20 Things You Didn't Know About Clueless

20. The Script Was Originally Written As A TV Pilot

Though Clueless was quickly spun off into a three-season TV series - without Alicia Silverstone, sadly - the movie itself was actually originally penned by writer-director Amy Heckerling to be the pilot for a TV show.

Heckerling's pilot teleplay was reportedly called "No Worries," before being renamed to "I Was a Teenage Teenager." But after networks passed on the script, Heckerling ended up handing it to an agent who told her, "This is too good for TV. You should make this into a feature."

At that point Heckerling started shopping the script around to film studios, and after Fox briefly attempted to develop it, Paramount acquired the script at the end of a tenacious bidding war. The rest, as they say, is history.