. Flanderization in Season 7 turned her into a straight example.
  • Sabrina herself becomes one when her Evil Twin infects her with an "airhead virus". She and Morgan get on very well when it happens.
  • Used as a one-off joke in an episode where Sabrina tries to conjure up a princess. She gets a Valley Girl on her phone, begging Daddy not to cut her off.
• Saved by the Bell:
  • Lisa straddles the line; she's a fashion-obsessed rich girl who frequently spends "Daddy's money", occasionally dropping "like" and "totally", but she's a little smarter than most traditional instances — and the fashion obsession is partly because she wants to work in the industry.
  • Minor character Ginger plays the trope straight, as a Dumb Blonde who frequently pops up asking characters if there's lipstick on her teeth.
• Schitt's Creek: Alexis Rose starts the series off as a vain, bratty, and immature Lovable Alpha Bitch who tends to be Innocently Insensitive, and often slips into a Valley Girl-esque voice.
• The short-lived '80s show Square Pegs ('82-'83), a teen sitcom set in the fictional Weemawee High School, features several Valley Girl characters, including popular student Jennifer DiNuccio (Tracy Nelson), the quintessential buxom Valley Girl.
• In the episode "Boston Tea Party" from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Zack dreams that he and all his friends were the ones that participated in the titular event. In this dream, the cast is talking about the skyrocketing taxes, only for Maddie to exclaim that she may not afford the down payment on her used horse. Then she gives us this tidbit:
  Maddie: And I'm totally getting my license, like, this year!
  (Moseby looks sceptical)
  Esteban: She's a Valley Forge Girl.
  Moseby: Ah.
• While she's from Wisconsin, Jackie Burkhart from That '70s Show otherwise has elements of this, being a rich, shallow, ditzy, and vain girl who grows into a Lovable Alpha Bitch after some Character Development.
• During one "Hollywood Director Game" on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Colin demanded that his "actors" portray the scene again as "clueless teenage girls" — Valley Girl was the first thing on their minds, except Wayne Brady went with a Sassy Black Girl portrayal instead.
• The X-Files: "Syzygy" shows the terrible consequences of two Valley Girls gaining cosmic powers.
• X-Play's '80s flashback episode had Morgan Webb act like one of these.

Music

• Sure, I'll like, totally tell you The Chainsmokers song about us called "#Selfie", but first, lemmie take a selfie.
• Frank Zappa's Black Sheep Hit "Valley Girl" from Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch like, totally counts, for being like, totally the Ur-Example, and the Trope Codifier fer shure! Features guest vocals from Zappa's daughter Moon Unit, who generally doesn't talk like this. Frank would later disown the song when its success made him out to be a novelty act.
• Julie Brown:
  • Her character from her music video "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun", like, talks like this.
  • The music video for "Pretty Girls" by Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea is inspired by the film Earth Girls Are Easy, which she directed and produced.
• Kesha's schtick is basically Valley Girl mannerisms and quirks plus Auto-Tune. Her first single, "Tik Tok", is a prime example. She's made it clear, though, that it's definitely an act.
• "Laura Pérez, la sin par de Caurimare" by Venezuelan comedy group Medioevo, shows a portrait of a local specimen circa 1982. The song is from the perspective of the titular Laura, trying to fend off the accusations of being a "sifrina" (the local word for this trope, albeit with insulting connotations) while demonstrating every and each one of the associated stereotypes.
• "Stupid Girls" by P!nk is about these. She even appears briefly (and convincingly) as one in the Music Video for the song.
• "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot famously opens with two (presumably Caucasian) mall brats talking about another girl's big butt.
  "Oh my God, Becky, look at her butt. It is like, so big."
• Parodied in William Shatner's album Has Been.
  My kids say, "He said to me, and I'm like and he's like and she's like"
  "It's all, he's all, she's all"
  I can't get behind that kind of, like, English

Pinball

• Heather, the Dumb Blonde in America's Most Haunted:
  "The elevator's stuck! There's, like, totally a ghost in here!"
• The Damsel in Distress of Strange Science thinks in Val-speak.
  Help! Totally.

Podcasts

• Welcome to Night Vale gives us Cecil, the community radio host, narrator and (for all intents and purposes) main character. Very little is given about his physical appearance and economic status, and he is presented as quite intelligent and philosophical. This trope only comes across in his speech, when he sometimes drops into a Valley Girl cadence when reciting quotes from certain people or going on one of his "personal asides".

