Austinist Giveaway: Master Pancake Does The Breakfast Club

We're all friends here, right? So let's just admit to each other, right now, that we all love John Hughes' movies. Just let it out--there's no judgment here.

Hughes wrote some of the best all-around comedies of the 1980s, from National Lampoon's Vacation to Planes, Trains & Automobiles. But we can probably all agree that his best work was done directing a select few teen comedies. Sixteen Candles? We love it. Weird Science? We love it. Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Come on... of course we love it.

But the ultimate example of the Hughes formula (hip, quirky comedies focusing on teen characters painted in such broad strokes that writing them probably required a roller instead of a pen) is his 1985 masterpiece The Breakfast Club. Sure, it's awful and overly dramatic and patently absurd--but so is being a teenager. And that's why The Breakfast Club has come to mean so much to so many of us Reagan-era kids.

But besides the fact that The Breakfast Club is awesome, it's also not very good. We mean... come on. If you're not laughing at the silly premise, the overwrought dialogue and the downright awful acting, then you're in an advanced state of embarrassed denial. So we personally can't wait to see the folks at Master Pancake Theatre give this movie the thorough mocking it deserves this month, and we'd like you to come see it with us. Tonight.

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Master Pancake Theater does The Breakfast Club
Fridays in June
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
7pm, 9:45pm
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