Jake Ryan has to be seen as one of the most quintessential characters of any school girl crush. Since the popularity of John Hugh's Sixteen Candles, the name Jake Ryan has become infamous in making girls swoon and has become associated with a dream-come- true/under-upper relationship.Jake Ryan is a popular jock whom has captured the eye of invisible Samantha Baker, the focus of Sixteen Candles. After he finds out she likes him do to a note in which she reveals she would have sex with him, he seems immediatly intrigued and not freaked out as would be expected.He's unhappy with his relationship with one of the popular girls, who is shallow and doesn't care about his feelings. So he finds himself seeking Samantha Baker, even going as far to recruit the aid of Farmer Ted , a freshmen who is also hot after Samantha.After a dismal couple of days for Samantha, with the forgetting of her birthday and being shoved to the side for her older sister's wedding, Jake seems to come to the rescue when Sam is left at the church where her sister's wedding was when she went to retrieve her sister's bouquet. It seems as if Samantha is always at the bottom of someone's list, but she's at the top of Jake's, as he picks her up in his hot red sport car just in the knick of time.She doesn't believe he's coming for her, until he mouths Yeah, you and takes her to his house for the last seen in the movie, where he has a birthday cake for her. He asks her to make a wish and she says she already got it, by having him. And then they kiss over the birthday cake sitting of the table. Show less «