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Kansas

  • National Lampoon's Vacation (all of them) -- The dreaded relatives are from here.
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- Neal and Del get stranded in this state.

Kapelos, John

  • Sixteen Candles -- Rudy, "The Oily Variety Bo-Hunk"
  • The Breakfast Club -- Carl
  • Weird Science -- Dino

Keaton, Michael

  • Mr. Mom -- Jack Butler
  • She's Having a Baby -- uncredited

Koteas, Elias

  • Some Kind of Wonderful -- Duncan
  • She's Having a Baby -- uncredited

Lennon, John (see Walrus / The Beatles / John Lennon)

Licence Plates, Interesting/Personalized

  • National Lampoon's Vacation -- LUV ME (Christie Brinkley's car)
  • Sixteen Candles -- NYSE (Jake's Dad's Rolls Royce), John Hughes' birthdate - 21850 (Jake's car), V 58 (Sam's Dad's car -- this code comes from "Vacation 58," Hughes' short story that inspired National Lampoon's Vacation)
  • The Breakfast Club -- EMC2 as in E=MC squared (Brian's family's car); OHIOST (Andrew's dad's truck) WOLF Plate
  • Weird Science -- LISA, GARY, WYATT (various cars)
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- NRVOUS (Cameron's father's Ferrari).....The plates on the cars of Ferris' family all refer to former Hughes films: Mom Katie = VCATION (National Lampoon's Vacation), Dad Tom = MMOM (Mr. Mom), Sister Jeanie = TBC (The Breakfast Club). There's also Pricipal Rooney = 4FBDO (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- WOLF (Doobby's Taxiola)
  • She's Having A Baby -- SHAB, an acronym of the movie's title (the BMW)
  • The Great Outdoors -- ROMAN 1 (Roman's car)
  • National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation -- MAMA (Christie Brinkley's car)

Lepers

  • Sixteen Candles -- Jake (talking about Sam): "She looked at me like I was a leper."
  • The Breakfast Club -- Bender: "I don't know any lepers either, but I'm not about to run out and join one of their f***in' clubs."

Lloyd, Christopher

  • Mr. Mom -- Larry
  • Dennis the Menace -- Switchblade Sam

Manning, Michelle (Co-Producer)

  • Sixteen Candles
  • The Breakfast Club

    She later directed Alley Sheedy and Judd Nelson in the 1986 film Blue City.

McClurg, Edie

  • Mr. Mom -- Grocery Store Check-out Lady
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Grace Sound Clip
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- Car Rental Agent
  • She's Having a Baby -- Lynn
  • Curly Sue -- Secretary
  • Flubber -- Martha George
Haviland Morris and Anthony Michael Hall

Morris, Haviland

  • Sixteen Candles -- Caroline Sound Clip
  • Home Alone 3 -- Alex's Mother

Mortuaries / Bodies

  • National Lampoon's Vacation -- Clark leaves Aunt Edna's body outside her son's house in the rain.
  • Weird Science -- Chet: "You two donkeyd**ks couldn't get laid in a morgue." Sound Clip
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Ferris fools Mr. Rooney into calling a fake mortuary. Sound Clip
  • Home Alone -- Gus Polinski tells Kevin's mother about the time he accidentally left his son behind at a funeral parlor. Sound Clip
  • Only the Lonely -- Theresa works as a make-up artist in her father's funeral home; Danny and Sal lower a body from a building with a fire hose.

Movies in Other Movies

  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles features a clip from She's Having a Baby.
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation has a clip from Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Mural

  • Pretty in Pink features Duckie sitting alone in the rain in front of a mural.
  • Some Kind of Wonderful shows the same mural, when Watts is leaving the garage where Keith works after the kissing scene.

  • See also Art / Museums