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Many people - Chicagoist staffers included - love the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a fun-loving truant romp through Chicago. But now, via our pals at The Windy Citizen, comes this forum at Metafilter, compiling all the crimes Bueller and company actually committed during their day off. Strangely enough, Cameron's Red Wings jersey is not one of them.
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Yeah, Ferris Bueller is pretty much the story of a truant North Shore kid acting like an asshole, trashing a classic car and committing about a dozen counts of fraud.
Never cared for it personally.
please. lets count up all the felonies committed in Home Alone while we're at it...
Speaking of North Shore, nice car, and felonies, was there a single cop in any segment of Risky Business?
Jess...sounds like someone has "I wish I were a North Shore kid" syndrome going on.
Let's see if this helps:
Economics Teacher: Nevins? Nevins?
Simone: Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Jess pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
Economics Teacher: Thank you, Simone.
Simone: No problem whatsoever.
Hey!-Oh!
Actually, my very first job out of school was teaching at a famed north shore school. The teacher's lot was filled with beaters while the students pulled up in next year's Jag.
These are kids who like to tell you that mommy and daddy make more in a month than I will in five years.
Save Ferris? Fuck Ferris.
Calm down, loser. It's a movie.
So was "Triumph of the Will"!
Now hush, I love me some hyperbole.
Man, Navin You are A' O.K. In "my little black book filled with rhymes and I know ya wanna look!" to quote the Sugar Hill Ganga Rapper's Delight!
I hated Ferris Bueller! And the fact that so many white folks both hipster and frat frats alike liked this stupid movie shows you the common thread amongst them i.e the apple don't far that far from the white male cultural supremacist tree. Breakfast Club yea marginally better. But the S.E. Hinton's Outsiders rocked
Wow, it's been a long, long time since I've heard that stale old North Shore rant. So long, in fact, that I started admitting I grew up on the North Shore again. And you know what? My parents made my sister and I work in high school. And college. We drove to school in an '88 Buick Regal (in 1993-94) and we, like the majority of our friends, did not flaunt what we had in front of anyone, especially the teachers who also lived on the North Shore and had whatever they wanted. The world is what you make it, Jess, and if it disturbs you so much that there are people out there who are happy to be successful, then maybe you shouldn't be a teacher.
The world is what you make it, Jess, and if it disturbs you so much that there are people out there who are happy to be successful, then maybe you shouldn't be a teacher
Actually, I poison the minds of children with socialist propoganda. Teaching them to be ready for the glorious day when they will march out of their poverty-addled neighborhoods and head north in a mass of humanity. Oh the streets of Evanston, Wilmette and Winnetka will run red with the blood of the fat little bankers and their petulant children on that night. We'll use your SUVs to build an armored division and drive north into the slick, black heart of Lake Forest.
They wait now, only for THE WORD and THE HOUR.
You have been warned...mwahahahaha!
The world is what you make it, Jess, and if it disturbs you so much that there are people out there who are happy to be successful, then maybe you shouldn't be a teacher.
Uh, what did the kids do to be "successful"? Besides being born to wealthy parents?
No Navin, you don't get it.
Being born poor, that's a challenge you need to overcome on your own you lazy welfare queen!
Being born rich means you will always have to lie about your monied upbringing because other people will always be jealous.
Because all that matters in life is money and the accumulation of material possessions. What, did you miss a day?
I wonder who made the choice of the Red Wings jersey...I guess Hughes, he was born in Lansing MI...Ruck is from The Cleve though, he could be a Red Wings fan I guess. Either way it pisses me off to this day. Fucking Detroit
I've always loved Cameron, and who cares about hockey anyway? Man of my dreams!
This is why we had The Breakfast Club...to properly illustrate the sublime differences in the High School Caste System.
Today in "Ferris Bueller: The Next Generation," the gang rents a limo for prom. They have their driver take them to a liquor store, whereupon they threaten to have him fired when he refuses to let them drink in the limo. Hilarity ensues when the police get involved!
Next week: a trip to the Forest Preserve for traditional hazing has unseen consequences, namely cancellation of the powder puff football game and several felony assault charges!
Who knew Ferris Bueller could evoke such hostile memories/responses?
Although I though he was a douche because he used his day off to go to a Cubs game with his "bro" when he had a hot girlfriend who was crazy about his loser ass. WTF? Talk about "bromance".
Save Ferris... from himself. Go Sox.
LOL