You are going on a high school adventure mid-1980s style. Who goes with you: Marty McFly or Ferris Bueller?

Best poll I've seen in months.

Do I get to shoot Ferris Bueller in the head?

the indie answer is Cusack

mcfly is without a doubt the only answer here

although i have to write in a vote for elisabeth shue in adventures in babysitting.

Morbs,

If you want to turn your 1980s movie fantasy into a Michael Mann-directed can-we-catch-this-sicko-before-he-kills-again film, sure. It's your hypothetical.

unless you were already a dispassionate adult when these films came out.

xxp

Morbs there are lots of things I might call you, but dispassionate isn't one of them.

wkiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nly-bfguf4k

I say it with love! I say it with love. xp

Never got the BTTF love myself.

Actually I'd rather hang with Cameron than Ferris.

I'm so sick of you indie jerkoffs. What, do you think you're racking up extra points with girls by naming someone who is clearly incompetent at having a fun time?

Ferris. He knows exactly what he's doing. I trust him.

McFly is second. By=ut there's nothing very cool about him. He's a weird kid who hangs out with an even weirder mad scientist after school. Avoid this person.

He's a weird kid who hangs out with an even weirder mad scientist after school.

where do i sign up?

Morbs on the money. As previously stated, Bueller is a twat.

xp On the dotted line, but I must warn you -- you're just as likely to end up burning all your hair off as having fun.

Marty McFly seems like the most stand-up dude, but I'm just lookin' for a good time not some possibly life/world altering trip through time. In that light, it's gotta be Bueller or Cusack. I have to imagine that an IRL Ferris Bueller would probably be an intolerable douchebag. So maybe Cusack, but he'd likely be all hung up on some girl or some lame shit and be a downer. This is tough.

As previously stated, Bueller is a twat.

Isn't there a thread somewhere about this?

I'm not saying he's not a twat. But I only need a fun-guide for the day.

Cusack seems like the best "friend" material, not so much "adventure" material.

Ah right, didn't think of the Choose Your Own Adventure aspect of this. Still ruling out Bueller cos he wouldn't be much use after I beat him unconscious on page 2.

do we need a separate thread for the kids from stand by me?

Yeah, I've decided on McFly by process of elimination. Bueller would be a dick and probably fuck me over. Cusack would be a good pal, but I doubt we'd have much of an adventure. I'll just have to conquer my fear of time travel.

xp "I never had friends that I beat as viciously as I did when I was twelve."

Srsly Cameron would fuck shit up way better than Ferris. He had that evil thing going on.

http://5secondfilms.com/v3beta/watch/coming_of_age

Trayce is right, but that makes him scary as hell, not fun.

Ferris is basically proto-Juno video blogging all throughout that movie. You can already do this as a kid!
Also their idea of great hooky fun is going to a museum and eating at a fancy restaurant. You can already do this as an adult!
The people who had the most fun in Ferris Bueller were the valets tearing shit out of sports car to star wars theme. Maybe hang out with those dudes.

Holy shit I never thought of that. You're totally right.

hahah tru.

With Marty you can travel through time. How could the other two dudes top that?

I think you should've added Bill & Ted there, though. With them you can travel through time and just have fun, without worrying about stuff like the grandfather paradox.

Also play Battleship with Death.

Sadly, not an option.

Buellar, FFS people. No one Marty hangs out with in the two films that matter actually gets to go on the time machine, except the guy who invented it and his girlfriend who gets her memory wiped. All that happens is that you get to fuck the girl you were already going to marry, or get saved from being gunned down by Libyan terrorists.

You hang out with Buellar you get 1x awesome day.

I'd probably put the Goonies ahead of Marty and Cusack, actually.

^^^ All this OTM. This too:

Actually I'd rather hang with Cameron than Ferris

... but I have a feeling we'd probably just end up back at his by 3pm, playing on his Commodore 64 until tea-time. So: Ferris it is.

Marty McFly can fuck off and take his skateboard with him.

I'm gonna keep on this one like Tuomas on a nazi car drivers thread.

Marty!

and i would forever be doing the "hello, mcfly!" thing to keep us both amused.

Ferris would totally use and manipulate your ass and steal all the glory. And fuck up your dad's car. I don't want any of those things in my adventure.

"Hey Ferris, any chance you could introduce me to yo sister?"

The Cameron house is still up for sale, you guys.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/370-Beech-Street_Highland-Park_IL_60035_1109385563?+mp=1#Request

Only $11,715 per month!

More like

http://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/lea-thompson-back-to-future.jpg vs http://www.geocities.com/miasara4/pictures/025.jpg

And I guess I'm gonna go with Leah Thompson on this one.

"Hey Marty, any chance you could introduce me to yo mother?"

... but I have a feeling we'd probably just end up back at his by 3pm, playing on his Commodore 64 until tea-time.

This sounds pretty good to me! Well, better than having Ferris crack jokes at my expense all day, and McFly's not gonna let me along cz I can't skate. Probably just going to abandon me in a heap of garbage pails after I fall off the board.

oh stop pitying yourself.

I think I would end up boring Marty to death with BTTF trivia

"hey did you notice they changed the mall name, after you ran over that pine tree?"
"okay adventures over kid"

Ferris? Ew. So full of himself. I guess my pick would be McFly just to get back to 2009 cause I sure as fuck didn't have that much fun as a teenager. Although it could havebeen worse with Ferris around. Then again if Cusack's around, I'd definitely want to get stuck being a 17 year old chick who gets driving lessons from Cusack.

To be honest I'd rather be in Less Than Zero.

You are one dark bitch.

And fuck up your dad's car

Hmm.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/d/de/20080224060125!Nissan_Primera_Sedan_2001.jpg

Somehow I don't think he'd be too interested in that.

Kenan helpfully channelling too-cool-for-you-whiny-bitches high schoolers to remind us all that a day stuck in a car with one is maybe not the best adventure out there

good work finding those relatively similar photos nate

Oh who are we kidding, like we're not all too-cool-for-you-whiny-bitches.

Also their idea of great hooky fun is going to a museum and eating at a fancy restaurant. You can already do this as an adult!

nah, see you're missing the point. Remember, both Bueller and McFly are both kids from boring suburbia, and so the choice is between spending a day, on your own, in the big awesome city, or spending a day in the boring suburban fifties. Bueller, no contest.

bueller is so annoying it would be anyone but him. and the fact that I liked mcfly at the time makes it even easier.
I totally agree with the fact that bueller's day off is pretty lame if you consider it as a fantasy "best day of your teenage years" day.

What "best day" would include a friend going nuts?

