818: Ferris is Magic

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Let’s travel 40 years back in time, to Chicago in 1986, where on one legendary day, a high school student named Ferris Bueller bends time and space, all in service of cheering up his best friend. We break down what makes “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” still work after all these years....

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0:00.0	The incomparable, number 818, May 26.
0:08.5	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:11.0	In this episode, we are going back in time to a...
0:14.0	I don't really like that it's 40 years ago, but this movie came out 40 years ago.
0:19.7	We are in the spring of 2026, but I'm going to
0:22.7	take you now to the spring of 1986. And a kid who's a senior and he's got serious senioritis
0:31.4	and he just doesn't want to go to school. His name is Ferris Bueller. And by the end of the day,
0:39.9	his name will be on a water tower. It's Ferris Bueller. And by the end of the day, his name will be on a water tower.
0:41.8	It's Ferris Bueller's day off.
0:47.3	Joining me to talk about something that I declare is not old movie club.
0:52.6	Because I think I've decided 50 years is the line for old movie club.
0:55.1	Are these wonderful, wonderful people?
0:59.9	What an amazing panel I have here, starting off with her triumphant return to the incomparable after too long.
1:01.3	Quinn Rose.
1:02.0	Hello, welcome back.
1:03.3	It's me, the sausage king of Chicago.
1:07.3	Oh, excellent, excellent.
1:08.6	Also, hasn't been here for some time.
1:10.3	So great to have her back, Deb Stanish. Hello, Deb. Hello, it, excellent. Also, hasn't been here for some time. So great to have her back, Deb Stanish.
1:12.3	Hello, Deb.
1:13.5	Hello.
1:14.2	It is exciting to, to, like, touch these buttons and chat with you all again.
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