TV SERIES · 1996– · USA
Clueless
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- #001
Clueless was originally conceived as a TV series, but it was turned into a film first.
- #002
Alicia Silverstone turned down the offer to appear in this series, choosing instead to continue her film career.
- #003
Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Elisa Donovan, Twink Caplan and Wallace Shawn are the only regular cast members who also appeared in the 1995 film Clueless. Paul Rudd, Breckin Meyer and Brittany Murphy appeared as guest stars in different characters.
- #004
The high school the students attend in both the film and this TV series is "Bronson Alcott High School." Bronson Alcott was a nineteenth-century Transcendentalist writer best known for founding a failed Utopian community called "Fruitlands" and for being the father of "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott. Amy Heckerling once dated Bronson Pinchot, whose middle name, "Alcott," comes from the writer.
- #005
Many actors from the film, such as Paul Rudd and Breckin Meyer, appeared as guest stars in the series playing other characters.
- #006
The character of Coach Graham Bullock is a tribute to Growing Pains (1985) and Just the Ten of Us (1987). In both shows, Bill Kirchenbauer played Coach Graham Lubbock.
- #007
Besides Alicia Silverstone, the role of Cher Horowitz was also offered to Leslie Bibb, Mayim Bialik, Charlize Theron, Soleil Moon Frye and Sarah Paulson.
- #008
Although Tai was a major character in the film and a big part of Cher's friend group, the character appeared in only three episodes of the series.
- #009
Melissa Joan Hart was considered for the role of Cher Horowitz but was too busy working on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996).
- #010
Elisa Donovan and David Lascher later appeared together on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, another series that premiered the same night as this one.
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