When did stripey socks become the standard teen drama/comedy signfier for "slightly outsidery, non-blonde, non-cheerleader" types

http://www.moviemusic.com/cdcovers/120/angus.gif ?

Man, this goes back to Clueless. Maybe even Clarissa.

oh god i saw a poster for that film on the tube yesterday and wished i could un-see it

the title has to be one of the worst in film history, for a start

I took a while to understand the line at the top. I thought it was telling us she wasn't going mental, though her life was A, T and PS, and I couldn't see why we needed to know she wasn't going mental.

Terrible title.

would c on ts

lol kidding ... seriously though, what's snogging?

kissing.

is the title meant to be a pun or a riff on something else? i really can't work it out.

i saw a trailer for this the other week. it looks absolutely fucking vile. also, without wishing to sound like some PC choad, "going mental" is a bit ... borderline offensive?

at least, it is in the context of a film poster.

maybe it's just that the entire existence of this film offends me.

based on this book I believe: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T9B8933QL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I've seen it places. Guess they can't use the term "full-frontal" in a film aimed at tweens.

And yes Dom, you WILL laugh your knickers off.

i think it was the 80's. square pegs? i dunno

...and that's without even touching on the fact that her dad is played by Alan Davies.

It does look terrible, but I'm guessing I'm not its target market.

lol britishers

lol teen britishes

I dunno about striped socks, but at least in Finland striped stockings are often a signifier for hippieish, non-cheerleader types in real life.

For no good reason at all I want to agree and say same for America, but in actuality I can remember cheerleader types in high school wearing stripey socks.

Maybe it's the color scheme of the stripes...

did valerie bertinelli wear them on odaat? she's back to being smashable too these days

Yeah, I think it's like:
wild, colourful stripes = hippie,
black with red or white stripes = goth.

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Btw, even though it's a cliche, striped stockings are usually a total turn-on for me.

what isn't a turnon

(ok lotsa stuff, but you catch my drift)

tuomon

The sort of black nylon leggings that are very popular at the moment, for example.

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hmm, nope. turn on.

"based on this book I believe:

I've seen it places"

uh ok are we (brits) all pretending not to know about the mega success of louise rennison books. come on, you all is frontin.

girl in poster, what's on your ipod?

Basic Channel mostly I reckon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giw9-qwXZSM&feature=related

Moldy Peaches.

Ennio Morricone

They have cheerleaders in Finland?

over there "cheerleader" means sanitation worker. common misunderstanding.

1. She's So Lovely - Scouting for Girls
2. Girls and Boys In Love - The Rumble Strips
3. The Show - Lenka
4. Naive - Lily Allen
5. She's Got You High - Mumm Ra
6. Who Needs Love - Razorlight
7. Your Song - Kate Walsh
8. Mad About the Boy - Ava
9. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
10. Toothpaste Kisses - The Maccabees
11. Oh, Atoms - Sugar Mouse
12. Ever Fallen In Love - Stiff Dylans
13. I Found Out - The Pigeon Detectives
14. In the Morning - The Coral
15. Pull Shapes - The Pipettes
16. Great DJ - The Ting Tings
17. Ultraviolet - Stiff Dylans

OMG WANT.

TO BLAST INTO SPACE

Could Kate Walsh be like Kate Nash, but even worse? I suppose that's not possible.

pippi longstocking, 1945

Those books are hilarious, I learned lots of new words and expressions from them. Shaving, for instance, becomes "Operation Smoothy Legs" which, you have to admit, has a ring to it.

I remember my sister being really embarrassed about reading this book.

Frogman, no, don't know about these books.

Koogy has called the shots on this one.

Those books are hilarious, I learned lots of new words and expressions from them. Shaving, for instance, becomes "Operation Smoothy Legs" which, you have to admit, has a ring to it.

A ring, yeah, a single peal from the funeral bell of literature.

Fuck you too.

did u guyz ever notice that the ugly girls in teen movies aren't really ugly they just wear glasses and baggy clothes?? something to think about

Sure those books have a sassy grasp of how the teenage mind works (well, a certain, very cliched kind of teenage mind), but I wouldn't imagine a presentation of this mind to be the most edifying, amusing or even comforting of material. That expression you supply isn't by any means an original, arresting analogue for shaving, but a cutesy throwaway expression that if you thought of you'd keep to yourself. "Operation" anything is a very common junior-school way of putting any sort of endeavour, surely?

Also, plz to chill out and stop being little miss butthurtpants.

Operation Hurty Butt

probably gone off to Operation Killy File me ;_;

Not at all, I just don't see what you gain by being self-congratulatory and superior about middlegrade lit.

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/3/35/Officercarruthers.jpg

http://endofbench.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/feetpopping.jpg

jaymc beat me to it

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/1429691263_7a73507b12.jpg?v=0

This all goes back to Pippi, brahs.

I imagine it is g-string underwear, Trayce, thongs as a type of footwear isn't a thing over here.