Pro Wrestling

• Nikki of the Bella Twins is sometimes presented as this. She's a California native and a lover of high fashion — not to mention having the stereotypical Valley Girl voice. On Total Divas, she's often played up as The Ditz to her Granola Girl of a sister.
• California Doll from GLOW was a combination of this and the Surfer Dude.
• LayCool began as a generic Alpha Bitch tandem, but Characterization Marches On saw them become exaggerated Valley Girls — obsessed with make-up, fashion, fame and being "flawless".
• Malibu McKenzie of Wrestlicious was advertised as this, but appeared as a Hospital Hottie when she was actually on the show for some reason.

Puppet Shows

• Janice, the one girl from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem on The Muppet Show is an early example. While she isn't seen shopping a lot, she looks fashionable for the period, and she definitely has the diction down.

Roleplay

• Like, Bizarro Sister from like, Mall Fight, like, ya know?

Tabletop Games

• While the Valley Elf in Dungeons & Dragons is just a elven subrace that lives in the Valley of the Mage, an April Fools issue of Dragon described them like this and included a Parody of the Frank Zappa song.

Video Games

• In Animal Crossing, peppy villagers are often described as this. Like, the way they talk in New Horizons really shows it.
• In BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Nu-13, like, talked like a hybrid of this and a pirate in Ragna's gag reel.
• City of Villains has Becky the Tarantula Mistress, who doesn't let being a hideously-mutated psychic trapped in a spider-like exoskeleton armour detract from her giddy enthusiasm upon meeting the player character.
• In Final Fantasy VII, Yuffie is localised as talking like this ("Oh, wow, I'm totally clueless."). Toned down enormously in the sequels and prequels, perhaps mercifully.
• Gaia Online: Sasha; for some reason, her Valley Girl speech never shows in the comics, just her shop dialogue.
• Tracy De Santa from Grand Theft Auto V.
  Tracy: Oh my God, you're such a fucking dictator!
• The female patrons of the Kai Tek Resort in Jazzpunk all talk like this.
• Yuudachi from KanColle has the famous Verbal Tic "poi", which is roughly translated as "like" in English. Hence, her speech pattern is often translated as a Valley Girl in English.
• In the second installment of The Lost Vikings, the sorceress met by the heroes in the early levels embodies this trope. Especially her voice acting.
• Priel from Luminous Arc is portrayed like this.
• There was, like, that quarian girl from Mass Effect 2 whose oblivious conversation with a lovestruck turian on Illium was one of the funniest moments of the game. She also echoed many of the comments made by fans who desired Wrench Wench Tali from the first game as a love interest. Uh, excuse me, human, private conver-say-shee-yun?! Ugh!
• The, like, red-headed elf-girl in Might and Magic VII talked like this. Like, totally, all the time!
• Cali and other Valley Mermaids from Moshi Monsters. It's in the species name!
• Persona:
  • Kamoshida's cognition of Ann Takamaki in Persona 5 acts like this while also being slavishly devoted to him, much to the real Ann's horror.
• Cipher Admin Lovrina from Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness shows most of the characteristics of a typical Valley Girl, but so not the lack of intelligence; she is so the Evil Genius, and, in fact, so singlehandedly developed a way to make Lugia impossible to purify (through standard methods, at least)!
• MIO from Rogue Galaxy; the dialect is part of the reason many consider her The Scrappy.
• In the English version of Shadowverse, a few female followers display Valley Girl-like mannerisms in their flavor text and voiced dialogue. Aldis, Trendsetting Seraph and Marian the Mummy are two of the most obvious examples.
• A female character in a comic strip advertisement for Solar Fox for the Atari 2600 talks and acts like this. She even does it in the TV commercial.
• The fauns in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! level "Fracture Hills". Unusually, Elora is a faun as well but she doesn't speak like this.
• Ibuki from Street Fighter was given Valley Girl-like traits going into IV to make her more feminine. In her win quotes, words such as "like" and "totally" are fairly common.
• While Alisa Bosconovitch of Tekken doesn't normally talk like this, she does temporarily start talking like this during Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign mode, after Lee tries to get her to be less formal.
  Alisa: Like, oh my god! We're going to have, like, so much fun tracking down this Jin dude!
  Lee: Good heavens, stop! I apologize. Please, never speak like that again. Where in the world did you learn that, anyway?
• Bratty and Catty from Undertale. "We're, like... SO hyped for the destruction of humanity!"
• Cherry from Valkyria Chronicles. "So, like, dodging's no fair, okay?"
• A licensed Nintendo Wii game based on Wipeout features a Valley Girl (aptly named Valley Girl) as one of the six lightweight characters the play can choose from.
  Jill: Meet Valley Girl, who, like, would rather be shopping.
• It's kinda weird, considering she's, like, supposed to be a Japanese gone-goo-row girl, but Musume Ronshaku in Yandere Simulator totally fits the mold. She even talks like a basic bitch, y'know? "OMG, you are like the best!" "Oh, my gawwwd." "WhatEVER."
• In heavy contrast with her English (or Welsh)-accented party members, Sena from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has a very strong California-style accent with a Valley Girl way of speaking, emphasized by the fact that she is voiced by an American in the English dub, while other characters with American Accents are not, and have very understated accents regardless.

