Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: Bohemian Rhapsody in the Mirth Mobile – completely reinvented the song, resuscitated Queen. Myers insisted on it over Lorne Michaels wanting 'Welcome to the Jungle.' The music video was on MTV for a year.
• Kyle: The Stan Makita's Donuts into the Gas Works nightclub stretch – 'the best stretch of this movie, unbelievably good.' Introduces Ed O'Neill's Glenn, Donna Dixon's Stacey, Meatloaf as the club manager, the Shitty Beatles, Crucial Taunt, 'she makes me feel kind of funny like when I climb the rope in gym class.'
• Also: Rob Lowe offering the contract ('I've got $5,000'), the Foxy Lady scene (Carvey's greatest minute), Myers in underwear messing with Cassandra on the phone, Rob Lowe's apartment ('cream of some young guy'), the revamped 'Wayne's World' show with index cards ('he blows goats – I have proof'), and the super happy ending.

• Bill: Successful arcade owners, portable CD players in a car (dashboard-mounted Discman), the Clapper commercial, Grey Poupon parodies, Rob Lowe's crazy-design ties, Scooby-Doo ending.
• Kyle: The B-side RHCP song Wayne plays on the car Discman for Cassandra – 'holy shit, that's good.'
• Also: Chia Pet, Empire carpeting, Donna Dixon ~10 years from being a TV babe icon, Laura Flynn Boyle cameo, Chris Farley cameo (super early for him), two Darren Stevens conversation, Ione Skye/Ed O'Neill cameos, Meatloaf stunt casting.

• Myers-Carvey relationship intrigue (the behind-the-scenes feud, Doctor Evil theft, reconciliation).
• Tia Carrere's performance – did all her own singing, great comedic timing, everyone loved her. Kyle: 'She keeps this from being the whitest movie of all time.' Bill: Hollywood failed her.
• The soundtrack bridges three genres: 70s/80s nostalgia (Dreamweaver, Bohemian Rhapsody, Clapton, Black Sabbath), hard rock (Alice Cooper's 'Feed My Frankenstein'), and a foot in grunge (Temple of the Dog's 'All Night Thing'). Kyle: 'More fun and more watchable than Singles with at least one foot in grunge.'
• Bits that aged the best: 'No way / Way,' 'That's what she said' (pre-Office by a decade), 'I believe I requested the hand job,' the T-1000 cop cameo, Oscar clip / extreme close-up, Grey Poupon parody.
• Chris Farley cameo – super early, first movie appearance. Dutch door action. Rob Lowe saying 'literally' (became his Parks & Rec catchphrase). 'No Stairway to Heaven' sign in the music store. Carvey's drum solo.

• Bill: The extended Laverne & Shirley parody – for anyone under 35 it's completely invisible. Craig didn't even know what show they were parodying.
• 'Wayne's World' 2's commitment to 'The Doors' as its through-line – 'a ridiculous choice.'
• Bits: 'Not' (was a top-five SNL catchphrase that seeped into real culture; officially killed by Borat's comedy lesson scene), 'Schwing' (boners), 'We're Not Worthy.'
• Learning English from the Police Academy movies. The stoned honking guy (Phil) coming back after Bohemian Rhapsody – 'one and done with that.'
• Dana Carvey developing severe jaw pain from doing the Garth face for 35 days straight.

• Bill: The airplane flying over them while they're lying on the car hood.
• Kyle: Camera 1 / Camera 2 – the meta answer of Wayne literally doing different camera shots in the movie.

• Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (unanimous) – won the Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness award AND the 'OK Motherfucker' award for the exact moment the movie goes up a notch.
• Also: Dreamweaver (Garth's Tia Carrere fantasy), Alice Cooper's 'Feed My Frankenstein,' Tia Carrere doing 'Ballroom Blitz' and 'Fire,' Jimi Hendrix, Ugly Kid Joe's 'I Hate Everything About You,' RHCP B-side, Temple of the Dog's 'All Night Thing,' Black Sabbath, Eric Clapton.

