Alice! Is this cool? Yeah,
come on in. Sorry to bother you, but we had to come and tell you
how much we really enjoyed the show, didn't we, Garth?
Hey, hey, hey. Oh, thanks. We're not
mental or anything, so don't be afraid. My name is
Wayne, and this is Garth. Nice to meet you
guys. So, do you— Come
to Milwaukee often? Well,
I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its
share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early
as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans. In fact,
isn't Milwaukee an Indian name? Yes, Pete, it is.
Actually, it's pronounced "Mee-lee-wah-kay," which is Algonquin for "the
good land." I was not aware of that. I think
one of the most interesting aspects of Milwaukee is the fact that it's the
only major American city to have ever elected 3 socialist mayors.
Does this guy know how to party or what? Huh?
Huh? Oh. Okay.
Well, we gotta get going. No, no, no. Stick around.
Hang out with us. Cool.
Yeah, we'll stay and hang around with yous.
With Alice Cooper.
We're not worthy!
We're not worthy! We suck!
It's 2 Dads 1 Movie. It's the podcast where two middle-aged
dads sit around and shoot the shit about the movies of the '80s and '90s.
Here are your hosts, Steve Paulo and Nic Briana.
Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of 2 Dads 1 Movie.
I'm Steve. And I'm Nic. And today we continue our march through 2 Dads
2 Decades into the '90s to 1992
and the comedy classic Wayne's World.
Party on, Nic. Party on, Steve. So I picked
Wayne's World for us. This, you know, to me, I was looking at what came
out in '92 and also what we've been watching over the last few weeks.
And there have been some fairly heavy pictures. Yeah. Over the last few weeks,
especially the last two with Sleeping with the Enemy and Goodfellas. So I thought,
hey, let's break it up a little bit. Let's do a little, a little comedy.
And this was such a great movie to do because this is definitely what I
saw in the theater. 100%. This was, you know, my parents took me to see
this. I think we were like 12 when this came out. So it was like
prime time to go see a movie like this. And, you know, it stuck.
Like so much of this movie stuck with me and
I think with other people our age throughout our lives. And I still literally the
other day in a professional setting found myself saying, excuse me, baking powder,
like literally at work. Now I work remotely, so it was over a Zoom call,
but the point is I said it and I'm 46 years old. So it
just seemed like a real no-brainer to do Wayne's World
when we got to '92. You know, this really was a feather in
the cap of Dana Carvey's career, but like really helped kick
off Mike Myers as a movie star. And there's so many
people, like all cameos and people playing themselves.
The supporting cast is just really, really great. All around. And yeah,
I was just really excited to talk about Wayne's World with you. And,
and, you know, that's kind of why, why we picked it for this week,
why I brought it here this week. What's your history, Nic, with Wayne's World?
Oh man. So I don't think I saw this in the theater,
but definitely soon after it came out on video, this hit
at the perfect time. I was probably just like you getting into SNL
and all that stuff right around that age, like, you know, 12, 13. Yeah.
When you can start staying up late and catching it because there's no— yeah,
yeah, there's no recording it or whatever, so you had to stay up to watch
it. Yeah. Um, and my daughter right now is 14, and she's been
really into SNL over the last few years. Like, it's kind of the, the age
where it's hitting you, even the older stuff and everything. Um,
so yeah, I love the sketch on SNL,
uh, and then when I saw this movie, yeah, it's fantastic. It does
such a good job. And, and like you've talked about, there's a spectrum of SNL
movie, uh, successes, and this is definitely on the, on the higher end of that.
This and Wayne's 2, which we'll do at
some point, because 2 is one of the better comedy sequels ever, really. Yeah,
they're, they're probably the number 1 and number 2 of the, like, SNL sketches
turned movies. I mean, there are others that are good, but like, it's hard to
top these 2. They're, they're 3 and 4 for me, uh, because I like the
Blues Brothers. Oh, and MacGruber. And I like MacGruber. But I— they're
all great. They're all like the top end of them. They're not an It's Pat
or The Ladies Man. Yeah,
Coneheads, like, uh,
Coneheads gave us a great Red Hot Chili Peppers song. It's true.
If someone who thinks that's a real thing.
So yeah, I thought this movie was fun. And again, so quotable. Like, how often
were us and our friends in middle school and high school just like firing things
back and forth? Where again, if you don't watch this often,
you just say things in your life and then you watch the movie, you're like,
oh my God, that's a Wayne's World thing. I've been saying this to my cousin
for years. You've been saying schwing to your cousin for years? Yeah, well, it's been
a big problem.
Funky family reunions over there at Nic's house. All right, cool.
Like, he and I have an understanding. Good. I'm glad. As long as it's mutual.
Okay, let's jump into the facts on Wayne's World. All right.
The movie Wayne's World was released on Valentine's Day, February 14th,
1992. Speaking of schwing. Yeah. With a PG-13
rating and a running time of 94 minutes. Directed by Penelope
Spheeris, written by Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, and Terry Turner.
Starring Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and Rob Lowe. The score is very respectable
scores, a 79% from Rotten Tomatoes, a 7.0 even
from IMDb, which is honestly a 79 on Rotten Tomatoes is a much better score
than a 7 on IMDb. It's actually a little low on IMDb, but 2 thumbs
up from Siskel and Ebert. They clearly understood the assignment, realized what they were looking
at. Yep. And Chicago homers also. There you go. That's true. It's a Chicago type
movie. Quite a bit of awards activity. It was
nominated for 4 1993
MTV Movie Awards. It won one of them. It won the Best On-Screen
Duo for Carvey and Myers, but was also nominated for Most Desirable Female.
Tia Carrere was nominated. She lost to Linda Hamilton in T2.
And then both Myers and Carvey, separately from each other, were 2 of the
5 nominees for Best Comedic Performance that year. They lost to
Billy Crystal in City Slickers, which— that's a split the vote type
situation. Yeah, that's a weird one in my opinion. But Anyway,
and then also interestingly, at the MTV Video Music Awards that
year, the video for, that was re-released
for Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen that incorporated scenes from this
movie, won best video from a movie. So technically this
was a win for Wayne's World as well. On a $20 million budget,
which like, not sure where that shows up on the screen,
but it was a $20 million budget. So, okay. Music, I mean. I guess
that's true. The music that they had to pay for. Yes, that's a good point.
$183 million at the box office,
more than 9 times what it cost. Blockbuster by any measure.
And obviously one of the reasons why this movie got a sequel that came out
like 18 months later, the sequel comes out and there were more and more,
you know, Lorne Michaels produced SNL type comedy movies throughout the '90s,
not most of which did not hit like this. But because this one hit so
big, it was a green light. It's worth it. Yeah. Just give it a shot.
Exactly. Yeah. Wayne's World 2, check out Wayne's World 2 for sure.
It's really good. We will absolutely do that because that, again, I honestly believe it
is one of the best comedy sequels. It stands on its own. It could have
been just Wayne's World and it would have been a satisfactory Wayne's World. Like,
it would have been a great Wayne's World. Yeah, I mean, it does a good
job of picking up where this one leaves off and sort of like incorporating the
events of this movie into it. But it also could be standalone, which is I
think also the mark of a really well-premised sketch, right?
When SNL has good recurring sketches, it's because the storyline isn't as interesting.
It doesn't matter as much as the characters, but those characters can take us anywhere
we want to go with them, right? And that's sort of of the thing we
have with Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar. All right,
let's kick it off. So the way Wayne's World begins, we are watching TV.
And it turns out we are watching TV with Rob Lowe.
His character's name is Benjamin. He's in his apartment
or whatever in Chicago, big high-rise apartment in Chicago with the beautiful Ione Skye,
who we probably remember as Diana or Diane or Diana
from Say Anything. She was like the main character, John Cusack.
Pined After and Say Anything. That's where I remember Ione Skye from. Beautiful woman.
She's not in this very much, but she is the one flipping channels. And we
see a couple of classic sort of late '80s, early '90s commercials. We got the
Clapper. You know, there's a handful of other things that like— Chia Pet. Yeah,
Chia Pet's on there. But she flips and she gets to cable access channel 10,
Aurora, Illinois. And it's Wayne's World. And she's
laughing at it. And Benjamin's like, what the hell is this? And she goes,
oh my God, this is hilarious. Everybody loves these guys. And he immediately is like,
Hey, we've got somebody for Vanderhoff. We actually did see the ad.
Brian Doyle-Murray plays Noah Vanderhoff, who runs Noah's Arcade.
Fucking worst pun name I've ever heard, and I love puns. But, you know,
he does his own little commercial about, you know, come play Xantar and Space Invaders
and shit like that at my arcades. And so immediately Benjamin's like, hey, I think
we got something we can sell to Vanderhoff, is what he says. So he's immediately
already thinking, he's planning, he's sort of figuring stuff
out. They are eating Shakey's, by the way. They mentioned specifically that. That's right.
Shakey's pizza. Of the reference in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. That's right, that's where it
came from. The restaurant was called Shakey's. Yeah, and it's a reference to Shakey's
as well. So, uh, and, and on the Wayne's World show,
they have a special guest who's this guy, the inventor of the Suck Cut,
which is like a Flowbee type thing, right? Vacuum haircutting, uh,
device, also named, I think, in reference to Ron Popeil. His name
is Ron Paxton. Oh, okay. I imagine they did a Ron Popeil joke by calling
him that, but I don't know, maybe not. RIP to Ron Popeil, I think.
Um, so, uh, yeah, so he's
He's sucking— he's, he's, uh, cutting Garth's
hair with this. And Dana Carvey, very funny with the physical stuff and like
his reactions to— one of the challenges with bringing, um,
a short-form SNL sketch to a movie is like adding extra
attributes to the characters to make them interesting. And they do such a good job
in this with Garth, with just extending the Garth character, because you don't get indications
of like the way he really is. And all the choices they make— his car
is perfect, like all these things are just so good. So I love Garth's
reaction. Like, you know, he's freaking out and everything. And of course Benjamin
doesn't get this and his lady loves it.
It's the funniest thing in the world, which is just a perfect— this
happens with every generation where there's the thing that all the kids love and
you just don't get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, I don't know, it's making
money. I mean, how many times do you try to show somebody I Think You
Should Leave or you try to show them the Eric Andre Show or whatever and
they're like, what the fuck is this? So, uh, I can definitely relate to her
there. It's goddamn comedy gold is what it is. You should respect,
respect that Tim Robinson, the Detroiters. Yeah.
