Wayne's World (1992) on Netflix
Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, two rock fans, broadcast a show from a basement in Aurora, Illinois. A producer offers them a network deal and pursues Cassandra Wong, the singer Wayne likes.
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Plot summary
Benjamin Kane, a television producer in Chicago, sees a public-access program called Wayne's World, which Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar make in the basement of Wayne's parents' house in Aurora, Illinois. He offers the two friends a payment for the rights to the show. Wayne spends his on a 1964 Fender Stratocaster he had seen in a shop window. Out at a nightclub, the pair avoid Stacy, Wayne's ex-girlfriend, and Wayne becomes interested in Cassandra Wong, who sings and plays bass in Crucial Taunt. Benjamin takes an interest in Cassandra as well, offering to make a music video for her band while sending Wayne and Garth to a concert in Milwaukee. Wayne learns Cantonese so he can impress Cassandra.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wayne's World (1992)
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- Penelope Spheeris and Mike Myers fell out on set: she told Entertainment Weekly he grew more difficult as filming went on, argued that nobody would laugh at the Bohemian Rhapsody scene, and once walked off because there was no margarine for his bagel. After they clashed over the final cut, Myers blocked her from directing Wayne's World 2.
- The studio and producer Lorne Michaels wanted a Guns N' Roses track for the head-banging drive; Mike Myers insisted on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and threatened to quit the production if he did not get it.
- Queen's Freddie Mercury died a few months before the film opened. Brian May said Mercury watched the head-banging scene first, found it hilarious and approved the song, although Penelope Spheeris doubted that in 2022, arguing there was too little time for anyone to get a tape of the scene to him.
- The film pushed Bohemian Rhapsody back to number two in the United States and revived Queen's following in the country.
- Home video buyers heard a different riff in the "No Stairway to Heaven" gag: publishers judged the 100,000 dollars to license Led Zeppelin's opening notes too high and swapped them out, and the real notes only came back with the 4K Blu-ray in 2022.
- Myers wanted Alice Cooper to perform I'm Eighteen or School's Out, but Cooper's manager Shep Gordon talked him into Feed My Frankenstein. That first meeting began a friendship, and Myers went on to direct the 2014 documentary Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon.
- With 121,697,323 dollars taken in North America, Wayne's World finished ninth for 1992 and remains the biggest earner of the eleven films drawn from Saturday Night Live sketches.
