Ferris Bueller Does Not Have Another Day Off
That video that went around like wildfire yesterday — the video that’s above — is almost certainly a teaser for a Super Bowl ad (which happens to be on February 5th, 2012), and not an ad for a complete Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 2 movie which had somehow escaped the notice of every single Hollywood trade and entertainment newsite. Which is fine by me. Ferris Bueller is an asshole. Besides, they already made a Ferris Bueller sequel and it was called Election, where Ferris ends up a sad high school principal himself, who is tormented by his super-popular student Reese Witherspoon, the fact that his glory days are long over, and that he’s getting exactly what he deserves.
One more thing: A friend once told me that he thought — knew, actually — that Alan Ruck’s character Cameron was obviously fucking Ferris’ girlfriend behind his back. Next time you see the move, pay close attention to Cameron and Sloane. You’ll never unsee it.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.