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They were five total strangers, with null in common,
meeting for the first fourth dimension.
A encephalon, a dazzler, a jock, a rebel and a recluse.

Before the twenty-four hour period was over, they broke the rules.
Bared their souls.
And touched each other in a fashion
they never dreamed possible.

Brian Johnson: Dear Mr. Vernon: Nosotros accept the fact that nosotros had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for any it was we did incorrect. But nosotros recollect yous're crazy to make us write an essay telling y'all who we think we are. You see united states of america as you want to encounter us — in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. Only what we institute out is that each one of us is a brain...
Andrew Clark: ... and an athlete ...
Allison Reynolds: ... and a basketcase ...
Claire Standish: ... a princess ...
John Bender: ... and a criminal.
Brian Johnson: Does that respond your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Lodge.

Of all the teen movies to come out of the 1980s, this was the i that ultimately defined the era and blazed the trail which, forth with Sixteen Candles, would lead to the true germination of the Brat Pack. The Breakfast Order follows the journey of 5 teenagers who have all landed themselves a Saturday detention at their high school. During the course of the day, they are characterized by their cliques, harassed past angry vice principal Richard "Dick" Vernon, and aided by friendly school janitor Carl... all while coming to learn a little something about themselves, and each other.

Released in 1985, this dramedy moving picture was written and directed by John Hughes, a legend in the teen pic genre. Its five principal actors — Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy — would go part of the "Deviling Pack", a group of actors whose careers in the 1980s revolved effectually playing teens in pop movies with each other. This group also included Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, and Demi Moore.

Don't y'all... (synth riff) forget about me... (and these tropes):

Actually Pretty Funny:
- At the starting time of the picture, Andy and Bender can't stand up each other, simply Andy still contains his smile when Bender asks Vernon "Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" and later on cracks up when Bender tells Vernon that his dope can't be on fire because information technology's in Brian's underwear.
- The rest of the students are suitably horrified to acquire that Brian is in detention for bringing a gun to school. When he learns it was a flare-gun that went off in Brian's locker, Andy starts laughing. He stops when Brian insists it isn't funny, simply then starts laughing again and Brian joins in, albeit information technology'due south a bit funny.
- Similarly, everyone laughs at why Allison is there. She just didn't have anything ameliorate to do.
Adults Are Useless: A more cynical example than other Hughes films. With the exception of Carl the janitor, the adults in the flick are portrayed as blah, abusive, and self-captivated.
Air-Vent Passageway: Bender goes through the ceiling to arrive and out of the cupboard.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Claire toward Bough, and deliberately invoked past him.
All-Stereotype Cast: Deconstructed. Each of the students in detention fulfills a high schoolhouse stereotype of The '80s: specifically, jocks, brainiacs, princesses, criminals, and handbasket cases — and even so is nearly showing how they're much more those stereotypes, what kinds of background would plow someone into these stereotypes, and how these societal expectations affect them equally people.

Aroused Dance: Andrew does this. Oddly enough, it's his reaction to getting stoned.

Armor-Piercing Question: Andy repeatedly tries to inquire Allison why she'south in detention while they're getting drinks for the group. She isn't fazed, and turns the same question back on him, to which Andy tellingly is unable to respond.
Artistic License – Engineering science: Subverted. The shot of Bough crawling atop a drop ceiling will brand anybody familiar with construction or engineering science groan a bit, another instance of that platitude... then he falls right through it.
Atomic F-Bomb: Bender's epic "FUCK You!!" to Vernon.
Axes at Schoolhouse: Brian's Flare Gun.
Berserk Button:
- Andy presses Bender'due south when he accuses him of lying about his abusive habitation life.
- The commencement fourth dimension Brian actually becomes very aroused throughout detention is when Claire tells him he doesn't know what it's like to feel the pressure.
Large "SHUT Upwardly!": Claire delivers one of these towards Bender when he teases her about the lipstick fob. It doesn't really work to shut him up.
Bittersweet Ending: The teens get out detention resolving to brand sure they never become their parents and coming to accept one another. Merely they still take to render dwelling house to abusive and/or neglectful parents, and it'south left ambiguous whether they'll remain friends or not.
