The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen podcast – Wayne’s World

Best Movies You’ve Never Seen
Episode: Wayne’s World
Date: 12 June 2026
Hosts: Stephen Fenech & Trevor Long

[00:01:43] Stephen Fenech: The Best Movies You've Never Seen. Welcome to our podcast, a podcast about movies, of course. My name is Stephen Fenech. I'm the bloke who suggests the movies because I've seen most of them, much to my family's chagrin, and, uh, I suggest them to Trevor, who's never seen them. Hence the name of this podcast, The Best Movies You've Never Seen.

[00:01:59] Trevor Long: It's the best movies Trevor's never Yeah, just on the weekend, by the way, my family debating you quite heavily. Really? Victoria, filthy, you still haven't done Harry Potter.

[00:02:07] Stephen Fenech: Okay, it's cool.

[00:02:08] Trevor Long: Amanda suggesting that we should be doing— what was that movie I was watching with the Martin Sheen in it? I sent you a message. Oh yeah, Pollyanna. No, Pollyanna's another one.

[00:02:17] Stephen Fenech: Anna Green Gables.

[00:02:17] Trevor Long: Anna Green Gables, yes. Yeah, yeah, I don't think it's on your list.

[00:02:21] Stephen Fenech: Not, not at all.

[00:02:21] Trevor Long: That's what I politely said to them.

[00:02:23] Stephen Fenech: Maybe. But anyway, we talk about movies here that you most of the time haven't seen, and maybe a lot of you haven't seen either. We, we see this show as a suggestion to the movies that you should, should have a watch and then come and listen to our show.

[00:02:38] Trevor Long: A lot of these movies may have been made before you were born. They're—

[00:02:41] Stephen Fenech: well, some of our audience this week might be that case. Uh, Wayne's World we are watching. Yeah, released in 1992. You were definitely born then.

[00:02:50] Trevor Long: It was year 11.

[00:02:51] Stephen Fenech: Uh, and this stars Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, and Tia Carrera. Yeah. Now it's based on a Saturday Night Live character developed by Mike Myers. Now when he originally came up with character he created as a solo character, right? But while he was performing with Second City, when he brought it to Saturday Night Live, to get that sketch off the, off the ground, he had this— he needed to pair up with an established cast member, right, which was Dana Carvey. And that's how Garth was added for the Saturday Night Live sketch, which is this— what this film was based on was produced by Lorne Michaels, who's the producer, being the boss there for 40 years, whatever it is. And so that, that was how it— how the duo was created, even though it was still only called Wayne's World. Now, Mike Myers, uh, in pre-production, before the film, and even during the film, by what I understand, would rewrote the script for Wayne's World so many times that the director Penelope Spheeris had to institute a new rule 'If you give me something new,' this is her words, 'it has to be 24 hours before. So if the prop guys have to get a gun rack in 10 minutes, that's not going to work.' That was a scene in the movie. Now, Paramount Pictures was on the fence at the start to back this movie. The sketch was okay on Saturday Night Live, and the film actually grossed more than $18 million on opening weekend. But Mike Myers said his first reaction was a note from the studio saying they didn't fully understand the concept, but they still went with it. So you have, and so you've seen this, I understand you may have seen this.

[00:04:46] Trevor Long: Very, I've seen it more than once. This is a movie that was like, as I said, I was in year 11. So this is a movie in your wheelhouse. All my mates that were, we were 12th Man fans. This is comedy. This was funny. So you had, I can remember, you know, you had a couple, you know, schwing, like that was really, I mean, We're in year 11, for crying out loud, you know what I mean? Like, it was—

[00:05:05] Stephen Fenech: yeah, you were the perfect audience.

[00:05:07] Trevor Long: Like, I've got a crap memory, as you know, but there was so many times when rewatching this that I went, oh, that, that line, that— yeah, we used to say that.

[00:05:14] Stephen Fenech: This movie, well, it coined a lot of quotes and, and actions, like, you know, we're not worthy, you know, that sort of stuff.

[00:05:19] Trevor Long: That was the other one. Yeah, like, I'm sitting there, as soon as they did that, I went, oh my God, that's so good.

[00:05:24] Stephen Fenech: Uh, the movie was shot in 34 days despite its troubled production, which I'll talk about later. Right, it's the only Saturday Night Live spin-off to gross more than $100 million to date. Wow, it's pretty good.

[00:05:36] Trevor Long: $121 million. I'm just looking at the box office.

[00:05:38] Stephen Fenech: Roger Ebert, now, man, he's— review, uh, here's what Roger's review— I'll give you the highlights. I walked into Wayne's World expecting a lot of dumb, vulgar comedy, and I got plenty. Yeah, but I also found what I didn't expect: a genuinely amusing, sometimes even intelligent undercurrent. Like the Bill and Ted movies, this one works on its intended level and then sneaks in excursions in on some other levels too. Yeah, right. The movie is inspired by Saturday Night Live's long-running parody of local access cable TV. Wayne's World originates from the paneled basement room of its host Wayne Campbell, who looks to be in his late 20s but still lives at home with his parents in Aurora. Wayne's sidekick is Garth Algar, looking uncannily like Art Johnson and operating with the brain power of a clever 7-year-old. The two of them interview a strange, strange guest, drool over posters of their favorite models and use the word excellent a whole lot. One quality that grew on me during the film was Meyer's conversations with the camera. In a sense, the whole movie is a cable access documentary on his life, and particularly on his great and helpless crush on Tia Carrera. The Dana Carvey character doesn't wear as well. The fact that his personality has a severely limited range of notes doesn't prevent him from playing them over and over, but the movie was so good-spirited We forgive him. The Access shows like the best— the Access shows I like the best are the ones on which I can never be sure what's going to happen next. Wayne's World gets that right.

[00:07:07] Movie Audio: Nice.

[00:07:07] Stephen Fenech: So that's pretty positive. It was 3 out of 4 stars.

[00:07:09] Movie Audio: Pretty much.

[00:07:09] Trevor Long: People probably don't realize that cable access is essentially like community TV here. Yeah, probably even more community than community TV in Australia, because in Australia we only really had a small number of in the metro areas, whereas cable access is like, you know, basically anyone with a The keenness, the dish. Community radio here was easy to get into. That's kind of like community access TV over there.

[00:07:29] Stephen Fenech: Oh, it's on community radio.

[00:07:30] Trevor Long: Yeah, that's why I mentioned it.

[00:07:32] Stephen Fenech: There you have it. Okay, this is your last exit before the freeway. We're going to take an excellent deep dive into Wayne's World. If you haven't seen it, you can catch it on Fetch.

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[00:08:39] Stephen Fenech: So you've rewatched Wayne's World and it's been a while since you've seen it, I guess.

[00:08:45] Trevor Long: It would be years, decades.

[00:08:46] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah. Okay, so what are your impressions? Well, that's for you, like a first-time watch, mate.

[00:08:50] Trevor Long: Yeah, I mean, yeah, it is, it's kind of like— but it's funny how it came back. And I think that's because I definitely watched it more than once. This is a movie that—

[00:08:58] Stephen Fenech: Maybe you should be running this episode.

[00:09:00] Trevor Long: I probably should have, you know, to be honest, now that I think about it. But yeah, I just— so many of those little things. And what I think is cool about it is it's dumb and that's exactly what it's meant to be.

[00:09:11] Stephen Fenech: I call it harmless fun.

[00:09:14] Trevor Long: Yeah, yeah.

[00:09:15] Stephen Fenech: It's—

[00:09:15] Trevor Long: you're meant to— I don't think you're meant to laugh at every joke. I think different jokes are meant to land on different people. Some jokes are meant to go over you and some under you, right?

[00:09:23] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. And I think that's what's beautiful about it.

[00:09:25] Trevor Long: But for me, it's— it's— there's some nice little iconic moments like that. And I said to you, I think I said to you, the Bohemian Rhapsody scene, stuff like that. They're iconic moments. And, you know, No Stairway to Heaven, just little things like that.

[00:09:40] Stephen Fenech: The sign on the wall.

[00:09:41] Trevor Long: Little tiny things that are absolutely well-planted, well-placed. You can see that it was essentially written as a bunch of sketches put together that followed a story.

[00:09:51] Stephen Fenech: Surprisingly, it has good structure. And that's what I mean.

