Wayne's World – A Time Capsule of 90s Comedy

In this episode of Almost Classic Movies, we dive into the iconic 90s comedy Wayne's World. Join us as we break down the movie's most memorable moments, its cultural impact, and why it remains a beloved staple for fans of 90s pop culture. 

From its legendary Bohemian Rhapsody scene to the countless one-liners and fourth-wall breaks, we explore how Wayne's World pushed the boundaries of comedy and left a lasting impression on cinema. 

Whether you're a long-time fan or a newcomer to the world of Wayne and Garth, this episode is filled with laughs, insights, and a deep appreciation for one of the most 90s movies ever made.

Key Moments:

• The 90s Comedy Influence: We explore the impact of Wayne's World on 90s culture, including its use of fourth-wall breaks and references to iconic films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
• Cast Surprises: Discussion about surprising cast appearances like Rob Lowe, Chris Farley, and Ed O’Neill, and how their roles contributed to the movie’s humor.
• Bohemian Rhapsody Scene: A deep dive into the legendary Bohemian Rhapsody scene, including behind-the-scenes trivia about how the scene almost didn’t make it into the film.
• Garth’s Character Evolution: We talk about Garth’s quiet intelligence, his funny yet awkward moments, and why his character is crucial to the movie’s plot.
• Product Placement Gags: A discussion on Wayne's World's tongue-in-cheek take on product placement, featuring Pepsi, Pizza Hut, and Doritos.
• Chris Farley’s Hilarious Cameo: We break down Chris Farley’s unforgettable scene where he provides “extraneous plot information” in classic Farley fashion.
• Smart Humor & Sketch Structure: How Wayne's World manages to weave together multiple comedic sketches with a consistent plotline, making it more than just an SNL movie.
• The Multiple Endings: We talk about the film’s three different endings and how they add a unique twist, reminiscent of Clue.
• Fun Facts & Trivia: From Dana Carvey’s real drum skills to the movie’s influence on Queen’s resurgence, we share fun behind-the-scenes tidbits you may not know.

Wayne's World isn’t just a movie, it’s a cultural time capsule that captures the essence of the 90s. We rate it as a solid 8/10 for its comedic brilliance, smart use of sketches, and how it influenced a generation. 

For anyone looking to revisit or discover this classic, it’s a must-watch for any fan of comedy.

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Transcript

You need to show her whose world she's in. This is Wayne's world.

Welcome to an episode of Almost Classic Movies. Almost as classic as your mom. Not. Today we are talking about, uh, Wayne's world in the spirit of Saturday Night. Is that the name of the movie? Uh, yeah, it's just called Saturday Night. Yeah. Just Saturday night. Yeah. So we're doing this, uh, episode in particular for the celebration of the movie Saturday night that's coming out.

What day? Comes out October 11th. Oh, cool. So, yeah. At the time of this recording, that should be coming out like the Friday after it's released ish. Yeah. Um, but we thought we would do Wayne's world, uh, one because it's one of my favorite, uh, 90s movies, not one of my [00:01:00] favorites. It's a favorite 90s movies of mine.

And also you have not, I have not seen this movie. This is, this was my first viewing of Wayne's world. Welcome. Yeah. What'd you think of it on the whole? I, I laughed a lot. Good. I felt bad for Garth all the time. Oh yeah. Um, and I have a new appreciation for 90s comedies coming out of this. 100%. Yeah, I totally agree good good good.

No for sure. I mean, there's some like quintessential Like 90s comedy movies that are not even like comedies But just like 90s movies out there that are like these in a very influential like period of time Mm hmm. These movies are like pretty important I would think like some of these are like kind of in the 80s, but it's like early 90s late 80s ish as well But it's like any John Hughes movies.

Oh, yeah Um Like Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of those, which I would love to [00:02:00] do someday. Uh, Home Alone. Yeah. It's a huge one. And, yeah, there's a couple of other ones out there, too, but like Wayne's World is pretty important, I would say, um, for how, like, referencing it is, how, like, fourth wall breaking it is.

Yeah. Um, and that's not to say there isn't, like, movies out there prior to that, like, broke the fourth wall. Because, like, Bueller did it first, because I think, did Bueller come out before Wayne's World? That's a good question, actually. It wasn't Ferris Bueller, like a late 80s movie. So Wayne's World is 92.

I can't remember if. Yeah, fairly. Ferris Bueller's might be like 88. Oh, I'm trying to remember now. But anyways, like, yeah, that's true. Also, like Fresh Prince of Bel Air on television, like broke the fourth wall as well. But that was like it's all part of the same time. It's just like, you know, in that era, it was like there was an awakening of [00:03:00] like, wait, there's more than just.

these walls and this sound stage that I can like. Like I can actually directly talk to the audience. Yes. Like how Garth took talk to the audience anytime he was talking with Rob Lowe's character. So um, yeah, that's. Which I did not know Rob Lowe was in this movie. And so like, when like the opening scenes like Rob Lowe, I'm like, oh my god.

Wait, Rob. I literally wrote that down. Like, wait, Rob Lowe's in this movie. Yeah. I mean, there's also too, like, uh, not even just Rob Lowe. Also that was like in his not, uh, in kind of like his pseudo, like he wasn't a villain pre Parks and Rec, but like he played kind of like one of those kinds of characters pretty frequently.

Uh, but there's also Brian Doyle Murray. Do you know that name? That name sounds familiar. So he was in Caddyshack, Dennis the Menace, National Lampoon's Vacation. Yes. Uh, there's Charles Noland, who's like pretty big for, uh, the [00:04:00] West Wing. He's also in Bubble Boy, Little Rascals, and It's the one with Will Ferrell, Old School.

