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How many times Bender failed a class?


Mmmm... Actually, I don't know how it works in High School in the U.S., that is, if you get bad grades you have to repeat a class, but Judd Nelson was about 25-26 when he made this movie and was way too old to play a teenager. 
No surprise he could "pursue a career in the custodial arts": old students have a future as janitors. 


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The character wasn't 25. Just the actor. I'd guess he was supposed to be 18.

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Did they say he was a freshman?

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