Um, yeah, so, uh, so just kind of a goofy scene
there. And then we have Wayne kind of like talking to the camera and introducing
everybody. He spends a lot of time talking directly to the camera in this,
and there's a joke at one point, uh, we'll get to it soon, but he
jokes about, hey, only Wayne, only Garth and I can talk to the camera kind
of thing. Uh, but he starts— and I love that he kicks off with "Let
me bring you up to speed." And it's just like, you know, and he lays
out the whole thing and it's like, look, if you're familiar with the SNL sketch,
this would technically be unnecessary. He talks about how, you know, he's got this cable
access show, his best friend Garth, he lives with his parents. But like all this
stuff is either explicitly called out in the sketches or obvious. I mean, there were
sketches where Wayne's mom would yell down the stairs to the basement to them and
he'd yell back or whatever, right? So all this stuff was kind of known,
but by giving it to us right here, you don't have to have seen the
sketch to enjoy the show, to enjoy the movie. And I think that's important.
And I also think it's the kind of thing where I think this is an
example of Wayne— excuse me, of Michael— Mike Myers and Dana Carvey
having created more backstory for these characters than they ever needed on SNL.
Right. And I really think— yeah, I'm sure some of the work came in transitioning
to the movie, but I'll bet you there were things that Dana knew about Garth
that never showed up on screen, but he knew them. But it informs the way
that he plays the character. But you don't have to talk about it. Yeah,
that's— that's a good point. They must have thought this out. And so then when
they came to like, hey, let's write the movie, it was like, cool, we already
know so much about these two. What set pieces can we put them in that
are fun? And that's really what you end up with this sort of sketch adjacent,
you know, comedy movie. But yeah, we also meet the Mirthmobile, right?
So, and there's a little bit of weird geography going on here that I'll call
out later in the movie as well. But like, it's hard to tell who the
Mirthmobile belongs to because at one point it looks like it's Wayne's car, at another
point it looks like it's Garth's car. It's hard to tell if they live
across the street from each other or not. I think they do, but then where
is Garth driving up from? And if they just left
the recording, I guess maybe they returned the van and are coming back 'cause it's
the crew is with them, or at least 2 out of the 3 guys.
Is with them in the Mirthmobile. So I guess maybe they delivered, they brought
the broadcast truck back to the cable access place and then are now returning,
I guess. Okay. But there's a weird jump. Yeah, they are both driving the car
and the Mirthmobile is this blue AMC Gremlin that has like
flames on the side of it. It is just so, so perfect for
a funny movie car. Yes. You know, they nailed it. Absolutely. And so
they put on some music and of course this is the sequence As we're driving
around Aurora and getting some like establishing shots of different businesses
and different things in the area, we get Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. I don't know
about you, but this was literally the first time I'd ever heard Bohemian Rhapsody when
I watched this movie. Okay, so at this time, because I knew who Queen
was and stuff and I knew We Will Rock You and everything, and I had
never heard Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah, I swear to this day, every 5 years there's a
new Queen song that comes out where I'm like, there's not— how would I have
not heard that shit before? But yeah, dude, with you. Yeah, yeah.
Because I think I knew, I knew We Will Rock You. I think I knew
We Are the Champions. And that was probably it. My parents just weren't big Queen
fans, so this wasn't in the normal rotation of stuff they played for us on
road trips. I heard a lot of Beatles, Elton John, Billy Joel, stuff like that.
Not Queen so much. But it was actually funny after this, I think my dad,
I remember now, my dad bought like a Queen's Greatest Hits, you know, tape.
Classic Queen, I remember that. Right, yeah. 2 volumes of it. Because then I got
to know like Fat Bottom Girls and Bicycle Race and Flash Gordon and all that
other stuff. So over time, but yeah, this was my first experience of Bohemian Rhapsody.
I think it was a lot people our age or younger. Yeah, a lot of
us, it was our first experience with Bohemian Rhapsody, and it's fucking great, and it
still holds up. It's fun. They're doing the headbanging, they're doing the
singing along. It's just— it's 5 minutes into the movie and it's already given us
a ton. I mean, they're— this is a very densely packed
movie. Absolutely. And so, uh, along their drive, they pause the song at
one point, sort of before the, the real melodic slow part, and they see their
buddy Phil, and it's like, Phil, you already partied out. The dude looks like he's
gonna throw up like the second whatever. And, and but Wayne tells Garth, he's like,
I give you a no puke guarantee or whatever. No hurl guarantee.
And, and this is why I think it's Garth's car, because Garth is the one
so worried about puking in the Mirthmobile. Even though Wayne drives
it later, I do feel like, you know, this is probably Garth's car because he's
like, oh dude, what if he hurls? Yeah, yeah. Uh,
one of the stops that they make is the local kind of music store,
and they drive by so that Wayne can like window gaze at
his dream guitar, which is sitting there in the, in the window there, this white
Fender Stratocaster, which is You know, just beautiful. He calls it Excalibur.
Yeah. He's like, it will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.
Shout out to my cousin Jen. That is one that we say back and forth.
The other thing. So,
so they end up making the stop at Stan Makita's
Donuts. Yes. And Stan Makita was a Blackhawks player. Yes, he was. And this
was— I referenced him in Ferris Bueller as well because I thought it would have
made more sense for Cameron to be wearing a Stan Makita jersey than a
Gordie Howe jersey. So yeah, it's his donut shop, or I guess, you know,
he probably owns— here's the thing, I don't know if there's a real Stamakitas Donuts
or not, because I could imagine the way that a lot of like ex-sports stars
go into like, I own a used car dealership in the town I played in.
I could see a chain of donut shops. Totally. Yeah. That's the thing you do.
Um, but out front— Isn't Tim Horton, wasn't he a hockey player? I think he
was a hockey player. Maple Leafs, I think. Yes, exactly. So,
but, uh, so they go outside and we meet Officer Koharski, who's this very,
you know, sort of He looks too tan. He looks very leather.
I think this is the guy that played, um, O'Malley, uh,
Steven Seagal's buddy in the movie Hard to Kill. Oh, I don't think I've
seen it. And, uh, yeah, good to see him. It's, it's fun to see Gen
X people giving shit to a cop because I feel like every Gen X person
I know in my life just could not love cops more. So it's great to
see them making these, uh, bacon jokes to the cop. Why didn't you just follow
directions? Well, just, just, just, just do what you're told. Just do what you're told
and everything will be fine. Yeah. So I smell bacon. And Kowarski, to his credit,
is like, "Ha ha, that's what you're doing." Yeah, good. Give each other shit.
Because he even says, "I remember when I was a teenager and I used to
say that kind of shit to cops." So that's funny. So Kowarski's okay. But he
tells them the story about, you know, a tour bus going through town and they
got tips that there was drugs on board. So they had to search the bus,
didn't find anything, and then had to do full body cavity searches.
And he goes, "I inspected 14 individuals myself." "Just
gross." And then there's this moment where he
says that and then Phil looks like he's gonna hurl. So they're like, "This guy
needs coffee and Crueller stat," right? And they wanna get him aside. But Kojarski's holding
a quarter like there's a joke that was pulled.
I think there was a joke cut out of this moment because he's holding a
quarter and he ends up like flipping it or dropping it and picking it up
or something. But it's like, I'm imagining him like, "I pulled this right out of
a guy or something." And that's what makes Phil go, but they decided to cut
that. But he's holding his quarter in a way that's like, that's— there's a reason
he's holding that quarter that way. That's not just random, you know. This movie does
a great job of staying solidly PG and nibbling
around any real reference. Like, even they're not— they're talking about their
friend Phil who's partied out. Yeah, but they're never like, he got drunk last night,
he's hungover, he— you know, like, they really don't quite touch
all this stuff. They do make it kind of so a kid could watch it
and not really feel like they don't understand everything happened. You're 100% right on a
lot of that. It is PG-13, and I think that they— it's a pretty solid
PG-13. And the problem with some of the "this will go over kids' heads" stuff
is that kids will repeat stuff. Sure. I've repeated— and
this is later in the movie— but "the cream of some young guy" is something
I said as a child. That's definitely— and had to be told to knock it
the fuck off. Yeah. Because I had no idea what
the hell that joke was. I just knew that like everybody reacted to it on
screen. Yeah. Like, but anyway, so yeah, so now we get into Stan Makita's
Donuts. And we meet Glenn, played by the incomparable Ed Harris.
Not Ed Harris. Ed O'Neill. Ed O'Neill, thank you. That's how incomparable he is.
Incomparable, no, but played by Al Bundy. And he gives
us, and he talks directly to the camera, and he's the first person who isn't
Wayne or Garth to speak directly to the camera, and tells us this thing about
like, "When you kill a man in battle, they call it heroic. But if you
do it in a fit of passion, it's murder." And he's like pissed about it.
And Wayne's like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Like too heavy, too dark,
and only Garth and I can talk to the camera. What are you doing?" That
is so effective, right? For a couple reasons. Because one, it's showing
us that some random other character can start talking to the screen
at any time. Right, right. And then also that it can go really dark,
like, you know, kind of an Adam Sandler movie way where there's just this level
of darkness. So now the scope of what we might experience in this movie has
been pushed out. So we're like, dude, I don't know what the hell is going
to happen. It's interesting because clearly the first act of this movie, the early part,
and I don't really think that it, that it comes back in many ways.
It does a little bit later. But really, the whole first act of this movie
feels like it's almost like a mockumentary. It almost feels like a This Is Spinal
Tap kind of situation where Wayne and Garth are deliberately having like a
camera crew follow them. And obviously that's not what's happening. We don't get any of
that explicit, but the way that Wayne especially just is constantly talking
to the camera and referring to it and stuff, it gives it that feel.
That goes away quite a bit in the second act. It comes back a little
in the third, but like, you know, it's a big thing early on here.
So yeah, so basically this is, and this is when we're kind of getting introduced
to more and more characters in this world. And Terry, one of the sort
of like crew guys for the show, and then another of the crew guys,
are sitting with this old guy, Old Man Withers, and, hey, it's Old Man Withers
who runs the amusement park, which is like, well, boy, that's going to, you know,
it's one of those plants that you see in the setting of Chekhov's Gun that's
coming back somehow later. But yeah, but you found out a little bit about Mr.
Withers. So this, this guy who plays Old Man Withers has this perfect
old man look. Yes. His real name is Carmen
Filippi. F-I-L-P-P-I. Okay. Okay. Filippi.
And he died several years ago, lived to the ripe old age of
80. So good for him. But my wife and I were watching this and she
was like, he's always an old man and stuff. Like, what are his other roles?
And we go to his roles and these are just some of his things from,
from IMDb, his other roles over the years. Bum number 2,
wino, usher slash drunk, bum,
prisoner, dummy, bum,
wino, farmer number 2. Good for him.
Okay. Ticket taker. We're moving up in the world. The bum.
Bus Station Bum, Panhandler, Hobo Jack,
Bum. Oh, he got a name on that one. Yeah, he's got a name.