• Bill: The last 25 minutes isn't as good as the first hour – once they're trying to get to Frankie Sharp and the record company, 'it's all these comedies have the same issue.'
• Kyle: Phil Hartman not being in this movie. 'How and why is Phil Hartman not in this movie?' He could have played Glenn (Ed O'Neill's role) or Officer Koharski. Myers and Hartman were very close.

• Kyle: 'Wayne's World' is the most quotable movie of all time. At the very least it's in the Elite 8 with Lebowski, Anchorman, and Airplane. Every scene has at least one line people still quote: 'Excuse me, baking powder,' the 5-4-3 countdown, 'Pralines and Dick,' 'I've got $5,000,' gun rack, the lawyer 'yes/no' bit, cream of some young guy.
• Bill: 'Wayne's World' was the first YouTube video – everything they were doing on cable access just became YouTube 15 years later. 'Is YouTube just cable access?'

Frankie Sharp of Sharp Records (under-acting award). Bill: 'The worst actor in this movie by far. I have no idea why he's in the movie.' Kyle: 'They went to the Halloween store and got the costume in a bag for agent with a cigar and a pinky ring.'

• Lorne Michaels wanted Guns N' Roses ('Welcome to the Jungle') for the car scene instead of Bohemian Rhapsody.
• Alice Cooper's manager wanted 'Feed My Frankenstein' instead of 'School's Out' or 'I'm 18.'

• Winner: Don Amendolia – the 'your name is pronounced Algar, right?' guy. Also the bank loan officer who denies Buck in 'Boogie Nights' ('Sir, you're a pornographer').
• Also: Lee Tergesen (Beecher from Oz) as Glenn Turgeson ('I love you, man'), also Rosie the muscle for Bodhi in 'Point Break'. Frederick Coffin (Officer Koharski), also O'Malley in 'Hard to Kill'. Mike Haggerty (round face, mustache, counter guy – also the Amco guy on Curb). Brian Doyle-Murray. Kurt Fuller (Rob Lowe's sidekick Russell, also the bad guy in No Holds Barred).

Final four: Ed O'Neill, the 'Wayne's World' announcer, Alice Cooper, Chris Farley. Winner: Ed O'Neill. His first line: 'I never did a crazy thing in my life before that night.' Was also in the original 'Wayne's World' SNL sketch as the driver's ed teacher.

• Noah Vanderhoff's wife – could have been a late 70s/80s TV babe: Suzanne Somers (Bill's pick – there's even a Thighmaster bit in 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'), Heather Thomas, Victoria Principal, Jacqueline Smith, Judith Light.
• Jennifer Roulette for Tia's spot: Both Bill and Kyle independently picked Jennifer Lopez – pre-Selena, In Living Color era. 'Otherwise this becomes the whitest movie anyone's ever made.'
• Kyle: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Garth. 'Wayne, can I kiss you on the mouth?' Scotty J energy with the undersized T-shirt.

• Myers was hired to SNL without an audition – Martin Short saw him at Second City Toronto and called Lorne Michaels directly.
• The 'No Stairway' rights debacle: wouldn't pay $100K for VHS/DVD, mangled the notes for years, finally fixed in the Blu-ray.
• Spheeris on Myers: 'Emotionally needy and got more difficult as the shoot went along.' 'You should have heard him bitching when I was trying to do that Bohemian Rhapsody scene – I can't move my neck like that, why do we have to do this so many times, no one's going to laugh at this.'
• 2008 Entertainment Weekly: 'The degree of enmity directed toward Myers by some who've worked with him, even years after the fact, is rare.' One executive: 'I honestly root against him.'
• The Mirth Mobile (1976 AMC Pacer) sold in 2016 for $37,400 after appearing on Pawn Stars.
• Wayne's Cantonese was complete gibberish. Stan Makita's was filmed at Tim Hortons. Fender made 'Wayne's World' signature Stratocasters.

