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[[File:waynes_world.jpg|thumb|350px| ''Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent! Woo-oo-oo-ooh!'']]
''[[Wayne's World]]'' is a 1992 comedy film, starring Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of the Aurora, Illinois-based cable access television show Wayne's World. The film was adapted from a sketch of the same name on NBC's ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
The film grossed $121.6 million in its theatrical run, placing it as the eighth highest-grossing film of 1992 and the highest-grossing film ever based on a Saturday Night Live skit. It was directed by Penelope Spheeris, with Myers co-writing the script.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: What do you mean it was based on [[Saturday Night Live]] sketch?
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]
* [[An Aesop]]: Mocked in the Mega-Happy Ending.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Garth's "mirthmobile," a sky blue AMC Pacer with flames rather inappropriately painted on the sides.
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Chris Farley plays a security guard with an uncanny ability to supply exposition.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: It seems like a gag made up for the film, but some music stores actually had "NO [[Led Zeppelin|STAIRWAY]]" signs before the movie came out due to the number of people who would test out their guitars with that song.
** "Smoke on the Water" by [[Deep Purple]] and "Sweet Child 'O' Mine" by [[Guns N' Roses]] are two other songs that are frequently forbidden to play in guitar stores because the employees get sick of hearing them all the time.
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Garth’s speech is stilted, his eating habits are interesting at best (if it’s red and fruity, he’ll eat it), he goes off on incredibly strange and awkward tangents, and he spends hours tinkering and creating things like robotic hands and electrified cattle prods. These characteristics may come off as sweet and quirky the first time you watch the films, but when you really think about it...
* [[Asian Gal with White Guy]]: Cassandra, especially by the sequel, where she's evidently only interested in marrying a white American man.
* [[Audio Erotica]]: Handsome Dan's voice is so sexy that Wayne and Garth assume he's a lady's man. He turns out to be Harry Shearer.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Shock-rocker [[Alice Cooper]] surprises Wayne and Garth in the first film by being extremely well-spoken and educated. According to those who have met Alice Cooper in real-life, this is a case of [[Truth in Television]].
* [[Be All My Sins Remembered]]: Parodied in, "We're not worthy!"
* [[Beat Still My Heart]]/[[...And Show It to You]]: When one of the patrons of the doughnut shop complains about being laid off, Glenn (Ed O'Neill) says that he should "...find the guy that did it, rip out his still-beating heart, and then hold it in front of his face, so he can see how black it is before he dies!" The patron decides to simply file a grievance with the union. The world is, after all, a twisted place.
* [[Bite the Wax Tadpole]]: Wayne (Mike Myers) encourages Benjamin (Rob Lowe) to order the "Cream of Sum Yung Gai" at the Asian takeaway.
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: Wayne doesn't pull any punches in mocking his sponsor, Noah Vanderhoff. {{spoiler|[[Deconstructed Trope|It gets him fired.]]}}
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: The film's fictional Stan Mikita's Donuts is a stand-in for ubiquitous Canadian restaurant Tim Horton's Donuts. Mikita and Horton are both Hockey Hall-of-Famers. Horton played for Toronto, actor-writer Mike Myers' hometown; Mikita played his entire NHL career in Chicago, an hour from Wayne's hometown of Aurora.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The NES version of ''Wayne's World'' toned down the language from the movie. One example (even discussed by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]) had Wayne and Garth say that they're going to see "the ''Lousy'' Beetles," whereas they said they're seeing "the ''Shitty'' Beetles" in the film.
* [[Brass Balls]]: When Wayne kicks Cassandra's father [[Groin Attack|in the nuts]] in a kung-fu duel, a pair of two Chinese medicine balls (made of metal, of course) fall out.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In the sequel Wayne encounters a group of men early on engaged in setting up their lampshaded [[Fruit Cart|Fruit Carts]] and moving their [[Sheet of Glass]] back and forth across the street. It gets forgotten only to pop up later during the [[Chase Scene]].
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Garth.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|Cantonese Love Rip Taylor]]: [[In-Universe|According to Cassandra]].
* [[Can't You Read the Sign?]]: "No Stairway? Denied!"
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Dana Carvey really did play Garth's incredible drum solo.
