Ferris Bueller
Famous movie skipper
Ferris Bueller is the protagonist of the 1986 film *Ferris Bueller's Day Off*, a charismatic Chicago teenager who fakes illness to skip school and have adventures.
The name has become shorthand for someone who charms their way out of responsibilities or plays hooky with style: He pulled a Ferris Bueller and disappeared for the afternoon.
- CameronScottish personal name
- SloaneLondon square name
- ChicagoMajor Illinois metropolis
- hookyUnauthorized school absence
- FerrariItalian luxury automaker
parade · twist and shout · museum · truant · Broderick · day off · eighties · principal · Rooney · twist · shout · ditching · high school · convertible · parking garage · joy ride · fourth wall · joyriding
- moviesblockbuster, film, Titanic, films, Jurassic Park
- 80sbig hair, mullets, shoulder pads, new wave, synth-pop
- 80s Movie CharactersIndiana Jones, Marty McFly, E.T., John McClane, Terminator
- 80s Pop CultureBack to the Future, E.T., Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, The Breakfast Club
- Comedy CharactersAustin Powers, Ace Ventura, The Dude, Elle Woods, Napoleon Dynamite
- Gen XGeneration X, Gen X, MTV generation, latchkey kids, slackers
Ferris Buellerteacher's pet
Favored student
goody two-shoes · Hermione Granger · hall monitor · square · conformist
Ferris BuellerGeorge Costanza
Woody Allen · neurotic · worrywart · overthinker · Charlie Brown
Ferris BuellerNapoleon Dynamite
wallflower · social outcast · pariah · nerd · geek