Jack. Let's see. Mop Man, Jail Bum.
Hey. Okay. What the fuck is a jail bum? Wino.
That's 3. Why? The Bum. Wow.
Street Bum Number One. I mean, so you can see that, that this actor
has so much range. He can play anything from a Street
Bum Number One to boxcar hobo number 4 and,
you know, just knock it out of the park. So I thought it was really
funny that from early in his career— I mean, yeah, this guy was
in movies until the 2000s, and back in like 1968
they're like, oh hey, uh, congratulations on graduating Juilliard,
you're gonna be playing hobos for the rest of your life. I assure you that
man did not attend Juilliard. Uh, I would still like to know the hell he
ate out of the dumpster outside Juilliard. But like, what the hell's a jail bum
if you're in jail? Like You have a place to live. Doesn't that
sound good? You're in jail but you're homeless, so you can go. So I
live in the yard. I can go. So I'm free. You just live in the
yard. They make you sleep under, under newspaper in the yard. That's it.
Like, that sounds awful. It's like the opposite of solitary confinement
but still worse. Oh my God. So that's Old Man Withers. Uh,
uh, Stacy, Wayne's ex-girlfriend, played by— it was Laura
Flynn Boyle. Yeah, she looks great. I mean Real flex for this to
be the "Ew, get away from me" girl, right? I gotta say, so yeah,
so it's Laura Flynn Boyle, who famously, right, "Twin Peaks," "The Practice," right?
She has had a great career on television. I, as a
kid, starting from the first time, thought she was gorgeous, and still
do. And yeah, they play the she's kind of crazy a
bit, but not enough. Wayne comes off like an asshole to
Stacy, 'cause the worst thing she does is buy him a bad gift and try
to get him jealous by making out with another guy. That's the worst shit she
does. That's not that bad. And she looks stunning. Now look, yeah,
this is a world in which a guy who looks like Mike Myers ends up
with a fucking career. So clearly he has the ability to,
to, you know, punch above his weight. And a guy with Mike Myers's,
like, life as well, lives with his parents. Like he says
earlier, like, I got an extensive collection of name tags and hairnets about
his jobs. And everything's a successful person. Yeah, just a guy. But yeah,
but Stacy is there. She's And she gives a— she brings Wayne a
gift. She's like— and they're just— and she gives him a gun rack, right?
And this is where he has this great line. Well, when he first— when he—
when she walks up and it's like, Wayne, it's our anniversary, and he's like,
we broke up, so no, it's not, like, kind of thing. And she's
got this thing, and it's, you know, it's a big wide, you know, large thing.
But he says, if that's a severed head, I'm gonna be very upset,
which is a fucking great line. But then yes, he opens it up, he kind
of rips it open, and it's a gun rack. And he goes, what is it?
She goes, it's a It's a gun rack. And he goes, a gun rack?
What do I need with a gun rack? I don't own a gun,
let alone multiple guns that would necessitate an entire rack. Yeah.
What am I going to do with a gun rack? And her response,
Wayne, if you're not careful, you're going to lose me. I mean, it's just like,
it's— she's so good. She's so good. It's great. She has this necklace on
that just says Wayne on it. Man. Oh God.
Funny. So now, now we go to— and, and They
make mention of, we're going to be at this— she asked him,
are you guys going to Gas Works tonight? They all go, no, like real fast.
Yeah. But sure enough, they end up at the Gas Works. So they go to
the club there, and this is the rock club, and, uh, Meatloaf is the,
the bouncer, the doorman there. And Wayne asked him, oh, who's playing
tonight? And he names these bands, and he's like, and the Shitty Beatles. And he
goes, the Shitty Beatles, are they any good? He's like, no, they suck.
So it's not just a clever name. That always made me laugh.
The other band, by the way, the other band he mentions is the Jolly Green
Giants, who we actually will see briefly later. And then he said, "And then right
now finishing up is Crucial Taunt." Crucial Taunt. And that's Tia Carrere,
Cassandra's band. Cassandra Wong, I believe, is her last
name. And she is played by Tia Carrere. And this was, you know, when we
did Total Recall, we talked about, you know, I know for myself, the stranglehold.
True Lies. Oh, sorry, it was True Lies, not Total Recall. It's True Lies.
The stranglehold this woman had on me in this era, in this sort of early
'90s, She is stunning. She looks great in this. And I
did a little research because I thought this was the case and verified. Yeah,
she did all her own vocals. So she, all of the Crucial Taunt cover songs,
that's her singing. And she would go on after this movie. Her first album
came out a year after this movie came out. She has since won 2 Grammy
Awards as a Hawaiian music artist. She has won twice, has won
and has been nominated additional other times for Best Hawaiian Music Album at the Grammys.
Damn. She is a multi-Grammy Award winning recording artist.
And the first time in popular entertainment that she
sang, this movie. Good for her. This movie, because her first album
came out after this movie did. So it was part of what she did when
she auditioned to get the role was sing. And I
read somewhere it was like Linda Ronstadt or somebody, but she sang like in the
auditions and they were like, oh, so you can do both.
We won't have to hire some other singer to be the vocals of Cassandra.
We could just use you. That's already, you know, I'm sure they were already interested
in her for the part, but like that was like a cherry on top situation
for her. Well, and it adds a ton to the movie and you can tell
that it's her singing and it, and it really is because,
you know, there's certain things in movies that they affect people different ways,
but I tend to find that kind of thing really distracting.
Yes. So yeah, it just, it helps. You can just relax and enjoy it.
It is her singing. Yes. Yeah, she's good. She does well. Yeah, they do
great. They do fantastic. Yeah, we'll get into later the whole concept of like,
I have a metal band but we're just a cover band, but we're going to
make it. That's an interesting thing that doesn't quite work, but that we can get
to that later. We're a heavy metal band and we do golden
earring covers, right? It's like,
um, but her show's cool. And this is a good— this is kind of like
the, um, the— a better version of the club from
Singles. Yes. Where, uh, where they go to see Alice in
Chains every night, right? So Soundgarden was there
too. Um, yeah, so, and Wayne is trying to— he's trying
to talk to Cassandra and and, you know, it was kind of messing it up.
He's not— his lines aren't going over well, but she's— but she's not—
she doesn't hate him, but she's just kind of like, whatever, guy. Yeah. But she—
I do love when he turns to kind of really sees her for the first
time after making the crowd. We get a play of Dreamweaver by Gary Wright comes
over. I believe you can get me through the night. And it's
like blurred and like sparkly or whatever. Okay. Like, and like, yeah, everything. So he's
falling in love, but she's basically just like, you know, he's like, hey, can I
call you? Which is like pretty forward, Good for him, just asking straight out.
I like that. And she's just like, "If you've got $5, you can come to
the rent party." 'Cause they're throwing a party at their loft to make rent,
I guess is the idea, right? So $5 at the door. It's like tomorrow night,
I think she says something like that. So he gets a flyer and at least
now he knows, you know, she'll be able to like, or he'll be able to
see her again or be some whatever. And so
when Garth finally catches up to wake, 'cause Garth gets in this little like little
tiff with another big guy. Oh yeah, some guy's like pushing him around. Yeah,
you dweeb or whatever. And he goes to his car to get a stun gun,
with like a belt and basically tases this guy and throws him across
the room, which is a weird little sub-thing. They make Garth kinda like Data
from The Goonies. A little bit, yeah. In this, you know? But like not for
any good reason. And there's only one other moment where you really see it and
it kinda doesn't work with Benjamin Stockham later. By the way though, he is wearing,
I don't think he has the stun gun on, but when they go see Alice
Cooper later in the movie, he's got that belt on with the little meter as
a belt buckle. So I don't know what's going on there. But yeah, but so
when Garth catches back up to Wayne Gasworks has chatted with him. He is when
he says like, whoa, she's a Meg, she's a babe, and he's a— she's a
robo babe, and he— she makes me feel kind of funny, like when we used
to climb the rope in gym class. And the funny part is I never had
to climb a rope in gym class, but I still got that joke. Yeah,
just get a rope installed in your bedroom, you never
have to leave. Um, one of the— one of the jokes in this
movie that was definitely of the time that I appreciated is, uh,
they're driving and there ends up being this this, you know, limo,
fancy-looking Rolls-Royce-type limo next to them, and he has the
guy roll his window down and does the "Part of Me, do you have any
Grey Poupon?" joke to him. So, which they're
right on the pulse. And it's funny watching this stuff where it's like, oh,
that's dated. This is like, no, it's not. It was made for the people that
were fucking alive and watching it then, and it worked perfectly. And I don't know
how many times that joke had been done before this. The commercial was well
known, but I don't know that it had really been lampooned all that much,
right? Like, were people doing that to each other? And like, yeah.
Um, so, so they go to this meeting now. They're meeting with Benj— or,
uh, Benjamin and the TV guys are talking, right? So, so it's Benjamin,
Rob Lowe, and they're pitching to, uh, Vanderhoff, played by Brian Doyle-Murray.
And the other person there is the director, uh, Russell, who's played by Kurt Fuller,
who I love. Kurt Fuller, he's so good. He's so much fun. He was,
you know, and he's a bear, kind of a Northern Cal guy, grew up in
the San Joaquin Valley, went to like SF State. Like, I mean, he's that kind
of guy, but he's done So much stuff. I mean, Ghostbusters 2
is one of the first things I remember him in. But like, the dude ended
up— if you look at his IMDb, and I'm not going to go through it,
but like every single, like, legal drama on TV,
he has at least one episode in as an attorney. The dude just went around
playing— like, he was on The Practice one episode opposite Laura Flynn Boyle, you know,
and like things like he just played attorneys everywhere he went. But Kurt
Fuller's fantastic. Better draw than playing bums and winos. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But he's
a lot of fun and he's great in this because he's like, like he's not
as conniving as Eric from Billy Madison,
kind of. He's like the— or not Eric, the Carl character.
Yeah, he's— yes, he's like the guy who's kind of on the good guy's side
but he's working for the bad guys. He has to go along with the bad
guy because it's his job, and he generally doesn't give a shit about the good
guys to begin with, but then kind of comes around because he's not inherently
bad, like, you know what I mean? Like, he's got some reasonableness to him,
um, and he'll come around eventually. But I just love Kurt Fuller as an actor.
