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Okay, I don't hate the movie, but Ferris Bueller, the character? Christ, what an asshole.

While I like the idea of a house made completely from bookshelves, I thought the photos of that particular house failed. It just looks like a bunch of plywood. If I had a house made completely out of bookshelves, they would be really seriously, nicely carved bookshelves, with lots of variety in size and shape. And there would be secret doors that looked like bookshelves but had secret passageways behind them.

I thought I was the only person on earth who found Ferris Bueller to be completely boring. A high school kid who's biggest problem is how to skip yet ANOTHER day of school with his gorgeous girlfriend and best friend? Yeah...not finding that fascinating.

I fell asleep the first two times I tried to watch it. I still don't think I've seen it through from beginning to end.

...which both is and is not a euphemism.

@Wednesday, Try watching it from the perspective that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination. Waaaaay more interesting.

http://www.cracked.com/article/18367_6-insane-fan-theories-that-actually-make-great-movies-better/

Oh my god that Chris Evans profile is freaking hilarious!

Would love to comment or even get some work done today but now I am obssessed with finding a hat like Danielle Lineker's.

Damn you Robinson: I work on a project basis and can't afford this madness.......But oh, that lovely hat!

Paddy, I'm so relieved, I thought for sure you were going to take me to task for linking to The Mirror.

"At the end of the day, they know that we love good material, and they will use that to exploit us. And that's, excuse me, bullshit"

I hear you, Rob Lowe. You love good material like The Christmas Shoes, The Specials, Crazy Six, View from the Top, and Proximity and won't be exploited into making them, d*mm*t!

I don't have time this second to read the article about Ferris being a figment of Cameron's imagination, but I do know that Cameron was certainly the more interesting character, and it would be a more interesting movie if you view it that way. And yeah: Ferris Bueller = asshole. His sister had it right.

Oh, my GOD - McHale's and Harris's faces! Absolute, 100% comedy gold. I knew I loved those guys for a reason.

If he's making $2.4 million at his daytime gig, then he doesn't particularly need the $40K. More to the point, cable shows have smaller budgets than network shows and they can find at least 50 older, gruff white guys to take third billing (at best) to Pacino and Midler. No one is tuning in to watch Ed O'Neil play "Ed O'Neil."

Without watching the video (won't play on iPhone), I just want to say that it's possible the actors aren't getting paid what they should. Are the studios/networks making a shit-ton of money based on these actors' work? It's kind of like instantly hating the NFL players for going on strike for more money without realizing that the owners really are screwing the players. Employees/unions should always lean towards siding with each other against owners/corporations.

If the video makes this argument a pile of nonsense, I apologize.

The young guy sitting next to O'Neil looked like he was ready to slide under the table just to get away from that sh*t.

NPH, Mchale, and that kid from Glee look mortified. Lowe need's to stop trying to ruin my enjoyment of Parks and Rec.

Tangentially related story time!
I had a roommate whose specialty was singing R Kelly at the most inappropriate times.
Saturday morning, I'm on speakerphone for a job interview, trying to convince my hopeful future employer that I'd be a great candidate. My roommate is in the bathroom, praying to the porcelain god after a wild night. All of a sudden, loud enough to alert neighboring galaxies of human life, I hear:
MY MIND'S TELLING ME NO, BUT MY BODY, MY BODY'S TELLING ME YEEESSSSSS

yy, your story is highly entertaining. You need to retire permanently from lurkerdom.

I watched the video on silent (can't listen at work) and I must say that it was hysterical with no sound, just watching the facial expressions of McHale and Harris. I recommend it if you don't feel like listening to dickery.

Maybe Green Lantern should have been played by a lady?

Bashing Sinestro with a glowing green dildo a quarter-mile long certainly would jazz up the movie a tad.

I make about $45K a year. Which is the median (half of America makes more, half makes less). So yeah, Ed and Rob, STFU.

I didn't love the Ferris Bueller movie, but I didn't hate it, either. It was a typical John Hughes movie.

Man, that dude really went out of his way to trash Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

He hates it because Ferris was a cool kid, that everyone liked and never had to deal with any consequences. That's why its cool, dude. Ferris is fucking cool. It's not real life, that's why people love it.

O'Neil, Lowe, and Alan Seigel can all go s**k a f***. Not you though, Joel McHale. You can **** my ******.

The Ed O'Neil video was kind of remarkably unguarded. Did he know they were being filmed. I can understand balking at $40K, he is a well paid actor and pulls down far more than that per year. But that isn't the kind of thing you throw around. Its as asinine as going out with wealthier friends and one of them starts throwing around money figures as a topic of conversation. I do fine, but I have friends that make quite a bit more than me. It's just something you don't bring up. And you could tell McHale and the guy next to him were just really wanting Ed to shut up. I loved the delayed laugh for the guy next to Ed when he seemed to finish on a joke. He probably does deserve more than 40K for 6 weeks, but I think he should have been a bit more tactful about it rather than throw out actual numbers.

Oh my god, I just watched the video without sound, and who cares about the sound, the uncomfortable shuffling is comedy gold! Holy Toledo. I'd pay McHale, Colfer and NPH $40k each just to watch them make faces.