Yeah, yeah, Old School. Uh, Ed O'Neill, Married With Children, Modern Family. Those are the two huge ones. Yes, Al Bundy. And, uh, Mike Haggerty, who's Kind of pretty like I don't want to say super synonymous with like Mike Myers But he one of his bigger ones is that he wasn't like Austin Powers Okay, he also did Seinfeld Dick Tracy friends and inspector gadget the one with Matthew Broderick speaking of Ferris Bueller came out in 86.

So they they were breaking fourth wall in the 80s Well, that's kind of also too, though, like, um, part of Wayne's world is that it's all about referencing everything. Yeah. I mean, that's not, like, the point of the movie, but, like, that's what they, like, do, you know? Yeah. Like, they want to be your friends. Yes.

Or you're part of their friend group, I guess is a better way of putting [00:05:00] it. Like you're invited into their world, so to speak. The barrier to Wayne's world in every sense of the world is like incredibly low. Like it's not hard to get Wayne's world, but the more you understand movies, the better the movie becomes.

Oh yeah. Like the T 1000 reference. Yes. Or like, I just thought of like when Garth is like staring at this girl. That the blonde and the waitress, yeah, and she just has like the wind flowing behind her hair because she is like the, you know, the lover that he wants. It's, you know, that's just a classic movie trope that they're doing, like that they're leaning all of classic movie jobs.

Yeah. I think they even like repeat the cut of her, like they reuse it over and over again. For the satire of that point that you're making.

But yeah, anyways, smart movie. Yes, [00:06:00] very smart movie. Um, so yeah, starting from the top though. What were your thoughts like for the opening portion? I can give you my thoughts. I can give you my personal take on a lot of this stuff. I'll tell you this too. I've not watched this movie and like. So how was the rewatch for you?

Oh, good question. Uh, I remember the Bohemian intro. Oh, 100%. Like it's like, if you don't like, you know, that scene, like everybody knows that. Yeah. Like I hadn't seen Wayne's world, but I knew that Bohemian, that Bohemian Rhapsody headbang was from Wayne's world. And a lot of people like riff off of it. That was very big for me.

Like, I remember seeing that and thinking like, I want to, when I was a kid, I want to like experience that moment with people. So like I, not intentionally, but I think it was so like ingrained in my psyche. That I actually in high school when I got my like red Honda Civic, I have to, not right now, [00:07:00] but I, I've, I own two in my life, red Honda Civics, uh, currently driving right now, but this one was a 96, uh, red Honda Civic.

And there'd be moments I remember in high school where like, I played a very specific song called Hiatus by this band called Attack Attack, which if you're into like fans, Warped Tour, Emo, Screamo music, like, You know that band, you know that album. It's like a very like hip hop DJ vibe thing. It's like a break in the middle of the album, but me and my friends would play that and we would just like go crazy in the car while I'm like driving on a highway.

So it's like me. And like, there was one point where we like piled in like 11 kids in a car and we were just like, do it. Uh, it was just like a big fun thing. Um, and that had that same vibe. Yeah. Um, Yeah, that was a big moment for me. Um, I definitely remember Alice Cooper being in it, but I forgot like how hilarious he is in it.

Yeah, like you wouldn't ex Like it's like a complete [00:08:00] juxtaposition of like who he is on stage versus like who he is backstage in the VIP room. Which is like Kind of a core point of like comedy on the whole is like subverting people's expectations. Yeah

That was really I forgot about that, I mean I grew up like listening to that, you know crazy 80s hair metal with my mother of all people Going back to like the Bohemian Rhapsody thing like yeah, yeah, I love that the car is called the mirth mobile yep, and Like I'm just sitting here thinking about it like as we're talking about the movie.

I'm like that's like so American graffiti like everybody's like piling into a car and just driving around on the town going to a diner like that's What? American graffiti, like that's like almost the whole premise of American graffiti is just spending a night in a small town, like going to parties and things like that slice of life, just [00:09:00] yeah, like that's what Wayne's world like it really is.

It grows and grows as the movie goes on. But yeah, like you start out and you're in Aurora, Illinois. Yeah, you're watching these two people just like having fun in a basement making like television and now they're going to go to school. The local diner. They're gonna go to the local diner. Hanging out with their friend who's a drunk.

To see what they're gonna do tonight. Yep. Like Literally what it is. Like, there's so many different tropes that this movie takes on, but like at the beginning It's definitely like that classic, yeah, um, American graffiti. Yeah, for sure. Moving. I mean, speaking of like diner going to the next scene after like they do the whole like Bohemian Rhapsody thing, going to the local diner, getting introduced to all the characters like, uh, Wayne's ex girlfriend, Stacy, uh, she is, what's her face from friends.[00:10:00] 

Um, with a high pitched voice. She's Janice? Like, I think that's what they're trying to spoof. Oh, okay. I don't know if friends came afterwards or what. Friends came afterwards. But like, that's like the thing. Like, you have the obnoxious ex girlfriend. I thought you were, I thought you were saying like, she's the actor who plays Janice.

No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm like, wait, what? No, no, no, no, no, not at all. Okay. Uh, She's funny too, but, um, has like the necklace that says Wayne on it too. I could not get over that. I thought it was brilliant. Uh, giving him like a gun rack and he's like, what am I supposed to do with this? Um, but going from the diner to the venue where we meet, um, Cassandra.