I think he's fantastic. He says something in this meeting that killed me where they're—
I think they're talking about the maybe the shows that they could run his commercial
during or something like that. And he goes, um, uh,
African American Digest. And then, uh, Brian DeLormeau, he's like, I never
heard of that. And, uh, and Rob Lowe's like, it's on very late. And then
Russell goes, it's actually won several awards. Several awards. Like, this is a really
good show. It's so— it's so sincere. Like, it was just
one of those little like jabs in the movie that I think was so well
placed. And it's, and it's at, it's one of those places, right, where, yeah,
it's, it's, it's at, uh, like, you know, here's the thing, here's who he's
not. He's not Rob Riggle in Step Brothers. Like, he's not fully on board with
the dickhead, you know what I mean? That's who Kurt Fuller is. Totally. That's the
opposite of this, right? Um, but yeah, he's a lot of fun in this.
Um, and so, yeah, so then the next morning we kind of cut to the
next day and the Murphmobile is getting like smog checked or worked on or something,
whatever it is, for $47. Phil is Phil,
their, their drunk buddy from the night before, is the working at the body,
the, the car shop, whatever. And, uh, Wayne is learning Cantonese and so He's
like yelling, 'cause he's got the headphones on, he's yelling very loudly along with his
training tapes and scaring Garth. But yeah, they end up like, Phil's like, "Hey,
I got you guys, you know, a good deal. It's like $47.50 or whatever." And
they're like, "Shiha, oh no." And they're pulling like individual dollar bills
out and waiting for him to say, "No, that's not enough." Like, do the rap
yourself, dude. But also Phil is telling them about this great band at
Gas Works last night. "You guys should have been there. They were awesome." And Phil,
we brought you there. That's how drunk Phil was. Nice. That's how blacked
out Phil is. He can remember Tia Carrere's boobs, probably, is about all he can
remember for the night. Doesn't remember how he got there, how he got home.
He was like, there's this great band, it was just one chick, and they were
playing Dreamweaver all night. I don't know how she did the drums
and the guitar and the bass, but she wailed, man. Yeah, so Benjamin
meets them at a place called Patio's, like a tiki bar. Yes. And so it's
Wayne and Garth and Benjamin, and, uh, Benjamin's got got
like a, probably like a vodka soda or something in front of him, and Wayne
I think has a beer. And then Garth orders, you know, the, the cocktail for
3. Dude, it's enormous, like a scorpion bowl, one of those. Yeah, one of those
girls' night out, like, can we all finish this? Before it was illegal.
I got a quick funny story about this. So I was in Miami on business
a few years ago working for a sports website, and, uh, we all went out
to dinner, and I was super excited because we're going to a Cuban restaurant,
and I'd never been to like Miami and eat Cuban food down there. And so
I was really looking forward to getting a Cubano sandwich. I'm a big fan.
Well, we went for dinner, and I didn't realize that they didn't have those at
dinner. I was lunch only. So I was kind of like disappointed.
And like the waiter, I think, could tell, like, oh, you know, and I'm like,
yeah, like, why don't you just, you know, get me like a Cuba Libre and
I'll get like, you know, paella or something like whatever. And he goes, well,
now do you want the small Cuba Libre? You want the big Cuba Libre?
And I go, oh, well, sure, let's do the big. Like my company was paying,
like whatever. Motherfucker did not tell me that big meant for 4.
So an enormous like punch bowl with 4 straws in
it of just rum, Coke, and lime come out to the table.
And basically like, Like at that point everybody's looking at me and then you gotta
realize like I'm here in the capacity as like a boss of several of the
people that I'm with. Like my direct reports are with me. So you've gotta finish
it otherwise you look weak. It's basically like, do I like, I can't offer this
to anyone else. I can't share with anyone. This is like 2023. We're not sharing,
you know what I mean? And so I end up drinking the whole thing.
But like, you know, it was just like, you asshole, you should have told me
this. It was like when you said big, I thought you meant like a pint
glass versus like a little highball. You know what I mean? If the size difference
is more than 50% bigger than the previous size, then you need to explain
that it's like, yeah, I'm totally with you there. But I almost looked like Garth
sitting at this table. Luckily it wasn't blue or like crazy like that, but good
God. His drink is so damn funny here.
Yeah, so Benjamin basically offers them like, we wanna sponsor your
show, we wanna attach it to Noah's Arcade. Run it on our network. We're gonna
give you $5,000 each. Yeah. Which is, you know,
world-changing money to these guys. Clearly not nearly enough for
what's actually being asked of them, but so much more money than they see.
Which is Benjamin being a good executive. You find somebody who
is desperate enough that a shitty amount of money will make them happy. Exactly.
Um, so, so this is a funny thing here that Garth does is he— they,
they give them the contract and the pen to sign it, and Garth like very
purposefully nudges the pen off the table and then kind of like nods his
head to the camera, motions down like, hey, follow me down here
under the table, I get to talk to you. Like in mockumentary style. Yeah,
I feel like there's an active camera crew there, you know, that he's interacting with.
But he basically just like calls out what the— He's like, "I don't know if
I like this." Yeah. "I don't feel great about this." "Okay, I gotta
get back." And he's just like, it's very funny. And then he does something.
He like pulls something out of the drink. It's like a breadstick or something.
I can't tell what it is. It's something he's like kind of sucking on or
chewing on or something. Yeah, there's always like crazy stuff in there. Yeah, Dana Carvey's
doing a lot with his mouth in this scene, and I can't fully understand it,
but I do know when Benjamin says, "I've got a check here,
cashier's checks for each of you for $5,000 each." And
that's when Wayne says, "Excuse me, baking powder?" And like, again, I literally still say
that shit. And I'm almost always like, "I shouldn't have said that," when I say
it. Like, it's just the thing that pops out of my mouth before I even
thought of it. Yeah. But they're freaking out. And this is when,
and then Garth, like, whatever he's eating or sucking off, I can't
tell what he's doing with this little piece of food from the drink, but it
like gets down his throat and it's like, and he slaps in the back and
he spits it and it lands in the drink or whatever, in another drink.
And that's— I love when he shoots, he scores. This is another great
one. Oh God, so funny.
Uh, so we're back with, uh, with Cassandra.
Yeah, it's like the rent party she was talking about right before. And Wayne's chatting
with, with her, and, uh, she mentions that she learned,
um, she learned English from the Police Academy movies.
I would have loved for her to do like 10 seconds of Winslow there.
Just get like, hit me with some sound effects.
She does all her own sound effects in this movie. So a couple of things
about this loft, man. This loft is enormous. Again, lofts unrealistic
in all these. Her place is almost bigger than the Gas
Works. Yeah, they were almost— I don't know if we're supposed to believe that the
whole band lives here or if this is just her place, because if it's just
hers, it's huge for one person. But also, we don't— later we don't see the
band there without being there to play with her. So it does seem like it's
her place, which is crazy. We get another Dreamweaver callback when Wayne—
And then there's a thing in here that I love, which is, you know,
they arrived by dancing out of the car. We got $5,000.
Yes. We got $5,000. So they've obviously told the crew about the news.
And Terry goes up to Wayne and is like, "I love you, man." And
he's like, "I love you too, Terry." "No, no, no, no, I love you,
man." And all Terry wants is a thank you. Yeah. 'Cause when he does it
to Garth, he says, "I love you, man." And Garth says, "Thank you." That's like
the end of it. Terry is such a wonderful positive masculinity
example. I really love Terry in this movie. And it's not a
way that I thought about this, you know, the last time I saw it,
maybe 5 or 10 years ago. Yeah. Looking at it now, it's like the guy
can just tell his buddies he loves them. Like, that's awesome. Yeah.
More of that shit. The whole crew honestly is great.
I love all those guys. It works well. They don't give him a ton to
do, but they all, they all serve their purpose
well. I love Michael DeLuise. He's one of the, one of the
crew members, and he was the kind of bad guy in Encino
Man. Yes. Yeah, the rich kid or whatever. Yeah. Like, yeah, yeah. And he,
he has not been in that that much. And I think that guy is so
fucking funny. I'm like really disappointed he's not in a lot
more, but I love that he's in this and he's just perfect. When he hits
on Van Der Hoff's wife later, it's fucking brilliant. It's so good.
Um, so Wayne had been learning Cantonese, right?
And he's starting to have a conversation with Cassandra. So Cassandra
says she learned English from Police Academy, and then Wayne just says something to her
in Cantonese like, you look very beautiful, just like Oh my God, you said this
to me. Yeah. And they get into this crazy vocabulary,
you know, as their conversation goes in and there's subtitles. One of the things Wayne—
he's talking about his ex-girlfriend who's like sitting behind them trying to make them jealous.
Yes. And he's like, the irony is
I feel partly responsible for her self-nullifying behavior. Like, they're just going through
all this stuff. Yes. All these great subtitle tropes where he talks out
loud for you know, 3 seconds and then 30 seconds of
subtitles show up and then the opposite. And they, they really hit
it from every angle. I don't think in previous viewings of this movie I really
understood the— I understood the joke of he said a little and then the
text was long. That was a joke I kind of got, right? But the whole—
the vocabulary ramp-up and self-nullifying behavior,
it's like, not just vocabulary-wise, but like, to like be able to
say a concept like that out loud in another language, it's like such advanced
understanding of that language, whatever it is. Is I didn't really get that joke until
this time and I laughed my fucking ass off when that happened. The other thing
is another thing that I absolutely still say, I mean, God, I can't,
honestly once a month this comes outta my mouth in perfectly like reasonable
time to say it. And if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass
when it hopped. I say that all the time to mean, yes, if the
thing were different, the thing would be different. Like when people say, well, what about
this? Yeah, yeah, if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass when it
hopped. I say that all the time and I don't know if I'm being culturally
insensitive. Like I don't know if I've like taken on some, you know, like,
their culture is not my costume, or some shit like— I don't know, but I
fucking say that all the time because it's in this movie, and it got ingrained
in my head when I was 12 as like, that's the canonical example of,
yeah, if the thing were different, it'd be different. Yeah, you know, but it's like,
Wayne's World is your culture at this point,
so it's true, it could— it's that culture, but it's your culture too.
Fair enough. Um,
okay, so we've got Wayne and Garth, uh, laying the
hood of the car, the birthmobile, yep, by the airport, like laying there looking
at the sky, talking, waiting for the planes to drive over, and kind
of, you know, what are your hopes and dreams? And Garth, Garth is like singing
the Star Trek theme song, whistling it. He's like, uh,
sometimes I wish I could boldly go where no man has gone before, but I'll
probably just stay in Aurora. Yeah. And they talk about Cassandra and how much
of a babe she is, and Wayne's like, if she were— if this
were— if it was in Latin, she would be Babia Majora, which I definitely didn't
I didn't fully get that joke at 12, that's for sure. And then I think
Garth calls her Babe-raham Lincoln. It's just like fun stuff. Then the airplane
flyover and it's like, I would do that. I would kind of want to do
that. I've never, I don't know where I could do that near us. I know.
