I just got the funniest phone call from my good friend Tammy, and she was laughing hysterically when she called. You all know Tammy as mother of Samantha and Charlie, my friend for a decade plus, and the wife of my really good friend and former advisor (I introduced them- WHAT AM I, FUCKING STUPID?). At any rate, she called, and was in hysterical fits of laughter, because for the first time in her life, she had just seen 16 Candles. I was unaware of this, because for the last decade, every time she called me I would always answer “OH SEXY GIRLFRIEND,” and on nights when we had been out and had too much to drink, I would always joke “Donger needs food” when it got around 2-3 am.
So tonight, she saw 16 Candles for the first time, called, and said “OMG the last ten years are even funnier now.”
Wait til she sees Weird Science and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Keith
You’re stewed, buttwad! Know what time it is? Time to pay the fiddler.
MikeJ
Hey lady, if you’re going to drown those puppies can I have the one with the brown nose?
Alison
How the heck does someone get to be whatever age she is without ever having seen Sixteen Candles? I mean…that’s just wrong.
PLEASE tell me she’s seen The Breakfast Club, for pete’s sake…
dr. bloor
This is rhetorical, right?
Stuck in the Funhouse
Okay, that’s enough for me. Taking me baseball bat to the computer, and going to find Jesus. Otherwise, see ya in hell.
burnspbesq
Watching Krugman’s LSE talk from last week. He’s got an impish sense of humor. Example: referring to Bernanke as “my former department chairman, demoted to running the world.”
mai naem
Where is my automobile Dong?
My O-tto-mobile?
I have watched Sixteen Candles,jeez,I don’t know how many times.
BGinCHI
I ride by the church on the north shore (from 16 candles) every weekend, usually twice. A constant reminder of the genius of that film.
Female extra terrestrial?
How do you know it’s a female?
PS. That chick is hot. This is an objective assessment.
Paula68154
I’ve never seen Sixteen Candles. I think I may now!
jon
Those who have seen Sixteen Candles owe it to themselves to watch Gregory’s Girl and see that a Scotsman made the perfect John Hughes film a few years earlier.
Tams
Hi All! 16 candles recent virgin here! I don’t know how I had never watched the brilliance of this movie before, honestly. This coming from a girl who has seen Spaceballs over 100 times. I have however seen The Breakfast Club, Weird Science and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. This one just happened to escape me. I will say it was worth the wait and even more so now that I understand what Cole has been saying for the last 12+ years. This will forever be one of my greatest best friend moments with him! That and I have a kahhh-not… Which none of you will understand unless he chooses to elaborate. Ha!
MattR
With your trick shoulder John, you shouldn’t be throwing anyone.
Weird Science though, huh? No memorable quotes from that movie jump to mind. Fletch on the other hand…
burnspbesq
@jon:
The only problem is that they speak Scottish and there are no subtitiles. ;-)
Keith
@Paula68154: You should ASAP. Long Duk Dong is one of John Hughes most iconic supporting characters (along with Chet from Weird Science)
fuckwit
But first…. I’d like to butter her muffin.
BGinCHI
@jon: Yes!
And no.
Yutsano
@fuckwit: Why do you have to be such a wanker??
Joey Maloney
I lol’d.
Calimatt
I love to announce that “Donger need food” when I’m drunk too. But the whole line is much funnier (at least to drunk me): “No more yanky my wanky, the Donger need food!”
BGinCHI
@Tams: Spaceballs?
sigh
Alas I cannot love you.
The Other Bob
My wife was a ringer for Molly Ringwald when we met, better looking than Molly now 20 years leter. I win.
BGinCHI
@Yutsano: How’s your moms?
What are you getting me for father’s day? It’s my first one.
Egg Berry
You want something that will make you, um, laugh? Check out what TBogg found!
Alison
WOOHOO, Matt Cain just pitched a perfect game for my Giants! So awesome :) First in franchise history!
kdaug
@Tams:
All right, I’ll bite – what the hell is a kahhh-not, Cole?
