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The Breakfast Club
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Of all the teen movies to come out of the 1980s, this was the one that ultimately defined the era and blazed the trail which, along with Sixteen Candles, would lead to the true formation of the Brat Pack.The Breakfast Club follows the journey of five teenagers who have all landed themselves a Saturday detention at their high school on March 24th, 1984. During the course of the day, they are characterized by their cliques, harassed by angry vice principal Richard "Dick" Vernon, and aided by friendly school janitor Carl... all while coming to learn a little something about themselves, and each other.Released in 1985, this dramedy film was written and directed by John Hughes, a legend in the teen movie genre. Its five principal actors — Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy — would become part of the "Brat Pack", a group of actors whose careers in the 1980s revolved around playing teens in popular movies with each other. This group also included Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, and Demi Moore. | |
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Axes at School | |
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Axes at School: Brian's Flare Gun is why he got detention. It went off early and damaged school property. | |
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Miles Gloriosus | |
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Miles Gloriosus: Bender. He puts out an image of toughness but Andy is able to take him down with ease. Even when Bender pulls a knife and casually talks about killing Andy, he's slowly backing away from the fight. Confirmed when Principal Vernon challenges Bender to a fight, asking repeatedly for Bender to throw the first punch, while he just sits there looking like a scared puppy. When Dick taunts him and begs him to take the first shot, Bender remains frozen with what looks like terror. There's the argument that Vernon wanted to be able to claim Bender had assaulted him, and Bender knew it so didn't rise to the bait. Hell, Vernon had literally just pointed out that no one would take Bender's word over his; his plan was obvious. The fear on Bender's face seems to negate this a little. Also, given Bender's upbringing, him getting into any kind of altercation with Andy would just result in him having to deal with his father (who burns him with a cigar just for spilling paint in the garage) the minute he finds out. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: John Hughes plays Brian's father at the end. | |
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Vanity License Plate | |
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Vanity License Plate: The front license plate on the car of Brian's mom has Einstein's theory of relativity. Make of that what you will. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Andy, when talking about the pressure from his Jerk Jock father. This eventually breaks down towards the end of his monologue, and he starts sobbing and shouting his words. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Than a lot of Hughes's other movies, to the point that those familiar with Hughes's lighter fare are often appalled by how grim and cynical the film is. | |
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The Anti-Nihilist | |
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The Anti-Nihilist: More or less the movie's general philosophy. Essentially, Principal Vernon sees the students the way he wants to see them — in the most convenient definitions. Also, there's really not much meaning to high school's cliques, rules, and social norms, when you get right down to it. That being said, the Breakfast Club still chooses to admit they follow it, and move past it all. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Andy, who's pressured to be just like his dad. | |
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Kafka Komedy | |
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Kafka Komedy: The story of Brian's life. | |
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Title Card | |
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Title Card: One of the opening quotes to the film is from the David Bowie song "Changes", which symbolizes the teens' constant neglect and abuse that they take not just from their parents but from the other adults around them. | |
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Shop Class | |
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Shop Class: Brian takes it because he thinks it'll be an easy "A". That didn't turn out to be the case, however. Bender wastes no time in demanding why Brian would think shop would be an easy "A" | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The film's bread and butter. Not only does Bender make a lot of jokes about underage drinking, smoking, and child abuse, but there's comedy in the most dramatic conversation over the fact that Brian apparently brought a gun to school, but it turned out to be a flare gun. The Bathos involved in-universe even causes the other kids to chuckle at it. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Claire, the Alpha Bitch, is a Stepford Smiler who feels that her life is empty, and that her parents only use her as a tool in their endless arguments between each other without really caring about Claire herself. And she's hardly the "queen bee" — in fact, it's peer pressure that essentially molded Claire into the snobbish bitch that she is, and she feels miserably forced into it. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Early on in the film, Andrew tells Bender, "You don't even count. You could disappear forever, and it wouldn't make any difference. You might as well not even exist at this school." Later on, when Andrew yells at Bender for his Sarcastic Clapping reaction to Claire's lipstick trick, John replies with "What do you care what I think, anyway? I don't even count ... right? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference. I might as well not even exist at this school, remember?" "Do I stutter?" also fits this trope. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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The concept of deviation from the stereotypes extends to all the main characters in various ways, not all pertaining to their clothing — Andrew is a wrestler rather than a football player, Claire is a redhead rather than blonde, and Allison, who would otherwise most likely be portrayed as a far more level-headed character compared to the others, is erratic and attention-seeking. | |
