Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Difference between revisions

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In 1990, a TV series based on the film began to air on NBC. Due to poor ratings, it was cancelled during its first season. [[Dueling Shows|Dueling show]] ''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]'' was its [[Spiritual Successor]] (and some say was [[Spiritual Licensee|the real TV adaptation]]).

Also happens to be movie critic Richard Roeper's ~~favourite~~ film.

Also happens to be movie critic Richard Roeper's favorite film.

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* [[Caught on the Jumbotron]]: Ferris catches a foul ball at Wrigley Field. It's shown on national TV, although Rooney looks at the television a second too late and misses seeing Ferris.

* [[Central Theme]]: Taking chances.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The scene at the pizza ~~parlour~~ where Rooney mistakes a girl for Ferris; Ferris is actually on the TV in a baseball game, catching a baseball on camera. Much later (at the end of the movie) in order to turn off the snoring sound effects playing on his stereo while he's still in bed, he retrieves the baseball from his pocket and throws it at the stereo's "off" button.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The scene at the pizza parlor where Rooney mistakes a girl for Ferris; Ferris is actually on the TV in a baseball game, catching a baseball on camera. Much later (at the end of the movie) in order to turn off the snoring sound effects playing on his stereo while he's still in bed, he retrieves the baseball from his pocket and throws it at the stereo's "off" button.

* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Cameron does one of these.

* [[Coming of Age Story]]: Arguably for ''Cameron'', who (at the beginning) is an emotional wreck because of his home life, is shown a good time by Ferris, and in the end finally decides to [[Calling the Old Man Out|stand up to his father]]<ref>who, if you recall, loved the 1961 Ferrari 250GT California more than his own family</ref>.

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* [[Eek! a Mouse!]]: Averted when Ferris threatens to do this in the restaurant.

* [[The Eighties]]: One critic on the Internet Movie Database hails this film as a superb distillation of "the decade of grim optimism."

* [[Eighties Hair]]: ~~and~~ clothes, and music.

* [[Eighties Hair]]: And clothes, and music.

* [[Erudite Stoner]]: [[Charlie Sheen]]'s [[One-Scene Wonder|One Scene]] at the police station. He nails Jeannie's problem in less than a minute, and is halfway towards nailing ''her'' when her mother shows up.

* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: Ferris uses his sound synthesizer, which had coughing noises on it, to play "The Blue Danube Waltz".

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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Despite being a pinhead, Grace acts differently around Jeannie.

* [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]]: The singing nurse.

* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: Inverted at Chez Quis, ~~moreso~~ after Ferris pulls off the trick, and partially justified as the maitre d' is a bit of a [[French Jerk]] (well, at least, it's a French restaurant). To be fair, Ferris started by trying to be nice, but that got nowhere.

* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: Inverted at Chez Quis, more so after Ferris pulls off the trick, and partially justified as the maitre d' is a bit of a [[French Jerk]] (well, at least, it's a French restaurant). To be fair, Ferris started by trying to be nice, but that got nowhere.

** Subverted with the parking lot staff. Ferris attempts to treat them well to get special treatment for the car, and they go and do the exact opposite.

*** Though perhaps they were just as insulted at being slipped a mere "fin" as the maitre d' was.

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** Also Rooney, about Ferris.

*** And vice-versa.

* [[Reality Warper]]: One possible explanation for what Ferris gets away with, though he'd have to be a relatively low-powered one.

* [[Recursive Canon]]: In the sitcom, the movie is considered a fictionalized version of Ferris' "real" life.

* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Rooney.

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** And more famously with Ferris leaping over obstacles in his last dash home.

* [[Society Marches On]]: A school administrator sees one of his students sucking face with someone he believes to be ''her own father'', and dismisses it as unimportant?

* [[Staggered Zoom]]: ~~adapted~~ for the gratuitous detail shots of Seurat's ''Sunday Afternoon''

* [[Staggered Zoom]]: Adapted for the gratuitous detail shots of Seurat's ''Sunday Afternoon''

* [[Standard Snippet]]: This film firmly embedded [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg Yello's "Oh Yeah"] in the meme pool.

* [[The Stinger]]: Rooney getting picked up by the school bus during the end credits.

** And, indeed, see [[That's All Folks]] below.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Cameron is the character who experiences the most [[Character Development|development.]]

* [[Television Geography]]: The day in Chicago makes no geographic sense. They teleport from one side of the city to the other in moments, they change directions of travel every few seconds on Lake Shore Drive... surely a Chicago native can add even more detail.

* [[That's All Folks]]: At the very end, Ferris asks the audience why they are still watching when the movie has ended.

** To see if he'd do something funny, of course! And he did!