Mean-spirited

No because quite frankly, not everyone has as thin skin as you.

So what? It's still funnier than all of the politically correct garbage Hollywood puts out now.

First the girl in the brace had scoliosis and I knew someone with it, and she did have problems like the girl did in the movie. I never thought Jake asked Ted to drive Carolyn home so he could rape her,and Ted horny as he was was not the kind of kid that would do that anyway, he would be too scared. In the end it seems like anything that happened was not rape at all.
Where does is show that Jake knew he shut the door on her hair? He shut the door because he wanted to call Samantha and Carolyn was yelling drunkenly in the hallway.

The sister didn't turn into a fool, she had cramps and took 4 muscle relaxers instead of 1 and got loopy, which was funny because the sister was very prim and uptight in the other parts of the movie.

John Hughes tried to write how a bunch of upper middle class white kids in the midwest would talk and act during the 80's, maybe it wasn't PC but it rang true, he didn't make them heroes he just made them real teenagers which really hadn't been done before, and teenagers can be very mean and make fun of things and people they don't know.

Obviously you didn't get the humor in this movie. I thought the Chinese guy was pretty funny, you gotta take the movie in a light way cause its fairly obvious they're making jokes!
And I agree, it was better than the cra* that hollywood is spitting out nowadays.

Looking at it now, it is easy to see why you write this. However, at the time, the material was not seen the way that you now do. Now, the material is dated in terms of its social responsibilities.

I grew up with the "edited for television" version of this film, and recently saw the original on DVD for the first time. In the extra interviews on the disc, the "politically inncorrect" humor of the era is addressed and it is openly recognized that it would be hard to get a Hollywood studio to make this film today with the script as it was made in the early 1980s. The actor who played the Chinese boy seemed to be ok with it in the interviews, he seems quite content that he created a memnorable, funny character who pretty much stole every scene he was in. He wasn't playing a stereotype, just a young teen from another country, limited English and unleashed into a playground of American teens. There was concern in the interviews of how close the film skirted the "date rape" issue. In the end, Jake stated in the film that he could have taken advantage of the passed out girl, but he did not actually do it. And AMH as the geek did spend the night with her in the car. It is never shown that he actually took advantage of the situation. For him, it was enough that she thinks something probably happened between them and she was ok with it. I have always concluded that nothing actually happened between them, and the geek was just happy to finally be socially accepted by someone like her. I know this film was rated PG before PG13 existed, and since I have memories of multible viewings of the edited for tv version, I was surprised by the close up body shots in the shower scene and the 2 F words. For me the shower scene really wasn't necesary for the film to work, and even Hughes chose to cut out simularly scripted scenes in the Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueleer's Day Off. In the disc interviews, the general opinion was that the John Hughes trilogy 16C/TBC/PIP was written the way teens of the era really talked, it wasn't trying to be politically correct or to dumb down the kids. There is a realism in the way the kids talked, the way it was filmed on location in the suburbs using mostly real teenagers, not just in a LA studio with already popular actors or young looking adults playing teen roles. I can see why some people looking through the politically correct lenses of today might take issue with this film. But as a teen who grew up in the eighties, I can honestly say that I went to school with people who could have easily been the characters in the Breakfast Club. John Hughes did capture that era with a realism that is sadly lacking from most fims made about teens that have been made since.

LOL, the fact people still think he was a Chinese exchange student is racist in itself. He was a KOREAN exchange student. So, all Asians are Chinese?! THAT is racist!!!

J/K, but it does give something to think about(most people I've ran into, especially on this board, still think Long Duck Dong is Chinese). Saying a Korean is Chinese is like saying a Cuban is Mexican or saying an Irish is German. Ironic thing, that's actually what was more common back then(everybody referring to all different Asian nationalities as being "Chinese". It really hasn't change that much, has it(again, J/K, LOL).

Totally agree with you lizzy! Still love to watch it though