I thought the same: anyone but him. Christ, who would want to be with him. I could understand wanting to be him (not really but I can see why you would be so delusional). He's just an annoying prat who's destined to be a boring officeworker, really. It's the climax of his life and I do not want to be part of it.
Like I said, I would just love to be in Less Than Zero. Now that's some fucked up teenage fantasy I would love to act out. (I like how they cast Andrew M in it! Perfect choice really/)

Write in:

http://amantesdocinema.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/carrie-white.jpg

I've got a few... uh... things to take care of that she could help me with.

Aw, wait. It's the mid-80s, so she's already dead. Okay, nevermind.

Okay, second choice write-in:

http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/marystuartmasterson.jpg

is the question referring to what they got up to in their movies?

for instance in bttf, where would we fit in? at what point in the time travelling adventure would we appear and say "hi marty, alright if we hang today?"

or is it an entirely new adventure? in which case my answer would change to ferris.

Guys, Bueller will just wreck your dad's car, while McFly will get you laid. How is this even a question?

Also, do not overlook the Ben Stein vs. Christopher Lloyd factor. I feel like this is important.

my only prob with Ferris was browbeating Cam into putting the Ferrari in jeopardy. stupid. everything else A+

imho, Cusack is (typically) the most intolerable of these.

Like, she's gettable, you know, like, like, Elizabeth Shue.
- Oh, I remember her. - Yeah.
You know, she was in Leaving Las Vegas in addition to Adventures in Babysitting.
One of those underrated actresses that was always talented and beautiful,
and never quite popped, if you know the meaning.
- Who, Elizabeth Shue? - Yeah.
Like totally naked in, um, Leaving Las Vegas.
And, uh, still ,still so hot.
Like, uh...
- I don't see art films. - Like, like, crazy hot.
Yeah, it's about 39 minutes, 45 seconds in.
It's a really exceptional sequence.
I mean, Nick Cage is poisoning himself with alcohol.
He's a failed writer who just decides that,
"Ooh, I'm going to have a big last hurrah in Las Vegas."
And then he meets a whore and pays her a bunch of money to stay with him,
uh, and have sex with him while he murders himself slowly.
And, you know, she's game for it, but
she catches feelings midway through and the whole thing changes.
Wow, h-have youseen Cocktail?
- Uh, yeah, yeah. - She was in that.
- She was in that. - Yeah.

Bueller would be a dick and probably fuck me over. Cusack would be a good pal, but I doubt we'd have much of an adventure.

this seems correct.

matt dc otm -- marty's best mate is some old inventor dude. how he ends up with his chick idk.

ferris bueller's day off is probably my favourite film of all time, up there with 'the hangover', so im not not going to pick ferris.

I'm so sick of you indie jerkoffs. What, do you think you're racking up extra points with girls by naming someone who is clearly incompetent at having a fun time?

Ferris. He knows exactly what he's doing. I trust him.

― Brundlefly (kenan), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:19 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

McFly is second. By=ut there's nothing very cool about him. He's a weird kid who hangs out with an even weirder mad scientist after school. Avoid this person.

― Brundlefly (kenan), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:25 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

this OTM

ferris pwns this. tho BTTFs are some of my favorite movies and i love marty, dude's actually kind of a loser

best part was the indie jerkoffs

Anyone who's going all "I'd hang out with Ferris but he'd just be a dick to me" has self-esteem issues.

McFly is second. By=ut there's nothing very cool about him. He's a weird kid who hangs out with an even weirder mad scientist after school. Avoid this person.

I think I partially hate Ferris cause he's so squeaky clean cut future office worker who obv only fucks missionary style. Like how fucked up are you if you wanna have a "wild" time with that dude? Personally I have never understood the appeal of Ferris AT ALL.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UERtBCEkU2w/SdOSVqWAicI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/ExkuetzBidU/s320/sheen.jpg

^wildcard option

only fucks missionary style

I'm sure I speak for all ILX dudes when I say I would have looked down on that at the age of 16.

i was actually going to wildcard Estevez, far more my sort of (umm) dude.

i don't get all this Ferris is a dick business. maybe a little, but really only to pompous authority figures. and yeah, the car thing was kind of fucked up.

Re Charlie: Dude's made out of plasticine (?). Icky.

http://www.seanastin.com/images/gooniespic.jpg

This dude beats all despite being several years younger.

OMG I was so jealous of MS Masterson. The guy, the sticks, the haircut,...

yeah, the car thing was kind of fucked up.

But Cameron's dad loved the car more than Cameron! The car had to die.

a man with priorities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile.

McFly has a band that's TOO LOUD are you people kidding?!??

I would hang out with Ferris, I think he could get me out of my shell and teach me to appreciate life.

Fast cars, loud guitars, fights in bars! Come on!

what would the equivalent of this thread but for 90s TV be ?

http://sbtb2001.tripod.com/zack.jpg

or

http://img.mensencia.com/2008/12/corin2.jpg

?

But Cameron's dad loved the car more than Cameron!

it was a really nice car

btw McFly's girlfriend is his mom, Ferris' girlfriend is
http://www.thefakelife.com/blog/uploaded_images/Pinup5MiaSara.jpg

McFly's girlfriend is Shue, again (in II anyway)

xp Boo-ya

wau

sloane peterson

why would i want to spend a day with any of these smarmy bastards anyway

can i hang out with duckie?

Duckie is Not Cute.

OMG you must be kidding. We've covered this on some other thread -- Duckie is insane. Duckie is one more rejection away from killing your grandma at Luby's.

that's the whole point (for some): pick someone uglier than you

i'm not exactly dying to hang out with duckie either but i'd take that over playing wingman to any of these egomaniacs

Sloane Peterson is based on the producer's daughter, also Sloane, who now writes kids' books.

xp Duckie is an egomaniac, too. (What teenager isn't?) A severely wounded ego who never stands up for himself except in episodes of weird near-violence.

the weird science dweebs inhabit a crazy universe of materializing teen sex fantasies and mad max thugs crashing ur party and rockets launching etc, i think i'd go for that actually

oh yeah, I was thinking about weird science too : talk about a teenage boys' fantasy !

Marty performing Johhny B. Goode onstage vs Ferris miming Twist & Shout during a parade (rockism vs popism?).

Anyone who's going all "I'd hang out with Ferris but he'd just be a dick to me" has self-esteem issues.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:11 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

QFT

i mean look at the question

You wake up tomorrow and you're in an American high school during the mid-1980s. But you are not going to go to school today - no - instead you are about to have the greatest day of your life going on a wild, surreal (possibly existential?) adventure with one of the presented fictional characters.

this is like DESIGNED for bueller

IT'S WHAT HE DOES.

did a bunch of you guys have some bad childhood experience with ferris bueller's day off or a ferris bueller "type"? im genuinely mystified at how many people seem weirdly threatened by him

Only annoying thing would be him ignoring you for five minutes at a time to talk to the camera.

