Things They Like #16: Pride for Other People

Unpopular girls love feeling "proud" of people they have never met:

"Oh, I'm so proud of Dan Harmom and Rob Schrab for making Monster House -- it was actually funny, and school appropriate!"



But do not be fooled by this apparent enthusiasm for a multi-million-dollar picture. It is merely the standard unpopular girl response to any project that made one of their favorite actors/directors/screenwriters/musicians/novelists/comedians money, but not household-name status.

In the sad case that unpopular girl indie cred is actually lost, feelings of "pride" are immediately revoked, providing ample opportunity to complain about their hero "selling out". The best thing to do in a situation like this is to console, and reassure the unpopular girl that nobody even really noticed Michael Cera in Juno anyway.

Things They Like #1: Freaks and Geeks

Unanimously, unpopular girls love Freaks and Geeks.

They love it because it is "so real" while still being "funny" and "not too dramatic." They also like it because it (and Detroit Rock City) inspires them to wear army-jackets, and then they can be "alternative."



Unpopular girls would like The OC and My So-Called Life, but they are too main-stream to brag to their friends about owning the box-set or reading the complete scripts or watching the DVD commentary. Some unpopular girls do like The OC, but only in an ironic way -- "oh, yeah, I used to watch that back in seventh grade; when the first season first aired. I totally was in love with Seth, el oh el." And My So-Called Life has Jared Leto in it, and unpopular girls cannot like anything connected with People's Top 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, except in association with Darren Aronofsky, of course.

Not to say that the cast from Freaks and Geeks didn't go on to do anything, though. Unpopular girls loved Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and they just about orgasmed when Superbad came out -- Michael Austin Cera in a Seth Rogen film, about unpopular kids?! HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL!

Unpopular girls also love to point out the fact that Joe Lo Truglio is in Superbad. Ask them who he is, and they will wet themselves with excitement at the opportunity to discuss one of their "favorite alternative sketch comedy groups of the nineteen-nineties."