During the parade, several of the people seen dancing (including the construction worker and the window washer) originally had nothing to do with the film. They were simply dancing to the music being played, and John Hughes found it so humorous that he told the camera operators to record it.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Him changing his absentee days with his computer was a nod to another classic Mathew Brodrick movie Wargames where he used his computer to change his grades to avoid summer school.

Stein said he was in Europe in the early 90’s in a hotel elevator and all Stein could hear was someone say “ Bueller, Bueller”, he turned around and it was Kurt Cobain. Awesome reaction, cheers.

Charlie Sheen staying up for 48 straight hours was probably going to happen regardless of whether he was shooting the movie or not.

Fun fact: the actors that played Ferris' parents fell in love on set and actually got married after filming this.

Full Disclosure: I went to film school in the early "80's". My first job was as a Production Assistant on this movie. John Hughes had most of the actors improvise alot of the dialog. That's probably why some scenes seemed disjointed. Also most of that parade was real. No extra's. (I was in that crowd somewhere.) They just got permission from the city of Chicago and shot most of those scenes with hand held cameras.(Yes, they had steady cams in 1985). John used the real people from the parade,(including the construction workers, etc..) Parts of the parade were filmed in post production, but still in Chicago. After, I was one of the many PA's running around chasing down random people sign releases for the movie. Overall it was one the best weeks of my life, and I even got paid for it.

A detail that I love about this, is that Ferris complains early on that he got a computer for his birthday instead of a car. Near the end, his mom tells Jeanie that if she hadn't had to leave work, she would have gotten a big commission, and bought Ferris a car with it. So Ferris unknowingly screwed himself out of getting a car.

Shanelle: “Ferris is kind of an a**hole”. Also Shanelle: “I love Ferris”

I enjoy the theory that this is all Cameron’s fever dream. But to me the more plausible and deeper idea is that Ferris planned this whole day MAINLY to help his troubled and depressed friend Cameron. Being Ferris of course, he also relished the idea of pulling off an elaborate scam on the school and his parents. But we can sort of save him from truly being an “asshole” if we take seriously that Ferris’ true motive is to stage a kind of mental health day for Cameron.

"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious." My husband and I quote this every time we pass a Baskin Robbins.

Mia Sara in the 80s was next level beautiful

The art gallery scene is probably my most favorite scene in all of film. I just love the music, the fun, the love, the acting, the art, the pain and how they all work together to paint a beautiful picture. It’s perfect.

You skipped over my favorite part! He's trying to get home quickly before he gets caught. He runs through a back yard, where two women are sunbathing. He comes back & introduces himself. Comedy GOLD!!!

The line I still use - “ Ferris Bueller, your my hero “ whenever someone helps me. I’d guess around 75% of the time it gets a positive reaction.

John Hughes took an ad out in several papers announcing EXTRAS NEEDED for the parade scene.. I didn’t go but remember seeing it in the Sun Times. I actually ended up meeting him at a bookstore in Northbrook court a year later and was nice enough to take the time to talk to me about Film ( I was a film student at Columbia at the time) he told me before Sixteen Candles he was never on a movie set and the gave me perhaps the BEST ADVICE I ever got as a student filmmaker which I’ll share with you and this is a quote, “Dont get caught up in the technical aspects of filmmaking. Everything begins and ends with the story. A movie can be poorly filmed but if the story is good? The audience won’t notice and even better? Won’t care”… I’ve shared this story with several colleagues who have worked with John who ALL said I must have caught him on a good day. He was notoriously moody and very aloof but I’ll always be grateful to this Icon for taking the time to stand there in a crowded bookstore to answer my questions.. RIP John and thank you!

I'm from Chicago, and its definitely not possible to do all the stuff Ferris did in a single day. However, I love this movie so it didn't stop my friends and I from trying lol. I was a teen in the late 90's and most people my age were huge fans of this movie, so it wasn't uncommon to plan a trip to the city with many of the elements from the movie involved. You could probably do it all if you had a full weekend.

