But all the talk about Breakfast Club is essentially a self-conscious effort to undermine any real comparison between the two. There’s a lot of discussion about The Breakfast Club in the pilot episode of the NBC sitcom Community, which makes sense since they have a lot in common: Both the movie and the TV show follow a group of misfits holed up in a school library, and both feature a cast of characters so unhinged they can barely function in the outside world.
