Editing Ferris Bueller's Day Off (section)

====Economics lecture====
[[Ben Stein]]'s famous monotonous lecture about the [[Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act]] was not originally in Hughes's script. Stein, by happenstance, was lecturing off-camera to the amusement of the student cast. "I was just going to do it off camera, but the student extras laughed so hard when they heard my voice that (Hughes) said do it on camera, improvise, something you know a lot about. When I gave the lecture about [[supply-side economics]], I thought they were applauding. Everybody on the set applauded. I thought they were applauding because they had learned something about supply-side economics. But they were applauding because they thought I was boring. ... It was the best day of my life," Stein said.<ref name='stein-role' />