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Atomic F-Bomb | |
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Atomic F-Bomb: Bender's epic "FUCK YOU!!" to Vernon. | |
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Speech-Centric Work | |
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Speech-Centric Work: This film is almost entirely dialogue. It takes place in a library. Libraries are collections of words — just like dialogue. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Brian and Andy's reaction to Allison's makeover. | |
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow | |
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: We see a picture of 1969 Carl as the school's "Man of the Year" with a full head of hair. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The entire movie takes place over the course of a few hours of Saturday, March 24, 1984. It starts in the morning as the students arrive for detention, and ends in the late afternoon just after they leave. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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And finally, Andrew is Greek for "manly and strong." | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
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Non-Indicative Name: The movie doesn't involve breakfast. The term "breakfast club" was originally a metaphor for morning detention. | |
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Sucky School | |
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Sucky School: Eight-hour detentions on Saturday is just one of the many things wrong here, never mind the principal. | |
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I Am What I Am | |
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I Am What I Am: Claire, Andrew and Brian do it publicly; Allison confesses privately to Andrew; and Bender hides the specifics from the characters, but the audience can easily figure out his situation. | |
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Silent Snarker | |
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Allison probably dominates the nonverbal territory of this, though she's no slouch when she actually speaks. | |
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Jaded Washout | |
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Jaded Washout: Most of the adults qualify. Vernon got into an education career as a means of gaining easy respect and money, but years of being kicked around by the students in his charge have really gotten to him. By the time the film begins, he only does the bare minimum of what's expected of him and outright admits to Carl he doesn't care what the kids think of him as long as he gets an easy paycheck. Carl himself is an interesting variant. He was once the Man of the Year in 1969, and had aspirations of being "John Lennon", implying he wanted to be a musician. He's now working a wage-slave job as a janitor at the very high school he graduated. Unlike Vernon, however, he actually displays a stronger work ethic and doesn't pass judgment on the kids. And considering the kind of work required of janitors at schools, especially one of that size, he is probably paid quite well for his trouble. Andy's dad is heavily implied to be a former Jerk Jock who didn't really get anywhere in life as a result of his loutish behavior, and consequently is trying to force his son into the life he himself never lived. He seems stuck in a self-constructed time warp to the days where he could bully whoever he wanted and not face the consequences, utterly failing to wrap his head around the reality that his son doesn't want to become a Fratbro dick like him. Of the all of the Club members, Brian and Andy seem to be on their way to becoming this after high school. | |
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Stoners Are Funny | |
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Stoners Are Funny: The teens when they smoke the weed Bender retrieves from his locker. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Andy to Bender, although we don't know Bender is the dog until it happens. In the opening scene, the parents do everything they can to show us what worthless human beings they are. | |
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Dean Bitterman | |
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Principal Vernon is portrayed as a Dean Bitterman and a Jaded Washout who used to have a bright future, but seems to have settled for his current position. He has the students write an essay about who they are, which is read in the opening and closing of the movie. Also, while Bender is certainly a jerk, Vernon seems to take special pleasure in cutting him down and trying to hurt him emotionally with verbal abuse and the threat of even more detention. All the while, Vernon's methods are presented as ineffective at best, and harmful at worst. | |
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I Hit You, You Hit The Ground | |