Yes. I've never seen a concert venue sign on fire like that before. Yeah, no, I laughed really hard when I saw that personally, I don't think it was meant to be funny, but I'm like, that is so dangerous on so many levels, but [00:11:00] like it sets the tone for like what it's going to be like inside, like how edgy hardcore edgy yes, yeah, but incredibly dangerous and probably an OSHA violation.

It's the 90s though. Yeah. Um, yeah, I'm trying to think of anything else about that in particular. I mean, It was great to, I don't know. I forgot about that actress, Cassandra. I don't really think she's in much else. I don't know. I didn't know who she was. Okay. Um, yeah, I think, but so, but speaking, like talking about Cassandra, did Wayne become fluent in Cantonese like literally overnight?

Because like, like 15 minutes later or like 20 minutes later, like very, very, very fluent. Like having a serious conversation, uh, so that, uh, Stacey, Wayne's crazy ex girl, uh, couldn't [00:12:00] understand them. And they're just having like this fluent conversation in Cantonese. And I'm like, wait, what's going on? Like, how did this happen so fast?

I love too that it's just Cantonese. Yeah. Just like of all the languages, it's like could have been Spanish. Well, yeah, it could have been just like classic Chinese or whatever Japanese. I guess it kind of depends on. Uh, Cassandra's, like, character origin or whatever. Right. Or, uh, heritage or whatever that is, but it's just like, Mike Myers knows Cantonese overnight, presumably, Rob Lowe knows Cantonese, presumably, overnight, well, not presumably overnight, but you know.

But it like, it makes a little bit more sense. For Rob Lowe's character as like a sleazy businessman to know. Yeah, he's got to be sharp. Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But for Wade, it's just some schmuck who lives in his mother's basement. Yeah, that learns Cantonese overnight. Yeah, that's that's really funny to me.

Yeah, I think, um, other than that, [00:13:00] it really takes off. I wrote down that it really blows my mind how like, this is like a very like, um, it's a very like segmented, like it feels like it's a lot of little bits, um, like a lot of little sketches. Cause that's how like Wayne's World started was like, it was just a bunch of SNL sketches.

Yeah. And they basically did that. I thought it was very smart how they did that, but still kept a through line from start to finish. Yeah. But then they like totally rushed the end to like kind of get it out the door, so to speak. But they were still smart about how they did the end. So you think they rushed the end?

I don't think they rushed the end because they had multiple endings. Right. Which I thought was hilarious too. We'll talk about that when we get there. Yeah, for sure. But like, You don't really see, I guess that's kind of the point that I'm trying to draw up right now is like it doesn't need to be necessarily SNL sketches, it could also be SNL, sorry, SNL movies, it can also be like SNL adjacent movies, like Mean Girls, Baby [00:14:00] Mama, whatever.

Or it's like, this is a very smart movie where they figured out a smart way to have several different sketches in a movie with a consistent through line and it all just like work. Yeah. It did. Yeah. I like, I, I, I think you're 100 percent right. Yeah. I mean, cause that's, you know, they formulated their show that way.

Like why if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Like if it's going to make them, if it's going to make a great movie. It's going to make a great movie. And they, they didn't change who they were to make that movie. Correct. 100%. In fact, I think they even like were very. They were very consistent with like the character's personality and they were really I don't know if you've watched any of the like the Wayne's World like sketches.

I've watched some but not all of them. Like they're pretty like just one note people. Yeah. But they were able to add like a lot of [00:15:00] depth to it where it's like Wayne is very like caring about this person. Like he's very driven to like be with them. Cassandra, but he's also very like consistent with his like person getting a little bit ahead.

But like, you know, when they're doing the whole actual like formal release, like this is the new like Wayne's world presented by what's his face arcades. Yes. And he's just like, Ripping apart, like, the person who's, like, running. Yeah, with the, with the interview cue cards. Yeah, and he was being, like, a bit of a jerk about it, for sure, and that was a little bit of a confusion that I had, in terms of, like, why are they just, like, ripping Wayne apart when he's, like, being consistent with his character or whatever, where he's, like, I'm not comfortable with this whole thing.

So I'm just gonna make fun of this guy still consistent though for his character. And then Garth is also very consistent in terms of like he's super intelligent. He's very like keen. Yeah. Like he's very understanding what's going on around [00:16:00] him more than Wayne is. Correct. Yeah. He's just kind of being like not a fly on the wall.

But he's everyone's in their own world. And he's like the person outside looking in on a lot of these situations. Yeah. And, like, there's, I think there's a lot of things that happen in that movie that, like, can't happen if Garth isn't who Garth is. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Like, the heist at the end where he becomes, like, a computer scientist and is, like, moving satellites around.

Oh, yes, yes, yes. Like, you cannot intercept. What's his face record? Big. Is it Mr. Big? Uh, the record label. Yeah, the record label. I think it's Mr. Big. Um, I'm remembering his license plate. It's like Mr. Big good with like a lot of G's at the end. Yes. Something like that. But like you couldn't get that to happen without, without Garth.

Totally. A hundred percent. Um, [00:17:00] yeah, I'm looking through if there's anything else very like, I mean, I, my, my notes are just littered with just like references that I love to death. Um, Oh, Garth, speaking of Garth, Garth at the bar with Rob, I can never remember his actual name. Russell, I think his name is.

Yeah. Whoever Rob Lowe is, I'm just going to call him Rob Lowe. Yes. With Wayne and Rob Lowe and Garth at that restaurant. Everyone has like nice little drinks and Garth has like just this giant Yes, he's got that big! I thought they were sharing it at first. When I started watching the scene, I'm like, Oh, it's a very, like, it makes sense, like, for them to share it, because like, Garth and Wayne share giant chili sized Welcome to Chili's.

