Empire Records/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Non Sequitur Scene: Mark watching tv and inexplicably watching himself show up in a Gwar music video and getting ripped apart, while his reaction ranges between sad and ecstatic.
    • It makes more sense considering he's eating Eddie's "special brownies" while watching a Gwar video.
    • Also, it's clear that, after a moment of thinking about it, Marc realizes it's because of the special brownies.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: A lot. "Sugar High" at the end, along with "Money (That's What I Want)", "Video Killed the Radio Star", "Hey Joe", "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)", "Here it Comes Again", and "Say No More, Mon Amour".
  • Cult Classic
  • Memetic Mutation: DAMN THE MAN, SAVE THE EMPIRE!
    • "Not today, not on Rex Manning Day!"
    • "Empire Records, open till midnight . . . MIDNIGHT!"
    • "I don't feel the need to explain my art to you."
    • "MY NAME ISN'T FUCKING WARREN!"
  • Retroactive Recognition: This movie is a gold mine. Bridget Jones is Gina. Arwen is Corey. Det. Lisbon is Deb. Jack Malone is Joe. Miles Colby is Rex Manning. Denise Ianello is Jane.
    • Now...take a look at the poster for the movie—did it ever occur to ANYBODY at the time that the slutty-looking blonde chick on the right would not just be the most famous out of everyone there, but be a tabloid fixture AND an Oscar winner?
    • The female leads went on to do big things. Most of the male leads flamed out spectacularly.
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