# Why are they called The Breakfast Club?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 21, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499 "2004-03-21T02:44:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Colinmarshall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colinmarshall)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/1 "2004-03-21T02:44:15Z")
Just dawned on me. Why are they called The Breakfast Club? The movie’s characters and themes couldn’t have _less_ to do with breakfast.
They did eat _lunch_ in the movie, but that’s as close as we came.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/2 "2004-03-21T03:05:14Z")
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> The film’s title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for detention at the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes’ friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of “The Breakfast Club”.
From [IMDB:](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/trivia)
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/3 "2004-03-23T01:32:57Z")
[pointless brush with semi-fame]
_The Breakfast Club_ was filmed at Maine Township High School North, much more commonly and sensibly referred to as Maine North, in Des Plaines, IL. What looked like a school library, was actually a set built in a large gym at the school. At the time, the school was closed due to dwindling enrollment. My brush with semi-fame comes from having gone to Maine West (also in Des Plaines) at roughly the same time the movie was being filmed.
The same school also played a part in _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_
[/pbws-f]
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/4 "2004-03-23T02:27:00Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> My brush with semi-fame comes from having gone to Maine West (also in Des Plaines) at roughly the same time the movie was being filmed.
My brush with semi-fame is that my best friend’s identical twin sister used to work (the company moved in October) across the street from said high school. It’s the best I’ve got.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/5 "2004-03-23T02:37:15Z")
An Oreos commercial was shot in my elementary school.
I rock.
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### Author:  [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/6 "2004-03-23T03:32:52Z")
I’ve crossed the bridge in “Eddie and the Cruisers” a thousand times.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/7 "2004-03-23T03:40:00Z")
The Breakfast Club was the first movie I paid to see twice in the theater.
Oh, and Ice-T’s movie, Surviving The Game was shot in my town. I got to watch some of the filming up close. And I personally knew two of the local men they hired as extras to play the parts of homeless men. I’ll bet you didn’t know that they hired honest-to-goodness, local homeless men for the parts 🙂
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### Author:  [@xvxdarkknightxvx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xvxdarkknightxvx)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/8 "2004-03-23T05:31:36Z")
I’ve been inside the Quickstop, and when I was there, RST Video was closed, which I complained about. While in the Quickstop, my friend checked for the perfect egg carton as I looked for a gallon of milk with a decent date on it. I live about 25 minutes from the place. I’ve also been on the boardwalk where God was knocked unconscious by street hockey ghouls.
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### Author:  [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/9 "2004-03-23T12:22:06Z")
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> While in the Quickstop, my friend checked for the perfect egg carton as I looked for a gallon of milk
…and I’ll bet you’re the first people to do that! 😉
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/10 "2004-03-23T13:19:52Z")
Parts of Freejack were filmed at and around Georgia State University while I was attending. I heard Jerry Hall named her daughter, whom she gave birth to the correct number of months later, Atlanta… could be apocryphal.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/11 "2004-03-23T13:21:57Z")
A hijack, but Steve Buscemi is the director of a movie currently being shot in the town where Igrew up (Goshen, Indiana)
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/12 "2004-03-23T14:10:36Z")
My brush with fame: I went to the high school used in the John Waters’ film _Serial Mom_ and parts of Barry Levinson’s _Avalon_ were filmed in the neighborhood where I grew up. If you know exactly when to look and look really fast and don’t blink, you can see the part of the house where I grew up. We had to take the old TV antenna off of our roof for filming (as well as a bunch of our neighbors). It didn’t really matter, because we had cable by then. We’d just never taken the old antenna down.
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### Author:  [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/13 "2004-03-23T14:24:51Z")
Since we’re swapping brushes with fame:
In the movie _Snatch_ a few scenes are set on the street in Hatton Garden. In a couple of shots you can see the door to my flat. A few more shots were filmed by a cameraman standing just outside my doorway. There’s also a scene inside a pub where I drink, the Mitre, which is tucked away in a narrow alleyway just off Hatton Garden.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/14 "2004-03-23T15:02:45Z")
An indie movie (I’d have to find the name) was shot in the house I’m buying next month. It hasn’t been released yet but when it is you know I’ll be going!
Hey! There’s my bathroom!
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### Author:  [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/15 "2004-03-23T15:21:18Z")
In Grumpier Old Men there is a scene with people square dancing (or maybe it’s a polka?) in the background. One of the dancers is a middle aged man with jet black hair that was insanely obviously dyed. It’s kind of Ron Jeremy-like hair, so it stands out.
He was a high school history teacher of mine. Top that! 😉
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/16 "2004-03-23T15:25:28Z")
I went to school in Canberra Australia with Jackie Chan.
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/17 "2004-03-23T15:39:22Z")
The storefront of my mom and dad’s drugstore makes a brief appearance in a lesser-known Clint Eastwood movie called [_Bronco Billy_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080472/) that came out in 1980.
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### Author:  [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/18 "2004-03-23T16:40:25Z")
Ummm… my ex girlfriend was an unseen extra in Days of Thunder and described Tom Cruise as appearing “small and bird-like” in real life.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/19 "2004-03-23T17:05:27Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> The same school also played a part in _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_
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> [/pbws-f]
And _Weird Science_.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/20 "2004-03-23T17:07:17Z")
The climax of _Minority Report_ is filmed on a balcony of my office building – they were originally going to shoot it on our floor (8th) but decided to get a little higher for a better view of the Washington Monument so they went to up to nine.
–Cliffy
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