Wayne's World | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

[@Kloppite]

The sitcom, for the youths, is Laverne & Shirley. The main characters worked at a brewery in Milwaukee.

[@djnoni]

I think you misspelled yoots 😆

[@kitader]

@@djnoniYou’re a funny guy… (I know it’s not from the same movie, but close enough 😋)

[@mackeyman13]

Penny Marshall (Laverne) had a very successful career. She went on to direct big and a league of their own. I think you’ve done both of those (if you haven’t you should look into)

[@Taramw32]

@@djnoni😄

[@dj_daem0n]

It should be mentioned that Laverne & Shirley was a spin-off of the sitcom HAPPY DAYS, set in the same 50s time period.

[@mdmyer]

All of Cassandra's songs were actually sung by the actress. A lot of people were impressed by her performance. Alice Cooper in real life is a history buff outside of his music career, so it is 100% believable he would be talking about history instead of rock music when not doing the concert.

[@peridot1706]

Tia Carrere is originally from Hawaii and recorded a few albums of Hawaiian music, for which she's won 2 Grammys.

[@mdmyer]

@peridot1706 yep. I think the band in the movie was an actual band, but I can't remember if they were called crucial taunt or not.

[@deano42]

Right around the same time as this movie, Tia had an album out on CD called "Dream". I owned it. It wailed. I listened to it all the time. Zhang.

[@0okamino]

Weird Fact That Also Totally Makes Sense: Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx were close friends. He would regularly go over to Groucho’s place, and they would hang out in his bedroom, watching old movies.

[@joemckim1183]

@@0okamino I just looked up Groucho Marx and he died in 1977 so probably hung up with him in his later years in the 70s. I never really thought about how long Marx lived until you made this post.

[@StargliderGaming]

This film single handedly brought Queen back into the US mainstream, and Mike Myers was thanked by Brian May. So much so that when the film Bohemian Rhapsody was made, Mike Myers was given the role of Ray Foster and cheekily references Wayne's World in it too, with the quote - "We need a song teenagers can bang their heads to in a car. Bohemian Rhapsody is not that song.". Genius.

[@fenix6297]

I missed that reference in Bohemian Rhapsody. Thank you! I'll look for it next time I watch it. But, yeah - it was even re-released as a single in 1992 and did better than it did with it was originally released in 1975 as far as US Chart position at least, and then made the Top 100 AGAIN after the movie was released. Same song - three times on the US Top 100 with 17 years between the the first two releases, and 43 years between the first and the third releases. Crazy.

[@FlyinMunky]

Not to mention that Meyers got an early copy, maybe the daily, to Brian May seeking permission and he took it over to Freddie who was on his death bed. It made him smile and he gave his full approval cause it reminded him of his youth. I learned this through History Buffs.

[@munkeynz]

It also came out a year after Freddie Mercury passed away, so that was a contributing factor as well.

[@Tr0nzoid]

I thought it was funny that they knew "Bohemian Rhapsody" but were not aware of what this movie would be, yet the song's resurrection and probably even the reason why it is even played on classic rock radio now was because of the movie.

[@TranzparentMethods]

@@Tr0nzoid Right?!? They wouldn't be singing it like that at all if it weren't for this movie.

[@digitaldroo]

"OMG" counter for Simone, "I see" counter for George

[@goatvoicestwin1859]

Yessssssssss 😂😂😂

[@stevemartegani]

And he could get sponsored by ICEE too🥤

[@goatvoicestwin1859]

@@stevemartegani 🤣🤣

[@jamestaylor3805]

Most dangerous drinking game ever...

[@bethcushway458]

Noooooooo! I cant watch with the OMG counter as it is. Every time it pops up it distracts me from their reactions and the film

[@RobPryme]

This movie introduced a whole generation of middle schoolers (myself included) to Bohemian Rhapsody and so many infinitely recitable lines.

[@jeknechtphotography7106]

Yeah I believe this movie is credited with giving that song and Queen a whole "second life" if you will.

[@tigerburn81]

I recall hearing that the song re-entered the Billboard charts because of the popularity of it in this movie.

[@AnotherViewer]

@@jeknechtphotography7106 And got Mike Myers a cameo in the Bohemian Rhapsody move saying kids will not be banging their head to this song.

[@franklubbock8400]

This movie is why y’all knew to sing a long to bohemian rhapsody.

[@roddack]

Fun Fact: Mike Myers is actually fluent in Cantonese so was purposely doing it bad. Everyone else just phonetically learned their lines.

[@eishunken]

I’ve heard this a few times but never have seen any evidence that it’s true.

[@tofersiefken]

As a retired Spanish Language teacher, I used to have my 4th year students create 20-minute movie parodies translated to the target language, as a semester project. (This was during the days of VHS, pre-digital editing.) I still remember the group who chose to parody this movie and among the scenes they translated and re-enacted was the Bohemian Rhapsody scene in the car. The students had translated the lyrics of the song to Spanish, put on wigs and costumes, and recorded in a (parked) car. The day we watched the student projects in class, their peers erupted in delight and amazement. The singing might not have been Freddy Mercury quality, but the translation was impressive!

[@Trepanation21]

That's amazing! Also a fine example of the popculture impact of Wayne's World, haha. Thanks for sharing that story. I love that it's stuck with you!

[@leftofpunk]

That is a fantastic and creative assignment idea. You were a good teacher.

[@PabloRichardFernandez]

This is SO meta. George and Simone singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody and not knowing a thing about this movie. Yet, the reason they know the song so well is literally because this movie made the song the cultural touchstone that it is today.

