John Hughes Choose Your Own Adventure was a long, complex and funny show. There were two premises. One was a pastiche of Hughes’ iconic movies from the 1980s such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 16 Candles, Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, National Lampoon’s Vacation (I’ll never forget the scene in which the Griswold family gets off the highway at a very poorly chosen exit in St. Louis), Pretty In Pink and more. The other device was a riff on the Choose Your Own Adventure books popular with young people in the past. At points in the story, readers would be given a choice: would you like her/him/them to go in this or that direction, changing the path of the story. The program said there were 27 possible scenarios and 3,072 possible variations. The result was hilarious chaos.
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