10 Movies That Changed Everything In Ways You Didn't Expect

10. TGI Fridays Ditched Employee "Flair" - Office Space

In Mike Judge's masterful workplace satire Office Space, Jennifer Aniston's love interest character Joanna works at a restaurant called Tchotchkie's, which is clearly a thinly-veiled parody of the real-world eatery TGI Fridays.

Numerous scenes make fun of the expectations Tchotchkie's has of its wait staff, namely to wear pieces of "flair" on their work outfit - ornaments and badges with "funny" sayings on them - in order to express themselves.

Naturally Joanna just wants to get through her shift without having to showcase her apparent individuality, and given that TGI Fridays itself encouraged its employees to wear flair at the time, Judge was very clearly thumbing his nose at the real practise.

Office Space ultimately did such a fantastic job of mocking TGI Fridays that the restaurant actually retired flair a few years later, and the world was all the better for it. In Judge's own words:

"About four years after Office Space came out, TGI Fridays got rid of all that (button) flair, because people would come in and make cracks about it. One of my ADs asked once at the restaurant why their flair was missing and they said they removed it because of that movie Office Space. So, maybe I made the world a better place."

That you certainly did, Mike.