The museum scene and music is so incredibly special to me.

In my headcanon, Charlie Sheen's character in the police station scene is a young Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn.

I was a "Cameron Frye" type person but good thing I had a "Ferris" type friend, we had fun.

I can't put my finger on why, but my favorite bit in this film has always been Cameron's scream and the cuts to the various statues... it's as though his angst and crisis are something that philosophers through all ages are contemplating

As a result of this movie, "Twist and Shout" charted again in the summer of '86, reaching a peak position of 23. The movie theater where I saw this had a handmade sign at the box office telling people to stay all the way through to the end ot the credits. The movie came out the summer before I started high school. My high school experience ended up being very much NOT like this.

Ferris Bueller’s day off is the perfect sick day movie to watch.

Fun fact : the actors who played his parents got married after the movie.

"A person shouldn't believe in an ism. They should believe in themselves." Truer words for the 2020s were never spoken!

Deadpool Spoofs the post-credits scene in his first movie. You should watch 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" plus 1989's "Say Anything..."

Edie McClurg. A Hollywood legend among actors.

Somewhere here in the KZfaqs, someone DID try and map out whether Ferris' day was possible. If I recall correctly, they did determine that *technically* it WAS possible, but you wouldn't have been able to "experience" any of the things they did (i.e. they could only spend an inning at the Cubs game, 20 minutes at the art museum, etc..)

When you go to the top floor of the Sears tower, if you stand on the railing with your head against the glass, not only can you see the street below, but you can feel the building sway.

My favorite scene in this movie is when he's racing to beat his sister home and he passes two girls sunbathing and comes back to introduce himself. If you like high school movies, try 3 O'Clock High.

This movie had WAY TOO MUCH effect on me as a teen. It caused me to take off to NYC with my best friend for a day trip when we were both supposed to be in school. We had a Ferris adventure and he wrecked my car on the way back. Still best friends 35+ years later. And I can still do the opening monologue - used it to audition for years.

The actors who played Ferris’s parents met while making this movie and got married shortly thereafter. The marriage didn’t last but they did have two kids 🙂 If you do hear from an extra in this movie _please_ share it on your channel 🤗 Also Edie McClurg is a treasure 👏👏

I'm a Breakfast Club man, but Ferris is up there in favorite Hughes films for sure.

I like the nod to "War Games" when Ferris hacks into the school computer.

My favorite seen is Rooney & his secretary & the quote: "He's a righteous dude".

The walk through the Museum is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. The interaction with the elementary students and Cameron’s relationship with the small girl in the painting capture two book ends of life.

When she first saw the principal, and kicked him, it all happened so fast that she didn't get a good look at him, so she didn't recognize him at right away.

The best part from the bus scene, is Rooney sitting with the girl with glasses. I still quote it to this day!!! She says, “Gummi bear? It's been in my pocket; they're real warm and soft.”

Hughes wrote a backstory for Charlie Sheen's character. He is the son of the potential real estate sale that Ferris' mom is trying to make.

John Hughes knew how to tell stories about high school life in the 80s, many of us who grew up watching his films wish we could be those kids.

I remember it being a big deal to hear Star Wars music in anything back then. You couldn't see Star Wars any old time, so just hearing the music briefly like this was awesome.

For the record, no, you can’t make the odometer go backwards by driving in reverse. 🤦‍♀️

My husband and my friends actually tried visiting all the stops that Ferris and co. did in the movie about 8 years ago as part of a Groupon deal that was doing a screening of the movie at Wrigley Field. We were able to do everything except visit the stock exchange, which was closed to the public, the parade (no parades that day) and the ballgame and it still took a full day to do everything (including the time driving back and forth to the suburbs).

I never had a stay home from school move. My parents were way too smart for that. But then again I was sick regularly as a child. Plus I wasn’t the kind of person Ferris is. PS The musical scene was choreographed by Kenny Ortega. Aka the guy who directed High School Musical 1,2, and 3!

Another fun, quirky Chicago movie to watch is Adventures in Babysitting.