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I Hit You, You Hit The Ground: "Two hits: Me hitting you, you hitting the floor." | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: Just a few seconds after being told by Mr. Vernon that he "expected more from a Varsity letterman", Andy covertly flashes his middle finger at him (it happens after Vernon said, "You're not fooling anyone, Bender"). Judging by how Vernon later went off on Bender after he told him to eat his shorts, it's probably a good thing that Vernon didn't notice it. A few scenes later, Claire gives Bender the finger after he insinuates that she'll get fat after having a few children. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: It's a John Hughes movie. Were you expecting sunshine and bunnies? | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Bender to Clair: | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Bender, the juvenile delinquent, is like that not because he's a bad person, but as a result of his tough, working-class upbringing and his abusive father, both of which have taught Bender that violence is an acceptable solution to problems. His badass image is also easily disarmed by Andy, even though he's armed with a knife. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: It is obvious this isn't the first time Bender has done detention on a Saturday. However when Vernon says to the kids that they are going to try something a little different today namely an essay, it is strongly implied Claire, Andrew & Brian have been in detention before. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: When Bender and Andy are about to fight (with the latter letting him know how one-sided it would be), the former dismisses him and tries to strike the first blow...only to be quickly taken down by his opponent, a talented school wrestler. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The teens leave detention resolving to make sure they never become their parents and coming to accept one another for who they are. But they still have to return home to abusive and/or neglectful parents, and it's left ambiguous whether they'll remain friends on Monday or not. | |
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Breakfast Club | |
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Breakfast Club: The Trope Namer. The point of the movie is that the kids all learn they have much more in common with each other than they think, and are much more capable of being friends and understanding each other than they knew. | |
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Her Boyfriend's Jacket | |
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Her Boyfriend's Jacket: To signal their Relationship Upgrade status, the two pairs that couple up at the end of the movie exchange some tokens. Claire gives Bender one of her diamond earrings, which he puts in, and Allison takes Andy's sweatshirt and a patch off his letterman jacket. | |
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Female Gaze | |
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Female Gaze: While Andy is having an internal conflict about whether to smoke weed or not, the camera is shot from Allison's perspective, who is gazing at his back and, later, when the camera doesn't move, at his crotch. | |
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One Free Hit | |
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One Free Hit: Vernon offers Bender one when he challenges him in the storage closet. Bender doesn't take the bait, being possibly too smart and definitely too scared. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: We really, really shouldn't be laughing at some of this. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The opening and closing narration are alternate versions of the Epilogue Letter Brian writes for Vernon (though the opening is only read by Brian, the ending has all five talking). Also the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" is playing during the opening and closing scene. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5313c266 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_55f4dd10 | type |
What Are You in For? | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_55f4dd10 | comment |
What Are You in For?: The question comes up repeatedly. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_55f4dd10 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_57efd4c4 | type |
Growing Up Sucks | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_57efd4c4 | comment |
Growing Up Sucks: Allison believes so, saying everyone will end up like their crappy parents. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_57efd4c4 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_58b07f3 | type |
Finale Title Drop | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_58b07f3 | comment |
Finale Title Drop: The essay read at the end is signed "Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club" | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_58b07f3 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5924454b | type |
Cerebus Call-Back | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5924454b | comment |
Cerebus Call-Back: Brian talking about how he failed shop because he couldn't make a ceramic elephant, which leads into a bit of joking on the part of the others. A few minutes later when the entire discussion has gone a bit more dramatic, Brian reveals he brought a flare gun to school because he couldn't get the elephant to work, implying he wanted to kill himself. It gets subverted when they all end up laughing about it anyway. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5924454b | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: Did the kids remain friends, or did they drift back into their respective cliques when they had to go back to school? The movie ends as they're going home after detention, leaving the question open-ended. At the very least, it seems as though Allison and Brian might remain friends, as Brian promises he wouldn't do that to any of them, and Allison doesn't have any friends, nor does she think the kind of friends she'd have would mind. Similarly, Andy and Claire already knew each other slightly from their overlapping social circles. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5a3b8032 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5b19cc1b | type |
Air-Vent Passageway | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway: Bender goes through the ceiling to get in and out of the closet. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5b19cc1b | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5b9cf82b | type |
Education Mama | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5b9cf82b | comment |
Brian, the Nerd, hates how his parents have destroyed his social life by pushing him so hard to succeed, and are so obsessed with his grades that he tries to kill himself after getting an F in shop class. His attitude is also little better than that of the "popular" kids that he hates, as shown when he talks about how he took shop class because he thought it was an easy A that only "losers" like Bender took (as opposed to his advanced math classes). | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5b9cf82b | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: The masks we wear to protect ourselves from the outside world, and what happens when we let the mask fall away. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5f1999a0 | type |
