Basic Trope: A Homage or Whole-Plot Reference to The Breakfast Club.
- Straight: A group of teens, like the local Barbaric Bully Flash Young, the Alpha Bitch Gwynn Tracey, the Lovable Nerd Pete Perkins, the High-School Hustler Eddie Roque, the Spoiled Brat Harry Oswalt, and the Shrinking Violet Alicia P. Navarro, all go to detention for unrelated things in the local Midtown High in New York. They set up a Breakfast Club (duh), going through impromptu therapy. As it turns out, they've got problems of their own: Flash has such a Hair-Trigger Temper because he was once sent to some Juvenile Hell by his sister after his father died, and couldn't forgive her ever since, Gwynn is such a bitch because of her Stage Mom constantly pushing her to uphold this image of an arrogant, snobbish bitch who sees every one and thing as mere toys to play with, Pete had previously been raped by the local slimeball Tommy Sharpe, and after hearing the latter was coming to school for a speech, brought a machine pistol in order to get revenge on Tommy for raping him, Eddie has had two completely useless bystander parents who don't give two shits about him, which makes him become such a devious punk, Harry is always an Attention Whore because beneath his Spoiled Brat demeanor lies a Lonely Rich Kid who just wants to be loved, and Alicia is so shy because she's lost her whole family to a typhoon and only managed to escape her home back in the Philippines by boarding a plane to New York.
- Exaggerated: Ditto, but it also includes Lovable Jock Clay T. Finnigan with his struggling single father Coach Billy (who, despite all the rumors, isn't a Creepy Gym Coach), Husky Russkie Maximilian Khan having escaped to New York because his family was captured and killed in The Gulag, Bully Hunter Adelita Diaz having faced some terrible events down south in Mexico such as severe Bully Brutality that would make even Flash cringe, Germanic Depressive Ulysses Smalls had been disowned by his family for being gay and having dirtier blond hair in contrast to the family's bright, golden blond hair. In fact, Dean Bitterman may make a few "Mess with the bull, and get the horns" jokes.
- Downplayed: It's mostly a Detention Episode, but there's only one or two Breakfast Club references.
- Justified: Well, it's the perfect time to set up a Breakfast Club, so they might as well reference the movie.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: The group of teens are a complete mockery of the original Breakfast Club, and make fun of it at every opportunity.
- Zig-Zagged: They don't know whether to reference the movie or not.
- Averted: It's a standard Detention Episode with no references to the Breakfast Club.
- Enforced:
- The creators knew about the Breakfast Club and make a Whole-Plot Reference to pay homage to it.
- The creators didn't know about the Breakfast Club and just thought the plot would be a great way for teens to resonate with the work.
- Lampshaded: Someone remarks, "This is just like the Breakfast Club!"
- Invoked: Flash decides to set up a Breakfast Club because he's a fan of the movie.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Flash doesn't want to make any references to the Breakfast Club, thinking it might be too shoehorned and awkward.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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