[@sheikyebouti184]

Yes. Alice Cooper is a history buff. He was only brought in for the live scene but got used once they found out about his 'passion'. And it was Dana Carvey playing the drums. Don't know if Casandra actually played in the band but the vocals were all her.

[@trentb3148]

Oh man, Wayne's World was hugely influential on pop culture in the early 90s, mostly because it was so firmly a product of that same zeitgeist. The film was so heavily quoted by young people back then, I feel like I've seen the film a thousand times, even though I've probably only watched the whole thing once or twice. It also helped re-popularize Queen in the US (Freddie Mercury had passed away just a few months before the film's release), even re-charting "Bohemian Rhapsody" at #2 on the pop charts in 1992, 17 years after its original release. And the sequel is definitely worth watching. It came out only a year after the first film, and the aesthetic is so similar that I have trouble remembering which film certain scenes are from.

[@RonJomero]

I wouldn't just say it helped re-popularize Queen, but it is solely responsible for it. And Mike Myers deserves all the thanks. He wanted Bohemian Rhapsody for that scene and refused to budge on it, despite a ton of pushback for a more contemporary rock band.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Yeah, you're right about having trouble remembering which movie a certain scene is from. I was waiting on a scene with a certain fight scene in it, only to realised that oh wait, it's in the sequel :)

[@kongJr]

@@RonJomero and thats why Mike Myers got that cameo in the Queen Biopic as the record exec saying kids would never headbang to bohemian rhapsody in a car. :)

[@Steve-gx9ot]

Next to Saturday Night Fever = best movie ever!@❤ LOL

[@Trepanation21]

@@weepingscorpion8739 I was just thinking the same! hahaha

[@tylerfoster6267]

This one is actually based not just in the era of "SNL," but this is the second and arguably most famous movie based directly on an "SNL" sketch after The Blues Brothers. Historically, one thing you -- mostly George -- has seemed to struggle to get his footing with is when a movie is based on a sketch comedy and the movie itself continues that ethos, where it's basically just, "come up with a joke construct for one scene or sequence, play it out during that scene, and then have a totally different concept for the next scene." It's interesting to me that something like Wayne's World strikes you as odd, but then modern movies that do this, like most of the Will Ferrell movies you've watched, don't seem quite as weird. Myers does have a reputation for being difficult. I don't know about the thing about his bodyguards or whatnot, but it sounds like part of his difficult attitude is 1) perfectionism and 2) a reluctance to be social with other people. Not like that he doesn't like it in the sense that he's trying to be rude, just that it's challenging for him, which is actually something you hear is true of a number of comedians. Because they're funny and likable on-screen, people expect them to be just as gregarious in real-life, but many comedians are quiet and introverted people. Not sure if public access still exists, but it really *was* like KZbin before KZbin. If you had a camera and the inclination, you could book a timeslot on local airwaves designated public access and just host your own TV show. That's why Benjamin and his producer go to the TV station first. They aren't expecting to find Wayne there, they know Wayne is broadcasting out of a basement, but they have to talk to the local television station in order to figure out where Wayne lives. It also broadly explains why "Wayne's World" is kinda just a stream-of-consciousness. You'd get a lot of strange, oddball people who wanted to rant or whatever. I think the closest analogue is probably Twitch streaming, except it wasn't interactive unless you had a show where people could call in. People tuned into see the host do whatever they wanted to. The explanation for the "Grey Poupon" joke is (if I remember correctly) there were ads where one rich person in a Rolls-Royce, like the one Wayne talks to, rolls up to another, and asks, "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" The idea is that since they're both fancy, they both have the "fancy" mustard, and if you get it, you can be fancy too. Tia Carrere (Cassandra) previously appeared on the channel as the one of the villains in True Lies. She's from Hawaii, with Filipino and Chinese parents, if that explains the accent. You've also seen Noah Vanderhoff (Brian Doyle-Murray, brother of Bill) and his wife (Colleen Camp) before, in Groundhog Day and Caddyshack, and Clue, respectively. When Garth asks Wayne if he ever found Bugs Bunny attractive when he dressed as a girl, Myers' laughter is real. Simone's guess about "Stairway to Heaven" is correct. It was so commonly played in guitar stores that this is a joke about that. What's funny is that Led Zeppelin was once so famous for refusing to let people use their music in movies, that the three or four notes of Stairway that Wayne plays had to be censored, legally. In fact, the copy you watch probably had the replacement music, unless you happened to watch the brand-new 4K UHD release, which finally got clearance to use two seconds of the song for the first time since the movie was released in theaters in 1990. I had backstage passes for "Weird Al" Yankovic once. Very nice guy. Met him and the whole band. Hope you guys check out his movie UHF (1989) someday, and/or his recent "biopic," Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) -- although in either case you should definitely listen to some Weird Al songs if you haven't. When Wayne and Garth are looking at the limo and the guy nearby fills them in, that's a little cameo from Chris Farley, making it a scene between the original and final voices of Shrek.

[@LastTorgoInParis]

night at the roxberry coudnt complete the trilogy but still a fun movie i think

[@goreyfantod5213]

Great informative comment. Well said.

[@marquisdesade3025]

Honestly, I think Wayne’s World has overtaken/is currently overtaking Blues Bros for #1

[@oystersnag]

I second the recommendation for watching UHF. I think it's one of the best comedy movies of all time. It's exactly what you expect from Weird Al, but in movie form. Definitely check it out!

[@tylerfoster6267]

@@marquisdesade3025 I still love Blues Brothers more, but I would admit that Wayne's World is probably more popular with current audiences.

[@acecombatter6620]

Alice Cooper settled down, had a family and became a little league baseball coach. The kids only knew him as "Coach Cooper." He says that his team was amazed to see him in the movie and asked him, "Hey Coach Cooper, how did you get a role in Wayne's World?"