Building of Adventure | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5f1999a0 | comment |
Building of Adventure: The entire movie takes place inside the school, or at least on its grounds. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5f1999a0 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5fc3ab7f | type |
Implied Love Interest | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_5fc3ab7f | comment |
Implied Love Interest: Early in the film Bender asks Andy and Claire if they are dating and even asks them if they've had sex yet — which prompts the first real outburst of emotion from either of them. At the start of the film, it does appear as though Andy is showing interest in Claire (later it's implied that their friendliness — which is mostly just willingness to make eye contact — is more due to the fact that they know each other at least a little through their social circles). Fairly quickly, however, Bender and Claire, and later on Andy and Allison, begin showing (increasingly larger and more frequent) signs of interest in one another. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_5fc3ab7f | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_62907b90 | type |
Bottle Episode | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_62907b90 | comment |
Bottle Episode: Movie example. Every single hijink that the kids partake in is set within Shermer High, and mostly within the library. Only a handful of scenes take place in other rooms, or in front of the school. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_62907b90 | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_62907b90 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_62f9d08e | type |
Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: According to a picture on the wall, Carl was "Man of the Year" for the class of '69. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_62f9d08e | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_62f9d08e | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_637b6123 | type |
Sickening "Crunch!" | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_637b6123 | comment |
Sickening "Crunch!": Can be heard when Bender is under the table and Claire squashes his head with her knees. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_637b6123 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_637b6123 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Bender draws the attention of Vernon after the Club runs into a dead-end during their hallway jaunt, allowing the other four to get back to the library undetected. The concept of deviation from the stereotypes extends to all the main characters in various ways, not all pertaining to their clothing — Andrew is a wrestler rather than a football player, Claire is a redhead rather than blonde, and Allison, who would otherwise most likely be portrayed as a far more level-headed character compared to the others, is erratic and attention-seeking. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_6439de78 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_687b55f5 | type |
Most Writers Are Adults | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_687b55f5 | comment |
Most Writers Are Adults: The five main characters, in many ways, talk and act more like adults than teenagers. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_687b55f5 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_69631eb0 | type |
Detention Episode | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_69631eb0 | comment |
Detention Episode: The movie takes place in a Saturday detention. This is where the club is formed. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_69631eb0 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_69806c03 | type |
Cold Reading | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_69806c03 | comment |
Cold Reading: Allison reveals details about Brian which look like she is a psychic. Then she reveals that she just went through his wallet (though this is really hot reading). | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_69806c03 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: This exchange: While he's antagonistic and unnecessarily harsh, and while it's doubtful that Vernon has any deep concern for what ultimately happens to Bender (or any of the others for that matter), most of Vernon's comments to Bender, at least until he locks Bender in the storage closet, could be taken this way. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_6b05b601 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Vernon's first name is "Dick". Brian is an anagram of brain. John Bender bends/breaks rules. Claire Standish is standoffish. And finally, Andrew is Greek for "manly and strong." | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_6bda9a30 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6d332aea | comment |
Brian's explanation for why he's in detention has both tension and comedy to it. He talks about bringing a gun to school, with the implication that he would either be Driven to Suicide or go on a school shooting. But it turns out to have been a Flare Gun, which went off early and damaged Brian's locker. The release of tension in-universe causes the other students to start laughing, including Brian himself. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_6d332aea | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6d871385 | type |
Villainous BSoD | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6d871385 | comment |
Villainous BSoD: After Andy hits Bender's Berserk Button, Bender flips out, ape-flings himself up a statue and some railings, and cowers alone in an emotional heap. Later, after Principal Vernon explicitly promises to one day find Bender and beat the shit out of him, Bender is left frozen with fear. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6d871385 | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_6d871385 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6e0a57d6 | type |
