Talk:Stacey/@comment-188360-20190315145527/@comment-390936-20190315165256

Heh, not only that, but she's also the student body president, and even more impressive, she became the student body president in just her freshman year! (External media connected to A Goofy Movie reveals her to be in the same grade as Max, who was 14 in the movie, making them both 9th graders in the movie.) It is very rare for a high school freshman to both run for student body president and win, as freshmen are usually viewed as newcomers to the school who don't know everyone enough yet, so the fact that Stacey did win in only her freshman year is not only an impressive feat, but one that begs the question of how she won and became so popular.

I myself have thought about this for a while, and though some theorize that it could just be that she threw enough fun parties to make everyone (even the juniors and seniors) like her, I have slightly different theory.

Notice how, when she makes her speech in the movie, she invites everyone (as in, the entire student body) over to her home to come to her party, and in response nearly every student in the room cheers and applauds in excitement for her party. Now, granted, near the end of the movie, from what we can see of Stacey's party, it doesn't quite look like every student showed up (or at least, not every student was in that particular room of her home), but the fact remains that she did extend her party invitation every single one of those students.

This in turn begs another question: How big exactly is Stacey's home that she could invite what looked like hundreds of teenagers to come visit said home of hers? Since we never get an external view of Stacey's home, we can only assume that it is big enough for Stacey to have even made such an extraneous invitation. Which also leaves us wonder how she would have all the space needed to house that many kids under one roof for her party.

This then got me thinking... What if Stacey it actually rich? Maybe not super wealthy like a millionaire or something, but what if her parents are well off enough to perhaps have a nice house big enough to host such a large party? This idea then got me thinking again of how Stacey could have won the student body presidency at only Grade 9, beating out all those upperclassmen who would have run during their junior and senior years.

If we're to suppose that Stacey could be at least a little rich, then maybe she was able to afford a strong enough campaign that appealed to the most students, and paid for it all herself out of pocket. Now, I am not suggesting that she also could have used her wealth to influence the voting, far from it. Just that she was able to financially secure herself a strong enough campaign to help her to win in the long run.

And the other part of this theory of mine ties into her personality. Maybe she not only won the student election because she could afford it, but because maybe she's also ambitious. Being the student body president is no slouching matter, so if she wanted the position enough to win it in just her first year of high school, she had to really go for it. So she probably tried to make friends with as many people at the school as she possibly could, reaching out to all clubs and cliques in order to secure her votes for president. This would make her very confident, bold, gregarious, and above all persistent, and would easily explain how so many people came to like her despite her outwardly nerdy appearance.

We actually do get a glimpse of this side of her in the movie's principal office scene when she repeatedly encourages the shy and nervous Roxanne to talk to Max, and then pulls Roxanne away before things could drag on into awkward territory, as though Stacey was savvy enough to know exactly when the conversation was meant to end. Then, as the two girls walk off down the hall, we hear Stacey express more confidence: "See, that wasn't so bad. I told you men are easy to deal with."

To cap all of this off, something that seems to almost confirm my theory of Stacey being rich can be found in this Danish storybook adaptation of A Goofy Movie. Now, admittedly, there is a LOT of information given in that Danish book that conflicts with the exact events of the movie, but what little info it does give that both wasn't in the movie and does not conflict with it could be used to provide some further insight to the movie's affairs. That said, the text on this page (the one in the link) doesn't particularly have anything too egregious in it (at most, it calls Powerline a "star rapper" instead of a "rockstar", and claims that Max started his concert after Principal Mazur had finished his speech instead of during it), but the main thing here is that the text on this page deliberately refers to Stacey as "a wealthy girl" ("en velhavende pige").

Were this particular bit of text to be believed, that would go far in helping to understand how someone like Stacey, who outwardly resembles the typical nerd/weirdo look of '90s media, could have become the super popular student body president in only her first year of high school.