# I submit that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the perfect comedy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234 "2008-04-28T16:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/21 "2008-04-28T19:05:25Z")
[QUOTE=KidScruffy] It’s a very popular movie. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore it. They think it’s a righteous movie. [/QUOTE] CURSE YOU! I came in here to mention the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebs and dickheads. Save Ferris! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/22 "2008-04-28T19:09:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism’s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people. The Zen of Ferris. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/23 "2008-04-28T19:12:57Z")
[YAY for YouTube:](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93SxyyurEgQ) Charlie and Jeannie in the police station. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/24 "2008-04-28T19:12:58Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB] My favorite bit is in the police station, where Jeannie/Shauna is telling Charlie Sheen her name, and the background doowop singers are subtly singing “Jeannie…Shauna…Jeannie…Shauna…” [/QUOTE] That joke never made any sense to me. I know there’s a song, but it just makes zero sense. It’s a really charming movie - thanks to Broderick - with a few really good sequences. I wouldn’t say there are a lot of great jokes. There are some, but not a ton. Mostly you just sit back and enjoy the ride, so it’s good for repeat viewings. It’s not perfect, but it’s fun. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/25 "2008-04-28T19:14:14Z")
If you say " Ferris Bueller" you lose a testicle. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/26 "2008-04-28T19:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] If you say " Ferris Bueller" you lose a testicle. [/QUOTE] “Oh, so you know him?” **clenches fist** ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/27 "2008-04-28T19:18:55Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Better John Hughes comedy: **Planes, Trains, and Automobiles** Better comedy with Matthew Broderick: **Election** Better comedy with Jeffrey Jones: **Ed Wood** Better comedy with Charlie Sheen: **Being John Malkovich** [/QUOTE] Wow. I’ll bet we’ll never be netflix friends. I disagree with you almost on every count. P,T and A is a really good movie. Personally, I hated the other three; and still think they are given way to much credit. I’m guessing you also liked The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and more of those types? I know… I know… I’m in the minority; but I just didn’t enjoy those movies at all. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/28 "2008-04-28T19:21:19Z")
I liked the use of music, like when the two parking garage attendants were driving down the road to the Star Wars main title music and the use of “Oh Yeah” as Rooney boarded the school bus. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/29 "2008-04-28T19:29:56Z")
Not even close. A comedy, yes. A good comedy, yes. Past that we will have to differ. [My thread on the subject.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=328356) ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/30 "2008-04-28T19:29:59Z")
Fast Times… no, Breakfast Club… no, no - 16 Candles! no, wait… Just Say Anything. No, Better Off Dead! “I want my two dollars!” There’s too many movies to choose from! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/31 "2008-04-28T19:57:47Z")
[QUOTE=rikc] I dare you to prove me wrong. [/QUOTE] It’s magnificent, but it’s not perfect. “Perfect,” by definition, means to be without flaws. “Ferris Bueller” drags a bit towards the end; the Cameron bit with him going comatose stops being funny pretty quickly, and they drag it out way too much. They should have gotten from the “freak out in the car” scene to the “killing the car” scene much quicker. A little more editing was needed in there. The swimming pool scene, while it did give us a nice look at Mia Sara, was pointless. That isn’t to say it’s not the funniest comedy of all time. It might be. I mean, there are just too many hysterically funny scenes for it not to be in consideration. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/32 "2008-04-28T20:10:48Z")
Like **What Exit?** said, it’s _a_ great one, the last scene on the bus slays me still. I prefer Just Say Anything for classic 80s movie though. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/33 "2008-04-28T20:15:32Z")
The [Art Institute sequence](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmDvdGCEWvE) is one of my favorite movie scenes set to music. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/34 "2008-04-28T22:11:20Z")
“My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night!” Make that “perfect 80’s comedy” and I’ll agree. BTW it’s not the Star Wars theme playing when they take the car out joyriding, it’s from “2001 A Space Odyssey.” ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/35 "2008-04-28T22:19:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] BTW it’s not the Star Wars theme playing when they take the car out joyriding, it’s from “2001 A Space Odyssey.” [/QUOTE] If this is a whoosh, it’s so obscure that I don’t get it. [The music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK75HEcVs5k&feature=related) is definitely from Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/36 "2008-04-28T23:03:37Z")
[QUOTE=Cerowyn] If this is a whoosh, it’s so obscure that I don’t get it. [The music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK75HEcVs5k&feature=related) is definitely from Star Wars. [/QUOTE] Oh my bad, I had the “duhn…duhn…duhn…DUHN-DUH!!!” music in my head for that scene. My 80’s cred is permanently tarnished. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/37 "2008-04-28T23:47:52Z")
Can’t stand the movie. I’d rather watch any other John Hughes movie, including the execrable Home Alone than watch FB again. I seem to be in a very small minority, though. I was smack dab in the middle of its target demographic when it was first released and most of my highschool peers loved it but I hated it on first sight. I just could not get around the title character. I did not think Ferris was a charming or irreverent rogue but a smug and manipulative liar. Cameron should have punched him out early in the movie and I empathized with his poor sister who most definitely did not deserve all of the crap she took. I actually got pissed off when she decided to cover for him at the end of the movie. She should have thrown him to wolves and he would have deserved it. Hell, I even thought the principal was more sympathetic than that smarmy jerk of a title character. Fuck Ferris!! ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/38 "2008-04-28T23:54:22Z")
It’s good. It’s really good. In fact, I consider it REALLY REALLY good. But I have the idea in my head that Ferris Bueller would be a “bad guy” in most other John Hughes teen angst movies. Popular, financially comfortable… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/39 "2008-04-29T00:00:03Z")
[QUOTE=Cerowyn] If this is a whoosh, it’s so obscure that I don’t get it. [The music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK75HEcVs5k&feature=related) is definitely from Star Wars. [/QUOTE] Spot the glaring continuity flaw in that scene. In the first couple of seconds, as the car flies over the camera, the sky is virtually cloudless and blue. When it lands (around 00:19) the sky is magically full of clouds… ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234/40 "2008-04-29T04:06:23Z")
[QUOTE=Pixilated] Fast Times… no, Breakfast Club… no, no - 16 Candles! no, wait… Just Say Anything. No, Better Off Dead! “I want my two dollars!” There’s too many movies to choose from! [/QUOTE] The Last American Virgin was funnier than Ferris Bueller or any of those… I think it was probably one of the top ten best 80’s movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-submit-that-ferris-buellers-day-off-is-the-perfect-comedy/447234.md?page=3)