John Hughes didn’t direct highbrow films. Most of his stuff was a deft mixture of light and heavy, funny and poignant, young and old. We don’t have a ton of things to say about his untimely death yesterday from a heart attack at the age of 59. But yesterday was, indeed, a very sad day for a lot of movie fans. His influence was probably underrated, and the fact that he died from a natural event (instead of an accident or some other such thing) is fairly startling to the people who enjoyed his films the most — an age group we would have to guess falls roughly between 28 and 52. As a morning tribute, we offer remember John Hughes the best way we know how: with a special edition of Hughes movie-only quotes. These can be movies he wrote or directed (both in some cases). They were all made within a decade of each other, which is even more remarkable Here we go:

1. Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.
2. Those aren’t pillows!
3. Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
4. You know, there’s going to be sex, drugs, rock-n-roll … chips, dips, chains, whips … You know, your basic high school orgy type of thing.
5. So it’s sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?
6. I gotta sleep under some Chinaman named after a duck’s dork.
7. I understand that you little guys start out with your woobies and you think they’re great… and they are, they are terrific. But pretty soon, a woobie isn’t enough. You’re out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, or maybe a quilt. And the next thing you know, you’re strung out on bedspreads Ken. That’s serious.
8. This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I’m living alone.
9. Oh, the silent majesty of a winter’s morn … the clean, cool chill of the holiday air … a [redacted] in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer.
10. His name is Blane? Oh! That’s a major appliance, that’s not a name!

Up next: The RBBH’s epic COW post, followed by Stu’s Hunt Down. It’s a good Friday.

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