[@zaxzumu4605]

Don't forget that earlier in his career, he babysat Keanu Reeves because he knew Keanu's mother through her costume design work in the industry.

[@daddynitro199]

He doesn’t look like someone who loves golf, but he does.

[@vytallicaq.6881]

He's also a devout Christian. I'm not religious myself, but when I was a kid, living in Pensacola, my parents tried to instill those values in me. They would take me to First Baptist Church of Pensacola every week. I heard that Alice attended services at my old church one Sunday while he was in town performing there.

[@vytallicaq.6881]

@@daddynitro199 And he's GOOD too. Like almost at a pro level.

[@Surya112]

Alice works at a radio station in Detroit where they do "Nights with Alice Cooper" every weekday. He's currently taking a break for the holidays, and Sammy Hagar is filling in.

[@TraceVandal]

Yes Dana Carvey is really playing the drums in that scene. I believe he's made appearances at shows as Garth and played for bands like U2.

[@Dunkelzahn2057]

Many years ago (around the era of this movie actually) a friend of mine scored backstage passes and actually 'partied' post concert with Alice Cooper, as a couple of girls in their late teens. Apparently he is just a super nice guy, really chill, they basically just ended up hanging out and chatting with people, at one point he got them to call their moms so he could get on the phone to reassure them they were okay, then when they wrapped he got his security to organise a taxi for them and make sure they got home safe. 😆

[@blairhaffly1777]

It cracks me up watching George struggle to apply real world rules to movies like this until he can finally just go with the flow.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Given the number of movie he has seen, do you think it is and act - like he has just come out of a cave after 30 years and never seen a movie before?

[@toddjones1480]

@@CheepchipsableIt happens. One of my old bosses didn’t see his first movie until he was 38 years old. There was a kid in my Boy Scout troop who was in high school and had still never seen a movie.

[@Raddnedge]

@@toddjones1480 Damn. Is that because of some religious restriction? I can't imagine someone not seeing a movie by the age of 38 for any other reason. Maybe they're too insecure to go to a cinema for some reason?

[@toddjones1480]

@@Raddnedge I don’t just mean that they had never been to a movie theater. I mean that they had never seen a movie anywhere. And they were both because of weird religious stuff. The 38yo saw his first movie in a theater, and it was Ouija, lol.

[@Sinderwood]

I'm finding it a bit annoying at this point. So much so that I don't want to watch anymore. Why does he think everything is awkward? What's the obsession with second hand embarrassment? Am I being too mean?

[@cypher300]

Sometimes, just sometimes, you don't have to know where a movie is going or what it is. Sometimes, you just have to sit back and enjoy the absurdity. This is definitely one of those movies!

[@viceman8152]

Yes, Dana Carvey can play the drums and Cassandra Wong really sings. "Laverne and Shirley" was the sitcom reference. A "Happy Days" spinoff that was popular in the 70's and 80's. And Mike Myers actually does speak decent Cantonese, however, he flubbed it on purpose for comedic effect. Everybody else just memorized the words. Mike and Dana wrote the story and it was too short, so they filled it between with pretty much SNL skits. Such as "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the airplane scene, both were consistently referenced in pop culture for years after the movie.

[@motorcycleboy9000]

Also, "No Stairway" was a house rule in many guitar shops before Wayne's World popularized it.

[@viceman8152]

@@motorcycleboy9000 Yep. Imagine working in a guitar shop back in the day. Somebody picks up a guitar they are thinking of buying, maybe, and they play that song. And the employee must listen to it over and over again all day long. The rule was needed.

[@jollyrodgers7272]

it's Tia Carrere.

[@viceman8152]

@@jollyrodgers7272 Yes, I used the character name, when I should've used the actress's name. My bad.

[@cypher515]

The way TV Tropes puts it is that "Myers' Cantonese is grammatically correct, if _profoundly_ accented."

[@gorrammudder1600]

Dumb fact: In Leon the professional, Natalie Portman learned the Happy Birthday Mr. President song from this movie, not the original Marilyn Monroe rendition, which she never saw.

[@williamsouthard9725]

I came hear to see if anyone posted this fact.

[@reverendB]

Leon is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Natalie is one of my favorite actors, and I didn't know this fact! Thanks!

[@WhiskyCanuck]

Excellent! Simone's impression of Lorne Michaels is actually pretty decent! The sitcom being referenced is Laverne and Shirley (1970s-80s), which was set in Milwaukee.

[@moviescatsmargs]

So we're all thinking the same thing, right? Simone is Garth and George is Wayne 😂

[@justinatest9456]

Yeah I just assumed their personas were an homage to this movie this whole time.

[@BigJoeEspo]

Excellent.

[@debbyemerson3877]

Yes of course. I wanted them to switch sides of the screen 😅

[@estoy1001]

In a guitar center setting, "Stairway', "Smoke on the Water', 'Iron Man', & 'Carry On, Wayward Son' were among many verboten songs that literally EVERYONE played. Some places had others, but those tended to be the ones that really chafed.

[@phil8821]

I'm not buying a guitar from a store that forbids Iron Man... those bastards!

[@rmccombs66]

The joke is kind of spoiled because supposedly in the original movie, he actually plays a few notes from Stairway to Heaven, but they didn't get the rights to use it any any or most of the video releases since then or so I've heard. I think it's kind of stupid when you they don't let you have the rights to the same music the same in the video releases as was in the movie.

[@charlize1253]

When this movie came out, "Bohemian Rhapsody" surged back to Number 1 on the charts, fifteen years after its original release. Mike Myers has admitted in interviews that the original script only had a moment or two of the song, but the first cut of the movie came in too short, so they just added the rest of the song to fill time

[@TenTonNuke]

This movie shaped my childhood. To this day, me and my brother will randomly spout, "I don't even own A gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack."

