How you feel watching Clueless for the first time in 2015

“I don’t want to write the cliché you’ll hate me for…but Clueless did leave me clueless. I noted Cher irritatingly bleated this throughout, reminding me of how much it grates me when Carrie Bradshaw says ‘I got to thinking’. But that’s another story…


Clueless? Too right. Who on earth are the Cranberries? Are they a band because that greasy chap who never pays attention in class has lost his CD? And what’s Marky Mark? Are they a band too? Or is that an individual being who’s put a Y on his name and thinks it sounds really cool.

Onto the storyline... A woman who eventually realises she is madly in love with her brother. Erm, if this happened in our day and age we’d have all been madly tweeting #JeremyKyle after watching it. But back in 1995 was it a bit normal to fancy someone in your family?

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OK, so they aren’t technically blood related but from what I could gather, they were brought up together and so would have seen and done all the irritating things siblings do.

I have friends with step relations. They have never indicated the sudden urge to have sex with them. No. It’s just a bit weird. Someone call Graham because they need aftercare.

Another worrying trend I have found that emerged from Clueless is that nearly ALL of my friends live just like Cher and her friends … but in 2015. For example, a lot of my friends drive jeeps. They say dope. And they have a tendency to religiously follow fashion, just as Cher and her friends do.

Does that mean they’re obsessed with Clueless 20 years on? I called a handful and they squealed down the phone in a) delight that I’d finally crumbled and watched it and b) because yes, they were influenced by Cher and her mates.

To expand on point B, before you think my mates are all weird people who still dream of living in the 1990s, they explained this type of cult film did influence them.

It made them want the same things Cher and her friends had. A computer that chooses your clothes? Yes please. A bag that specifically holds your phone? Go on then. A fluffy bag AND matching fluffy pen? Totally cool. They all wanted to be as cool as Cher, as popular as she was and as filthy rich.

None of them would get off with a relation, however. Let’s just make that crystal clear.

To round up, Clueless was alright. I laughed when Cher fell off the bed and that was about it.

It did however fill me with a sense of sadness that I didn’t watch it back in the day when I was meant to. I’m pretty sure if I’d have watched Clueless back in the 90s, I too would be driving a jeep and wouldn’t live in a black jumper and trainers.

At 26 years old, the Clueless effect just isn’t the same. I definitely missed out on something amazing.