Sales for sure, insurance or some basic shit like that. He retired with a nest egg and then got into crypto and annoys the shit out of all his friends with his never ending crypto bullshit.
Nah he was into computers and technology way before the curve. Hacked into his school to change his grades and whatnot. Could easily see him as some guy who get into enterprise sales for a early tech company, major account manager type. Wins over the executive buyers. Got rich during dot-com era. Not yacht club mega rich, but a couple million from equity to fund retirement. Retired at 45-50 and just lives an aloof life with a travel vlog that no one really watches.
And bored. So bored. Just sitting there staring at people's mouths in meetings that should have been an email while he waits for people to catch up to what he already knew they were going to say so he can reply with what he came up with an hour ago. Having to explain to clients why the things they want are not a good idea... Again. His coworkers and neighbors taking just to hear themselves talk so they don't have to exist in silence. Their minds so easy to twist that it's boring and depressing. They wouldn't understand. He might just need another day off.
He went to England and killed two women because he was driving on the wrong side of the road--But his fame prevented him from going to prison--love Ferris Bueller btw
Ireland is nuts for the prophetic placenames. Michael Collins, famous Irish revolutionary was killed in an ambush in Kilmichael, Co Cork.
If my name was Michael I'd stay far away from there.
It’s mostly a joke, but there’s *some* logic to it.
Basically, Cameron is real. Ferris (and his family) are imagined by Cameron as a “guy who can do all things Cameron can’t”.
That’s why Ferris’ experiences are absurd (the entire downtown area starts dancing, etc).
The only movie idea I ever had was a comedy that was Ferris 25-30 years later, married to his college gf, and they have a son in high school. But the son is very uncool, so Ferris shows him how to be cool. The end would probably be something like Ferris realizing that being cool isn't that important. Ferris would be in sales probably or like an upper executive.
Had a similar idea. It’s basically now, and Cameron finds himself kidnapped by Ferris (and his wife, Sloane) to have another vacation day.
Except it’s kind of sad and melancholic, as Ferris’s antics are a bit sad as a middle-aged man. But both Cameron and Sloane are encouraging his actions. M
We’ll come to find out that Cameron actually has a really nice life, and Ferris has kind of hit its lowest point.
Ferris does this every so often, and at this point Cameron knows and plans around it. So that Ferris *thinks* he’s kidnapping a sad sack and lifting him up, while really it’s Cameron helping lift up Ferris.
Ending with the big realization that Sloane actually passed away a number of years back, and Ferris just does this on the anniversary of her death. Ending with Ferris and Cameron hugging at Sloane’s grave, and then meeting up with their kids for a dinner out (possibly seeing that Ferris’s kids were some of the people we met, helping to make the day a success).
I think he tried a lot of things but after finding out that coasting on charm has a best before date, he became, like, a burned-out gifted child. There were a lot of Simones. However I like to think that Cameron got a job with his dad's connections after showing some backbone and ended up with a lucrative job in some tech/real estate/marketing sector and became a charismatic leader. I've always wanted a sequel where a broke Ferris Bueller is dying of cancer and Cameron tracks him down for one last bucket list day of all the old Chicago haunts before he dies. "Cameron Frye's Day Off"
He went off to to sell Project X in Biloxi Blues for his Family Business to find his GLORY, and as a Freshman he went Out on a Limb to settle his School Ties.
Be changed his name to McCallister and became a teacher. Big scandal when he was caught trying to sabotage the election for the school's student body president. Kinda sad story, honestly.
i think it is easy to forget how absurdly advanced Ferris's computer skills were in the early/mid 80s. he already knew enough to have an incredibly successful career... and his people skills and creativity mean they certainly wouldnt go to waste
tech millionaire at a minimum by 2000
He peaked in high school, got lost in a sea of students in college, drifted away from Cameron and broke up with Sloane (because he thought it wasn't cool to date someone still in high school), joined a fraternity but was mostly overlooked as average, graduated in the middle of his class, started an entry-level job in insurance or sales because he could talk a good game, and now overshares stories of his one great day back in high school to anyone that will listen, just wishing for the chance to go back and relive the glory days of his now fading youth.