[@Trepanation21]

There's a current MMO called New World, and in it, there's a city called "Windsward". When we were playing it, our entire clan called it _Wayne's World_ 😀

[@johng482]

7:34 Kurt Fuller may be the most underrated comic actor ever. Most of his roles, he seems to play the stuffy uptight villain (i.e. Ghostbusters 2) but when he gets a chance to show his comedic side, it’s almost unmatched (you see glimpses of it here, but it’s truly great in Psych).

[@JamesWhoMakesGames]

I've heard the movie described as a stoner comedy where nobody gets stoned 😅 I think it makes a lot more sense when you consider they all came from SNL. It's basically a series of skits, loosely connected by the plot. That's why it's so random and chaotic.

[@theaikidoka]

It's sort of like Beavis and Butthead, where they aren't exactly idiots, and aren't exactly stoned, but have a very particular way of talking and acting.

[@martinm8991]

When Simone mentioned, they need to make openings with random guitar riffs - it made me realize that HER openings have always been CineBinge's own unique version of just that

[@Trepanation21]

I love that coincidence, and now I love each (WW's & Simone's) even more! I hope she includes some WW references now. "I'm Simone and this is George and... we're in Delaware?" 🙃

[@DouglasSelby]

Given how much Dana Carvey appealed to Simone, you might consider the documentary “Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of the Dana Carvey Show”. It is an extraordinarily view into a group of comedy legends in a tragic crucible that launched so many careers.

[@heyheyjk-la]

Tragic Crucible would be a great band name.

[@im-gi2pg]

This was Rob Lowe’s comeback movie after an embarrassing sex tape scandal. It was his first time playing the bad guy in a comedy. In it’s heyday the Laverne and Shirley tv show was everywhere. I didn’t like it or watch it but never thought I’d see the day when it was completely forgotten.

[@VilleHalonen]

Oh, cool! I've seen Wayne's World a zillion times but I never caught this reference. It was never aired in my part of the world.

[@handsomeDRAC]

Sounds similar to Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) comeback after his little porn theater sex scandal. He went on to play a vampire villain in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[@claegason2521]

I thought opening the movie with Rob Lowe in bed with a woman was a bold move at the time

[@philipem1000]

I named my cats (sisters) Laverne and Shirley. (Never watched the show)

[@scotthewitt258]

There are many pharmaceutical options now to avoid embarrassment.

[@balansboy]

Funny enough, Alice Cooper is very different from his stage persona in real life. He's been clean and sober for 40 years. He's an avid golfer. He's a devout Christian. He volunteers a lot and teaches Sunday school when he's not on the road touring. And from all accounts, one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet.

[@esinohio]

The man is a total class act. I worked with a guy who worked on musical tours when he was in college and he apparently worked at a few shows with Alice Cooper. The man couldn't have been nicer to everyone, from the guy sweeping the floors to the people selling food, the man was a legend.

[@DaviniaHill]

Votes Republican though.

[@MasteRgamer-mk5bp]

@@DaviniaHillOh no someone with different political views than me 😨

[@rastiga9196]

@@DaviniaHill After years of Biden IDK how anyone would vote Democrat

[@chadbennett7873]

@@rastiga9196 Because we're not idiots.

[@the1warboar]

If you want to see a fun duo that made a TV sketch that was turned into a movie, but the Canadian version, definitely check out “Strange Brew”. Unless of course you’ve both seen it already, I swear the McKenzie brothers were national mascots for a while there. Its also peak Rick Moranis.

[@Sgt_Glory]

One could only imagine how awesome a full SCTV movie would have been...

[@uncommon_niagara1581]

Was this movie not Canadian enough? 🇨🇦 Lorne Michaels 🇨🇦Mike Myers 🇨🇦Street hockey 🇨🇦Stan Mikita donuts [Tim Hortons] 🇨🇦Garth - sweet, loveable - therefore honourary Canadian

[@oneopinion6806]

It's also my favorite treatment of Hamlet (well more Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead). Strange Brew is a must!

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

Strange Brew>Wayne's World

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

​@@uncommon_niagara1581Not set in Canada 💥

[@davidanderson1639]

During lockdown, Josh Gad did a series of cast reunion zoom calls…..all of which are excellent. But the Wayne’s World reunion is one of the highlights, due to the fact that Brian May & Roger Taylor from Queen take part. May recalls how prior to Freddie Mercury’s death, he’d managed to get a tape of the film & took it to show Freddie; who at the time was in hospital. Mercury loved the film!!! Mike Myers was visibly moved upon hearing this tale, as he’d been totally unaware Freddie had seen the film. Fast forward several years & Mike Myers appeared in the Queen biopic. Please make sure you watch Wayne’s World 2!!! Oh & btw, Mike Myers reaction to Garth’s question about Bugs Bunny was genuine.

[@AaronMal1978]

You know you're old when jokes from movies that came out when you were in high school go completely over a younger person's head. Lol.

[@Steve-gx9ot]

I tell younger Gen these jokes just to see their reaction Best I have so far is, = I tell a Millenial "I am sorry that Boomers messed up the usa!....😮😮

[@TraceVandal]

The T2 reference was my favorite part as a kid. And remember, that movie was super relevant at the time Wayne's World came came out because it just released a year before.

[@peterlenham3180]

My favourite too. Legendary cameo.

[@Tr0nzoid]

"Wayne's World" was really influential at that time. People kept saying "not!" and "schwing!" The movie came just after funny, memorable "Saturday Night Live" sketches with Aerosmith, Tom Hanks, and Madonna. Also of note was a song called "Pain Cave" they recorded while at MTV's studio.

