Hey, do you remember Clueless?

Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.

I'm Chris.

I'm Donna.

And I'm Carlos.

And today we're revisiting Clueless.

Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Clueless. It's not that Paramount Pictures didn't have faith in their modestly budgeted teen comedy,

Clueless. They knew writer-director Amy Heckerling had put together a great script, and they were

even more enthusiastic about her first cut of the film, so much so that the only feedback they gave her

was, don't change a thing. They had also done an admirable job of making their target

demographic aware of the film, thanks to a series of promos that were running around the clock on MTV,

and of course Alicia Silverstone, then best known as the girl from the Aerosmith music videos,

was already poised to be a big star. It seemed to be a matter of when, not if, and so the only

question was what her breakout role would be. And yet there were plenty of seemed to be a matter of when, not if, and so the only question was what her breakout role would be.

And yet, there were plenty of reasons to be apprehensive about the film's potential for success.

Clueless was originally pitched as a TV series that would have featured the same roster of main characters,

but even with Heckerling's impressive track record, which included the highly acclaimed fast times at Ridgemont High,

the project failed to find traction. It initially found a home at Fox, but after excessive notes and

meddling, it began to stray pretty far from the original premise and transformed into a compromised

mess that no one was particularly happy with. Even after Heckerling switched gears and began

developing it as a feature

film instead, there was still the very legitimate concern that the teen movie was, for all intensive

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