Siding with s1ocki and Matt here; this is a no-brainer for Ferris.

xp: lol

ilx doesn't think it's seen anything good today, pt. 94.

marty mcfly is great but hes kinda neurotic

dont get me wrong i love marty but the question is who would you rather take a "day off" with

I think maybe he's just stressed about the whole traveling back in time and trying to save his family from being erased thing.

I think an equalizing factor could be if you get to travel in time in the DeLorean on your "day off" with Marty.

then i'd rather see a choice b/w him and bill & ted as mentioned above

also people worried about ferris bein a jerk?? i dont know if u guys have seen the movie but everyone at high school loves ferris--the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him--they think hes a righteous dude

he'd probably just ignore me *sigh*

marty seems like he'd be a real pain in the ass about halfway through the high school adventure

wait i choose bill and ted

Thinking Ferris is a jerk = siding with the principal

(might kiw his bitchy sister, tho)

Lest you all think I went to college in John Hughes Valhalla, we had special guest appearances by John Cusack (visited my friend, girls who picketed Philip Morris for fun would run across the quad to ask, 'got a light?' just to speak to him) and one of the Weird Science guys, unofficially living with my best friend's suite partner.

Real Sloane 10000000x less good-looking than Movie Sloane but 100000000x more entitled.

also people worried about ferris bein a jerk?? i dont know if u guys have seen the movie but everyone at high school loves ferris--the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him--they think hes a righteous dude

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:18 AM (1 minute ago)

Actual LOL at this. Well done.

(I'd probably choose B&T if they were an option)

Real Sloane 10000000x less good-looking than Movie Sloane but 100000000x more entitled.

― bad hijab (suzy), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:22 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait are you saying you actually knew the real sloane?

the actor or the model for the character?

yes i would like that explained, too. mia sara or the inspiration for the role?

lol xpost bc i refuse to believe mia sara is not beautiful irl.

i refuse to believe mia sara is entitled irl

I can only find one non-Hollywood pic of her and it's her now as opposed to her then:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/03/0306_memba_reveal.jpg

hmmmm

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lZAY1-kIGDA/SCwl_gPiuaI/AAAAAAAAAjA/sV5cmSYscJw/s320/MM2Ferris.jpg

wow mia sara looks like older sis from "one day at a time" in that pic

I'm not talking about Mia Sara, who is gorgeous.

S1ocki, I barely knew real Sloane (Daddy produced the J Hughes films) but this is her:

http://kids.bloomsburyusa.com/images/authors/a784.jpg

In a cohort which included Julianna Margulies and Guin Turner, she did not seem AT ALL remarkable.

^she is kind of a combo of Mia Sara and SJP, yes?

Sloaney.

mia sara is gorg

I think Bill and Ted are not an option because who could vote for anyone else if they were?

(this opinion not borne out by anyone else's posts on thread at all, but still)

yes i was going to cite LEGEND as corroborating evidence, max

xpost

idk i think those guys might annoy me after a bit

(re bill & ted)

you'd defly have to listen to a lot of wild stallyns

ya legend is uber-classic

She is currently involved with Brian Henson, son of Muppet creator Jim Henson, with whom she has a daughter.

someone should do a pheobe cates v mia sara

that someone is you

id do a phoebe cates

I think I know why I hate Ferris so much: he just reminds me of Friends.

He reminds you of something from 10 years later?

That has almost no similarity at all?

?

are you sure you're not thinking of that gang leader from Warriors?

ah, I had totally forgotten about phoebe cates... what has she done after the 80s ?

John Cusack, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. and Michael J. Fox were all considered for the role of Ferris Bueller. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/trivia

I'd love to see a version of the film with each one of those !

john cusack is such a drip...he should get negative votes.

also, was carrey already famous in the 80s ?

He was the white guy on In Living Color and ISTR hating his annoying gurn.

http://gremlinbaby.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/fire-marshall-bill.jpg

He was the white guy on In Living Color and ISTR hating his annoying gurn.

― bad hijab (suzy), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:16 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this was the 90s

Yeah, I was just thinking that.

He reminds you of something from 10 years later?

I don't know what year you're living in - hey time zones and everything - but I'm living in 2009.

earth girls are easy, y'all

I think I blocked the existence of that movie from my memory.

Peggy Sue Got Married!

also from IMDB

Eric Stoltz auditioned for the role of Ferris.

x-post - He was in PSGM? Was he one of the guys in Nic Cage's singing group?

Tom Cruise would have been the worst Bueller imaginable.

also: once bitten

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=40

copy-paste fail

BEST ALTERNATE FERRIS

x-post Oh God Elmo - Once Bitten! LOL

Do I get to shoot Ferris Bueller in the head?

^^^this. such a hatable fuck.

going with Cusack, McFly's kinda boring/too straightlaced

Yeah I remember when Jim Carrey's roles in Once Bitten, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Earth Girls are Easy made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1980s.

Eric Stoltz too intense for both movies apparently.

intensely smug maybe

I'd probably vote for McFly, but the more realistic vote for me would be for:

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/wargames.jpg

legend was a pretty stupid boring-ass movie, iirc

it is really boring but i love it

damn evan dont play me like that

it is mostly about prettiness

xpost

the number of times family guy has 'done' bits of both of these films, i think seth macfarlane should just 'blue harvet' either one of them.

vest

i think the problem a lot of people have with legend is that they dont get stoned before they watch it

ah, I was also thinking about war game !
the geek saves the world and gets the girl : what's not to like !

i never saw it when i was a kid! also i fell asleep like 20 minutes in, so

being stoned may have actually been part of the problem

i have never seen it stoned fwiw.

the geek saves the world and gets the girl : what's not to like !

no monkeys

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093793/

chicago people back me up on this -- you guys can totally put together an itinerary under $100 for madcap chicago adventure that will blow Bueller's tourist trip out of the water TRUE?

but i guess evan has a problem with things/people that are pretty

xposts

yes, it is called ridin yr bike thru lawndale

ahhh but we're not talking about broderick, we're talking about ferris.

otherwise, wargames broderick in a snap.

dang, horseshoe :(

Oh God, project X is so sad.

kidding, evan! it is a ridiculously boring movie tbh; that's part of its appeal.

i dont think i could even offer up a plot summary of legend

i was really excited about watching it, too, since normally some cheeseball fantasy flick + weed + a glass of wine = me, chillin

should've just watched labyrinth instead

pretty pretty pretty unicorns TIM CURRY pretty pretty

xpost

actually now that i think about it, david bowie wins this poll

no monkeys

ahah, that should be the definitive reply to all messages !