• Mike Myers: No – it's Austin Powers.
• Dana Carvey: Yes. Was so big he did a set with U2 as Garth at the VMAs, drumming on stage during their Achtung Baby era.
• Lorne Michaels: Yes – resuscitated SNL, built it into a franchise, dipping into movies, becoming a mogul in a new way. 'Not only his first hugely successful movie, it's really his last one too.'
• Aurora, IL: Definitely. 'You meet someone from Aurora, you're like, all right, party time, excellent.'
• Tia Carrere: Probably 'True Lies' (bigger movie, though Craig argues she's more disposable there).
• Grey Poupon parodies: Yes. Delaware: Joe Flacco winning Super Bowl MVP. Shitty Beatles: Yes. Rob Lowe: No (About Last Night / 'St. Elmo's Fire' era). Alice Cooper: No.
• Fake rock bands in movies: Stillwater from Almost Famous wins over Crucial Taunt, Spinal Tap, Wild Stallions, School of Rock kids, Steel Dragon, Citizen Dick.

Spielberg. Kyle: 'For Scorsese, Cassandra would have to turn into Ginger from 'Casino'.'

Kyle: Garth (all in – 'Scotty J as Garth'). Bill: Glenn the manager, or one of Wayne's entourage, possibly Rob Lowe's sidekick.

• Bill: The Rob Lowe / Garth severed hand scene – 'What the fuck is happening in that scene? It's not funny.'
• Wouldn't Wayne and Cassandra have met before? She's playing in Aurora – a pretty small pond. Wayne goes to that club every week.
• Kyle: These heavy metal guys in their early 20s going out on a Friday night... and they get coffee and donuts? 'What the fuck is that?' No bar, no beers, no shots.
• Bill: All these guys should have been smoking a ton of pot. 'The under the radar assumption was these guys were huge stoners, but they couldn't get stoned on NBC.' Myers was very averse to sex and drugs in his comedy.
• Wayne gets fired mid-show during a commercial break. 'Would never happen. Wouldn't even happen on the NFL Network.'

They already did a sequel. Bill asked Kyle to imagine the movie with Daniel Plainview in Wayne's crew doing craft services with steak, whiskey, and goat's milk.

Kyle: The writers – Myers, Bonnie Turner, and Terry Turner. 'It's just so dense. Every line is awesome.'

• Was Garth playing with a full deck? Was he on medication? Would he be diagnosed with specific things in 2024? He's a savant who would ace a calculus test but Wayne keeps telling him to take his pills.
• How old are Wayne and Garth? In the sketch they're in high school, but in the movie they can get into clubs. Probably 23-24 with bad jobs and no school.

• Kyle: The Suck Cut – 'It sucks and it cuts. I'll save on my kids' haircuts.'
• Bill: The Mirth Mobile (1976 Pacer). Also: Wayne's guitar (Excalibur), a movie-used hat.

Don't sell out. Craig's counter: 'It's completely opposite now. The goal as a content creator is to sell out. People are impressed when you sell out.'

'So I Married an Axe Murderer' (Kyle – 'give me axe murderer, normal Myers, '94').

Myers short-term – had sequels, more movies, won the creative wars on set. But Bill wonders if it's Carvey long-term: 'This turned out to be the funniest he's been in a movie and the person I enjoy the most.' Queen also has a case – Bohemian Rhapsody recharted and the song was permanently revived.

• Craig had never seen the movie despite being a huge SNL fan. Thought it was 'super ambitious.' Didn't get 70% of the jokes but everyone is so likable – Myers is 'incredible, so charming.' Said the style of humor is 'basically a foreign film now to young people.' Had a fantastic time; the movie was hilarious and 'completely worked when it shouldn't have.'
• The cultural references are so dated they come back around and work again. Favorite part: the over-the-top intellectual moments (Alice Cooper on Milwaukee, Aerosmith discussing communism on SNL).
• Controversial take: 'I don't think Garth is that funny.' In short spurts he works, but in a full movie he's 'borderline not all there – he needs to be 20% more competent.'
• Liked 'Wayne's World' more than Blues Brothers. Noted the life lesson of 'don't sell out' is completely reversed now – 'the goal is to sell out.'