Shermer High School is a yes, and Chez Quis absolutely.
Broderick is a tough call: he had the most options after this movie, but it is unclear he had an Apex Mountain; The Producers on Broadway, called the Hamilton of its time, is floated as maybe his peak.
Whether this is Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies is called very possible, since it uses the city best.
For the all-in-one-day movie, nominees include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, the Before movies, Do the Right Thing and Snake Eyes; Ferris is in the running, listeners are asked for the king, and Inside Man is a favorite.
The Chez Quis restaurant is the same one used in The Blues Brothers and St. Elmo's Fire.
A deleted scene had Ferris cash a savings bond to pay for the day; it was cut for making him seem a thief, though he has a knot of cash at Chez Quis.
A line about riding the space shuttle was removed after the Challenger exploded.
Broderick and Jennifer Grey got engaged before release, and Ferris's screen parents, Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward, met on set, married, had two children and divorced.
Ruck's George Peterson voice was an impression of their Biloxi Blues director meant to crack Broderick up.
Broderick's knee injury limited the Twist and Shout choreography, which was by Kenny Ortega of Dirty Dancing and High School Musical.
Ben Stein's lecture was improvised off camera, and the extras laughed so hard that voodoo economics stayed in.
Broderick resisted a sequel, and Hughes's death made it moot.
The 1990 NBC Ferris Bueller show starred Charlie Schlatter with Jennifer Aniston as Jeannie; Parker Lewis Can't Lose is preferred.
The end-credits bus scene was cut from the movie and restored by Hughes, explaining a school bus coming home at 6 o'clock.
Hughes first planned a Mercedes; Modena Design built the Ferrari replicas and, per the hosts, went bankrupt after Ferrari sued, prompting a joke about more blood on Cameron's hands.
Sheen in the police station is the easy pick, with the "Drugs?" exchange and "put your thumb up your butt" lines.
Edie McClurg as Rooney's secretary is also nominated for her few funny scenes.
Mrs. Bueller is added as an 80s mom Mount Rushmore member who believes in her kids to the end, prompting a question about how a realtor and ad man afford the house and three cars.
Jeannie is raised: the secondary villain, loved on rewatch for smashing the phone while calling the cops and karate-kicking Rooney.
Jennifer Grey is a great comic actress and the platonic older sister, arguably a better villain than Rooney, and the Sheen police station is one of the best non-Ferris scenes. — Sean Fennessey
The group settles on Charlie Sheen, with one explicit vote.
The hosts relay research that Sheen stayed up over two days for the character's look, and joke about it.
