== Original research == 

 Pending better sources, I've removed the following: 

 In a 2009 screening of the film at the New Beverly Cinema in tribute to John Hughes (who had died less than a month earlier), editor Paul Hirsch told the audience that the film's original cut included a scene in which Ferris bluffs his way onto a radio talk show, where he claims to be the first teenager chosen to ride on the Space Shuttle. According to Hirsch, he was editing this very scene in January 1986 when the Challenger disaster occurred. Hughes and Hirsch agreed that the scene would then be in poor taste and was dropped from all versions of the film.Paul Hirsch, Public speaking engagement in Los Angeles, (September 2, 2009).http://www.80s.com/saveferris/essays/film.txt  

 Watching someone give a speech and then reporting on the contents of that speech is original research. Only primary sources that have been reliably published may be used on Wikipedia, and then only with great care. Someone added a very unreliable source—a 1998 essay by "Future Publising"[sic]—which mentions a supposed space shuttle scene but does not discuss the reason for its removal. Aside from the obvious unreliability of that source, it certainly doesn't support the claim about a speech in 2009, 11 years after the essay was written. If there are no reliable sources for this, it shouldn't be in the article.