"Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed." The Breakfast Club was one of those moves that an entire generation of teenagers was able to relate to. Part of this is because it features a group of students who were all unique but clearly defined as specific high school archetypes. The whole point of the movie is that even shallow, melodramatic high schoolers are more than just their clique stereotypes, a sentiment that is well set up by Anthony Michael Hall's introductory monologue.