If there's any place like near Asheville or Cleveland. Well, there's a very small airport
up the street. That's true. I don't think you'll get the same effect. Yeah,
I want like a 737 to like fly, you know, several hundred feet above
me and that's it, you know, like, but yeah. So we're
in the new studio. They're kind of getting a tour, like here's your new studio
and it's freaking them out 'cause they're like, you've set up Wayne's exact base.
Basement in this giant studio building. You know, Wayne's mom's
basement, right? I think it's like Wayne's parents' house basement. It's there. And you
have all this camera equipment and everything, and Russell is trying to take the crew
through the concept of counting down. Oh yeah, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,
but you don't say 2 and 1. So it's 5, 4, 3, beat,
beat, you know. And these guys not getting it is so funny. And one
of the guys, after he first does it, he's like, he didn't say 2 or
1. And they're just having so much trouble. The funny part about it is
they ask him, they ask Russell why, and he says, it's just how we do
it. It's like, dude, there's a really simple explanation for why you roll sound before
you roll video. So you don't want to hear the 2 and the 1 because
the sound is rolling. Like, it's not even— there's a good reason for it.
It's not like, well, we just do this because it's, it's TV and we're fancy.
Like, no, like, you say 2 and 1, it'll get caught on the transmission.
Like, don't do that. It's— anyway, but yes, so they're showing him and they go
down, they're gonna practice with this new blue screen. Yeah, because he says we got
this thing called chroma key, which is funny, that is actually the official— that's actually
the technology, right, is chroma key. And so it's like, so cool, we can
do all this stuff, we can go to New York. Hey, Hey, let's get a
gun and go to a Broadway show. Or like, whatever, like all this kind of
stuff. And then the classic of course is, you know, they go to Hawaii,
they go to whatever. And then, or imagine being whisked away to magical, and then
what pops up behind them? Delaware. Hi,
I'm in Delaware. So good.
That's a thing. I mean, that will never be uncoupled
from Delaware in my mind. Yes. We can have a president from
Delaware. I don't give a shit. I never think of that guy's name. I think
about Wayne's World. So, so Noah and
his wife are visiting the studio, right? This is what you're paying for. This is
what you're gonna— your brand is gonna be attached to where the magic happens.
Yeah. And, and Wayne, uh, when he meets Noah,
he's introduced and he does the, uh, as Sphincter says, what,
what, you know, hey, Sphincter says what, what,
exactly, precisely, or whatever. Yeah, exactly.
Uh, and this is where, yeah, I don't remember the, the character's name, but,
uh, but the one of the crew is sort of like like hitting on,
uh, uh, uh, Vanderhoff's wife. Yes. And,
and, you know, he comes up and he's like, it's big camera or whatever.
And she's like, whoa. Yeah. And he goes, do I scare you?
He's like, do you want me to? I'm just like, like,
I— to me, that straddles the line between like, eh, a little gross,
but like honestly kind of baller. Like, I don't know, that's a funky one.
Like, you know, uh, but she's, she's, uh, clearly interested because as they go
to leave the Vanderhoff Vanderhoff's, he goes back and goes, "May I say, your wife's
a babe." And she's like, clearly quite pleased. You know, 'cause like, this is the
thing, they gave Vanderhoff clearly a wife who's like kind of a trophy wife
person, but she's also like age appropriate. So she's a little older like he is,
maybe in her 40s. And so having this like 20-something guy, you know,
hitting on her is very like, "Oh, it's like, she's very happy about that." I
do declare. Right, exactly.
Okay, so Wayne and Cassandra
are kind of, chatting about stuff. Well, Wayne and Garth are doing a little
street hockey. Oh, that's right. There's another scene again, came up so much
in the game. Game on, car, oh. All the time. We got to bring
the net back to the sidewalk. Game on, bring it back out to the street.
But yeah, that's— I mean, that's very relatable. It wasn't street hockey as much for
us, I think, but like playing, like throwing the football around in the street,
we would do that. And then, but here's the thing that I mentioned earlier,
geography issues, right? And this is what I'm talking about. So Garth wakes up and
his dog who looks exactly like Tina Turner is telling him that Wayne is here.
So he gets up and he goes outside. He's got the mask and everything,
the pads, and he's got a stick. But isn't that Wayne's house he comes out
of that the truck had been parked in front of? I couldn't tell because,
yeah, the, his, the Mirthmobile was parked in the driveway in
the background. Yeah, on the other side of the street. And so it's hard for
me to tell, like, I guess both houses just look very similar. And if that's
true, then it is Wayne's car. Yeah. Because the Mirthmobile was parked in the driveway
of the other house, but it really looked like Garth came out of Wayne's house.
I got so confused for a minute, and I'm sure this is me, me just
paying way too much attention to shit that doesn't matter in this movie, but it
just confused me. I picture you with like a gigantic relief map, like moving different
pieces around, trying to figure out— I'm in the basement of Pee-wee's Big Adventure
and I got the whole map of the town up, got everybody marked, like got
37 pieces of evidence. Um, uh, so,
so we end up back in the, uh, so Wayne and Cassandra are
kind of hanging out and talking in the car. Just a funny line from Wayne
where he says, uh, I thought I had mono once for 6 months, it just
turned out I was really bored. Um, he has the sweet Discman with
the aux input setup. Yeah, probably Velcroed onto the, uh, onto the
dash. Been there, done that, man. Remember when, uh, 10-second anti-skip
became the standard? Because when you had the no anti-skip
one, it was like, you better be driving like in the water.
Like, it's gonna skip no matter what. And then when you had that 10-second
buffer, you're like— it really made a huge difference. Although it would be funny because
it would be like either this track— I can't remember exactly how— when I think
the track track would start normally, but the anti-skip doesn't kick
in for the first 10 seconds, right? Because then it's because I have to get
ahead of it or whatever. But yeah, it was a nightmare. Like, and Cassandra,
very impressed by it. Very impressed. That's what I love is for her to see
this thing like, whoa, hey, hey, 1992,
man. That was no joke. But they go to the music store. They go back
to the music store. Garth is also there, but didn't come with them. So I'm
not quite sure how Garth got there, but that's okay. And so he, Wayne,
goes up to Excalibur, the Fender Stratocaster in the locked
case, and he wants to see it. And I love, he plays a couple of
riffs here. The first one is the, can I help you riff? Yeah, I love
that part. Can I help you? Like, yes,
my good man. I would like to take a look at the Fender Stratocaster,
please. And so he takes it out and he starts
to play. And this is funny. I don't know the version you watched. Did it
actually sound like Stairway to Heaven? Because the version I think it did, but there
have been versions of this where it doesn't sound anything like Stairway Really? Yeah,
because they lost like the rights to do it because it was a performance.
There was something weird about it where like the latest
stream— later streaming versions, it's just some little notes.
It's not Stairway to Heaven. No way. And it has something to do with rights
and I couldn't dig into all the— Do we get Mandela affected with Wayne's World?
There's— there was definitely a reconstruction of this. Baron Stain, Bear Way
to Heaven. Jesus. I remember if it was the something just about it being on
home video or there was something about it where it was like only because of
the theater you could do it. It was something weird. That's so off-putting when it
happens. Like if you're familiar with something and then the sound is different. Yeah,
the one I watched was, uh, was Stairway to Heaven. Okay, great joke,
you know, good classic, classic rock joke, you know.
Yeah, no stairway, denied. And then, and then Garth, uh,
gets behind the drum set. There's never been an actor that
knows how to drum that we don't know about. That's my theory.
They all let us know. Every single one definitely lets us know, right?
Dana Carvey, like, you're getting behind
the set. Uh, but yeah, so he does it, then he finishes it with the,
uh, I like to play, I like to play. Good Garth line.
Um, oh man. So yeah, so, uh, Benjamin and
Wayne are kind of talking about like the changes required to the show because
of their new sponsorship. So it's like, oh, you're selling out, you can't do things
the way that you always did them. That's right. And then I think we get—
this is probably the funniest part, maybe the most I laughed in the movie.
It's so good. Among a strong field, but very strong scene, very,
very easy, uh, to pull out of it, I think. And actually,
for some reason, I've seen this scene, uh, on like TikTok and Instagram in recent
years, like it's kind of begun to live on its own, but the product placement
scene, right? So they're at the craft services table and it's already laden with like
name brand products, but they really let you see that like Wayne's got a Pizza
Hut pizza and he's got Doritos and he's like holding the bag up while he
eats it, talking about how selling out, you know, stuff, whatever.
Contractor, no, I will not bow to any sponsor. And then takes a
giant bag of Doritos right in front of his face. Big label right in the
scene. And then Garth is head to toe in Reeboks. Rock from the shoes
to the pants to the shirt. He looks
like one of Allen Iverson's, like, uh, entourage members. It's such a great
look. I want that whole fit. I thought it looked so good. He looks like
a NASCAR driver, he's so done up in this. It's really wild all over
the place. I do wish that he had pumps that he had pumped up.
Oh yeah, that scene. Well, it's funny because his hat was, was a Pump logo
on it, but he didn't pump. I think they wore— I'd love a Pump hat
that I pump so it would, like, stay on tighter. But you're going on a
boat, just there you go. Um, and then of course we get the, the one
that— well, there's Pepsi as well, but then we get the one brand that doesn't
still exist from this, which is NuPrint, right? Little yellow, different. Yeah.
And I don't— I never took NuPrint. I only know of NuPrint from the movie,
from the TV, and I don't know if it's one of those that it's like,
oh, we found a better way to treat that, or if it's like, oh,
that's what they used to call fentanyl. Yeah. You know where like you learn about
something where you're like, oh, this was sold over the counter, and like, remember those
diet pills? Like, no, I don't. Oh, well, they— people died. So yeah,
NuPrint fucking killed people. Like, I don't know, it's possible. Um,
uh, so really funny scene, really goofy shit. And again, like, this is
such a playful movie, and, and that part is just— I, I love it because,
like, it doesn't lose the SNL anything can happen element. Yeah,
exactly. And, and so, yes, then we go back to Stan Mikita's Donuts,
and Cassandra's there hanging out with the guys, and they're talking. Garth has been
eyeing this woman we just call— he just calls Dream Woman. Uh, but it's Donna
Dixon. She's great at, you know, great actress, very fun. She's in, like, Spies Like
Us and a bunch of other stuff. She's really great and, um, beautiful. And so
he's, like, staring at her, and they're Why don't you just go talk to her?
And we get a little dream sequence, like a little daydream where Garth goes to
the jukebox and turns it on and Foxy Lady by Jimi Hendrix comes
on. He basically does this like his dance, thrusting dance. Oh man, because the
beginning of it, it's such like a goofy cute little thing where
he's like doing the ears and then it's like 45 seconds of just air humping.
