History Headscratchers / FerrisBuellersDayOff

* Did anyone else find it odd that there are no students with surnames beginning with ''C'', ''D'', or ''E'' in homeroom, as well as a preponderance of ''A''[='=]s? After a build-up of "Adams, Adamson", etc, we jump straight to the late ''B''[='=]s, meaning there are zero students with common ''B'' surnames like Black, Boyle, Bryson..., after which the roster skips ahead from Bueller to Frye. I realize this was for expediency's sake from a technical standpoint, but it still makes you wonder what the probability of that would be in real life.

* How does ''Sloane'' know what Ferris is planning? Sure, she might have had an inkling that "Ferris probably isn't ''actually'' sick, and he might come to break me out of class", but there's no reason she should have connected the news of her grandmother's death with Ferris.

*** He shouldn't need to look that hard for evidence either: the homeroom rolls, which Ferris can't change due to being physical objects, should still be stored somewhere in the office archive. [[{{Main/FridgeHorror}} Now armed with concrete evidence of the disparity, Mr. Rooney might consider calling the cops and reporting the unauthorized access to the school's computer, which the FBI will be able to trace to Ferris's home, thus implicating him (his sister was in school & his parents were at work; there was nobody else who could have done it). Ferris is likely going to either miss his graduation ceremony due to being in prison awaiting trial or he'll be attending with a chaperone.]]

* Did anyone else find it odd that there are no students with surnames beginning with ''C'', ''D'', or ''E'' in homeroom, as well as a preponderance of ''A'''s? After a build-up of "Adams, Adamson", etc, we jump straight to the late ''B'''s, meaning there are zero students with common ''B'' surnames like Black, Boyle, Bryson..., after which the roster skips ahead from Bueller to Frye. I realize this was for expediency's sake from a technical standpoint, but it still makes you wonder what the probability of that would be in real life.

* Did anyone else find it odd that there are no students with ''C'', ''D'', or ''E'' names in the economics class? The class roster goes straight from Bueller to Frye. I realize this was for expediency's sake from a technical standpoint, but it still makes you wonder what the probability of that would be in real life.

** Because in the moment, the chance to take revenge on Rooney was greater and more appealing than the chance to take revenge on Ferris. I mean, they're siblings - another chance will come around soon enough.

** Still, why the Ferrari? Nobody in their right mind would use it as a daily driver. You could probably rationalise not using Cameron's Alfa Romeo because "Mr. Rooney would recognise it", but there's also a less-distinctive Mercedes-Benz 300 in the garage as well. By choosing such a distinctive car, which Mr. Rooney has now seen and admired, it's inevitably going to cause a situation where Mr. Rooney says to Mr. Petersen at parent/teacher night "How's your Ferrari going?" or "Again, I'm sorry about the loss of Sloane's grandmother. I didn't know it was you", to which Mr. Petersen is going to reply "Yeah, I wish I had a Ferrari" or "What are you talking about? Her grandmother is still alive (or alternatively, she died years ago). And what was me?".

** Still, why the Ferrari? Nobody in their right mind would use it as a daily driver. You could probably rationalise not using Cameron's Alfa Romeo because "Mr. Rooney would recognise it", but there's also a less-distinctive Mercedes-Benz 300 in the garage as well. By choosing such a distinctive car, which Mr. Rooney has now seen and admired, it's inevitably going to cause a situation where Mr. Rooney says to Mr. Petersen at parent/teacher night "How's your Ferrari going?" or "Again, I'm sorry about the loss of Sloane's grandmother. I didn't know it was you", to which Mr. Petersen is going to reply "Yeah, I wish I had a Ferrari" or "What are you talking about? Her grandmother is still alive. And what was me?".

** I always assumed it takes place on a Friday. It really seems like a Friday, doesn't it?

*** He has no proof. And he doesn't spend the day trying to find backups of the schools computer records, he spends it thinking that if he can just find Ferris, he can shout "A-ha!" and win.
*** This reaches its nadir when Rooney somehow thinks he can tell Ferris' parents ''"Ferris wasn't really sick! I know because I broke into your home today and he wasn't there!"'' and have it end well.

** Because in the moment, the chance to take revenge on Rooney was greater and more appealing than the chance to take revenge on Ferris. I mean, they're siblings - another chance will come around soon enough.

** She may have loosened up a little, but when the opportunity presented itself to catch him, she went for it. The only reason she didn't follow through was because Rooney was the greater of two evils.