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*** You are. Her inner monologue has her smugly note "After all, ''I'' got a car, ''he'' got a computer" in a way that implies both were gifts.
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** It’s been a while since I’ve watched the film so correct me if I’m wrong but it’s possible that Jeannie bought the car with her own money.
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** John Hughes was also a Detroit native and lifelong Red Wings fan despite living in Chicago.
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** She probably just wanted to give him one last scare before bailing him out.
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** She probably just wanted to give him one last scare before bailing him out.out.
** 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.
** 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.
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**** It turned out even further, games from both dates were used in the movie. And a September date is farcically incompatible with 9 absences in less than a month of school.
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**** Two Cubs games were used in the film, one from June and one from September.
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* Ferris could have easily - and plausibly - avoided detection at the parade by wearing a "carnival" mask. Of course, thanks to his being TheAce, he pulls it off anyway.
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* It's implied that Jeannie didn't tell on Ferris because her talk with Charlie Sheen's character got her to loosen up. But then why did she look so determined to catch him when he ran into her car?
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* It's implied that Jeannie didn't tell on Ferris because her talk with Charlie Sheen's character got her to loosen up. But then why did she look so determined to catch him when he ran into her car?car?
** She probably just wanted to give him one last scare before bailing him out.
** She probably just wanted to give him one last scare before bailing him out.
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*** Uh, Ferris didn't start the parade, it was already in progress. In fact, it wasn't even scripted. There just happened to be a parade going on during filming.
*** It wasn't in the original screenplay, but once the movie was greenlit and they started planning shooting dates, they realised that the parade would be happening at the same time and so they chose to incorporate it. It's not as if they rocked up to start shooting one morning, discovered that there was a parade happening that day, and decided to go with it on the spur of the moment.
*** It wasn't in the original screenplay, but once the movie was greenlit and they started planning shooting dates, they realised that the parade would be happening at the same time and so they chose to incorporate it. It's not as if they rocked up to start shooting one morning, discovered that there was a parade happening that day, and decided to go with it on the spur of the moment.
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*** Uh, Ferris didn't start the parade, it was already in progress. In fact, it wasn't even scripted. There just happened to be a parade going on during filming.
*** It wasn't in the original screenplay, but once the movie was greenlit and they started planning shooting dates, they realised that the parade would be happening at the same time and so they chose to incorporate it. It's not as if they rocked up to start shooting one morning, discovered that there was a parade happening that day, and decided to go with it on the spur of the moment.progress.
*** It wasn't in the original screenplay, but once the movie was greenlit and they started planning shooting dates, they realised that the parade would be happening at the same time and so they chose to incorporate it. It's not as if they rocked up to start shooting one morning, discovered that there was a parade happening that day, and decided to go with it on the spur of the moment.
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* Why does Jeannie have a car and not Ferris? Ferris is likely the older of the two as he’s a high school senior and if she were older, she’d be out of high school.
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* Why does Jeannie have a car and not Ferris? Ferris is likely the older of the two as he’s a high school senior and if she were older, she’d be out of high school.school.
* It's implied that Jeannie didn't tell on Ferris because her talk with Charlie Sheen's character got her to loosen up. But then why did she look so determined to catch him when he ran into her car?
* It's implied that Jeannie didn't tell on Ferris because her talk with Charlie Sheen's character got her to loosen up. But then why did she look so determined to catch him when he ran into her car?
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** I always figured they just found a house with a pool where no one was home. It would hardly be the least unscrupulous or disrespectful thing Ferris would do, after all. You can also see their clothes around the edges of the pool, and they're all in their underwear. If it had been anyone's home, they could have changed inside and at least one of them would have a swimsuit.
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** I always figured they just found a house with a pool where no one was home. It would hardly be the least unscrupulous or disrespectful thing Ferris would do, after all. You can also see their clothes around the edges of the pool, and they're all in their underwear. If it had been anyone's home, they could have changed inside and at least one of them would have a swimsuit.swimsuit.
