7 "Breakfast Club" Phrases You Might Not Have Understood Until Now

This is one of the stranger ones of the group, but definitely one of the more intriguing. This is likely because it was not in the script—the line was improvised by Judd Nelson, who famously stayed in character almost the entire duration of the shooting of the film. Interestingly enough it might actually be the origin of the word "dweeb." 

One of the many genius Bender lines that could either be referring to one thing, or quite another—could be a wide, spacious library, could be commentary on the contents of Bender's own mind. 

This one's a little more obvious—just a very unique, Bender-ish euphemism for having sex.  

Many people think this line originated with Bart Simpson who, in his defense, DID make it famous. But it was said by one John Bender years before The Simpsons premiered!

"Wasted" was certainly a thing before The Breakfast Club, but as far as we can gather, "Wastoid" happened there first. Sort of like a combination between wasted and a factoid, or an android, or a...void? Your guess is as good as ours, but we ARE pretty sure the phrase started in this movie. 

Much like "wastoid" is a sort of alteration of "wasted" that took a common term and just put a John Hughes twist on it, "burner" is just a fun, '80s version of "burnout."

Seems pretty random, right? Apparently John Hughes was inspired by the son of a friend who referred to morning detention at his school by this very catchy phrase.