Pump Up the Volume/YMMV

"We're all worried, we're all in pain. That just comes with having eyes and having ears. But just remember one thing - it can't get any worse, it can only get better. High school is the bottom, being a teenager sucks, but that's the point, surviving it is the whole point. Quitting is not going to make you stronger, living will. So just hang on and hang in there."
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The movie has a legitimately awesome soundtrack, featuring the Cowboy Junkies covering Robert Johnson, Concrete Blonde covering Leonard Cohen, the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and The Pixies contributing a different arrangement of their "Wave of Mutilation". The Beastie Boys track that Mark plays in the film is a legitimately obscure bootleg called "The Scenario" that actually was left off their first album due to Executive Meddling.
 * Fridge Logic: So, uh, where the hell did they get the giant penis in the middle of the night?
 * Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: This is sort of an informal bookend with Heathers, in regard to Slater's films and the subject of teenage suicide.