# \_\_Ferris Bueller\_ plot question (\*Spoilers\*)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/__ferris-bueller_-plot-question-spoilers/677591>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 31, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/__ferris-bueller_-plot-question-spoilers/677591 "2013-12-31T21:27:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/__ferris-bueller_-plot-question-spoilers/677591/21 "2014-01-01T16:21:04Z")

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> [@Yorikke](#):
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> Come on now.

Maybe “Moment” is better than “Scene” but yeah. It makes me laugh just thinking about it (I’m laughing right now!).

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/__ferris-bueller_-plot-question-spoilers/677591/22 "2014-01-01T17:51:39Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> Hey, they both have Sheen and Grey in them. So close, right? (Now if John Hughes had made _Red Dawn_. One wonders how the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads of Shermer Illinois would do against the commies.)

INT. FERRIS LEANS ON A WALL. THE WALL COLLAPSES TO SHOW THAT FERRIS HAS UNWITTINGLY STUMBLED UPON THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CUBANS/RUSSIANS. ALL GUNS ARE DRAWN ON HIM.

Ferris: This. Could be a problem.

CUT TO: INT. FERRIS AND THE SOLDIERS ARE NOW LAUGHING, DRINKING, DANCING TO SOME MAMBO. THE SOLDIERS DRUNKINGLY EXIT, SLAPPING FERRIS ON THE BACK. SLOANE AND CAMERON ENTER.

Cameron: Ferris? What happened??

Ferris: Aww…they’re not such bad guys. They just needed a little oil and some growing room. So I gave them Alaska…and…your dad’s car.

Cameron: You gave away my dad’s car??!!

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/__ferris-bueller_-plot-question-spoilers/677591/23 "2014-01-01T17:53:46Z")

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She really should have let Ferris hang. **Then** it would have been a good movie.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/__ferris-bueller_-plot-question-spoilers/677591/24 "2014-01-01T17:55:36Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Yes, common enemy, Sheen (Winning!) wisdom setting in, and a little bit of “You won fair and square, Ferris” thinking (remember the competitive grinning at each other as they met in the intersection, her in the car with MILF, him running in the street).

This was the only interpretation I ever had of her motivations.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/__ferris-bueller_-plot-question-spoilers/677591/25 "2014-01-02T16:12:02Z")

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Way back when, my interpretation was: you wouldn’t even sentence your worst enemy to another year of high school.

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