The Rewatchables: ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan. Guests: none.

Subject films: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; Bill, Sean, and Chris inferred from address and content, and attributions vary at 0.4-0.8. Some film titles are garbled (Cable Guy ok, Punchline ok, a Fish Called Wanda ok); timestamps are per line.

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Mangled-name guesses (Chez Quis, Tangerine Dream, Heat for Vincent Hanna, Richard Roeper, Scott Coffey, Max Perlich) and the 'Yello' opener reference in one fun item are my inference, not said as written.

Awards and segments (72)

Most rewatchable scene

floated Ferris telling the audience 'they bought it' and the fake-sick, life-moves-pretty-fast monologue, cutting to Ben Stein's class
“The 1st one is when the parents leave and he looks at the camera and he goes, they bought it. They bought it.”
Bill Simmons · 0:31:19
floated Cameron outside his house arguing himself into leaving, then punching the car
“Cameron, outside his house, debating whether to leave or not.”
Bill Simmons · 0:33:41
floated Ferris picking up Sloane in the Ferrari in front of Rooney
“Ferris picking up Sloane and the Ferrari.”
Bill Simmons · 0:36:08
floated Ferris talking his way into Chez Louis as Abe Froman, and the phone bits
“Uh, then the next one I have is, is Ferris talking his way into Shelouie.”
Bill Simmons · 0:36:37
pick The Star Wars music scene: the two parking attendants joyriding the Ferrari
“The Ferrari Star Wars scene, which is my pick.”
Bill Simmons · 0:38:07
floated The Art Institute of Chicago sequence with Cameron and the little girl
“Next one is the art museum.”
Bill Simmons · 0:38:49
floated Cameron destroying the Ferrari
“Cameron destroying the car.”
Bill Simmons · 0:40:28
floated Ferris sprinting home through the neighborhood
“Uh, last rewatchable scene Ferris sprinting home.”
Bill Simmons · 0:44:33
pick The parade and the Twist and Shout number
“The parade.”
Chris Ryan · 0:45:23

Casting What Ifs · Almost-castings and recasts, for the film and its people.

pick Matthew Broderick as Alex P. Keaton: Bill's research: Broderick turned down Family Ties, which he wonders might have changed Back to the Future.
“He was the 1st choice to play Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties.”
Bill Simmons · 0:09:51
pick Matthew Broderick: Broderick dropped out of The Flamingo Kid; Matt Dillon took it.
“He was also cast in the Flamingo Kid, but he dropped out and that became Matt Dillon's breakout role.”
Bill Simmons · 0:10:13
pick Matthew Broderick as Johnny Utah: Chris says Broderick is too slight and not a quarterback for it.
“He turned down the role of Johnny Utah, point break.”
Bill Simmons · 0:10:26
pick Emilio Estevez as Cameron Frye: Hosts are glad Alan Ruck got it.
“Emilio Estevez turned down the role of Cameron?”
Bill Simmons · 0:57:25
pick Molly Ringwald as Sloane Peterson: Hughes went with Mia Sara instead.
“Molly Ringwald wanted to play Sloan.”
Bill Simmons · 0:58:18
pick John Cusack as Ferris Bueller: Backup if Broderick had not been the lead.
“Their backup choice, according to the cast and directors, John Cusack.”
Bill Simmons · 0:58:48
pick Bill Paxton as garage attendant: Paxton thought it too small and was never offered another Hughes role.
“And then he offered him the role of the garage attendant, Ferris, and Paxton turned it down.”
Chris Ryan · 1:00:37
pick Paul Gleason as Ed Rooney: Hosts weigh Gleason's Dick Vernon energy against Jeffrey Jones; Sean prefers Jones.
“Paul Gleason considered.”
Bill Simmons · 1:00:54
pick Alan Rickman as Ed Rooney: Bill wants someone other than Jeffrey Jones; Hans Gruber as the assistant principal.
“Um, I was thinking Alan Richmond would have been really fun.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:30

Aged Best · The person, moment or thing that has aged best.

