Anyone who has ever seen the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” will remember that, while Matthew Broderick played the lead, the show was (almost) stolen by Ben Stein’s portrayal of a boring, monotonous, soul-sucking Economics teacher. He delivered his lines (“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”) as if he had been lobotomized, and his students sat there suffering through his droning, willing themselves to stay awake. (His lecture on the Smoot-Hawley Tarrif Act was particularly dreadful.) Who didn’t suffer? Ferris Bueller and his best buddy Cameron Frye, who had both cut school that day!
