Anthony Michael Hall getting drunk in the bar scene is still one of the most hilarious scenes to this day 😂 He can do both drama and comedy so well.

I am black and was around 12 when I saw this film: The black bar scene had my cousin and I choking with laughter. Anthony Michael Hall was hilarious. The whole thing was just a giddy riff on pop culture of the time.

I remember working a promotional screening for it and one mother came up to me and asked me "Are you responsible for this? That woman was a pornographic Mary Poppins!" Needless to say, she did not like the film, but her teen sons were smiling while she was complaining.

What a classic! I saw this at the theater when it first came out. Such a fun movie. Seeing Bill Paxton in this reminds me of how versatile he was as an actor. He’s still missed. Great movie to watch to start the weekend boys! Well done!

"Youuuuu told meee youuu were combing yourrrr hairrr?" "BUT I WASSSSS....I WASSS!!"

I think every young lad who watched this back in the day wished they could create their own Kelly LeBrock!

This is by far one of the best movies in the 80's. Such masterpiece!! ❤ I've seen this movie a million times from childhood to adulthood. 🙌🏼 What a classic. 👌🏻

I like how this film presents itself as a mashup of every teen boy's wet dream, but slyly buried under the surface is the message that the creation wasn't really attracted to either, but flirted with them and went along with being their girlfriend in public to instill the confidence in them needed to approach the two girls they had crushes on...she was just what they needed most, a mentor. Another great film Hughes was involved in is Some Kind Of Wonderful, which I think is on par with The Breakfast Club if not slightly better.

I remember as a kid back in the 80s, this film was like on repeat daily on HBO. Me and my friends were like 10 years old when we first saw it and we laughed our asses off. Great film 10/10 😆🤣😁

Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall were big buddies back then. They did another movie together a few years later called “Johnny Be Good” and it’s actually pretty good, they play best friends in it. They also both got tapped to be part of the cast on Saturday Night Live in 1985, but only one season. They were the youngest regulars at the time.

It’s no good over-thinking this as a grown-up. Fifteen year olds have these crazy ideas and this was totally normal in the 80s. It’s still very innocent. We were all fifteen once.

“Are you ok?” “Well my nuts are half way up my ass but other than that I’m perfect!”😂 I love this movie. R.I.P. Bill Paxton

You guys didn't recognize Chett (the bully older brother)? That was a young Bill Paxton- Hudson from Aliens. He was also in The Terminator, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, etc.

Best part of the movie: "Gary was just taking a shit!" (Cut to Wyatt's face getting slapped) LOL!

I don’t know why but when Chet (Bill Paxton) catches the fly with his tongue and goes “Oh My God!” like he can’t believe he just did that cracks me up to this day

No criticism shall be allowed of Weird Science. This flick is an absolute masterpiece!

Fun to watch you guys react to this. If you're interested in another comedy with a young Robert Downey JR, I'd recommend Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield.

Every movie becomes exponentially more entertaining when you add Bill Paxton.

Bill Paxton is amazing (as always) The theme song is also killer.

Anthony Michael Hall & Robert Downy Jr were best friends at the time, they were on SNL around that time as well.

I will go to the army in 1 week, see you in 6 months, take care guys

Kelly Le Brock - teenage boys’ dream in the 80s! ❤

This was the 3rd VHS we owned. We watched it over and over again. I love it but it's uh, questionable now but I don't care. It's awesome. Our first 3 movies were : "Real Genius", "Top Gun", and this. Then "Mystic Pizza". We had 3 females and 2 males in our household so we went for movies that both sides really liked from the movie rental store (Blockbuster didn't even exist near where we lived yet).

I love Weird Science so much. When I was a kid I would rent this, Jumping Jack Flash, and Labyrinth constantly. Lol

The 80s was a different time. I was in high school when this came out and it was perfectly fine at the time. It definitely didn’t age well but, to be honest, I still love it nostalgically and this is coming from a 55-year-old woman

"Gimme da keys!" Cracks me up everytime. This movie is a classic.

