Which John Hughes-penned character will grow up to be the largest discredit to the species?

this might be even worse than the DONAL LOGUE'S GREATEST WORK poll.

Duckie FTW, I think.

Steff, obviously.

I don't know, man. Something tells me that Kevin McCallister kid coul;d have used a little more adult supervision. He's so violent!

good thread: long duk dong

donal logue >>> dr morbius

Curley Sue looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets.

Roffle.

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"Go ahead, start some shit."

Ferris Bueller, just to punish the smug motherfucker and his goddamn beatles parade.

Awesome question, by the way.

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I'm going to say Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) (Pretty In Pink), because she forsakes her true identity and leaves Duckie floundering in order to go date the hateful rich proto-yuppie that is Blane McDonnagh (Andrew McCarthy) (Pretty In Pink)

90% sure Andrew 'Andy' Clark is going to eventually rape someone.

Duckie will be fine as long as he comes out of the closet.

Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck) (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) - angry, daddy issues, will go away to college and come back and be an evil slumlord/"real estate developer"

Steff, obviously.

otm. pretty soon he'll be schmoozing girls into masturbating on camera and having sex in car crashes.

Curly Sue would tear Steff apart with her bare hands.

Some great justifications in this thread but I just can't look past Curly Sue.

angry, daddy issues, will go away to college and come back and be an evil slumlord/"real estate developer"

Or GOP candidate.

Here's my thinking on Staff -- he's already too evil to be much moreso in a few years. No, I think he'll spend his mid twenties alienating everyone who knows him and developing a sovereign cocaine habit, and end up not being a real threat, but a cliche, and eventually a sad lesson.

I think there are people on that list who could potentially be a lot scarier than that. Cameron is a good answer. I never quite bought it when Ferris says near the end of the movie that Cameron is going to be ok for the first time in his life, or some such. Well, he expressed something, ok, good. That's great in the therapists office. But can you imagine the scene later when his dad comes home and spends long silent minutes wondering whether or not he should actually physically kill him, and how to get away with it? That's not going to be ok. Not at all.

uh... Staff = Steff.

The eldest daughter from Uncle Buck should've been on this list, she'd totally end up being flat-out psychotic.

But Cameron is a good answer.

Duckie will be fine as long as he comes out of the closet.
-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:39 (Yesterday)

I seem to remember this actually was the case in the unproduced (but still in development hell) 32 Candles script, which was NOT written by Hughes and was, at last check, a potential USA Network made-for-tv movie.

That said, Long Duk Dong remains horrifying.

How could Duckie be in a sequel to 16 Candles?

Ferris discovers coke at 23. Loses his friends, works second-shift job at the CBOT.

Jeanie Bueller was definitely in for some trouble, getting mixed up with bad boys like Sheen.

there was sposed to be a Pretty in Pink sequel, too?

Sloane Peterson is a blank beard

it was rumored for a while, but it was debunked as either a hoax, or some stupid fanfic script that someone unaffiliated with Hughes who had no rights to the name/characters had pitched somewhere.

I believe Ferris and Steff met in an Ivy League University and formed a human trafficking ring with strong ties to heads of state in every continent.

Cameron Frye grew up to be the sleazy, awesome jerk Alan Ruck played in "Spin City." God I love Alan Ruck.

yeah, Alan Ruck is one of those dudes I always wished had done more than his 1 or 2 big roles, I wonder if there's anything worth renting kicking around his imdb resume.

definitely Ferris or Cameron

I still love Ferris Bueller, et al.

Alan Ruck would have been a good star trek captain

And an EXCELLENT Star Trek lieutenant.

I like your thinking JW.

How could Duckie be in a sequel to 16 Candles?
-- nate woolls, Friday, 8 February 2008 12:44 (5 hours ago)

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it was rumored for a while, but it was debunked as either a hoax, or some stupid fanfic script that someone unaffiliated with Hughes who had no rights to the name/characters had pitched somewhere.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:34 (2 hours ago)

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"32 Candles" featured cameos from a handful of other Hughes-universe characters, in cringey wink-wink smaller roles. Aren't most of those Hughes movies set in the same fictional Illinois town?

This was no hoax, it was in active development for ages at Universal and ended up at the USA Network (where it was still getting kicked around at meetings as of 2 or 3 years ago).

(also - if I remember correctly, in the script, Anthony Michael Hall's character invented Google)

Jeanie Bueller was definitely in for some trouble, getting mixed up with bad boys like Sheen.

OTM. I'm thinking meth addict who moved to New Orleans or San Francisco in the late 80s to "see something new" instead of going to college. After 6 months of dead-end work at a Shakers or a Denny's, she had to sell her Fiero to make rent. She gets strung out on meth because she can't afford coke, and ends up moving in with her night shift manager Duane because "it makes things easier." She doesn't take her family's calls, and ultimately calls her mother a "stuck up, controlling bitch with a dykey haircut" when she refuses to send Jeannie any more money.