[00:09:53] Trevor Long: They found a story and then just threw the sketch parts into it.

[00:09:55] Stephen Fenech: There's a lot of bits cut out of this. It's only a short movie. You could have cut 20 minutes out of it with just some harmless little scenes. Yeah, harmless when they're playing like hockey, you know, 'Game on, car!' You know, that's— what was that for?

[00:10:09] Trevor Long: Just— well, yeah, I think that's just to show that they're exposition. Yeah, you haven't grown up. Yeah, that's what that's for.

[00:10:15] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, 'Game on!' Yeah, I love that. Okay, what's your social media post on this one?

[00:10:19] Trevor Long: Well, this one I remember as a kid. Wayne and Garth, schwing! The AMC Pacer ride singing Bohemian Rhapsody is a core memory, but overall there's a laugh there's laughs that date well and some that are relics of the time, but it's worth enjoying Wayne's World again because it is. It's a very old movie now when you think about it.

[00:10:39] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, 1992, mate. I saw this with my then fiancée, Jo. Hey! We got married at the end of '92. Schwing! And yeah, and I've rewatched it a few times.

[00:10:50] Trevor Long: That's just so good.

[00:10:52] Stephen Fenech: Jo has not seen it as much as I've seen this many times, uh, but yeah, that was, uh, '92, big year for me. Uh, let's look at the cast. Of course, Mike Myers plays Wayne Campbell. Now he was in, and I've got to say, underrated and very funny movie, So I Married an Axe Murderer. Oh, that is funny.

[00:11:11] Trevor Long: Are there bits in that?

[00:11:12] Stephen Fenech: We'll probably do— we'll probably do that on the show one day. Okay. Uh, he was in, of course, Austin Powers. And did you know he's the voice of Shrek? Oh yeah, did you know that?

[00:11:21] Movie Audio: Yep.

[00:11:21] Stephen Fenech: And he was in Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen movie.

[00:11:27] Trevor Long: Really? And I'll tell you, there's a little tie-in. I remember he plays the record exec, like huge makeup, because that's what he did in—

[00:11:35] Stephen Fenech: well, I'll go into that.

[00:11:36] Trevor Long: What's the million dollar thing, you know, $1 million? So like the makeup of the— in that was—

[00:11:41] Stephen Fenech: yeah, but, uh, I'll explain a funny little tie-in there. Okay. Uh, Dana Carvey plays Garth Algar. He was in a movie Master of Disguise. Okay. He was in a really cool movie movie, I think back from the '80s, called Tough Guys. Now Tough Guys was about two ex-cons played by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, two legends. Yeah. And he was their parole officer. It's a really funny movie. It's a good movie. Really? Yeah, a hidden gem. We'll get around to that. Okay. Uh, Rob Lowe plays Benjamin Oliver. He was in—

[00:12:13] Trevor Long: he's like your— he's like your banner actor headline to bring into this, right? Credibility.

[00:12:19] Stephen Fenech: Yes.

[00:12:20] Trevor Long: But also to take the mickey out of at the same time.

[00:12:22] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, San Elmo's Fire. He was in The Outsiders. He was, of course, Sam Siebold in The West Wing. Yes, for many years. Tia Carrera plays Cassandra. Do you remember her in Schwing? Do you remember her in True Lies? Yes. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember she was at the— remember that she was dancing with him at the start of the movie? Yes. She plays like an arms dealer. She was also a voice in Lilo Stitch, and she was also in a film called Relic Hunter. Well, but yeah, she's a very talented young lady. Anyway, before we get to the top scenes and the run-through, let's have a chat about our other great sponsor, and that is Hisense. If you're in the market for a TV, now's a great time to be looking. Hisense have just released their new RGB Mini LED televisions. Now, RGB is a letter you're going to hear a lot and see a lot in the TV market, and Hisense is right in it with their Mini LED RGB. The new UR9 series, this is their absolute flagship series, starting at 65 inches all the way up to 85 inches. They have of course the RGB Mini LED, which means the backlight is also the color source. So the red, green, and blue lights form the brightness but also the hyper accurate color as well. You are going to see richer, fuller, more accurate color on the screen. It also has— it's controlled by the HiView AI Engine RGB. So that's the traffic cop to control all those little red, green, and blue lights to make sure the color is perfect. But also too, the, the UR9 series has amazing sound quality.

[00:13:59] Trevor Long: The—

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[00:15:25] Movie Audio: Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent!

[00:15:33] Movie Audio: Okay, all right, excellent, excellent, excellent.

[00:15:37] Movie Audio: Okay, extreme close-up.

[00:15:48] Stephen Fenech: That's excellent!

[00:15:49] Movie Audio: Excellent!

[00:15:49] Movie Audio: Extreme! Okay, now is the time for Wayne's World Totally Amazing Excellent Discoveries. Our guest is Ron Paxton. Welcome to Wayne's World, Ron.

[00:15:58] Movie Audio: Thanks, Wayne.

[00:15:59] Movie Audio: Now, you're the inventor of the Suck Cut, right? What exactly is a Suck Cut?

[00:16:04] Movie Audio: The Suck Cut is a revolution in home haircutting.

[00:16:07] Movie Audio: Wow, what a totally amazing excellent discovery!

[00:16:11] Stephen Fenech: Well, yes. We don't try any extreme close-ups on our YouTube. No, should we try some extreme close-ups? Whoa, imagine you go on extreme close-up.

[00:16:21] Movie Audio: Whoa.

[00:16:22] Stephen Fenech: Hey, righto.

[00:16:23] Trevor Long: Am I Wayne or Garth?

[00:16:26] Stephen Fenech: Um, oh, you'd have to be Wayne if you're sort of on the— or I'd be Wayne on this show. Yeah, it depends on the other show. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, uh, watching the show is Handsome TV producer Benjamin Oliver.

[00:16:38] Movie Audio: What are we looking at?

[00:16:39] Stephen Fenech: Wayne's World. These guys, they do their show out of their basement. Meanwhile, Garth's getting his haircut with a suck cup.

[00:16:48] Movie Audio: People watch this?

[00:16:49] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, a lot.

[00:16:50] Movie Audio: Turn it off, man! Turn it off! It's sucking my will to live! Help the humanity!

[00:16:56] Stephen Fenech: Help the humanity.

[00:16:58] Trevor Long: Will you hand me the telephone?

[00:17:00] Movie Audio: Sure. No, no, no, no!

[00:17:03] Movie Audio: Russell, it's Benjamin. Are you watching TV? Listen, could you turn it to Channel 10? I want you to find out who these guys are and where they do their show. I think we found something that we can sell to Vanderhoff.

[00:17:17] Stephen Fenech: So we later find out that Vanderhoff is the owner of these arcades.

[00:17:20] Trevor Long: Arcade games, yep.

[00:17:22] Stephen Fenech: But Wayne, in this next scene, introduces himself as he does throughout the movie by breaking the fourth wall.

[00:17:27] Trevor Long: Looking directly at the camera and speaking.

[00:17:29] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, talking directly to us.

[00:17:30] Movie Audio: Let me bring you up to speed. My name is Wayne Campbell. I live in Aurora, Illinois. Oswego, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. Excellent. I've had plenty of joe jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hairnets. Okay, I still live with my parents, which I admit is both bogus and sad. But at least I've got an amazing cable access show. And I still know how to party.

[00:18:02] Movie Audio: 30.

[00:18:02] Movie Audio: But what I'd really love is to do Wayne's World for a living. It might happen. Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt. Ah, the Mirthmobile.

[00:18:15] Stephen Fenech: The Mirthmobile. Wayne and Garth meet up with their friends Terry, Alan, and Phil. They pile into Garth's 1976 AMC Pacer.

[00:18:24] Trevor Long: Cracking little car.

[00:18:24] Stephen Fenech: Which is the Mirthmobile, made famous essentially by this movie. Exactly. And as they drive through Aurora, they pop in a cassette tape and launch into their iconic iconic headbanging rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

[00:18:39] Movie Audio: Mamma mia, mamma mia, let me go, me out, as the devil put aside for me, for me, for me. So you think you can stomp me and spit in my eyes?

[00:19:04] Trevor Long: So you The best part about that scene is if you watch it closely, they know the lyrics to the first part, and at the end they don't know the lyrics.