One other thought, Ed O'Neill was in the Mamet movie "Spartan", a damn good thriller with Val Kilmer and William H. Macy, so he's already worked with Mamet before. Maybe it was a bad experience, but I can't imagine turning down a chance to work with Pacino. But I'm a fan, not a working actor so maybe it's not that big a deal to him.

AvB, I'm saying that my impression based on the_wakeful's comment:

Posted by: the_wakeful at June 14, 2011 1:43 PM

about an article on Cracked that I haven't read yet, owing to the fact that my job (UGH) is interfering with my online enjoyments, suggests that someone is proposing that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination. I find that an worthwhile proposition, since I think Cameron is the more interesting character. And isn't the movie really about his journey, since he's the one who actually figures something out, rather than Ferris, who starts the movie as a goofy, clever slacker who gets away with things and ends the movie as a goofy, clever slacker who gets away with things? If Ferris Bueller is Cameron's Tyler Durden, well, that's even MORE interesting.

I'm intrigued and would like to subscribe to that newsletter, is what I'm saying. By the time it arrives in the mail, I *might* have time to actually read it. (Split infinitive.) Sadly, I'm not clever enough to have written the newsletter.

In the time it took me to write this, I could have read the Cracked article.

Not you though, Joel McHale. You can **** my ******.

Keep your change?

The faces Joel McHale makes are the 3rd best thing about "Community". Sometimes when I'm sad, I'll watch gifs of his facial expressions until the world makes sense again.

Okay, Rob Lowe has made some stank, but he's still Rob Lowe, so give him a pass--he was just playing the set-up guy. But anybody talking the "don't they know how great I am?" game just looks like a jackass, all the more when they don't realize their own public stature. I remember hearing about some ivy league lecture Jason Alexander (George Costanza) gave where he kept going, "Don't try to be like me. I got lucky."

Yeah ... don't worry, dude.

I make less than 40 K per year. I love Modern Family but Ed O'Neil can kiss my ass. So can Rob Lowe, no matter how funny I think Parks and Rec is. I think he left West Wing because he was complaining about unfair pay there too.

You're a plumber who makes fifty bucks an hour. Somebody asks you to work for 6 weeks at five bucks an hour, because it's a really cool house and the owner is a cool dude.

What would you do?

They are EXACTLY analogous.

You work your whole life honing your skills, building a reputation and establishing a customer base. Then somebody asks you to work for the pay you made when you were a rookie. Because the boss is cool.

It's clear that most of the commenters here have no respect at all for the work actors do. We're just dancing monkeys to you.

The Mutt Well, if you can afford to pass on it, you just don't do the job.
You don't sit at a roundtable with other plumbers who could not afford to pass on something like that, who get paid the amount that insulted you and who may never be on your level of success, and complain.

Look, I get where Al is coming from. Doing the same job as big name 1 and 2 but getting paid minimum wage, is baloney. He's right. e should get paid what he's worth for his reputation and experience cause he is not a rookie. And if he can afford not to do that job, if he can command more than that and get it, fine. I'd even get why you'd wanna grouch about it to your fellow co-workers in the business and commiserate on how much that sucks.

But there was something just very....tactless and unnecessary about his story, provided the venue and the others present. And Rob Lowe chimes in with his big sense of entitlement....it's just bad press, man. And judging by all the others reaction, it's not just context or whatever, no, it really was an awkward place to go. Both he and Lowe come across as complainy insensitive a-holes. And you know what, they prob couldn't care less so.....

I've officially spent too much time thinking about this

btw i watched the other Emmy roundtable for this group and I lurve Danny DeVito. And I wanted to punch that interviewer who kept needling Cryer.

I take your point, The Mutt, but even plumbers and other private firms do things for good press that hurts their bottom lines, like giving to charities. My Little League baseball team was sponsored by an electrical contracting firm, for instance.

And "developing a customer base" is kind of rich. Do you think that people recommend to their friends Ed O'Neil shows? I have a hard time believing that. Rob Lowe, more arguably, has some popular draw, but the ratings for Parks & Rec once Rob Lowe became a regular have been wildly erratic.

McHale from 00:26-00:29 is PRICELESS.

"You're a plumber who makes fifty bucks an hour. Somebody asks you to work for 6 weeks at five bucks an hour, because it's a really cool house and the owner is a cool dude.

What would you do?"

Sorry, not analogous. $50 versus $5 is the difference between being able to support yourself and not being able to support yourself. $40K v. $100K is the difference between being wealthy and being very wealthy.

I understand there's a market for actor's skills, but Harris himself concedes that you get paid less for very high-quality, potentially riskier projects (i.e. new HBO series). In turn, you get to do interesting work AND improve your future prospects with high-end work. For your example above, if the homeowner was offering, say, $35 an hour in addition to serious publicity for your excellent plumbing skills, I think that's a little more on point.

"Saturday morning, I'm on speakerphone for a job interview..."

Why on earth would you put someone who is interviewing you for a potential job on speakerphone? Putting someone on speakerphone tacitly sends the message that you are not giving them your full attention and/or that they are not important enough to merit your full attention. You might as well make them wait while you check to see who's ringing in on call waiting.