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** When Ferris is shocked that Cameron says he has seen "nothing good", there is an [[Aside Glance]].
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: If Ferris put half the effort into school that he puts into ''avoiding'' school...
* [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin']]: Inverted with Ferris, played straight with Jeannie.
* [[Caught Onon 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.
* [[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.
* [[Central Theme]]: Taking chances.
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* [[Dean Bitterman]]: Rooney.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Ferris.
* [[Eek! Aa 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.
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* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: Ferris uses his sound synthesizer, which had coughing noises on it, to play "The Blue Danube".
* [[Extremely Short Timespan]]: The whole movie takes place over the course of a day.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: After this movie became hugely successful, many teen shows throughout the next decade or so (particularly those aimed at children) implemented a Ferris Bueller-like character (i.e. Zack Morris from ''[[Saved By the Bell (TV)|Saved Byby the Bell]]'', Ronnie Pinsky from ''[[Salute Your Shorts]]'', Parker Lewis from ''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose (TV)|Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]'', etc.). Some of these were just shallow/one-dimensional caricatures of Ferris; others weren't.
* [[For the Lulz]]: Why Ferris does anything. Ferris says he's doing it to {{spoiler|give Cameron a fun day.}}
* [[French Cuisine Is Haughty]]: The upscale French restaurant that Ferris and company visit has the requisite snooty maître d’.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: When they go to pick up Cameron's dad's 1961 Ferrari 250GT California at the end of the day, they stand outside the parking garage talking...while, in the corner of the screen, we see the garage attendants bringing the car in through a different entrance after having spent the day joyriding in it.
** You can also see the car pulling out of the garage right after the gang has dropped it off, and the second attendant jumps in and shouts "Go! Go!"
* [[Fun Withwith Subtitles]]: when Ferris is [[No Fourth Wall|explaining to the camera]] the best way to fake an illness to get out of school.
* [[Gossipy Hens]]: Simone Adamley. Grace (Rooney's secretary) is also a bit of this.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: ''"Les jeux sont faits."''
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** Also, Jeannie gets arrested by the police for making a legitimate call about an actual intruder in her house.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Ferris.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Along with ''[[Pretty in Pink (Film)|Pretty in Pink]]'', which was released in the same year, and ''[[Some Kind of Wonderful]]'', which was released a year later, this film pretty much marked the end of an era for John Hughes. After making those three films, Hughes decided that it was time for him to grow up cinematically, and thus he began cranking out films that were more oriented towards adults, such as ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]'', ''She's Having a Baby'', and ''The Great Outdoors''.
** He did, however, go on to write and produce ''[[Home Alone]]'' and several other slapstick children's films in the 1990s.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Cameron is either a diehard Detroit Red Wings fan or just plain asking for it by wearing a Detroit jersey in Chicago.
** Or he's a [[Paul McCartney]] fan (his band [[Wings (Musicband)|Wings]] used the Detroit Red Wings logo for a while as their own).
* [[Lovable Rogue]]: Ferris.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Does Cameron have a crush on Sloane or not?
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Despite being a pinhead, Grace acts differently around Jeannie.
* [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]]: The singing nurse.
* [[Nice to Thethe 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.
** 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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* [[School Idol]]: Ferris is the definitive Western example.
* [[The Scream]]: Cameron does one of these.
{{quote|'''Ferris''': Here's where Cameron goes berserk.|'''[[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Dr Insano]]''': This is where Cameron's soul snaps like a Twix bar!}}
* [[Scream Discretion Shot]]: Combined with a [[Skyward Scream]] to intensify Cameron's reaction to the high mileage count on his father's car.
* [[Selective Enforcement]]: Jeannie is a victim of this from her and Ferris' parents, who seem completely oblivious to Ferris' antics.
* [[Self-Inflicted Hell]]: A lot of what Jeannie does to herself. Among other things she's ticked about why people seem to love Ferris and hate her... while Ferris treats everyone like his closest friend and she treats them all like dirt.
* [[Shave and Aa Haircut]]: A florist truck continually blows its horn at Rooney, trying to get him to move out of Ferris' driveway. The flower deliveryman playfully honks the first five notes of "[[Shave and Aa Haircut]]", and Rooney [[Flipping the Bird|gives the driver the finger]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|in time to the last two notes.]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[The Beatles]] receive several.
** Ferris has a Cabaret Voltaire poster in his room
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{{quote| '''Cameron:''' It is his love... It is his passion...<br />
'''Ferris:''' It is his fault he didn't lock the garage. }}
* [[What Are You in For?]]:
{{quote| "Drugs?"<br />
"No, thank you." }}
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: It's a [[Fridge Logic|good thing]] the ''real'' Abe Frohman never showed up to claim his reservation...
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Ferris.
* [[The Windy City]]: This ''is'' a 1980s [[John Hughes]] movie, after all.
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