The Internet erupted into gleeful pandemonium today, over what appears to be a 10 second teaser video of Matthew Broderick playing an older Ferris Bueller.
In the video uploaded by ChuckaChucka2012, titled “Coming soon,” Bueller pulls apart his bedroom curtains and says into the camera: “How can I handle work on a day like today?”
Cue the “Oh yeah!” song featured in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and then a fade to black with the text 2.5.12, which happens to be the same day as the Super Bowl.
Uploaded today, two threads about the video short were on the front page of social news site Reddit at one point, and tech publications from Technorati to Mashable scrambled to answer the “what does it mean” question, as well as pick apart the channel. TV Guide straight up calls it a teaser for a Super Bowl ad, as does the Chicagoist.
On Reddit, Twitter and YouTube, however, the people that aren’t trying to guess what company the ad is for, are “hopeful,” “excited,” “crossing their fingers,” “praying” and “dying” for the sequel.
“2012 is going to be my favorite year ever if this turns out to be true” wrote frmendozamedrano
on YouTube.
And if it’s just an ad?
Broken hearts, to say the least.
“I wouldn’t really be compelled to buy anything with a Ferris Bueller campaign behind it” wrote hardcorr on Reddit, because it “[s]eems to go against everything he stood for.”
Others threatened bodily harm, and an “angry mob” complete with pitchforks.