Black-and-Greyness Morality: No one is particularly innocent in this picture.

Bookends: The opening and closing narration are alternate versions of the Epilogue Letter Brian writes for Vernon (though the opening is but read by Brian, the catastrophe has all five talking). Also the song "Don't Y'all (Forget Virtually Me)" is playing during the opening and closing scene.
Bottle Episode: Movie case. Every single hijink that the kids partake in is set within Shermer High, and mostly inside the library. Only a handful of scenes accept place in other rooms, or in front of the schoolhouse.
Breakfast Guild: The Trope Namer. The point of the movie is that they all learn they have much more in common with each other than they recall, and are much more capable of being friends and agreement each other than they knew.
Edifice of Adventure: The unabridged movie takes place inside the schoolhouse or at to the lowest degree on its grounds.
Cacophony Cover Upwards: The kids cough, blindside on the tables, and make sound effects to cover the racket Bender is making as he tries to crawl under the library tables back to his seat without the primary realizing he's not following the dominion well-nigh staying seated at all times during detention.
Central Theme: There is more than to human being beings than meets the center.
Cerebus Call-Back: Brian talking nearly how he failed shop considering he couldn't brand a ceramic elephant, which leads into a fleck of joking on the part of the others. A few minutes later when the entire discussion has gone a fleck more dramatic, Brian reveals he brought a flare gun to school because he couldn't get the elephant to work, implying he wanted to kill himself. It gets subverted when they all end upwardly laughing most it anyway.
Metropolis People Eat Sushi: Rich Alpha Bowwow Claire eats sushi for lunch and Bender, a delinquent from a lower class background, thinks it's disgusting.
Clock Tampering: We are never shown anyone turning the easily of the clock frontward, but that Carl notices that someone (most likely Bender) has done it, as he casually mentions the clock is 20 minutes fast.
- The collective groans of the group, however, might indicate that Bender didn't practise it — at to the lowest degree not that day, or the others would take seen him.
Cold Reading: Allison reveals details nearly Brian which look like she is a psychic. Then she reveals that she merely went through his wallet (though this is really hot reading).
Colonel Bogey March: Whistled by the kids early on in the movie every bit the showtime sign of them meeting every bit a group.
- Bender seamlessly transitions into Beethoven's Fifth when Vernon enters the room.
Color-Coded Characters: The kids' clothes are all a different colour; ruddy for Bender, blue for Andy, pink for Claire, greenish for Brian, and black for Allison. Bender's color is clearer when he removes his jacket, Andy'southward only gets bluer when he takes off his, and Allison'due south changes to white after Claire gives her a makeover.
Comedic Sociopathy: We really, really shouldn't exist laughing at some of this.
Crazy Consumption: Allison lets her soda spill out, and licks it off the table. Then she throws away the bologna from her sandwich and replaces it with Pixy Stix (powdered candy) and Cap'due north Crunch cereal.
Creator Cameo: John Hughes plays Brian's father at the end.
Curb-Stomp Battle: When Bender and Andy are nigh to fight (with the latter letting him know how 1-sided it would be), the onetime dismisses him and tries to strike the first blow...only to exist rapidly taken downwards by his opponent, a talented school wrestler.
Darker and Edgier: Than a lot of Hughes's other movies, to the signal that those familiar with Hughes'due south lighter fare are often appalled by how grim and cynical the motion-picture show is.
Deadpan Snarker:
- Bough is the biggest example, who is also a superb Silent Snarker. The wait he gives Brian when he sticks a pen upwardly his nose is pretty priceless.
- Andy, Claire, and Brian develop some snarkiness likewise, just not nearly to the degree of Bender.
- Allison probably dominates the nonverbal territory of this, though she's no slouch when she really speaks.
- Carl, the school'south janitor, is plenty of i to shut Bender up.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: This flick takes a very practiced look at what many of the "stock" characters of teen movies would exist like if they existed in real life, and what their real motivations would be like.
- Andy, the Wiggle Jock, only behaves that way in lodge to fit in with the residue of the team and to impress his father, who raised him on stories of how he acted like that dorsum when he was in school. He wishes that, one day, he'd get injured so that he wouldn't have to wrestle again, and thus never have to worry about living up to Dad's expectations.