I feel like "I should have just watched Labyrinth" could be applied to a lot of situations I find myself in.

one thing I learned from Legend: unicorns make songs, like whales

also i think the reason ppl think ferris is a smug dick has to do with him taking cameron's dad's car and wrecking it and just kinda shrugging it off like "oh it's for the best, look i have liberated you from yr filial guilt & obligation and you will later thank me"

thanks a lot but don't do me any favors, jerk

that and being a total do-no-wrong golden boy, i totally get why jeannie would hate his guts

McFly; most likable character in the best film.

also i think the reason ppl think ferris is a smug dick has to do with him taking cameron's dad's car and wrecking it and just kinda shrugging it off like "oh it's for the best, look i have liberated you from yr filial guilt & obligation and you will later thank me"

yeah, this is actually not at all what happens, is the thing

Basically, you are taking crazypants talk that came from Cameron and attributing it to Ferris.

but cameron was right, is the thing

Ferris is a jerk, but to be fair he does offer to hang around and explain it to Cameron's old man (FB: "Your dad hates me anyway")

yeah elmo ferris doesnt wreck cameron's dad's car

guys really the reason not to go with ferris is that you might get stuck in a fucking parade based beatles dance number and have to off yourself to stop the pain

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

wtf, what pain? lip-synching in front of easily-impressed cheerleaders? is that the pain you're talking about? bcuz I can live with that pain

Ferris' sense of entitlement is totally obnoxious - not to mention his total obliviousness to other people

totally

^^ dry that one out you could fertilize the lawn

yup

ok it has obviously been some time since i watched the whole movie but ferris is still a dick who uses his friends and parents imho

you have all been taken in by ferris' charisma, basically

oh NOES

you have all been taken in by ferris' charisma, basically

― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:08 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

no apologies here for wanting to spend a wild, one-day adventure w/ fun charismatic dude

who will use you and cast you aside without a second thought

yeah but not if that day ends with you discovering that ferris has been nailing your mom

we're all adults here

Plz point out where in the movie Ferris uses someone and casts them aside without a second thought.

Sloane: "He's going to marry me!"
er, no he isn't, evidenced by the fact that he tried chatting up two bikini clad women five seconds after leaving you to run off home.

(that's not a response to HI DERE, just a general exapmle of Ferris not exactly beig loyal to people (damn (this keyboard)))

He totally used that snooty maitre d and cast him aside.

also, BEATLES PARADE

He totally used that Beatles parade and then cast it aside.

i don't want to overthink it, but a lot of what ferris does is to amuse the viewer, breaking the fourth wall shit. so he introduces himself to the ladies because it's funny, not because he's thinking about two-timing sloan.

He totally used the Sears Tower and then cast it aside

Ferris' sense of entitlement is totally obnoxious - not to mention his total obliviousness to other people

― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:02 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

totally

― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:02 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what happened here

was wondering the same

re: bikini girls - oh come on, like no one with a girlfriend who is running home to avoid getting busted for truancy wouldn't flirt with a couple of babes in bikinis sunbathing in the backyard he just sprinted through

re: BEATLES PARADE - I'm sorry, I would have thought a Beatles parade would fit the textbook definition of "things that should be used and then cast off without a second thought", my bad

xp: "his TOTALLY obliviousness"!

I said totally a lot

x-post

ferris used shakey mo and then tossed him aside

how many times have we had this Ferris argument?

I am kind of in awe of the fact that a debate over whether Ferris B. is a good dude or a bad dude has gone on this long. I didn't realize this was such a divisive issue.

x-post - It's happened before??

ok that "totally" thing just reminds me: I would most like to skip school with johnny slash from square pegs, hands down

"Hey Beatles parade would you like to join me on my great day off? well, fuck u"

I would most like to skip school with johnny slash from square pegs, hands down

ooh yes

(xxxpost) someone should start publishing Cliff's/Brodie's Notes for popular reoccurring ILX threads...

also in the directors cut he totally fucks that drum majors girlfriend on the sly

In fairness, it was a regular parade that Ferris turned into a Beatles parade, then discarded, but you have to admit that the parade seemed much happier after being so roughly used; sometimes all a parade needs is a good smack in order to make it feel loved.

It's not like he forced the parade's head into a pillow and made it say his name over and over.

literally

Ferris is cool... he's happy with his water tower.

What a disaster for Beatles parade.

it took years for that water-tower to recover from the shame of being used to promote the hoax of ferris' illness

sexy singing telegram nurse was totally cast aside, door slammed in face

Also another reason to dislike FB - he owns an Emulator keyboard but all he uses it to do is help him skip school.

(xpost) I never figured out how that rhyme ended...

Also another reason to dislike FB - he owns an Emulator keyboard but all he uses it to do is help him skip school.

― snoball, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:32 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how do you know that's all he uses it for

LOOK GUYS MISTAKES WERE MADE OK?

he uses it to emulate the moans of all the girls he's deflowered

in what sort of situation?

Janet Staiger asks, "How can we use a film such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off to consider and reconsider Louis Althusser's theories of ideology, aesthetics, institutions such as schools and families, and mass culture?"[9] Scholars have identified different aspects of how the film depicts or does not depict teacher and the role of these depictions in popular culture. The authors of Education in Popular Culture write that in "the 1980s, Bauer argues films such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off...represented 'disciplinary intimacy' - the teacher imposes his/her authority, even if...this is masked by an eccentric individualistic persona."[10] For Martin Morse Wooster, the film simply "portrayed teachers as humorless buffoons."[11] Tara Brabazon writes that the "impact of...Ferris Bueller's Day Off serves to render invisible the female teacher from popular culture."[12]

in what sort of situation?

when he's on the phone with cameron

Regarding not specifically teachers, but rather a type of adult characterization in general, Art Silverblatt asserts that the "adults in Ferris Bueller's Day Off are irrelevant and impotent. Ferris's nemesis, the school disciplinarian, Mr. Rooney, is obsessed with 'getting Bueller.' His obsession emerges from envy. Strangely, Ferris serves as Rooney's role model, as he clearly possesses the imagination and power that Rooney lacks....By capturing and disempowering Ferris, Rooney hopes to...reduce Ferris's influence over other students, which would reestablish adults, that is, Rooney, as traditional authority figures."[13]

Nevertheless, Silverblatt concludes that "Rooney is essentially a comedic figure, whose bumbling attempts to discipline Ferris are a primary source of humor in the film."[14] Indeed, as Thomas Patrick Doherty writes that "the adult villains in teenpics such as...Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) are overdrawn caricatures, no real threat; they're played for laughs."[15] Yet, Silverblatt also remarks that casting "the principal as a comic figure questions the competence of adults to provide young people with effective direction--indeed, the value of adulthood itself."[16]

1) have read staiger on canons before: she is an idiot.
2) althusser is also an idiot.
3) that sounds like the worst article ever.

yup

Tara Brabazon writes that the "impact of...Ferris Bueller's Day Off serves to render invisible the female teacher from popular culture."[12]

wtf

Nevertheless, Silverblatt concludes that "Rooney is essentially a comedic figure, whose bumbling attempts to discipline Ferris are a primary source of humor in the film."

lol... amazing conclusion

pretty deep reading there, that went way over my head when i was 10

Principal Ed Rooney >>>>>> Ferris >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> D.A.R.Y.L.

several posts on this thread are a primary source of humor to me

Also another reason to dislike FB - he owns an Emulator keyboard but all he uses it to do is help him skip school.

