--- title: Tina Fey Says She's Sorry for Making Fetch From Mean Girls description: Tina Fey belatedly apologized for making "fetch" happen on the Today show 14 years after Mean Girls came out canonical: https://time.com/5264321/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch-happen/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-03T13:25:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:36.622Z og:title: Tina Fey Is Really Sorry She Made Fetch Happen, Guys og:description: The 'Mean Girls' creator talked about bringing the movie to stage on Today og:url: https://time.com/5264321/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch-happen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe08e358b0d42810/69892f6ee76ad29316631e26/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2018 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Junket og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tina Fey Is Really Sorry She Made Fetch Happen, Guys twitter:description: The 'Mean Girls' creator talked about bringing the movie to stage on Today twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe08e358b0d42810/69892f6ee76ad29316631e26/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tina Fey Is Really Sorry She Made Fetch Happen Guys > Sponsored content. 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May 3, 2018 1:25 PM UTC Tina Fey has belatedly issued an apology for making ‘fetch’ happen, fourteen years after [_Mean Girls_](http://time.com/money/4967499/the-mean-girls-cast-is-turning-an-internet-meme-into-a-fundraiser-for-las-vegas/) entered the world and let us know that the slang term was never going to catch on. Stopping by the Today show on Thursday to talk about [_Mean Girls’_ Broadway production earning 12 Tony nominations](http://time.com/5259012/2018-tony-nominations-list/), Fey said ‘fetch’ happened despite her best intentions. “I want to apologize to the world for fetch,” she said. “I didn’t mean for it to happen.” While _Today_ host Savannah Guthrie expressed hope that ‘fetch’ still has a chance to spread, in the words of Regina George: “Stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen.” Fey said _Mean Girls_ earning 12 Tony nods brought her to tears while she was working out in the “middle of Equinox.” “It must have meant more to me than I realized,” she said. > [](https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/992017442967904256) See the movie clip that started it all. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5264321/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch-happen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5264321/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch-happen/"},"headline":"Tina Fey Is Really Sorry She Made Fetch Happen Guys","datePublished":"2018-05-03T13:25:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:36.622Z","description":"Tina Fey belatedly apologized for making \"fetch\" happen on the Today show 14 years after Mean Girls came out","url":"https://time.com/5264321/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch-happen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe08e358b0d42810/69892f6ee76ad29316631e26/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe08e358b0d42810/69892f6ee76ad29316631e26/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Junket","caption":"2018 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Junket","creditText":"Jenny Anderson—Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5264321/tina-fey-mean-girls-fetch-happen/","name":"Tina Fey Is Really Sorry She Made Fetch Happen Guys"}}]}] ```