* Why does Jeannie have a car and not Ferris? Ferris is likely the older of the two as he’s a high school senior and if she were older, she’d be out of high school.
* Why does Jeannie have a car and not Ferris? Ferris is likely the older of the two as he’s a high school senior and if she were older, she’d be out of high school.
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*** Plus by the time it would have taken to get all the paperwork in order for a warrant, Ferris probably would have made it home by then, rendering the whole thing pointless on her part. And even if it worked, the police probably wouldn't be too happy that she wasted their time just to get her brother in trouble and she’d end up in even more hot water with her parents and the police
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*** Plus by the time it would have taken to get all the paperwork in order for a warrant, Ferris probably would have made it home by then, rendering the whole thing pointless on her part. And even if it worked, the police probably wouldn't be too happy that she wasted their time just to get her brother in trouble and she’d end up in even more hot water with her parents and the policepolice.
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*** Plus by the time it would have taken to get all the paperwork in order for a warrant, Ferris probably would have made it home by then, rendering the whole thing pointless on her part. And even if it worked, the police probably wouldn't be too happy that she wasted their time just to get her brother in trouble.
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*** Plus by the time it would have taken to get all the paperwork in order for a warrant, Ferris probably would have made it home by then, rendering the whole thing pointless on her part. And even if it worked, the police probably wouldn't be too happy that she wasted their time just to get her brother in trouble.trouble and she’d end up in even more hot water with her parents and the police
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*** The pool isn't at the home of any of the trio. I believe John Hughes said as much at some point, and besides, you can see their clothes strewn around the edge of the pool. Surely they'd have gone inside to change if that had been an option.
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* Who owns the pool? We see Ferris at it when he calls Cameron, implying it's at his house since he hasn't been anywhere else yet... but at the end of the movie, during Cameron's breakdown, they're there again, while both Jeannie and Rooney are skulking around the Bueller home. So who actually owns it?
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* Who owns the pool? We see Ferris at it when he calls Cameron, implying it's at his house since he hasn't been anywhere else yet... but at the end of the movie, during Cameron's breakdown, they're there again, while both Jeannie and Rooney are skulking around the Bueller home. So who actually owns it?it?
** I always figured they just found a house with a pool where no one was home. It would hardly be the least unscrupulous or disrespectful thing Ferris would do, after all. You can also see their clothes around the edges of the pool, and they're all in their underwear. If it had been anyone's home, they could have changed inside and at least one of them would have a swimsuit.
** I always figured they just found a house with a pool where no one was home. It would hardly be the least unscrupulous or disrespectful thing Ferris would do, after all. You can also see their clothes around the edges of the pool, and they're all in their underwear. If it had been anyone's home, they could have changed inside and at least one of them would have a swimsuit.
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*** They may have assumed that Cameron was from out of town and paid him no mind, and they probably had other things to worry about than harassing some random stranger they pass by on the street.
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* Noah points out another piece of FridgeLogic in the audio commentary for the Insano review - what happens the next day when Ferris shows up to school, ''not'' dying of a terminal illness? He observes that most people in the same situation would get lynched, but says Ferris could probably laugh his way out of it.
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* Noah points out another piece of FridgeLogic in the audio commentary for the Insano review - what What happens the next day when Ferris shows up to school, ''not'' dying of a terminal illness? He observes that most people in the same situation would get lynched, but says Ferris could probably laugh his way out of it.
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* As pointed out by [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Dr. Insano]], why the heck did Ferris convince Cameron to "borrow" the Ferrari if he was just going to leave it in a parking deck all day? Even if you accept the idea that he didn't want to rack up the mileage, then why didn't they just use a taxi instead?
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* As pointed out by [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Dr. Insano]], why Why the heck did Ferris convince Cameron to "borrow" the Ferrari if he was just going to leave it in a parking deck all day? Even if you accept the idea that he didn't want to rack up the mileage, then why didn't they just use a taxi instead?