- Claire, the Blastoff Bitch, is a Type A Stepford Smiler who feels that her life is empty, and that her parents only apply her every bit a tool in their endless arguments. And she's hardly the "queen bee" — in fact, it's peer pressure level that essentially molded her into the snobbish bitch that she is, and she feels miserably forced into it.
- Brian, the Nerd, hates how his parents have destroyed his social life by pushing him then hard to succeed, and is and then obsessed with his grades that he tries to impale himself after getting an F in shop class. His attitude is also piffling meliorate than that of the "popular" kids that he hates, equally shown when he talks about how he took shop form because he idea information technology was an like shooting fish in a barrel A that simply "losers" like Bender took (as opposed to his advanced math classes).
- Bough, the juvenile delinquent, is similar that not because he's a bad person, but as a consequence of his tough, working-class upbringing and his abusive begetter, both of which have taught him that violence is an acceptable solution to problems. His badass image is besides hands disarmed by Andy, fifty-fifty though he's armed with a knife.
- Allison, the crazy loner, intentionally acts crazy and theatric in club to get attention, something her parents don't give her. She doesn't bother to hide her breathy thefts and eccentricities, and her withdrawn persona is actually just a ploy to get people to requite her more attention without albeit that she craves it.
Desk-bound Sweep of Rage: Bender wipes a desk clean during a rage montage afterwards coming clean about his Parental Abuse to the other members of the grouping.
Detention Episode: The movie takes identify in a Sabbatum detention. This is where the club is formed.
Exercise Wrong, Right: Andrew'south male parent in the beginning chastises him not for screwing up, just for getting caught.
Drugs Are Expert: Bender brings some grass he had stashed in his schoolhouse locker and the kids (except for Allison) accept an eighties montage over smoking it in the school library during detention.
Dysfunction Junction: Even the apparently happy and popular students have some serious problems (usually stemming from their parents) that they keep hidden below the surface.
Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Bender to Brian: "So, what are nosotros having for dejeuner?" although he never really eats it.
Epilogue Letter: Excerpts from Brian's essay are voiced out over the opening and closing scene.
Extremely Short Timespan: The movie takes place over a single 24-hour interval (March 24th, 1984, to be specific), starting in the morning as the students arrive, and catastrophe in the late afternoon just after they leave.
Failed Attempt at Drama: Vernon tells the grouping in a stern tone that he will non be made a fool of. Then he walks out with the toilet seat embrace sticking out the backside of his pants.
Female Gaze: While Andy is having an internal conflict well-nigh whether to smoke weed or not, the camera is shot from Allison'south perspective, who is gazing at his back and, later, when the photographic camera doesn't move, at his crotch.
Finale Title Drop: The essay read at the end is signed "Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club"
Fist Pump: Bender has his fist in the air, triumphant over the events of the day.

Foreign Queasine: Claire's dejeuner consists of what she calls sushi (actually, it's sashimi, but that common mistake is abreast the point). Bender is a bit put off by the idea of eating raw fish.
John Bender: You won't accept a guy's tongue in your mouth, and y'all're gonna swallow that?
Foreshadowing: In the opening montage, one locker is charred black. Presumably information technology's Brian'south.
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Co-ordinate to a motion picture on the wall, Carl was "Human being of the Year" for the form of '69.
Girlfriend in Canada: Brian claims to accept a girlfriend living upwards in Niagara Falls, in add-on to having had sex with several other girls. When pressed, he admits he made the whole matter upwards considering he's embarrassed to acknowledge he's a virgin.
Glass-Shattering Sound: Andrew does this in one scene, breaking ane door's glass panel in the process.
Growing Up Sucks: Allison believes so, saying everyone will end upwardly like their crappy parents.
Allison: When you grow up, your eye dies.
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Nosotros run across a picture of 1969 Carl as the school's "Man of the Twelvemonth" with a total head of hair.
Held Gaze: Bough and Claire have a few of these throughout the movie, including one earlier their kiss.
Heroic BSoD: Andy, when talking well-nigh the force per unit area from his Jerk Jock male parent. This somewhen breaks down towards the end of his monologue, and he starts sobbing and shouting his words.