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how do you know that's all he uses it for

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There's no recording equipment in the house except for that busted up tape machine he uses to fool Rooney over the door intercom, and I'm pretty sure that his PC is a bit underpowered to be a Pro Tools rig...

Performance doesn't need to be documented to be relevant.

It at least needs to be witnessed, come on

(xpost) Taken on board, but then it's just Bueller's word against mine that he actually used it to make music.

(xpost) FB: "Hey Sloane, some up to my room and watch me play sneezing and coughing noises on this hideously expensive Emulator. Actually I have a Fairlight in the basement, but I never use it because I'm such a jerk!"

Isn't that part of the joke, though? That his parents buy him anything he wants?

hey sloane, come up to my room, and do it with me

And yeah, maybe he's making brilliant music with it. If you're in high school, it's still going to be more important to not be in high school.

Except a car. That's always bugged me, there he is complaining "oh 'rents bought me a PC instead of a car", and never mind that a PC at that time was way more expensive than a cheap car (see Cameron's "piece of shit"), why couldn't FB have sold his $8000 (1986 dollars) Emulator and bought a car if it bugged him so much?

Because it was a gift? I've been stuck with stuff like that.

Ok, not near that nice.

this is a secret so don't tell anyone but the first 12 jandek albums were recorded by ferris on that synth, he's just not big on publicity

don't worry, not going to show up on Perez Hilton very soon

To be honest, McFly's dream of having pickup truck and parents who play tennis is just as petty as anything Bueller came up with.

f these boring dudes
i want to go on an 80s adventure with the girls from satisfaction, minus julia roberts because all she wanted to do was hang out with her boring boyfriend

given the chance i think i would choose the "real" sloane.

cuz at least she's real.

this thread has made my morning.

besides we know Ferris is a dickhead because he never offers to kill the ants in Mr. Rooney's office and record their death squeals on his Emulator.

i want to go on an 80s adventure with the girls from satisfaction, minus julia roberts because all she wanted to do was hang out with her boring boyfriend

haha he would be replaced by Dean Wareham following Britta around

btw Ferris would be way more fun than McFly but he is pretty overbearing, and would obviously call you uptight and bully you into doing stuff you didn't want to do

he'd keep calling you.

he'd make you feel guilty.

friends like that are fun for a while, but can get pretty awful pretty quickly, especially if their whole "making you have fun" routine leads you to become slightly more fun and meet people you can hang out with who won't drag you around like a sidekick

i bet the kids in ferris bueller's parents have a coke stash

the kids in his parents?

yeah exactly

i get u

awkward phrasing... i don't think george peterson sounds like someone who'd have a coke stash.

well i havent seen that movie just tv shows

feed them on yr dreams

dreams of marrying a pizza, fucking some 80s chick

It was the kind of neighborhood where if they didn't have coke they'd at least have medicine cabinets filled with good RX stuff.

It's the kind of neighborhood where kids have Bryan Ferry posters on their walls .

Is Ferris Bueller an accurate depiction of segregation in Chicago? cause I don't think I saw one black guy in the whole movie, let alone his neighborhood.

its an accurate depiction of anytown, u.s.a.

think u answered yr own q bro

the black guy who looked like Tracy Chapman in the scene where Cam's car gets hijacked!

(xpost)

Anyone who's going all "I'd hang out with Ferris but he'd just be a dick to me" has self-esteem issues.

Have you seen the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off? If so, can you see how we can interpret him as an egomaniac who kind of just uses/fucks with people. I think anyone who's willing to tolerate this guy walk all over them for the benefit of his own adventure has self-esteem issues. See: Cameron.

i cant believe like half the people in this thread are actually afraid of ferris bueller

he was on coke and had a computer - u can see their reasoning

he was noize before there was noize

i cant believe like half the people in this thread are actually afraid of ferris bueller

Um, well, ILE is full of Camerons. Surprised?

ban ferris

lolz "afraid"? He's just a jerk

ILE loves a good jerk

a good, slow jerk

esp. in a circle

ILE=Cameron
Noize=Ferris
ILM=the principal
77=dude who joyride's cameron's car

this thread is great.

do you have a kiss for daddy

ILF = George Peterson

ILM is more like Grace.

nah Grace is I Love TMI

yeah, not so much "afraid" as "this dude would be a trial if you decided you weren't up for doing something"

I would be less worried about being a Cameron and more worried about the mid-80s high-school adventure ending abruptly right in the beginning with a "no, Ferris, you are not taking my dad's car, so either shut up about it or get out of my house"

after which he'd probably sit around your house all day whining and complaining and cajoling and ruining your day

u r so afraid - afraid of adventure

maybe u could just do coke and listen to bryan ferry instead of stealing cars

see, if I was friends with Ferris, he'd know better than to even ask me to take out my dad's awesome car; instead, we'd go gang up on someone else and coerce them into taking out their dad's car

cameron is ferris' best friend why because he is doormat

If I was friends with Ferris I would insist that his mom looked like Claire Huxtable.

"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you would have a diamond."

Bueller clearly needs to spend more time in school, or at least French class.

The fact that Cameron is a doormat is why Ferris is pushing him so hard. He doesn't like seeing his best friend act like a dishrag.

re: Tracy Chapman you're right! that guy was totally black. I think I'd conflated him with his eastern european valet buddy and remembered them as both being swarthy Greeks.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4b0u2_ferris-bueller-star-wars_shortfilms

well, he's been absent nine times.

(xxpost)

nine

times

nine

lines

of coke

let's

eastern european valet buddy

wasn't this sonic youth drummer and jarmusch fave richard edson?

party!!!!

nine times the same song played on an Emulator

up the primrose path to cloud cuckoo land or whatever

get used to getting used, if you can't be used then you're useless -- kanye west ferris beuller

btw i only had a taped-from-tv broadcast copy of FB so it was "Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his assfist, in two weeks you would have a diamond."