My parents were at work by the time my alarm for school would go off, so it was all on me from the get go! Skipping school is only fun if you're doing it with someone else, that's for sure. Otherwise its just depressing! lol

The one time I tried to fake being sick to stay home from school, my mom saw through it and put me to work: "Since you're here, the house needs vacuuming, and while you're doing the laundry you can mop the kitchen floor; etc." Filled my day with enough chores to make school seem preferable!

Ferris has a Killing Joke banner in his room that I just noticed for the first time. Which is a pretty cool thing.

In English class for my senior year I wrote a paper with an outline and timeline of how these events couldn’t have happened in one day and got an A on it. I actually tried a “Ferris Bueller” events day the only time I went to Chicago and it didn’t work out so stretched it out to a few days. Easily one of my favorite movies though.

My junior high school had a weird rule. If you got caught skipping school twice, they would (out of school) suspend you for two days.

I saw this movie in school, probably a last day before Christmas or summer vacation, when I was in grade 6 or 7. I was one of the kids the teacher regretted showing this film to lol... took some of the underlying message to heart. Definitely one of my most quoted movies. Whenever I hear someone repeatedly calling someone’s name, I start saying “Bueler, Bueler...”. People look at me like I’m crazy

If you haven't already, please do Weird Science and Pretty in Pink.

23:26 This shot is freaking amazing.

"What country do you think this is??" ... Classic 80's hit movie. It came out just as I was entering high school and may have lead me to skip a sunny day or two back in the day. Love it!!

20:02 The nurse who is performing the singing telegram is Stephanie Blake. She’s an accomplished singer/dancer who appeared in the movie The Mambo Kings; and has performed for many years on the burlesque circuit, including a performance in an HBO special called With A Touch of Burlesque.

Did you really skip the Rooney on the bus scene during the end credits?!?! I'm speechless...

I actually don't think I've seen a Ferris Bueller reaction. So excited!

You should watch Dazed and Confused!

I wasn't born yet when this film was made and I didn't grow up in the US but somehow it's still so relatable. I love how much you enjoyed it!

Have you seen the Jerk? The scene where they sing and play instruments on the beach in one shot is amazing.

I didn't miss many full days in HS, but I did skip a bunch of 1st and 2nd-period classes and slept in. The key was, I became friends with the secretaries ('assistant' today, but I am old, and that's what they were called back then), especially the ones on reception and the Dean of Students... I could call in, say 'Oh, I'm feeling a little feverish, but I'm gonna pop an aspirin and drink some OJ and see if that helps", then snooze a couple extra hours. Didn't end up on the absent-from-class list. The key was one time I did an all-nighter trying to study for a history test. Took it, then fell asleep in the lobby, missing post-class gym. Which was required, so it was reported I missed it. Turns out, the secretary saw me asleep as she was leaving and skipped me on the missed-attendance sheet the next day... I was at school, after all.

Hey, I never realized that Jennifer Grey was married to Agent Coulson. They have a grown daughter & everything (she looks a lot like her mom).

This film is one of my go-to comfort films as well as one of my favorite films in general, because Matthew talking with the camera really allows me to be immersed in the story, plus the comedic acting and heartwarming moments between the three friends really help to put a smile on my face. I just love this movie!

This is John Hughes' masterpiece. This film is absolutely flawless and I never get tired of watching it. On a side note, THIS is how people dressed in high school in the 1980s! At least at my school. It wasn't all neon and big hair like Saved by the Bell. Mostly jeans and t-shirts for the guys. A lot of the cool girls dressed like Sloane. The biggest 80s fashion sins were committed by the adults at that time. We made fun of the guys who flipped their collars up.

I recently realized that Farris is a classic Psychopath, though the writers probably don't realize it when they wrote him this way

Deadpool spoofs the ending talking to the audience telling them to go home.