LOVED this movie in my NERD years ! 🤪YES i was a HUGE programming NERD when this movie hit the movie theatre !

The Chaplin movie was in 1992. Seven years after this one. This is one of RDJ's first movies but he was around as a child actor since an early age.

That bathroom scene when they're talking in the shower and it's focused on their mouths was so comediac brilliance. There are individual moments and scenes here that really shine.

Fun fact! Ilan Mitchell-Smith was my Medieval Literature professor at university. He's a great guy!

Back in the day you couldn't watch movies at home or on your phone, you had to go to the theatre. This a movie was for teenagers to congregate at the theatre, it's not too serious, not too deep, just plain fun and ludicrous. Similar movies, "Up the Creek", "Better Off Dead" or "Ski School"

Robert Downey Jr. also has a comedic bit part in another 80's classic, Back To School (1986) with Rodney Dangerfield.

7:07 - you might know him from one of his memorable movie lines “That’s it, man. Game over, man. Game over!”

Saw this in the 80s and still love it

This is such a fun movie. I watch it every couple of years. My favorite John Hughes movie is "Some Kind of Wonderful."

There was a weird science TV series as well. I remember watching one episode at least. I don't think it lasted very long. The movie is kinda a combination of Frankenstein, Mary Poppins with a bit of like Aladdin, well the genie anyway. It's meant to be a teenage boys fantasy and not to be taken at all seriously.

OMG, I loved this movie as a kid and totally forgot about it ..I had a blast from the past watching you guys react and I was laughing so hard. Thanks guys for the nostalgia

I love Shaun's proclamation of love at the end of this. 😂

Love this movie. The underlying lesson is be yourself & stop trying to fit in with the crowd.

Mary Poppins meets Jumanji is a great description. 🤣

This isn't John Hughes' whole filmography but his most notable ones since you two were impressed that this came out the same year as the Breakfast Club. 1983: National Lampoon's Vacation - writer 1984: Sixteen Candles - Writer and Director 1985: The Breakfast Club - Writer and Director, European Vacation - Writer, Weird Science - Writer and Director 1986: Pretty in Pink - Writer and Producer, Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Writer, Director, Producer 1987: Some Kind of Wonderful - Writer and Producer, Plains, Trains & Automobiles - Writer, Director, Producer 1988: She's Having a Baby - Writer, Director and Producer, The Great Outdoors - Writer and Producer 1989: Uncle Buck - Writer, Director and Producer, Christmas Vacation - Writer and Producer 1990: Home Alone - Writer and Producer 1991: Career Opportunities - Writer and Producer, Only the Lonely - Producer, Dutch - Writer and Producer, Curly Sue - Writer, Director and Producer 1992: Beethoven - Writer, Home Alone 2 - Writer and Producer 1993: Dennis the Menace - Writer 1994: Baby's Day Out - Writer and Producer, Miracle on 34th Street - Writer and Producer He started to slow down at this point

It's definitely not one of John Hughes's best films but I love this film unironically

You have to see my 2 favorite Hughes films: 1. Some Kind of Wonderful 2. She’s Having a Baby I absolutely love both of them so much.

Also, Bill Paxton plays the older brother and went on to be in Aliens, Titanic, True Lies...

The whole bar scene is one of the best all time. I wanted an older brother like Chet after seeing this back in the 80s

Exactly! I've always said this is basically Mary Poppins, if the kids had thought they were creating Mary, rather than summoning her, when they wrote the letter. Except she's helping teens come of age, instead of little children, and there are cameos of characters from The Hills Have Eyes and The Road Warrior, instead of animated Pearlies and penguins.

This was actually one of my favourite flicks as a kid. The bully on the left was actually in Nightmare on Elm street 2.

One of the bikers is from, The Hills Have eyes, the other, with the Mohawk, is from, Mad Max 2.

