Don’t you, overlook about me. From Abbott Elementary to Riverdale, John Hughes‘ The Breakfast Club left a long-lasting influence on the small screen.
The 1995 cult classic focused on five teenagers from very different backgrounds who end up serving detention together at their high school. The cast of The Breakfast Club — which included Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson — quickly found success for their involvement in the iconic coming-of-age story.
Ringwald, who collaborated with Hughes on other movies corresponding to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Pretty in Pink, later explained why she didn’t think The Breakfast Club aged well since its release.
In a 2018 essay for The New Yorker, the actress recalled her initial concerns about watching the film with her daughter.
“I hadn’t expected that it would in the end be most troubling to me,” the California local, who shares kids Mathilda, Adele and Roman with husband Panio Gianopoulos, wrote in connection with scenes she found to be problematic years later. “If attitudes towards female subjugation are systemic, and I believe that they're, it stands to reason that the art we devour and sanction plays some phase in reinforcing those same attitudes.”
She persevered: “How are we supposed to feel about artwork that we both love and oppose? What if we're within the abnormal position of having helped create it? Erasing historical past is a deadly highway in the case of art—change is essential, however so, too, is remembering the previous, in all of its transgression and barbarism, in order that we might properly gauge how some distance we've come, and likewise how some distance we still want to go.”
After joining The CW’s Riverdale in 2017, Ringwald’s mythical movie was the subject on a special episode in the series’ third season. The show’s flashback episode titled “The Midnight Club” paid tribute to The Breakfast Club by having the principle actors play younger versions of their onscreen parents.
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“It’s an episode referred to as ‘The Midnight Club.’ Which is our take on kind of The Breakfast Club. Obviously the much-darker Riverdale version of that,” showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa shared at the Television Critics Association press tour in 2018. “Camila [Mendes] will likely be taking part in a tender Hermione (Marisol Nichols), Cole [Sprouse] will probably be enjoying a young FP (Skeeth Ulrich), KJ [Apa] might be loss of life his hair brown and enjoying a tender Fred Andrews (Luke Perry). And we’re going to be informed about a truly, truly darkish secret in Riverdale that the parents had been holding since they have been in highschool.”
Scroll on for more TV shows that paid homage to The Breakfast Club over the years:
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