Names, Slightly Unusual

• Sixteen Candles -- Bryce, Weese (Cliff)
• Pretty in Pink -- Andie, Duckie (nickname), Blaine -- "Blaine?! His name is Blaine? That's a major appliance! That's not a name!"
• Weird Science -- Wyatt, Chet
• Some Kind of Wonderful -- Characters named after the Rolling Stones: Amanda Jones, Keith (as in Richards) and Watts (the drummer).
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Ferris, Cameron, Sloane
• The Great Outdoors -- Buck
• Uncle Buck -- Buck (again!), Miles, Maisy, Bug -- "What's his last name, Spray? Heh-heh." "You, should talk, BUCK."
• Home Alone -- Fuller
• Dutch -- Dutch, Doyle
• Curly Sue -- Curly Sue
• Reach the Rock -- Robin, Lise

New Trier High School (filming location)

• Sixteen Candles
• Weird Science -- I swear they use the exact same shot of the school in SC and WS.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Uncle Buck - Tia's school

Newborn, Ira (score composer)

• Sixteen Candles
• Weird Science
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles
• Uncle Buck

  Interview in Film Score Monthly

Numbering, Irregular

• National Lampoon's Vacation -- Clark Griswold
• Sixteen Candles -- "A: Don't hit me. Secondly: What kind of proof do you want?" (Farmer Ted)
• Home Alone -- Buzz, Kevin's Brother
  

  For some of the above I don't know what the exact quotes are, but you probably know what I'm talking about: "A, I did this....2, I did that....and D...."

Oingo Boingo

• Sixteen Candles -- "Wild Sex (In the Working Class)" is on the soundtrack.
• Weird Science -- performed title song
• Home Alone 3 -- "Home Again"
• Flubber -- Danny Elfman (lead singer of OB) scored the film

Parents Portrayed Negatively (or Just Stupid)

• Sixteen Candles -- They forgot Sam's birthday.
• Pretty in Pink -- Doesn't have a job or want to look for one (though he tries his best in raising Andie, and is quite understanding).
• Some Kind of Wonderful -- Keith isn't able to make his own decision of what to do after high school, under the powers of his father.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- They fall for Ferris's act, hook line and sinker.
• Home Alone 1, 2, & 3 -- How many times can you forget your own kid?

Parties, Wild Teen

• Sixteen Candles
• Weird Science
• Pretty in Pink
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• Uncle Buck

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

• Pretty in Pink -- This song, recorded by the Smiths, is on the soundtrack.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- The same song was performed as an instrumental by Dream Academy when Ferris, Cameron and Sloane visit the museum.

  See also Dream Academy

Plowright, Joan

• Dennis the Menace -- Martha Wilson
• 101 Dalmations -- Nanny

Prosky, Robert

• Great Outdoors -- Wally
• Miracle on 34th Street -- Judge Harper