Wayne's World

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

ayne's World that really established the template SNL movies would follow for the next decade. It's also unquestionably one of the more successful entries in that pantheon. Although if we're being honest, that's not a very high bar to clear.

So how does all of this play two decades later? Especially now that the counter-culture appeal of this style of comedy has been slightly diluted by how often Mike Myers returned to this same bag of tricks in other films.

Topics include: the origins of the Wayne's World sketch, the surprisingly tense atmosphere behind-the-scenes, what we're told about the character of Stacy vs what we actually see, some early 90s foreshadowing of Chris' interest in podcasting, the less than enthusiastic response to Wayne's World 2, why Mike Myers and Dana Carvey stopped speaking for many years, the bits of this that still work, the moments that don't, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Wainsworld?
0:07.0	Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:32.0	I'm Chris.
0:32.8	I'm Donna.
0:33.5	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.4	And today we're revisiting Wayne's World.
0:52.8	Thank you. and I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Wayne's World. The limited shelf life of certain styles of comedy is something we've addressed before on this podcast.
0:57.9	And when it comes to films or characters whose gigantic initial impact on pop culture was almost
1:02.6	immediately followed by a very swift falloff, Mike Myers is probably one of the best examples
1:07.6	of that phenomenon. Some might argue that it's because of his heavy reliance on of the moment references that don't always age very well, and sure, that's almost
1:15.4	certainly a part of it, but it has more to do with the movies themselves becoming one of those
1:19.8	of the moment references. The catchphrases enter our lexicon, and characters are so omnipresent
1:24.9	that they can't help but remain shackled to the era they were created in.
1:28.8	Austin Powers may have been riffing on the 60s and 70s, but yeah, baby, yeah, is one of the most 90s
1:34.2	sentences you could utter at this point. Comedy is all about the element of surprise. So, of course,
1:39.6	that level of over exposure is its kryptonite. And look, there's something comforting about all of the really
1:44.6	dated references. The gray-pupon gag from this movie might not make me laugh anymore, but it is an
1:49.7	amusing little time capsule for this moment where it did. And there's also something oddly reassuring
1:54.8	about the way Myers so often returns to that same bag of tricks, regardless of which character
1:59.7	he's playing. And so despite how it might sound, I'm not trying to be overly critical of his, regardless of which character he's playing.
2:04.3	And so despite how it might sound, I'm not trying to be overly critical of his work.
2:08.3	The point is, I think there's a really interesting lesson here about the life cycle of these things.
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