Here's Every Teen Movie Easter Egg in Do Revenge

In Clueless, Cher takes new girl Tai on an outdoor tour of the groups that populate her school—in Do Revenge, we get the same scene with a 2022 update. Instead of the TV station group, the Persian mafia, and the popular boys, Rosehill's groups consist of the Instagram witches, the horny theater nerds, the farm kids, and Rosehill's “royal court, the cream of the incredibly entitled crop.”

The hallway of chaos in Mean Girls

Mean Girls was, like, a totally huge inspiration for Do Revenge. For one thing, Tara (Alisha Boe) is more than a little inspired by conniving Queen Bee Regina George. In fact, both even say the same sugary sweet yet maniacally evil line, “Why don't I know you?” when they first see their respective new girls.

The makers of Do Revenge also included one major Easter egg: the chaos hallway. In Mean Girls, Regina causes widespread rioting by printing pages from the secret-filled Burn Book. Standing at the end of a hallway, Regina proudly observes the chaotic scene as students brawl around her.

In Do Revenge, Drea attempts to orchestrate the same chaos by sharing dirty messages sent by Max (Austin Abrams) to numerous girls in school. However, when we see Drea standing at the end of the hallway, the scene is flipped on its head—everyone has sided with Max, who has claimed to be “ethically nonmonogamous.” This is high school in the Gen Z era, after all.

The opening credits and final scene in Cruel Intentions

Do Revenge is, in many ways, a love letter to Cruel Intentions. First of all, ’90s icon Sarah Michelle Gellar is giving some serious Kathryn energy as the stylish headmaster of Rosehill. As Do Revenge writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson told IndieWire, the Kathryn vibes are intentional. “[I] literally thought about Kathryn from Cruel Intentions, like, if she was the headmaster of the school, what advice would she give?” Robinson said.