Like an Old Married Couple | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6e0a57d6 | comment |
Like an Old Married Couple: Bender and Claire's constant fighting make them looking like a divorcing couple, which is interesting as Claire's main source of angst is her parents' virtually inevitable divorce. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_6e0a57d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_6e0a57d6 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: Andy repeatedly tries to ask Allison why she's in detention while they're getting drinks for the group. She isn't fazed, and turns the same question back on him, to which Andy tellingly is unable to answer. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7b6e47a5 | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_7b6e47a5 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7bf35700 | type |
Shave and a Haircut | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7bf35700 | comment |
Shave And A Haircut: Masterfully improvised by Andy and Bender when Bender is hiding under Claire's desk and bumps his head. Possibly worth asking why Bender hid under Claire's desk when in the previous shot he was closer to Brian's desk or even an empty section. It's also worth noting that the only tables with covered fronts are in the front row, the table that Andy and Claire are sitting at and the one directly opposite it. There's actually no reason for them to be covered except that it provides Bender a place to hide in the above mentioned bit. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_7bf35700 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Bender delivers one to Claire: | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_7d89315b | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7f48a2b2 | type |
"YEAH!" Shot | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_7f48a2b2 | comment |
"YEAH!" Shot: Bender, at the end. The reason for it is left fairly ambiguous. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_7f48a2b2 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: At the beginning of the movie, Andy and Bender can't stand each other, but Andy still contains his smile when Bender asks Vernon "Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" and later cracks up when Bender tells Vernon that his dope can't be on fire because it's in Brian's underwear. Bender cracks a smile when Carl tells them the clock is twenty minutes fast. The rest of the students are suitably horrified to learn that Brian is in detention for bringing a gun to school. When he learns it was a flare gun that went off in Brian's locker, Andy starts laughing. He stops when Brian insists it isn't funny, but then starts laughing again and Brian joins in, admitting it's a bit funny. Similarly, everyone laughs at why Allison is there. She just didn't have anything better to do. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_8042e814 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_820ac3c5 | type |
Dysfunction Junction | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_820ac3c5 | comment |
Dysfunction Junction: Even the apparently happy and popular students have some serious issues (usually stemming from their parents) that they keep hidden below the surface. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_820ac3c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_820ac3c5 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: After storming into the library when he heard a ruckus note Bender falling through the ceiling into a room on the library's second floor , Vernon all but disappears from the film until the very end where he is shown picking up and reading the group's letter with no spoken dialogue, a good 40 minutes after he was last seen. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_863fa679 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_863fac26 | type |
Jerk Jock | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_863fac26 | comment |
Andy's dad is heavily implied to be a former Jerk Jock who didn't really get anywhere in life as a result of his loutish behavior, and consequently is trying to force his son into the life he himself never lived. He seems stuck in a self-constructed time warp to the days where he could bully whoever he wanted and not face the consequences, utterly failing to wrap his head around the reality that his son doesn't want to become a Fratbro dick like him. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_863fac26 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8767b1f3 | type |
Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: No one is particularly innocent in this film. Adults Are Useless is prevalent throughout the movie, but even the heroes are in detention for things that they actually did wrong (except for Allison, who claims that she had nothing better to do). | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8767b1f3 | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_8767b1f3 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_89d001bf | type |
Do Wrong, Right | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_89d001bf | comment |
Do Wrong, Right: Andrew's father in the beginning chastises him not for screwing up, but for getting caught. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_89d001bf | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8e3b5b4d | type |
Minimalist Cast | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8e3b5b4d | comment |
Minimalist Cast: There are only eleven characters in the entire movie, and four of them appear only in the first scene. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_8e3b5b4d | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8f4d6761 | type |
Epilogue Letter | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_8f4d6761 | comment |
Epilogue Letter: Excerpts from Brian's essay are voiced out over the opening and closing scene. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_8f4d6761 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_92163e88 | type |
Locked in a Room | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_92163e88 | comment |
Locked in a Room: Locked In A Schoolroom. Later, Bender is locked in a storage closet. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_92163e88 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_96a2363c | type |
