Released 38 years ago today, here's our "leisure rules" movie tribute/music video to John Hughes' Ferris, and some men who write great songs and just happen to like flower pots.
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"Beat City"
Written and Performed by The Flowerpot Men
Courtesy of Fireball Records
Lyrics
Beat City! Now, now!
Beat, beat...
Beat City! Now, now!
Woo, ooh-ooh
Beat City! Now, now!
Beat, beat...
Beat, beat...
Beat City
I watch you tumble down
Roll into America
Roll your hands in policies
I love it when you smile
I love it when you
Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing...
Roll and show hold out your hand
Put some dollars down, you're wild
When it takes you by surprise
I'll be there to watch you
Run, run, run, run , run...
Run, run, run, run , run...
Run, run, run, run , run...
Run, run, run
Beat City!
Beat, beat...
Beat City! Now, now!
Woo, ooh-ooh
Beat City! Now, now!
Beat, beat...
Beat, beat...
Beat City
I watch you tumble down
Roll and show a classy man
Close your eyes put by his arm
To the memory I behold
Where you go
I don't know
Don't see nothing
It's so real
I really hurt, the hurt that I feel
I take you down to the heart of your fire
Beat City! Now, now!
Beat, beat...
Beat City! Now, now!
Woo, ooh-ooh
Beat City! Now, now!
Beat, beat...
Beat, beat...
Beat City
I watch you tumble down
Beat City!
Beat City!
Beat City! Now, now!
Beat, beat...
Beat, beat...
Beat City
I watch...
Beat City!
Beat, beat...
Beat City! Now, now!
Woo, ooh-ooh
Beat City! Now, now!
Beat, beat...
Beat, beat...
Beat City...
I watch you tumble down
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Written and Directed by John Hughes
Cinematography by Tak Fujimoto
Release date: June 11, 1986 (United States)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes and co-produced by Tom Jacobson. It tells the story of a high school slacker (Broderick) who skips school with his best friend (Ruck) and his girlfriend (Sara) for a day in Chicago and regularly breaks the fourth wall to explain his techniques and inner thoughts.
Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller, a popular high school senior
Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye, Ferris's best friend
Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson, Ferris's girlfriend
Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller, Ferris's sister
Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney, the Dean of Students
Cindy Pickett as Katie Bueller, Ferris's mother
Edie McClurg as Grace, the school secretary
Lyman Ward as Tom Bueller, Ferris's father
Charlie Sheen as a boy in the police station
Ben Stein as the economics teacher
Del Close as the English teacher
Virginia Capers as Florence Sparrow, the school nurse
Richard Edson as a garage attendant
Larry "Flash" Jenkins as the garage attendant's co-pilot
Kristy Swanson as an economics student
Max Perlich as an economics student
Scott Coffey as an economics student
Anne Ryan as Shermerite
Jonathan Schmock as Chez Quis Maitre'd
Louie Anderson as a flower deliveryman
Stephanie Blake as a singing nurse
Dee Dee Rescher as a bus driver who picks up Rooney during the credits
John Hughes made his final on-screen appearance in a cameo role as a man running between the cabs, but was uncredited.