Rewatchables Reference

• Shea: The 'Pocketful of Sunshine' montage – Olive alone in her room playing the greeting card song over and over, growing to love it.
• Amanda: The 'Knock on Wood' musical number – Emma Stone's capital-M Movie Star moment.
• Juliet: The 'twat' kitchen scene – Olive tells her parents she used inappropriate language in class.
• Shea (runner-up): The confessional/webcam scene where Olive gets emotional – 'a lot of people hate me now. I kind of hate me, too.'

• The YouTube/blogging/webcam framing device – still feels prescient and spot-on, not dated at all.
• Picking Ojai as the location – it has since become a very trendy, wealthy enclave.
• Emma Stone's wardrobe – both regular outfits and 'slutty' outfits still have a place in fashion.
• Emma Stone's performance overall – one of the best comedic performances of the decade.

• Amanda Bynes's character Marianne being defined by her Christianity – felt like stereotyping.
• The Mr. and Mrs. Griffith/Micah plot – the guidance counselor giving a student chlamydia is 'super weird' and unnecessary.
• The Huckleberry Finn references – dehumanizing treatment of the two Black men in the movie.
• The treatment of Chip, the adopted younger brother – Stanley Tucci's adoption jokes felt uncomfortable.

• Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for Olive – extensive discussion about why Emma Stone works better in this role.
• Logan Lerman auditioned for Brandon (played by Dan Byrd).

• Shea and Amanda: Cam Gigandet – to Shea he's the bully from Never Back Down, to Amanda he's one of the Twilight guys.
• Juliet: Dan Byrd – recognizes him from the Hilary Duff Cinderella remake.
• Malcolm McDowell as the principal – runner-up.

• Juliet: Patricia Clarkson – 'takes it too far' in the scene trying to find out if Brandon is gay.
• Amanda: Lisa Kudrow – when she's yelling 'Who would you believe?' at the end.
• Shea: Stanley Tucci.

• Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci together – their chemistry as Olive's parents is 'a miracle.'
• Lisa Kudrow – probably two days of work and she made an impact.

For a modern version of Olive: Amanda picks Zendaya or Florence Pugh; Shea picks Isabela Merced.

• Not Emma Stone's Apex Mountain – this is where it starts for her, but La La Land/the Oscar win is the apex.
• Probably Will Gluck's Apex Mountain – he went on to Friends with Benefits and Peter Rabbit, but this is likely his peak.

• The 8th grade flashback – Olive not remembering 8th grade when it was only ~3 years ago.
• The party scene – the popular girl casually offering her bedroom for sex is not believable.
• 11th graders caring that someone had sex – not realistic.

• Why don't we get to meet Olive's brother who's in college?
• Where did Lisa Kudrow's character get chlamydia?

Emma Stone, unanimously. 'Emma Stone 2010, you are the Cornerstone of our Teen Movie rebuild.'