Heroic Sacrifice: Bough draws the attention of Vernon after the Gild runs into a dead-end during their hallway jaunt, allowing the other iv to become back to the library undetected.
Hollywood Dress Lawmaking: Downplayed; for instance, Brian does not clothing glasses to signal that he is a nerd, and Bough does not vesture a leather jacket. Information technology has been mentioned on the DVD that they wanted the characters to have some originality from their cliques.
- The concept of deviation from the stereotypes extends to all the principal characters in diverse ways, not all pertaining to their clothing - Andrew is a wrestler rather than a football histrion, Claire is a redhead rather than blonde, and Allison, who would otherwise virtually likely be portrayed every bit a far more level-headed character compared to the others, is erratic and attention-seeking.
I Am What I Am: Claire, Andrew and Brian practise it publicly; Allison confesses privately to Andrew; and Bender hides the specifics from the characters, merely the audience tin easily figure out his situation.
I Hit Yous, You lot Striking the Ground: "Two hits: Me hit you, you striking the floor."
Implied Love Interest: Early on in the film Bender asks Andy & Claire if they are dating and fifty-fifty asked them if they had sex notwithstanding - which prompted the first real outburst of emotion from either of them. At the start of the motion picture, it did announced every bit though Andy was showing involvement in Claire (later information technology's unsaid that their friendliness - which was by and large just a willingness to brand middle-contact - was more due to the fact that they know each other at least a little through their social circles). Fairly speedily, however, Bough and Claire, and later on Andy and Allison, begin showing (increasingly larger and more than frequent) signs of interest in one another.
Improv: The scene in which all characters sit in a circle on the flooring in the library and tell stories about why they were in detention was not scripted. Writer and Managing director John Hughes told them all to ad-lib.
Ironic Repeat:
- Early in the pic, Andrew tells Bender, "You don't even count. You could disappear forever, and it wouldn't make any difference. Y'all might every bit well non fifty-fifty be at this school." Later on, when Andrew yells at Bender for his Sarcastic Clapping reaction to Claire's lipstick play a joke on, John replies with "What do you care what I remember, anyway? I don't even count ... correct? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make whatsoever divergence. I might as well non fifty-fifty exist at this schoolhouse, remember?"
- "Practice I stutter?" also fits this trope.
Jaded Washout: Virtually of the adults authorize.
- Vernon got into an teaching career equally a means of gaining easy respect and money, but years of being kicked effectually by the students in his accuse have really gotten to him. By the fourth dimension the flick begins, he just does the bare minimum of what's expected of him and outright admits to Carl he doesn't care what the kids recollect of him every bit long as he gets an piece of cake paycheck.
- Carl himself is an interesting variant. He was once the Man of the Year in 1969, and had aspirations of beingness "John Lennon", implying he wanted to be a musician. He'south now working a wage-slave task every bit a janitor at the very high school he graduated. Unlike Vernon, however, he actually displays a stronger work ethic and doesn't pass judgment on the kids. And considering the kind of work required of janitors at schools, especially one of that size, he is probably paid quite well for his trouble.
- Andy's dad is heavily implied to be a erstwhile Jerk Jock who didn't really become anywhere in life every bit a result of his loutish beliefs, and consequently is trying to force his son into the life he himself never lived. He seems stuck in a cocky-constructed time warp to the days where he could bully whoever he wanted and non face the consequences, utterly failing to wrap his head effectually the reality that his son doesn't want to get a Fratbro dick similar him.
- Of the all of the Society members, Brian and Andy seem to be on their way to condign this subsequently high schoolhouse.
Jerkass Has a Point: This exchange:
Brian: I'm in the Math Order, the Latin Club, and the Physics Club.
Bender: (to Claire) Hey. Cherry. Do you belong to the Physics Gild?
Claire: That'south an Academics club.
Bough: So?
Claire: (beat) Academic Clubs aren't the same as other kinds of clubs.
Bender: Ah, just to dorks similar him, they are.
- While he's antagonistic and unnecessarily harsh, and while it's doubtful that Vernon has any deep concern for what ultimately happens to Bender (or any of the others for that matter), nigh of Vernon's comments to Bender, at least until he locks Bender in the storage closet, could be taken this way.