[00:19:16] Stephen Fenech: You can watch Garth. Garth doesn't know the words at all.

[00:19:18] Trevor Long: It's just, it's hilarious because he gets a bit of it at the start, but he gets nothing at the end.

[00:19:24] Stephen Fenech: All right, my interjections in this are going to be called schwing votes. You love that? I don't— swing, swing vote, you know, the swing vote, swing vote.

[00:19:36] Trevor Long: Oh, you're just—

[00:19:36] Stephen Fenech: a swing would have been fine, just a swing. All right, the song Bohemian Rhapsody, yes, nearly did not make it into the movie because they needed permissions. Well, a couple of things. Mike Myers desperately wanted it. Paramount said, yeah, and the producer Lorne Michaels went, he said, we don't want the song, rights too expensive. Uh, Michaels didn't want the song because he wanted something more current. Because it's quite an old song, right? Bohemian Rhapsody. He wanted something— the song was at that time more than 15 years old.

[00:20:07] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:20:07] Stephen Fenech: So he wanted something more current. His suggestion was Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses.

[00:20:12] Trevor Long: Yeah, that makes sense.

[00:20:13] Stephen Fenech: But Myers threatened to quit if he didn't get what he wanted.

[00:20:16] Movie Audio: Wow.

[00:20:16] Stephen Fenech: And they eventually agreed. Wow. And he was right. I reckon Bohemian Rhapsody—

[00:20:20] Trevor Long: I think rock's done some charts after this.

[00:20:23] Stephen Fenech: Well, stay tuned later on. Okay, does, does, does good, does well for Queen. Yeah. All right. Uh, Wayne, on the way to their— they're going to the donut shop, spots a Fender Stratocaster guitar that he loves, and apparently he stops every Friday night to look at this thing.

[00:20:38] Movie Audio: He does this every Friday. Stop torturing yourself, man.

[00:20:43] Movie Audio: You'll never afford it. Live in the now. Live in the now.

[00:20:49] Movie Audio: It will be mine.

[00:20:50] Stephen Fenech: Oh yes, it will be mine. That's something he coined as well. It will be mine.

[00:20:57] Trevor Long: I don't know from anywhere else.

[00:20:58] Stephen Fenech: I can't hear. I don't remember either. Yeah, yeah. They go to a 24-hour donut shop and meet some of the locals. And Garth sees his dream girl who he's too afraid to talk to. Of course. The gang head to the Gas Works, a local hard rock music club.

[00:21:13] Movie Audio: Yep.

[00:21:13] Stephen Fenech: And Wayne spots Cassandra Wong, the lead singer and bassist of the rock band Crucial Taunt, performing on stage. Wayne is instantly smitten.

[00:21:36] Movie Audio: She's a babe!

[00:21:38] Stephen Fenech: Shwing! Arri, arri, arri, arri, arri! Is that the sort of reaction you had when you saw Amanda for the first time, mate? Totally. She's a babe! She's a babe!

[00:21:53] Trevor Long: Shwing! Arri, arri, arri, arri!

[00:21:55] Stephen Fenech: My other shwing vote here is Tia Carrera. Yep. Sang all her own songs.

[00:22:03] Trevor Long: Wow.

[00:22:03] Stephen Fenech: She performed all of those in the film and her cover song songs, including— remember later on they swing Ballroom Blitz? Everything that was on the soundtrack, she sang. Nice. Yeah, so talented, talented woman. Uh, enter Benjamin Oliver. In a high-rise Chicago boardroom, the sleek and predatory TV exec Benjamin Oliver is introduced to Wayne's World by his assistant Russell. That's right. Now Benjamin is looking for a cheap, authentic youth culture show to promote his, uh, well, his client Noah Vanderhoff.

[00:22:39] Trevor Long: So basically you get from this, he's in ad marketing, he's in an ad agency. And I think they're trying to secure a big deal for Vanderhoff 'cause he spends a lot, but they wanna clip the ticket. They wanna get a big deal to him.

[00:22:50] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, so they decide, well, you know what? This is perfect for his audience, but they—

[00:22:57] Trevor Long: It's a pitch though.

[00:22:58] Stephen Fenech: It's a solid pitch.

[00:22:58] Trevor Long: They have to spend a bit of time convincing him. They show him a clip, he doesn't get it. And it's very well played because they essentially convince him that it was his idea. To sponsor this show, which is very, very smart from an Asian perspective.

[00:23:10] Movie Audio: I had spots on Love Boat, but this—

[00:23:12] Stephen Fenech: what is this?

[00:23:13] Movie Audio: Mr. Vanderhoff, this is your audience. I mean, look at them. They're the same kids that line up at Noah's Arcade every weekend.

[00:23:18] Stephen Fenech: Well, it looks so cheesy.

[00:23:19] Movie Audio: That would be where I come in. Russell's our best producer. He does Chicago PM with Elaine Ronke, Sunshine Saturday, the African-American Digest.

[00:23:28] Movie Audio: I never heard of that one.

[00:23:29] Movie Audio: It's on very late. It won several awards.

[00:23:32] Movie Audio: Yeah, well, I think I'll I'll stick with Love Boat.

[00:23:35] Movie Audio: Speaking from a producer-director standpoint, kids can relate to this show. These guys aren't phonies. Kids can spot phonies. They're very smart.

[00:23:45] Movie Audio: Kids know dick. I watch them in my arcades. They stand like laboratory rats hitting the feeder bar to get a food pellet. But as long as they keep pumping in the quarters, who gives a shit, right?

[00:23:56] Stephen Fenech: Do you recognize Noah?

[00:23:57] Trevor Long: I recognize him. I don't know where Seinfeld.

[00:24:01] Stephen Fenech: He was the Bubble Boy's dad.

[00:24:03] Trevor Long: Oh yeah, yeah, he's been in heaps.

[00:24:04] Stephen Fenech: He's in a bubble. He's in the Bubble Boy. Oops. Yeah. Anyway, Benjamin and Russell head over to Wayne's parents' house to—

[00:24:13] Trevor Long: isn't it fascinating, by the way, you never see Wayne's parents?

[00:24:16] Stephen Fenech: Exactly right.

[00:24:17] Trevor Long: There's no point. No, no, it's, it's great lack of exposition. You don't need—

[00:24:21] Stephen Fenech: that would have been a whole other area to explore, the clashes with his parents. And, you know, get a job or whatever.

[00:24:27] Trevor Long: Yes, it would have been funny. It's an alternate timeline kind of movie.

[00:24:30] Stephen Fenech: Absolutely. Anyway, they head over to Wayne's parents' house to make an offer.

[00:24:35] Movie Audio: I know that I may be wasting my time, but here I am with the contract and two cashier's checks for $5,000 each.

[00:24:44] Movie Audio: Excuse me, excuse me, baking powder? It sounded like you said you were going to pay us for doing Wayne's World.

[00:24:50] Movie Audio: I know, you just Just give me the word and I'll tear up these checks right here.

[00:24:53] Movie Audio: No, no, no, no, no, no. The shooty scores.

[00:24:59] Trevor Long: See, it's just beautiful because they're such close mates. Yeah, they're such good mates that that's the kind of thing they always say when a goal goes in. And here he is.

[00:25:08] Stephen Fenech: Is that the first time you've heard it?

[00:25:10] Trevor Long: But the squeeze me for sure. Yeah, just so many cool little things that you assume are just the way they talk to each other because George Lucas ripped that off for Jar Jar Binks.

[00:25:18] Stephen Fenech: Squeeze me. Yeah, yeah, Phantom Menace, that which was in 1999.

[00:25:23] Trevor Long: Oh, you rip off.

[00:25:24] Movie Audio: Yeah, yeah.

[00:25:25] Stephen Fenech: But then what was the other one? Baking Powder, was that? Beg Your Pardon, Baking Powder. Yeah, right. So it's a whole lingo, isn't it?

[00:25:30] Trevor Long: It's a whole lingo.

[00:25:31] Stephen Fenech: And I love when they go to the club next. Remember in the previous, previous scene when he goes, oh, she says, come and see us, we're performing. Remember she says, I can't have your number. Yeah, she says, come and see us, we're performing at this other place.