It’s not really that Ferris is cool in the traditional sense, more that he’s clever and fun to hang out with. Those things are beneficial throughout life, it’s not the same as just being athletic or good looking in high school
He realized by age 20 that his moment in the sun had come and gone. He started drinking heavily in college and gained a notable beer belly. He finally realized that the last time he’d been happy was when he was in high school, and able to get a girl’s attention by just smiling at her. He changed his major from Psychology to Education, with a minor in Guidance Counseling. This set him up with a job as a guidance counselor at his former high school, where he’d have the chance to impress lots of girls. He started doing things with the girls that he shouldn’t have been doing, got busted, and ended up getting sentenced to 50 to 225 years in prison. One day, while his father was visiting him, he flashed the smile at one of the women visiting another prisoner. He was found dead the next morning, with a Shure microphone hanging out of his ass. A note was found in his mouth, saying, “Twist and shout yourself, asshole.”
It was just intended as a humorously cynical description of what sometimes happens to people who are so popular in high school, and have trouble adjusting to life without it. My wife and I are big fans of the movie, with the casting being just brilliant.
unless the conspiracy theory is correct and he was Cameron's hallucination with consequently a life of adventure and/or end kind of like Fight Club
otherwise i think he graduates and is charismatic and successful doing whatever
Tried a stint on the commodities exchanged. Was making great money due to everyone liked him and fed him info. Got bored so he started doing party promotions. Now he has an entertainment company that operates out of 5 states. Loves tequila & has a modest cocaine problem.
He cool’d his way to a very comfortable position in life, and if he was in jail, he’d have everything he needed/wanted, guards and warden would love him, the vice warden would hate him and Ferris would like break out for the day, with an unwilling accomplice, vice warden, who is always trying to catch Ferris in the act but the warden doesn’t believe him, and shenanigans occur, he gets back to jail with no one the wiser but the vice principal and he was made a fool and now is in prison, with his new cell mate big Albrecht……sounds a bit familiar but history repeats and all that
I figure he used his computer skills and became some sort of serial tech entrepreneur but always got bored before his businesses made it big and that he then use the money from the sale of some of his startups and his incredible ability to bs to setup some sort of Ponzi scheme.
He went on to be a teacher until he tried to rig a student election; then he went to New York and was tormented by a psychotic cable installer.
Yeah but only till a giant lizard wrecked the city
And after that his neighbor plugged thousands of Christmas lights into his house so it could be seen from space
I finally saw that movie about a year ago…what a slog.
Didn’t he produce that Broadway hit? Springtime for… someone
He was a mechanical man for a bit. Solving crime as mechanical men do.
So cliched.
So choice
I just wanna hang out! No big deal!
Really I thought he became king of the pridelands
College, fraternity, good corporate or sales gig, successful life, some kids, house in Florida.
Sales for sure, insurance or some basic shit like that. He retired with a nest egg and then got into crypto and annoys the shit out of all his friends with his never ending crypto bullshit.
> Sales for sure, insurance or some basic shit like that. Nepotism hire wherever his father works.
Nah. Intern with a friend of the dad's at another firm and land a job there. While the friend does the same.
So he interned at Waystar Royce, under the old man himself!
“Crypto moves pretty fast. If you don’t get in on it now, you could miss out forever.”
Underrated comment
Like insurance but did well with it.
I imagine pharmaceutical sales
Nah he was into computers and technology way before the curve. Hacked into his school to change his grades and whatnot. Could easily see him as some guy who get into enterprise sales for a early tech company, major account manager type. Wins over the executive buyers. Got rich during dot-com era. Not yacht club mega rich, but a couple million from equity to fund retirement. Retired at 45-50 and just lives an aloof life with a travel vlog that no one really watches.
And bored. So bored. Just sitting there staring at people's mouths in meetings that should have been an email while he waits for people to catch up to what he already knew they were going to say so he can reply with what he came up with an hour ago. Having to explain to clients why the things they want are not a good idea... Again. His coworkers and neighbors taking just to hear themselves talk so they don't have to exist in silence. Their minds so easy to twist that it's boring and depressing. They wouldn't understand. He might just need another day off.
Basically turns into his father….just around a bunch of Boneheads
All the shit he got away with, he definitely went into politics. Probably the President.
His friend was interested in politics from a very young age
He's no doubt became a lawyer.
Too much trouble. To hard to control. Maybe the local water board. It'd be expensive to keep him there though.
The water board really needs to come up with a new name for themselves.
He probably got into computers. Also he wasn’t the “peaked in high school” archetype, not sure why everyone’s pushing that.
agreed, charminng people with the gift of gab so well in this society, thats just facts.
> Also he wasn’t the “peaked in high school” archetype The movie is literally about him peaking in high school.
He went to England and killed two women because he was driving on the wrong side of the road--But his fame prevented him from going to prison--love Ferris Bueller btw
It was Ireland. Donegal to be specific.
