Tuesday, August 11
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Michelle Wargo joins Drew and Crew as Drew discusses the death of director John Hughes, takes calls from listeners, and catches up with the Sexy Savannah.
Tuesday, August 110
Michelle Wargo joins Drew and Crew as Drew discusses the death of director John Hughes, takes calls from listeners, and catches up with the Sexy Savannah.
Beethoven, Curly Sue, Dutch, Home Alone, Uncle Buck, She’s Having a Baby, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Vacation and Mr. Mom.
One of the most prolific, profound, insightful writers of our day, John Hughes, wrote em all (plus a few more).
I was saddened by the news of this death yesterday so in honor of the man who provided me with such great entertainment and insight, I present…
To this day, anytime I see shower curtain rings I think of John Candy holding up shower curtain rings on his ears in “Planes Trains and Automobiles”.
In “Some Kind of Wonderful”, Keith cashes in his savings bonds that were supposed to be for his college in order to buy some diamond earrings for the girl of his dreams. Later on, he says the line “You look good wearing my future.” I totally stole this line when I proposed to my wife in 2000 as I had cashed in my 401K to buy her engagement ring.
Two movies were extremely influential in my attraction to computers. The first was “WarGames”, and the second was “Weird Science”. John Hughes made geeks look cool, even with a bra on your head.
Ferris Bueller taught me how to skip school properly by using the school’s computers. I turned these skills into a real art by my senior year in high school, when I had over 100 absences and never served a day of detention.
If I’m ever at a friend’s house for a barbecue, inevitably I will grab the ketchup bottle and ask “REAL tomato ketchup? Yep, nothing but the best!”
She was the most beautiful, sexy woman I had ever seen. My first real visceral jaw dropped on the floor need to take a cold shower boner city lady. Subsequently I’ve seen every movie she’s done.
You can not, I repeat, YOU CAN NOT, drive a car in reverse to take off Odometer Mileage.
Sometimes when I’m alone I look into a mirror and recite this monologue from “The Breakfast Club”: “Stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading son of a bitch. Retarded, big mouth, know-it-all, asshole, jerk. You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful. Shut up bitch. Go fix me a turkey pot pie. No dad, what about you? Fuck you. No dad, what about you? Fuck you. NO, Dad, what about you? Fuck you.” It always makes me feel better.
Seventy dollars and a pair of girls underpants makes you safe as kittens
If you’re ever driving in London, for Zeus’ sake, don’t get caught in the center lane in the roundabout near Big Ben and Parliament. It’s a bitch to get left.