Bathos | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_96a2363c | comment |
Bathos: Brian's explanation for why he's in detention has both tension and comedy to it. He talks about bringing a gun to school, with the implication that he would either be Driven to Suicide or go on a school shooting. But it turns out to have been a Flare Gun, which went off early and damaged Brian's locker. The release of tension in-universe causes the other students to start laughing, including Brian himself. Andy recounting a prank he pulled on a weaker student —taping his (unfortunately hairy) buttocks together— would be turned into a silly gag in most teen movies and on paper it definitely sounds funny, but it's described by Andy as the cruel and stupid stunt that it actually was, and he's eaten up with guilt when reflecting on the pain and humiliation he caused another kid for no real reason. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_96a2363c | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_96b68af2 | type |
Desk Sweep of Rage | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_96b68af2 | comment |
Desk Sweep of Rage: Bender wipes a desk clean during a rage montage after coming clean about his Parental Abuse to the other members of the group. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_96b68af2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_96b68af2 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: After Bender steals the screw that is holding the library door open, Vernon orders Andrew to help him move a magazine rack in front of the door to hold it open, only for Bender to point out that it's a potential fire hazard. Then Vernon turns around and gets mad at Andrew for engaging in such an embarrassing, risky idea, in spite of the fact that it was actually his own idea and which the boy only did since he commanded him to do it in the first place. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_973d220f | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_984ef9ef | type |
"Not So Different" Remark | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: The five students slowly come to realize this about each other over the course of the movie. Andy's rant about his obsessive and borderline abusive father makes Brian cry and Bender remark that their fathers should get together and go bowling. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_984ef9ef | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_984ef9ef | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9c550e26 | type |
Word Salad Title | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9c550e26 | comment |
Word Salad Title: There's no indication in the film why the kids ultimately choose to sign their essay/letter to Vernon as "The Breakfast Club". Hughes was struggling to come up with a name for the film and heard his friend's son refer to Saturday detention by that name and decided to use it for the movie. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_9c550e26 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In the opening montage, one locker is charred black. Presumably it's Brian's, since the flare gun he brought to school was mentioned as causing damage to a locker when it accidentally went off. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9e5369d1 | type |
Orphaned Setup | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9e5369d1 | comment |
Orphaned Setup: Bender's "naked lady" joke. (It doesn't have a punchline, Judd Nelson ad-libbed it). The closest thing to a punchline is when he falls through the ceiling and declares he forgot his pencil. | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_9e5369d1 | featureApplicability |
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The Breakfast Club / int_9e5369d1 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_a33b90b2 | type |
Improv | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_a33b90b2 | comment |
Improv: The scene in which all characters sit in a circle on the floor in the library and tell stories about why they were in detention was not scripted. Writer and Director John Hughes told them all to ad-lib. | |
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The Breakfast Club / int_a33b90b2 | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: After a Tear Jerker of a story told by Brian about bringing a gun to school, the revelation that it was a flare gun and that it went off in his locker gets everybody laughing. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: With the exception of Carl the janitor, the adults in the film are portrayed as apathetic, abusive, and self-absorbed. Allison even says "when you grow up, your heart dies" to the other kids when they talk towards the end of the movie. Principal Vernon is portrayed as a Dean Bitterman and a Jaded Washout who used to have a bright future, but seems to have settled for his current position. He has the students write an essay about who they are, which is read in the opening and closing of the movie. Also, while Bender is certainly a jerk, Vernon seems to take special pleasure in cutting him down and trying to hurt him emotionally with verbal abuse and the threat of even more detention. All the while, Vernon's methods are presented as ineffective at best, and harmful at worst. The long conversation between the five teens shows the kind of abuse that the kids get from their parents, and how it manifests differently for each of them. | |
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The Three Faces of Adam | |
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The Three Faces of Adam: Brian is The Hunter (awkward and out of his depth), Andrew is The Lord (a popular, serious-minded athlete) and Bender is The Prophet (a loudmouth who gets everyone to open up). | |
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Held Gaze | |
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Held Gaze: Bender and Claire have a few of these throughout the movie, including one before their kiss. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: All five of them when they’re on the way back to the library and they see Vernon. Brian when Bender tells Vernon his marijuana is in Brian’s underwear. Luckily for him, Vernon thinks Bender is being sarcastic. | |