I have to imagine a Bueller/ilxor matchup would be reminiscent of this. Unfortunately the "YOU SAID STEP OFF!" bit with George turning has hat backwards isn't included.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ocpSPo1N7Q&feature=PlayList&p=3AC719974E5A3C42&index=3

http://www.rosaselvaggia.com/Sonic-Youth-the-first-album.jpg

whoa huge sorry

but that's valet dude

this thread boils down to two choices. would you rather:

1) hang out at an art museum, watch a baseball game with your bros

2) go back to the past and try to get your parents to hook up. also, your mom thinks you're hot and wants to bone you.

you forgot about inventing rock and roll

sorry i was distracted by my hot mom

that would be a side-effect anyway

not sure the other dude was intended to read as eastern European

I think we've have discussions before about 1980s Chicago-area Hughes(y) movies and their suburbs/city politics -- they mostly take the northern suburbs as this lovely upper-middle-class home and then send kids adventuring out into the scary scary city, filled with potentially dangerous minorities and working-class people. (This is way more of an Adventures in Babysitting thing than a Bueller one, but that's sort of the psychic organization for everything during this era.) Yes, Chicago proper is highly segregated in a north/south direction and the 80s were a pretty peak time for dysfunction in (and suburban fear of) inner cities.

thanks nerd

nabisco otm

that's what yr mom said

up his assfist

When Cameron pretends to be Sloane's dad on the phone to Rooney, is his line amended to:

"Pardon my French, but you're a assfisthole"?

that was an xpost

hahahaha

1) hang out at an art museum, watch a baseball Cubs game with your bros

This has probably been clarified but does McFly bring the time traveling ability with him on this adventure?

If so then anyone who doesn't pick him is just stupid really.

he scary scary city, filled with potentially dangerous minorities and working-class people.

they go to a museum, a stock exchange (?), a baseball game, a posh restaurant... and then a big parade where numerous minorities and poor folk dance in class-and-racial harmony with the rich people in their skyscrapers etc.

Is Ferris Bueller an accurate depiction of segregation in Chicago? cause I don't think I saw one black guy in the whole movie, let alone his neighborhood.

I was under the impression that all John Hughes movies are filmed, and thus are based, in Winnetka, IL, which is possibly the most affluent Chicago suburb. Liz Phair is from there, and her debut album sounds better if you imagine her singing as a confused and grown up character from an unspecified J.H. film.

you guys please don't turn this thread into a racism/bottle opener thread

ferris bueller is a racist, did you see the way he patronized that valet

This is way more of an Adventures in Babysitting thing than a Bueller one

In Bueller the daytime city is just an array of exciting wonders where random citizens may or may not break out into choreographed dance routines

When I was in school I used to go jogging north into Winnetka and then, at some point, start to feel really uncomfortable

nabisco after their money

I have always disliked his hat and vest. Bueller, not nabisco.

they go to a museum, a stock exchange (?), a baseball game, a posh restaurant... and then a big parade where numerous minorities and poor folk dance in class-and-racial harmony with the rich people in their skyscrapers etc.

dont know if anyone has mentioned this but it is a big beatles parade

at first it is a big Wayne Newton parade

(although I guess a good part of Bueller involves the kids' ability to navigate the adult world of the city -- e.g. Ferris's breezy trust in the parking guys' professionalism vs. use of the sausage-king routine to get into the restaurant)

a wayne-newton-&-beatles parade iirc

If a black guy had pulled the kind of stunts Judd Nelson did in the Breakfast Club he wouldn't have gotten a second-chance in detention, no, they just would've tossed him out of the school. turns out John Hughes likes his racism like I like my ex-girlfriends: institutionalized.

Ferris's sister was otm, he was pretty annoying. And she made out w/drug addicted Charlie Sheen, which is something I could relate to.

Marty had a better vest, and was just a nicer guy.

Cunga, wtf are you talking about here, right now

lets see where this is going

it going to the chicago mercantile exchange, to party

http://fashiongrunge.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/marty-mcfly.jpg

That is a warm and practical vest/jacket.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/ferris.jpg

This vest manages to be both preppy and eurotrashy, so: yuck.

Someone said let's not derail this thread and make it about possible racism in J.H./80s movies

hahahahaha okay, carry on

wait, no

not wanting a friend who treats his friends the way ferris treats cameron=omg u have 0 self esteem loser lol

I couldn't really figure out why people would hang out with him, but he was popular and people always want to hang out with the popular kid no matter how dickish they are.

cameron seems like a dick

cusack - better off dead / one crazy summer era - precondition he cannot talk about girls

hey wasn't cameron on spin city with marty mcfly?

we should ask him which one he prefers

not wanting a friend who treats his friends the way ferris treats cameron=omg u have 0 self esteem loser lol

It's funny people were making that argument since the nihilistic jerk/smartass and his nice guy friend who can't say no to him is a really popular boyhood/teenage friendship.

how did I not know that the actor who played Cameron is named "Alan Ruck"?

"big parade where numerous minorities"
Not to toss the race salad again, but Jesus Christ, in Chicago, Germans = minorities?

Haha Kirk gives Cameron pep talk. Even as capt. of starship, Cameron still has trouble taking initiative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JisAlX4hwvk

For the same reason you didn't know the weird trivia that Cameron was almost 30 when they filmed Ferris Bueller.

hey wasn't cameron on spin city with marty mcfly?

― four and twenty blackbirds too weak to work (G00blar), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:42 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we should ask him which one he prefers

― four and twenty blackbirds too weak to work (G00blar), Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:42 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahaha

Haha this is not a derail, but I'm pretty sure Bueller featured that mainstay of 80s film: the black construction worker with his hard hat. I'm not sure why that's like the central-casting scene-filling type for 80s movies set in cities (haha city-center urban renewal projects?), but there is always a black construction worker walking around, maybe doing a reaction shot or having a few lines or breaking into spontaneous dancing along with a trader type in a suit.

wasn't it almost always the same guy, too?