[@mikerhodes8454]

Garth's "Dream Girl" is in reality Dan aykroyd's wife. The movie is a combination of Wayne's world sketches on SNL, such as the musical guest coming on their show and wayne and garth wanted to talk about rocking out, and the musical guest would want to talk about the transition of Eastern Europe to a free-market economy, for example.

[@3dbadboy1]

Her name is Donna Dixon.

[@Mugthraka]

At the time of shooting the opening scene, it was supposed to be another song that they had to sing and bang their heads to as the "Greatest rock song" as written in the script. Myers said Nope, the greatest is Bohemian Rhapsody from Queen and absolutly wanted this. Now they din't had the rights to the song, nor asked the band for it, since it was not what was scheduled. To do it, they did in fact shoot the scene, then they managed to get Brian May, the guitarist of Queen and asked him to pass it along to Freddy Mercury. Freddy saw the sequence, loved it and gave his Thumbs up for it. And it is now part of history, i do believe that this scene, contributed to relaunch the band's popularity in the US in the 90's. This whole thing is even more funnier, when you remember that in the Biopic Bohemian Rhapsody movie, you have Myers playing the band's Label director. And he tells the Band, when they make him listen to the maquette of Bohemian Rhapsody "THis song is crap, you'll never get a Bunch of Rock Fans to bang their heads and sing along "this song" in their cars!" Ahaha, when i realised this "joke" i was laughing my arse off.

[@acecombatter6620]

1. This movie is based on recurring Wayne's World sketch from Saturday Night Live. 2. Brian Doyle Murray (Bill's Brother), who you might remember from Groundhog Day, plays the Sponsor. 3. The Sitcom reference was to a long running show set in Milwaukee Wisconsin called Lavern and Shirley.

[@williamjones6031]

1. Tia Carrera/Cassandra sang all of her songs, and she also has a Grammy for singing and voice over work. 2. It's weird seeing Rob Lowe as a heavy. 3. Brian Doyle Murry is Bill Murry's brother and has been in a ton of movie/tv including two of the Vacation movies. 4. Vincent Fournier/Alice Cooper is a historian, so he loved playing in this thing. 5. He is also a surprisingly good golfer and I've had the privilege of seeing him twice 😎😁 6. Who doesn't love Al Bundy/Ed O'Neil and Meatloaf? 7. You need to review Cheech & Chong's, "Up in Smoke".

[@gasperdn]

"The Shitty Beetles?? Are they any good??" "They Suck" "Then it's not just a clever name"

[@JayM409]

Let's not forget Chris Farley.

[@Thom1212]

RE: #2. Rob Lowe played a heavy in "Tommy Boy" with Bo Derek, opposite Chris Farley and David Spade (also SNL alumna's). Also, the husband-and-wife team of writers, Bonnie and Terry Turner, worked on both "Wayne's World" and "Tommy Boy"

[@mbbiz21]

Lara Flynn Boyle’s first big movie after Twin Peaks, which made her a breakout star.

[@williamjones6031]

I still haven't seen "Tommy Boy" yet. IMVHO Lowes' best performance was playing Nick in the 1991 Stephen King's "The Stand". @@Thom1212

[@Deukish]

It actually was "where no man has gone before" in the Original Series, it changed to "no one" for TNG. There was also a nice line at the end of film 6 where Kirk starts with the old quote, but corrects himself with the new one.

[@dabe1971]

The 'No Stairway' gag was indeed originally supposed to imply stores had heard enough but shortly after the U.S. release, Warner & Led Zeppelin refused the rights to even the first few notes of "Stairway" for broadcast, video, or foreign release, resulting in the current dub. Any more than two actual notes and they'd have to pay $100K according to the director. Apparently there is a store in Seattle who do allow it to be played and even offer a 15% purchase discount - but only if the customer can play it 100% correctly and all the way through.

[@Divamarja_CA]

“Excuse me, I’d like to get by now.” My sister and I have been quoting/imitating Garth for decades. And we always laugh after doing so!

[@raydurz]

Speaking of This is Spinal Tap: Dana Carvey played one of the mimes at the party, along with Billy Crystal.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

And Michael McKean who was the lead singer in Spinal Tap played one of the wacky neighbor characters, Lenny, in the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," which was the sitcom whose intro was being referenced in "Wayne's World."

[@robstoll7542]

Supposedly, Dana Carvey's character, Garth, was based on his brother. The soft, timid voice and shy demeanor were just a channeling of his sibling. Apparently, his brother was pretty big in the early development of computer software and invented a few things that made him quite a bit of cash. That's why they had Garth go back to the car and make that homemade (or carmade) stun gun; that would be something his brother might do.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

I'd definitely recommend the sequel. Totally worth it for Christopher Walken and James Hong

[@Yora21]

"So I was in Sri Lanka, formerly Cylon, ..."

[@JoeMama410]

And Charleton Heston.

[@BB13131313]

"You want me to say 'what', like I don't get it, is that it?"

[@alistairrobinson3865]

They are both absolutely brilliant in that movie !!

[@JayH-tz4ip]

Fun fact: it wasn't the original script for the sequel. Myers turned in a script, sets were built, and then Paramount found out the whole thing was stolen from another movie. Sherry Lansing threatened to destroy Myers and he had to write a new script in less than a week. It shows.

[@OldRod99]

Yes, Dana Carvey was actually playing the drums

[@CineRam]

I appreciate that there's no "real" ending. The movie is just too meta for a conclusion that asks to be taken seriously on any level. You guys may enjoy the Nicholas Cage movie "Adaptation", in which the main characters are writing the screenplay for the movie itself.

