LONG DUK DONG

Yeah just read up on it via wiki. Not too promising to see the scriptwriters are also churning out latter day Adam Sandler scripts.

Scratch that. Directing latter day Sandler films.

Like many itt, I'm shamefully weirded by my blithe, teenage enjoyment of the Donger and his devotion to his new-style American girlfriend. I remember being called on the glaring racism a few years later when professing my Hughes-love to a more politically astute college acquaintance and struggling to justify it as "ironic" or some such bullshit. For an era so devoted to subversive faux-naiveté, the 80s were awful goddam naive.

Bill Murray's character in that movie was so incredible. Only Nic Cage himself could have done it better

Nothing Bill Murray has ever done could ever be done better by anyone, ever.

not to mitigate anyone's shame, but the donger's 80s naive exceptionalism is still better than, say, star trek voyager's 00s condescending tokenism. i guess what i'm saying is to think about rebalancing your shame portfolio. i don't know if anyone ever enjoyed star trek voyager, though.

2 Broke Girls And 1 Racist Motherfucking Executive Producer

Really loving the "I can't be racist, I'm gay!" argument being posited here.

next up: the jive talkers in "airplane!"

nakh posted this in the rolling china thread

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/11/british-chinese-racism/print

on point imo.

hooooly shit

I feel like I'm spoiled by my group of friends and immediate family because when anything resembling any of that comes out of a coworker or acquaintance's mouth I almost blurt out "WHAT THE FUCK"

Ha, I just added The Party to my Ziplist. The discussion made me intrigued to watch it again. I think I was 10 the last time I saw it and I did think it was funny. I've also been going through a weird phase of thinking that my Dad might have occasionally got something right.

going to watch the breakfast club right now for the first time

their high school is so nice

Iiiii KNOOOOW! I've always been fascinated by high schools that have more than one story, for one thing. Two floors!!

what! mine had several.

so is the whole movie just twelve angry teens?

yes but tbf there is also a janitor

Pretty much. Its all set in almost-real-time, too.

My high school's library kind of looked like the one in this film, with the mezzanine bit.

my high school was one story, spread out, lots of open space, basically every school in my city was like that. on a certain level I felt like I wasn't getting the 'hs experience' cause my school didn't look like a large multistory brick building etc. etc.

some people I know went to high schools that had multiple buildings

You mean multiple campuses? Mulitple bldgs doesnt seem that unusual. Ours was like that - mind you most of those were crappy temporary huts not far removed from shipping containers (very shitty old school, library aside)

there was like a science building

We only had one floor, no pool, no courtyard, no fancy entrance, no auditorium, and nobody hung around outside except in the parking lot. I feel cheated.

we had 6 buildings. 3 of them, 60s or 70s pre-fabs, were 3 stories. total shithole tho.

I'm guessing bender comes from a broken family

my high school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_High_School_(Des_Moines,_Iowa)

tbf I spent half my time at a magnet school for AP classes and some vocational-type ones

SPOILER

"shut up bitch! go fix me a turkey pot pie" iirc

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we had block scheduling too, tho the 'split the year in two' type

Facebook friends have confirmed it: my high school had two storeys + a basement. (This sums it up: large multistory brick building. Looks a bit like a factory or something.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merivale_High_School

The magnet school I went to was a factory! They finally did a lot of renovations in the last few years that make it look a little less so, but it was originally a Ford factory, then a small aircraft factory before later becoming the technical high school in the 60s.

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My school was all one building, and it covered K-12.

OMG that sounds disastrous.

mine was all one building to, but 5-12. four floors, a roof (where recess was) and a basement.

Haha, the high school was a two-story wing about 100' long. The grade school (K-6) was your fairly typical one-story brick school building. The junior high wing was basically a hallway connecting the two, with classrooms along one side.

My school was all one building, and it covered K-12.

My school was like that, except it was two large buildings next to each other on a big plot of land. The year I graduated they added a third across the street.

To help maybe with the perspective here, my graduating class was 42.

Mine was one of the largest - in terms of physical space, not number of students - in the country (I've heard it's in the top 5). It was built for 6000 students, though that had dipped to around 3000 when I was there. 6 gyms, 2 pools, 4 cafeterias, a field house, an auditorium, and two additional theaters.

damn! you win

Man that sounds like one of the recentish high schools they built out in Naperville that resembles a college campus more than a high school.

Also, our chief rival was the school where The Breakfast Club was filmed (sort of; there was a New Trier East and West, and West was closed/vacant for years, which is where TBC was filmed).

It's ETHS, which I'm guessing has been surpassed in size since the 80s.

Ha, yeah, thats still huge though. I live about a mile and a half directly south of there.

i just started GISing for photos of my high school and found this totally breakfast-club style picture i would like to share with the thread:
http://i.imgur.com/A5C1A.jpg

Oh, cool. Yeah, I assumed some new schools had come up since then that were the size of malls or something.

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going to school in a mall would be dope

ha that exists somewhere in canada, let me find the link

okay I failed at finding it but I know it's in some huge vancouver suburb as part of this train-station/mall complex

haha that's like all of my fav-o-rite things