pick Cameron's introduction, 'I'm dying' / 'you're not dying': Relatable during the quarantine.
“Our 1st introduction to Cameron, when he says, I'm dying, and Ferris says, you're not dying.”
Bill Simmons · 0:47:42
pick Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye: His Succession role.
“Uh, Another would say, HMS just, Alan Ruck, for a different reason, now that he's been reinvented yet again as one of our favorite succession characters.”
Bill Simmons · 0:47:59
pick Beat City: Great mid-80s song missing from Spotify.
“Um, The Beat City.”
Bill Simmons · 0:49:07
pick The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California: Auction value cited.
“The 1961 Ferrari 250, GT California has aged the best.”
unknown · 0:50:18
pick Ferris realizing the Ferrari has extra miles on it
“Uh, I like when Ferris realizes the Ferrari is through Andrew one miles on it.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:22
pick Charlie Sheen: Bit part in Ferris Bueller, then A-list in Platoon.
“Um, Charlie Sheen's 1986 is aged the best.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:32
pick Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson: Inducts her into the mid-80s Mount Rushmore with Kelly Preston, Joyce Hyser and Elizabeth Shue.
“And then, uh, I say, Mia, Sarah, as Sloane Peterson.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:57

Best Use of Music · Best use of pop music or a music moment in the film.

pick The film's use of pop music
“Yeah, um, is this, is this maybe not the best soundtrack of all time, but is this the best use of pop music in a movie ever?”
Sean Fennessey · 0:53:31
pick Art Institute scene scored to the cover of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
“But I don't think there's a movie that uses music in this way.”
Chris Ryan · 0:54:13
pick The final chase scored to the English Beat
“One last thing about that is I find myself looking forward to the end of this movie more than most movies because I'm waiting for that English beat drop, the March of the Swivelhead song to start.”
Bill Simmons · 0:55:10

Aged Worst · What has aged the worst.

pick Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney: Because of what Jones was later convicted of.
“Jeffrey Jones?”
unknown · 0:55:54
pick Bryan Ferry's Slave to Love poster over Ferris's bed
“For whatever reason, they put Brian Ferry's giant slave to love poster over his bed.”
Bill Simmons · 0:56:52

Joey Pants Award · Best 'that guy' actor in the film.

winner Richard Edson as parking attendant: Together with Larry 'Flash' Jenkins.
“I'm going with both parking attendance.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:29
winner Larry 'Flash' Jenkins as parking attendant
“And then the other guy, Larry Flash Jenkins, who is in Fletch, and is in season 3 of The White Shadow, my favorite show ever.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:42
nominee the maitre d' as maitre d'
“But I have both of those guys, unless you want to go with the maitre d from Chez Louis, because he's one of those guys too.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:05
nominee Max Perlich: Also Scott Coffey.
“Yeah, I also have Max Perlick and Scott Coffee from the classroom scene both show up in a lot of 80s movies.”
unknown · 1:04:11

Vincent Hanna Award · Best overacting.

pick Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney
“I think Jeffrey Jones dials it up a couple times.”
Bill Simmons · 1:05:13
nominee Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye: Bill considers it, then decides Ruck is actually good in that scene.
“I was like, Alan Ruck in the Ferrari scene that Sean loves when somebody's beloved possession gets destroyed.”
Bill Simmons · 1:05:37
nominee the maitre d' as maitre d'
“Maybe the maitre d'.”
unknown · 1:05:57

Dion Waiters Award · Small role, big impact.

winner Charlie Sheen as boy in the police station: Agreed as the winner at 1:09:00; stayed up two days for the look.
“Chaz Sheen.”
Bill Simmons · 1:06:06
nominee Edie McClurg as Grace
“Edie McClure, as Rooney's secretary.”
Bill Simmons · 1:06:34
nominee Cindy Pickett as Katie Bueller: Bill puts her in his 80s mom Mount Rushmore.
“I just love Mrs. Bueller.”
Bill Simmons · 1:06:50
nominee Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller: Bill raised her; Chris and Sean praise her as a villain and her karate kicks.
“I mean, I just think that a much maligned character.”
Chris Ryan · 1:07:36