"what a shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that"

^ That's one of my favorite lines in any movie ever.

haha now I am imagining an "Unsung Heroes of Black History: That Guy Who Played the Construction Worker in the 80s" segment

I'm trying to think of a way you could consider that racially dodgy and not just "stock types you'd put on a city street," but all I can think of is that the hard-hat occasionally seems to be going out of its way to reassure you that this guy has a job

Nabisco OTM

And why am I picturing http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001817/ as the nameless construction worker? Surely his 80s career was predicated on playing nameless 80s cops.

no, the construction worker was always skinny, wore a sleeveless gray sweatshirt, and walked like he was pretty happy with life

wkiw

all I can think of is that the hard-hat occasionally seems to be going out of its way to reassure you that this guy has a job

"It doesn't include insurance, the physical hazards will cripple him, and he's paid less than his white co-workers because his boss assumes that he'll make up the shortfall by stealing from he job site, but he does have a job."

http://scienceblogs.com/omnibrain/backtothefuture_hoverboard.jpg

all that matters

I am kinda surprised 300 posts and no hoverboard talk

guys please keep in mind that the popularity of ferris bueller led directly to the creation of parker lewis can't lose

vote responsibly

maybe you should redo this thread, including the whole scatter of Mike Seavers and Zach Morrisses

also possibly Clarissa, tbh

why did you post the one picture of the hoverboard that makes it not seem like total fun?

I'm trying to think of a way you could consider that racially dodgy and not just "stock types you'd put on a city street," but all I can think of is that the hard-hat occasionally seems to be going out of its way to reassure you that this guy has a job

I think it gets racially dodgy when the black construction worker (or the black or Latina maid) is consistently the only non-white person in the movie, or when that character's sole purpose is to react in some stereotypical way to the white main characters, like break dancing in response to a car crash or something.

wait, waht

wkiw Clarissa no paedo.

^^^ Actually she is from my hometown and we're similar in age and have KIW and she's a bitch. True story.

i always love those scenes where a skinny white sidekick of the protagonist runs around a corner into a wall but wait the wall is actually a "looks scary but is really actually helpful and friendly" dude played by tiny lister.

"black people react to a broken fibula like THIS..."

^^probably no exact scene like this exists but some come close xp

xxxpost I meant with Clarissa not with Melissa. kiw wd not be my first order of business with the latter.

It makes me think of the pimp scene in Bachelor Party, except that wasn't Tiny Lister.

xp

x-post Yeah sorry, I realized that after I hit send. Don't mind me - I'm a little out of it this afternoon but yeah there you go - MJH was not a very nice when I hung out with her in HS a couple times.

likes his racism like I like my ex-girlfriends: institutionalized.

^ funny. And really wrong and mean. But funny.

cameron seems like a dick

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:41 PM

Nah, he seems like he wallows in pity as one of his hobbies, and why wouldn't he, living in a house that was never meant for children with parents that never wanted them? He seems intolerable, but Ferris really is only trying to help. Who else is ever going to deal with that kind of bullshit?

Cameron: "I think I'm dying."

Ferris: "You're not dying! You just can't think of anything good to do."

ah so he'll be okay when he gets to college, that makes sense

He'll be damaged forever, but he'll be better if he can at least ask his dad why he doesn't love him. There's no possible answer, but the asking is the transcendent thing.

Did you just listen to last weeks This American Life, Kenan? It's all about the folly of asking fathers why they sucked so bad.

No, I haven't listened to it yet. Maybe I should.

I still don't see how getting cam into trouble with the already distant dad is gonna help anything tbh

It's not about how mad dad will get, it's about going BEYOND how mad dad will get. Which Ferris and Cameron do in kind of too-literal way.

Zen and the Art of Fucking Up Dad's Car

Not to mention his multimillion dollar home.

also the correct response to someone saying "i think i'm dying" isn't "you just can't think of anything fun to do"

you give them 10mg of lorazepam and tell them they're having a panic attack

this is a total sideline but are people really that afraid of super-huge muscly guys? speaking as a small glasses-wearing weenie, I take it for granted that nobody Lister's size would ever embarrass himself by bothering to hurt me unless I left him no other option.

in my experience, you don't have to worry about dudes who look like bodybuilders; you have to worry about dudes who look like barrels

also the correct response to someone saying "i think i'm dying" isn't "you just can't think of anything fun to do"

you give them 10mg of lorazepam and tell them they're having a panic attack

you really think this is the first time cameron's complained to ferris that he's dying?

you give them 10mg of lorazepam and tell them they're having a panic attack

I had to do just this for a friend at a PawSox games a couple weeks ago!!

you really think i'm taking myself seriously?

ha ha ha okay

It was fucking scary - my 6'3" friend basically just started freaking out then passing out in the stands. I was like - here take this!

sorry - it was very scary though

was your friend tiny lister?

I can't belive I've never told you about my pocketfriend before.

what is this miracle drug and how does it work?

Wait... he was passing out before you gave him the drugs? Why not let him pass out, and team up and carry him away later?

He didn't actually pass out but very nearly so. It was taking the paramedics ages to get to us and I happened to have some lorazepam in my bag (as you do etc.) so I gave him 2mg and some water. By the time he got to the nurses station he was much better.

and I happened to have some lorazepam in my bag (as you do etc.)

Ok why did I totally LOL at this? I should know by now that almost everyone I like is chemically imbalanced in one way or another.

lorazepam is v useful for anxiety problems and cameron could have used some tbh

PN - it's a benzodiazepine commonly prescribed for anxiety disorders/panic attacks. I have an RX for emergencies which I actually don't take very often but happened to have it on me that night.

Kenan what's even better was my other friend who was there had Klonopin in her purse.

Yeah, I have the very fake sounding Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I take another drug for it daily - the lorazepam is for special situations only.

They should give it out in disposable syringes, to max out the drama. "OMG I'M ANXIOUS aw... ok that's better..."

And you could have given your friend a surreptitious shot in the buttocks, and put him down like an ox. Like it always happens in movies.

Klonopin

I know two people who take this. One of them I know very very well.

We're a bit high-strung, me and my crew.

I always hated that Cameron fucker for wearing a Red Wings jersey. I grew up in Chicago in the '80s and that was not allowed.

There was hockey in the 80's? I always thought it was some quaint affectation of Cameron's, like if he was wearing a shirt with, like, a poem.

"generalized anxiety disorder" has never sounded fake to me, it just makes one wonder how it's distinguished from the human condition

(that is totally not meant to suggest that I do not believe in anxiety disorders that are real and problematic and benefit from medication and are easily distinguished from everyday anxiety -- I just mean the name)

I suffer from generalized "WTF is Hockey?" disorder

generalized lyfe disorder

I'm pretty sure 'McFly' isn't even a real last name, guys.

1. MCFLY, MARTY
WACO, TX

2. MCFLY, MARTY
HOUSTON, TX

3. MCFLY, MARTY
MACON, GA

4. MCFLY, MARTY
Associated names:
MC, MARTY

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA

5. MCFLY, MARTY
JACKSONVILLE, FL

6. MCFLY, MARTY
NEWPORT BEACH, CA

7. MCFLY, MARTY
SAINT CHARLES, MO

^ALL BORN IN 1986

OK wau. I go home and its a nice thread about Marty and Ferris. Then I see "skipping 357 messages" and after the cut everyones fighting about racism, again.

