# 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:** 9
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### Author:  [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/21 "2004-03-23T17:13:18Z")
Just to un-hijack the thread for a moment, weren’t they called the Breakfast Club because they had to come in early to serve their time?
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The Canadian movie _Who Has Seen the Wind_ was set in my home town, Weyburn, Saskatchewan. It was called ‘Crocus’ in the book by W. O. Mitchell, but shot in some small town not far away because Weyburn didn’t look like the 1930s any more. I guess that’s as close to fame as I can get.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/22 "2004-03-23T17:16:00Z")
> [@RogueRacer](#):
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> Top that! 😉
I’ve had a segment on national, prime-time TV. Does that count?
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/23 "2004-03-23T17:17:28Z")
In the late 80’s-early 90’s, I used to dance on [Electric Circus](http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/ec/) at CityTV in Toronto, and was treated to intimate shows with the likes of Ice-T and bouncy French-Canadian Mitsou.
:runs and hides in shame:
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### Author:  [@bradthomas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradthomas)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/24 "2004-03-23T18:12:41Z")
> [@Earl Snake-Hips Tucker](#):
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> From [IMDB:](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/trivia)
To get back on topic, the reason that detention was called the breakfast club at the daughter’s friend’s high school was that it was at 7:00 AM or so, rather than the weekend. The school in question is New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. My alma mater and one district over from Glanbrook North, where John Hughes went.
Brad
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/25 "2004-03-23T19:29:48Z")
> [@](#):
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> He was a high school history teacher of mine. Top that!
Well, my brother has a full face shot in the beginning of “Slackers” as he walks across from right to left in the very beginning. His face fills the screen.
So there!!
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/26 "2004-03-23T19:47:53Z")
Yeah? Well, _my_ brush with fame –
Bah, forget about it… It’s not nearly so cool when your spouse (and sometimes you) work in the film industry.
Oo! Oo! Although said Sniffs\_Markers was the “foot double” for an actor who couldn’t drive stick shift (and they had to film feet waling around the car, getting in, etc.). She was on set and was the only one who fit his exact shoe size. So she actually got _screen time_! Yep, yep! Sniffs’s feet will be _famous_!!! 🆒
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### Author:  [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/27 "2004-03-23T20:04:05Z")
My ex used to hang out with Madonna, back in her “wild days”. Ah, the stories…
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/28 "2004-03-23T20:31:48Z")
I was in _Major League_. 'Course it was one of the crowd scenes, but I’m famous!
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-they-called-the-breakfast-club/235499/29 "2004-03-23T22:43:20Z")
> [@Munch](#):
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> I was in _Major League_. 'Course it was one of the crowd scenes, but I’m famous!
Oh, I forgot about that. They filmed _Major League 2_ at Oriole Park at Camden Yards (in Baltimore) and my husband and I are in some crowd scenes! We were there for a game and they got a bunch of live crowd shots. Can’t actually see us though…
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