Mean Girls Digital Release Cuts Joke from Theatrical Version That 'Hurt' Lindsay Lohan

A line of Mean Girls dialogue that Lindsay Lohan took issue with has been removed from the at-home version.

Last week, the new movie musical, written by Tina Fey, who also reprises her role from the 2004 original, became available for purchase on digital platforms.

Journalist Kristen Maldonado noticed, and pointed out on social media, that a joke delivered by Megan Thee Stallion in the movie was altered. While the original line still appeared on some digital platforms last week, it has now been updated to take out the remark.

In the brief moment, Megan, 29, shows up in a montage talking about Cady Heron (played by Angourie Rice) and her Christmas-themed talent show performance, saying, "Y2K fire crotch is back." Now, the rapper says in the scene, "Hot girls, we are going back red" and laughs.

The original reference is an apparent nod to a 2006 paparazzi video in which Brandon Davis referred to Lohan, now 37, as a "fire crotch." Lohan played Cady in the original film, and she shows up for a cameo in the movie musical.

Shortly after the film hit theaters last month, a rep for Lohan said, "Lindsay was very hurt and disappointed by the reference in the film."

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Fey told Entertainment Weekly about making Lohan's surprise cameo happen.

"Paramount was like, 'Can you get any of the original ladies? And I was like, 'I can't fit five people in.' I felt like if I could only get one person as a surprise, the original movie is really Lindsay's movie," said Fey. "As great as they all are, she's the heart of that movie."

"And I thought, well, what could she do? I didn't think [she should] play a teacher. I was trying to think of something that you wouldn't expect," she continued. "And just to have her do that late in the movie, it also feels like it comes, I hope, at a time where fans weren't expecting one more little surprise. It also lets her be smart, which Cady is."

Fey also told The New York Times about eliminating some jokes from the new Mean Girls after the dialogue proved problematic in the nearly 20 years since the original movie hit theaters.

"I was writing in the early 2000s very much based on my experience as a teen in the late ’80s. It’s come to no one’s surprise that jokes have changed," she said. "You don’t poke in the way that you used to poke. Even if your intention was always the same, it’s just not how you do it anymore, which is fine."

Added the Saturday Night Live alum, "I very much believe that you can find new ways to do jokes with less accidental shrapnel sideways."