When you get old, your heart polls: the Breakfast Club character poll

Should've been "All should've died in a school fire" option.

Alfred’s the Principal, then

Hahahahaha

It’s not among my favorite movies, or even my favorite Hughes movie, but for whatever reason I’ve been thinking about it lately - maybe because I’m the father of a high school Junior.

Alfred are you a Cameron or a Ferris then

Alfred’s the Principal, then

― castanuts (DJP),

Should've been "All should've died in a school fire" option.

You're too short for that gesture.

Alfred are you a Cameron or a Ferris then

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Qs8dHthqM

Fair

This is difficult for me because I identified very strongly with 4 out of the 5 main teen characters (never been and never will be the prom queen)

In high school I was probably Brian wishing I could be more like Bender while lusting after Andrew.

Though Alison is who I'd most wanna hang with, then and now.

Thank you for making it so I don’t have to know character names

Ally sheedy, the rest can fuck off

Carl the Janitor is cool and I like that he was obv on speaking terms with Brian.
Prob enjoy Paul Gleason's performance the most.
Allison clearly the coolest of the kids although Emilio Estevez's scene talking about the humiliation of the kid he bullied is p good.

oh and Brian's little sister is p funny

voted the principal cos if you mess with the bull you get the horns.

can I vote for “don’t you forget about me”

the Janitor is the best

In high school I was probably Brian wishing I could be more like Bender

This ^^

I hung out with the stoners but I was always their mascot/idiot savant.

I wanted to be Bender but my family was too loving and supportive so I was never able to pull it off.

But then the ones I knew who were actually like Bender ended up growing up to be bankers and shit.

Bender always & forever

But also Brian’s sister rules, that scene when he’s like “mom it’s detention we’re not supposed to study” & mom says “well you better find a way to study MISTER” and the sister’s gloating “YEAAAAH” with every perfect ounce of annoying sister not in trouble energy

Nerd is my second vote, love his fake id so he could VOTE lmao

Plus his indignant “DUH” attitude about it

exactly! hilarious

voted Janitor because I can relate

quit looking through our lockers

lol

Ally Sheedy forever. I was a weirdo nerd or a nerdy weirdo, I don't know. Most of my early crushes were smart arty girls.

I like this Ezra Furman song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H1S_UtOVxg

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Love when Sheedy decides her drawing need snowflakes so he shakes dandruff on it.

the pixy stix & capn crunch sandwich is v iconic

Three hours to go!

I've heard this film compared to Hitchcock's Lifeboat

It probably is my favorite Hughes movie, I was in high school when it came out - think I even saw it in the theater back then

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15 weirdos? On this website??

Write-in vote for the person who got his butt cheeks stuck together with tape

I mean, I was bullied plenty in school but I was way too invisible to ever rise to the level of being a potential movie character

I think everyone just has an adolescent crush on Ally Sheedy, myself included

But Jud Nelson's soliloquy about this dad giving him a carton of smokes for Xmas... that's the dialogue I really remember

SMOKE UP JOHNNY

not seen this in decades but doesn't it end with the weirdo getting a makeover?

yes a terrible bad makeover

and yet she seems happier after it

they drugged her

I’m STILL mad about that makeover, it’s the worst thing about this movie

John Hughes could never stick the landing

and even IN the 80’s it looked hideous

it’s the makeover you’re forced to get from your mom’s friend who sells Avon

the amount of blush on her beautiful alabaster goth skin is a CRIME

i want to kick my tv thinking about it

I dated someone who was an extra in this movie, the whole thing is so cringe....like a bad Facebook quiz - "which Breakfast Club" character are you?

but its also cultured

https://y.yarn.co/39f683e2-97d4-4a13-be66-27c5f7b720ff_text.gif

I can't think of any part where there are extras in this movie, maybe I'm forgetting

"Moliere really pumps my nads" is an all time line

the way bryan says “i love his work” cracks me up every time

i should have voted for him, best lines & best delivery

I think everyone just has an adolescent crush on Ally Sheedy, myself included

I crushed harder on Molly Ringwald.

yeah, i remember being Team Molly because of PiP

But also Brian’s sister rules, that scene when he’s like “mom it’s detention we’re not supposed to study” & mom says “well you better find a way to study MISTER” and the sister’s gloating “YEAAAAH” with every perfect ounce of annoying sister not in trouble energy

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, March 18, 2023 1:29 AM

I didn't know until very recently that "Brian"'s mom is actually Anthony Michael Hall's irl mom.

oh really? that’s awesome

Breakfast Club had extras...at the beginning but also John Highes shot a number of high school scenes that were cut.

Friend also did the underpants scene in the bathroom in Sixteen Candles but both those movies are unbearable corn.

If you're from a preppy Chicago high school, people are like, "was that your school" and it gets tiresome.

Hughes other movies were better.

I've always hated the makeover too, but as of my most recent viewing, I've reconciled myself to it. Claire pairing off with Bender is harder to forgive, for reasons many (including Ringwald herself) have stated.

Love when Sheedy decides her drawing need snowflakes so he shakes dandruff on it.

otm, this is easily the best part of the movie

when you're old, your scalp dies

That’s so true. Teenagers never correctly assess the real issues wrt aging. Just as they never accept our consultations or w/e

In the spirit of https://decider.com/2023/03/11/ke-huy-quan-walter-chaw/ ,
I think it's time we revisit the Donger from Sixteen Candles as being superior to everyone from the Breakfast Club.

He starts out an earnest immigrant, cruelly bamboozled into performing slave labor for his host family and in short order, finagles an interracial romance (astounding for Hughes movies which usually depict Chicago as being curiously devoid of anyone who isn't white, and given the other romances depicted, including Jake/Samantha, is probably the healthiest and least problematic of the entire bunch, and frankly Donger + Jock Girl have way better chemistry onscreen), explodes the model minority myth by diving headfirst into drunken debauchery, and exacts revenge by totaling his landed gentry captors' automobeeeel.

What is Brian's arc? He starts off a suicidal nobody whom everyone takes advantage of, and ends up doing everyone's homework assignment for them.

Donger's triumphant chaos beats the self-serious defeatism of Breakfast Club every time. Also, Altered Images is better than Simple Minds.

In a weird parallel, you can see the same anarchic spirit in Rick Moranis, who was reportedly axed from the role of the janitor because he insisted on doing it in a wacky Russian accent. https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Rick-Moranis-Was-Fired-From-Breakfast-Club-70266.html