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Cameron wears a Red Wings jersey in Chicago
“So Cameron's not wearing a Blackhawks jersey.”
Bill Simmons · 1:19:47
pick Rooney does not recognize Ferris 20 feet away, and the Buellers miss the mannequin and Sloane
“Wouldn't, uh, we mentioned Wooden Rooney recognize Ferris outside the Ferrari, unless he didn't have his contacts in or something.”
unknown · 1:21:54
pick Ferris's outfit changes in the first 20 minutes
“is in the 1st opening minutes, Ferris goes through the following outfits, starts out in pajamas, goes pajamas robe, showers, then switches to swim trunks for the iced tea by the pool.”
Chris Ryan · 1:23:15
pick Who is working the parking garage while the attendants joyride the Ferrari
“Who who's working at the parking garage?”
unknown · 1:24:37
pick Ferris and friends never drink or smoke on their cut day
“Is this day fun?”
unknown · 1:25:40
pick The school bus full of kids at 6 o'clock in the end credits scene
“Why is the whole school bus of kids coming home from school at 6 and not 3 and the whole thing?”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:37

Best Quote · Favorite quotes from the film.

pick The George Peterson phone bit
“Every single thing that the George Peterson bit, the whole bit is some of the most quoted stuff in my in my life.”
unknown · 1:27:28
pick Rooney's school policy on dead bodies
“Oh, yeah, and just everything where, when, uh, Rooney's Rooney's whole, like, uh, school policy for dead bodies?”
unknown · 1:29:07
pick Ferris's 'isms' monologue
“It's just, every fucking line is indelible.”
unknown · 1:30:11
pick Grace's 'righteous dude' speech
“I think probably the one non-Ferris or Rooney line that I'll remember the most is Grace going.”
unknown · 1:30:21

Roger Ebert's Review · Reading of Roger Ebert's review of the film.

pick Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Ebert three of four stars; Gene Siskel disliked it, and Ebert later named it a favorite.
“Three out of 4 stars, called it, quote, one of the most innocent movies in a long time and, quote, a sweet, warm-hearted comedy.”
Bill Simmons · 0:28:43

Apex Mountain · Where a person, place or thing sits on the career mountain.

pick Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson
“Mia Sarah.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:56
pick Ferrari the corporation
“How about the Ferrari Corporation?”
unknown · 1:17:03
pick Shermer High School and Chez Louis
“Shermer High School, I feel like, yes.”
unknown · 1:17:08
pick Matthew Broderick: No clear single apex; The Producers on Broadway is floated.
“Broderick's a tough one.”
unknown · 1:17:13
pick Jennifer Grey: Her apex was Dirty Dancing.
“Jennifer Gray Hearst was dirty dancing.”
unknown · 1:18:15
pick Chicago in movies
“I was going to say, is this is this Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies.”
unknown · 1:18:20
pick The all-in-one-day movie
“Do you guys think this is the this is Apex Mountain for the all in one day movie?”
unknown · 1:18:39

Who Won the Movie · Who won the movie.

winner John Hughes
“I want to say Cameron, but I think it's Hughes.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:35:23
winner John Hughes
“I go Hughes one, Broderick two, Cameron three.”
Bill Simmons · 1:35:33
winner Matthew Broderick
“Yeah, I just think that it's one of those things where you look at like a graph chart.”
Chris Ryan · 1:37:13

Unanswerable questions · Questions the film leaves open.

pick Could all of this happen in 8 hours: Chris says no, because of parade traffic.
“Uh, Basically, the question is, how did they do everything in 8 hours?”
Bill Simmons · 0:24:24
pick Why Cameron's dad hated Cameron so much
“why did Cameron's dad hate Cameron so much?”
Bill Simmons · 1:31:08
pick Did Ferris become a software billionaire
“Did Ferris become a software billionaire?”
unknown · 1:31:39
pick Why do the Buellers have such a mean dog
“Why would they have such a mean dog?”
unknown · 1:32:21
pick Would the internet have made Cameron more or less normal in 2016
“Would the internet have made him more or less normal?”
unknown · 1:32:52
pick Is Ferris a figment of Cameron's mind
“And then the theory that Ferris is figment in Cameron's mind.”
Bill Simmons · 1:33:15
pick Where do Ferris and Cameron go to school, and what happens with Sloane
“Where do you think Ferris and Cam go to school?”
unknown · 1:33:40

