Regression Obsession: Ferris Bueller (the TV show)
Posted at 1:25 PM Dec 03, 2008
By Sharon SteelJennifer Aniston is fracking everywhere these days, blah-blahing about her films and her 30 Rock guest appearance and how very uncool that Jolie woman is.
The New York Times Magazine seems to be on Team Aniston, at any rate. I didn't have too many expectations from the requisite Q&A, though there was one very intriguing tidbit! Chatting away about her "sitcom graveyard," Jen referenced her role on Ferris Bueller, the television series based on John Hughes' seminal high school ditch-day film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Jen played Jeanie Bueller, Ferris's uptight sister and Jennifer Grey's pre-nose job role.
So we turned to YouTube for further evidence. And above, Jen makes her star turn in the pilot episode clip at minute 1:10 with a face FULL of eyelash curler. (Don't say we didn't warn you.) A few other things: Charlie Schlatter, who takes over for Matthew Broderick as Ferris, does eerily resemble a skimpier version of Zach Morris. But. One has to own his deadpan is pretty amazing. And speaking of Mr. Sarah Jessica Parker, right away, Schlatter takes a chainsaw to a Matthew Brodrick-as-him cardboard cutout that just so happens to be in his closet as if to say... screw you, it shoulda been me? Those writers had their meta down in 1986. Josh Schwartz must have been paying attention when he wrote the second season of The O.C.
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Personally, I much preferred the FB knock-off, "Parker Lewis Can't Lose"
WAY funnier.
Posted 12/03/2008 at 12:52:40 PMFirst off, what computer could handle those graphics in 1990? (And what were those keystrokes again?)
Second off, was that Mama Petrelli from "Heroes?"
And lastly, remember Schlatter in "18 Again?" He did a pretty good George Burns as well.
Posted 12/07/2008 at 02:37:12 PM