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Anthony Michael Hall: 'I owe such a debt of gratitude to John Hughes' 89%
7/17/2026, 12:08:14 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Self-Serving Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 36.9% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 773 faulty-reasoning hits from 268 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.6% and a BS Rank of 89% (1,942 of 16,693 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 88.40% of the video peer group.
Listen, I've had a This is now my 51st year in the in show business.
I started when I was 7 years old. Um
you know, with every decade that's gone by, you know, I can tell you like you're never the right this or the right that.
You're too young, too this, too that.
It's so funny. So, I've been at this for a long time now, five decades, and I'm very blessed.
But those early films, it's never lost on me, you know, they were really so important.
They really hit people in the heart, and I owe so much to John Hughes.
Um but also Harold Ramis and Matty Simmons, the founder of National Lampoon.
So, like when I did Vacation as a kid, you know, that was written by John Hughes, but I never met him.
And then after that, he directed me in those three films, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Weird Science.
So, I owe such
a a debt of gratitude to John Hughes and to and to Marty Matty Simmons, rather, and uh and to Harold Ramis, you know, that started my career.
And the fact that those films have held up, I think it's a testament
to how funny they are, that they're
they're real, and they hit people in the
heart, you know. Um and they've lasted, so it's great.
I mean, I've done a hun- literally like over a hundred other things since, but
it's important to me to always acknowledge that, you know. I
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