To break up a highly claustrophobic talkathon, John Hughes had originally written a sequence in which the school's synchronized-swimming team came by to practice with its extremely sexy P.E. teacher. The youngsters would sneak out of the library and find a peephole into the women's locker room. There, they would spy the well-endowed P.E. teacher topless. Karen Leigh Hopkins was even cast in the role. But during rehearsals in Chicago, his two young actresses, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, joined swiftly by co-producer Michelle Manning, ganged up on him saying they strongly objected to the gratuitous female nudity in the screenplay. They felt it was really sexist and misogynistic (even though Ringwald's character did the same thing by staring at a naked female classmate in the school showers in Hughes' previous film Sixteen Candles - Un compleanno da ricordare (1984)). That night Hughes revised the script where a janitor replaced the P.E. teacher. Thankfully, the male janitor wasn't naked either. Hopkins was let go since her role was no longer needed. But Hopkins, who later became a screenwriter, stated in a 2015 interview that she didn't know anything about a nude scene and she definitely never filmed one. She said she was cast as a gym teacher who gives the five kids a speech about life after high school. That scene was never filmed though because she was suddenly let go with no warning or explanation. She didn't hear about the topless scene story until many years later.

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