[@Boomerbox2024]

Back in the early '80s I was a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and I lived in an apartment way off campus near within walking distance of the airport. One night, while out on a stroll, I discovered a highway, still under construction, and while walking down it, found that it ran directly past the end of the runway. My favorite evening entertainment quickly became lying on my back in the middle of the freeway counting the rivets on the belly of departing 747s. Good times!

[@3DJapan]

Yes Dana Carvy was playing the drums. He's really good on multiple instruments and uses it in his stand-up.

[@Deegee_1969]

Vincent "Alice Cooper" Furnier helps out at a (his local?) food bank every Christmas. There's a photo online of him, minus stage makeup, dishing up some food to a little kid. He was also friends with Groucho Marx, and Salvador Dali, to name two other famous names. He also made an effort to help members of the band "Megadeth" to get clean, after he saw how much drugs and alcohol they were doing. So, erm... yeah, he's a good guy when offstage. As you took to the film, you'll have to react to their second "Waynes World" film.

[@tibor420]

"Stan Mikitas Donuts" is a Chicago take on "Tim Hortons". Stan was a hall of famer for the Blackhawks Like Horton was with the Leafs.

[@bigneon_glitter]

👉 Mike Myers' _So I Married An Axe Murderer_ (1993) is a must see. It's Myers' best movie.

[@dneill8493]

His father in it is my favourite Mike Myers character. "Head! Paper! Now!

[@RichardX1]

It's also the one movie where Myers is playing a "regular" character.

[@worsel555]

My last roommate had never seen Wayne's World or its sequel, so I literally had to pull the ProZD "When your friend hasn't seen a thing" skit and made him watch them. He could not stop laughing. My mom used to love and reference the note card scene as her favorite joke of the film, including what kind of deviant act the owner of Noah's Arcade was involved in. Now I gotta rewatch them again!

[@bradheld7927]

I saw a viewing of this in Grant Park, and one of the guests was Alice Cooper. When he walked out before the movie, everybody in the crowd stood up and chanted “We’re not worthy we’re not worthy!” Alice said when he gave that monologue about the trivia, Mike Myers was in his line of sight, and Alice said that he was doing the most vile disgusting things to get him to break character during that monologue. 🤣

[@Chris_McC]

Dana Carvey is a very good drummer in real life

[@nsasupporter7557]

RIP to his son

[@Daveyboy100880]

That moment when you realise that a) if a movie was ever made of George and Simone, it would basically be Wayne’s World… b) you really want to see them cosplay as Wayne & Garth… and c) Simone has been reading an autocue all these years. Oh, and obligatory fun factoid: Frankie Sharp of Sharp Records (“Mr Big”) was played by Frank DeLeo, who was Michael Jackson’s manager for many years!

[@craigplatel813]

The sitcom is Laverne and Shirley, a spin off of happy days.

[@colinwilson4609]

The Clapper, the Chia Pet, the Flowbee. I am 54 years young and high on legal shrooms. Happy 2024 everyone!

[@bryancorrell3689]

Bohemian Rhapsody, which had topped at #9 in the USA in 1976, recharted up to #2 following the release of Wayne's World in 1992. The film was released a few months after Freddie Mercury's death. Mike Myers has a cameo in the film Bohemian Rhapsody as a record executive who pans the song as not something "teenagers can crank up the volume in their car and bang their heads to."

[@sevatar5762]

The cultural impact this movie had can not be understated. It was relentlessly quoted for decades after its release. I’m nearly 40 and my father is nearly 60, I didn’t realise until watching this reaction that half of the stupid shit we say to eachother actually stems from this movie.

[@ptittannique5621]

Soooo... Yes, Brian May has a PhD in Astrophysics, but it was offered to him as an honorary degree--as opposed to him earning it. Apparently, he dropped his doctorate to pursue Queen full time. Fun fact: he was also the chancellor of my alma mater, Liverpool John Moores University, where I started my palaeontology curriculum. (I now hold my own PhD in palaeoichthyology)

[@corystanish]

One thing that I read in an interview with Dana Carvey when the movie was new, which might put some of this movie into perspective: They finished filming the story they wrote, cut it together, and it was only 40 minutes long. So they went back out and filmed a lot of random shenanigans to pad out the run time, which is why they just frequently take a little break to just do an unrelated comedy bit.

[@Chasmodius]

"Random Shenanigans" should be the subtitle of this film.

[@ThreadBomb]

It doesn't sound like a true story. Real film makers can tell how long a movie is going to be by looking at the script, so there's no way anyone would have been surprised.

[@Chasmodius]

@@ThreadBomb Well, if their only film experience to this point was making _Blues Brothers,_ they might have seen a script that *wasn't* ten times too long and thought "yeah, that seems more like it." without realizing it was actually too short. But sure, it might just be a good story.

[@goreyfantod5213]

18:00 The fact that neither of you recognized the intro to, "Laverne & Shirley," just stabbed me in the part of my brain that stops me from feeling ancient. George, I can understand not knowing the show, but Simone? Anyway, the show was a spinoff from, "Happy Days," (the one with Ron Howard & The Fonz); it was on American TV in the late 1970s & early 80s. It was set in the 1960s & one of the co-stars was Penny Marshall, director of Big and A League Of Their Own.

[@JoeMama410]

Also featuring Michael McKean

[@goreyfantod5213]

@@JoeMama410 Yeah, I figured they may not know most if the cast apart from Marshall. Especially now that so many are gone.

[@JoeMama410]

@@goreyfantod5213 A lot of people know Michael McKean from Better Call Saul.

