"Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. Bueller."

Arriving to class right at 3:30 is a forte of mine. However, it comes with a cost. As I was walking into class right at 3:30, I see my normal seat being taken by Mark Alar. I was thinking to myself that this guy is now at the top of my hit list. I was forced to drag a chair and sit on the side portion of the table.

This day in class we went over our reading of “Vacation ’58” by John Hughes. I never really knew who John Hughes was until I was told about some of his work in the past. One of his more famous works was “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” which is one of my favorite movies of all time. As class progressed, we were given a worksheet over the reading. This reading was one of my favorites so far, so I was prepared to kick the class’ butt on the questions. We were given some specific questions; however we were pretty much able to answer all of the questions.

After going over the questions, we then proceeded to discussing John Hughes and some of his works. We first saw clips from the original “National Lampoon’s Vacation.” The clips were pretty funny overall. After watching these clips, we proceeded to analyze some of his other works and even a couple of videos honoring him after his death. As I mentioned before, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is one of my favorite movies of all time, so when we discussed this movie, I was ready. The whole scene where the principal tries to call Bueller’s bluff about being sick, but ends up being proven wrong is hilarious. The situational humor created in this scene literally had me on the floor laughing when I first saw it. Soon after this scene, there is a part where Bueller pretends to be the father of his girlfriend in order to get her out of school. In this scene, he picks her up and right before they leave, he asks for a kiss from his girlfriend with the principal still nearby the see. Of course the principal sees this and is still confused embarrassed about the earlier situation that he just doesn’t even know what to think about this scenario.

These scenes ran through my mind throughout class as we watched videos about John Hughes and discussed some of his works and the elements that they possess. For instance, some of the scenes that are absolutely hilarious are situational humor that causes one to feel somewhat superior to the person that is experiencing an unfortunate situation. I find a lot of John Hughes humor to satisfy the conditions of superiority theory more than anything. These elements can be seen in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, the “Home Alone” movies, and even “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”

A lot of these movies that John Hughes has written have been all time favorites of mine. I never really thought about the writer or director when it came to the quality of the movie. Now I need to pay more attention to that. I might be able to find more movies now to watch on Netflix or even on HBO Go.