What If It Were Made Today · How the film would play with modern technology or formats.

pick Cell phones would kill the impersonation-by-phone bit
“I feel like probably cell phones kill this as like a bit as like, I'm going to go in and impersonate someone.”
Chris Ryan · 0:37:36
pick Rideshare would make the Ferrari unnecessary
“I do wonder whether or not rideshare makes this movie completely obsolete though, because you don't have to take the Ferrari.”
unknown · 0:28:10
pick A 10-episode Netflix remake: Chris jokes each episode could be a different cut day.
“Could this be remade as a 10 episode Netflix show?”
Bill Simmons · 1:30:38

Films that came up

Claims (57)

unmapped (fan theory): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Fight Club. The online theory that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination is likened to Fight Club.
“this is Cameron's fight club, you know, that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:36 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
theme (analogy): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance). Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause.
“Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
people (auteur culmination): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → John Hughes. Cameron is the culmination of five years of Hughes teen movies trying to get that character right.
“the Cameron character is a culmination of 5 years of John Hughes teen movies, him trying to get this character correct, and then I feel like he finally did.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (character lineage): Alan Ruck → The Breakfast Club. Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat.
“Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (analogy): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones. Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model.
“Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career trajectory): Matthew Broderick → Michael J. Fox. After Ferris it seemed Broderick would have a Michael J. Fox style trajectory.
“He's going to have this kind of like Michael J. Fox kind of trajectory.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:10 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (persona inversion): Matthew Broderick → The Cable Guy. Within ten years Broderick is playing Cameron-like weak men in The Cable Guy, inverting his Ferris persona.
“within 10 years, he's in the cable guy basically just playing Cameron.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (career what-if): Matthew Broderick → Tom Hanks. Hanks had the ideal version of the adult career Broderick might have had, rom-coms and Punchline-type roles.
“I feel like Tom Hanks had the ideal version of Matthew Broderick's adult career.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:49 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Matthew Broderick → Family Ties. Broderick was first choice for Alex P. Keaton and turned it down, raising a Back to the Future ripple question.
“He was the 1st choice to play Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:51 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Matthew Broderick → Back to the Future. If Broderick took Family Ties, would Michael J. Fox have played Ferris and Broderick Marty McFly.
“if Matthew Broderick's in family ties, does that mean he's then in back to the future? and Michael J. Fox's Ferris Bueller?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Matthew Broderick → The Flamingo Kid. Broderick was cast but dropped out; it became Matt Dillon's breakout.
“He was also cast in the Flamingo Kid, but he dropped out and that became Matt Dillon's breakout role.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Matthew Broderick → Point Break. Broderick turned down Johnny Utah, which went to Keanu; hosts say he is too slight and not a quarterback type.
“He turned down the role of Johnny Utah, point break.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (creator self-projection): John Hughes → The Breakfast Club. Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys.
“my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
people (typecasting): Alan Ruck → Spin City. Ruck became so identified with Cameron that seeing him on Spin City with Michael J. Fox registered as Cameron.
“when he popped up on Spin City with Michael J. Fox in the mid 90s, just being like, Cameron.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
people (typecasting): Alan Ruck → Speed. Spotting Cameron on the bus in Speed was disorienting.
“I was like, what the hell is camera doing on this bus?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career reinvention): Alan Ruck → Succession. Ruck is now best associated with Connor in Succession.
“he's more associated with Connor from succession.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (dry run): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Home Alone. Rooney getting beaten up by the house is Hughes's dry run for Home Alone.
“Hughes has like a dry run for home alone when when Rooney goes to the house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (critical disagreement): Roger Ebert → Gene Siskel. Siskel disliked Ferris over Chicago accuracy, while Ebert gave it three stars and later Roeper made it his favorite.
“Gene Siskel did not like the movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:50 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (comedic device): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Beverly Hills Cop. Impersonating people over multiple phones to outwit annoying people peaked in Ferris, Beverly Hills Cop, and Fletch.
“This was peak trying to outwit really fucking annoying people by pretending to be different characters and using different phones.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (comedic device): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → 48 Hrs.. Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs.
