--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tina Fey Is Really Sorry She Made Fetch Happen Guys by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. May 3, 2018 1:25 PM CUT  Tina Fey attends the 2018 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Junket on May 2, 2018 in New York City. Tina Fey attends the 2018 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Junket on May 2, 2018 in New York City.Jenny Anderson—Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. May 3, 2018 1:25 PM CUT 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/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined"), 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"}}]}] ```