Oh my gosh. Brilliant. Um But, um Yeah. With, with, so I watch movies with the closed captions on. Oh, you [00:18:00] do? Oh, cool. Um, and I thought it was hysterical that when Garth is doing that drum solo in the, like the music instrument shop, like the guitar center. Yeah. When Wayne buys the Excalibur. Yeah. Yeah. That in the closed captions, it says true rock legend drum solo,

like a fun fact, but like It's just like what we were talking about. I'm more impressed that they were mindful to be like, captions are even in on the joke. Yeah. That's brilliant. I did not know that. Wow. That's incredible. I thought that the product placement of like Pizza Hut when they do that whole bit.

Oh my gosh. Oh my word. I love that scene so much. I think I wrote down that's one of my favorite scenes still to this day of the movie. Like that Pepsi, like them, just like holding Wayne, holding that [00:19:00] Pepsi and then taking a sip of it, label out like ripping apart, selling out like that or just like product placement in.

Yeah, like their hate, like they hate product placement. They hate selling out, but also open this little pizza hut. Yeah, legendary Pepsi. Yeah, legendary chewing on this Dorito bag, which I love the old fashioned Dorito bag labels. So, I also thought that like, Chris Farley's cameo, and like, it was Chris Farley who had the important information at the end, I think is genius, like.

Yeah, so we uh, so we tried to like, save the conversation, um, that we're having right now for this moment to be very like, authentic on it as opposed to like setting up this whole bit, but there was one thing that I sent to Donald, uh, one of my friends, shout out to Andrew. Uh, he and I were talking about this [00:20:00] movie and uh, I sent a text to my friend Andrew saying like, totally forgot Chris Farley was in the movie and he just like, no further conversation was needed.

All he said in response was Providing important plot information that seemed extraneous at the time. I just like immediately sent that to Donald. Yes, you did. I laughed so hard. Oh my word. That was like awesome. But like, I don't know back then if there was a better character to, to like fit that role. And he played his role too.

Like he did the whole like stiff, like arm gesture. Yeah. Like not, not, not that he's like stiff, but like, he does it very like specifically to exaggerate like. Point I'm like just doing all these gestures and no one can see me do this right now, but like he's just very like Yeah, you need to go over there and do this thing.

And he's like, just pointing very like, yes, immediately. Yeah. And like, it's very Chris Farley. Yeah. Like it's [00:21:00] very Chris Farley, but it's also like, very over the top. Like, you know, he's a security guard, like there's no doubt about it. Belt buckle. Yes. Even though he's wearing like just a white t shirt. I don't know if I've, I don't know if there's another movie that has Chris Farley's posture.

So. Like, upright. Oh, yeah. Cause he's like holding it like he's puffing his chest too. Yeah. No, that's a very good point. So we're kind of starting to really get near the end. There's a lot of stuff that happens in the middle. Like I could talk about, you know, I could talk about this movie way longer than the time that we have.

For sure. Like, I love the car shop scene. Yeah. Like, we're got this, like, I think we should go now, like, um, After just like wrecking some random guy's car. Yeah. Um, I could talk about the um, the scene where like Wayne and Garth are like getting their backstage passes and Garth like you're getting like the inside look into Garth like snooping around.

Yes. And he's like just pulling [00:22:00] out all these books like how to date women. He's like, hmm, this guy really like, Oh, Like he's just funny about like, Wow, Rob is like a really big bad, like he's a bad person. Yes. Even though he's like reading dating books like, Yeah, he's like being creepy, but still, it's funny.

Uh, but yeah, also presenting like the VIP badges to each other is great. Two notes that I can talk about before we kind of get to the end of the first portion of the show. Sure. Just sharing a couple of mine. You can share some of yours too, obviously. But speaking of captions, I loved the self inserted captions that the movie had on their own.

Yes. Oh, 100 percent gratuitous sex scene. Oscar clip. I think, yeah, they're great. Yeah. Like just Wayne and Cassandra having a moment. It's not like an R rated movie, but like, they're just, they're both in their underwear and it just shows [00:23:00] like the movies, like aware of it saying like, This is a great like it says gratuitous sex scene right and then it cuts to the next scene.

Yeah, it's awesome. And then when Wayne is like picking up Cassandra from like the music video shoot, and he's like getting super emotional, like, over the top, like hamming it up, and it just says like, Oscar clip right here. Yeah, they know he's being very over the top. Yeah, like when he's, you know, he's going for his Oscar now.

I'm like, totally. Um, the only other things that I see That I kind of want to share just before we like kind of get into the next portion, uh, whoever drove the limo to like whip Mr. Biggs around and like drifted on the, whatever it was, the freeway. That stuck driver? Well done. Where's he? Right. Um, and then satellite on the limo.

Never seen that before. [00:24:00] Nope. Brilliant. Nope. Yeah. Awesome. Um, yeah. I also thought like going while we're talking about cars, like it's a nineties movie and like no one's wearing seat belts. Didn't even notice that. Yeah. I'd like, I noticed like In the mirth mobile, like during the Bohemian Rhapsody scene, like nobody's wearing a seatbelt.

Oh, it's early nineties. Yeah, I'm like, Whoa, uh, really random. Another thing I noticed, I actually really paid attention to this about a fourth of the way through the movie. How many times do you see Wayne not wearing his trucker hat? Don't. One time. I don't know when it was. Cause it wasn't during the Gutierrez sexy.

That was when he wasn't wearing it. Was he? He was not wearing it. Oh. He's, you know, that's when he's really in love. I think that's when you should be wearing it.

But [00:25:00] you turn it around, like, Oh no, you, you need, you need to show her whose world she's in. This is Wayne's world.