All mine, all mine. That's good
shit. Um, and then we got to, uh, Cassandra— back to Cassandra's Wayne
is there. Again, the mullet and
the out of shapeness and the tighty whities. Without the hat. It's so terrible.
Yeah, it's really amazing. How is it with her? You know, again, good for Mike
Myers. It's his movie, so okay. But you know, they're sort of playing around
kind of in bed and then she gets a call from Benjamin about, or no,
from her drummer Anthony. And he's like, I can't make the
like whatever rehearsal or the studio, I don't know, the video shoot, whatever. He can't
make something. She's like, dude, this is bullshit. Like you gotta be there. But he's
the whole time, Wayne is like pulled his tighty whities he's
up his butt crack and is like doing little things, putting on her bra over
his shirt and doing the like Marilyn Monroe. Yeah, Happy Birthday Mr. President thing,
and like making her laugh, whatever. It is really funny to fuck with somebody
who's on a serious phone call, a serious but like a
business serious phone call, not a death in the family serious phone
call. But it is really funny to do that while somebody's on a call like
that. So I love Wayne for that. Okay, okay. I, I, I,
I hate talking on the phone, and I generally hate having
to like dedicate my attention to the phone call. So if I'm then being distracted,
like I don't react well to that. Like that is definitely a thing that I'm
just like, could you just fucking give me a second? Okay, don't dance around in
front of Steve's window when he's on a business call. Thankfully, you know, Zoom calls
are different. I kind of have to be front and center on that so I
can just, you know, ignore. But yeah, anyway. But yeah, so they play around and
then this is when we get, I think the first of several times that a
piece of text flashes on the screen and Wayne reacts to it. Yes. Which is
that, you know, she calls him an asshole, but playfully he jumps onto her.
You know, and then it flashes gratuitous sex scene. He turns on, goes,
excellent. Good way to do
that. And, and a funny joke. Uh, so now they
end up invited up to Benjamin's very, uh,
well-appointed, uh, penthouse. I don't know, it's the top floor, maybe not,
but high up. Yeah, it's a huge apartment, great view and
everything. They're like, oh, this has a terrace, you know. Yeah, yeah. Uh, Cassandra says
something about, oh, it feels so free to live up here. And Benjamin's like,
well, it costs a lot of money. Like, he's— everything he's saying is, is shitty,
right? So brings out, uh, I don't
know if what he brings out is champagne. He says Dom Pérignon, which is definitely
champagne. And then is it Wayne who says like, oh, I've had this? Well,
no, talking about the distinction. Yeah, Cassandra's like, I don't think I've ever had French
champagne before. And he goes, oh, actually all champagne is French, it's named after the
region, which is not incorrect. But he is wrong about the next thing he says.
Okay. Which is that, you know, Americans got used to calling all their sparkling— but
otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Here's the problem, bro.
It is not sparkling white wine. Most of champagne is made with red wine grapes.
Because most champagne is a blend of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier,
and Chardonnay. If you have a purely sparkling white wine, it's called a Blanc
de Blancs, which Dom Pérignon does not make, like, or at least that Moët Chandon
does not make as a Dom Pérignon. So they'll make a Blanc de Noirs and
they'll make a Brut, which is a blend. But either way, there's definitely red wine
in the sparkling wine. So I had an issue with
that obviously, and I will take that to the grave. So much better than what
my question was for you. I wrote down, Sommelier corner.
So if somebody, if somebody drops a champagne where
they should be saying sparkling wine, yeah, yeah, how much
of an urge do you feel to like chime in? Hell no, that's just— you
let it— I absolutely want to get into this. Doesn't matter.
Yeah, it's one of those things where, look, if you, if you are talking about
a sparkling wine from another country where that country has a way they refer
to their sparkling wine and you call it champagne, like if you're talking you're talking
about Cava from Spain or Prosecco from Italy and you're calling it champagne, I would
probably offer a correction. Be like, "Hey, you know what? Actually from Barcelona, they call
it Cava. It's still a sparkling wine, but they call it Cava." And then,
"Oh, if you're in Italy, you know, that's Prosecco or that's, you know, Spumante or
that's something else depending on what it is." If you're talking about an Ameri— like
a California champ— like they call this méthode champenoise. So it's basically saying
like, "We made this in the same method that they make champagne in," right?
And they won't put the word champagne on the bottle 'cause that's an agreement between
winemakers in France and winemakers in the United States. They won't do it anymore.
Used to, but like since the mid-'90s, there's been an agreement.
We won't use place names that don't apply anymore, but they
will still say "Méthode Champenoise" on the bottle. And it's like,
if a regular person called that champagne, I would never correct them. Okay. 'Cause it's
fucking a dick move. So you're saying that there are regular people and there are
superior people who are you? But I'm just saying like, you know, if it's something
where it's like, oh no, this is an Italian Prosecco and you call it a
champagne, I would probably let you know, actually that's Prosecco, because it's a whole different
thing. No, that makes perfect sense. I just know that like in certain fields,
there's things that people say where you're like, I can't fucking stand,
I can never let that go. So I didn't know if this is like the
one thing— probably is for some people, it probably is for some people. And I
think certainly it's probably a bigger deal if you are in the wine industry and
you are French. You probably care a hell of a lot more about champagne being
called correctly than like I would. That's very true. Yeah,
awesome. Well, thank you for that information. Yeah. Um,
so, and this is good Benjamin being kind of,
like, just, "Meh," about this stuff. And then Garth,
again, motions for the camera. He's like, "Come here. Come here."
And he takes the camera around the apartment, and he's just, "Something doesn't
feel right about this. I don't like this." And he reaches for this stack of
books, and every book is called, like, "How to Pick Up Chicks," "How to Get
With Everything." And I love that Garth's response is, "He's smooth."
No, this is proof that he's not. Garth picks
up his plan, dinner, and it says, uh, Thursday, daily reminder: purchase
feeble public access cable show and exploit it. And Garth goes, wow,
I feel sorry for whoever that is. Oh man,
he's so on top of it and then so not at the same time.
He ends up like sneaking in, looking through a drawer and finding condoms that
are— yes, ribbed for her pleasure. And then his response is,
ew. And I'm like, really? Like, I get that Garth is a little bit
of like an infantilized character, but still, like, ew is the response?
It's like, okay, all right, Garth doesn't like pleasing women. Garth is a— he's
a manosphere guy. Not a generous lover. Not a generous lover, Garth. Garth Algar.
Um, and then, then to— so Benjamin, who already
has this amazing place, he's a cool, good-looking guy, whatever, and he's
a high-ranking executive, and then he goes to order food for them and he orders
in perfect Cantonese on the, uh, on the phone. Even calls out to Cassandra that
based on her accent, she sounds like she's more from Kowloon Bay than from Hong
Kong. So I was born in Kowloon Bay. Well, so Wayne has nothing.
Every advantage that Wayne thinks that he has established for himself
are just disintegrated, except for the most important one— he makes
her laugh. That's Benjamin. Never makes her laugh. That's true. And I think that's
what ends up being great for— but he doesn't— at this point, Wayne is not
thinking about it. No, that's because he's only thinking about what he's lacking and everything.
Um, Cassandra, the next time they show— I mean, she is just the
absolute top of her game again in this movie. Like, Tia Carrere
is just— well, she wears this red— in this scene, the red dress with the
zippers on it. Oh my God, the thoughts, even at a 12-year-old
sold that I have, like, I wonder what it looks like when you start undoing
those zippers. Boy, I bet that's interesting. Like, literally, it's hot,
you know, like, for sure. So they're going
to Milwaukee now. Yeah, Benjamin gave them backstage passes to Alice Cooper for
the next night because he's going to have to be with— we have work to
do. Cassandra and I have work to do. You guys go to Milwaukee and enjoy
seeing Alice Cooper and backstage passes and all that. So they're going. So get out
of my hair. Go to Milwaukee. And they'll be distracted. And then we get this
kind of this parody scene of the intro to the TV show Laverne and
Shirley, which took place in Milwaukee, which is a sitcom which
had these two women who worked at a brewery there and it and all the
scenery around Milwaukee and kind of an iconic intro. And it's funny
watching it being like, God, that's kind of a dated reference or whatever. And I
looked it up and Laverne and Shirley ran from '76 to '83.
So it was already dated. So let's say '79, right? So It,
it was 13 years before Wayne's World came out that they're making that reference,
which would be like us talking about the movie Wayne's World in 2005.
Oh, okay. Yeah. So I'm never going to call a reference date.
Our whole podcast is a dated reference. That's fair. But it's so funny
at the time to think like, God, that, that really doesn't hold up. It's like,
yeah, on, on the timeline we're on, it's way closer to
Laverne and Shirley than it is to today. That's fair. Um, but funny,
like a good shot for shot kind of remake of the intro to that show.
Forklift and the, and the assembly line or the bottle line, all of it.
It was really really good. But they
do stop themselves, like, what are we doing? We've got backstage passes to Alice Cooper,
let's go. Um, I also love this is when we see the Red Vine dispenser
inside the Mirthmobile, which is like a ceiling-mounted— so that's kind of an indication that
it's Garth's car. Like, it goes back and forth, right? Or was it like,
okay, we get 2 modifications, I want a CD player that plugs into the
tape thing and a Red Vine dispenser? I guess. I'm not sure. But because I
don't think we see that dispenser early, and we definitely don't— it's not the— our
attention is not drawn to it, but it may be present earlier in the movie.
I didn't notice. But it does seem like the kind of thing Garth invented,
right? Like the way that he's got these little gadgets and things. I don't think
that that's a standard aftermarket, you know, install from AMC. No, it's not. Yeah,
exactly. It's not listed on the stickers. Exactly, right, right. Yeah, yeah, next to
the undercoating, yeah. But yeah, so we go to Alice Cooper and this,
the only Alice Cooper song that I'm familiar with and have put on playlists is
"Feed My Frankenstein." Right. Love this song because this movie— Goes in the Halloween playlist
too. Absolutely. It's right there. The desert of the Halloween playlist, Alice Cooper provides a
little oasis. But it's a lot of fun. You know, it's, it's, I mean,
Alice Cooper was still young enough to sort of be active
at this point, even though, you know, he was, you know, 20 years past his
height of popularity at this point, really. But he does a great job and he's
got, you know, these people. And so, but they, Wayne Garth, like, hey, let's go
outside. Let's go backstage. Let's go backstage. You know, and they, whatever. There's a weird
interaction between them as they go through the crowd and they get to the security
guy where the security guy looks pissed at them, but then sees
their badges and still is pissed at them and is like, go. And it's
like, at that point, he should probably be like, oh, sorry, sir. Like, I mean,
I just feel like it's a weird reaction for like the security guy in his
concert. He's like, he got foiled. Like, I want to turn people away. Right.