Shanelle, Ferris Bueller's Day Off was so influential in my life that the day I got drunk for the first time in my life - what happened at a winery, during my class's graduation trip from high school - I went up to the dinner table and I sang "Twist and Shout", with my class doing the chorus! It was a memorable day ... Here in Brazil the movie's name was "translated" into "Curtindo a Vida Adoidado", something like "Enjoying Life Like Crazy". I don't like these "translations" for movie titles, but this is one of those that most closely matches the film.

What was my stay home from school move in high school? "Mom, I need a mental health day. I'm not going in tomorrow." I was allowed 2 a semester.

"Frohe Ostern" from Germany ! 🐰

Have you ever watched Kung Fu Hustle (2004) Directed, produced, co-written by, and starring Stephen Chow. Fun, quirky, music, dance, weird, AMAZING.

The line that Ferris uses, "It is so choice..", was the most used word when I was in high school Lol

I'm an 80s kid, and we were all so guilty of skipping school. No one thought we would die like Ferris, but especially our female teachers, we knew we were at home on a beautiful day getting our 'prom tan.' Skipping high school, especially your senior year, was easy. No one really cared. Our teachers were probably glad that we were gone! and they didn't have to deal with us in class. 🤣 I don't blame them. Having raised teenagers, I find it fun but not fun at the same time. We were ready to send them off to college. Growing up in the 80s with all of these legendary movies was the best. We grew up at the same time they did from Breakfast Club until we graduated from college, but we didn't know what to do with ourselves in St. Elmo's Fire. We grew up in high school and graduated from college with John Hughes. We miss him. We could use him now as we are all grandparents. RIP Mr. Hughes - thank you for helping us through our teens in the 80s!

I´ll be honest. The few times I even dared to try and get off school, I stole all my moves from Ferris.

I like how Shanelle appreciates cult classics before her time(assuming they are).

John Hughes is from Michigan, hence the hockey Jersey

I've been on a "reaction channel" rabbit hole for about a month now; some reactors I really enjoy, others not so much. This is my first time visiting your channel, but I can already tell: You are for sure one of the good ones. Obviously you are coming at this with some film experience already; hearing you comment on film angles, editing techniques, etc. is super fun. There are simply SO many films that have been made over the past 100+ years; someone in their 20s, even an avid student of film, cannot be expected to have seen everything already; it takes time to soak it all in. I'm in my 40s, have seen LOTS of films, and yet there are still many films widely considered "classics" that I have simply not seen yet. And, of course, there are those favorites I have seen hundreds of times. ("Ferris.." is one of those favorites. Though it was made in the mid-80s, and I went through high school in the mid-90s, I feel a strong connection to the high school experience. You said much the same: this film transcends decade, speaking to some universals about the teenage experience.) Watching an avid film buff such as yourself enjoying these now-classic films from the past several decades is a joy. You "get it," and your commentary reflects your deep love of films. I look forward to watching your other reactions, and hearing what you have to say about them. Good luck to you in your film-making ambitions!

This is the second movie that Matthew Broderick hack his school's computer to alter his records. The first was WarGames.

This is probably the first John Hughes I saw, but Breakfast Club will always be my favorite. Weird Science has slipped down the list in recent years, but remains one of JH's funniest movies too.

This is my favorite reaction video you've done. You looked like you were having fun. Thank's for making it!

I’ve been waiting for one of my favorite reactionists to do Ferris! This was perfect!

Day off excuses? My Mom taught at my elementary school and my Dad at my high school. How was I going to get away with anything.

You need 'Bad News Bears'... and 'Better Off Dead' and 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

Have seen this so many times and I loved many of your reactions to it. Thanks for the review.

