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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy play hooky for 1984’s John Hughes class-cutting caper Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! They discover the secret backstory behind Charlie Sheen’s memorable cameo, read some of their favorite Reddit fan theories, and express their disappointment that the real Matthew Broderick is nothing like Ferris. Plus: how the filmmakers pulled off that massive parade sequence. Next week. Paul and Amy are talking about concert movies! You can join the conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Check out this week's spotlight episode from the archives, Planes Trains & Automobiles: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/platoon/ Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0

The year is 1986 and the sportos the motor heads the geeks the sluts the bloods the wasteoids the doevies the dickheads they all adore podcasts

0:10.4

the movie Ferris various viewers day are. Hello everyone and welcome to

0:35.1

I am spooled

0:39.2

I am sure

0:40.8

joined as always by my friend another movie fanatic and a frequent critic for the

0:47.0

New York Times Amy Nicholson Amy how are you I am wonderful for being a doebi I am I always doing you know I don't know what I would be in that mix I think in high school I mean I don't think I was easily characterized I think I was a little bit more of a chameleon than any of those one

1:04.7

word titles would put me in. Well today you're a sporto. All right I'll be a sporto. I wish I was a gearhead.

1:11.1

But you know first Buehler's Day Off is a movie that I think has a really giant

1:18.8

cultural legacy because it is a movie that define my childhood but also I think a movie that really

1:26.5

embraces this idea of this secret thing that we all do like cutting school calling in sick to work and

1:36.9

Blowing it out the doing a version of this that no one else has ever done and I know there have been other movies

1:44.4

that have tried or even been in production or or pre-production that tried to

1:49.6

capture this but they never can quite capture it. It's the same energy that Ghostbusters has.

1:54.7

It just is a very specific thing. There's an apex and I think this movie is it. I don't

1:59.7

think it can ever truly be topped. Whoa!

2:03.2

Whoa! Those are parade words.

2:06.2

Those are hey everybody listen to the Paul Sheer parade.

2:09.4

You're carrying the banner, you're carrying the tuba, you're wearing the leaderhosen?

2:12.2

Oh my god there

2:13.0

dank a shame baby but I mean you know I don't I don't think that there is another

2:17.5

like a day-off movie like this there's so many great actors in this movie but I think this movie really does come down to chemistry and

2:27.4

What the script was versus what it became is actually extremely interesting and we're going to break down what

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