If he's erect, the bills are

up. If the bill's up, he's up.

Wasn't that a, wasn't that a bit too that they had in the movie as well? Well, cause they always, they would always go like schloing. Yes, that's right. That was like, so like boater jokes were there. Yeah. It's Wayne's world. It's Wayne's world. You know what? Good for him for reading the room. Oh, right. Yeah.

Right. You know, like being respectful. She knows. Yeah. She knows whose world she's in. Um. Yeah. I, one of my favorite references that they did was the Lassie reference in Garth's [00:26:00] bedroom. Oh, yes. Also, I'm glad that dog never, like, took the wig off. No, like, fully committed. Yep. Good dog actor. Yes. Yes. Great Border Collie.

But yeah, yeah, he was like, What's that? Duh duh duh duh duh. Oh, no. Wayne's at the front door. Cool. Yeah. Like, that one was one of my favorites. That was good. No, good, good, uh, good spot on that. But I really think that this might be one of the most 90s movies 100 percent ever made. Yeah, I'm gonna go in some favorite quotes unless you have any more notes.

Uh, No, the only thing that I thought of like at like at the end of the movie with like the with the three different endings Yeah, it reminded me of clue cuz clue did. Oh, yeah So when clue was really that was a reference to clue it might have been because when like it was a big deal Cuz when clue was released They released it as Three different endings and so like you [00:27:00] didn't know which ending you were going to see.

Yeah, so Um, I love the Scooby Doo reference that they did to change it up as a huge fan of Scooby Doo. Yeah. Appreciate that. It's like the first ending. It felt like it just like whisked you away. Like, like, and it kind of like almost took you out of the movie for a second. I'm like, Oh yeah, I was pulled right out.

I was like, what am I watching? It felt like the end of like Mighty Python's Holy Grail for me. Like, like you take you, you're, they're arrested by cops, like. You almost feel like they're LARPing this entire time. Yeah. Uh, like that's what like the first ending did for me. But then they bring you right back in with two and three.

Uh, I didn't write this down as a trivia point, but did you catch that there was foreshadowing on the house catching on fire in the first part of the movie? No. Um, so I remember that being a point and then I read it in the trivia section when I was like looking up some stuff about the movie and I was like, Oh, yeah, I actually did catch that.

[00:28:00] Um, so, in the very first portion of the movie, when they're in the basement for the first time, some of the equipment like shorted out and you saw sparks. Oh, yes. Yes. And then it happened again for what they call, again, this is technically part of the trivia stuff, but I didn't include it in my notes. Uh, but then when the apocalyptic ending started, That's what triggered it.

So they were kind of like, Hey, this isn't new if you're actually paying attention to it. Yeah. Cause this movie is really, really smart. It's a very smart movie. It's a very smart, very smart movie. Yeah. No, but that, that was like one other thing that I had about the ending. Like was the, it felt like to me, like a clue reference.

No, I was, that's a very good point. I actually like, I really like that idea that it would be considered a clue reference. Um, so I guess kind of going into the next portion of the, uh, episode, wrote on some favorite quotes, cause I love the quotes in this movie. I'm just going to list them off. You can laugh along with us.

I hope Donald laughs along. I think I will for sure laugh. I think I'll, I think I'll laugh out with some [00:29:00] of these. Um, so. First quote, I'm fully prepared to give a complete demonstration. Love that part. I like fell apart because the thing that was really good about it was, um, it was the person who did, so the scene that this is happening in is when, um, first, like five minutes of the movie, you're like watching Wayne's World, the TV show.

Yes. sucko. And they're like, are you ready to give a demonstration? What's your face? And he's like, I am fully prepared to give a complete demonstration for guard just gets dragged through the coals. I had a poor Garth counter and I was like going to count and I'm like, this is going to take too much of my sheet.

And so next quote, next quote. Directly followed by when the sucko thing like started, Garth just says, it's sucking my will to [00:30:00] live. Um, one thing that I laughed really hard at was, uh, Wayne said, they're talking about like, Dating Cassandra, I think it was or no, no, no. Wait. Um, it was at the body shop and Garth and Wayne are talking to each other and Wayne is just kind of giving like this comeback and he says marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.

You're just like What what what? Okay, cool. Great. Um, totally agreed and then they're at the concert and Garth is like, really need to go to the bathroom, and Garth is like, I'd like to go to the bathroom, please, in this century. In this century! Um, the only other too quick. But then he goes back in line, like, so properly.

Garth is like, such a doormat, in like, the cutest way possible. Right, like, again, like, every of these moments, I'm like, I just [00:31:00] feel bad for Garth. I want to give him a hug. Yes, he needs a hug. Every time. Um, I wrote down that I died on, uh, the cream of, of the cream of song, young guy, some young guy, uh, last one during the music video, um, The I forgot who was hugging who I think it was.

Cassandra was hugging Wayne and they ask, Is that you or the snake? And then she looks down at the stakes across her chest.

Like Cassandra looks disgusted and just like, yeah, sends Wayne away. Yeah. Yes. That was that's a great lie. Yeah. I don't know if that I don't know if that segment hit really. Well or not, I thought it was funny. I thought it was great. Yeah, I gotta watch it. Just watch it. Just watch the movie. Just watch it.

Watch the movie. And then you'll [00:32:00] laugh. Um, so, kind of going into the last portion of it, I'd like to do a couple of quick little, um, interesting pointers about the movie when it was released. So Wayne's World, I think, has been credited as like a cultural, not just like a reference point, like it's referencing a lot of things that are happening in the moment, but it also kick started a lot of isms.

