https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k6u_nt0kYE Matthew Perry didn't win every on-set wager, though. While being interviewed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1997, Courtney Cox told the story of how she won a bet with Perry over eighties teen movies:
One day I was on the set, and I was sitting around, reciting this line, like, doing this imitation of Anthony Michael Hall. He has this line in a movie. The line is, Chicks cannot hold their smoke, thats what it is. And Matthew Perry walks over to me and very adamantly says, Oh, Weird Science. And I said, No, Matthew, thats, um thats The Breakfast Club. And he was 100 percent sure that it was Weird Science, and I was 100 percent sure it was The Breakfast Club.
The argument got more heated, each being certain they were correct, crew members and cast becoming involved but no one could tip the scales one way or the other. In the days before the internet was as prevalent as it was, actually finding a way to get online while on set was more problematic than youd think. Suddenly the pair realised that Breakfast Club star Judd Nelson was actually working at the Warner Bros. Television studios that day, on their fellow NBC show Suddenly Susan. They legged it over to him to find that Perry was incorrect it wasnt Weird Science after all, but a line from The Breakfast Club. How Perry, a pop culture nut who actually was a teenager when The Breakfast Club came out, forgot the provenance of the line is an utter mystery. In the interview, Cox goes on to tell Leno that the prize for winning the bet was that Perry had to become her man slave for six months, although we're pretty sure the two of them made that part up for the purposes of light entertainment. Here, have a look for yourself in the above clip: the story runs from 0.40 to 3.10 of the video.
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