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

I don't know how well this movie holds up, but it was a foundational movie from my youth. I think it is a fine example of the spirit of 80s youth movies.

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• 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
  • righteous dude
• 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.