Okay. That we now like here today, especially if like you're a millennial or a, uh, what generation was that? Gen X. millennials. Yeah. So like just that segment of population or, uh, demographic, uh, party on was a very big phrase that was like started on by Wayne's world. The whole ism of dot, like pause, not.

Yeah. As I did it when I started off the episode. We're not worthy. We're not worthy. Yeah. Yeah. When Wayne, uh, when Wayne and Garth were doing that for Alice Cooper. Yeah. Um, so if you know, if you look [00:33:00] in that scene, just tidbit, uh, they're not bending their necks because they hurt their necks. From filming the Bohemian Rhapsody seed.

Oh Interesting. So like it's a trivia bit. So it's but it's like very right appropriate Yeah, like like they're there their necks aren't bent and they try to like avoid bending their necks a lot in the movie Because of the bohemian rhapsody. That's amazing. Um, last but most importantly, the quote, that's what she said.

Yes. Was coined from Wayne's world. I didn't know that it was from Wayne's world. I noticed it was in it, but I didn't know like it was from it. Yep. It's a great job. So good. Um, yep. And then I guess the big thing, box office, uh, finance, the financial reception, box office and budget. It had a budget of 20 million.

Box office was 183. 1 million. Wow. That that's [00:34:00] huge. That's a huge return. Yeah. So like, you know, typically the rule is, is that if the budget is 20 million and let's say they had a box office of like 40, so doubling the budget. Not great.

So if that's kind of your barometer or whatever you want to gauge, uh, Oh, 183 fantastic back in the nineties. Yeah, that's no joke. Not a joke. Yeah. Oh, especially in the nineties. Um, Yeah, and I guess, you know, this is almost classic movies. I will say this is a definitely a classic. I would say it's a classic, definitely classic cultural classic.

Um, I guess at the time you would want to call it a cult classic. Um, I think a lot of people nowadays probably wouldn't really think too much of like the movie Wayne's world. Like frankly, I don't really think about it too much nowadays. Um, but it was big for me when I was a kid slash teenager. Um, but a [00:35:00] lot of like how millennials and Gen Z, or sorry, Gen X, like experienced life in the 90s and 2000s definitely came out of Wayne's world.

Yeah. Um, but, oh yeah, go ahead. I was, I was just going to say real quick, like I didn't get a lot of like the references Um, in my life up until I saw Wayne's World, but like now I understand a lot more of where that came from to continue on your point. Yeah, it's one of those movies where you're like, Oh, a lot of those moments.

Yeah, I had a lot of those moments. A lot of those moments. That's what she said, I'm like, Oh, I didn't know, like, It went back that far, because like, You think of the office, which is super I thought it came more, like, I thought it, like, came more from the office Mm hmm. Which you should. And it's because, like, Michael Scott, uh, Steve Carell, like Abuse, rightfully so, abused the joke.

Yeah, 100%. [00:36:00] But like, I thought that's where it came from in that tidbit of like, no, it's first coin in Wayne's world. That's, that's a big deal. And it was done really well too. Oh, landed so well. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I would call it a classic. Uh, it was very well received in theaters, but it still got a, I think, depending on what aggregate score you read, it's still got like a seven out of 10.

Yeah. So it wasn't like a classic at the time, but now it's like a cultural phenomena. I would probably say more like a, Not a cornerstone either. We just have a lot to thank for in Wayne's World, I guess. Right, and I, and like, on the idea that like, we have to thank like, Wayne's World for a lot, like, there were spoof movies like, already happening before Wayne's World.

Yeah. But I don't know if there was a movie that spoofed The moviemaking [00:37:00] industry, the way that Wayne's world did. I would actually agree to that. That's a very good point. Like you, like we already talked about like how like they did like the trope of like shooting, shooting the beautiful girl from like up close, even though that he's far away, like the product placement.

But like even the trope of like moviemaking and like TV production, it, when they're making, Backstage. Yes. Like. Interesting too. Huge sidebar. Not to interrupt you. No. But like, isn't it super weird to think about in a post YouTube world that that type of movie or TV show industry making was a thing? Right.

So weird. Because like if Wayne's World was happening today, they wouldn't have like a television truck in the driveway. They wouldn't be like cutting checks. Well, they would, but like, not in the way that you would see. It would be all direct deposit. Yeah. Um, yeah. Very interesting [00:38:00] though in the backstage.

Yeah, for sure. I thought it was very interesting that like, The movie, like, not only breaking the fourth wall, but it felt, like, very hyper aware of itself, which is like a classic trope of Wayne's world, but like, they did a really great job bringing that to the big screen and not just keeping it on the silver screen.

For sure, totally agree. Or small screen. Agreed. All right. So we are now in the final segment. I'm going to call it, um, it's a trivia segment. I'm going to call it Wayne's trivia as opposed to Wayne's world. Um, trivia segment, some fun facts. See if you know some of these things. All right. So at the beginning of the movie, Wayne calms down Garth after having the suck cut demonstrated on him by telling Garth that he is a forest with Heather Locklear.

This foreshadows Wayne and Garth meeting Heather Locklear at the Aerosmith concert in the sequel. Oh, we haven't watched the sequel yet. [00:39:00] I know you haven't. I haven't seen, I've only seen like twice, but interesting point if for those who are, uh, knowledgeable of the Wayne's world cinematic universe, the WWCU.

Yep. Yep. Coin turn. Mine. Dibs. All right. Uh, according to Dana Carvey, the robot that Garth is working on is being built to kill Benjamin with who is Rob Lowe. Oh, should have looked at my notes when I was struggling to figure out who Rob Lowe was. Sorry, Russell. Uh, Russell is the guy that I like. in the production team.