Meanwhile, Sloan and Ferris are at Northwestern and U of Chicago or Notre Dame and Washington U. in St. Louis, being a faithful, long distance couple.

Cameron, after working for two years to pay off the damage to the Ferrari, runs off to India and ends up living on an ashram.

uh Savannah, my post was in response to Morbius's question about a nonexistant sequel to Pretty In Pink, not 16 Candles.

If I were you, I'd spend less time worrying about John Hughes characters, and more time worrying about yourself.

When Curly Sue skullfucks all of these posers with a drilldo, you all will be sorry.

wasn't that the movie's original tagline?

Hughes-universe

This is indeed a disturbing universe. :(

HUGHESIVERSE

"Hog Hug? HOGARTH HUGHES!"

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Uh, he just played the newspaper editor on Deadwood for 3 years.

Duckie is already the worst human being imaginable.

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You can't see the pile of dead hookers she's sitting on in this picture.

xpost to Morbs haha Oh shit you're right! It's not even that I forgot that, it's like he's so ubiquitous that it never dawned on me that this is the same guy who got stone cold busted with a 14-year old boy. So what's his story lately? Counseling or some such?

Come on, Steff is like the least evil person in the movie! He'll end up as a civil servant and good father. Duckie and Jeannie are normal kids who'll deal with their issues. Ferris obv = selfish, manipulative evil as mizzell points out.

Duckie is already the worst human being imaginable.

way to overstate, but yeah, there is something singularly unpleasant about him, isn't there? I guess a lot of it has to do with John Cryer, who can't help seeming unctuous no matter what he's doing, but there's something... not... quite... right about Duckie in particular. I don't think borderline personality disorder would be far off.

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb119/murieldavenport/duckie.jpg

I think Duckie's biggest problem is that he's a complete and utter shitbag pussy.

Or maybe Morbs is right, and his attention-seeking behavior is really a desperate effort to reach out, hoping that someone somewhere will understand him better than he understands himself, and turn him into a hand puppet.

dude why

For the people, Dan. For the people. They expect nothing less of me.

Men be hatin Duckie.

I LOVE Steff. Can't help it.

I hate Duckie.

Altho admittedly I haven't seen that movie in like 10 years.

Even Ducky's best friend in the movie hated Ducky!

Uh, have you ever seen the movie?

I LOVE Steff. Can't help it.

otm. "I've been out with a lot of girls at this school. I don't see what makes you so different." <3 Spader.

Molly Ringwald basically spends the entire movie tolerating and enduring Ducky.

"we've been friends forever and i've talk to you 20 times a day every day for 10 years and i hope that never changes!"

Spader is pretty much across the board classic, even when he is in crap. <3 Steff.

"we've been friends forever and i've talk to you 20 times a day every day for 10 years and i hope that never changes!"

Look, I can decode girltalk with the best of them. This means:

"I know that if I outright reject you, I'm going to spend the next seven months clearing dog heads out of my lawn, so I'm going to mouth some platitudes towards you that hopefully will keep you from trying to touch my breasts."

(My Duckyhate may be filtering my recollections somewhat.)

It's like John Cusack showed up and cockblocked Jon Cryer's career.

John Bender
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Kevin McCallister
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Duckie
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Bueller
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Frye
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I had a girl refer to me as Duckie once, although our interaction was based on her coming over to my apartment to fuck me when her boyfriend was a missing person.

so you're saying she called you duckie at the moment of climax?

I think he's saying he has the ethics of a baboon

as did she

/bitter

i was like 19

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Jeanne Bueller.

how old are you emotionally?

when her boyfriend was a missing person.

i skimmed this the first time and didn't catch it, and i hope it's a metaphor, because if not that's fucking grim, dude

he had been cheating on her lol

Steff by a mile, but only because Steff's girlfriend is not on the ballot. "Your name is Jim???"

haha, I was totally mixing up Steff and Blaine! OK, Steff is cartoonishly evil, yes.

(This movie is clearly very important to me.)

"Your name is Jim???"

That's one of my favorite parts of any movie ever.

Muchos Spader love here too.

I like Ducky, but I'd like to see him go crazyape bonkers with his drill and sex.

But my vote'll go for basically any of Molly Ringwald's characters - she's always irritated the fuck out of me and Im not sure why.

It's a shame we took Elias Koteas's skinhead teddybear character from Some Kind of Wonderful out of consideration, although I'm sure he probably went on to do great things as an adult. Those kids always do.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

CURLY SUE WUZ ROBBED

BENDER - STILL COOL!

CURLY SUE WUZ ROBBED

Yes, this is a travesty and has made a mockery of the democratic process.

haha, everyone passed over Bender and just thought "nahhh -- too on the nose"

I love the fact that Jake Ryan recieved no votes. He's damn near unassailable.

BENDER - STILL COOL!

Smoke up, Johnny!

Well, he did give Farmer Ted permission to date rape his passed out girlfriend. xpost

http://www.myspace.com/johnbender666