Everyone Had the Same Joke About Mean Girls About the Tony Awards
At Sunday night’s 2018 Tony Awards in New York City, one of Broadway’s most popular debuts of the year came away empty-handed: Mean Girls.
The stage adaptation of Tina Fey‘s beloved cult classic movie was up for twelve nominations, but ultimately lost out on all counts as The Band’s Visit, starring Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk in a subtle, haunting performance of missed connections, nearly swept the musical categories. (Mean Girls was nominated for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Original Score, Best Actress in a Musical and more, all of which it did not ultimately win. In fact, it was the most-nominated show alongside the SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway adaptation.)
So of course fans and spectators had plenty to say about the way the Mean Girls situation played out. Mainly, since the original movie gifted pop culture with so many memorable lines, the internet was ready to bring some levity to the moment — using the show’s own script as a blueprint for the jokes to come.
Harkening back to the classroom scene in which a visiting Santa Claus bestows holiday Candy Cane-grams upon some students (but not, unfortunately, Gretchen Wieners), internet jokesters had the perfect architecture to turn the Mean Girls loss into a Twitter-worthy meme.
Ho ho ho, Tony Awards!
Once On This Island, one for you. The Band's Visit, 10 FOR YOU, THE BAND'S VISIT, YOU GO, THE BAND'S VISIT!! Oh, uh, do we have a Spongebob Squarepants here? Oh, Spongebob, here you go, one for you.
And none for Mean Girls, bye.#TonyAwards pic.twitter.com/5pUceBdTSt— Chloe Ewer (@LaVieTheatre) June 11, 2018
TONY AWARDS FOR SPONGE BOB
SOME FOR ONCE IN THIS ISLAND
A LOT FOR THE BAND'S VISIT (YOU GO BAND'S VISIT)
AAAAND
none for mean girls bye— taylor louderman supremacist ana (@yeahchalkley) June 11, 2018
One for Spongebob, TEN for The Band’s Visit, and none for Mean Girls, bye! #tonyawards (this is a mean girls joke don’t hate me)
— katrina lenk's tony// syd (@veepthroat) June 11, 2018
Tony's 2018 as Candy Cane Grams:
Carousel, two for you.
The Band's Visit? 10 for you, The Band's Visit! You go, The Band's Visit!
SpongeBob SquarePants? Do we have a SpongeBob here?
Oh, SpongeBob, here you go, one for you.
And none for Mean Girls, bye!#TonyAwards— Lyka (@lbyrnthndreams) June 11, 2018
FOUR FOR YOU, THE BANDS VISIT YOU GO THE BANDS VISIT.
.....and none for Mean Girls bye #tonyawards pic.twitter.com/ktIAC7WFpW— Tonya Harding’s Crispy Bangs (@amdeeeeeee) June 11, 2018
Of course, some saw an upside to the shut-out.
If Mean Girls marketing doesn’t embrace their zero Tony wins with an “And none for Gretchen Weiners bye” ad campaign then I’ve lost all hope for the future
— Matt Redmond (@mattredmond22) June 11, 2018