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{{quote|'''Garth''' I can't believe they did that!}}
* [[Feather Boa Constrictor]]
* [[Fetish Fuel]]: [[Conversed Trope]].
{{quote|'''Garth:''' [[Furry Fandom|Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?]]
'''Wayne:''' ''[pauses to consider]'' No. ''[laughs]'' No!
'''Garth:''' [[Like a Weasel|Neither did I. I was just asking.]]}}
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The first movie's success inspired the productions of all succeeding ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' movies.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Wayne and Garth talk about why selling out is wrong... while at the same time making [[Product Placement]] after [[Product Placement]].
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Wayne opens a door featuring [[Ninja|ninjas]] training. [[Lampshade Hanging|He admits that]] [[Red Herring|they don't factor into the plot at all]], [[Rule of Cool|he "just always wanted to open a door to a room where people are being trained like in a]] [[James Bond]] [[Rule of Cool|movie"]].
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song|The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The producers were only able to secure the rights to "Stairway To Heaven" for the original theatrical run. This is why the version you hear Wayne playing on DVD or video sounds absolutely nothing like "Stairway".
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: There's a lot of meta-humor, such as when Wayne remarks that the security guard seemed conveniently helpful.
* [[Left the Background Music On]]: In the [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Graduate]]'', Simon and Garfunkel cut out when the car travels through a tunnel.
* [[Lip Lock]]: All of Wayne's conversations with Cassandra's father are ([[Gag Dub|badly]]) dubbed, even with Wayne speaking English.
* [["London, England" Syndrome]]: Del Preston's exact address is "London, England".
** Lampshaded, as they manage to find his house immediately with that address.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: After Garth loses his virginity, he acts noticeably more self-confident and macho.
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** [[Fridge Brilliance]] if you think about it. The format of the original sketch is Wayne and Garth speaking directly to the audience. The movie really is an extended version of the sketch (rather than taking the characters and building a completely new story around them as occurred with most SNL adaptations).
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Glenn's crime of passion: "I'd never done a crazy thing in my life before that night. Why is it, if a man kills another man in the heat of battle, it's called heroic? Yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder?"
* [[Not Listening to Me, Are You?]]: When the boys give an interview to a local radio DJ, they discover he's more interested in loading tapes than actually listening...so they start calling him names, and he's completely oblivious to their joking around.
* [[One-Hour Work Week]]: Wayne admits to having held a variety of dead-end jobs, which he never seems to work. The trope is justified in the first film by the fact that ''Wayne's World'' is quickly picked up in the first act, allowing Wayne and Garth to develop it professionally.
** As a matter of fact, Wayne merely says that he's ''held'' a number of "Joe Jobs" over the years... he never says he has one at the moment.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Both in-universe and out. [[Charlton Heston]] shows up in one scene when [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|the actor who's supposed to be delivering a line isn't up to snuff.]] His performance in the scene reduces Wayne to tears.
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* [[Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure]]: After Wayne erupts into a total [[Jerkass]] (see [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below) and [[Friend Versus Lover|ditches him]] during a live taping of the titular show, Garth dumps him. Their make up leads directly into Wayne hatching the plan to defeat the [[Big Bad]].
* [[Product Placement]]: Mocked in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwNdTYdZqE this scene].
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: In the second film, the famous roadie recounts beating a father and son to death with their own shoes, which is apparently justified to some of the other metalheads because, "Ozzy went on that night, and he put on a great show!"
* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]: Stacy the "Psycho-Hose-Beast". The ''[[Psycho]]'' theme even plays when Wayne sees her at a party.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]
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* [[Spaghetti Kiss]]: Garth, in the sequel, except with red rope licorice.
* [[Spin-Off]]: The movie is an example of a segment spinoff. ''Wayne's World'' was originally a reoccurring sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
* [[Struggling Broadcaster]]: Broadcast regulators usually required CATV operators keep one channel open for "local access" but typically didn't care whether anyone actually watched the [[No Budget]] local programming on that channel.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: [[In-Universe]] example; this is how Wayne reacts to the [[Executive Meddling]] of the show in the first movie.
* [[This Trope Is Bleep]]: "... and then the handle will break off and you'll have to get a doctor to pull it out again!"
** You kiss your mother with that mouth?!
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
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[[Category:Film]]
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