Quote of the Day: "Hey Howard, there's your Chinaman."

On a related note, NPR's All Things Considered reviews the cultural legacy of The Donger:

"Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'" says Martin Wong.

Wong and Eric Nakamura co-founded the magazine Giant Robot, which covers Asian and Asian-American pop culture.

"If you're being called Long Duk Dong," Wong explains, "you're comic relief amongst a sea of people unlike you."

Worse, says Nakamura: "You're being portrayed as a guy who just came off a boat and who's out of control. It's like every bad stereotype possible, loaded into one character."

Nakamura and Wong say that before "The Donger" came along, they got called "Bruce Lee" at school. That wasn't so bad: At least Lee, the martial-arts star, could kick ass. Sixteen Candles stole even that limited pleasure — and Asian-American guys focused their frustration on the actor who played Long Duk Dong. After all, he was one of them: born in the U.S.A.