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All-Stereotype Cast | |
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All-Stereotype Cast: Deconstructed. Each of the students in detention fulfills a high school stereotype of The '80s: specifically, jocks, brainiacs, princesses, criminals, and basket cases. And yet, the film is about showing how they're much more than those stereotypes, what kinds of background would turn someone into these stereotypes, and how these societal expectations affect them as people. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Bender is the biggest example, who is also a superb Silent Snarker. The look he gives Brian when he sticks a pen up his nose is pretty priceless. Andy, Claire, and Brian develop some snarkiness as well, but not nearly to the degree of Bender. Allison probably dominates the nonverbal territory of this, though she's no slouch when she actually speaks. Carl, the school's janitor, is enough of one to shut Bender up. | |
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Loners Are Freaks | |
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Allison, the crazy loner, intentionally acts crazy in order to get attention, something her parents don't give her. She doesn't bother to hide her blatant thefts and eccentricities, and her withdrawn persona is actually just a ploy to get people to give her more attention without admitting that she craves it. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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The long conversation between the five teens shows the kind of abuse that the kids get from their parents, and how it manifests differently for each of them. | |
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Raging Stiffie | |
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Raging Stiffie: Brian gets one while staring at Claire. | |
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Cacophony Cover-Up | |
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Cacophony Cover Up: The kids cough, bang on the tables, and make sound effects to cover the noise Bender is making as he tries to crawl under the library tables back to his seat without the principal realizing he's not following the rule about staying seated at all times during detention. | |
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Glass-Shattering Sound | |
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Glass-Shattering Sound: Andrew does this in one scene, breaking one door's glass panel in the process. | |
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Color-Coded Characters | |
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Color-Coded Characters: The kids' clothes are all a different color; red for Bender, blue for Andy, pink for Claire, green for Brian, and black for Allison. Bender's color is clearer when he removes his jacket, Andy's only gets bluer when he takes off his, and Allison's changes to white after Claire gives her a makeover. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Brian's response to Claire about social pressure. Claire says that Brian, as a nerd, doesn't feel pressure like she does. Brian responds with a loud "Fuck you!" to Claire, then talks about how he is constantly pressured to succeed academically as opposed to socially. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
After Andy hits Bender's Berserk Button, Bender flips out, ape-flings himself up a statue and some railings, and cowers alone in an emotional heap. | |
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Fist Pump | |
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Fist Pump: Bender has his fist in the air, triumphant over the events of the day. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Larry Lester, the kid whose buttocks Andy taped together. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Uptown Girl: Rich, spoiled princess Claire falls for troubled delinquent Bender at the end. | |
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Crazy Consumption | |
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Crazy Consumption: Allison lets her soda spill out, and licks it off the table. Then she throws away the bologna from her sandwich and replaces it with Pixy Stix (powdered candy) and Cap'n Crunch cereal. | |
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Monochrome Casting | |
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Monochrome Casting: All characters are Caucasian. | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
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Foreign Queasine: Claire's lunch consists of what she calls sushi (actually, it's sashimi, but that common mistake is beside the point). Bender is a bit put off by the thought of eating raw fish. | |
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Enemy Eats Your Lunch | |
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Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Bender to Brian: "So, what are we having for lunch?" although he never actually eats it. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: Claire and Bender. Literally. She slaps him on the back after he crawls out from under her desk, and later she kisses him in the closet, and let's not forget their kiss in the final scene. | |
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Big "SHUT UP!" | |
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Big "SHUT UP!": Claire delivers two of these towards Bender. First when he teases her about the lipstick trick (it doesn't actually work to shut him up), and again when he tears into her for her Brutal Honesty that none of the teenagers will remain as friends after respective detentions. | |
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Colonel Bogey March | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_d3ac5496 | comment |
Colonel Bogey March: Whistled by the kids early in the movie as the first sign of them coming together as a group. Bender seamlessly transitions into Beethoven's Fifth when Vernon enters the room. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Allison is called a "basketcase" (crazy person). | |
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Failed Attempt at Drama | |
