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valeri
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lol that doesn't really help me... i have to write a 4-5 page paper and this was one of the main ideas...
What was the Breakfast Club's impact on society and culture when it was released?
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Major Mal Function
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No impact. Just another "B" grade 80's movie.
Cultural impact
The Breakfast Club was ranked number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies[5] and has had a tremendous impact on both the teen film genre and on popular culture since the 1980s.
In addition, its theme song titled "Don't You (Forget About Me)", performed by Simple Minds, reached #1 on the U.S. Hot 100 in 1985, where it stayed for one week, and has since then become a symbol of teen films. Yellowcard performed a cover of the song during a special tribute to the movie The Breakfast Club at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards. It has also been repeatedly used in several teen films as well as television programs and in a 2008 back-to-school commercial for the clothing store JC Penney.
The Breakfast Club has been spoofed by Swedish pop group, A*Teens, in their video remake of "Dancing Queen". It was also extensively spoofed by punk band Chopper One in their video for "A Punk Named Josh". [6]
The Breakfast Club is referenced many times in television shows created by cartoonist Matt Groening. The phrase "eat my shorts" (see Official Preppy Handbook) occurs in the film and was later popularized by Bart Simpson of The Simpsons. The character "Bender" in Futurama is named after Judd Nelson's Breakfast Club character, John Bender.[7] An LP record of the film's soundtrack appears in the Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryrish," and "Don't You (Forget About Me)" is played over the same episode's end credits.
In the Family Guy episode "Let's Go to the Hop," direct and indirect references to the movie are made, i.e. when Peter walks into the cafeteria and sees "The Breakfast Club," which literally is a club of cereal box characters: Tony the Tiger, Captain Crunch, the Trix rabbit, Toucan Sam, and the Lucky Charms leprechaun. The final scene in the episode also features the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)", and it shows Peter doing what Bender did at the end of the film, where he walks over the football field and throws his fist in the air.
The Degrassi: The Next Generation episode "Take On Me" follows the exact same premise with five similar characters from their respective cliques––jock/athlete (Jimmy), outcast/goth (Ellie), criminal/bad boy (Sean), princess/girly girl (Hazel), and nerd/brain (Toby).
In the episode of Disney's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, "First Day of High School", while serving detention, Cody asks a fellow male detention inmate on why he was in detention. The male student tells him, "He had nothing better to do", a similar reason for Allison Reynolds, gives for being in detention.
In Disney's Lizzie McGuire, an episode directly parodied The Breakfast Club where the characters had to be in detention. The episode ended with the characters writing a letter similar to the one at the end of the film, calling themselves "The Lunch Bunch". The episode ended with the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
Nickelodeon's As Told by Ginger referenced extensively to the movie in the first half of the episode "Detention", Disney's Lizzie McGuire did the same in "She Said, He Said, She Said". The latter one also had references to Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Dawson's Creek also directly parodied The Breakfast Club in the Season 1 episode "Detention".
The promotional poster for the 2008 documentary American Teen has its cast members in the same poses as The Breakfast Club.[8] and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 promotional poster spoofed the Breakfast Club poster.
G4TV's X-Play had a retro themed episode where various G4 personalities played out roles from The Breakfast Club (Kevin Pereira as John Bender, etc.). However, the ending letter was revealed to be a suicide note as they all come to be involved in a suicide pact.
The second episode of the third season of Psych ("Murder?... Murder?... Anyone?... Bueller?") had multiple references to The Breakfast Club, including Shawn Spencer wearing a picture of Judd Nelson instead of his senior picture, and, later on, asking if star athlete Howie Tolkin would "have time to tape Larry Lester's buns together?"
In the spoof comedy Not Another Teen Movie, one of the characters in detention argues with the principal while he is in detention. Paul Gleason plays the principal and wears the suit he has in The Breakfast Club. The scene where Bender is in the ceiling is also spoofed.
The dialogue where John Bender mocks Brian Johnson's happy family in contrast with his abusive one is featured on the song "Diary of a Battered Child" from the band Dystopia.
A JC Penney commercial aired on TV and in theaters beginning in June 2008 pays homage the film. Several scenes are reenacted at a similar library by the commercial's actors, to the tune of a cover of "Don't You" by New Found Glory. The commercial shows a shot of the school with the name Shermer High School on the exterior of the building.
On Total Drama Island, many of the characters are based on the characters in The Breakfast Club. Duncan is base
The Breakfast Club was ranked number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies[5] and has had a tremendous impact on both the teen film genre and on popular culture since the 1980s.
In addition, its theme song titled "Don't You (Forget About Me)", performed by Simple Minds, reached #1 on the U.S. Hot 100 in 1985, where it stayed for one week, and has since then become a symbol of teen films. Yellowcard performed a cover of the song during a special tribute to the movie The Breakfast Club at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards. It has also been repeatedly used in several teen films as well as television programs and in a 2008 back-to-school commercial for the clothing store JC Penney.
