Edward McNally Is Not The Real Ferris Bueller, So Please Keep Calling Him That

Gabe — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:25:09 +0000

A man named Edward McNally wrote (a letter? An op-ed? I don’t know what this is) to the Washington Post about how he is not the real life Ferris Bueller. Uh? The Washington Post, like the newspaper for actual news? OK? I guess? So it begins:

Movie director John Hughes and I grew up on the same street in our home town of Northbrook, Ill. We both graduated from Glenbrook North, the high school where he filmed scenes from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “The Breakfast Club,” where his mom worked and two sets of our sisters were classmates. Because for years I was relentlessly pursued by a remarkably humorless Glenbrook dean about attendance, pranks and off-campus excursions — and because my best friend was in fact named Buehler — I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life being unfairly accused of serving among the inspirations for Ferris Bueller.

Sure. That must have been tough. Always being unfairly accused of serving among the inspirations for a beloved and iconic movie character. Boo hoo, I’m sure. But OK, that ought to do it, you’re not one of the inspirations for Ferris Bueller. I’m glad that we cleared this up, nationally. Oh, wait, you want to spend another nine paragraphs talking about how you kind of are one of the inspirations for Ferris Bueller?

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Edward McNally Is Not The Real Ferris Bueller, So Please Keep Calling Him That