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* Why is Ferris acting like Rooney busted him at the back door? First: "The school day ended three hours ago; today's attendance records are now historic and you can't change them just because I skipped school" (and furthermore "Why do you have such a hard-on about this?").
Second: "You can't prove that I did feel too sick to go to school this morning but I then felt better after having lunch/a nap/I've just been out for a walk".
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this?"). Second: "You can't prove that I did feel too sick to go to school this morning but I then felt better after having lunch/a nap/I've just been out for a walk".
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* Ferris could have easily - and plausibly - avoided detection at the parade by wearing a "carnival" mask. Of course, thanks to his being TheAce, he pulls it off anyway.
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* Ferris could have easily - and plausibly - avoided detection at the parade by wearing a "carnival" mask. Of course, thanks to his being TheAce, he pulls it off anyway.anyway.
* Who owns the pool? We see Ferris at it when he calls Cameron, implying it's at his house since he hasn't been anywhere else yet... but at the end of the movie, during Cameron's breakdown, they're there again, while both Jeannie and Rooney are skulking around the Bueller home. So who actually owns it?
* Who owns the pool? We see Ferris at it when he calls Cameron, implying it's at his house since he hasn't been anywhere else yet... but at the end of the movie, during Cameron's breakdown, they're there again, while both Jeannie and Rooney are skulking around the Bueller home. So who actually owns it?
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**** It wasn't in the original screenplay, but once the movie was greenlit and they started planning shooting dates, they realised that the parade would be happening at the same time and so they chose to incorporate it. It's not as if they rocked up to start shooting one morning, discovered that there was a parade happening that day, and decided to go with it on the spur of the moment.
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** He probably was panicked and not thinking straight.
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** 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?".
** In all certainty, the class roll '''was''' taken on paper, and then typed into the computer by the secretary. The question is whether the missing seven absences can be proved by having kept the rolls for those days. If they were, Ferris' lies are about to come tumbling down...
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Second: "You can't prove that I did feel too sick to go to school this morning but I then felt better after having lunch/a nap/I've just been out for a walk".
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*** It's actually not June 5. The Cubs game was filmed in late September.
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*** Turns out it wasn't, it was late September 1985.
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** Considering Mr and Mrs Bueller work separate jobs (and are at least implied to be vaguely workaholic parents), it wouldn't be truly inconceivable for them to have two phones for work-related purposes.
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** It also undeniably ties into the AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Ferris, [[RonTheDeathEater casting him as a manipulative sociopath apparently out to wreck Cameron's life and sabotage the trio's education for his own amusement]]. If one subscribes to this interpretation (which already requires a ''lot'' of twisting the film's actual narrative), then Rooney becomes a poor beleaguered Principal who was [[SanitySlippage pushed over the edge]] by an unrepentant teenage hooligan.
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**While it may not have been the case at the time the film was made, Illinois now bases its school funding on average daily attendance rather than total enrollment. Ferris would have been costing the district money.
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** There are two possibilities that haven't been brought up: 1. Ferris may have told his parents about Sloane but haven't introduced her to them (which may not be as likely, as for the fact that if they did, they probably be asking questions about her, including why he hasn't introduced her to them), or 2. (more than likely) he hasn't told them about her, thus they have no idea she exists in Ferris' life, and Jeanie only knows about her because she's probably seen them together at school.
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*** YMMV on how nondescript Sloane is, but the easiest answer is possibly that Mr. Bueller believes she knows better than to skip school, since she's outwardly rather [[SpiritedYoungLady prim and proper,]] so in his mind it couldn't possibly be her. "The next time I see that girl, I'll have to tell her she has a doppelgänger!"
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*** YMMV on how nondescript Sloane is, but the easiest answer is possibly that Mr. Bueller believes she knows better than to skip school, since she's outwardly rather [[SpiritedYoungLady prim and proper,]] proper, so in his mind it couldn't possibly be her. "The next time I see that girl, I'll have to tell her she has a doppelgänger!"
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* Another bit of FridgeLogic: what happened to the ''real'' Abe Froman?
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