[soycd]

Some people forget that we started as a baby ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAWvvE9w6Po

[Macoozie]

Sloan was HOT!
In the eyes of this once-young lion, she was certainly a beautiful creature, a sight to behold.

[Pelham]

[Joe 6-pack]

Ferris 30 years on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kaG95ZIjHQ

[Steely Tom]

Mr. Rooney (played by Jeffrey Jones) is accused by Ferris Buehler's sister Jeannie (played by Jennifer Grey) of being a child molester.

Jeffrey Jones was actually arrested for solicitation of child pornography, to which charge he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to probation.

According to Wikipedia, he has been arrested more recently for failing to register as a sex offender.

[SkyPilot]

There is no backseat in this Ferrari, so they are breaking laws and violating safety. Not to mention that the Carbon Footprint of this vehicle was atrocious.

1986.

2016.

[BBell]

Yes, some of the stuff we did as kids would land us in jail with a juvenile record these days. Having grown up in the eighties I can relate to this article. Fortunately my kids were active as I was.

[Organic Panic]

My favorite line. And I still use especially because I’m a recovering aircraft engineer that still does consulting..

“Relax. I’m a professional.”

[Alberta's Child]

I will always remember this movie for one of the funniest scenes in any movie:

Ferrari in Flight -- Star Wars

[posterchild]

Ferris, Cameron and Sloan are skinny and surprisingly free of Millennial teen and early adult diseases like Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Why? Because they went places and did things!

Is that what causes Diabetes in teens and early adults (which is typically Type 1)? Who knew?

[alexander_busek]

Ferris is a DIY guy who has Jimmy-rigged his bedroom [...]

Is this a now-acceptable variant of jerry-rigged - itself a WWII variant of the centuries-old jury-rigged?

Regards,

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Yaelle]

Everything in Ferris’s neighborhood was filmed a block away from where we lived for 15 years (Bixby Knolls area, Long Beach, CA). And the best friend’s house and cool glass garage in Chicago belonged to a family I know by the name of Rose. Weird connections to that film.

[Dirt for sale]

The VHS format is not dead; it lives on, where mold has not found it.

[Ancesthntr]

Ironically, Ferris’ generation are the parents of the snowflakes.

[hattend]

Why go out when you can binge watch Breaking Bad all day long?

He says that like it's a bad thing.

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

ping

[MinorityRepublican]

Time certainly haven’t been kind to Matthew Broderick. Now he looks like a creepy old man.

[SamAdams76]

Great movie and I can't believe it's been 30 years. I always liked the girl who over-explained Ferris' illness during class.

[x]

Ferris Bueller, being a senior in high school in 1986 was born in 1968 and therefore a charter member in Generation X. Bueller, his best friend, Cameron, and girlfriend, Sloan represent everything Generation X stood for in 1986 and still does today; cynicism, a smirking disrespect for all authority, the desire to get rich and get rich quickly, the ability to fend for oneself since mom and dad were at work and the desire to make your own impression on the world without help from the government.

I did see that kind of careerism or materialism, but all the grungy slackers were also GenX, so it was confusing back in the 1990s.

Are young people really less driven now? It's true that they're more coddled and less cynical, but I bet you can find a large subset of young people who are highly focused on career goals growing over the past two generations.

Whether in the 80s or now, young people spend less time at the beach or the malt shop than 50s or 60s teens (to judge by TV and movie depictions).

Ferris, Cameron and Sloan are skinny and surprisingly free of Millennial teen and early adult diseases like Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Why? Because they went places and did things!

That's what parents and grandparents talk about '80s and '90s kids and what parents and grandparents say about kids in every generation. Before there was the Internet there was TV and there were even video games back then. Parents reproached their children for not getting out in the real world and doing things even 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.