Visual Novels

• Junko Enoshima from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc was localized into one of these in the English dub, as she's a gyaru. Or, at least, her sister Mukuro was pretending to be one. The real Junko is a batshit insane sadist who feeds off despair, and is so mad with boredom that she changes her personality on a whim. Her reappearance in the Despair Arc of Danganronpa 3 keeps this, to memetastic levels.
  Junko: Kamukura, Kamukura, YASS, QUEEN!!
• Ini Miney in the second Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game. Except that it's an act adopted in imitation of the real Ini Miney. The one you meet is actually her sister.

Web Animation

• The Most Epic Story Ever Told in All of Human History: Little Miss Epic talks like this.
• Averted by Flamegirl from TOME, whose player is from Burbank, which is like, totally in the Valley; but she doesn't act like a Val at all.

Web Comics

• By the Tail: Ivory Monroe of Melody's is most definitely this. She talks like a valley girl, down to her rather frequent use of the word "like", and isn't really all that bright.
• The GM from Darths & Droids seems to play (here as NPC) Mon Mothma, out of all the Star Wars characters, this way.
• Played for Laughs in Drowtales with the humorously-named Val'erie Val'ley'gurl.
• Eerie Cuties: Blair gets ahold of a gender-bending orb, which he uses to transform people into Valley Girls, his "ideal woman".
• In El Goonish Shive, Diane acts like this in order to get out of trouble. Raven sees through the act, but lets her go anyway and expresses appreciation that neither Grace nor Ellen try that routine on him.
• M9 Girls!: Karla is the typical "Niña Fresa", with her status as The Fashionista and costumer designer of the girls, and having her own convertible.
• Sister America in Scandinavia and the World is portrayed as this, at least initially; more recent strips have mostly dropped this part of her character.
• Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic has a Valley Elf.

Web Original

• Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG: 26. Valley speak has no place in a fantasy setting. Especially if you're the paladin.
• Since the stories center around a high school in the Whateley Universe, it shouldn't be surprising that some of the girls from California sound like this. Scrambler may be the worst, since she is a speedster and tends to talk faster than she thinks.

Web Videos

• There's a lonelygirl15 parody called "valleygirl15". She recaps the series with a Valley Girl voice and liberal quantities of Take Thats and snark.
• Pirates SMP: Shelby has a love for riches and shopping and a distaste for blood and maggots, is a bit of a Selfie Fiend, and makes plans to found the first mall on the Faction Isles because they don't have one. It should be noted that she's intended to be an Expy of Alexis Rose from Schitt's Creek, who also fits the trope via her mannerisms and voice but also has Hidden Depths.
• The Spoony Experiment: Spoony pretends to be one for his review of "Party Mania".