“it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (cut music): Robert Smith → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Robert Smith wrote original museum music that failed in screening; replaced by an instrumental of a Smiths song.
“the music that they got rid of is was written for the movie by Robert Smith from The Cure.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:39:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (same year): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Platoon. Oscar year 1986 pairs Platoon with Ferris, and Platoon's nominees are listed alongside the 1986 supporting actor race.
“Lucas, Ferris Bueller, Platoon. Iconic one year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:51:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
career (breakout trajectory): Charlie Sheen → Platoon. Sheen goes from a bit part in Ferris to A-list in Platoon, then Wall Street.
“He's the guy who is in a bit part in Ferris Bueller to all of a sudden he's an A-list star in Platoon”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:51:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (pop-culture integration): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The Star Wars theme and the I Dream of Jeannie song are woven into the film though they do not belong to it.
“literally the I dream of Jeannie song and the Star Wars theme appear in the movie, and those songs don't belong to the movie, and yet they do at the same time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:53:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (soundtrack comparison): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Boogie Nights have better soundtracks, but none use music the way Ferris does.
“you can make the argument that like pulp fiction and um, Goodfellas and boogie nights and days all have like better soundtracks”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (editing to music): Paul Hirsch → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hirsch cut the movie to the rhythms of its songs, especially the final run set to The English Beat.
“I think Paul Hirsch basically cut this movie to the rhythms of these songs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:47 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (easter egg): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Breakfast Club. A Simple Minds Don't You Forget About Me poster appears in Ferris's room, a year after Breakfast Club, as Hughes building his own universe.
“the simple minds. Don't you forget about me, poster, one year after Breakfast Club, which I love like Hughes making his own universe.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:56:30 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Emilio Estevez → Repo Man. Estevez turned down Cameron; coming off Repo Man he would read as punk-rock Ferris rather than Cameron.
“He seems more like the punk rock version of Ferris Bueller than he does like Alan Rock.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:57:59 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Molly Ringwald → Mia Sara. Ringwald wanted Sloane; Hughes chose Mia Sara for elegance and maturity.
“Molly Ringwald wanted to play Sloan. And uh, and John Hughes just like Mia Sarah Moore.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:58:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (archetype): John Cusack → One Crazy Summer. Hoops McCann is another great Cusack high schooler like Ferris.
“Hoops in in one Crazy Summer is kind of a great high school character”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:58:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if / archetype): John Cusack → Say Anything.... Cusack was the backup for Ferris, and Lloyd Dobler is in the same vein as Ferris.
“I think Lloyd Dobbler is sort of in the same vein as Ferris.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
people (falling out): Anthony Michael Hall → John Hughes. Hall says Hughes wrote Ducky, Ferris and other roles for him, then they split after Weird Science.
“he believes Hughes wrote the roles of Ducky and Pretty and Pink and Ferris Bueller for him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (analogy): John Hughes → The Godfather. Hughes's vindictiveness toward slighters is compared to Michael Corleone.
“Hughes was weirdly vindictive for somebody who had such a, like that in like a dangerous Michael Corleone kind of way”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
people (falling out): John Hughes → Bill Paxton. Paxton turned down the garage attendant role as too small and was never offered work by Hughes again.
“he offered him the role of the garage attendant, Ferris, and Paxton turned it down.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Paul Gleason → The Breakfast Club. Gleason, Dick Vernon in Breakfast Club, was considered for Rooney; hosts debate if that is too distracting.
“Paul Gleason considered. For the role of Ed Rooney.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (sibling film): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Breakfast Club. The two were basically filmed simultaneously at Shermer High, which also hosts Weird Science and Sixteen Candles.
“Ferris Bewer and Breakfast Club were basically filmed simultaneously in Shermer High.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
theme (shared location): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Weird Science. Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris.
“Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
people (casting contrast): Jeffrey Jones → Paul Gleason. Jones is more sitcommy like Laurel and Hardy while Gleason is a huge prick; Jones was the right choice for tone.
“Paul Gleason has a different energy than Jeffrey Jones.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (style contrast): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Breakfast Club. Ferris is more new wave, with synths and funky outfits, than the more trad early-80s Breakfast Club.