Another fun film with Robert Downey Jr at a young age is Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield.

Not seeing this movie for 30 years you forget how weird it actually is

I still quote the bar scene. "Dringit." 🥃

Gary's little voodoo song is hilarious 😂😂

It's funny you compared it to Mary Poppins, Kelly LeBrock herself once said her role in this was "Mary Poppins with breasts"...also, the theme song was done by Danny Elfman's old band Oingo Boingo. This is easily one of my favourite movies from back then, and I was definitely one of those nerds for whom this story was a life goals at the time - the whole "be the hero, get the girl" thing. That's probably a big part of why I love it so much lol

Kelly LeBrock grew up in London and her mother is British and father is french-canadian.

Scream 6 is on paramount+ btw

I’m convinced John Hughes was high AF when he wrote the script for this one.

Surprised you guys didn't mention that this film also exists in the same world as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. At the end Lisa ends up at Shermer High School which, again, is the same school from those films.

The older I get, I identify with the grandparents. "Doesn't he have anything to read?"

I dont care how poorly people think this has aged me and my friends loved this when we were 13 or 14 when it came out on video

That was a joy of a movie to scan over again.. Kelly LeBrock.. where was I? Oh yes. Surprise parts for Bill Paxton (sandwiched between The Terminator and Commando, Aliens and Near Dark) and Robert Downey Jr way before Ironman.. I just love the silliness of the humour and how they just go bare faced into it. Charlotte's confrontation with Gary's parents is superb and the soundtrack.. Killing Joke, Van Halen, RATT, Kim Wilde.. how could that not be great! A solid favourite from John Hughes and the eighties archive.

I watched this movie so many times as a teen. I could probably recite the entire thing. This, Sixteen Candles, Better off Dead, The Last Dragon, The Goonies....

I’m a child of the 80’s and this film was always a favourite ❤️

Better Off Dead and Bachelor Party are also 80's comedies that you might enjoy.

1985 I was 16 in high school and to us this was the BEST MOVE EVER at the time.

"You stoooopid, Wyatt!" RIP Bill Paxton.

I haven't seen this in years - it's one of my favorites! I love the theme song, I sometimes hear it on my car radio!!

One of the craziest films i ever saw. Came out when i was 5 and i didn't see till i was a teenager myself. Shout-out to Anthony Michael Hall for getting this film and The Breakfast Club in the same year. Kelly Lebrock (Lisa) was incredibly hot all through the 1980s . She became famous for the Pantene shampoo commercials at the time and it's the catchphase, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful". Also she was the former Miss Steven Seagal, co-starring with him in Hard to Kill (1990). This and the original Fright Night came out the same day. I remember that the title is from a 1950s comic magazine that's a complilation of science-fiction stories. The title song was by Oingo Boingo (with composer in training Danny Elfman as frontman). I did watch the tv series (1994-1998). But not all of it. Definitely had the formula, good casting and even the theme song. Movies like these from that era, you don't forget. A movie for us, young guys who just wanted to have a good time without consenquences. RIP to Bill Paxton as Wyatt's brother, Chet.

I loved this movie as an 80s kid! Until now I had no idea how inappropriate it was for a child. 😅

One of my favourites from childhood. I had the biggest crush on Kelly LeBrock. Hubba hubba. 😍

I put this in the category of ‘Only in the 80s’ Where only the 80s could come up with something like this and one you can’t remake today

Dunno if I missed you realize that the brother Chet, was played by Bill Paxton. He was the soldier in Aliens that says "Game over man". Great actor from so many movies. I grew up in the 80's and had such a crush on RDJ after this movie.

Kelly LeBrock was a Big Model in The 80's. She was married to Steven Seagal The Action Star. She was also in a Funny Comedy with Gene Wilder (1984) called The Woman In Red

This Is one of my guilty pleasure movies of the 80’s!