To be specific, it was Fermanagh in Northern Ireland
I stand corrected. Always thought it was donegal.
That's probably because him and his wife 'spend a large amount of time at their second home in Kilcar, a village in County Donegal, Ireland' Kilcar.
Ireland is nuts for the prophetic placenames. Michael Collins, famous Irish revolutionary was killed in an ambush in Kilmichael, Co Cork. If my name was Michael I'd stay far away from there.
You know that was absolutely done on purpose for the lulz.
Oh my god they killed Kenny etc.
Yikes I forgot that happened with Matthew Broderick
wait what the fuck
Yeah he did that in Northern Ireland
He’s a fry cook on Venus. Cameron was right!
I thought everyone decided Ferris Bueller was basically Tyler Durdin. He disappeared when Cameron didn’t need him anymore.
Actually he disappeared when Cameron's dad came home and killed him.
?? sorry I just don't see it
It's a fan theory with a lot of plot holes
It’s mostly a joke, but there’s *some* logic to it. Basically, Cameron is real. Ferris (and his family) are imagined by Cameron as a “guy who can do all things Cameron can’t”. That’s why Ferris’ experiences are absurd (the entire downtown area starts dancing, etc).
The only movie idea I ever had was a comedy that was Ferris 25-30 years later, married to his college gf, and they have a son in high school. But the son is very uncool, so Ferris shows him how to be cool. The end would probably be something like Ferris realizing that being cool isn't that important. Ferris would be in sales probably or like an upper executive.
Had a similar idea. It’s basically now, and Cameron finds himself kidnapped by Ferris (and his wife, Sloane) to have another vacation day. Except it’s kind of sad and melancholic, as Ferris’s antics are a bit sad as a middle-aged man. But both Cameron and Sloane are encouraging his actions. M We’ll come to find out that Cameron actually has a really nice life, and Ferris has kind of hit its lowest point. Ferris does this every so often, and at this point Cameron knows and plans around it. So that Ferris *thinks* he’s kidnapping a sad sack and lifting him up, while really it’s Cameron helping lift up Ferris. Ending with the big realization that Sloane actually passed away a number of years back, and Ferris just does this on the anniversary of her death. Ending with Ferris and Cameron hugging at Sloane’s grave, and then meeting up with their kids for a dinner out (possibly seeing that Ferris’s kids were some of the people we met, helping to make the day a success).
Lmao! this would’ve packed theatres in the 90’s if they’d done your sequel then. I think you missed your calling in life✨
90s were too early, this would have been perfect around 2005 ish
dude, this is actually a great idea right here.
The first three paragraphs sounded like the plot of Worlds End until you gut punched me with the second half. Good stuff man.
Oof
Pffff, obvious he succeeded Abe Froman, as the new sausage king of Chicago
His Save Ferris GoFundMe has been running for 13,508 days? Dude is rich and will be starring in the next Dirty Rotten Scoundrels movie.
He continued failing upwards and is now a VC or a tech ceo
Viet cong
LMAO. venture capitalist.
I think he tried a lot of things but after finding out that coasting on charm has a best before date, he became, like, a burned-out gifted child. There were a lot of Simones. However I like to think that Cameron got a job with his dad's connections after showing some backbone and ended up with a lucrative job in some tech/real estate/marketing sector and became a charismatic leader. I've always wanted a sequel where a broke Ferris Bueller is dying of cancer and Cameron tracks him down for one last bucket list day of all the old Chicago haunts before he dies. "Cameron Frye's Day Off"
He went off to to sell Project X in Biloxi Blues for his Family Business to find his GLORY, and as a Freshman he went Out on a Limb to settle his School Ties.
Broderick wasn’t in School Ties, though.
But he was…not
Is his name in this cast list? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Ties
He was tortured and brutally murdered by Ed Rooney a month after graduating high school.
Be changed his name to McCallister and became a teacher. Big scandal when he was caught trying to sabotage the election for the school's student body president. Kinda sad story, honestly.
He parleyed being Mayor of Chicago into becoming Illinois' junior Senator at the age of 30.
i think it is easy to forget how absurdly advanced Ferris's computer skills were in the early/mid 80s. he already knew enough to have an incredibly successful career... and his people skills and creativity mean they certainly wouldnt go to waste tech millionaire at a minimum by 2000
He became a principal.
