Ferris Bueller in popular culture

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This article is a list of references to the 1986 film, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, in various forms of popular culture and media.

Contents 1 Films 2 Television 3 Literature 4 Music 5 Internet

[edit] Films

• The Family Guy direct-to-DVD animated film Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story climaxes in a sequence where Stewie Griffin races through his suburban neighborhood in a parody of Ferris' dash to get home before his parents at the end of the film, using the same "March of the Swivelheads" music and featuring a brief scene where he introduces himself to two sunbathing women.

[edit] Television

• In a trailer for E4 show Skins the character Tony quotes Ferris Bueller, "A wise man once said, 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while, you could miss it.'"
• In the episode of Scrubs, "My Own American Girl", Dr. Cox uses the exact same line used by Ferris when he described Cameron.
• In an episode of the 2006 Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd entitled "Fifty-Fifty," the character Moss' online dating profile lists one of his turn-ons as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
• In a 2006 television commercial for DirecTV, Ben Stein reprises his role as Ferris' economics teacher, mimicking the "roll call" scene from the movie. After calling out Ferris' name several times as he did in the movie, he then breaks the fourth wall to pitch DirecTV to the audience, after which he goes on to call out "Frye...Frye..."
• In an episode of the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken, there is a parody of the scene where the Ferrari is stolen by two parking attendants - here the car stolen is KITT from Knight Rider.
• In an episode of Veronica Mars, Veronica calls her boyfriend who is absent from school and asks if he is indeed sick or if he is going to show up on a float singing "Twist and Shout", a direct reference to the film.
• In an episode of Family Guy entitled The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Stewie asks to be taken to the Chicago Art Institute, in a scene referencing Cameron's face-to-face with the famous painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges-Pierre Seurat.
• In the Family Guy episode "Let's Go to the Hop", Peter tries to fool Lois with a recording of himself trying to make her leave him alone.
• In an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation Ellie's pet Ferret Bueller dies.
• In an episode of Spin City, Alan Ruck's character wears a Detroit Red Wings jersey to a hockey game, referencing his role as Cameron.
• In the episode "Very Bad Things" of My Name Is Earl Joy mistakes a clothes puppet for an unconscious person and says "Son-of-a-bitch Ferris-Buellered me!"
• In an episode of Family Guy, the music that plays in the background when Brian meets Meg's teacher Shauna is from the scene in the Police station when Ferris' sister says goodbye to Charlie Sheen.
• In an episode of South Park, the music that plays when the Ferrari cake is being finished is the same music as when Ferris was observing Cameron's father's car.
• A popular TV commercial for Hansgrohe shower products opens with a wife and husband spotting each other on their way home from work early each trying to use their new shower massage before the other. A mad dash homeward ensues, the husband on foot, the wife in her car. This is reminiscent of "The Race Home" chase scene home between Ferris and his sister.
• The My Gym Partner's a Monkey episode, Sick Day, includes a reference to the Economics class scene. When Mr. Hornbill calls out attendance and Adam doesn't answer, he goes on to say "Lyon? Lyon. Mr. Adam Lyon..."
• On ESPN's Sportscenter, NBA basketball player Mo Peterson is sometimes referred to as "The Sausage King of Chicago". It should be noted, however, that even though the sausage king's name was actually Abe Frohman, it is usually said with an impersonated Peterson voice.
• In an episode of "The Simpsons" titled "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Bart skips school and Principal Skinner goes through extensive measures to prove that Bart ran away from school, much like Rooney in the film.

[edit] Literature

• Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis has often referred to Ferris Bueller's Day Off as well as several other John Hughes films in the Marvel comic book series Ultimate Spider-Man, which he writes along with artist Mark Bagley. In one issue, one of Peter Parker's teachers (who looks suspiciously like Ben Stein) recites the entire "Voodoo Economics" speech.

[edit] Music

• In The Kleptones mash-up album A Night at the Hip Hopera, soundbites of various characters from the film can be heard on the tracks "See", "Ride", "Sniff" and "Jerk".

[edit] Internet

• The character Ferris the Rat in the webcomic Newshounds is named after Ferris Bueller.