The Breakfast Club has been spoofed by Swedish pop group, A*Teens, in their video remake of "Dancing Queen". It was also extensively spoofed by punk band Chopper One in their video for "A Punk Named Josh". [6]
The Breakfast Club is referenced many times in television shows created by cartoonist Matt Groening. The phrase "eat my shorts" (see Official Preppy Handbook) occurs in the film and was later popularized by Bart Simpson of The Simpsons. The character "Bender" in Futurama is named after Judd Nelson's Breakfast Club character, John Bender.[7] An LP record of the film's soundtrack appears in the Futurama episode "The Luck of the Fryrish," and "Don't You (Forget About Me)" is played over the same episode's end credits.
In the Family Guy episode "Let's Go to the Hop," direct and indirect references to the movie are made, i.e. when Peter walks into the cafeteria and sees "The Breakfast Club," which literally is a club of cereal box characters: Tony the Tiger, Captain Crunch, the Trix rabbit, Toucan Sam, and the Lucky Charms leprechaun. The final scene in the episode also features the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)", and it shows Peter doing what Bender did at the end of the film, where he walks over the football field and throws his fist in the air.
The Degrassi: The Next Generation episode "Take On Me" follows the exact same premise with five similar characters from their respective cliques––jock/athlete (Jimmy), outcast/goth (Ellie), criminal/bad boy (Sean), princess/girly girl (Hazel), and nerd/brain (Toby).
In the episode of Disney's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, "First Day of High School", while serving detention, Cody asks a fellow male detention inmate on why he was in detention. The male student tells him, "He had nothing better to do", a similar reason for Allison Reynolds, gives for being in detention.
In Disney's Lizzie McGuire, an episode directly parodied The Breakfast Club where the characters had to be in detention. The episode ended with the characters writing a letter similar to the one at the end of the film, calling themselves "The Lunch Bunch". The episode ended with the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
Nickelodeon's As Told by Ginger referenced extensively to the movie in the first half of the episode "Detention", Disney's Lizzie McGuire did the same in "She Said, He Said, She Said". The latter one also had references to Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Dawson's Creek also directly parodied The Breakfast Club in the Season 1 episode "Detention".
The promotional poster for the 2008 documentary American Teen has its cast members in the same poses as The Breakfast Club.[8] and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 promotional poster spoofed the Breakfast Club poster.
G4TV's X-Play had a retro themed episode where various G4 personalities played out roles from The Breakfast Club (Kevin Pereira as John Bender, etc.). However, the ending letter was revealed to be a suicide note as they all come to be involved in a suicide pact.
The second episode of the third season of Psych ("Murder?... Murder?... Anyone?... Bueller?") had multiple references to The Breakfast Club, including Shawn Spencer wearing a picture of Judd Nelson instead of his senior picture, and, later on, asking if star athlete Howie Tolkin would "have time to tape Larry Lester's buns together?"
In the spoof comedy Not Another Teen Movie, one of the characters in detention argues with the principal while he is in detention. Paul Gleason plays the principal and wears the suit he has in The Breakfast Club. The scene where Bender is in the ceiling is also spoofed.
The dialogue where John Bender mocks Brian Johnson's happy family in contrast with his abusive one is featured on the song "Diary of a Battered Child" from the band Dystopia.
A JC Penney commercial aired on TV and in theaters beginning in June 2008 pays homage the film. Several scenes are reenacted at a similar library by the commercial's actors, to the tune of a cover of "Don't You" by New Found Glory. The commercial shows a shot of the school with the name Shermer High School on the exterior of the building.
On Total Drama Island, many of the characters are based on the characters in The Breakfast Club. Duncan is base
Sleazy P. Martini
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It was one of the first movies where members of different social cliques actually got together, learned to understand eachother, and had a good time... if you think about it, pretty much every teenage flick was either about one social clique; it was about kids in general and there were *no* real social cliques; or it was about one social clique vs. another (e.g., the "good" kids vs. the "bad" kids). Movies like Rebel Without a Cause which made the "bad" guy look good weren't really targetted towards teeangers.
In the breakfast club, you get all these different kids who technically should hate eachother, and do from the onset, learning that they aren't really all THAT different after all and getting into all sorts of trouble and fun together.
In the breakfast club, you get all these different kids who technically should hate eachother, and do from the onset, learning that they aren't really all THAT different after all and getting into all sorts of trouble and fun together.
WEll it definatly put truth about high schools out there
event hough parents had gone through it, its like they block it out and cant believe that were going through it too
people, do plan on killing themselves
people do fall for the bad boy, and sometimes they really are great inside
People loved it so much because its how stuff really happens
their is some wierd girl out there, whos really beautiful underneath, nut noone gives her a chance.
It was a great movie, and everyone throughout the generations will love it
event hough parents had gone through it, its like they block it out and cant believe that were going through it too
people, do plan on killing themselves
people do fall for the bad boy, and sometimes they really are great inside
People loved it so much because its how stuff really happens
their is some wierd girl out there, whos really beautiful underneath, nut noone gives her a chance.
It was a great movie, and everyone throughout the generations will love it