"Andrew, you've got to be number one! Brian wears a watch on his wrist. These questions are yet to be answered. Vernon sees him as a total punk, and at one point personally threatens to beat him up once Bender's graduated—real professional, Vern.Sometimes his jokes are pretty funny—like when he pretends that he's going to urinate in the library:But other times his jokes get kind of excessive and offensive and dark. Win!!" Oh, God, I f***ing hate him! After he does an imitation of what he thinks Brian's family must be like (some 1950s artificially happy TV family), he has an exchange with Andrew: He also shows Andrew a scar on his arm from where his father burned him with a cigar for spilling paint all over the floor—which is a pretty horrific form of abuse. At the end, he wears a white shirt. They're ways of dealing with or minimizing the suffering he undergoes at home.
Then, they have a little chat. But, as you're probably expecting at this point, he's not just some broad caricature of a meathead. As revealed later on, the whole reason he's in detention is because of a vicious act of bullying, performed to impress his friends and his Dad: ANDREW: […] And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. At the beginning of the movie Brian articulates the lesson he—and presumably everyone else—has learned:BRIAN (voiceover): Saturday, March 24, 1984. (It was inevitable from the beginning.) Huh? He doesn't like conflict and comes between Andrew and John when they are talking about their parents to break up their argument, saying that he doesn't like his parents either. Vernon reveals to the janitor, Carl, that he doesn't like or relate to the young people he's meant to be supervising. Ideas Important Quotes. Will he stick with Allison? Briefly, at the beginning of the movie, we see an image of Carl in a class yearbook composite picture on the wall. Later on, in his second and last appearance, he first tries to blackmail Vernon into giving him money when he catches Vernon looking at some high school kid's confidential mental health files. So, that's kind of an accomplishment. “You know, there's not supposed to be any monkey business. He faced his share of hard times in high school, and the most prominent was that he brought a flare gun to school to attempt suicide. "Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. Does that answer your question? Yet, there's also a kind of sincerity and empathy underlying them. But someday, man, someday. It's pretty tasty!") And Claire gives him one of her earrings as a keepsake token. He also hides his face in his hand when Andrew is talking about what he did to He's incredibly disappointed in himself for doing poorly in shop class.
That was marijuana! He is incredulous when Bender reveals the marijuana, but later smokes it, though not before silently asking Andrew for permission to do so. He calls Brian a "parent's wet-dream" and says he could be a wrestler like Andrew if he just had a "lobotomy and some tights." Brian Johnson is a student at Shermer High School and portrays the typical high school "nerd". (After being asked why he needs a fake ID) “To vote.” At one point, he leads everyone else into the hall to retrieve a bag of pot from his locker. The answer seems to be that she feels security in following the crowd, embracing the stereotypes about her clique. He's discovered the joys of learning, though not in an academic way: He's become Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald) is a snob. Technically, this is kind of chivalrous, but it feels like Andrew's just following what his persona demands.
Claire Even though everyone else pairs up at the end, Brian's left alone—and he has to write the essay explaining "who they think they are" for the others, while they all skip the assignment. So, this dude winds up with the short straw.