Clubbing.

I realized the other day that you can buy a special edition DVD of Smokey and the Bandit, but there’s still no full-featured version of The Breakfast Club.  This movie is beloved by millions and it’s on TV everytime you turn around--how can someone have not bothered to put together a special edition?  Wouldn’t it be fun to listen to a commentary track that reunites the entire cast--Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Emilio Estevez?  Wouldn’t they get along great after all these years?

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EMILIO: Hey, everyone, it’s great to be reunited with all my friends to do this commentary track for the Breakfast Club special edition DVD. We hope you enjoy it.

MOLLY: Hi everyone.

ALLY: Does anyone have any cocaine?

EMILIO: Ally, shhh.  So, here we are with the opening credits. You know, as I reflect on making this movie, one of my most cherished memories is when--

JUDD: Oooh!  Oooh!  I have a trivia fact about the movie!

EMILIO: Judd, do you mind, I’m talking.

JUDD: Come on, let me say this one thing.

EMILIO: Okay, what?

JUDD: This is a little-known trivia fact.  John Hughes, director of this movie, Sixteen Candles, and Pretty in Pink, is the only director in history to give Molly a speaking part.

(Collapses in laughter)

ANTHONY: Oh for--

MOLLY: You bastard.

EMILIO: Judd, come on. We all agreed we weren’t going to make a lot of obvious, stupid jokes about our careers.  And that’s not even true.

MOLLY: Yeah.  I was in Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, and--

JUDD: Hahahaha!  I’m sorry, but c’mon. That was pretty funny.

MOLLY: You’re an ass.

JUDD: Lighten up, princess.

ANTHONY: Uh...well, back to the movie--we’ve just seen that famous quote by David Bowie, and now we see the high school for the first time, thanks to that cool shattering glass effect--

JUDD: Shattered kind of like your dreams of stardom, eh, Tony boy?

EMILIO: Judd, shut up.  I’m warning you.

JUDD: What are you going to do, tough guy? Sic The Mighty Ducks on me?

ANTHONY: I’m the only one in this room with a steady job right now.  Or perhaps you’ve never seen The Dead Zone?

JUDD: Is that the name of your show or its time slot?

ANTHONY: Listen.  When you get out of bed in the morning, do you go directly to DVD or does that happen sometime after lunch?

JUDD: Hey, I was in a sit-com with Brooke Shields.

ANTHONY: That was ten years ago.

JUDD: I kissed her.

ANTHONY: Chicks with post-partum depression will kiss anyone.

MOLLY: My god.  Do...do we have two hours of this to go?

ANTHONY: ...

JUDD: ....

EMILIO ....

ALLY: Does anyone have any cocaine?

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On second thought, I can see why no one’s bothered.

That was the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a long time! Perfection.

Posted by  on  06/12  at  06:09 AM

Spacehunter was a great movie.  The IMDB synopsis only gives you the slightest sense of its genius:
“Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki the Twister (Molly Ringwald), the only earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.”

There was even a 3D version!

Now there is a film that should have its own special edition DVD.  They could even re-edit some scenes - for instance, so you couldn’t see the studio carpark when the spaceship lands on the alien planet!

Posted by  on  06/12  at  06:56 AM

inspired genx nostalgia there greg.  truly inspired.

Posted by the mighty jimbo  on  06/12  at  08:31 AM

FUG YOU!

Posted by Cloudy  on  06/12  at  11:02 AM

That is exactly and precisely and seriously what you wrote in my senior yearbook, by the way.

Posted by Cloudy  on  06/12  at  11:03 AM

What?  I did not.

Posted by Greg  on  06/12  at  11:44 AM

“You mess with the bull son, you get the horns."-RIP.

Posted by Mr. Wilson  on  06/12  at  12:53 PM

Adam stole my thunder. Spacehunter was a truly awesome movie. Particularly in 3D. Not that it makes much difference when you look at Molly Ringwald.

Posted by yellojkt  on  06/12  at  06:58 PM

I love you. I just cracked up in the middle of an internet cafe, and everyone’s staring, but I do love you.

Posted by Alexandra  on  06/13  at  08:34 AM

What’s the end of this joke?
Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. The bartender says, I guess you won’t be needing a drink. Naked lady says…

Posted by  on  06/13  at  10:57 AM

My favorite part is that I’m reading this on Ally Sheedy’s 44th birthday!  Yes, they broke their fast a long, long time ago.

Posted by  on  06/13  at  01:29 PM

Who needs cast commentary when we have you?

Posted by Pants  on  06/13  at  06:32 PM

I felt very dated when I asked for this on DVD at the local video store and the guy behind the computer with his “cool” plugged--and, I noticed, crusty--ears asked what movie that was.  He had never heard of it.  Never. 

P.S.  Ally Sheedy is a published author:  She Was Nice to Mice.  We actually own this book.  It was a gift.

Posted by Rae  on  06/13  at  10:07 PM

When I was young enough not to know, my older cousin while trying to impress me advised that he had been in a movie...The Breakfast Club. His recollection of this particular acting gig was as an extra in a crowd scene. Pretty sure he was into cocaine as well, maybe he was just hanging around the set.

Posted by  on  06/14  at  03:03 PM

Hey, have you ever heard of the book “Speak, Commentary”? It’s a book of fake DVD commentaries and it’s pretty funny.

Posted by  on  06/19  at  11:18 AM

you are such a neomaxizoomdweebie.

CP

Posted by CP  on  06/19  at  07:40 PM

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