Highschool day I remember best. I attended a tiny highschool in SoCal back in the 80s that had just been formed/created 4 yrs before I started attending. So everything is still kinda new and close knit. They had a policy for "Senior ditch day" for seniors to go out and have fun, like going to Magic Mountain. So we as Juniors thought this as kinda lame, being a planned day is not ditching. So we decided, a class of only 24, to have our own ditch day. This is remarkable as our class was very diverse for it's small size, dweebs, athletes, brainiacs, the whole gambit and rarely agreed on anything. We had to figure out stories, coordinate picking people up, some at their home, others after they had been dropped off at school. We also had to plan on getting everyone home afterwards, I did a lot of driving that day as I had access to a 1969 VW Bus. So we all ended up meeting at a Dairy that the family of one classmate rented. (They already had max cows on one farm and renting another nearby was only way to expand) So only hired hands were there and didn't care as long we were out of the way. So main rule was everyone had to be included in whatever we did. We jumped off one of the barns into pile of hay. We had races down a hill using modified playground slides. We drove around in all the old junker cars they had collected and raced them at bit. Played lots of other games. Had a simple BBQ, hotdogs, hamburgers and watermelon. Just horsing around and having a great day. Last thing a few of us did, including me, after getting those who needed rides home, was to go to the Church "spaghetti dinner" which was across from the school. So a number of the teachers were there, both from Highschool and Elementary. We had fun telling them of our day and reassuring them no one had be hurt or mistreated even though we were not supervised. Of course the day came to an end and sad part was a few of the "good" girls refused to come with us that very morning because they thought it would be put on their permanent record and might get a F for the day. So because they did not go, we did end up with Fs for the day, at least that was the explanation we received. It is still a great memory and our class definitely bonded and became more cohesive than we were before.

Happy easter shanelle

It might be the most purely John Hughes thing John Hughes ever did, and I love it. Even in the moments where you should want to smack Ferris, Matthew Broderick has enough charm to get away with it. Though that scene with Charlie Sheen is a little eerie in retrospect...

Hey Shanelle! This video appeared in my KZfaq feed today and then I watched your Blazing Saddles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High reactions and your first Q&A video. I'm so glad I found you, you have a really fun and interesting personality and I'm excited to watch more of your videos including your full length videos on Patreon. Keep up the great work! 😀

This was my first exposure to the Beatles when I was 11.

I have a HUGE crush on Jennifer Grey from this film even though I seen this like a decade after the release

You've now seen one of the single greatest movies of all time!

This is one of my favorite movies! When my 3 older kids were about age 12-13, I started showing them my favorite 80s movies. This is one of their favorites. After I made them watch this, my oldest daughter invited all of her friends over and made them watch it too. They LOVED it!

Saw this in theatre in my teens and I loved it. A few years ago, I was travelling across the states and stopped in Chicago for a few days. I planned a day where I went to as many John Hughes locations as I could in one day. So, the Bueller school, water tower, the place where Cameron freaks out which also happens to be at the end of the road where the Sixteen Candles church is. I saw the Home Alone house, the building where ferris' mom works, The Modern Art museum and the Willis (formerly Sears) tower. A long but fun day! Glad you enjoyed it and you really seem to get Hughes' humour and story telling.

An all time classic in my opinion..

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back... if you haven't seen it

9 months too late but to add my two cents - Ferris Bueller is one of my family's favourite movies and we quote it all the time, especially my mum and I. I've also had shirts that say Save Ferris on them and they always get people in the know to smile! Now that I'm older, I can definitely appreciate it even more and it brings back one fun memory in particular. At my high school, we were allowed to have a day off school to visit universities if there was an open day, as long as we had parents permission. Well, I was semi curious about a school in London and I convinced my boyfriend to say he was interested too so that we could go. The tour was only twenty minutes or so and we spent the rest of the day walking around and playing in London, not getting back to school until dinner (boarding school) - our friends were BEYOND annoyed that we'd managed it!

This film is high-key a love letter to Chicago. ❤️

My favorite Matthew Broodrick movie. Jennifer Grey is great too. There is a theory that Cameron and Ferris are the same person but different personas. I suppose that is one way to look at it.

Happy "First Contact"-Day (April 5th)🖖!

This is probably my favourite John Hughes movie, then Breakfast club. There is also a post homage in Deadpool, to the post credit bathrobe scene here.

One of the greatest of "lighthearted" movies of all time! I watch this at least once a year, and have since the 80's. It really is eternal.