History Trivia / WaynesWorld

** Jeff Wong, Cassandra's father, is played by Creator/JamesHong, an American actor (born in [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis, Minnesota]]).

** Dana Carvey based his entire portrayal of Garth on his similarly geeky brother Brad Carvey. Brad was one of the co-creators of the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}-based VFX machine Video Toaster, and this resulted in Garth wearing a Video Toaster T-shirt in the sequel.

* ApprovalOfGod: Before passing away from AIDS related complications, Music/FreddieMercury [[https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/brian-may-wayne-s-world-bohemian-rhapsody-scene-hit-close-home approved the use of]] "Bohemian Rhapsody" after seeing footage of the head banging scene and finding it hilarious.

* BTeamSequel: Penelope Spheeris, who directed the first film, was approached by Paramount to direct the sequel. Spheeris immediately declined the offer due to the fact that Creator/MikeMyers had been so difficult to work with during the making of the first film. Instead Stephen Surjik was chosen to direct ''Wayne's World 2''. Spheeris would not make peace with Mike Myers until after the release of ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery''.

* CreatorsApathy: Invoked in the sequel. During the ''[[Film/TheGraduate Graduate]]'' parody scene, the guy playing the gas station attendant [[DullSurprise merely recites his lines]]. This annoys Wayne, who asks for a "better actor", prompting Stephen Surjik to replace the guy with Creator/CharltonHeston, who [[OneSceneWonder gives off a much better performance]] that brings even Creator/MikeMyers to tears.

* EnforcedMethodActing:
** Creator/DanaCarvey had never heard "Bohemian Rhapsody" before, so he's just pretending to know the words.
** Wayne laughing while he and Garth talk about cartoons was a real and unscripted reaction from Myers due to being delirious from exhaustion.

* HostilityOnTheSet: According to Penelope Spheeris, Creator/MikeMyers was difficult to work with. He arrived on set one day to discover that the snack table only had butter and not margarine for his bagel. Myers reportedly became enraged, flipped the table over, stormed off the set, and did not come out of his trailer for hours. She assigned her daughter to be his assistant. She told Entertainment Weekly:
-->He (Myers) was emotionally needy and got more difficult as the shoot went along. 'You should have heard him bitching when I was trying to do that "Bohemian Rhapsody" scene: 'I can't move my neck like that! Why do we have to do this so many times? No one is going to laugh at that!' To this day, I have this image of my daughter sitting on this little cooler, looking at me, like, "Mom, I f-ing hate you".
** With that being said, in later interviews Spheeris has been more positive talking about working with Myers, and excused some of his behavior to him losing his father during production, and the two have seemingly made up since.

* ProductionPosse: Creator/MikeMyers and Creator/DanaCarvey reunited to bring ''Wayne's World'' to the big screen with Creator/LorneMichaels producing. Creator/RobLowe was also brought in by Myers because the two of them got along so well on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', with Lowe appearing in many of Myer's subsequent projects.

** See WhatCouldHaveBeen for ''Wayne's World 2''.

** After the first film was a surprise hit, Penelope Spheeris was offered the opportunity to direct the sequel. She declined largely because Mike Myers had been so difficult to work with while filming the first movie.

** Music/{{Nirvana}} was offered a part in the sequel as one of the performers in Waynestock and they were even shown a rough cut of the film to try to persuade them but they eventually declined.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mike Myers, like Wayne, had an obsessive ex girlfriend who bought him a gun rack (albeit as a joke) in the hopes that it would convince him to get back with her. She was reportedly furious when she saw the finished film.

** Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s [[Music/ANightAtTheOpera "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] disappeared from the charts for almost two decades; after the first movie, it was back in the Top 10, helped along by Queen's newfound PosthumousPopularityPotential following Music/FreddieMercury's death just three months prior.

** Myers was also constantly fighting ExecutiveMeddling from producers who didn't "get" the film and wanted to make a number of changes that Myers categorically refused to make.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The sequel has a budget of $40 million, but only made back Box $48.2 million domestically in the box office.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://waynesworld.wikia.com/wiki/Wayne%27s_World_Wiki The Wayne's World Wiki]].

* ActorInspiredElement: Rob Lowe's use of "LITERALLY" was thrown in by him due to his natural propensity for the word. This apparently [[Series/ParksAndRecreation never ended]].

* CreatorsApathy: Invoked in the sequel. During the ''[[Film/TheGraduate Graduate]]'' parody scene, the guy playing the gas station attendant merely recites his lines. This annoys Wayne, who asks for a "better actor", prompting Stephen Surjik to replace the guy with Creator/CharltonHeston, who gives off a much better performance that brings even Creator/MikeMyers to tears.

* FakeNationality: Cassandra, who comes from UsefulNotes/HongKong, is played by Creator/TiaCarrere, an American actress (born and raised in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}) of Filipino, Chinese, and Spanish descent. She was not fluent in Cantonese, so this complicated some scenes.