With great call out scenes interspersed with equally bad dance scenes, The Breakfast Club is the call out movie of the 80s. Taking place entirely in a high school library in front of a shitty modern art sculpture, this movie taught millions of white kids across the country how to have angst and that Emilio Estevez gets off on taping other guys’ butt cheeks together.
The scene below stands out from all other scenes in the movie as it is the only call out containing a shred of maturity (well… at least until Principal Vernon takes off his jacket… then the movie is comfortably immature again). Also, because the most effective call outs happen when the person getting called out is usually on the giving end of tongue-lashings, it feels oddly gratifying watching Bender getting put in his place considering he spends 3/4ths of the movie annoyingly instigating crap with the other characters.
And personally, I’ve always thought Principal Vernon is by far the most interesting character from The Breakfast Club (and a great movie villain overall, for that matter). Think about it. This scene isn’t about Bender being a punk—it’s about how much it sucks to be Principal Vernon. You know his line about being “well-liked” as a “swell guy” is total BS. This is a guy at the end of his rope:
How Do You Like Them Apples? 