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A popular kid skips school and pulls his best friend and girlfriend into a day of fun.

This was a foundational movie for me, and it still holds up well. I think it is a fine example of the spirit of 80s youth movies.

• Honest Trailers | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

  • by Screen Junkies

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• 2021-08-12
• 2018-10-28
• 2006-10-03

• Watched more than once before; no notes were taken.

2021-08-12 ∞

• 4:00 — Sick day, see also sick leave

• 5:45 —

  • John Lennon
  • The Beatles
• 6:30 — 31 Flavors
• 9:45 — Skipping school

• 11:00 —

  • Great Depression
  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
  • Tariffs
  • Laffer curve
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Voodoo economics
• 12:15 — Trouser snake
• 13:00 — Soundboard
• 33:30 — Pinhead
• 34:30 — What’s that hat+symbol?
• 36:30 — Oh, good continuance with that guy giving out newspapers..

• 38:45 — World’s tallest building..

  • And who are those people with the odd hats?
• 55:45 — His smiling is bearing his teeth at the dog.
• 56:30 — I might actually be able to identify some of those paintings, but I won’t.
• 58:15 — Stuben parade
• 1:00:30 — That gate wasn’t latched.
• 1:11:00 — Herpes (a reference to being raped)
• 1:13:15 — Because she’s the nurse who likes to fuck.

• 1:14:30 —

  Cameron has never been in love. At least nobody’s ever been in love with him.

  If things don’t change for him, he’s going to marry the first girl he lays. And she’s going to treat him like shit… because she will have given him what he has built-up in his mind as the end-all be-all of human existence.

  She won’t respect him, ’cause you can’t respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn’t work.

• 1:35:15 — I’m sure he’d love staying in highschool one more year; that’s where his girlfriend is..
• 1:37:15 — Presumably he’d turn the doorbell-machine off later.
• 1:39:15 — This may well be the first movie with a complete end movie and is one of the early movies which has end-credit scenes.
• 1:41:30 — Shouldn’t the bus start moving by now?

• 1:41:45 — Wouldn’t that gummy bear hit some poor kid in the back of the head?

2018-10-28 ∞

• 0:30 —

  • 70°F = 21°C
  • 75°F = 24°C
• 1:45 — Malingering
• 2:15 — God that 80s-hair.

• 3:00 —

  • I don’t recognize the poster on the left, above his bed.
    — “To love” isn’t enough to go on.
  • On his door is the Union Jack
  • To the right of his door is Simple Minds
  • On the far-right is the Flag of the United States
• 3:15 — Fourth wall
• 3:30 — MTV
• 4:00 — Clammy hands

• 5:00 —

  • Mohawk hairstyle
  • Though I am reminded of Ed Grimley (1982) of Second City Television – (1976 show)
  • Even earlier would be an association to The Little Rascals – (1922 series)

• 5:00 —

  • Socialism – Social democracy
  • See also Genocide and Cold War
  • Fascism, Anarchism
• 5:15 — Danke Schoen – (1963 song), by Wayne Newton

• 5:30 —

  It’s not that I condone fascism or any “ism,” for that matter.

  “Isms,” in my opinion, are not good.

  A person should not believe in an “ism,” he should believe in himself.

• 6:45 — Jesus fuck, the rich Americans portrayed in movies of that era.
• 8:00 — Go Down Moses – (song)
• 10:15 — Hacking
• 12:00 — voodoo economics
• 12:00 — The theme song from I Dream of Jeannie – (1965 show)
• 12:30 — Stevie Wonder
• 12:45 — Alien – (1979 movie)

• 15:00 —

  • Sportos
  • Motorheads
  • Geeks
  • Sluts
  • Bloods
  • Wasteoids
  • Dweebies
  • Dickheads
• 15:15 — Dirty Harry – (1971 movie)

• 15:30 —

  • Diastolic
  • Pepto-Bismol
• 21:45 — He didn’t feign sick when talking to Rooney.
• 23:00 — “Bueller, Ferris Bueller” is a reference to James Bond.
• 26:15 — Ferrari 250

• 29:00 —

  • Book of Common Prayer: “Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.”
• 32:00 — 7 Up
• 32:30 — Pepsi
• 39:45 — There was a hand-signal reference to The Three Stooges.

• 48:30 — Though there is a game called Karate Champ, I don’t know that this is an arcade cabinet with it.

  • 49:15 — Also, that sound is from Pac-Man.
• 54:45 — That’s the theme song from Superman – (1978 movie).
• 58:15 — Is that Oktoberfest or something?
• 1:15:00 — Oreo
• 1:21:15 — Change out of her clothes? She just stripped down to some sort of underthing.
• 1:39:00 — This movie made this song popular.
• 1:41:30 — Gummy bear

• 1:42:30 — This is the proper way to have an end-of-credits scene. By having a during-credits sequence.