[00:25:42] Trevor Long: If you got 5 bucks.

[00:25:43] Stephen Fenech: When they go to there to see him, remember they get out of the car, we got $5,000.

[00:25:47] Trevor Long: Is that also a jingle that's just from this? Because see, this is the problem is There could be a bunch of pop culture references in this movie that I don't know from American TV or movies, maybe. But like, for me, I haven't heard— I got $5,000. We would, we would do that.

[00:26:01] Stephen Fenech: The nearest thing was Eddie Murphy, Delirious, remember? Yeah, I've got ice cream, you know, that when he was saying, yeah, similar to that.

[00:26:12] Trevor Long: Again, that moment was like, oh, we used to do that.

[00:26:14] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. Anyway, Wayne goes to see Cassandra's band But Benjamin was there too, and he compliments her.

[00:26:24] Movie Audio: Your vocals are incredible.

[00:26:26] Movie Audio: Thanks.

[00:26:28] Movie Audio: You have a very interesting look.

[00:26:32] Movie Audio: Aha.

[00:26:32] Movie Audio: Oh, I'm not trying to pick up one.

[00:26:35] Movie Audio: Good thing.

[00:26:36] Movie Audio: No, no, I'm producing a television show. It's in Chicago, very late night, but we're looking for a musical act. Uh, here's my card. Is there a number where I can reach you at?

[00:26:44] Movie Audio: We got flyers at the door.

[00:26:49] Stephen Fenech: Cold.

[00:26:50] Trevor Long: Yeah, she's instantly off him.

[00:26:52] Stephen Fenech: Well, she's suspicious. She's thinking, yeah, another—

[00:26:54] Trevor Long: she doesn't like the sleazy business type.

[00:26:56] Stephen Fenech: Maybe, maybe. Yeah, I love this scene where Wayne catches up with— remember, previous to this he was practicing Cantonese, and now he's almost fluent. And yeah, he goes, I don't know much, and then he's totally fluent, which is quite funny.

[00:27:08] Trevor Long: The best bit is there's all these bits where he's speaking it, subtitles, and then there's there's this, this whole monologue and they like, he, they just look at the camera and let the subtitles do the work.

[00:27:16] Stephen Fenech: There's a short thing in Cantonese and then just sits there for it all to be translated.

[00:27:19] Trevor Long: It's like, you know what, let's just let it all happen.

[00:27:21] Stephen Fenech: Well, my swing vote here is that when they film that scene, when they're talking Cantonese, uh, Tia Carrera had no idea what Mike Myers was saying because he was ad-libbing and can't actually speak Chinese.

[00:27:32] Trevor Long: So all of that is just gibberish?

[00:27:34] Stephen Fenech: Ad-lib gibberish.

[00:27:36] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:27:36] Trevor Long: Wow, that's kind of racist.

[00:27:37] Stephen Fenech: But anyway, now Wayne and Garth and the crew visit their studio set. This is Lovely. And they meet—

[00:27:45] Trevor Long: this is Garth's first kind of, yeah, you know, appearance in the real world of TV.

[00:27:49] Stephen Fenech: They meet their new sponsor, Noah.

[00:27:51] Movie Audio: You know, Noah, I gotta tell you, I love you on that couch. Wayne, did you know that Noah does all his own commercials?

[00:27:58] Movie Audio: Yeah, I got a new one where I rap. Come bust a move where the games are played. It's chill, it's fresh, it's Noah's Arcade. What do you think of that? I'd have to say, "Asphincter says what?" What? "Asphincter says what?" What?

[00:28:20] Stephen Fenech: Exactly. Exactly.

[00:28:22] Trevor Long: We used to use that one all the time.

[00:28:25] Stephen Fenech: "Asphincter says what?" You sound mature, you're a bunch of friends, mate.

[00:28:28] Trevor Long: That's great. Mate, I think I've used that in the last 5 years.

[00:28:30] Stephen Fenech: Is that right? There you go. The next visit is to the local music store. Now don't forget he's got 5K burning a hole in his pocket right now. Right, he visits the local music store to admire the '64 Fender Stratocaster.

[00:28:43] Trevor Long: This time when the store is open, which he obviously does regularly.

[00:28:49] Movie Audio: I'd like to have a look at this Fender Stratocaster, please.

[00:28:51] Movie Audio: Oh really?

[00:28:52] Movie Audio: Yes.

[00:28:53] Movie Audio: Again?

[00:28:55] Movie Audio: Yes.

[00:28:57] Movie Audio: Now be careful.

[00:29:03] Stephen Fenech: He points to the no stairway to heaven.

[00:29:08] Movie Audio: No stairway.

[00:29:09] Trevor Long: Denied.

[00:29:10] Movie Audio: Denied.

[00:29:12] Movie Audio: Excuse me, Wayne, can I put the fender back now, please?

[00:29:18] Movie Audio: Not today, my good man. I'm feeling saucy.

[00:29:21] Movie Audio: Saucy.

[00:29:21] Movie Audio: I think I'm gonna buy it. Do you accept cash?

[00:29:26] Movie Audio: Not today, my good man.

[00:29:31] Trevor Long: And I'm feeling saucy.

[00:29:33] Stephen Fenech: Yes. In the middle of that little scene, Garth does an amazing drum solo. Yes. My swing vote here, Dana Carvey did that for real.

[00:29:44] Trevor Long: Nice.

[00:29:44] Stephen Fenech: He played that drum solo.

[00:29:46] Trevor Long: Nice. Yeah, very cool.

[00:29:47] Stephen Fenech: Okay. Wayne and Garth arrive at their new corporate-sponsored studio. They're forced to change their authentic show format, include—

[00:29:57] Trevor Long: this is where they start to learn what this contract's really going to mean to them.

[00:30:01] Movie Audio: Listen, we need to have a talk about Vanderhoff. The fact is, he's the sponsor, and you signed a contract guaranteeing him certain concessions, one of them being a spot on the show.

[00:30:10] Movie Audio: Well, that's where I see things just a little differently. Contract or no, I will not bow to any sponsor.

[00:30:16] Stephen Fenech: Him eating a Pizza Hut pizza.

[00:30:17] Movie Audio: Sorry you feel that way, but basically it's the nature of the beast.

[00:30:21] Movie Audio: Maybe I'm wrong on this one, but for me, the beast doesn't include selling out. Doritos.

[00:30:25] Stephen Fenech: He's eating Doritos.

[00:30:30] Movie Audio: Garth, you know what I'm talking about, right?

[00:30:31] Stephen Fenech: He's kitted out in Reebok gear.

[00:30:34] Movie Audio: It's like people only do things because they get paid, and that's just really sad.

[00:30:40] Movie Audio: I can't talk about it anymore, it's giving me a headache.

[00:30:45] Movie Audio: Here, take two of these.

[00:30:50] Movie Audio: Ah, Nuprin. Little, you Yellow, different.

[00:30:53] Movie Audio: Uh, look, you can stay here in the big leagues and play by the rules, or you can go back to the farm club in Aurora. It's your choice.

[00:31:01] Movie Audio: Yes, and it's the choice of a new generation.

[00:31:05] Stephen Fenech: So sort of more mocking the corporate sellout culture, really, isn't he? Uh, Benjamin invites Wayne, Garth, and Cassandra to his luxury apartment. Benjamin appears friendly. He gives them backstage passes to Alice Cooper. Yeah, but is he making a play for Cassandra.

[00:31:24] Trevor Long: 100%.

[00:31:25] Movie Audio: Enjoy yourselves.

[00:31:26] Movie Audio: What about Cassandra?

[00:31:28] Movie Audio: She and I have work to do. Here's to your success.

[00:31:31] Movie Audio: No, here's to Benjamin.

[00:31:38] Movie Audio: Who wants Chinese takeout? I know a great place. This is—

[00:31:43] Movie Audio: I'll have the cream of some young guy.

[00:31:46] Movie Audio: Cassandra, why don't you order.

[00:31:48] Movie Audio: Oh no, I'm sure whatever you order will be fine.

[00:31:51] Movie Audio: Oh, okay. Why? Mountain Dew, Pepsi-Cola.

[00:32:07] Movie Audio: This guy is good.

[00:32:11] Movie Audio: I picked up a little Cantonese when I was in the Orient. You know, you sound a lot like you're from Kowloon Bay as opposed to Hong Kong.