WTF, people, WTF.

it's different if you actually, like, read it

yeah some people never learn

has mcfly's oedipal thing been discussed?

ew

And it was Caroline in the City, I never really got that. His girlfriend was much cuter. xp

TS: Caroline in the City vs. Veronica's Closet

dunno man i w totally s martys mom

that's not a racist thing to say, is it?

the racistist

nothin racist about s-ing a smokin hottie like martys mom

Nabisco - what you said about GAD is pretty much what I meant by "fake" which wasn't really the right word. I have wondered if maybe it isn't just a "General Lyfe Disorder" (thanks Max) etc. but I do know that for me anxiety is something I've dealt with since childhood it's much more manageable with low dose medication.

there's an interview or review somewhere about how lea thompson got first job in a mcdonald's commercial, because she perfectly conveyed wholesomeness and horniness like mcdonald's ad execs did research and found that lea thompson was the perfect vessel to telegraph that big macs and quarter pounders are fresh and full of goodness and also you should want to hump it?

they want you to hump hamburgers

Doesn't anybody want to go on an adventure with this guy?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qzd9HIsRWeA/SM5MtKqs8KI/AAAAAAAAN8M/DLPXO0_0TKE/s400/Footloose.jpg

https://www.albaneseconfectionery.com/images/50115-RIPE%20WATERMELON%20GUMMI%20BEARS.jpg?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/iheartbibbles/kevinbacon.jpg

Fuck Ferris! Come hang out with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

http://blogs.scripps.com/abil/insider/Footloose.jpg

"adventure"

Also, I think this movie was just as influential to me as Ferris or BTTF and somehow hasn't been mentioned in the above 400+ posts.

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/private_lessons.jpg

I prefer humping this bacon:

BRING ON THOSE MUTHAFUCKAS WITH DER COLLEGE DEGREES!

http://www.jfk-online.com/100okeefe.jpg

you don't know shit because you've never been FUCKED IN THE ASS

That's a bit unfair, if you're going to throw a KB character into this you really have to pick one that's around the same age as Marty or Ferris, for example, Ace from "Stand By Me".

Another movie I'll always group with these is The Legend of Billie Jean. I would totes go on a crime spree (for a good cause, of course) with Helen Slater.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/Papablunts/TheLegendofBillieJean1985.jpg

FAIR IS FAIR

Gawd I love that movie.

xpost - hmm my "influential movie" poster didn't print. Trying again here:

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/private_lessons.jpg

Oh, and now it's back twice. Awesome.

ROD STEWART,
ERIC CLAPTON,
AIR SUPPLY,&OTHERS

btw i recommend doing a google search for "mia sara timecop"

Searched "mia sara timecop" and found this. Wha?

http://www.thrillist.com/pics/swayzetaur.jpg

Apparently it's called a Swayzetaur.

OK so the rainbow...is that tattooed on a man's calf?

the other calf has the Chris Farly satyr

LOL Nabisco. I want to see that.

Farleytaur pics? this is closest I could find:
http://z.about.com/d/tattoo/1/0/q/m/1/080507d.jpg

I hope that's tattooed on someone's turkey neck.

That's a bit unfair, if you're going to throw a KB character into this you really have to pick one that's around the same age as Marty or Ferris, for example, Ace from "Stand By Me".

b-b-but that's Kiefer Sutherland. And then you have to decide if you want to hang about with the Coreys in The Lost Boys or something, and it all goes wrong from there on in.

I don't know if I'd hang around with Ferris for fun. No-one else gets to have the fun when he's around. Teenage me would totally have hung out with teenage John Cusack, but adventurous hijinks would totally fail to ensue. Marty McFly ftw from what's here...

But the unspoken answer is clearly Bender.

(am ignoring all these tattoos, obv)

Actually, wtf am I talking about. The answer is clearly Bill and Ted, even if my definition of mid-80s is stretching to very-very-late-80s.

If you choose Bill & Ted are you compelled to see them through on the Bogus Journey or can you ditch them at the end of the Excellent Adventure?

Cusack is too mopey and self-obsessed, and Bueller is a borderline sociopath who would be fun to hang around until he decided he was bored with you.

Marty McFly seems like the most stand-up dude

^ This. He just seems like a solid, decent guy.

again, time travel

Bogus Journey was in the 90s, so totally excluded, dude.

I love that it's Marty McFly vs Ferris Bueller vs John Cusack. Why does the latter get to be his real self? Should we not refer to him as Lane/Hoops?

Except for cameo as the nerd twin in 16 Candles, John Cusack always plays John Cusack even when he's an ostensibly German-Jewish Art Dealer palling around with Hitler.

whereas the other two have such great range....

My problem with McFly here is that I have zero sense of what he's like. This isn't entirely his fault, as he spends the film kinda busy running around dealing with time-travel issues. But I have almost no sense of what he'd be like to just hang out with, and when I was a kid I even read the tie-in novel, which went much further into depth about the tenor of Marty's everyday pre-timetravel life.

Broderick is pretty great and un-Ferris-like in Election.

Taking sides: Broderick as urbane smartass v. Broderick as befuddled neurotic.

vs. Broderick as reluctant hero (Civil War-steez)

Broderick also killed someone and got away with it.

You'd maybe have to hang around with Sarah Jessica Parker as well, so, no thanks.

Whenever someone says "Sarah Jessica Parker" there should be the sound of whinnying in the background, like when someone says "Frau Blücher".

http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2009/05/you-killed-the-car-camerons-house-now-on-the-market.html

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Bueller doesn't have a hoverboard

I'm sure he can guilt a kid into lending him one, though.

just trying to recall btf2, did marty steal the hoverboard and never return it ? what an arse.

oh hang on, he tried didn't he but they had found biffs better board. apols marty.

For this poll, Marty. But the real answer is Bill & Ted (and Missy)

My problem with McFly here is that I have zero sense of what he's like. This isn't entirely his fault, as he spends the film kinda busy running around dealing with time-travel issues.

but look at how he deals with stress, he seems really neurotic and anxious. i really don't think he'd be much fun at a party or during a crazy adventure day, even sans time travel.

and didn't we already determine that cusack isn't really the type to bro down with? he'd just talk about getting dumped by some chick and then ditch you as soon as the next one came along.

all these guys seem like such fun bros at first glance but i don't think i'd want to hang out with any of 'em.

YEESH

Can I hang out with these guys?

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f15/scrapyardz/Crispin_RiversEdge02.jpg

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SHAME on anyone who voted for Ferris.

There's a '31' siteban argument to be fuckin had right here tbh

ditch them both for Bill & Ted