[@RobPryme]

One more thing: I only just recently found this channel and I think you guys are the bees knees. It's been a hard 2023, and you guys make day-to-day life that much easier to get though. Can't wait to see what you have in store this coming year. Happy New Year, friends.

[@screennamemissing]

Fun fact: Dana Carvey improvised the Bugs Bunny dress line. So, the laughter you see/hear from Myers and Carvey is 100% genuine! xD

[@raynavarro7997]

When Garth quotes the Star Trek opening it is "where no man has gone before" from the original series...they changed it later to make it more inclusive

[@Protoman85]

The "I love you man" guy is Lee Tergesen, who is the main character in the best HBO show you're not watching: Oz

[@demonofelru3214]

Oh wow I didn't realize that was Beecher! Sadly I doubt ANY reaction channel would do that show, far too much r**e and violence.

[@tomWRX]

The movie that reintroduced Bohemian Rhapsody to a whole generation

[@Hazmonk]

As a Delawarean, that joke had me dying. We're so lame, I love it!!

[@justinatest9456]

At the time this was a pretty big movie with beloved characters at the time, and a lot of likely dated humour and references. Curious to see how it has aged, especially given that George hasn't even heard of Dana Carvey. These characters were honestly pretty loveable though. I'm guessing it has aged well.

[@TJNC1976]

The sitcome they were mimicking was from the opening of Laverne and Shirly

[@JB-nc7yk]

The music that played when Stacy appeared on screen was from Psycho (1960) not Jaws. Classic Alfred Hitchcock horror movie, worth a watch if you haven’t reacted to it yet.

[@AgedBacon]

Fun thing about the french version of that movie, is that it was translated and reworked by Dominique Farrugia and Alain Chabat, 2 greats comedians at that time, who made sure the film was really adapted to the french public, and not just translated, with jokes and playwords that you can only find in french.

[@PressStartOnce]

I can certainly understand this movie being a bit confusing 30 years later going in without the context of SNL and other current things going on at the time. It is hard to explain just how important this movie was to us teens at the time.

[@0okamino]

It was simultaneously a ridiculous exaggeration of us, and very relatable in a surreal way.

[@scotthewitt258]

"Who's Anthony? Who's Anthony? Who's Anthony?" "My drummer." {Quietly} "Oh, okay."

[@ClichéGuevara-2814]

The Stan Mikita donut shop clearly a reference to Tim Hortons. And that joke would have gone right by 90% of the world who saw this. Also, Musicians with PhD's. Brian May(Queen) - Astrophysics Greg Graffin(Bad Religion) - Zoology Dexter Holland(the Offspring) - Molecular Biology Milo Aukerman(the Descendants) - biochemistry Bill Bruford(Yes, King Crimson) - Music Sterling Morrison(Velvet Underground) - Medieval Literature

[@whawaii]

Don't forget Tom Scholz(Boston) - Mechanical Engineering (Masters MIT)

[@Steve-gx9ot]

Uh there really was Stan Mikita restaurant. Famous chicago black hawk hockey player..

[@Steve-gx9ot]

​@@whawaii best diploma that $$$ can buy❤

[@fmellish71]

@@whawaii but that's a masters degree

[@whawaii]

@@fmellish71 True dat, but considering he got his Masters in 1970, a year after his Bachelors (less time than most people typically need), I'm sure he could have nailed a PhD if his music hadn't started taking off. It still proves the point that he is highly educated & very intellectual.

[@EvolvedSungod]

For the backstage question, I was an event photographer all over the US west coast for 10 years and spent a lot of time backstage/in green rooms. Most performers were really chill people. Sadly my autism made lasting connections hard so I was doing a lot of poorly paid gigs and eventually I had to switch to art I could do at home.

[@HipsterBlood]

Garth didn’t know the words to that part of the song. 😂

[@lou7139]

Dana Carvey was pretty funny back in the 90s. He had his own show at one point. One of his most memorable political impressions was that of Ross Perot. He did a lot of other funny impersonations and characters. A really talented comedian.

[@nsasupporter7557]

Yeah but unfortunately, the movie Master of Disguise ruined him

[@ilovegames9708]

Yes, Dana Carvey actually did play the drums in the movie.

[@VilleHalonen]

This movie was a huge thing for me. I always admired how it feels like we're seeing how much fun everyone is having making this, so it's been more important than any coherence. The feel-good nature of it has always held the weird randomness together beautifully. It was, sadly, somewhat ruined for me upon learning how difficult Myers was to work with. I still love what everyone else is doing in the film, but my Wayne-o-meter isn't in quite such glorious numbers is it used to be. Garth's always been my favorite, but I still quote stuff like "Egg-squeeze me? Baking powder?" I've seen this movie's huge success credited as really making slacker comedy a thing, but I don't know how true that is; the first Bill & Ted movie (itself possibly inspired by the Wayne's World sketches in SNL) came out a few years earlier, but I was just a bit too young to catch it. The thing with Alice Cooper is a reused joke from the SNL sketches. It was a different rockstar, though.

[@DanJackson1977]

Wayne's World was Mike Meyers breakout sketch after he joined SNL in the late 80s. Instant hit skech, but one Lorne wasnt thrilled of at first. The more they did these characters on the show the bigger it got, to the point where they did one with Madonna during the peak of her SEX book / Justify My Love controversy in the early 90s. They sketch became a classic and led them to consider doing a film. Directed by Penelope Speris, who directed the legendary Decline of Civilization films about punk rock and metal. Apparently Mike clashed with her on this film creatively and axed her from the sequel.

[@ShawnRavenfire]

There were a plague of movies coming out around this time based on SNL sketches, but for some reason, this is the only one that didn't suck. The sequel is also pretty good.

