He was the coolest, most popular, most fearless high school kid, like, ever. We’re talking about Ferris from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, of course. In playing the high school senior who manages to rally his girl, his best friend, and the whole town behind his effort to play hooky, Matthew Broderick—then 24—set the bar impossibly high for any aspiring delinquent to follow. Broderick has won acclaim and awards (including two Tonys) for movies like Glory and The Tale of Despereaux and Broadway productions like The Producers, but he’ll forever be Bueller to us.