Kafka Komedy: The story of Brian's life.
Kick the Dog:
- Andy to Bough, although nosotros don't know Bender is the dog until it happens.
  Claire: Y'all shouldn't have said that.
  Andy: How was I supposed to know? He lies about everything anyhow!
- In the opening scene, the parents practice everything they tin can to bear witness usa what worthless human beings they are.
Terminal-Name Basis: Everyone apart from Claire calls him "Bough".
Like an Old Married Couple: Bender and Claire's constant fighting make them looking similar a divorcing couple, which is interesting every bit Claire's chief source of angst is her parents' virtually inevitable divorce.
Locked in a Room: Locked In A Schoolroom.
- Later, Bender is locked in a storage closet.
The Makeover: Used for Allison.
Meaningful Name:
- Vernon's first name is "Dick".
- Brian is an anagram of encephalon.
- John Bender bends/breaks rules.
- Claire Standish is standoffish.
- And finally, Andrew is Greek for "manly and strong."
Miles Gloriosus: Bender. He puts out an image of toughness but Andy is able to take him downwardly with ease. Fifty-fifty when Bender pulls a knife and casually talks nearly killing Andy, he's slowly bankroll abroad from the fight. Confirmed when Principal Vernon challenges Bender to a fight, asking repeatedly for Bender to throw the first punch, while he just sits there looking like a scared puppy. When Dick taunts him and begs him to take the commencement shot, Bender remains frozen with what looks like terror.
- There'south the argument that Vernon wanted to be able to claim Bender had assaulted him, and Bough knew information technology so didn't rise to the allurement. Hell, Vernon had literally simply pointed out that no one would accept Bender's word over his; his plan was obvious. The fear on Bender's face up seems to negate this a lilliputian.
- Also, given Bough'southward upbringing, him getting into any kind of altercation with Andy would but result in him having to deal with his father (who burns him with a cigar merely for spilling paint in the garage) the minute he finds out.
Minimalist Cast: There are only xi characters in the entire movie, and iv of them appear only in the commencement scene.
Minor with Fake I.D.: Andrew finds out Brian has a fake ID. Brian claims it's and so he can vote.
Monochrome Casting: All characters are Caucasian.
Mood Whiplash: After a Tear Jerker of a story told by Brian nearly bringing a gun to schoolhouse, the revelation that it was a flare gun and that it went off in his locker gets everybody laughing.
Moral Racket: Brian's oral communication that he wouldn't reject whatever of the others in front of his friends is famous, and when he delivers information technology he's 100% sincere, just what he fails to call back, and what none of the others telephone call him out on, is that he's already been guilty of this sort of thing. When Carl the janitor gives him a friendly "hello" in the detention room in forepart of the other kids, Brian's reaction is silence and a facial expression that says "why are you talking to me?" His mental attitude has inverse past the stop of the film, as evidenced past when he does admit Carl, merely it's telling that he'southward already rejected a friend and doesn't even seem to realize it.
Nigh Writers Are Adults: The 5 chief characters, in many means, talk and human activity more like adults than teenagers.
Never My Mistake: Later on Bender steals the spiral that is holding the library door open, Vernon orders Andrew to help him move a magazine rack in front of the door to agree it open up, simply for Bender to betoken out that information technology's a potential fire hazard. And then Vernon turns around and gets mad at Andrew for engaging in such an embarrassing, risky thought, in spite of the fact that it was actually his own thought and which the male child only did since he allowable him to do it in the beginning place.
No Adversary: While the characters' parents are the main reason why each of them is screwed-up and Principal Vernon isn't exactly overnice to them (especially Bough), the truthful disharmonize of the story is what the kids struggle with in their personal life, school life, and whatever their life will be like in the future.
Non-Indicative Name: The movie doesn't involve breakfast. The term "breakfast club" was originally a metaphor for forenoon detention.
"Non So Different" Remark: The five students slowly come up to realize this almost each other over the class of the movie. Andy'south rant about his obsessive and deadline calumniating male parent makes Brian cry and Bender remark that their fathers should gather and go bowling.