[00:32:17] Movie Audio: I was born in Kowloon Bay.

[00:32:20] Trevor Long: There you have it.

[00:32:21] Movie Audio: This guy's really good.

[00:32:23] Stephen Fenech: So you know it's game on at that point. Yeah. But do you reckon he was really speaking Chinese then?

[00:32:27] Trevor Long: I don't think there was enough words to make an order.

[00:32:30] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, I don't think so either.

[00:32:31] Trevor Long: I don't think so.

[00:32:33] Stephen Fenech: Wayne and Garth, they've got a great stage.

[00:32:35] Trevor Long: Viewers are meant to think he's a wanker. Like, that's what you're meant to think about this bloke right now.

[00:32:39] Stephen Fenech: Totally. Wayne and Garth have got their backstage passes to go see Alice Cooper, and they head backstage. I love it when they go on their show on their backstage pass, everyone, and then they're actually in the room with Alice.

[00:32:49] Trevor Long: It's such an iconic scene. I love this.

[00:32:52] Movie Audio: Alice, is this cool?

[00:32:55] Movie Audio: Yeah, come on in.

[00:32:56] Movie Audio: Sorry to bother you, but we had to come and tell you how much we really enjoyed the show, didn't we, Garth?

[00:33:02] Movie Audio: Oh, thanks.

[00:33:05] Movie Audio: We're not mental or anything, so don't be afraid. My name is Wayne, and this is Garth.

[00:33:12] Stephen Fenech: Nice to meet you guys.

[00:33:15] Movie Audio: So, do you come to Milwaukee often?

[00:33:19] Movie Audio: 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. 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.

[00:33:50] Movie Audio: Does this guy know how to party or what?

[00:33:53] Movie Audio: Huh?

[00:33:54] Stephen Fenech: Huh?

[00:33:56] Movie Audio: Oh, okay. Well, we gotta get going.

[00:34:00] Movie Audio: No, no, no, stick around.

[00:34:02] Movie Audio: Hang out with us.

[00:34:04] Movie Audio: Cool. Yeah, we'll stay and hang around with yous. With Alice Cooper.

[00:34:13] Movie Audio: We're not worthy! We're not worthy! We're not worthy! We're scum!

[00:34:20] Stephen Fenech: We're scum! That was definitely Wayne's World invented. I had never saw that anywhere else. And even the gesture, you know, that, that, that's— is that what theirs?

[00:34:32] Trevor Long: It's absolutely theirs. But it's funny because again, I go back to the time in The 12th Man at the time, there was a, you know, hail Richie, hail the great man, hail. It was just the same thing. And so for us in my— that's just, that was, we're either we're not worthy or hail, hail Stephen, he's the great man, that kind of thing. And I went to Milwaukee a year later, and so I'm walking around going, I'm in Milwaukee.

[00:34:56] Stephen Fenech: Milwaukee. See if Alice Cooper was there. My swing vote here. Alice Cooper came to the set thinking he's just going to perform, just sing for this movie. Yeah. To his surprise, he was handed an extensive monologue.

[00:35:11] Trevor Long: So these are script, mate.

[00:35:12] Stephen Fenech: And that what you heard, and he nailed it. Yeah, he—

[00:35:16] Trevor Long: it's just like, yeah, Alice Cooper, deadpan serious. Yeah. Not rock star vibe.

[00:35:20] Stephen Fenech: So he only had a short short time to memorize it and knock it out. So, uh, and he smashed it. Yeah, but he's known to be— apparently he's a history buff. Yeah, Alice Cooper anyway. So he probably— I know this already. Yeah, right. Our first episode, uh, of their new live broadcast, and it's a disaster. Benjamin forces a humiliating interview segment into Wayne, requiring him to interview Noah. He writes on the back of the cards, uh, he writes insulting messages like this man has no penis, which is hilarious to his audience. It's broadcast live to their, to their audience.

[00:35:58] Movie Audio: Wayne, what the hell is going on?

[00:36:00] Trevor Long: What are you doing?

[00:36:01] Movie Audio: Same thing we always do.

[00:36:03] Movie Audio: You've publicly humiliated the sponsor. Yeah, you're fired.

[00:36:08] Movie Audio: Fired for that?

[00:36:09] Movie Audio: Yeah, right.

[00:36:12] Movie Audio: That's it, I'm out of here and I'm taking my show with me.

[00:36:14] Movie Audio: We own the show.

[00:36:17] Stephen Fenech: Ah, bite me, bite me, bite me. So yeah, um, Cassandra says she's going to Chicago to film a music video with Benjamin. Remember, he turns up at her apartment. Yeah, massive fight ensues, leading to Kiwanee and Cassandra having a bit of a breakup.

[00:36:34] Movie Audio: Where are you going?

[00:36:35] Movie Audio: Chicago. Benjamin set up the video shoot. I'll be there for 3 days.

[00:36:39] Movie Audio: Oh well, I guess I guess Benjamin will be there, too.

[00:36:42] Movie Audio: Well, he's producing it. And what does that mean?

[00:36:44] Movie Audio: Well, it just means that he's been paying you an awful lot of attention lately.

[00:36:48] Movie Audio: Well, maybe he thinks I've got some talent.

[00:36:51] Movie Audio: Maybe he's poking you.

[00:36:53] Movie Audio: Ooh. What? You think that's the way I get a gig?

[00:36:58] Movie Audio: Well, first he screws me, then he screws you. It's Dutch door action.

[00:37:04] Movie Audio: Could you be any more insulting? Yeah. I think you better leave.

[00:37:14] Stephen Fenech: Fine.

[00:37:16] Movie Audio: I'm out of here.

[00:37:18] Stephen Fenech: Did you notice her song playing in the background? Why You Want to Break My Heart? Yeah. So that was the official actual soundtrack. Yeah.

[00:37:25] Trevor Long: And it's like, mate, yeah, you should have been fired.

[00:37:27] Stephen Fenech: Can you make me anymore?

[00:37:29] Trevor Long: Yeah. You probably should have explained that you just got fired from your own show. Like, maybe Maybe she would have had sympathy of some sort there. Yeah, anyway, he's basically a teenager at this point.

[00:37:39] Stephen Fenech: To make matters worse though, Wayne and Garth had a little bit of a falling out, remember?

[00:37:42] Trevor Long: Because he abandoned him.

[00:37:44] Stephen Fenech: He left and he was, uh, on his own.

[00:37:45] Trevor Long: Left Garth to host the ending of the show, which he's never done before.

[00:37:49] Stephen Fenech: So Garth feels like Wayne's sort of letting his ego ruin their friendship a little bit. Wayne realizes he's lost everything— his show, his best friend, and the girl he loves. He reconciles with Garth in the Donut shop, and they hatch a scheme to win Cassandra back. Wayne sneaks onto the set of Cassandra's music video, which is being overseen.

[00:38:07] Trevor Long: It's an elaborate set. Like, this would be an expensive part of the movie. Snakes, there's, uh, jungle scenes.

[00:38:13] Stephen Fenech: It's the whole kit. We have to talk.

[00:38:15] Movie Audio: I don't want to talk to you.

[00:38:17] Movie Audio: Cassandra, I've set up an audition for you and your band. I'm putting my show back on the air. You've got to be on it.

[00:38:22] Trevor Long: Wayne, go home.

[00:38:23] Movie Audio: No, I'm not I'm not going anywhere. Cassandra, I love you. You may not believe it, but I love you. Am I supposed to just turn my back and leave?

[00:38:34] Movie Audio: Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, "It's okay, I don't mind"?

[00:38:41] Trevor Long: He splashes water in his eyes with tears.

[00:38:44] Movie Audio: Well, I mind! I mind big time!

[00:38:47] Stephen Fenech: And it says Oscar clip on the bottom.

[00:38:50] Movie Audio: I never learned to read. Is that true?

[00:38:58] Movie Audio: Yes, everything except the reading part.