“Ferris feels more new wave than breakfast club in some ways.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
people (that guy filmography): Larry 'Flash' Jenkins → Fletch. The other parking attendant was in Fletch and The White Shadow season 3.
“Larry Flash Jenkins, who is in Fletch, and is in season 3 of The White Shadow”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:42 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Alan Ruck → The Breakfast Club. Ruck had previously auditioned for Bender.
“Ruck had previously editioned for what role? Bender, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (that guy filmography): Max Perlich → Beautiful Girls. Classroom actor Perlich also appears in Beautiful Girls, My Own Private Idaho, and Drugstore Cowboy.
“Is he in my own private Idaho or drugstore cowboy?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (that guy filmography): Richard Edson → Do the Right Thing. Edson appears in Stranger Than Paradise, Desperately Seeking Susan, Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam, Eight Men Out and Do the Right Thing.
“he's in Stranger Than Paradise, desperately seeking Susan Platoon. Good morning Vietnam, 8 men out, and then do the right thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (preview): Jennifer Grey → Dirty Dancing. Her karate kicks on Rooney preview Dirty Dancing; the movie that is her Apex Mountain.
“the karate kicks are a little bit of a preview of what's to come in dirty dancing, you know?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:08:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Alan Rickman → Die Hard. Bill's recast pick for Rooney; Hans Gruber as Shermer High assistant principal.
“Hans Gruber, as the Shermer High assistant principal, whatever, I also would have voted for Alan Richmond.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Ronny Cox → Total Recall. Ronny Cox's 83 to 90 run playing guys in charge makes him a Rooney candidate, tied to a past Total Recall episode.
“You guys just talked about him on Total Recall.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (shared location): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Blues Brothers. Chez Louis is the same restaurant as in Blues Brothers and St. Elmo's Fire, a three-year span of iconic 80s restaurant movies.
“Same restaurant as the Blues Brothers, with Elwood and Jake.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:42 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (shared location): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → St. Elmo's Fire. Same restaurant where Kirby (Estevez) waits for Andie McDowell.
“same restaurant at St. Elmo's Fire, where Kirby played by Abilo Estevez, waits for Andy McDowell”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared choreographer): Kenny Ortega → Dirty Dancing. Ortega choreographed Ferris's Twist and Shout and also Dirty Dancing and High School Musical.
“the choreography was done by Kenny Ortega, who did Dirty Dancing, but then also like high school musical”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:14:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990). A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad.
“The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (derivative): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Parker Lewis Can't Lose is essentially Ferris Bueller and preferred over the actual TV adaptation.
“do you guys prefer the Ferris Bueller TV adaptation or Parker Lewis Can't Lose, which is essentially just Ferris Bueller?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (Apex Mountain): Matthew Broderick → The Producers (Broadway). Broderick's Apex Mountain candidate is The Producers on Broadway, the Hamilton of its time.
“It definitely was probably bigger than Book of Mormon and on the level of Hamilton”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:18:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (genre: Chicago movies): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → About Last Night. Ferris is argued as the Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies, alongside Blues Brothers and About Last Night.
“is this is this Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:18:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (genre: all in one day): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Dazed and Confused. Other nominees for the all-in-one-day genre include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Do the Right Thing.
“Dazed and Confused, dog day afternoon. Um, the before sunrise before sunset movies. Do the right thing is on that list.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:18:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (genre: all in one day): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Inside Man. Bill asks whether Ferris is the Apex Mountain of all-in-one-day movies; Chris names Inside Man as a favorite of the genre.
“my favorite all in one day movie is, I think, is inside man.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (era marker): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Risky Business. Chris notes Risky Business as the first modern 80s movie, a candidate for a future episode.
“that's like the 1st modern 80s movie basically.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:35:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (year context): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Back to the Future. Hughes has the biggest cultural footprint of 80s directors, involved in five of the fifteen biggest 80s movies, plus Home Alone.
“out of the 15 biggest 80s movies. I think he was involved in five.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:36:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items (26)

