# Hey, hey, hey, hey #
# Ooh #
# Ooh-whoa #
# Won't youcome see about me #
# I'll be alonedancing, you know it, baby #
# Tell meyour troubles and doubts #
# Givin'me everythinginside and out and #
# Love's strangeSo real in the dark #
# Think of the tender thingsthat we were working on #
# Slow changemay pull us apart #
# When the light getsinto your heart, baby #
# Don't you #
# Forget about me #
# Don't, don'tdon't, don't #
# Don't you #
# Forget about me #
# Will you stand above me #
# Look my waybut never love me #
# Rain keeps fallin'Rain keeps fallin' #
# Down, down, down #
Saturday, March 24, 1984.
Shermer High School,Shermer, Illinois, 60062.
"Dear Mr. Vernon...
"We accept the fact thatwe had to
sacrifice a wholeSaturday in detention...
"for whatever it waswe did wrong.
"What we did was wrong...
"but we think you're crazy to make
uswrite an essay telling you who we are.
"What do you care?
"You see usas you want to see us...
"in the simplest terms,
with the mostconvenient definitions.
"You see us as a brain...
"an athlete, a basket case...
"a princess...
"and a criminal.
"Correct?
"That's the way we saw each otherat 7:00 this morning.
We were brainwashed. "
I can't believe
you can't get me out of this.
It's so absurd I have to
be here on a Saturday.
It's not like
I'm a defective or anything.
I'll make it up to you.
Honey, ditching class to go shopping
doesn't make you a defective.
Have a good day.
Is this the first time or last time we do this? Last.
Well, get in there and use the time
to your advantage.
Mom, we're not supposed to study.
We have to sit there and do nothing.
Well, mister, you figure out a way to study. Yeah.
Well, go.
Hey, I screwed around.
Guys screw around.
There's nothing wrong with that...
except you got caught, sport.
Yeah, Mom already reamed me.
You want to miss a match?
You want to blow your ride?
Now, no school is gonna give
a scholarship to a discipline case.
Well, well.
Here we are.
I wanna congratulate you
for being on time.
Excuse me, sir?
I think there's been a mistake.
I know it's detention but, um,
I don't think I belong in here.
It is now 7:06.
You have exactly eight hoursand fifty-four
minutes tothink about why you're here.
Ponder the errorof your ways.
You may not talk.
You will not movefrom these seats.
And you...
will not sleep.
All right, people, we're going to try
something a little different today.
We are going to write an essay...
of no less than a thousand words...
describing to me who you think you are. Is this a test?
And when I say essay,
I mean essay.
I do not mean a single word
repeated a thousand times.
- Is that clear, Mr. Bender?- Crystal.
Good. Maybe you'll learnsomething about yourself.
Maybe you'll even decide whether
or not you care to return.
Uh, I can answer
that right now, sir.
- That'd be no for me, 'cause...
- Sit down, Johnson.
Thank you, sir.
My office is right acrossthat hall.
Any monkey businessis ill-advised.
Any questions?
Yeah. I got a question.
Does Barry Manilow know
that you raid his wardrobe?
I'll give you the answer to that
question,Mr. Bender, next Saturday.
Don't mess with the bull,
young man, you'll get the horns.
That man isa brownie hound.
You keep eating your hand,
you're not going to be hungry for lunch.
I've seen you before,
you know.
Who I think I am.
Who are you?
Who are you?
I am a walrus.
It's the shits, huh?
I can't believe
this is really happening to me.
Oh, shit!
What are we supposed to do if we have to piss? Please.
If you got to go,
you got to go.
Oh, my God.
You're not urinating in here,
man. Don't talk. Don't talk.
- It makes it crawl back up.- You whip it
out, you're deadbefore the first drop hits.
You're pretty sexy
when you get angry.
Hey, homeboy, why don't yougo close that door.
We'll get the prom queen
impregnated.
Hey. Hey!
- What? - If I lose my temper, you're totalled, man.
- Totally?
-