Ep 49: The Breakfast Club

Teen archetypes! Melodramatic method-inspired soliloquies! Stepford Wives teen makeovers! Flaring nostrils! Hairy butt loving sportos! Quarterflash sound-alikes! And, who could forget… Neo-Nazi Zoom DWEEBIES?! If you’re wondering what we’re talking about, you’ve obviously never seen the 1985 classic John Hughes film, The Breakfast Club! We were bound to get to this one sooner or later and this week we do, diving into the history and zeitgeist of this film and deciding whether it is indeed one of the great and enduring teen-centered films ever made or if we should just ignore the advice of Simple Minds and just FORGET ABOUT IT. We also have some fun talking about which of the teen archetypes we most resembled (it’s not hard to guess… we’re looking at you, Brian Johnson) and go through a meticulous walk-through of just about every detail and event of the film, and, as you’ve come to expect, we also learn…

• What the Brat Pack was and what a Rat Pack version of this film might be like
• Who originally was cast as rebel John Bender and what physical characteristic led to Judd Nelson getting the part
• Which of your CFX hosts also took shop and how he messed up his project worse than Brian
• About Jeff’s foreign film movie career starring alongside of Molly Ringwald and Patrick Dempsey
• Which character was probably most interested in what, besides Bender’s weed, was in Johnson’s underwear
• How to not fake being stoned
• What happens when you mess with the bull…

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