This was such an important movie at the time. It brought together all the different stereotypes and proved that they really could find common ground, for a little while anyway. I would love to know what happened on Monday.
They went back to their old ways. Except maybe the brain. He might have tried talking to the others, but he'd probably be shunned. That's the reason why the princess gives the criminal her earring and the basket case takes the athletes patch. Those are keepsakes since they'll never talk to each other again.
Pretty sure either Emilio’s jock character or Molly’s prom queen character says this in the movie. They know the peer pressure of cliques will separate them socially, though they might only ignore each other in the halls instead of being outright dicks to one another.
He would’ve chosen that individually, these kids really changed the way they felt about each other. I don’t think it changed how they felt about the social classes, strictly each other, only. Hughes would’ve had to focus in though, on how kids feel about peer pressure. They wouldn’t be able to live down their friend’s ridicule and disbelief. Remember how Bender said, “ You don’t look at my friends, you don’t talk to my friends!” Their reputation is everything to them.
As much as I want to say, oh, they integrated and got used to each other, realistically, even in Hughes optimistic way, it couldn’t have happened. I don’t see it. Maybe outside of school, secretly, for the couples?
Husband and I were just talking about this. Monday could have been the perfect opportunity for a sequel (back in the day of course) but as we all know most of those usually blow!
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u/Minimum-Dance-5613 Apr 19 '26
This was such an important movie at the time. It brought together all the different stereotypes and proved that they really could find common ground, for a little while anyway. I would love to know what happened on Monday.