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  1. contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hall's Gary is charismatic and confident, more like Ferris Bueller than a nerd.
    “Gary feels more like Ferris Bueller to me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Anthony Michael Hall → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hall turned down Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller; Ferris would have been the move away from the dork side.
    “And He turned down both roles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:20:30 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): The Breakfast Club → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bill ranks Breakfast Club above Ferris, though both are pantheon.
    “They're both pantheon for me, but breakfast club's an all timer for me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Weird Science → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech.
    “Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Cameron's house is in Lake Forest, near the Bears and Bulls facilities, five minutes from Michael Jordan's.
    “I know where Cameron Fry's house is.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:31:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (TV adaptation precedent): Beverly Hills Cop II → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller.
    “they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. verdict (verdict): Thief → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Ferris Bueller uses Chicago best of all Chicago movies.
    “I think Ferris Bueller uses the city of Chicago the best.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:14 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Easy A → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it.
    “I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. theme (theme): Easy A → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay.
    “Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. 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)
  24. 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)
  25. 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)
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. 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)
  29. 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)
  30. 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)
  31. 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)
  32. 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)
  33. 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)
  34. 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)
  35. 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)
  36. 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)
  37. 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)
  38. 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)
  39. 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)
  40. 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)
  41. 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)
  42. 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)
  43. 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)
  44. 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)
  45. 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)
  46. 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)
  47. 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)
  48. 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)