Western Animation

• Ty Lee of Avatar: The Last Airbender has been described as the Fire Nation version of this. Her best friend is a snarky goth.
• Beetlejuice: Claire Brewster auditions for a school play of Romeo and Juliet and throws in "total babe" in her lines, in contrast to Lydia, who delivers her lines straight and sincerely.
• Kelly, Bobby's sister in Bobby's World speaks this way all the time, even using phrases such as "Like, seriously? Get real.".
• The, like, wicked cheerleader Stacy appears in one episode of Captain N: The Game Master and totally fits this trope. For the record, she is actually from California.
• The "Paige and Saige" sections of Crashbox feature two Valley Girl twins who look suspiciously like Barbie dolls.
• Lauchpad's teenage sister Loopy from the DuckTales episode "Top Duck" talks like this, frequently using "like" and "totally" in her sentences.
• Shellsea from Fish Hooks has, like, a complete Valley Girl accent.
• Amy Wong from Futurama is definitely an example of this: wealthy family, loves shopping and even uses a sci-fi-twisted version of the lingo ("guh" and "spluh" are favorites of hers), but it's played with in that she is extremely intelligent despite her seemingly ditzy demeanor, and has a PhD in applied physics.
• There's an episode of Garfield and Friends where Garfield encounters a niece of Jon's who is explicitly referred to as a Valley Girl. Her accent is so bad that Garfield hires a professional linguist to add annotations explaining what she's saying to the audience; as a bonus, said linguist is named Dr. E. Darrell Moonunit, after the Trope Codifier Moon Unit Zappa.
• Tina DeVeer from Get Ace cannot open her mouth without using the word "like" at least once, describes things as "totally random" and constantly brings up her own "hotness".
• Duzer the Gorgon in Gravedale High. Among other things, she constantly says "Get a life" and "Or what?"
• Pacifica Northwest from Gravity Falls starts off like, totally full-on Valley Girl, while also being a Rich Bitch. However, like later on during the show, when she got like, character development or junk, her accent is downplayed.
• Trina Riffin from Grojband talks and behaves like one, albeit a very a very nasty and unpleasant one.
• Kimber from Jem has aspects of this. It's understandable as she's a teen in 80s California.
• KaBlam!: Ditzy June had a slight Valley Girl accent in the very early Season 1 episodes, despite her being a huge tomboy.
• Ophelia from The Life and Times of Juniper Lee would occasionally talk like a Valley Girl despite being a gothic punk girl.
• The Loud House has the two eldest Loud sisters, Lori and Leni. Lori is prone to abusing the word "literally" without end, is a Phoneaholic Teenager, and is thoroughly obsessed with her boyfriend, though it's downplayed as she's the most grounded of the Loud siblings. Leni, meanwhile, similarly abuses the word "like" almost without end, has an undying passion for clothing, and is incredibly ditzy. Hilariously, when Leni is made to imitate Lori, she adopts an incredibly exaggerated Valley Girl accent and visibly crosses her eyes, implying she believes her older sister to fully fit the stereotype.
• Princess Zange from Mighty Magiswords talks like the most stereotypical popular teen, and spends an episode clothes-shopping for herself and her hired bodyguards. She dodges the "dumb" part, though; she's not, like, a total brainiac, but there's times she knows, like, WAY more than she's telling.
• Chloé Bourgeois from Miraculous Ladybug has a Valley Girl accent in the English dub, befitting her Alpha Bitch personality.
• Miss Chatterbox in the U.S. dub of The Mr. Men Show; it's all there in the name.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • The episode "Putting Your Hoof Down" like, featured a couple of mares like this. They even, like, had total '80s Hair. Shoeshine, Sweetie Drops/Bon Bon, and Cherry Berry also have the accent in this episode.
  • Ditto Flitter and Cloudchaser, the Pegasus twins from "Hurricane Fluttershy"; and Lightning Dust from "Wonderbolts Academy": "We totally wiped them out with that tornado."
  • Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. "Waiting for your cutie mark is so last week… You're still totally invited to my cutceañera this weekend".
  • Lyra talks this way in "Slice of Life".
  • Lily Lace, one of the fashion designers from "Honest Apple". At one point, she, like, literally gets, like, so fed up with Applejack's attitude that she, like, literally, like, she can't even... *gag*
• Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks: Gender-Inverted with Mr. Jinks, "Like are you for sure, there."
• Brattina from Pound Puppies (1980s), with her constant use of the term "mummy dearest" and referring to practically everything she doesn't like as "icky".
• Recess has this with The Ashleys. "SCANDALOUS!" They apparently inherit this from their mothers.
• Summer of Rick and Morty is a milder example than most, but not so mild as to keep from getting mocked for it:
  Ship A.I.: My function is "Keep Summer safe," not "Keep Summer being, like, totally stoked about, like, the general vibe, and stuff." …That's you; that's how you talk.
• The Simpsons:
  • The episode, "Summer of 4 ft. 2", has Lisa befriending a group of cool surfer kids on vacation. Besides dressing in hippy/surfer clothes, Lisa uses Valley Girl speech to disguise herself as one of them, instead of a shy nerd… like, you know, whatever.
  • In "Lard of the Dance", the new student, Alex Whitney, uses Valley Girl slang, which is mainly used by teenage girls.
• In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Company Picnic", SpongeBob does a Valley Girl accent in the beginning when playing with the patty figures.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • Shirley the Loon is like, a mondo primo example. If only she had more fashion sense instead of, like, being a hippie new age girl, or some junk. Cha.
    • It should, like, be noted that the voice actress who did Shirley's voice is one Gail Matthius, a cast member from the sixth season of Saturday Night Live who had a recurring character who was a Valley Girl named Vicki (duh!). She also used this character on a syndicated sketch show called LaughTrax. The last anyone's heard of Gail Matthius was during The '90s when she did voicework in cartoons, often as a Valley Girl.
  • Babs also posed as one running the speech class of a fake charm school to outwit Dizzy Devil in one episode. Turns out the Valley Girl equivalent of the "Rain in Spain" verse is "The Walls in the Mall are tewtally tewtally tall." Fer sure.
• Total Drama:
  • The dear sweet Lindsay is very much one. Although she took a lesson in badass when she cussed out Heather in Season 1 just before getting eliminated, she reverted back to her usual self right afterward.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners Katie and Sadie have elements of this, with many of the speaking mannerisms and behavioural traits.
  • Taylor from the spin-off The Ridonculous Race talks in this accent, on top of her Buffy Speak.
• The girls of Totally Spies!, especially Clover, speak fluent Valley speak and the surf culture language.
• In the 4Kids dub of Winx Club, Stella speaks in this manner. It seems out of place at first when viewed with the other two English dubs, but considering she's the Fairy of the Shining Sun, a fashion diva, and a beautiful blonde, it actually makes sense.
• Debbie Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys has this accent to match her bratty personality.
• This is how the X-Men: Evolution version of Shadowcat was for, like, just least the first season. And her voice actress, Maggie Blue O'Hara, totally voice-acted Madison Tailor in Cardcaptors!
  • Amusingly at one point Rogue touches her, and acts like a Valley Girl too. Much to her disgust.
    Rogue: Ew, that was so totally like icksome. Aw, now I'm talking like her?!
  • Ironically, the comics had a perfectly good Valley Girl in the form of Jubilee, who doesn't talk this way when she shows up in the series!