[00:39:02] Stephen Fenech: That's funny. Uh, Wayne has confessed his love, he apologizes and convinces Sandra to leave the shoot, and she jumps in the car, abandons Benjamin. I'm out, it's back. And I like how he goes, there's no film in this camera, and he opens up, all film falls out. It's very funny. Funny. So what they plan to do is hijack the satellite broadcast from Wayne's basement to force a major record executive, Frankie, Mr. Big Sharp, to see Cassandra performing. So Garth and their tech-savvy friends hack into the satellite network to get the show back. Cassandra performs and Mr. Big is watching in his limo. Yeah, Benjamin also turns up, but not only after their policeman friend stops him roadside with a little cavity search. Remember when he walks in, he sort of is funny walking. Yeah. Now here's where it really sort of takes a real turn because it famously has multiple endings. Yes. And breaks the fourth wall to present three different conclusions. This is ending number one.

[00:40:02] Movie Audio: Hi, I'm Frankie Sharp, Sharp Records. I saw your performance in my limo and I must say I've seen a lot of I've had a lot of sex in my day. And although you're extremely beautiful, I just think it's the wrong time.

[00:40:14] Stephen Fenech: Oh, man.

[00:40:16] Movie Audio: You screwed my career.

[00:40:21] Movie Audio: I always knew you were small-time. Wayne, I'm pregnant.

[00:40:26] Stephen Fenech: That's it?

[00:40:27] Movie Audio: That's why I've been so moody.

[00:40:29] Movie Audio: Mm-hmm. Whoa!

[00:40:33] Movie Audio: Whoa!

[00:40:33] Movie Audio: Fuck! Fire! Let's get out of here!

[00:40:39] Stephen Fenech: So the basement catches fire. Wayne carries Garth out. Cassandra leaves Wayne, uh, leaves Wayne for Benjamin. He's on a beautiful holiday, and, and he said, you never— yes, oh, that last night was the best, greatest night ever. And then you see them sneak in the side. He goes, you didn't think we're going to end the movie like that, did you? And so here we have one Scooby-Doo ending. Scooby-Doo!

[00:41:01] Movie Audio: Hi, Frankie Sharp, Sharp Records. I just saw your performance in my limo.

[00:41:05] Movie Audio: Wow, we got through! Well, that wraps it up, but there's one last thing. Let's just see who you really are, mister. Why, it's Old Man Withers, the guy who runs the haunted amusement park!

[00:41:17] Stephen Fenech: And I would have got away with it too if it hadn't been for you snooping kids. Good one, Shaggy! Good one, Shaggy!

[00:41:24] Movie Audio: Excellent Scooby-Doo ending.

[00:41:25] Movie Audio: Yeah, but I think We could do the mega happy ending.

[00:41:27] Movie Audio: Ah, the mega happy ending.

[00:41:28] Stephen Fenech: That's doable. Speaking of which, here it is.

[00:41:31] Movie Audio: Hi, I'm Frankie Sharp, Sharp Records. I saw your performance in my limo. I must tell you, it was terrific.

[00:41:38] Movie Audio: Yeah!

[00:41:39] Movie Audio: In fact, I think it's so good, I'm gonna give you a 6-album deal starting tomorrow.

[00:41:45] Stephen Fenech: See you in my office.

[00:41:47] Movie Audio: I love you, Wayne.

[00:41:49] Movie Audio: I love you, Cassandra.

[00:41:53] Movie Audio: I love you, God.

[00:41:55] Movie Audio: I love you, dream woman.

[00:41:59] Movie Audio: You know, ever since I did your show, kids are looking at me in a whole new way. I love you, man. And I love you.

[00:42:07] Movie Audio: Because I've learned that platonic love can exist between two grown men. And I've learned something, too. I've learned that a flawless profile A perfect body, the right clothes, and a great car can get you far in America, almost to the top. But it can't get you everything.

[00:42:27] Movie Audio: Isn't it great that we're all better people?

[00:42:31] Movie Audio: Fishy! Yeah! Yeah! Woo-hoo! Yeah!

[00:42:42] Stephen Fenech: Did you think that was the end of the movie? Yeah. Did you watch at the end of the credits? Have you seen it in the past? Okay, because this is at the end of the credits, they pop up again.

[00:42:53] Movie Audio: You know, I, I don't think anyone's going to tell us when to leave.

[00:42:57] Movie Audio: Yeah, good call, Garth. Uh, I'll bet we're just gonna sit here and when they're finished they'll fade to black.

[00:43:05] Stephen Fenech: Fades to black.

[00:43:06] Movie Audio: Can't believe they did that. I told told you.

[00:43:09] Stephen Fenech: So they're out of there. Yeah, right. A few lines to get through here, short and sharp, starting with this. Hey, Campbell! Un momento, fellas.

[00:43:18] Movie Audio: How's it going?

[00:43:20] Stephen Fenech: Fine.

[00:43:22] Movie Audio: Say, I smell bacon. Does anyone else smell bacon?

[00:43:25] Movie Audio: Yeah, I definitely smell a pork product of some type.

[00:43:29] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're doing, Campbell. So juvenile. And all. And did you, did you see, um, what's his name, the guy who was in Married with Children?

[00:43:39] Trevor Long: Oh yeah, Married with Children. Al Bundy.

[00:43:41] Stephen Fenech: Al Bundy. Yeah, him.

[00:43:43] Movie Audio: I'd never done a crazy thing in my life before that night.

[00:43:47] Stephen Fenech: Why is it if a man kills another man in battle it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion it's called murder?

[00:43:54] Movie Audio: Hello!

[00:43:55] Movie Audio: What do you think you're doing? Only me and Garth get to talk to the camera.

[00:43:59] Stephen Fenech: It's not Ed Harris.

[00:44:00] Trevor Long: It's Ed something.

[00:44:02] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. Anyway, here goes another one. Remember he sees his ex-girlfriend? Yeah.

[00:44:06] Movie Audio: Happy anniversary, Wayne.

[00:44:08] Movie Audio: Stacy, we broke up 2 months ago.

[00:44:10] Movie Audio: Well, that doesn't mean we can't still go out.

[00:44:12] Movie Audio: Well, it does actually.

[00:44:15] Trevor Long: See, it's these, honestly, it's the— everything else we've been through is good. Yeah. But it's all these little things that make it great.

[00:44:23] Stephen Fenech: Add-ons. Yeah. Now, um, here's another one where, uh, from Goth.

[00:44:27] Movie Audio: If she were a president, she'd be Babe-Raham Lincoln. But in the same, in the same little moment, he also reveals this: Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he'd put on a dress and play a girl bunny?

[00:44:43] Stephen Fenech: No. Hear that little bit there?

[00:44:44] Trevor Long: It's like that was ad-lib.

[00:44:46] Stephen Fenech: That was that. And he laughed at that, and they kept it in. Yeah, he never was so real. Yeah, yeah.

[00:44:51] Movie Audio: And he's the last one of my favorite Wayne, um, what do you do if every time you see this one incredible woman you think you're gonna hurl?

[00:45:01] Movie Audio: I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. If you spew and she bolts, it was never meant to be.

[00:45:10] Stephen Fenech: So true. Okay, uh, not really any plot holes to speak of, but the speaker workout— wow, the speaker, Bohemian Rhapsody, full Stop the music. Uh, Dreamweaver, Foxy Lady. I love that.

[00:45:23] Trevor Long: It's pretty good.

[00:45:24] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, now in that scene, I've got a little addition here. You know when he dances to Foxy Lady? Foxy! Dana Carvey was just supposed to sit down when he looks through his girl, supposed to sit down and the camera's supposed to zoom in on his face, but he completely improvised the dance and the lip sync. Yeah, and the director said that's too funny not to have in the movie. But Mike Myers apparently was blowing up that he had such a big improvisation. And so, oh, you know, like, wow. And yeah, well, mate, you'll hear more about him, his antics on the set in a moment. Okay. Thank God I got a big screen. The concert shots were all pretty good. Yeah. The driving scenes, you know, they're driving in around Milwaukee and all that.

[00:46:07] Trevor Long: And there's some really nice, well, like even that first time they drive into the diner in the Pacer, it's really well.

[00:46:11] Stephen Fenech: Oh yeah.

[00:46:11] Trevor Long: It's really well jib shot to follow it up and then turn in. Very well done.

[00:46:15] Stephen Fenech: The business, public access television still exists.