I just figure this shit isn't pitched at me and shrug and move on.

but it shouldn't be pitched at anybody

depends on how hard and at what velocity

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Dude, pre-teen girls have as much right to have shitty Britcoms made for them as middle-aged spinsters.

oh ok yeah, outwards at about 8 miles a second

this is aimed at early teens, not pre-teens, i'd imagine. and they have a right to good stuff like 'gregory's girl', not this shite

Actually didn't realise this was a Gurinder Chadha flick. Haven't seen one of hers I haven't enjoyed so I'm gonna be the contrarian bastard who says this will be okay.

LOOK AT THE SOUNDTRACK

DUDE WERE YOU EXPECTING 65DAYSOFPROGFREAKOUTS OR SUMP'N???

NO NOT EVEN REMOTELY BUT THERE IS ENOUGH DECENT POPULAR MATERIAL OUT THERE TO MAKE THIS SORT OF CRAVEN SELECTION UTTERLY UNFORGIVEABLE

Son, it's time we had a talk about how the movie industry works.

Also to return to my previous point, Chadha is a thoroughly A1 director whose films are usually nuanced multi-plotted things of joy.

I honestly quite liked BILB, you can have that. Not seen anything else of hers. Thoroughly skeptical about this.

Bhaji on the Beach is straight awesome, I need to watch Bride and Prejudice again but I'm thinking it was straight awesome.

For years I kept expecting Dev in Corrie to go apeshit psycho cos he's such a bad bastard in BotB.

Also because he's not white

You're joking, Corrie is wall-to-wall white dudes punching each other in the pub.

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NEW BRITCOM ABOUT SHITTY POST ROCK INDIE BAND COMING SOON TO BBC3

If every person in GB who evr did some wrong turned over a new leaf like Dev in Corrie, perhaps the country wouldnt have slipped down the tubes to near 3rd world status like it has.

^^^ This guy knows what's going on.

Norris, on the other hand, is definitely on some paedo shit.

Is the annoying gay dude still in Corrie?

Saw him a few weeks ago?

http://www.littlemissmatched.com/

socks sold in sets of three, no two of which match

http://www.littlemissmatched.com/c.605801/site/images/right_web_graphics/kk_wants_you.gif

klu klux kooky

sorry i have to default to lol britishers here

i guess if this isn't released in the US i'll always have the traveling pants movie as a back up.

But mandee, OMG the soundtrack! You're telling me you wouldn't listen to that like a bajillion times and dance around the room and have an Operation Squealy Fits?!!

You know, they're making another movie version of The Bell Jar with Julia Stiles -- do ya think they'll have Esther wearing stripey socks?

stripey socks as "quirky" girl signifier is as old as horn-rimmed glasses

http://www.teeshirtsrock.com/ProductImagesn/CAG01006.jpg

"Slightly outsidery" go-go girl.

oh god i saw a poster for that film on the tube yesterday and wished i could un-see it

-- Just got offed, Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:11 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Operation Unseey Poster

Other than the socks part, this fits

ha. i watched juno last night; there's a shot about two-thirds through where she's lying on the sofa that begins by tracking down past her stripey socks. i thought about posting to this thread. then i thought: "nah, it'll all have descended into lunacy about 65DoS and corrie street, so fuck it."

now, however, i am stuck at work till midnight so these things become almost worth dredging up from the sump of my memory.

Other than the socks part, this fits.

-- Eazy, Sunday, July 13, 2008 2:05 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah I think part of the humor of the poster is "stripey outsidery top + lolol she preggo"

I wanted to be contrarian about the soundtrack, but I honestly, off the top of my head, can't think of an album that I'd right now rather hear less

Are those well-known bands in the UK? The only one I've heard is "Young Folks", which is OK.

I always associated this with les gothics:

http://rockkansas.com/interviews/images/rasputina.jpg

(Admittedly those are not socks but I could not find a pic of her leggs.)

Here we go:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/76939947_264f02d374.jpg?v=1197851805

Mia of Kayo Dot, who I have only see play in les gothics b/w stripeys but I guess she runs the whole gamut:

http://a136.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/69/l_f9ba524f2378577d9df55dabce7b0c6f.jpg

Sundar, if, hypothetically, you just feel the need to be annoyed somehow (this is the only possible time I can think of when you would) then, look up scouting for girls on youtube. 15 seconds will suffice for the most extreme cases.

KAREN TAYLOR
ALAN DAVIES
STEVE JONES

Easily the three greatest TV personalities of their time, together in one movie.

every teen movie needs a genetics expert

OH WAIT LOL

I read the first Angus book back when I worked in a bookstore, maybe six years ago - can't remember anything whatsoever about the story but I remember finding it charming and fun - it pulled off its faux-tween ohmagawdd-ness without sounding continuously phony. Suspect it might grate on me more now, but whatever, I'm kinda glad they're making a movie out of it. The title change is awful though.

uh ok are we (brits) all pretending not to know about the mega success of louise rennison books. come on, you all is frontin.

i'd never heard of louise rennison till i saw the film poster and then chanced upon the source novel in a charity shop. i like that she uses the word "courageosity".