{"id":53666,"date":"2025-08-08T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53666\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:27:10","slug":"freakier-friday-easter-eggs-from-freaky-friday-mean-girls-and-parent-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53666\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Freakier Friday’ Easter Eggs From ‘Freaky Friday,’ ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Parent Trap’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d the sequel to the 2003 hit movie, is about to give Lindsay Lohan fans some d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. <\/p>\n

More than 20 years after Disney released \u201cFreaky Friday,\u201d<\/a> a remake of the 1976 film, Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are back as Anna and Tess Coleman. <\/p>\n

In the sequel, which hit theaters Friday, Aug. 8, the mother-daughter duo have a new yet eerily similar set of problems on their hands. <\/p>\n

\"FreakierJamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in “Freakier Friday.” Disney<\/p>\n

Anna now has a daughter of her own, Harper (Julia Butters), making Tess a grandma. In “Freaky Friday,” Tess getting remarried caused strain for the family and similarly, in the sequel, tension arises as Anna plans a wedding with a single dad whose daughter goes to Harper\u2019s school.<\/p>\n

The caveat? Anna’s new fianc\u00e9, Eric (Manny Jacinto), is the father of Harper’s arch nemesis, Lily (Sophia Hammons). And so, naturally, the attempt to form a family of four doesn’t bode well for the high schoolers. <\/p>\n

What better way to understand another’s point of view than a good, old fashioned body switch? This time around, however, four people swap bodies \u2014 Tess, Anna, Harper and Lily. <\/p>\n

\"FreakierJamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters, and Sophia Hammons in “Freakier Friday.” Disney<\/p>\n

While the quadruple switch and additional characters in “Freakier Friday” are new, the sequel pays homage to the 2003 flick, as well as to several other Lohan hits, like \u201cParent Trap\u201d and \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <\/p>\n

Keep an eye out for these easter eggs in “Freakier Friday.” <\/p>\n

Warning: This post contains spoilers for \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Mother, Like Daughter <\/p>\n

Despite Anna constantly telling her mom she’s “ruining my life” in “Freaky Friday,” the adult character is more like Tess than she’d probably like to admit. <\/p>\n

The 2003 film begins with Tess trying several times to wake a reluctant Anna up for school. Similarly, the sequel opens with Anna attempting to wake her daughter, Harper, up. In the new movie, though, Harper is already up but snuck out to go surfing. <\/p>\n

Anna and Harper have a similarly tense mother-daughter relationship, while Tess is now the \u201ccool\u201d grandma. <\/p>\n

Dropping Harper off at school, Anna yells, “Make good choices!” an expression originally coined by Tess in the first film. <\/p>\n

An Oct. 3 Wedding <\/p>\n

Anna and Eric’s wedding date in the film is Oct. 3, which is an iconic date for any \u201cMean Girls\u201d fans<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the 2004 movie, Lohan’s character, Cady Heron is talking to her crush, Aaron Samuels, in math class. In the seemingly insignificant interaction, he asks her the date, and Cady’s response has since served as a major quote from the film. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn October 3rd, he asked me what day it was,\u201d a voiceover of Lohan says in the film, giddy over her conversation with Aaron. <\/p>\n

Some now even deem Oct. 3 as \u201cMean Girls\u201d Day<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"MeanFrom left to right: Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron, Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith, Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners and Rachel McAdams as Regina George.AlamyThe Earthquake Switches <\/p>\n

Just like in “Freaky Friday,” before the women swap bodies with one another in the sequel, they feel an earthquake. But when they observe the rest of the room, they appear to be the only ones who felt the shake. <\/p>\n

In \u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d Harper and Lily swap bodies with Anna and Tess, respectively. The teen girls \u2014 now in adult bodies as Lohan’s and Curtis\u2019 characters \u2014 have a similar moment to the original film where they panic in a mirror at how \u201cold\u201d they look. <\/p>\n

\"FreakyJamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in “Freaky Friday.”Alamy<\/p>\n

Lohan and Curtis also recreate running into one another in an effort to switch back into their old bodies. But the teenagers \u2014 now Anna and Tess \u2014 tell the girls they tried that “last time” to no avail. <\/p>\n

\"FreakierJamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in “Freakier Friday.”DisneyA Nod to Meredith Blake From ‘The Parent Trap’ <\/p>\n

\u201cParent Trap\u201d fans will likely notice a familiar face in \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d: Elaine Hendrix, aka Meredith Blake. <\/p>\n

\"Image:Elaine Hendrix in the 1998 film “The Parent Trap.” (C)Walt Disney Co. \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

In the 1998 remake of \u201cThe Parent Trap,\u201d Lohan played twins Hallie and Annie. Hendrix portrayed Meredith, the unlikable fianc\u00e9 to the twins\u2019 dad. <\/p>\n

In \u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d Hendrix makes a cameo as Blake Kale<\/a>, who works for a magazine featuring Anna\u2019s client, pop star Ella, who she manages at her record label job. In a nod to her \u201cParent Trap\u201d character, Hendrix addresses Anna as \u201cpuss,\u201d which she called the twins in the late \u201890s movie. <\/p>\n

\"ElaineElaine Hendrix as Blake Kale in “Freakier Friday.”Alamy\u2018Take Me Away,’ Reprised <\/p>\n

In a big moment at the end of “Freakier Friday,” Anna has the chance to reclaim her rockstar days with the band Pink Slip, who fans were first introduced to in \u201cFreaky Friday.\u201d Though time has passed, the characters allude to Pink Slip becoming a popular rock band prior to Anna welcoming her daughter, Harper. <\/p>\n

\"FreakierLindsay Lohan in “Freakier Friday.”Disney<\/p>\n

While Harper is in her mother’s body, the band reunites for Anna to perform a song she wrote. <\/p>\n

In the first film, Anna \u2014 while still in Tess\u2019 body \u2014 had to be on guitar backstage to cover for her mom being unable to play. In the sequel, Anna \u2014 now in Harper’s body \u2014 has to cover for her daughter. This time, however, the mom and daughter share a sweet moment performing together. <\/p>\n

\"FreakyJamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in the 2003 film “Freaky Friday.”Alamy<\/p>\n

After the duet, the four characters fully understand one another enough to all switch back into their own bodies. After they do, Pink Slip \u2014 complete with Anna\u2019s former bandmates, Maddie (Christina Vidal) and Peg (Haley Hudson) \u2014 jam out to \u201cTake Me Away,\u201d which was made popular in the 2003 film.<\/p>\n

Bloopers in the Credits <\/p>\n

Similar to “Freaky Friday,” the credits for “Freakier Friday” feature a series of fun bloopers of the cast. The editing of the credits altogether appear to be a nod to the original film. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d the sequel to the 2003 hit movie, is about to give Lindsay Lohan fans some d\u00e9j\u00e0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-53666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}