Vernon Wells played the crazy mohawk biker, spoofing his own performance as Wez from Mad Max 2. He's also well known for playing the chain-mailed psycho, Bennett from Commando.

Mary Poppins for the adolescent boy. I've never heard that, but.👍

Oh the guy who plays Wyatt is actually a Professor now. Him and Anthony Michael Hall both have been on the TV show “The Goldbergs” playing teachers.

👍 when I was younger ,I watched ALL movies that had Anthony Michael Hall. I was a big fan of his an I had a MAJOR crush on him.

Brother Chet actor is Bill Paxton (Aliens, twister, etc...) And another early Roddy Downing Jr is Less Than Zero a very dramatic role and likely the height/start of the drug use by him so he doesn't have to act much!

I was exactly 15 when this movie came out and my friends and I thought it was pitch-perfect comedy for kids our age.

Shaun having fun in this video is the best thing ever! 😁👌

Kelly LeBrock is still a Babe! Did you recognize the actor from Mad Max Road Warrior he is dressed in the same costume from that movie.

Imagine being a teen in 1985! An insane amount of incredible movies came out in 1985!

I know you get tons of messages and will probably not be able to read this but thought I’d give it a shot. Here are some movies you may want to add to your list Classic- enter the dragon, rocky horror picture show, modern times Romance- say anything, when Harry met sally, Larry crowne Drama- Philadelphia, flight, the verdict, rocky Action- kick ass

If you want to see another 80s movie with a young Robert Downey Jr, you should see "Less Than Zero". I still think it is his best performance. Great film.

Check out Back to School. It stars Rodney Dangerfield and the lead from Christine (Keith Gordon) and RDJ is his best friend and has a bigger role. A very funny movie.

Fun Fact: The actress who plays Hilly, the girl who ends up with Wyatt, is Judie Aronson, who previously appeared in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter as Samantha.

I remember after seeing this in the theatre, my buddy suggested we get on my Commodore 64 and see if this actual experiment could work. We were 12. We never actually summoned Kelly Labrock, but with my pre-internet dial up Modem, we were able to discover some early pre-internet sites, with names like Pirates Tavern, where you could look up your horoscope, read film reviews, and talk to people online and be like ooh, we’re talking to people on the computer. Our minds were blown. Again, it was 1985, and we were 12:)

RDJ was in a movie with other Brat Packers called Less Than Zero, about a group of friends and their party antics and excesses. I think it won a couple Oscars.

Class of 82' and I was rolling in my seat watching Weird Science. When Lisa reveals the Grandparents in the cupboard, I inadvertently knocked over my popcorn bucket. I bent down to retrieve it and forgot there was a box of Good and Fruity in my breast pocket. All those candies clattered onto the floor and began rolling into the shoes of those in front of me.

The guy with the mohawk on the motorcycle was one if the villans in the second mad max movir, basically dressed as his charactwr in that movie.

AWESOME!!! I am digging the John Hughes retrospective. I love this film. Kelly LeBrock, Oingo Boingo, "Chips, dips, chains, whips", what is not to love?

Loved this movie when it came out and still do. Watching your reaction to this was like you were only watched the bits that you showed us.

One of the weird things about this film is that it exists in the same universe as The Breakfast Club

I'm black and the bar scene was frickin hilarious. Just drunk Gary was hella funny.

Great reaction. Breakfast Club was my coming of age film at age 16 or 17. Months later I saw WS at home as a rental not knowing what to expect. Had basically the same reaction at the time.

The funny part is you guys reaction. Back in the 80s while I was a child and way h this no one really thought about the inappropriateness of it. It was just mindless entertainment. Nothing really deep.

Being 15 in 1985 I can concur this was a typical young man's dream.

Ahh, forgot about big brother Chet. Classic, rip.

The main biker guy was the bad guy from Mad Max 2, even think he has same costume on lol

Cool reaction as always fellas, you both have a great weekend 💯