Sorry, I'm interrupting myself. That is like, I can totally love a man in such a platonic way. You know that guy? That's Russell. I love you, man. I love you. I do, man. I love you. Dude, just say thank you. I love you. All right. Um, anyways, uh, the robot that Garth is working on is being built to kill Benjamin Rob Lowe.

This is why the arm reaches for him when the two discussed changes to the show. This is one of two references to the Terminator [00:40:00] franchise. The other one and more obvious one was Wayne being pulled over by the T 1000. Yeah. Who's the cop. Which during the Terminator two judgment day parody scene. That has Rick Patrick reprising his role as T 1000.

This is the whole pullover scene. I'm kind of merging two facts into one here. The song Time Machine can be heard in the background. This song comes from the 1992 Black Sabbath album Dehumanizer, which is feature, which featured a painted image of a Terminator endoskeleton disguised in a Grim Reaper costume.

There was another reference to the Terminator franchise. Bugger. That's really cool. A lot of interwoven facts there. I mean, a metal. A metal group referencing Terminator, who's metal, in a hard rock loving TV show, movie. Deep. It's a deep cut. Deep cut. Uh, got a couple more. [00:41:00] When Wayne and Garth are on the hood of the car watching.

airplanes fly over. Garth asked Wayne if he's ever thought Bugs Bunny was attractive in women's clothing. The comment was an ad lib by Dana Carvey, who played Garth, uh, made while waiting for an incoming plane to finally come into the scene. Mike Myers was laughing at something else, Dana said, at another time during the same scene, and the director decided to edit Mike's laugh after the Bugs Bunny joke because it looked better.

Then a fake laugh, which is very smart editing. Oh, 100%. Um, but it's a good question. Do you? Uh, no, but I know people who have. I'm not going to say no or yes. I need to see a photo. You know, you don't, you don't know Braun Hilda? Braun Hilda? I don't remember. When Bugs Bunny is I remember Chungus. Pat Bugs Bunny.

Oh. And I remember Bugs Bunny wearing a viking outfit that [00:42:00] looks like a female's arm. That's Braun Hilda. Is that? That's who I was, that's who I was referencing. She doesn't, she doesn't really look like a female though. No, there's, there's more like There are more drag, like Bugs Bunny can get dolled up.

Well, of course it can. Bugs freakin Bunny. Alright, so the Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody nearly didn't make it into the film. Mike Myers desperately wanted it, but Paramount and film producer Lorne Michaels opposed. Paramount didn't want the song because the rights were too expensive. Makes sense. While Lorne Michaels didn't want the song because he wanted something more current and that song was almost 20 years old at that point, he instead wanted Guns N Roses, Welcome to the Jungle.

It's a very good song. Great song. Meyer starting to quit the production if he didn't get what he wanted and eventually they all agreed. Wow. And in my opinion, Such a better choice for Bohemian Rhapsody being Bohemian Rhapsody as opposed to Welcome to the Jungle. And so to follow up on that, uh, [00:43:00] Freddie Mercury saw the clip and gave permission, but he died before the movie hit the theater.

So he never saw That one almost made my cut for trivia. Well, I feel like, I feel like it was No, that's a very good point. No, no, no. Now that I'm doing this, I'm like, yeah, I'm glad you're bringing it up. Yeah. Um, and, and again, like, everybody knows that like Cred. Wayne's World is credited to like revitalizing queen.

Oh, it made it to the top charts like all over again for another couple weeks I think. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Alice Cooper came on to the set. Glad I finished that sentence, under the impression that he would be performing musically for the film with one line upon arrival. He was surprised to be handed an entire monologue to memorize and shoot with a small amount of time to do so.

However. Cooper is known to be a history buff outside of his musical career. Didn't I know that? That's a fun fact. Uh, another trivia bit that I did not write in here, but because it's appropriate. Uh, [00:44:00] there is a bit where you can see a Ouija board. Okay. On their backstage room or whatever. Yeah. And Alice Cooper attributes the Ouija board to giving the name for the act, I believe.

Okay. I'm gonna have to double check my facts on this because I'm running it right off the top of my head. Okay. Feel free to give us a five star and correct me if I'm wrong, right? So anyways, next, next kind of last trivia point, and then we'll wrap up here. Dan Carvey did his own drum playing for the music shop scene.

No way. I almost said this earlier, but I really want to say it really is a true rock legend drum solo. It is because he did it himself. Like that's not a stunt double or anything. Yeah. And when I found this trivia fact, I watched the scene again and it really does match like How he hits and how you see like the drum set play, it really matches super well.

Yeah. And it really [00:45:00] sold me when he did the some, the symbols portion where he is like, like sequentially. Yeah. 'cause it's so well timed. Yeah. So I'm like, that has to be true. But, but it, what's so great is that then after the solo, he just like gently taps the very on character. Just go, Garth , not my word.

All right, so this is the final half. Trivia point. Did your version of Wayne's World that you watch have a brownie recipe in it? A brownie recipe? Yeah. I don't think it did. How'd you watch it? I rented it on Amazon. Okay. So maybe I missed it. I did too. So apparently There is a brownie recipe that can only be found on the original VHS release of the movie.

And I looked for like a good, I wasted a lot of time looking for it, and I could not find it, and I reached out to, shout out [00:46:00] to Andrew, if he had it, he said no, and I think it's a myth. But I really want it to be true. Um, I know we're to potentially find a VHS of Wayne's world, but uh, so I have a, I have a, a large movie collection and where I purchased a lot of it from was this place, uh, this chain of stores in the Cleveland area called the exchange and they do, they do, uh, so Um, plugging them inadvertently, but they do a really great job, like buy, like buy, sell trading any type of media and then collector's items.