Yutsano
@BGinCHI: I got a border collie on my bed. It’s gonna be tough to go home in two weeks!
You get a salmon. Slightly limp. Possibly from Alaska.
(Actually I could send one, but it would actually be fresh and edible. I got people.)
Petorado
@Egg Berry:
I’ll see your busty conservachicks and call you an “Aristocrats.”
Riilism
Had a huge crush on the male lead in 16 Candles. Anybody know what happened to him?….Nevermind, got it…
Genine
@Paula68154:
Quick! Someone call the police!
Darkrose
@Alison: I think everyone in our apartment complex heard us screaming on the last out. So awesome!
JCT
@Egg Berry: Wow, brain bleach please. The first comment on that thread cracked me up.
A laugh that was SORELY needed as I have one of those damn birthdays that end in zero tomorrow. Fucking 50 – damn.
YellowJournalism
Did someone mention Weird Science?!
“So what would you little maniacs like to do first?”
“I can be a real serious bitch if I don’t get what I want.”
And for those parties at Cole’s place: “It’ll just be the usual; chips, dip, chains, whips…”
PurpleGirl
@Alison: I’m 60 and I’ve never seen 16 Candles. I have seen Breakfast Club.
YellowJournalism
And I know it’s not John Hughes’s, but The Sure Thing is pretty awesome in a Hughes-esque way.
Suffern ACE
@JCT: Well, we could call it your golden jubilee or something. Make some cheap plates with your picture on them to sell to tourists and place you on a barge for a public audience.
sfinny
Never saw sixteen candles except some brief moments flipping through channels. It didn’t catch my attention enough to watch the whole thing. Guess I missed the good bits.
Quaker in a Basement
Stupid? I dunno. But introducing this one to other guys was seriously poor judgment. Being a Bush Republican just got demoted to your second worst mistake.
Bill
Cole, seriously. I don’t comment here much but I am laughing my ass off right now. Man…
David Koch
Did you guys see this clip of Romney not knowing what a donut is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRZjOMwTWic
I seriously think he may have dementia. He’s a lot older than he looks. He’s in reality 65. Seriously, if a senior citizen asked, “what do you call those 4 round things that spin around on a car”, you’d say, “uh-oh, the long goodbye is starting”.
Alison
@Darkrose: Seriously! That last out was too fucking close for comfort :P TORTURE, lol
Batocchio
Holy crap! I’m surprised anyone of her/your/our generation missed 16 Candles. I know women who still swoon over Jake, as well as John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything. (I’d still rank The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as Hughes’ best, though.)
TheMightyTrowel
@Batocchio: Who DOESN’T “rank The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as Hughes’ best”??? Show me this strawperson, I will defeat him/her!
fuckwit
@Yutsano:
How’s about a nice greasy pork sandwich, served in a dirty ashtray?
The prophet Nostradumbass
The Breakfast Club is a movie I loved, loved loved when I saw it (I was a freshman in college when it came out). I saw it again relatively recently, and my reaction was “meh”. For me, it’s a movie that didn’t age well.
fuckwit
Holy crap, my brother and I actually had that Heather Thomas bikini poster.. the one that is on the door of Mike’s room:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAiY3hTPpo
Feeling really old right now.
Also, “I can’t believe I just got felt up by my grandmother”. Classic.
A Humble Lurker
@Tams:
(waves) Congrats! Can you let Cole take and post more pictures of your incredibly adorable puppies? (not a euphemism)
harlana
@Stuck in the Funhouse: ahahaha! we had to use whatever heads were laying around. bahahaha!
Randy P
I’ve been greeting my wife with “Beautiful American Girlfriend” for years. Never saw Weird Science though, and I don’t know anything about it. My older daughter claims Ferris Bueller was the first movie she remembers us watching with her and it twisted her for life. I could swear she had a fairly normal childhood.
