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the only reason why the movie was great because Alica Silverstone was a great claire and the movie was BAsed on Jane Austen's Greatest novel , Emma

Alicia Silverstone was the best at playing cger no one can compare to it.

Clueless was brilliant. it sumed up the 90's and still would hold up today. much better than the tripe they got on now e.g my wife & kids ect.

I love the movie, but wasn't a big fan of the show. I mean, it was alright, but what made it pretty bad was the fact that the cast was the same except Cher. Alicia Silverstone had to be in it to make it a little bit better. The actress who portrays Cher on the show just seemed far too straightlaced.

I love Silverstone, and the show would have possibly been a little bit better if she played the main character, and I'm sure she was uninterested, due to wanting to be in some bigger film productions, which might be why the rest of the cast hasn't really been in anything big since the movie.

I LOVED THE SHOW "CLUELESS" THE MOVIE NOT SO MUCH THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYED CHER ON THE TV SERIES IS WAY BETTER THEN THE GIRL THEY HAVE PLAYING ON THE MOVIE!

The idea to make a TV show out of a movie, which basically degraded women, and was partially responsible for the "Stupid Girl" syndrome!

The episode "A test of Character" when Dion fails the drug test and becomes a pariah. The intentions of the episode was good, showing how drug tests tend to lie, but the ending was unsatisfactory. I felt the story should have been followed up. The writers of the show should have been fired or forced to write for the TV show "the Help."

This show was humorous! Who can forget Amber, the red-headed member of the group, who always had rude comments to make towards Cher and Dionne. She was hysterical. The only thing I could never understand is that if Amber was friends with Cher and Dionne and those two other guys, then why were they always making rude remarks towards Amber if she was their friend? She seemed to be more of somebody that just happened to hang around them that they tolerated as opposed to being a regular friend. Could someone enlighten me here? Was Amber really their friend, or just somebody that just hung around them to criticize them? Because personally I don't think friends normally refer to each other as annoying and obnoxious and then, criticize them, unless, of course, you're my friend, then I do, but that's just me.

Due to one of the rules of Jump the Shark (Same Character, but played by a Different Actor), it jumped when Doug Sheehan became Mel Horowitz. Although I enjoyed him then.

Firstly, I would just like to say that Clueless the movie is possibly my favorite comedy from the 90s-- it's a true no-brainer with tons of laughs and a stylish quality to it. Clueless the show, as someone else here pointed out, makes absolutely no effort (NONE) to pick up where the movie left off. I guess someone lost the memo saying that the story is about spoiled, helplessly self-absorbed rich girls getting themselves in and out of trouble at the mall/at school/over brunch/whatever. Clueless isn't about befriending the class geek, buying poor kids an entire new wardrobe, or helping some kid from Compton, or south central or whatever stay at Beverly Hills High when he's so obviously an idiot in the first place. Did I forget to mention there was a completely unnecessary episode on drunk driving? Um, I guess those 40 year old men in the script department don't realize that if a kid has the proclivity to drive drunk, he's not going to stop what he's doing, scratch his head, and say "Gee, those girls on "Clueness" said that driving drunk isn't a good idea. Maybe I should slow down." Um, yeah, OKAY. I much prefer the Clueless movie, which didn't rely on rationalizing/moralizing bulls*** to get its point across. As for Rachel Blanchard, she's not a good actress. She looks pitiful when she makes that pained face to look worried/scared/thoughtful. Does she really need a different boyfriend every episode? How does Dion, bitch queen of the century, get a long-term boytoy and Cher, the "perfect, sweet one", get nothing? Does this show bear NO resemblance to reality? Thankfully, it doesn't. Nor does it resemble the movie, which featured Cher as, you guessed it, a spoiled, cunning brat, not the Little Mermaid. Anyone who seriously watches this show, or waits for it to come on, NEEDS to open a book or something.