Now I don't get to. Like, oh no, I have to let you in.
I do. I love the way that they're showing their passes and stuff as they
go back there. Um, Alice Cooper is funny because it's like,
looking back, we had Ozzy Osbourne and
we have KISS. Yeah. We don't need Alice Cooper. You were the RC
Cola of shock rockers of the '70s. We don't
need you anymore. Yeah, um, but frankly, we had Frank Zappa and didn't need any
of the other ones, really. But, um, so at this point,
there's a security guy played by Chris Farley who's, who's like,
uh, they're like, oh, what's this limo here? Oh, this limo is— this is record
executives, and he's traveling here, and he's very sharp. Sharp Records. He gives
this whole, like, upcoming itinerary, and then Wayne even says, like, boy, that sure is
a lot of information. He was very well informed for a security guard.
That's so strange because he also clearly works at the venue. He doesn't work,
right? He's wearing the same yellow shirt that all the security— so anyway, but yeah,
then they finally do get backstage. So they're backstage, and Alice Cooper, of course,
it's not this rock star behavior. He's being— he's just like this serious
conversation. It's like fucking, uh, yeah, NPR back
there. And he's talking about facts about the history of Milwaukee and
all these things, and they're just like— my favorite exchange— I mean, obviously the,
the, the whole, you know, mele wa ke kind of thing is funny, but my
absolute favorite moment in this exchange is he's talking, Wayne asks, "Oh, so you
come to Milwaukee often?" He goes, "Oh, well, you know, Milwaukee's had a lot of
visitors and I've definitely been here a lot and, you know, the French fur traders
and like all this kind of stuff." And then like his guitarist or whatever goes,
"Yeah, isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?" And he goes, "Yes, Pete,
it is." The way Alice Cooper says, "Yes, Pete, it is," is
so funny to me. Like, oh God. Let's throw Twisted Sister
in the list if we're gonna be eliminating bands. Yeah, we can consolidate
some of these. I feel like I'm keeping Twisted Sister. Out of all the ones
we've talked about so far. That's fine. Alice Cooper can get rolled into Twisted Sister.
That's okay. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. We can do that.
So, so they're back and they do the 'we're
not worthy' thing to Alice Cooper, which they have to. That's just a throwback to
this SNL sketch. They had to find a way to make sure to get like
a catchphrase, get the bullet points. So they're back at the
set and, you know, it's been fully done. Like, I think they saw it before,
but now it's like, well, they did a rehearsal and now it's like time to
shoot and broadcast the first show, right? Right. And they do it neon
sign, like, you know, Noah's Arcade presents Wayne's
World and everything. New theme song. The theme song sucks so bad. It's really
terrible. Wayne's World, Wayne's World, party time.
Excellent. Like, no, I guess I forgot to
look this up, but I wonder if that's like some notable person that they had
sing that, that scene just for, just for the fun
of it. But, um, yeah, so, so the, the show, because now
Noah's Arcade is the sponsor, right? Every episode is just going to be an interview
with the fucking— he's literally— they said he's going to have a weekly, and I
think it's a weekly show to talk about. You talk about the new games.
That's what they— I mean, that was the whole selling point, right? Was they said
like, what's your biggest barrier? And it's like, well, we can't let the kids know
when new games come in. It's like the advertising goes so much slower than the
technology, which is fucking not true, certainly not back then. But like,
whatever. And so they're saying, okay, well, if you had a weekly spot where you
could come on and tell people about new games, do you like this? So I
think the idea is, yeah, the 2 minutes of every Wayne's World episode
is gonna be talking to Noah Vanderhoff? Like, how— like, this is gonna sink the
show, right? There's no way people are gonna keep looking. But Wayne luckily has some
ideas about how to spice it up a little bit, right? And they, and they
tell him, they're very clear with him. They're like, we wrote your questions down on
these note cards. Use these cards. Okay, don't fuck with us, right?
There's a lot of money behind this, right? So yeah, so Wayne is, uh,
he has his note cards and he's asking Noah Vanderhoff the questions, but on the
back of the cards Yes. He has written certain things such as
sphincter boy. With an arrow. With an arrow pointing to him. He blows goats,
I have proof. Yes, I love that one. This man has no
penis. Classic. And so up in the booth, people are busting
up laughing except for Russell and Benjamin, obviously, who are very upset about it.
But everybody else up there is laughing and Mrs. Vanderhoff is like noting,
noticing the like reactions from the people and like giving thumbs up. Yeah,
he thinks he's killing the interview. He gets off and goes over to his wife
and she's like, money. That went so well. You got a huge reaction from that
little room up there. He's like, I think that went really well.
So Wayne gets shitcanned. Yep. They fire him from his own show.
Uh, such a bomb. And Cassandra is in Chicago. She's with
Benjamin. She's doing this, uh, the music video shoot right now.
Yeah. Well, I don't know where they are. They're not in Chicago, I don't think.
But because— are they on a set? I think they're like— yeah, some kind of
some weird— wherever they are, it's, it's, it's crazy. But, but Uh,
he goes to try and like convince her, right? Is that where we are?
Yeah. And so he's trying to go convince her
because Wayne's like, what can I offer her that Benjamin can't, right? Right.
He puts together the pieces with what the security guard Chris Farley told them
earlier. Oh, can we get Mr. Big from Sharp Records to hear her music?
That's the gift I can give her. Yeah. So I'm gonna go to her and,
and, you know, figure out how to set that up. So he's like headed out
towards where she's shooting the music video. Yeah. And it's this weird
like jungle waterfall set. They're in this cheetah pattern stuff. She has a boa around
her neck. They're singing, I think, an original song for their band,
but the song— they're all covers. It's an— okay, I don't know what this song—
no, but this song sucks ass though. I don't like this song. I like a
lot of the music in the movie. I did not like this song. Uh,
good gag as they're speeding to go meet her and,
uh, and save her is they get pulled over by the cops, right? And it
is Robert Patrick from Terminator It is the liquid metal cop.
So Wayne, he's like, have you seen this boy? And shows him a Polaroid.
Wayne's just like, ah, just starts driving away.
Yeah, it's very good because that was right— I mean, T2 was like the year
before. It was great. It was very good. Um, and then so he goes and
Wayne gets to the place and, and, and is trying to convince, uh,
uh, Cassandra that, you know, like, he made mistakes and, and, you know, but he
wants her back. And, and, you know, Benjamin's trying to take advantage of her.
And yeah, she had been holding this huge snake during the shoot shooting, but like
hands it to Benjamin when she comes off. And then Wayne is trying to— and
he dips his fingers into like the pitcher of water and sprays him in his
face. And then the next like little flashing text
on the screen says Oscar clip as he's pouring his heart out, you know,
whatever. And then it's like, and worst of all, I never learned to
read. And then she goes, is that true? And he goes, yeah,
everything but the reading part. Yeah.
So, and then, uh, and Wayne is He's like playing this thing where
he's convinced that this is all a fake. Like, you're not really shooting a music
video. Then where's the band? Hey, Wayne. And like, they all walk away. Oh,
sorry, I didn't see you guys there. And then he goes to the camera.
He's like, oh yeah, there's not even really film in this camera. And he whips
open the film container and it starts spilling out this like Naked
Gun comical amount of film onto the ground that keeps piling up and piling up
like the pile of pistachio shells. Like, exactly that. Exactly.
She tells him to leave. Wayne, leave. Leave, like, whatever. And, uh, but then,
you know, Benjamin's standing right next to her, still holding this, like, albino python,
whatever the hell it is, and it's, like, crawling across her chest. And when she
goes, wait, is that you or the snake? She realizes, like, this guy's a bad
guy. Even if Wayne is being kind of shitty, he did just say he loves
you, right? Like, you know, so she chooses Wayne. She leaves with Wayne. Uh,
you know, Campbell, wait up, whatever. Um, we cut to where— so
now they've got to get her back to Wayne's basement because they're going to shoot
a special commercial sort of broadcast that they're gonna shoot over, you know, Garth is
gonna triangulate onto satellites and different stuff and,
and send to the back. 'Cause the guy's limo has like a TV satellite.
It's very obvious and stuff. Drives everywhere. So he's gonna do that. And I noted
one thing I noticed was funny is he's on his computer at home 'cause he's
got his Tina Turner dog with him. And he's got like on the screen are
all these different satellites that are like pointing down. Right next to his computer,
I don't know if this was deliberate, was, is a Sega Game Gear. And I
remember that in the very opening commercial when we saw Noah's Arcade's commercial, 2 Dads
1 Movie, Sonic the Hedgehog was playing in this thing behind him. So it's like,
is there a Sega sponsorship? Yeah. Is there a Sega, like a deliberate Sega placement
here? I don't know. But yeah, there's a little Game Gear next to his computer.
They have to go steal the truck from the local Lexus station
in order to do this. And while they're doing it, this is when Wayne,
like they're trying to all like army crawl and Wayne's like, wait guys, I fell
on my keys. Oh man. Yeah.
They're all, they're all there to get the truck and Russell kind
of stops them as they're trying to go, but— and he's got a flashlight.
Like, what are you guys doing here? You know, and Garth is like, all right,
man, hey, we're trying to do this. And Garth, like, at some point reaches out,
grabs the Maglite, unscrews it, takes the battery out as if he's
taking the clip out of a gun. He's okay, he's okay.
So Russell, of course, comes along with that. Best line is like, he's trying to
convince him that Benjamin doesn't like him. Like, Benjamin's not like you, man. Like,
he doesn't like you. No, Benjamin's my friend. No. If he were an ice cream
flavor, he'd be Pralines and Dick.
Yes! That's so good. And then we're in the car
that now Russell is driving the van over to Wayne's house, and Terry's sitting
next to him and he's like, "I love you, man." He goes, "I know." "No,
no, no, you don't." "I love you, man." And Garth just goes, "Just say thank
you." And he says, "Thank you." And then Terry hugs him and almost makes the
pickup truck swerve off the road.
Meanwhile, Benjamin is also racing to Wayne's house. Wayne's house. I think he's figured out
what they're doing, or at least, you know, because he sent Russell, you know,
to the, to the station. Um, but he gets pulled over along the way,
not by Robert Patrick but by Officer Koharski. That's right, the body cavity search.
And so then that clearly happens because then when Benjamin pulls up to
Wayne's house and gets out of the car, he has to do so very gingerly,
uh, and kind of, you know, with clenched butt cheeks. He's very uncomfortable.
But basically they, they do the, the broadcast
of Crucial Taunt. He even says Cassandra and Crucial Taunt, which is interesting, like the
name changed or whatever. I don't know if Anthony's gonna like that. But they cover
Ballroom Blitz, which is— they did it earlier. They did it at the Gas Works.