Well, OK, maybe not normal. But I could have sworn we started her out on Disney princesses (starting with Beauty and the Beast) before exposing her to the subversive stuff.
WJS
It would be wonderful to see an entire episode of Big Love where Bill Paxton does all of his lines as Chet from Weird Science, up to and including spitting food on people.
bemused
@Egg Berry:
The Phyllis Schafly one is actually pretty good.
Years ago, a babysitter told us laughing that our youngest boy who was maybe 3 years old at the time toddled around our house saying periodically, “Whatsa happening, hot stuff”. She has never forgotten this and still laughs about it over 20 years later.
kindness
Jesus John, don’t the have dvd rentals or netflix in West Virginia?
jon
@TheMightyTrowel: 16 Candles is the best John Hughes film. Breakfast Club is unwatchable nostalgia bullshit which tries to pretend it has emotional weight but just had bad acting scenes. ACTING! Daddy issues! And such.
Ferris Bueller is second.
jon
@TheMightyTrowel: 16 Candles is the best John Hughes film. Breakfast Club is unwatchable nostalgia bullshit which tries to pretend it has emotional weight but just had bad acting scenes. ACTING! Daddy issues! And such.
Ferris Bueller is second.
Chris
Having grown up pretty much in Shermer, IL during the years these films were made, with friends as extras in them, and having cleaned Ferris Bueller’s Cameron’s freakout beach under the watchful eye of a cop at 2 am as a way not to go to the station, i second this thread.
I still want Molly Ringwald, 16 Candles > Ferris > Breakfast Club
This is hilarious..
And that Tammy up top is one fine looking lady.
Chris
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080603039.html
From the Archives
Reflections on Jake Ryan of the John Hughes Film ‘Sixteen Candles’
By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Listen to all the Thompson Twins songs you want, but let’s finally admit that Jake Ryan from “Sixteen Candles” is never coming to get you.
Not in the red Porsche 944, and not wearing that Fair Isle sweater vest. Not with his shiny black hair moussed gently heavenward, not with his gooey brown eyes and square Matt Dillonesque jaw. He will not be standing there with his hands in the pockets of his 501 button-fly jeans (while leaning against said Porsche), and he will not be shyly waving at you from across the street. (“Yeah, you,” he mouths, just as in the movie, after you look behind you to see what girl he could possibly be interested in.)…..
Lex
You also need to order up a viewing of “The Big Lebowski” for her. Just to be safe.
redshirt
“He’s a righteous dude.”
Weird Science is the best. Love a young Robert Downey Jr in it. Great mall scenes.
Bulworth
@Batocchio:
Lloyd: I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you’re here at like the Gas ‘n’ Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?
Pause.
Joe: By choice, man.
redshirt
My two best friends at the time and I watched a whole lot of movies obsessively for a few years – what you’re forced to do before you can reliably secure alcohol. Here’s my rankings (by genre).
Comedy:
1. Weird Science
2. Ferris
3. Better off Dead
4. Fletch
5. Caddyshack (not an 80’s movie, but incredibly funny)
Action:
1. Aliens
2. The Terminator
3. Repo Man
4. Conan
5. Red Dawn (also a comedy)
Romance:
1……..
cosima
Breakfast Club ugh. So much manufactured & cliche teenage angst. Bad guy who smokes & wears leather is beaten regularly by his dad? Make it a good movie and have the little scrawny white kid beaten by his dad and the leather dude rebelling against his rich shitty parents. Hated that movie. Ferris B. ugh. I hated the talking to the screen, hated the over the top stuff with the car, hated everything about it.
Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles are my favorites. The bit in Weird Science where the kids are in a bar has some good lines. And the stuff with the sister, high on pms meds (?!) before & during her wedding has a couple of good lines from the parents.
