Working at Found Item Clothing, I’m often asked to view older films for “research” purposes (as if they needed to twist my arm…). Today, for instance, I watched the 1986 classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a movie that hasn’t lost one bit of its comedic appeal in the twenty-plus years since its original release.
What dawned on me in the wake of this screening was the quality of the supporting cast. As much as Matthew Broderick carries the picture with his infectious, charismatic personality, the film is peppered with a number of less renowned actors and actresses that steal the show with inspired, off-beat performances. Chief among them is Jeffrey Jones as Edward R. Rooney, the Dean of Students and Ferris’ antagonist and frustrated foil. Rooney correctly suspects that Bueller is up to no good, but he is powerless to bring this truant scofflaw to justice. As the movie unfolds, his character transitions from a no-nonsense, buttoned-up authority figure to a disheveled, burned-out shell of a man, demoralized by a series of embarrassing gaffes and physical mishaps.
To mark the occasion, I’ve compiled a list of Dean Rooney’s 10 funniest dialogue snippets. Enjoy!
10. “I had a grandmother once. Two, actually.”
9. Dean Rooney: “I don’t trust this kid any further than I could throw him.” Grace: “Well, with your bad knee Ed, you shouldn’t throw anybody…”
8. “Poochie, poochie, poochie. Look what Uncle Ed has for you, you little fucker.”
7. “Les jeux sont faits. Translation: ‘the game is up’. Your ass is mine.”
6. [Ferris kisses Sloan passionately while posing as her father.] “So THAT’s how it is in their family…”
5. Rooney: “Between grief and nothing, I’ll take grief.” Sloane: “Great.”
4. “I’m gonna catch this kid and put one hell of a dent in his future. 15 years from now, when he looks back at the ruin his life has become, he’ll remember Edward R. Rooney.”
3. [A baseball game is on the televion] Rooney: “What’s the score?” Barkeep: “Nothin’-nothin’.” Rooney (disinterested): “Who’s winning?” Barkeep: “The Bears.”
2. “I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.”
1. “You just produce a corpse and I’ll release Sloan. I want to see this dead Grandmother first hand… Just roll her old bones over here and I’ll dig up your daughter. You know that’s school policy… Tell you what, dipshit. You don’t like my poiicies, you can just come on down here and smooch my white butt. Pucker up, buttercup.”
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Jeux vidéos ftw, jouer des jeux est un hobby fantastique.