[@DanEcho67]

Some guitar shop workers hate overplayed songs, of which "Stairway To Heaven" is one. However, in this movie, the sign was a behind-the-scenes reference to the fact that Led Zeppelin would not allow them to use Stairway in the movie. They used Bohemian Rhaspody instead, and made history.

[@johnserpo9267]

That's the music of 'Psycho'- not Jaws.

[@wfly81]

0:56 I doubt Simone even knows what Lorne Michaels sounds like, but she actually did a pretty solid impression.

[@mojoshivers]

The film responsible for the resurgence in “Bohemian Rhapsody” popularity at the time. I certainly didn’t know the cultural significance of that song until this movie came along.

[@jlew13jl]

Wayne's World was a SNL skit that was made into a movie

[@MetalHeadReacts]

Have you guys seen AIRHEADS with Brendan Fraser, Steve Buschemi and Adam Sandler? It's a damned amazing and hugely underrated film.

[@Nasty-Canasta]

Like Wayne's World, everyone is in it. It's worth it for Lemmy's cameo alone

[@BB13131313]

And yes Simone, Dana Carvey didn't really know the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody, he learned some of the lyrics, but that's why you see him just mouthing towards the end, but it works and is perfect lol..

[@ChainedPhantom]

The No Stairway scene in the music store was actually a shot at Led Zepplin. The original script actually HAD Wayne play the song, but Zepplin refused to authorize the use of the song, so they had to cut the scene.

[@vodengc520]

I often wondered if it was that, or just that people loved riffing that song in actual guitar stores and the clerks were sick of it, so they made that rule, lol. Be funny if it was a mix of both, lol.

[@JayH-tz4ip]

It actually was "Stairway" in theaters, and it's been restored on the UHD.

[@mwrench4185]

@@vodengc520 Led Zeppelin were notorious for not allowing their songs to be used in movies and TV shows. I think they became friendlier later on. You can hear Going to California in the finale of Entourage, In the Light at the end of Mindhunter, Immigrant Song in School of Rock, etc. but those are all past 2000. In the 90s they were still being opposed to it.

[@jessejones6409]

Wayne’s World was the first movie I ever bought to own. I think it was a good choice. That was so fun to watch y’all crack up. To answer your question, I was lucky enough to become friends with the creator of the Coachella Festival when I lived in Cali so he gave me and my friends all-access passes to the festival one year. My friend had tried to get me into Tool for a couple years and wanted to take me to a show but they hadn’t toured in a decade or so. That year they made their return so I got to take him to my first Tool show with all access-passes. Such a very special memory. I love and miss you, Marshal. Wherever you are.

[@King-Omega-]

I hope you guys go on to do Wayne's World 2, it's equally good and has its own level of strangeness going on.

[@TheDancerMacabre]

It also has James Hong!

[@badhidingplace9558]

Back in the mid-90's, my girlfriend and I (now my wife) did get backstage passes to see The Derek Trucks Band open for the Allman Brothers Band. We did get to watch the entire concert, Allman Brothers included, from the stage. We were off in one of the wings, but had a clear view of the stage, and were around 10 feet from The Allman Brothers while they played. It was fantastic!

[@sacrament182]

I hope you guys react to Wayne’s World 2 also.

[@danielstartek9729]

Originally an SNL skit. Cable 10 was a real cable access channel on Rogers Cable Toronto. The Gasworks was a real club on Yonge Street Toronto; now a dollar store. "No Stairway" was a real sign in Steve's music store on Queen Street Toronto. Stan Mikita was a famous hockey player; Tim Horton was a famous hockey player with a REAL donut shop. Airplanes landed that close @ Pearson Int'l Airport in Toronto. Mike Myers is from Scarborough Toronto.

[@merchillio]

I hope you’ll also react to the second one.

[@motorcycleboy9000]

A second Wayne's World? Ah, yes, I used to know a girl who owned a copy of Wayne's World 2. But that was a long time ago... when I was a young man. I'll never forget that summer... or the promise I made, that I'll always keep... that beautiful day watching Wayne's World 2. It's two aisles over at the end of the comedy section in Blockbuster.

[@jasonohara8372]

@@motorcycleboy9000 Fuck yes!

[@myownchannel247]

Dana Carvey is one of the best impressionists you’ll ever see

[@robertpearson8798]

Meyers based this character on people he knew growing up in the Suburbs of Toronto (Scarborough, or Scarberia as some call it). Like many of us he used to hang out at Tim Horton’s a lot, the inspiration for the coffee shop.

[@mangerinegirl]

Simone, thank you for appreciating how adorable Garth is. He’s the best thing about this movie in my opinion. Such a classic!

[@FrancoisDressler]

Those Mike Myers "hard to work with" stuff is overblown. He's a perfectionist and that causes problems in the industry.

[@Dularr]

Seems to be how he conducts himself. While the perfectionist, his method seem to be full of threats and anger.

[@FrancoisDressler]

@@Dularr In his own words: “I’m here to work, not make friends.” He has the exact same rep as Edward Norton in the industry. I don’t know, I identify with that mindset so maybe I’ve blocked out the details of how they conduct themselves.

[@mmcreads]

@@FrancoisDressler there’s a lot of room between “work” and “friends” tho - I’ve always had a hard time with that saying because it allows no nuance for things like “professionalism, courtesy, patience, respect, humility etc” even if you aren’t a traditionally “kind” person. It mostly comes off as a rational for being mean to people unnecessarily imo. I’d much rather prefer ppl be honest about their intentions and acknowledge they are pbly quick tempered or irritable or stressed out however they want to dress up being a jerk than to excuse it as everyone else’s fault for being friendly 🤷‍♀️

[@FrancoisDressler]

@@mmcreads Absolutely fair and I agree with you.