fun, about Matthew Broderick: Casting what-ifs: first choice for Alex P. Keaton, cast then dropped out of The Flamingo Kid (Matt Dillon's breakout), turned down Johnny Utah in Point Break. Hosts say he is not a quarterback.
“He turned down the role of Johnny Utah, point break.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Bill's 2009 mailbag timeline test: fit the whole day (Sears Tower, exchange, art museum, Chez Louis, Wrigley, parade, car repair) into under 8 hours. He challenged readers to reenact it; no one did.
“I challenged everyone in 2009 to to, I was like, all right, 3 high school or college people, just try to reenact this and see if you can do this in 8 hours.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:41 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Most Rewatchable Scene nominees: the they bought it monologue, Cameron deciding to leave, Ferris picking up Sloane, the Abe Froman call, the Star Wars Ferrari joyride, the art museum, Cameron destroying the car, and Ferris sprinting home.
“My winner for this is I'm going to break rewatchables tradition for the 1st time in 110 episodes”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:31:03 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Bill's pick: the parking attendants' joyride in the Ferrari set to Star Wars music, one of the hardest he has ever laughed.
“It probably made me laugh top 4 hardest ever in a movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert Smith (The Cure): The art museum scene bombed with Robert Smith's original music; they swapped in an instrumental of a Smiths song and it worked.
“they even said in the test screening for this, they use different music and it just didn't work.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The Cameron-destroys-the-Ferrari debate: Bill loves the car and sees no excuse; Chris in his 40s says Cam is getting executed by his dad; Sean sees it as angsty teen anger.
“Cam's gonna get a socket wrench to the eye if his dad is coming home, man.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:41:41 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Matthew Broderick: Broderick's own quote about being typecast: the coolest kid who ever lived, now only gets weak insecure men.
“I acquired fame by playing the coolest kid who ever lived. Now the only roles I can seem to get are weak, insecure men.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:41:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Mia Sara: Mount Rushmore of mid-80s teen girls: Bill inducts Mia Sara alongside Kelly Preston, Joyce Hyser, and Elizabeth Shue; Chris is accused of taking it too far.
“I do want to induct her into the mid 80s Mount Rushmore with Kelly Preston, Joyce Heiser, and Elizabeth Shu.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:52:11 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Hosts argue the film may be the best use of pop music in a movie: The Smiths-style museum cover, the English Beat chase, and the Yello opener.
“is this the best use of pop music in a movie ever?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:53:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Richard Edson: Joey Pants Award (best that guy): both parking attendants. Edson's filmography is notable, including Stranger Than Paradise, Platoon, Do the Right Thing.
“Edson is in more important movies than almost any actor in the 80s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jeffrey Jones: Vincent Hanna Award (best overacting): Jeffrey Jones dials it up in the smooch my big old white butt line.
“You don't like my policies. You can just come on down here and smooch my big old white butt.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:16 · Jeffrey Jones (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Charlie Sheen: Dion Waiters Award (small role, big impact): Charlie Sheen in the police station. Reportedly stayed up over two days for the look.
“He stayed up for over 2 days straight.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:07 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Chez Louis is the same restaurant as The Blues Brothers and St. Elmo's Fire.
“So, an iconic 80s rest movies restaurant.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Deleted scene: Ferris takes a bond bought at his birth from his dad's closet and cashes it, funding the day. Cut because it made him look like a thief.
“It was removed because it made him seem like a thief.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Trailer line about Ferris being the first kid to ride the space shuttle was removed after Challenger exploded.
“come next year, I'll be the 1st kid to ride in the space shuttle, then the challenger exploded.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Cindy Pickett: Mr. and Mrs. Bueller met on the movie, married afterward, had two kids, and divorced.
“They got married, had 2 children and got divorced.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Matthew Broderick: Broderick hurt his knee in the running scene, which was shot before Twist and Shout, so he could not do much choreography; a blessing because the scene would have run longer.
“thank God, because then that scene would have been longer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:14:04 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Ben Stein: Ben Stein ad-libbed the lecture off camera; the extras laughed so hard that the voodoo economics bit stayed in even though it was not in the script.
“the student extras were laughing so hard that they decided to actually just keep in the voodoo economics, that whole scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:14:28 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: The post-credits bus scene was supposed to be in the film; Hughes loved it and threw it at the end, so the school bus of kids coming home at 6 makes no sense.
“I think John his is just like, fuck it, I'm putting it in.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Hosts say the car in the movie is a replica; maker Modena Design was sued by Ferrari and went bankrupt. A real 1961 250 GT California sold for around $18 million.
“Ferrari ended up suing them and they went bankrupt because of this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:16:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about John Hughes: Cameron wears a Red Wings jersey, not Blackhawks, because Hughes grew up in Michigan and idolized Gordie Howe, which still bothers Bill.
“John Hughes grew up 1st 12 years of his life in Michigan, loved the local hockey team, the Red Wings.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Costume-change nitpick: nearly ten outfit changes in the first twenty minutes, Chris notes, which also strains the timeline.
“So that's a little less than 10 outfit changes.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:23:56 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Nitpick: Bill's complaint that a senior cut day with no beer or joint is too innocent, and Sean's retort that the museum, Wrigley, and a Ferrari day is amazing. Chris calls it the most innocent cut day possible.
“Your dirtbag ethics have nothing to do with what makes Ferris Bueller beautiful.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Best quote category: the George Peterson phone bit; the film's first 25 minutes are yearbook quotes.
“the 1st 25 minutes of this movie is yearbook quotes.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:29:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Unanswerable question: Cameron in 2016 would have written first-person trauma essays and co-hosted Chapo; Ferris becomes a software billionaire in a hypothetical 2001 sequel.
“He's a co-host of of Chapo right now.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:33:10 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about John Hughes: Who won the movie: Hughes first, Broderick second, Cameron third. Bill argues Hughes is the most-seen, most-loved director since 1980 and had no rival in his lane.
“I think you could make the case that since 1980, he is the director who more people have a serious relationship to his movies than any other person”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:36:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves cars, sports analogies, and the first half of Ferris; fixated on timelines, nitpicks, and category structure. Can not stand Cameron's decision to destroy the Ferrari. A sucker for big iconic cars and 80s teenage girl nostalgia.
Sean Fennessey (host): Loves the Cameron-Ferris friendship, Hughes's relationships, and the film as a closed system of perfection. Cannot stand overthinking about why it works; a sucker for people who keep it together while coiled. Defends innocent fun and Cameron.
Chris Ryan (host): Loves 80s pop culture detail, Ferris as an idea, and the soundtrack. Is a sucker for the parade scene and Alan Ruck. Not a fan of the extended Twist and Shout and a bit of a ghoul about Cameron's dad.

