1. I think we can all agree that Mean Girls is the defining teen comedy of the '00s. However, it didn't start out as the PG-13 movie we know today. Early cuts of the film were closer to an R rating , with more explicit language and sharper, more adult-oriented jokes. Writer and star Tina Fey and director Mark Waters have both said the original version leaned more heavily into the kind of humor Fey was known for from her work on SNL. However, the studio wanted the movie to reach a broader teen audience, which meant aiming for a PG-13 rating instead of R. To make that happen, several lines were rewritten or cut, especially jokes that were considered too sexual or explicit, for example, the line was originally, "Amber D'Alessio gave a blowjob to a hot dog" before it was changed to "made out with a hot dog." Some scenes were also softened to tone down the overall edge of the film. Despite those changes, the final version struck a balance between edgy and "teen movie." 2.…