Orphaned Setup: Bender's "naked lady" joke. (Information technology doesn't accept a punchline, Judd Nelson advertizement-libbed it). The closest affair to a punchline is when he falls through the ceiling and declares he forgot his pencil.
Panty Shot: When Bender hides under Claire's desk. Shoved right in your confront, likewise. And his, albeit of his own volition.
- Interesting to note that the only discernible reason the front of the tabular array would be covered is to provide Bender a place to hide, and to give him the opportunity for the above mentioned panty-shot (which actually shouldn't be visible given the length of Claire's skirt, unless she chose to hike it upwardly by her knees when she sat down).
Precision F-Strike: Brian's response to Claire about social pressure.
Product Placement: Coke cans are in focus during the luncheon scene.
"The Reason Y'all Suck" Speech: Bough delivers i to Claire:
Stick to things yous know - shopping, your father'south BMW and your drunk mother. And forget beingness concerned nearly us walking downwards the hall together. Information technology won't ever happen. Bury your head in the sand and wait for your prom.
Sarcastic Clapping: Bough. "That was great, Claire. My image of you is totally blown."
Shave And A Haircut: Masterfully improvised by Andy and Bender when Bender is hiding under Claire's desk and bumps his caput.
- Possibly worth asking why Bender hid under Claire's desk when in the previous shot he was closer to Brian'south desk-bound or even an empty section.
- It'due south too worth noting that the only tables with covered fronts are in the front row, the table that Andy and Claire are sitting at and the one direct opposite it. In that location's actually no reason for them to exist covered except that information technology provides Bender a identify to hide in the above mentioned chip.
She Cleans Up Nicely: Brian and Andy'south reaction to Allison's makeover.
Shop Class: Brian takes it because he thinks it'll exist an piece of cake "A". That didn't turn out to be the case, however. Bough wastes no fourth dimension in demanding why Brian would call back store would be an piece of cake "A"
Sickening "Crisis!": Can be heard when Bough is under the table and Claire squashes his head with her knees.
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Claire and Bender. Literally. She slaps him on the back after he crawls out from under her desk, and later on she kisses him in the closet, and permit's non forget their kiss in the final scene.
Sliding Calibration of Idealism Versus Cynicism: It'south a John Hughes moving-picture show. Were yous expecting sunshine and bunnies?
Speech-Centric Work: This film is near entirely dialogue. It takes place in a library. Libraries are collections of words - just similar dialogue.
Stoners Are Funny: The teens when they smoke the weed Bender retrieves from his locker.
Sucky Schoolhouse: Eight-hour detentions on Sat is but one of the many things incorrect here, never heed the principal.
In that location Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Bender to Clair:
I'm not sure if you lot know this, but in that location are two kinds of fat people. Those born to be fat and those that were once thin simply became fatty.
The Three Faces of Adam: Brian is The Hunter (awkward and out of his depth), Andrew is The Lord (a pop, serious-minded athlete) and Bender is The Prophet (a loudmouth who gets anybody to open up).
The Unreveal: Did the kids remain friends, or did they drift dorsum into their corresponding cliques when they had to go back to school? The picture ends every bit they're going home after detention, leaving the question open-ended.
- At the very to the lowest degree, it seems as though Allison and Brian might remain friends, equally Brian promises he wouldn't practise that to whatsoever of them, and Allison doesn't accept whatsoever friends, nor does she think the kind of friends she'd have would mind. Similarly, Andy and Claire already knew each other slightly from their overlapping social circles.
Unusual Euphemism: Allison is called a "basketcase" (crazy person).
Uptown Girl: Rich, spoiled princess Claire falls for troubled delinquent Bender at the end.
Vanity License Plate: The front end license plate on the car of Brian's mom has Einstein's theory of relativity. Make of that what you will.
Villainous BSoD: After Andy hits Bough's Berserk Button, Bender flips out, ape-flings himself up a statue and some railings, and cowers alone in an emotional heap.
- After, after Principal Vernon explicitly promises to i mean solar day detect Bender and trounce the shit out of him, Bender is left frozen with fear.
"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Andy, who's pressured to exist merely similar his dad.
What Are You in For?: The question comes up repeatedly.
"YEAH!" Shot: Bender, at the end. The reason for it is left adequately ambiguous.