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Failed Attempt at Drama: Vernon tells the group in a stern tone that he will not be made a fool of. Then he walks out with the toilet seat cover sticking out the backside of his pants. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Claire toward Bender, and deliberately invoked by him. | |
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Angry Dance | |
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Angry Dance: Andrew does this. Oddly enough, it's his reaction to getting stoned. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: While the characters' parents are the main reason why each of them is screwed-up and Principal Vernon isn't exactly nice to them (especially Bender), the true conflict of the story is what the kids struggle with in their personal life, school life, and whatever their life will be like in the future. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: Everyone apart from Claire calls to John Bender as just "Bender", even Principal Vernon. | |
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Artistic License – Sports | |
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Artistic License – Sports: Andrew states that he has a wrestling meet next Saturday. The film takes place in March of 1984 and the Illinois State Wrestling Championships had already occurred in February, therefore the wrestling season would be over and there would be no further meets until the next season started. | |
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Minor with Fake I.D. | |
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Minor with Fake I.D.: Andrew finds out Brian has a fake ID. Brian claims it's so he can vote. | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype: This film takes a look at what many of the "stock" characters of teen movies of the day would be like if they existed in real life, and what their motivations would be. Andy, the Jerk Jock, only behaves that way in order to fit in with the rest of the team and to impress his father, who raised Andy on stories of how he acted like that back when he was in school. Andy wishes that, one day, he'd get injured so that he wouldn't have to wrestle again, and thus never have to worry about living up to Dad's expectations. Claire, the Alpha Bitch, is a Stepford Smiler who feels that her life is empty, and that her parents only use her as a tool in their endless arguments between each other without really caring about Claire herself. And she's hardly the "queen bee" — in fact, it's peer pressure that essentially molded Claire into the snobbish bitch that she is, and she feels miserably forced into it. Brian, the Nerd, hates how his parents have destroyed his social life by pushing him so hard to succeed, and are so obsessed with his grades that he tries to kill himself after getting an F in shop class. His attitude is also little better than that of the "popular" kids that he hates, as shown when he talks about how he took shop class because he thought it was an easy A that only "losers" like Bender took (as opposed to his advanced math classes). Bender, the juvenile delinquent, is like that not because he's a bad person, but as a result of his tough, working-class upbringing and his abusive father, both of which have taught Bender that violence is an acceptable solution to problems. His badass image is also easily disarmed by Andy, even though he's armed with a knife. Allison, the crazy loner, intentionally acts crazy in order to get attention, something her parents don't give her. She doesn't bother to hide her blatant thefts and eccentricities, and her withdrawn persona is actually just a ploy to get people to give her more attention without admitting that she craves it. | |
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Improbably Predictable | |
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Improbably Predictable: When Vernon is yelling at the kids to be quiet, he says "The next time I have to come in here, I'm cracking skulls!", which Bender is lip-syncing along with him, likely having heard this exact tirade more than once. | |
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Painful Adhesive Removal | |
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Painful Adhesive Removal: Discussed as the reason Andrew is in detention with the others; he hazed one of his wrestling teammates by taping the poor bastard's ass shut. He thought it was a harmless prank but removing the tape took off some of the guy's skin and hair with it. All Andrew can think about is what it must have felt like to tell his parents about it. | |
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Drugs Are Good | |
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Drugs Are Good: Bender brings some grass he had stashed in his school locker and the kids (except for Allison) have an eighties montage over smoking it in the school library during detention. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Coke cans are in focus during the lunch scene. | |
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Sarcastic Clapping | |
| The Breakfast Club / int_f6e05922 | comment |
Sarcastic Clapping: Bender. "That was great, Claire. My image of you is totally blown." | |
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City People Eat Sushi | |
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City People Eat Sushi: Rich Alpha Bitch Claire eats sushi for lunch and Bender, a delinquent from a lower class background, thinks it's disgusting. | |
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Clock Tampering | |
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Clock Tampering: We are never shown anyone turning the hands of the clock forward, just that Carl notices that someone (most likely Bender) has done it, as he casually mentions the clock is 20 minutes fast. | |
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Girlfriend in Canada | |
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Girlfriend in Canada: Brian claims to have a girlfriend living up in Niagara Falls, in addition to having had sex with several other girls. When pressed, he admits he made the whole thing up because he's embarrassed to admit he's a virgin. | |
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