And it would not surprise me if they had a copy of Wayne's World on VHS. So what I'm really curious though, about the VHS releases that I don't know if there's one or two types of like press cycles, like how many presses of it. Yeah. Because I know that there was a McDonald's. Pushed one like McDonald's [00:47:00] like there's like a McDonald's logo on the back of the box.

Yeah I don't think that's the original one. I think that's like a second. It's not not like the second but like another another cycle, so yeah So, I don't know how exclusive that is. It feels like a myth Some people will talk about it like on different discussion forums releases saying like, Oh no, it's on the original one or Oh, you can actually find it like the way that people talk about it online makes it sound like it's a myth like, Oh, if you watch it like on this particular streaming site as opposed to that one, like they did have a remaster one of the yeah, hot mess.

So anybody has a version of this? Yeah, I would love. To make a set of brownies, uh, leave us a five star review and put the recipe in the comments. Oh yeah. Just share it. That's actually a great idea. Um, yeah, I think that's it for me. Do you have any [00:48:00] other, no, um, I, I don't, I do. I think like if I were going to like rate this movie on rotten tomatoes, I really do think I would give it like that.

seven out of ten. Like, I understand it's cultural significance. Um. Can I press you on something? Sure. Not a seven. What would you give it? A six or an eight? Ugh. Exactly. All right. So if you guys listen to our sister, I'm going to call it sister because Dan, you're probably editing this. If you're listening to our sister, Show six pints on the road.

Sure. Shameless plug Great podcast me and the co host Dan who's probably editing the show Try to avoid using sevens unless it's authentically seven because we say sevens are a lazy man's game I understand I understand. Um, let's see the way the way you reacted tells me that I can give it a different I could I could [00:49:00] so I can appreciate Wayne's World for everything, um, and I think typically I'm not like the hugest comedy person, like, like, like I don't go out of my way to watch comedies.

I think I'm funny enough. Uh, I don't, we'll find out. We'll find out. I will find out, uh, over this course, that's a, I, I mean, I have stars for Donald trying to fight. Yeah. I think I'm trying, trying to be funny. Um, you're from Ohio and you're not funny. There are plenty of great comedians from, from Ohio.

That's a whole nother Ted talk. Um, I, so there is, I was, Oh geez, from yellow springs. Yeah. Bye. Uh, Drew Carey, Steve Harvey, anyway, Drew Carey is not from Ohio. Yes, he is. He's from Cleveland. Sorry, he's not from Yellow Springs. I know, I mean, yeah. No, but anyway, um, Dave Chappelle, Dave Chappelle is from Yellow Springs.

[00:50:00] Um, I think, I think I would probably give it closer to And eight, because it's very, it's not often that after I watch a comedy, I like in laying in bed laughing from the movie, just thinking that's really cool actually that year. Yeah. That's very cool. So like, so like I had an authentic experience, like I'll watch comedies that are like classic comedies just so like, I can understand them like in the zeitgeist as a whole, but like Yeah.

this movie has like left its mark on the zeitgeist. It's not talked about as much anymore, but like, yeah, like we talked about earlier. So I think for all those stated reasons, instead of a seven, I've been pushed up to an eight. Great. See seven's the lazy man's game. You can give stuff a seven. It's just curious.

No, no, no, no. I think you could have pushed back and be like, no, it is a seven. No. And I, and I appreciate being [00:51:00] pushed. Yeah. Uh, I would give it, I would also give it an eight, um, because. I think it is definitely a classic for the same reasons that you, for the reasons that you're pointing out, like, it left a very strong impression on like, yeah, zeitgeist, um, a lot of stuff that, like, people share or, Isms that people use are very much so a product of like, if you said that's what she said because the office, you said it because of Wayne's world.

Um, even though you said it because of the office, but it's kind of one of those things where it's like, it definitely pushed, it pushed the boundaries hard. Yeah. Um, but I think it definitely has. It does show its age very obviously, very, very obviously. And so it's kind of tough for me to like, you know, I don't have a kid, but let's just say like, if I had one [00:52:00] of these never seen, uh, Wayne's world or whatever, like.

They're not going to care that I don't, uh, I don't think they're going to care, but at the same time, for those who do care, it holds up. I would say too, as, as, uh, as you were describing that, I was thinking I could see it still being though one of those movies where it's like. If VHSs or DVDs are still, like, in existence in 20 years, if it's collecting dust and some rando, like, 16 year old pulls it off the shelf and decides to watch it, like, there are things that could be funny to them.

It was just like, this is a time cap It's a time capsule. I'm interrupting myself. It's a good time capsule. Yeah, like, I wrote down, like, it's one of the most 90s movies ever. And, like, if you want to appreciate Nineties again, that's But watch Waynesville. Yeah, that's actually great. Time capsule. [00:53:00] Nine outta 10, nine outta 10 time capsule.

You pushed me time capsule of the nineties. Yep, yep, yep. So with that being said, that has been an episode of almost classic movies. Um, this show is currently young enough at the time of this release where I don't have a formal outro. We don't have a formal email address. Um, but if you like anything you heard, feel free to subscribe, follow all that, you know, good stuff.

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Yeah, even if you have something miffed about like, Hey, you know what? These guys are talking about classic movies, but they're called almost classic. We get it. We hear it. If they were classics, we'd rate them a [00:54:00] 10. Donald told you first. Um, that was me trying to be funny. Yeah, Ohio humor is very different out here.

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