And Michael S. from Sixteen Candles… Sigh. He was also a GQ model at that time, and my friends & I would buy GQ mag at the beginning of the school year so that we could make up masterful locker liners. Mine had about 20 pictures of him on it.
So did John C. do the falsetto and accent with “Oh Sexy Girlfriend?”
Piratedan
gawd, iconic 80’s films…… I’d have to rate it as FBDO then 16 Candles then Some Kind of Wonderful. Not saying I didn’t enjoy Club, just some parts of it just didn’t ring as true as the other films did for me, so its in that second tier along with Pretty in Pink. Always wondered what kind of Hughes film we could have had with Cusack as the lead because he was a Hanksian everydude in the 80’s with Say Anything being his crowing achievement, with The Sure Thing being a close second.
redshirt
@Piratedan: Hello, McFly? Better off Dead is clearly Cusak’s best 80’s movie.
“Damn shame folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.”
jon
Better Off Dead has the best movie nemeses (is that the plural?) ever: one doesn’t speak English and the other learned if from Howard Cosell.
redshirt
@jon: Weren’t those guys straight from “Cannonball Run”?
What a weird, wonderful movie “Better Off Dead” was. RICKEY!!!
Bobby Thomson
@jon: I want my two dollars.
Kathy
@Chris: What do you mean he isn’t? 20 plus years of dreams shattered:(
@mai naem: To this day my hubby and I giggle over that line but what really kills us the response
“wake, big wake”
"Fair and Balance" Dave
@Egg Berry:
The first comment is priceless!
noodler
Lake, Big Lake.
In FBDO, someone actually figured out the real MLB game that Ferris, Cameron and Sloane went to at Wwrigley field, vs. the game that Rooney was watching on tv in the pizza shop. It is quite a neat read: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=12877
I shared it with a friend last year when it came out in a 25th anniversary article.
Classic.
redshirt
“You’re stewed, buttwad.”
redshirt
Oh and also too: My friends and I informally founded the Bill Paxton fan club circa 1991, given his awesome roles in Terminator, Aliens, Weird Science, and Predator 2 (oh damn – Predator should be in the top 5 action movies of the 80’s. Heck, everything Arnold did should be).
Bill Paxton rules!
Chris
@redshirt:
My friend Paul is the guy who jumps out of the way of the car on the dude’s way into the mall, I grew up near this mall (Northbrook Court). I don’t know if Jewish American Princess is an unacceptable term these days or not, but it sure applies there.
redshirt
@Chris: Awesome! I was fairly jealous of that mall. Back in the day, the east coast malls in my area seriously paled compared to the malls I saw on tv. And as any child of the 80’s knows, the Mall was where it’s at.
Piratedan
@redshirt: c’mon now…. anybody who has to teach Ms. Zuniga how to belch like a sailor and sit in the backseat of a car going cross country while Tim Robbins is up front singing show tunes has to count for something.
Ruckus
@JCT:
50. Fttt. A veritable pup. Youngster.
Congrats on making it this far, have fun.
redshirt
@Piratedan: Ah, Daphne Zuniga. How bright your star burned, too brief, too brief.
patrick
yes, yes you are…..
never really cared for breakfast club or 16 candles….I preferred the oddball 80’s val kilmer movie. Real Genius and Top Secret being my favorite. I still giggle a little whenever I hear the name “Hillary”
Piratedan
@patrick: I will say that Real Genius is an incredible piece of work, anytime you can bring Bill Atherton on as your villian, it’s almost always bound to please. Can’t say this enough, the quality of your conflict and drama of good versus evil is in direct proportion to how outstanding your villian is. Bill Atherton as your comedic villian is simply wonderful, when you think of how rewarding it is to see him get his comeuppance in Real Genius, Die Hard, Ghostbusters… just great stuff.
Linnaeus
Ah, Sixteen Candles. That was the movie to see back in 7th grade; it was released just before we started 7th grade, but then we all got cable and saw it on HBO or Showtime.