History Trivia / TheBreakfastClub

** "(Don't You) Forget About Me" could have been performed by an artist other than Music/SimpleMinds. The song was written specifically for the movie by music producer Keith Forsey, who initially had Simple Minds in mind as the performers. The band declined the song when it was first brought to them, in part because they didn't want to record a song they didn't write. Forsey then offered it other musicians, including former Music/RoxyMusic singer Bryan Ferry, Music/BillyIdol (whose first four albums Forsey produced) and Cy Curnin of Music/TheFixx. All three passed on the song too, and Forsey vetoed the record label's offer of Canadian singer Corey Hart. By that time however, Simple Minds had reluctantly agreed to record the song on the advice of Chrissie Hynde of Music/ThePretenders, who was also Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr's wife.

* DeletedScene: Creator/JohnHughes' original version was 2 1/2 hours long. Scenes that were cut:
** When Andy's father tells him, "No school's going to give a scholarship to a discipline case", he originally followed up with "Not a white one, anyway."
** Carl predicts where the five kids will be in 30 years. Bender will have killed himself, Claire will have had "2 boob jobs and a face lift," Brian will have become very successful but die of a heart attack due to the stress of the high paying job. Allison will be a great poet but no one will care, and Andrew will marry a gorgeous airline stewardess who will become fat after having kids.
** In a dream sequence, Allison imagines Andrew as a gluttonous Viking, Bender as a prisoner, Claire as a bride, Brian as an astronaut, and herself as a vampire. In an unfilmed alternative to this dream sequence, all five kids imagine random things, including cars, naked women, Godzilla, beer, and fighter planes, and these things end up filling the room until Vernon interrupts.
** After Bender demonstrates "Life at Big Bri's house" Brian stops Bender and corrects him with a much more pessimistic version of the skit. Claire then proceeds to act out her life before asking Bender to demonstrate his version. Bender's routine changes as well here. After Bender mimics his mom, he stops, commenting that "then they make me work to pay off the dentist for the teeth HE busts."

** Additional cut content includes an extended version of the pot smoking scene, in which Brian and Claire are seen singing "All My Lovin'" by Music/TheBeatles and a new scene in which Allison breaks into the teachers' lockers using a switchblade, where she finds a copy of the Music/{{Prince}} album ''1999'', remarking "You know what this means? They're human" (she steals the record, and the theatrical version still has her inspecting the record later in the library with no explanation of where it came from). Several other differences between the definitive and uncut versions of the film have been noted, chiefly an extended make-out scene, in which not only Bender and Claire are seen kissing, but also Andy and Allison; lastly, during Hughes' small cameo as Brian's dad in the final scene (a performance which he later criticized), he was originally given the short line "Buckle up".

** Creator/MollyRingwald now finds some of the ValuesDissonance aspects of the film disturbing, mostly as to how her character is constantly bullied by Creator/JuddNelson's.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnHughes asked Creator/MollyRingwald and Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall to be in the film near the end of shooting ''Film/SixteenCandles''.

** When Creator/JohnKapelos met the young cast on the set for the first time, he advised them not to go too "method" with their acting, jokingly relating the story of how Creator/MartinSheen had suffered a heart attack during the filming of ''Film/ApocalypseNow.'' He then learned to his surprise and embarrassment that Creator/EmilioEstevez was Martin Sheen's son, who did not take kindly to the joke about what was for him and his family a very frightening incident. Kapelos apologized and Estevez accepted, but the memory of this incident was a source of deep embarrassment for Kapelos until he met Martin Sheen on the set of ''Series/TheWestWing,'' and Sheen laughed the story off.

** Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/LauraDern and Creator/RobinWright auditioned for the role of Claire Standish before Creator/MollyRingwald was cast.

** Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/AlanRuck were considered for the role of John Bender before Creator/JuddNelson was cast. Cusack was turned down due to the fact that Creator/JohnHughes didn't consider him "intimidating enough" for the character. Ruck would go on to play Cameron in another John Hughes teen film, ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' released a year later.
** Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/MatthewBroderick, Creator/TomCruise, and Creator/RobLowe were considered for the part of Andrew Clark before the casting of Creator/EmilioEstevez.
** Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/LauraDern, and Creator/RobinWright auditioned for the role of Claire Standish before Creator/MollyRingwald was cast.

** Creator/RickMoranis was originally cast as Carl but departed the project over CreativeDifferences over the portrayal of the character (he was going to depict Carl as a grotesque Ukrainian, which Creator/JohnHughes was not to allow).

* NamesTheSame: The character Brian Johnson didn't replace Bon Scott as lead singer for Music/{{ACDC}}.

** Creator/RickMoranis was originally cast as Carl but departed the project over CreativeDifferences over the portrayal of the character.

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** BreakfastClub
** TheBreakfastClubPosterHomage (picture on the left)

** There's a deleted scene where Allison breaks into a teacher's locker and, finding a copy of ''NineteenNinetyNineAlbum'' by Music/{{Prince}}, tells Andy "You know what this means? They're human." The final version of the film has a scene in the library where Allison is shown, in a reaction shot, to be inspecting the album, with no explanation of where she got it or why she has it.

* OrphanedReference: There's a deleted scene where Allison breaks into a teacher's locker and, finding a Prince album, tells Andy "You know what this means? They're human." The final version of the film has a scene in the library where Allison is shown, in a reaction shot, to be inspecting the album, with no explanation of where she got it or why she has it.

** "(Don't You) Forget About Me" could have been performed by an artist other than Music/SimpleMinds. The song was written specifically for the movie by music producer Keith Forsey, who initially had Simple Minds in mind as the performers. The band declined the song when it was first brought to them, in part because they didn't want to record a song they didn't write. Forsey then offered it other musicians, including former Music/RoxyMusic singer Bryan Ferry, Music/BillyIdol (whose first four albums Forsey produced) and Cy Curnin of Music/TheFixx. All three passed on the song too, and Forsey vetoed the record label's offer of Canadian singer Corey Hart. By that time however, Simple Minds had reluctantly agreed to record the song on the advice of Chrissie Hynde of Music/ThePretenders (who was also Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr's wife).

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The 93rd Academy Awards, both during its preshow and the actual ceremony itself, played various 80's songs that were nominated for Best Original Song. The first of these songs to play was "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from this film...but that song was never nominated for Best Original Song at all, despite being written for a film.