Backblast! Boiler Room – 1980s movie night in the Gloom
DATE: 2026-10-09
AO: Boiler Room
Q: Little Dinghy (Jim Amy),
PAX: Rio (Andrew DiGiovanni) Icebox (Matt Mobley) ransomware (Andrei) Little Dinghy (Jim Amy) Opie (Stan) Jay Z (Shawn Carter) Jiffy pop (Prabhu) EKG (Lee White) Tube Top (Matt Boretti) Boys 2 Men (Scott Markel) Thingamabob (Ariel) Six Pack (Matt Coombs) Ben Williams (Hazard) Dowry (Derrick Wolfe) Chet Ripley (Elton Smith) BiLo (Emil Alexander) Floppy Disk (Tom Neal) Boone’s Farm (Chris) Bobby Dall (Marc Lemire) Basic (Matt Bass) , Sell High
FNGs: None
COUNT: 21
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops in cadence, 5 good mornings, and some leg stretching
THE THANG: 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 burpees (each set of questions will be 5-25 burpees), depending on how many questions are answered correctly
Interspersed with sets of Nines
1a. What hit movie in the 1980s featured a teenager skipping school with best friend and girlfriends? FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF
1b. What city it did it take place in? CHICAGO
1c. Which actor played Ferris? MATTHEW BRODERICK
1d. What Sex and the City actress did Broderick marry in 1997? SARA JESSICA PARKER
PAX SCORE – 4 RIGHT: 5 BURPEES
Mosey to other side of church to hill
2a. Ferris was absent from school a total of how many times at the beginning of the movie? 9 TIMES
2b. What was the car that Ferris drove in the movie? 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder belonging to his friend’s dad
2c. What was the name of the painting that the sidekick looks at intently in the Art Institute? A SUNDAY ON LA GRAND JATTE, 1884 BY SEURAT
2d. What painting style is used in this classic oil painting? POINTELLISM (POST- OR NEO-IMPRESSIONISM)
PAX SCORE – 2 RIGHT: 15 BURPEES
9s – merkins/squats: 72 reps
3a. What was the first name of the hapless friend of the lead character? CAMERON
3b. What was the last name of the hapless friend of the lead character? FRYE
3c. What actor played this sidekick? ALAN RUCK
3d. From 1996-2002, name the popular TV show in which Ruck co-starred? SPIN CITY (WITH MICHAEL J FOX)
PAX SCORE – 4 RIGHT: 5 BURPEES
9s – LBCs/lunges(each leg one): 72 reps
4a. What was the name of the girlfriend of the lead character? SLOANE PETERSON
4b. What actress played that girlfriend? MIA SARA
4c. In 1985, she played Princess Lili in a fantasy movie starring Tom Cruise. Name it. LEGEND
4d. The English actor who played the character named Darkness in that movie just died in August at the age of 80. Name him. TIM CURRY
PAX SCORE – 3.5 RIGHT (COULD NOT REMEMBER MIA SARA’S LAST NAME): 8 BURPEES
9s – crabpots(each leg one)/Mike Tysons: 72 reps
5a. Who played the lead character’s sister? JENNIFER GREY
5b. What was her name in the movie? JEANIE
5c. Her next movie, in 1987, was this big hit about a girl named Baby who falls in love with dancer Johnny Castle. What was it? DIRTY DANCING
5d. Who played her father in that movie (hint, he was also in Law & Order from 1994 to 2005)? JERRY ORBACH
PAX SCORE – 4 RIGHT: 5 BURPEES
Mosey a bit
6a. Music featured heavily into this 1986 film. Name the 18-year old artist who recorded Danke Schoen, a song sung by the lead character during the parade. WAYNE NEWTON
6b. What Beatles hit was also sung by the lead character during that parade? TWIST AND SHOUT
6c. What was name of the band that recorded the song “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” for the movie? (was not the Smiths) DREAM ACADEMY
6d. What song plays at the end of the movie as a dejected Principal Ed Rooney gets into the school bus and name the group? OH YEAH BY YELLO
PAX SCORE – 3 RIGHT (COULD NOT REMEMBER WAYNE NEWTON SANG DANKE SCHOEN): 10 BURPEES
9s were (72 x 3) = 216 reps + 48 burpees = 264 reps
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Roadside cleanup 10/17, next Friday lunch at Town Hall Burger and Beer, Back-to-School tomorrow for Boyz-to-Men VQ. Farm tomorrow will be 2.0 friendly. Get Slack and please sign up to Q if you have not recently (or Little Dinghy will sign up next week again).
COT: Prayers for Tube Top’s wife Erin for breast cancer, Bi-Lo’s dad Sheldon having his prostrate removed today, EKG’s MIL cancer, friend Mark’s cancer, Globetrotter’s health, prayers fro Boones Farm’s family as his MIL passed away this morning.