The show's recurring bits

Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Names the transcriber got wrong

Sean Fantasy → Sean Fennessey (Bill's nickname/transcriber quirk at 1:02:15 and 1:36:33)
Chris Ryan appears as Chris; correct
Alan Rook / Alan Rock / Ruck → Alan Ruck
Mia Sarah → Mia Sara
Jennifer Gray → Jennifer Grey
Alan Richmond / Iron Richmond → Alan Rickman (self-corrected at 1:09:34)
Joyce Heiser / Eizer / Seizer → Joyce Hyser
Ben Simmons as well as Bill Simmons → likely a mishearing of Ben/Bill Simmons (Bill's son, possibly)
Ferris Bewer → Ferris Bueller
Vince and Hanna → Vincent Hanna Award (Heat)
Dion Waiters Award; Joey Pants Award → category names heard correctly
Chaz Sheen / Chad Sheen → Charlie Sheen
Max Perlick / Perlix → Max Perlich
Scott Coffee → Scott Coffey
Roper → Richard Roeper
Ronnie Cox → Ronny Cox
Cisco → Siskel
Modena Design appears correct (Modena Design and Development)
Ruckdow/Ruckman → Alan Ruck
Torchies in 48 hours → Torchy? (likely Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs.)
Tangerian dream → Tangerine Dream (Risky Business score)
Shea Louie / Che Louis → Chez Quis (restaurant in film is Chez Quis)
Abe Proman / Frohman → Abe Froman
Cam/camera → Cameron
Bonds → bond (deleted scene)
Hoops McCann → Hoops McCann (One Crazy Summer), correct
Pretty and Pink → Pretty in Pink
Silent Judge category invented on the spot, not a mishearing