It's a great song. This to me is the canonical version, even though it's a
cover of a cover, because the COVID was more popular than the original the first
time around. Who is the original original? I don't remember, dude. Like, honestly. Is it
like an Edgar Winter or Rick Derringer or one of those kind of guys?
It's not Edgar Winter, but it's in that ballpark. Yeah. Anyway, the point
is— But her version is good. I don't love that song, but I think she
has a good version. Oh, I really like the man in the back. The man
with the crack. It's a good song. Anyway, it looks like the original was
Sweet, was the first one. Maybe that's actually the most popular version,
but yeah, it's been done a few times. Anyway, so they're gonna do
that. And so now, you know, the broadcast starts in
Mr. Sharp's, you know, limo, and he's watching
it and she's doing great. She looks great, practically wearing like lingerie. She looks fantastic,
but she's wailing and the band's doing great. Yeah. The limo does
a little race around. Big old whip around,
U-turn on the limo. They, you know, so he's driving up, Benjamin's driving
up, they both kind of all arrive at the same time. As the song ends,
um, Mr. Sharp has come down the stairs and Benjamin's come
in one or the other. I don't know exactly how he got in there,
but they're all kind of coalescing. And Sharp walks up and goes like, I just
saw your performance and I thought you were really amazing, but I don't think it's
the right time. I'm sorry. And then like Benjamin— and then Cassandra's pissed and he's
like, Wayne, you ruined my career! And like, whatever. And then they end up,
Benjamin and Cassandra, like on some, you know, some tropical island,
and the sparkly bikini she's wearing. I swear to God, like, this was
the stuff of my dreams for years. She's fantastic. Incredible.
Yeah, yeah. And he even says, like, did you really think she'd end up with
Wayne? And the other thing, uh, is that Stacy,
Wayne's ex-girlfriend, comes into the screen. She's like, Wayne, I'm pregnant!
That's how I've been acting so weird. And then all the equipment starts short-circuiting
and the house catches on fire, burns down. So Wayne comes out
out like carrying Garth from the charred remains of his house, and then it goes
to Benjamin and Cassandra, right? So it's just a nightmare
ending, and then Wayne and Garth slide in from the side. Yeah, you know,
I think we're really gonna end it like that. Let's do the Scooby-Doo—
yeah, the Scooby-Doo ending. So it's— and here's what I love. So there are 3
endings of this movie, right? So the Scooby-Doo ending is the second one, but in
each of the endings we don't get all the same setup, obviously.
Like, we cut ahead a lot of the setup, right? Every time we get
Benjamin gingerly stepping out of his car, they make sure to remind
us in every version of this ending Benjamin got a full body cavity search before
he arrived. Rob Lowe's balls have had a rough time on
this podcast, right? Between Tommy Boy. Yes.
Um, yeah, so the Scooby-Doo, uh,
ending is that, uh, Old Man Withers,
the guy that we were talking about earlier who's played such a variety of winos
and bums Bobos, uh, you know, they're like, oh, we'll find out
who Benjamin really is. Yeah, they rip a mask off and it's Old Man Withers,
the owner of the haunted amusement park. Yeah, I would have gotten away with it
too if it weren't for that dog. If you kids, you're meddling kids or whatever.
Um, and then they said, oh, that was cool, now let's do the mega happy
ending. And it's like, this is when same thing, we see
Benjamin gingerly get out of the car, we're back in the basement, and Frank Sharp
goes like, you're amazing, I want to sign you to a 6-album deal. And this
is when I was like, for covers? For Yeah, for a cover band, you're gonna
put— what do you do 6 albums of? This is bizarre.
Like, you know, like, I get that it was like the early '90s and,
and your image was way more important, Mrs. Smith,
maybe, than your musical talent or your songwriting talent. And maybe his thought
is, well, I got songwriters, they'll write songs, she'll, you know, sing them and they'll
be huge hits. So I get that that's possible, but like, really, this is like
the band you give, you know, all this— that's a big bite off of,
off of hearing a very small thing. Exactly. And then Wayne and Cassandra
hook up and that's all happy. And then Garth and his dream woman encounter
each other, so they get to hook up. And they end
telling us that we got fished in, which I'm not really sure was nice.
Like, yeah, but like, fished in, like, like we bought it, like, you know,
it's like, well, yeah, we're here to watch the movie, you guys, which is what
you told us. Anyway, good stuff though. So that's— yeah, and that's
it, that's the end of it. What a, uh, what a fun twist at the
end doing the multiple ending. It was nice. I really enjoyed that.
Yeah, I remember, I remember watching it the first time and thinking, wow, they really
had like this ending is going back when, when it was— it's like, I remember
even as a kid when, when Mr. Sharp is like, hey, I think you're very
talented, very beautiful, but this isn't the right time. I was like, oh damn,
they didn't let her get like— this doesn't work. And then, but then like it
escalates so quickly, you're like, what the fuck is happening? And then
when it's like, as if we'd end the movie that way, it's like, oh,
okay, it's going to be something. And then it's like you settle in, but it's
like, yeah, they really kind kind of— I was like, that's such a strange way
to end this movie on such a down note. Yeah, what is this, Empire Strikes
Back? Like, what are we doing here? You know? Um, and so that's Wayne's World.
Well, Steve, this was, uh, this was your pick.
Uh, you want to lead us off here with the rating? Absolutely. Yeah, so this
movie is so much fun, and it really— it was not obvious to me
before we started just how much has stayed with me
over the years from this movie. Um, I don't think I realized like how much
of my like general sense of humor was formed by
Mike Myers. And I think that, you know, for me personally, like I recognize it
more from like Soy Mary Dax Murderer, where it's like a lot of the jokes
in that movie are like things my wife and I still say to each other
on a regular basis. This movie, I didn't realize kind of just how much of
it. I think Wayne's World 2 has a ton as well. I remember the story
about the brown M&Ms and all this stuff. Right. You know, there's little bits that
are like definitely also stick with you. So it's just such a, such a really
wonderful very funny movie. Like, to its core,
this is an approachable, funny movie.
There's really, you know, there's a handful of kind of dirty jokes, but not too
bad. No curse words as far as I remember. I think there's, you know,
just the real shitty, the shitty Beatles. You know, they use the shit a couple
times. There's no like F-bomb in this one or anything like that. It's just a
lot of fun. And the Wayne and Garth characters are just infinitely likable.
Even when Wayne kind of pisses everybody off and then quickly has to like make
up up with, with Garth and with Cassandra, whatever, he's able to do it because
they're just likable characters. Yeah. And that's, and that's a good thing for comedy
like this to have. Um, I, you know, it's not perfect.
There's definitely like, you know, parts of it are a little like, okay, that was
kind of dumb. And we skipped over a couple things. There was like, uh,
they opened a door at Stan McKeen's once, a bunch of special forces guys like
training, but it's kind of like, that's weird. Okay, kind of funny, but like,
whatever. Um, so yeah, I'm a 4 out of 5 on
Wayne's World. I think this was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it.
It's definitely something that has stuck with me, but I can't really go higher than
a 4 just on like basic kind of how good is the movie kind
of thing. Like, it's a really enjoyable time, but like as a film, like,
it doesn't, you know, garner kind of more praise for me than that. So I'm
a 4 out of 5 on Wayne's World. That's, that's solid. Yeah, and,
and I'm with you on, uh, the likability of the characters. It makes
such a difference to be able to just like, hey, I'm signing
up to hang out with these guys for an hour and a half, and I'm
okay with that because, you know, it's fun to be part of Wayne's World.
It's fun to tune in and watch the sketch and all that stuff. And this
movie really created a whole world around them, um,
a Wayne's World, hey, you might say. Uh, no,
but this— and they did enough, like we
said, that they made a sequel to this that's also very good that came out
like a year later or 2 years later. So less than 2 years, I mean,
just banged it out. So there was a lot of material here. All the
choices for the The side characters I think were funny.
I think they were well placed. A lot of times with big comedies, you'll see
them kind of shoehorning in a cameo of someone just to show
you the person, but you're just like, yeah, but they're not funny. I don't give
a fuck. You know, if you just put like Conor McGregor, just some random famous
asshole in a movie to be like, yeah, why, why do we do that?
Um, and they didn't really do that here. They had very skilled actors down to
the small parts. I mean, Ed O'Neill as such a minuscule part there, you know.
Laura Flynn Boyle is such a small part. Um, I'm with you on the
rating. I'm gonna give Wayne's World a 4 out of 5. It goes very quickly,
it's very fun, the music is good, quite good. Yeah,
and especially if you're into that type of music, it's a good,
good collection. Um, Tia Carrere doing her own singing. Yeah,
gets a lot of points. So yeah, nothing wrong with Wayne's World. One of the
best SNL movies we had. Sure. And probably of the '80s and '90s. Yeah,
top, top 3. Yeah, for sure. Loved it. Excellent. 4 out of 5 for
Wayne's World. 8 out of 10 from the 2 Dads on Wayne's World. That doesn't
surprise me at all. Uh, so we're gonna move on now to 1993,
and that is your pick, Nic. What are we watching for '93?
1993, uh, we are going to a movie that I have seen
so many times. I think at one point I could probably do
a decent job of just reciting the movie from beginning to end,
just like knowing every part of it. Um, and we're taking
a departure from comedy, although this is one— like, sometimes you watch something enough
that it becomes a comedy even if it's not a comedy, right? So you just
like, you get attached to certain things and it's funny. I feel that way about
Predator, for the record. Yeah, exactly. Um, but,
but I'm interested to see how this one comes off. We're, we're gonna go to
Compton, California, 1993,
and Uh, we're gonna see what the Hughes brothers have
to show us in 1993's Menace to Society.
Nice. Um, this is one that I saw a ton in college,
and, uh, it is actually, you know, came out I think a
couple years after Boyz n the Hood. I think Boyz n the Hood might have
been '91 or so, but there was this whole run of this type of movie.
They were kind of like hood movie to various degrees of success.
Colors, yeah. Yeah, and some were very, um,
some were very successful, some were very exploitative, some were very cheesily
done and everything. So I think this is one of the better ones,
and I'm very interested to see how it holds up under some analysis.
I think it's definitely worth seeing as like a relic of the time. And,
uh, yeah, I look forward to chatting with you about it next week.
1993's Menace to Society. That's awesome.
I've never seen Menace to Society. All right, it'd be interesting for me. I've seen,
I've seen Boyz n the Hood, I've seen Higher Learning, I've seen New Jack City,
like all kind of in the, in similar ballparks, I feel like, in a lot
of ways. But yeah, but this one's new to me. So that's going to be
exciting. Very, very excited to watch Menace to Society for the first time. All right.
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