Why My Favorite Character in "The Breakfast Club" Is Now the Janitor

My hatred for Ferris Bueller and my love for Carl the janitor

It’s difficult to pin down an exact moment when I began to dislike the characters in John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club. There was a time (there’s always a time) when I saw each of them as I wanted to see them:

John Bender, with his fingerless, leather gloves as the one I would call at midnight when the rest of my suburban world was sleeping, someone who’d …