Real Life

General and regional variations

• If you, like, actually think we don't exist in Real Life, you can, like, go to hell, or something. Oh, and, like, watch this video. You can totally see one of us about, like, a minute in.
• The speech patterns associated with Valley Girls, such as using "like" as an interjection or a substitute for "said", have started to become ubiquitous among the younger generations in the United States and Canada, but can even be observed among people from older generations as well.
  • Within Southern California itself, the rising pitch has effectively entered the local accent among young people — even the men are using it.
• For non-American equivalent tropes:
  • The British equivalent is the Essex girl, although it's more insulting as it focuses more on being sexually promiscuous and unintelligent (very much like the Dumb Blonde). It was briefly a Discredited Trope before coming popular again when The Only Way Is Essex started appearing on the telly.
  • The Danish equivalent to the Essex girl is Randers girl: clueless, promiscuous, low-class girls with an attitude, especially against authorities.
  • The Japanese counterpart is the Gyaru Girl, including the Kogals, characterized by their short skirts, and the Ganguro, which is Valley Girl with heavy tans.
  • The Mexican and Latin American equivalent is the "Niña Fresa" ("Strawberry Girl"), a stereotype of rich, upper-class, Americanized, and superficial girls, or "Chica Nice" ("Nice Chick/Girl").
• Even within the United States, there exist several analogues to the Valley Girl stereotype in other parts of the country.
  • The Jersey girl stereotype is pretty much a Joisey-accented version of the Essex girl (particularly the promiscuity), coupled with an attitude problem. Given the similarities in stereotypes between New Jersey and Essex in general (i.e. suburban sprawl for the nation's largest city, filled with chavs and emo teens^note New Jersey even has an Essex County, the third most populated in the state and home to its largest city), this is rather fitting.
  • Also common on the East Coast is the stereotype of the Jewish American Princess, which takes the vanity and self-centered characterization of the Valley Girl and adds sexual prudishness and an ethnic dimension.

Individuals

• Los Angeles billboard model and San Fernando Valley resident Angelyne has made a career from such a public image. In fact, she has been pointed to as an Ur-Example for the likes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.
• Drew Barrymore wrote in her 2015 memoir Wildflower that she talks "like a valley girl" because she lived in Sherman Oaks from the ages of 7 to 14.
• Emilia Clarke jokes that she put this voice on to avoid being recognised in public once — pretending to be "Callie from the valley".
  "I, like, love Clueless."
• Cindy Margolis identifies herself as one:
  "I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here."

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