[00:46:19] Trevor Long: Yeah, right. Yeah. Well, have you seen the Stephen Colbert thing? No. You know how Stephen Colbert was axed? His last show was on Thursday night. 23 hours later, he sat and did an hour on a Monroe public access cable show. Who's the guy that was the news anchor in Newsroom?

[00:46:36] Stephen Fenech: Jeff Daniels.

[00:46:38] Trevor Long: He comes on like, and they eat a sandwich. Like it's the whole thing's on YouTube.

[00:46:42] Stephen Fenech: YouTube. That's amazing.

[00:46:43] Trevor Long: And the whole hour and a bit. It is proper community TV, worth watching.

[00:46:48] Stephen Fenech: Okay, I'll watch that. Uh, so he— public access TV is still, uh, exists. Public, educational, and governmental, PEG they call it. PEG cable channels still broadcast on local cable TV in many countries. Many access stations have pivoted to online streaming and video on demand instead. Landscape of public access television includes the following realities. Traditional cable channels in the U— in the United States and Canada, local cable providers are still required to carry PEG channels as part of their franchise agreements with municipalities. These channels serve as platforms for local government meetings, community events, locally produced independent shows, and the transition to streaming is obviously growing as well. So the shrinking cable subscriptions means they've shifted their focus to the internet, right? So you've got YouTube, Vimeo, all these. In Australia, public access is represented by Community TV, CTV. TV. While the stations face spectrum shifts and challenges, regional broadcasters like C31 Melbourne, Channel 44 Adelaide continue to operate and stream their programming online to this day.

[00:47:51] Trevor Long: There you go.

[00:47:53] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, if this movie was made today, if they decided, um, Wayne's World would be a live stream, he'd be, he'd be on Twitch or something.

[00:48:01] Trevor Long: That's true.

[00:48:01] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, YouTuber. Yep, yep. Uh, sharing clips on social media, there'd whole other world to it. Perspective of this movie, this show. The whole— And I reckon he'd be more famous too.

[00:48:13] Trevor Long: And you know, yes, true. The satellite into the limo thing would be more of like a hacking. It's into his phone. We're going to push it, stream it into his phone and, you know, hack the algorithm essentially. Yeah.

[00:48:23] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. And there'd be a lot more social media. It could still be done, I reckon. Yeah. Imagine someone does a modernized Wayne's World.

[00:48:28] Trevor Long: I think it could still work.

[00:48:29] Stephen Fenech: Or have female characters. Call it Wanda's World or something, you know. All right, have all women, maybe, you know, there's a lot of woke, a lot of sort of, you know, equality and, you know, get the girl, get the women. They did a female version of Ghostbusters, for God's sake. So, you know, all right, every day is a school day. Are there any themes and lessons here apart from just repeating friendships? Friendship, top of my list, no doubt. Yeah, friendship, friends come first. Selling out versus authenticity. Yeah, are you a seller?

[00:48:59] Trevor Long: So the thing is, they were happy to take the money. They were happy to do this for a job, but with some caveat that they don't want to actually change who they are and what they do.

[00:49:10] Stephen Fenech: Well, it's funny how they never mentioned, you know, he goes, well, you're fired. He said, well, I'm taking my show back. There was no mention of giving the money back.

[00:49:19] Trevor Long: So here's your money back.

[00:49:20] Stephen Fenech: She goes, here's your money. Well, he already spent it.

[00:49:22] Trevor Long: Yeah, it'd be hard to give back.

[00:49:23] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. So a little bit of, you know, I think there's a bit of satire about around the media, you know, the whole product placement and all that sort of— yeah, it's good. Uh, best use of the pause button.

[00:49:34] Trevor Long: Now if you look carefully in Garth's bedroom, oh yeah, you know, when that, when that happened, it's a very short scene. I thought, Stephen, some posters.

[00:49:43] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, well, one, the thing caught my mind, my eye, was this picture of Wayne and Garth together. Yeah, in, on the bedroom, in the bedroom. And that was apparently a still from Saturday Night Live.

[00:49:53] Trevor Long: All right, that's—

[00:49:54] Stephen Fenech: they took it from Saturday Night Live. That's Cool. Yeah, things you might not know. Now you mentioned Bohemian Rhapsody. Uh, this film is credited with reviving the popularity of Queen in the US. Yeah, right, through using Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah, uh, they had dropped— obviously they're an '80s band, had dropped in popularity. Then this film caused the song to become a massive hit again. Wow. Unfortunately, Freddie Mercury didn't live to see the song's renaissance. He passed away just a few months before the film was released. Oh wow. Yeah, but according to Brian May, Mercury did give permission for the song to be used and saw the clips while he was close to death.

[00:50:33] Trevor Long: Oh wow.

[00:50:34] Stephen Fenech: Because Mike Myers sent a tape for him, want him to see it.

[00:50:36] Trevor Long: Yeah, right.

[00:50:37] Stephen Fenech: So at least you got the thumbs up from Freddie. Yeah. Um, the scene where Wayne's ex-girlfriend Stacy gives him a gun rack—

[00:50:46] Trevor Long: yes, that's so good—

[00:50:48] Stephen Fenech: is based on some truth. All right. He's— one of his exes apparently broke up with him due to his preoccupation with his comedy. A week later, tried to reconcile by buying him a gun rack. To her, this was an absurd joke that she was— she had hoped he would laugh at. Yeah, but, uh, he thought, no thanks, he didn't. Uh, the two remained apart.

[00:51:09] Trevor Long: Multiple guns to warrant a gun rack.

[00:51:12] Stephen Fenech: When the movie was released, Mike's ex viewed the movie with her new boyfriend, and she was horrified, uh, when she saw that the gun reference had been written.

[00:51:22] Movie Audio: Could you imagine seeing that in a movie theater?

[00:51:24] Stephen Fenech: But apparently, uh, it— but yes, also, she— the main character referred to as Stacy, she's a psycho hose beast, as they refer to her. Sometime later, Myers actually called this former girlfriend, uh, tried to apologize, to say, look, it was, uh, to apologize for including a attracting version of her, you know. Yeah, she obviously wasn't as psycho as the female, as the character. Uh, Rob Lowe discovered his gift for comedy. He became, uh, and he was also in Austin Powers movies too, so Mike Myers used him in Austin Powers as well. So right, he has, he has got some good comedic timing. I think he's not just a, uh, a pretty straight, straight guy, drama, straight guy. But you know what, the film, this movie was credited with reviving his career because you remember he went through a big sex tape scandal.

[00:52:14] Movie Audio: Yeah.

[00:52:14] Stephen Fenech: And it was this time which sort of brought him back to the mainstream, you know.

[00:52:18] Trevor Long: Yeah.

[00:52:18] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. Now remember I said Mike Myers was in Bohemian Rhapsody?

[00:52:23] Trevor Long: Yeah. No, he was— oh, the movie.

[00:52:25] Stephen Fenech: The movie Bohemian Rhapsody. He was an EMI executive who refused to air Bohemian Rhapsody.

[00:52:30] Trevor Long: That's right.

[00:52:30] Stephen Fenech: Because it was too long.

[00:52:31] Trevor Long: Yeah. He was bad. He told him to go away and fix it.

[00:52:33] Stephen Fenech: Kids need a song They can bang their heads to in a car. This is a nod, of course, to the scene in Wayne's World where Wayne and crew are singing that song. Now, the director Penelope Spheeris says, her quote, Mike Myers was a nightmare to work with. Wow. One example she gave, uh, she was infuriated there was no margarine for his bagel, only butter.

[00:52:59] Trevor Long: I'd be infuriated by that as well.

[00:53:01] Stephen Fenech: Now Meyers, who apparently suffers from hypoglycemia, okay, flipped the snack table over in a rage and stormed off.

[00:53:10] Trevor Long: That might be a bit excessive.

[00:53:12] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, to manage his moods through the shoot, the director, Spheres' daughter, put— he put her, his daughter, her daughter in charge of making sure he had whatever snack he needed at any given time, and that, that's how the shoot progressed smoothly.

[00:53:28] Trevor Long: So she would— it's remarkable to hear that, to think that he actually went on to have such a good career.

