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Where did the phrase ” Eat my shorts ” come from? “ Eat my shorts ” was said in the movie The Breakfast Club (1985). On the “Bart the Genius” episode (original airdate January 14, 1990) of the animated television sitcom The Simpsons , Bart Simpson said “ Eat my shorts !” for the first time.
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Allison Reynolds : [her first word of dialogue so far] Ha! Claire Standish : [long pause] Shut up!
Claire Standish is in detention for skipping school to go shopping. And finally, John Bender is in detention for pulling a fire alarm and fighting with the school’s teachers and students.
NEO-MAXI-ZOOM-DWEEBIE “Face it,” Bender says to Brian . “You’re a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie.” The term was apparently ad-libbed by Judd Nelson.
The film’s title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff, for detention, at New Trier High School, the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes’ friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of “The Breakfast Club “.
Phrase. eat my shorts . (idiomatic, chiefly US, vulgar) An irreverent rebuke or dismissal.
Why you little!
Charles Dickens used an extended version of the expression in The Pickwick Papers, 1837: “If I knew as little of life as that, I’d eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole.” The OED also gives an earlier form – ” I’ll eat Old Rowley’s hat “. he with his usual good humour replied, “Old Rowley himself, madam.”
Poignant, funny and thoroughly relatable, the screenplay presents a touching tale of teen angst which doesn’t seek to patronise or trivialise the teenager’s experiences and still resonates, even if you’ve long left your school days behind. There are great lines dotted throughout the movie: ‘We’re all pretty bizarre.
A sandwich of Pixie Stix and Capn’ Crunch cereal! Of course, Allison only indulges after she throws a slice of pimento loaf onto a school fixture and opens a can of fizzing Coca-Cola. Classy how she sucks the remains off the table too.
Allison Reynolds is a compulsive liar and petty thief, stating that she is in detention this Saturday because she has nothing better to do . In the social hierarchy of high school, Allison is called a ” basket case “.
Claire , along with the rest of the group covered for Bender when he stole the screw, asking Vernon why anybody would want to steal a screw and also when Vernon stormed in asking what the ruckus was, while John Bender hid under Claire’s desk and wedged his head between Claire’s legs.
The pot smoked in the film is actually oregano. Each actor took home a piece of the library’s banister as a souvenir from filming.