If they'd wanted to do a silly show they should have really gone for it like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and had some un-real fun. None of those Clueless characters seemed even remotely real even as a send-up of snobbish Beverly Hills HS kids or whatever. Either make it more realistic or make it definitely surreal. Rachel was cute in her own way and Alicia Silverstone was fine too. Can't understand all the previous hating about Rachel. Never sat through the whole film version but I suspect that it's no great loss. A poor small-screen copy of a minor feature film.

Well, this show was pretty good, I think, it had me watching... but they really shouldn't have made it into a show, especially since they couldn't get Alicia on... how can you have everyone from the movie put on the show EXCEPT for the chick playing the leading role? It just feels weird. This show also had a lot of "very special" episodes, but you can understand why when you think of the type of audience they had.

Clueless was a better TV show than a movie, but the show jumped the shark when they had an episode about the smoking model and how everyone was going to help him kick the habit.

"Clueless" jumped the shark in my humble opinion, when it didn't seem to bother w/ following through w/ the main themes of the movie. Those themes were a group of spoiled teens trying to improve the lives of the people around them (whether it's playing match-maker or offering their friends make-overs) while being set against the backdrop of a semi-satire of 1990s pop culture. Instead on the TV spin-off, it seem to come across more like a somewhat glossier variation of "Saved By the Bell" (i.e. a collection of cheeseball and/or formulaic high school hijinks and a little moralising sprinkled here and there). The problem I think w/ Rachael Blanchard in the Alicia Silverstone part was that while affable, was otherwise pretty vanilla and passive in the lead. Elisa Donovan, who like Stacy Dash, Donald Faison, Wallace Shawn, Sean Holland (all though I could swear that his name was Lawrence in the movie as opposed to his actual first name on the show), Julie Brown, and Twink Caplan, reprised her supporting part from the movie, frequently proved to be much more charismatic than Blanchard, who was the assumed star. The first season that aired on ABC was minorly superior than the subsequently UPN seasons. What helped a lot in my mind, were the aford-mentioned Shawn & Caplan as the caring teachers, lending some well needed sensibility. Unfortunately, when UPN picked "Clueless" up after airing just one season in ABC's TGIF line-up, it seemed as if the quality of the program was based in part on which way the wind blew. For starters, Shawn & Caplen were gone and their classy presence was sorely missed over time. To make matters worse, the character of Cher's father was radically changed (this of course coincided w/ a switch of actors). In the movie, Cher's father, who was played by a scene stealing Dan Hedeya, was very crass, hard-boiled, and over-protective of his daughter. But when "Clueless" was relaunched on UPN Cher's father degenerated into being a very sweet, soft-spoken, understanding guy. As the show went on, it seemed like the producers were starting to ruin out of sharp ideas and instead resorted to the "gimmick of the week." For example, one week we would get a goofy guest shot by a B-list star (as opposed to the first season which gave us alumni from the movie like Paul Rudd, Brittney Murphy, and Breckin Meyer) like Tim Conway, Jennifer Elise Cox, who played Jan in the "Brady Bunch" movies, Burt "Robin" Ward, and the parents from "Just the Ten of Us." The next week, we would get served w/ special cross-overs by several characters from fellow UPN show "Moesha." And if it wasn't that, then we would be served w/ elaborate cliffhangers (one of which allowed the viewers to participate) like the haunted house episode and the one we're Cher has to move to Bakersfield. "Clueless" officially jumped, once they felt that it was it to resort to the tried but true "very special episode." First, it was one where the gang befriended a good student, who turned out to be pregnant. Next it was one where Cher started dating a model, who turned out to be a smoker. But the end all be all was the drunk driving episode ("Happy Days", "Growing Pains", and "Family Ties" are several prior examples that I'm aware of when it comes to sitcoms doing "very special episodes" about drinking & driving) in which 'N Sync guest starred. By the time the show was finished after the third season, "Clueless" unfortunately turned into a crusty, heavy-handed, and sometimes self-deceptive caricature of Amy Heckerling's creation.

Clueless jump? Never. OK, so Rachel Blanchard couldn't quite match Alicia Silverstone in terms of playing the dumb blonde. But at least one could tell who was acting and who wasn't.