John Hughes: 1950-2009

We’re still in shock after learning that John Hughes passed away today in Manhattan, at age 59.

Perhaps it’s because 59 seems too young, or maybe it’s more that he’s someone that has such strong ties to and influence on the teen years of so many of us, that we’re strangely without words.  We find ourselves only able to reminisce about funny scenes in films he directed or bits of dialogue that we still repeat to this day.  (We’re pulling together a group of favorite video clips from his movies and will be adding them to the upper left-hand side of our homepage any minute now.)

So we ask: what are some of your favorite John Hughes-related moments?  What are the characters, or places, or scenes that stick with you even now?