Picking Nits
Unpunished library damage; undetected pot smoke; Vernon's lax supervision; lunch meat on the statue; Estevez's dance solo
In the discussion (8)
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- They would be expelled for what they did to the library and school property.
- They hotbox half the school and nobody smells the weed, though their parents would.
- The damage list: shattered glass, lunch meat on a statue, a collapsed ceiling, a ripped Moliere, a broken library door.
- Vernon would be fired for letting it happen 15 feet away, joking that he was downstairs having beers with Carl.
- The lunch meat on the statue is unnecessary.
- Vernon checks on them too rarely and could have moved them to another room.
- All five going to Bender's locker is questioned, then defended as the kind of pointless errand friends go on together.
- Estevez's dance solo, with the library shelves used as a pommel horse, would not have been cool in 1985; Footloose and MTV are floated as possible influences, while Top Gun's montages are compared but placed after it (86).