Lacey Chabert’s Daughter Asks What ‘Fetch’ Means

In Mean Girls, Lacey Chabert’s Gretchen Wieners always wanted to make “fetch” a term for cool, despite the hate that Regina George (Rachel McAdams) had for it.

She’s finally done it in the best way possible. While movies fans have been saying it for years —fetch is one of the more memorable terms and lines spoken in a movie chock full of quotes — Chabert’s daughter has now spoken it her.

‘Mean Girls’ stars Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners.
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“When she was younger… she was like, ‘What’s fetch, why does everyone say that to you?'” Chabert said of Julia, the 8-year-old daughter she shares with husband David Nehdar, on Monday’s episode of Today. “And she asked me a couple years ago, she goes, ‘Mom, do other people watch those movies that you make?’ And I was like, ‘Yes, baby, they’re not just for you.'”

See the moment in the video below:

In the case of Mean Girls, the movie is for everyone — not just the cool kids. Released in 2004, the Tina Fey-penned original version was a hit, spawning a musical and a film adaptation of the musical that came out in January. It’s of course part of the musical.

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Fetch plays a big part in a scene after Gretchen and her frenemies, including Regina, Lindsay Lohan’s Cady Herron, and Amanda Seyfried’s Karen Smith, perform an age-inappropriate dance to “Jingle Bell Rock” wearing sexy Santa costumes.

The teens go backstage to chat, and when the conversation turns to the possibility of Cady liking a certain Mathlete, Gretchen says their mutual attraction is “so fetch.”

“Gretchen,” Regina breaks in, “stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen.”

A January 2024 book about the making of the film, author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It) even borrowed the word for its title.

The Toaster Strudel heiress would be proud.

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