Top 10 Best Valley Girl Accents

Sometimes, the best things come in very small, animated packages. “Tiny Toon Adventures” is a delightful show that follows a bunch of cartoons as they prepare to become the next generation of “Looney Tunes” characters. The toons all attend Acme Looniversity – and Shirley fills the sorority girl stereotype perfectly. Shirley is a cute little animated bird (a loon, to be exact), who speaks with a flawless valley girl accent. She has no problem telling off boys and doing so with gusto – her casual bite offset by the sweet pink bow in her hair. Voice actor Gail Matthius one hundred percent understood the assignment.

Zoey Deutch started out as a Disney kid, with small roles on shows like “The Suite Life on Deck.” But now? She’s landing big movies and proving she’s one of the most charming comedy actors around. In “Zombieland: Double Tap,” she turns that charisma on its head and turns the obnoxious level up to ten. Deutch plays a character named Madison, a stereotypical dumb blonde who has been avoiding the zombie apocalypse by hiding in a Pinkberry freezer. Deutch’s styling is great, but she really nails the accent. Her nasally fry when she says words like “cute” and “chilly” is a great, if tropey, encapsulation of the valley girl voice.

#8: The “Tweevils” “Bratz” (2005-08)

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If you were a kid of a certain age, you probably came into contact with the Bratz dolls in some way or another. They were like Barbies, but for “cool” kids. A TV show premiered in 2005, taking Barbie’s So Cal vibes and dialing them way up – especially when it comes to the Tweevils. The Tweevils represent the worst things you could ever think about a valley girl – vain, rich, and selfish. The voice actors – Kaley Cuoco and Lacey Chabert in Season 1 – pitch their voices at what sometimes seems like an impossible high. When they speak in tandem, it’s even freakier – like a valley girl-version of “The Shining” twins.

Has there ever been a funnier satire of reality television than “Total Drama?” We’ll wait. We think the answer is probably no, and a lot of that is due to the way the animated program showcases various reality TV stereotypes. And of course, those stereotypes include the dumb, pretty one. The character of Lindsay expertly fills that void, and voice actor Stephanie Anne Mills gives her the perfect, valley girl voice to match. Lindsay’s accent complements her sweet demeanor for the most part, but our favorite moments are when the nastier parts of her personality rear their ugly head.

Say it with us… EW! Jimmy Fallon has made this sketch one of his signatures. Since the days of “Late Night” and crossing into his “Tonight Show” run, “Ew” is something Fallon always returns to. He’s done it with Channing Tatum, John Cena – you name it. But our favorite iteration of the “Ew” sketch comes from one Ariana Grande. Fallon’s vocal choice for his “Ew” character, Sara, is to just be as grating as possible. Grande took a bit of a different approach, going straight-up valley girl. Her acting only bolsters her pitch-perfect cadence, with vacancy and blissful oblivion rolling off her face in waves.

If you ask us, mastering the perfect valley girl accent is a pretty difficult task. But if you asked Reese Witherspoon, she’d probably just hit you with, “What, like it’s hard?” With her blonde hair and bright demeanor, Witherspoon already looks the part. When she starred as Elle Woods in 2001’s “Legally Blonde,” she took the valley girl type and gave her own, optimistic spin on it. Elle exudes Southern California sunshine, and every word out of her mouth fills you with endorphins. Sometimes, you can hear a bit of Witherspoon’s original southern flair peeking out, but those little nuances only make the accent more fun and interesting.

If we’re being honest, all the main girls in 2004’s “White Chicks” nail the valley girl vibe. Jaime King, Busy Philipps, Jennifer Carpenter – they’ve all got it down pat. So today, we figured we’d focus on actors who had a bit of a harder task – physically and vocally. Shawn and Marlon Wayans play the titular “white chicks” in this film, going undercover as white women to try and solve a crime. The make-up leaves a little bit to be desired. But if you close your eyes and just listen to the Wayans talk, it’s not hard to convince yourself they are who they say they are! Kudos.

We all know Emilia Clarke – Daenerys Targaryen, first of her name, queen of the Andals … and a ton of other stuff. Sheesh, that girl has a lot of titles. But you might not know Clarke’s wackier alter ego, Callie from the Valley. During an interview with Jimmy Kimmel in 2015, Clarke told a story about having to go to a Home Depot in the middle of the night when she needed an air conditioning unit during a shoot. Afraid someone might recognize her, she decided to go incognito. While telling Kimmel the story, Clarke slips seamlessly into a flawless valley girl accent. If we were in that Home Depot, we definitely wouldn’t have noticed her.

As if we could’ve left Cher Horowitz off this list! Uh uh, no way! 1995’s “Clueless” is one of the quintessential valley girl texts, and Alicia Silverstone more than rose to the occasion. In addition to her multitude of amazing one-liners – “Is this like, a Noxzema commercial or what?” – Cher taught us that the valley girl can be popular and inclusive! She gives a rousing speech about the importance of international diplomacy, she takes Tai under her wing, and she tries her best to play matchmaker. Silverstone is able to play up the kindness, vapidness, and ridiculousness of Cher in equal measure. A lot of that performance comes from her perfect cadence and intonation.

When “Valley Girl” is literally the name of your movie, you better have actors who can do it right. And Deborah Foreman? Well, she practically wrote the valley girl accent manual. Starring Foreman and Nicolas Cage, “Valley Girl” gives a modern, Southern California spin on the story of “Romeo and Juliet.” Foreman plays Julie, a rich, popular girl who starts falling for Randy – the opposite of whom a valley girl should be dating. The movie was conceived of with the intent of riffing on the valley girl fad, something it more than achieves. Everything Foreman does in this movie helped create the valley girl stereotype that we have today. Her materialism, her vocal fry, her tone – it’s all there, baby.