[00:53:33] Stephen Fenech: And here's her quote, right? He was emotionally needy and got more difficult as the shoot went along. Yeah, you should have heard him bitching when I was trying to do that Bohemian Rhapsody scene. He said, I can't move my neck like that. Can you believe it? He opposed that, the headbanging. So, so he wanted him to do it more. He goes, I was— I was— what, why do we have to do it so many times? No one is going to laugh at that. Oh, his words. So is it her suggestion that he bangs his head more? And that became the feature scene in the movie, right?

[00:54:04] Trevor Long: Wow.

[00:54:04] Stephen Fenech: So this is why apparently this— the why she didn't— she preferred not to direct Wayne's World 2. You know, there's a sequel, right?

[00:54:12] Trevor Long: I've not seen it, and, uh, I might have seen it.

[00:54:14] Stephen Fenech: Yeah. So he— sure. Again, I just didn't have a good experience with Mike, and I didn't want to do it again.

[00:54:20] Trevor Long: Wow.

[00:54:21] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, it really plays opposite to what you think. She's a funny guy.

[00:54:24] Trevor Long: I hate it because you think he's young, he's upcoming, coming and you'd hate for someone to be young and upcoming and arrogant. You understand someone who's been through a career and gets to arrogance.

[00:54:33] Movie Audio: Exactly.

[00:54:33] Trevor Long: But you have, it's entitlement.

[00:54:35] Stephen Fenech: Did you notice, did you see at the, remember they went out to see the Gasworks, who the bouncer was? Oh yeah.

[00:54:42] Trevor Long: Meatloaf. Yes, Meatloaf. As soon as he came over, went Meatloaf.

[00:54:45] Stephen Fenech: He's a tiny cameo there. Tiny is his name. And also did you know Garth's car of course is a 1976 AMC Pacer? Did you also notice Chris Farley?

[00:54:56] Trevor Long: Yes, as the security guard.

[00:54:57] Stephen Fenech: This was his big screen debut. Wow. As the security guard of the Alice Cooper concert, uh, and looking after Mr. Big. Yeah, yeah. Farley appears in Wayne's World 2 but playing a different character.

[00:55:07] Trevor Long: Oh, okay.

[00:55:08] Stephen Fenech: What's the meme? Well, where do you start? I've written here the whole movie is meme material. Yeah, party on, Wayne.

[00:55:15] Trevor Long: Every one of your lines.

[00:55:16] Stephen Fenech: Excellent.

[00:55:17] Trevor Long: Swing denied.

[00:55:18] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, denied. Yeah, there's all— they're all there, mate.

[00:55:20] Trevor Long: I got $5,000.

[00:55:22] Stephen Fenech: I got $5,000. That's so good. That's a lot of money back for you. That's solid money for sure. By Any Other Name.

[00:55:30] Trevor Long: No.

[00:55:31] Stephen Fenech: Wayne and Garth. Not quite the same ring. I don't know how you read that. Wayne's World needs to be the alliteration, eh? Wayne's World. Yes. Okay. The One Thing You Want.

[00:55:40] Trevor Long: Oh, the hat.

[00:55:41] Stephen Fenech: Wayne's World hat.

[00:55:42] Trevor Long: Me too. Like the legit one that he wore.

[00:55:44] Stephen Fenech: That was my first choice. No, Garth's week, the guitar, guitar, Garth's glasses, the thick black glasses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The AMC Pacer for sure. Yeah, I would— guitar would be awesome.

[00:55:56] Trevor Long: Have that parked downstairs in the garage.

[00:55:58] Stephen Fenech: All right, 2 questions for Trev.

[00:55:59] Trevor Long: Okay, hit me.

[00:56:00] Stephen Fenech: Have you— had you heard of the Wayne's World sketches before the movie?

[00:56:04] Trevor Long: Had you heard of them? No.

[00:56:05] Stephen Fenech: So you came into the movie as your first entry to Wayne's World? Okay. Question number 2, how do you like it when they break the fourth wall.

[00:56:13] Trevor Long: I love it. I love it. I see, I don't buy into—

[00:56:17] Stephen Fenech: it needs to be a comedy movie. Serious movie couldn't do that.

[00:56:19] Trevor Long: I don't buy into the rules of cinema. I, I— if, if it can be warranted and it's, it's done well, directed well, bring it on.

[00:56:27] Stephen Fenech: Excellent. Question 3, uh, have you and would you watch the sequel? Came out in '93. Similar storyline to the first. Oh really? So it's, uh, he tries to put on, organize a big wants it, and one of the promoters has a— takes a shine to Cassandra. So it's basically similar plot to the first movie.

[00:56:46] Trevor Long: Okay, I don't remember.

[00:56:48] Stephen Fenech: Yeah, yeah, you must have seen it then. Oh my God, that really— you might have seen it.

[00:56:52] Trevor Long: Yeah, there's a big chance. I'll turn like, I remember this.

[00:56:54] Stephen Fenech: Okay, well, that is Wayne's World. Give us your wrap-up and rating.

[00:56:57] Trevor Long: I mean, I love it. It's a great movie. It's just fun. I think that most of it stands the test of time. Like, yeah, you think—

[00:57:04] Stephen Fenech: like, I was trying to chuckle.

[00:57:05] Trevor Long: I was trying to think if you got Jokes, could you say them now? Like, schwing, like you just date yourself pretty heavily. But all of those things are funny. They're just great lines, mate. It's a fun story. It's stupid, but it's meant to be. Yeah. You're not meant to take it seriously.

[00:57:19] Stephen Fenech: Unapologetically stupid. Yes.

[00:57:21] Trevor Long: But it's the quick, sharp wit. I love comedy. And so I love the quick, sharp wit. And that's why I love the gun rack being not just a great joke, but being a last minute joke. It's like, no, no, no, let's, what if she brings me this, you know? And you unwrap it.

[00:57:35] Stephen Fenech: Have a gun.

[00:57:35] Trevor Long: Yeah, like, yeah, let alone guns to warrant it. It's so good. Um, it's a tough one to rate because you do need to rate against everything else we've done, but yeah, I'm gonna give it an 8.5.

[00:57:49] Stephen Fenech: 8.5? Yeah, I'm a 7.5.

[00:57:51] Trevor Long: Yeah, it's an 8.5 for me.

[00:57:52] Stephen Fenech: You love this close door to me. Okay, what are you? But yeah, but 7.5, 7.5, still, still generous. But, um, I reckon this movie's better watching it with someone. Watching it by yourself, watching with someone or a group of people, yes, it's way funnier, better experience.

[00:58:08] Trevor Long: In the theater, this would be amazing.

[00:58:09] Stephen Fenech: That's where I saw it and get killed in the theater.

[00:58:11] Trevor Long: Yeah, killed.

[00:58:12] Stephen Fenech: Righto, let's talk about next week. Okay, next week we are watching a movie starring Harrison Ford. Oh, it's called Presumed Innocent. Oh, now I know there was an Apple TV show based on this same novel novel, right? Oh, was it? Jake Gyllenhaal played the Harrison Ford character. Okay. TV show and movie completely different.

[00:58:35] Trevor Long: Really? Yeah.

[00:58:36] Stephen Fenech: Okay. Including the ending. Now, Presumed Innocent was a— is a courtroom thriller based on a best-selling novel. Okay. By A, John Grisham, B, Jeffrey Archer, C, Michael Crichton. Crichton, or D, Scott Turow.

[00:58:54] Trevor Long: No idea. I'm locking in Michael Crichton.

[00:58:56] Stephen Fenech: Wrong. Bam!

[00:58:58] Trevor Long: Scott Turow.

[00:58:59] Stephen Fenech: I thought you would have said John Grisham because remember he did—

[00:59:00] Trevor Long: Yeah, I know. I feel like you threw that.

[00:59:02] Stephen Fenech: That was a trick question.

[00:59:03] Trevor Long: You were trying to give me legal there. I would have gone there. That's why I didn't name him because I went to someone else.

[00:59:07] Stephen Fenech: Scott Turow. And I remember I read the book at the time, was massive bestseller at the time. So that's— the movie is excellent. Yeah, very good. So that's Presumed Innocent starring Harrison Ford.

[00:59:17] Trevor Long: Next week.

[00:59:18] Stephen Fenech: Next week on The Best Movies You've Never Seen. But I'm glad you wored— you watched, loved it, and enjoyed Wayne's World. Excellent. Party time.

[00:59:25] Trevor Long: See you next week.