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* [[The Verse]]: In a 1999 ''Premiere'' [http://home.comcast.net/~aimsters4/bclub.html article], Hughes himself declared that ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'', ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]'', and ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]'' are all a part of the same universe. Sadly, the crossover possibilities were never explored in film.
{{quote| '''[[Word of God|John Hughes]]:''' When I started making movies, I thought I would just invent a town where everything happened. Everybody, in all of my movies, is from Shermer, Illinois. Del Griffith from ''Planes, Trains & Automobiles'' lives two doors down from John Bender. Ferris Bueller knew Samantha Baker from ''Sixteen Candles''. For 15 years I've written my Shermer stories in prose, [[All There in the Manual|collecting its history]].}}
** It's long been speculated that ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'', ''[[Some Kind of Wonderful]]'', and ''[[Home Alone]]'' also take place in the Shermerverse, since those movies were written (but not directed) by Hughes and feature similar themes.
** ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'' explicitly takes place in Shermer (Lisa is seen teaching the Shermer High gym class at the end), though it has its own [[Speculative Fiction]] internal logic that is inconsistent with the other canon Shermerverse movies.
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