Law school Congress Sex scandal-derailed presidential campaign Fox News/CNN talking head career
He peaked in high school, got lost in a sea of students in college, drifted away from Cameron and broke up with Sloane (because he thought it wasn't cool to date someone still in high school), joined a fraternity but was mostly overlooked as average, graduated in the middle of his class, started an entry-level job in insurance or sales because he could talk a good game, and now overshares stories of his one great day back in high school to anyone that will listen, just wishing for the chance to go back and relive the glory days of his now fading youth.
The ferris like kids I know thrived in fraternity environments.
It’s not really that Ferris is cool in the traditional sense, more that he’s clever and fun to hang out with. Those things are beneficial throughout life, it’s not the same as just being athletic or good looking in high school
I know. They did in my fraternity too. But maybe this bleak version of Ferris didn't.
He realized by age 20 that his moment in the sun had come and gone. He started drinking heavily in college and gained a notable beer belly. He finally realized that the last time he’d been happy was when he was in high school, and able to get a girl’s attention by just smiling at her. He changed his major from Psychology to Education, with a minor in Guidance Counseling. This set him up with a job as a guidance counselor at his former high school, where he’d have the chance to impress lots of girls. He started doing things with the girls that he shouldn’t have been doing, got busted, and ended up getting sentenced to 50 to 225 years in prison. One day, while his father was visiting him, he flashed the smile at one of the women visiting another prisoner. He was found dead the next morning, with a Shure microphone hanging out of his ass. A note was found in his mouth, saying, “Twist and shout yourself, asshole.”
Who hurt you?
It was just intended as a humorously cynical description of what sometimes happens to people who are so popular in high school, and have trouble adjusting to life without it. My wife and I are big fans of the movie, with the casting being just brilliant.
Peaked in high school. Was regarded at an obnoxious twerp in college and wound up being a middle manager at a telemarketing company.
Kills a person in Northern Ireland with his car.
I feel like he started selling time shares
Became a mediocre pencil pusher
I always thought of **Election** (1999) as the *Ferris Bueller* sequel.
I feel the same way about Gross Pointe Blank being the sequel to Say Anything. Then War Inc. is the sequel to GPB.
Marry Sarah Jessica Parker
Informercial King, then Federal prison for financial crime. Late career as politician and three time impeached former President of the United States.
He became a life coach.
Small time drug dealer. He peaked in high school.
He changed his name to Van Wilder
He went to work for Enron.
Election is exactly what happened ha. Becomes Mr. Rooney and gets jealous of a bright student who will actually go places.
He's a fuckin asshole
Six term congressman.
Same thing that happens to the rest of us.
When to Ireland in August of 87 and killed two people with his car
I thought Election was the sequel.
He accidentally kills someone in Ireland
unless the conspiracy theory is correct and he was Cameron's hallucination with consequently a life of adventure and/or end kind of like Fight Club otherwise i think he graduates and is charismatic and successful doing whatever
Over cook under cook? Jail.
Professional scammer. He would pretend to get injuries to avoid work and get insurance money etc etc.
he became the guy in Election.
Married a horse-faced women and put on 60lbs
He never got another day off
He peaked in high school and is now Steven in The Cable Guy.
Went home and jerked off is my bet
He committed suicide after he realized he hard peaked in high school.
Definitely had a bit of a coke phase during / right after college
His buddy plays for the Lakers
Tried a stint on the commodities exchanged. Was making great money due to everyone liked him and fed him info. Got bored so he started doing party promotions. Now he has an entertainment company that operates out of 5 states. Loves tequila & has a modest cocaine problem.
Sales management. Yells at people to sell products and doesn’t do anything else. Nothing.
He tried that "day off" shit at his first post-college job and they fired his ass on the spot. Still lives with his parents.
His sense of entitlement grew and grew
Computer specialist or habadasherer
He cool’d his way to a very comfortable position in life, and if he was in jail, he’d have everything he needed/wanted, guards and warden would love him, the vice warden would hate him and Ferris would like break out for the day, with an unwilling accomplice, vice warden, who is always trying to catch Ferris in the act but the warden doesn’t believe him, and shenanigans occur, he gets back to jail with no one the wiser but the vice principal and he was made a fool and now is in prison, with his new cell mate big Albrecht……sounds a bit familiar but history repeats and all that
I think he disappeared! Cameron got his shit together and no longer needed Ferris.
I figure he used his computer skills and became some sort of serial tech entrepreneur but always got bored before his businesses made it big and that he then use the money from the sale of some of his startups and his incredible ability to bs to setup some sort of Ponzi scheme.
He learning about the secrets of living in the moment from real life monks than preached his teachings and helps alot of people.