History Trivia / WaynesWorld

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

** The scene with Wayne and Garth talking on the hood of their car was the last scene filmed. Since everyone was delirious from an exhausting shoot, just wanted the movie done, they ad-libbed it. Mike Myers hysterical response was genuine.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Mike Myers wanted the original sketch to take place in his native Toronto. However SNL Producers made him use a suburban American setting. Nevertheless Wayne speaks with a strong Canadian accent, uses Stan Makita’s Doughnuts as a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of Canada’s beloved Tim Horton’s. Plays street hockey as a recreational activity while wearing Blackhawks attire instead of Maple Leafs (although hockey is popular in Chicago as well). The Gasworks Club is also a real location in Toronto.

** Music/{{Queen}}'s "Bohemian Rhapsody" disappeared from the charts for almost two decades; after the first movie, it was back in the Top 10.

* 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 Charles Heston, who gives off a much better performance that brings even Creator/MikeMyers to tears.

* 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", promoting Stephen Surjik to replace the guy with Charles Heston, who gives off a much better performance that brings even Creator/MikeMyers to tears.

* UnderageCasting: In ''Wayne's World 2'', Ralph Brown plays Del Preston, a retired roadie that worked with many classic rock groups, including Music/TheRollingStones and Music/TheDoors, in the 1970s. Brown was 36 at the time the movie was made, too young to have ever met Doors frontman Jim Morrison, who passed away in 1971.

** Myers' father was dying during the shoot, and he says he barely remembers filming because of the emotional strain.

** Director Penelope Spheeris said that she had to shoot each scene three times, once Myers' way, once Carvey's way, and once Creator/LorneMichaels' way. She also fought with Myers over the final cut of the film. Spheeris did not return for the sequel, allegedly due to Myers' influence.

** The studio wanted to use a Music/GunsNRoses track instead of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", but Mike Myers fought for the inclusion of the Queen song. Myers even threatened to quit the production if he didn't get what he wanted, and eventually the studio gave in to his demand.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The show's first sponsor is a local arcade. It was only a few years after the film's release that arcades started dying out due to rising competition with home consoles and PC gaming.
** The state of rock music is set firmly in the early nineties, in the last moments before grunge started to dominate the American rock scene.
** Likewise the fashions are very late eighties/early nineties, especially Wayne's mullet and Garth's glasses. As with ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', it shows how '80s fashion and culture hung on into the early '90s, with Wayne and Garth's enthusiasm for heavy metal as it was giving way to {{Grunge}}.
** The film's premise is based on cable access shows that have been completely supplanted by Website/YouTube and other online media.
** The ProductPlacement scene parodies ad campaigns of its time. The Nuprin brand of ibuprofen stopped being sold in America shortly after the film released. Wayne also quotes Pepsi's then-current slogan, "The choice of a new generation," which had already been replaced by the time the film released. The Grey Poupon scene is also a parody of the then-current commercials. And that's not even getting into the logos of the products that ''are'' still around, although Pizza Hut did bring back their most IconicLogo in 2019.
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the scenes that homage ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' (in the first film) and ''Film/JurassicPark'' (in ''Wayne's World 2''), as both films, while extremely recent releases at the time, remained iconic in the decades to come.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The sequel. Budget, $40 million. Box office, $48.2 million (domestic). While it had a budget that was double that of the original, it was not considered as [[{{Sequelitis}} fresh]] as the original, and it didn't have the same director because she had fallen out with star Creator/MikeMyers over the difficulty of working with him (she directed ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' instead, which was a financial success but was actually disdained by critics). Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{NBC}} let the ''Wayne's World'' sketch lie in the culture nostalgia corner afterwards, but it would be one of the last times an ''SNL''-based film would be taken seriously before it started getting derailed with ''Film/ItsPat'' the next year. As for Myers, this and ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'' led to him not appearing in another movie until 1997's ''Film/AustinPowers''.

** The ProductPlacement scene parodies ad campaigns of its time. The Nuprin brand of ibuprofen stopped being sold in America shortly after the film released. Wayne also quotes Pepsi's then-current slogan, "The choice of a new generation," which had already been replaced by the time the film released. The Grey Poupon scene is also a parody of the then-current commercials.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Wayne puts a CD in his dashboard CD player and Cassandra asks him when he got a CD player. He responds "With the money!" (that he had gotten from selling the rights to his cable access show). Even though the CD format had already overtaken vinyl records as the dominant format for music listening on a home stereo, ''portable'' CD players were still pricey at the time and were appropriately considered status symbols-- cassette tapes were still big in 1991, with CD sales only overtaking prerecorded cassettes the year the film was released, with cassettes remaining popular for years afterward for home recording until CD burners and [=MP3=] players became affordable in the late '90s. Nowadays, while people will still be amazed at the thought of owning a CD player, now it's less because it's "cool" and more because it's "outdated," with physical media largely overtaken by digital downloads and streaming even in the wake of the vinyl record's ongoing resurgence in popularity.

** The reason Wayne and Garth rarely turn their heads to look at one another, instead turning their entire torsos in one anther's direction, was the result of everyone's neck getting sore from doing so many takes of the headbanging scene.

** Director Penelope Spheeris said that she had to shoot each scene three times, once Myers' way, once Carvey's way, and once Creator/LorneMichaels' way. She also fought with Myers over the final cut of the film. Spheeris did not return for the sequel.

** The ProductPlacement scene parodies ad campaigns of its time. The Nuprin brand of ibuprofen stopped being sold in America shortly after the film released. Wayne also quotes Pepsi's then-current slogan, "The choice of a new generation," which had already been replaced by the time the film released.

* DawsonCasting: The film never directly states Wayne and Garth's ages, but they're supposed to be in their early 20s. Myers was 29 and Carvey was 37 when the first film was released. Carvey has talked about how embarrassed he is about how old he looks in the sequel.

** Dana Carvey had never heard "Bohemian Rhapsody" before, so he's just pretending to know the words.

* 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 the first ''Film/AustinPowers'' film.

** Director Penelope Spheeris said that she had to shoot each scene three times, once Myers' way, once Carvey's way, and once Creator/LorneMichaels' way. she also fought with Myers over the final cut of the film. Spheeris did not return for the sequel.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Wayne puts a CD in his dashboard CD player and Cassandra asks him when he got a CD player. He responds "With the money!" (that he had gotten from selling the rights to his cable access show). Even though the CD format had already overtaken vinyl records as the dominant format for music listening on a home stereo, ''portable'' CD players were still pricey at the time and were appropriately considered status symbols-- cassette tapes were still big in 1991, with CD sales only overtaking prerecorded cassettes two years later, with cassettes remaining popular for years afterward for home recording until CD burners and [=MP3=] players became affordable in the late '90s. Nowadays, while people will still be amazed at the thought of owning a CD player, now it's less because it's "cool" and more because it's "outdated," with physical media largely overtaken by digital downloads and streaming even in the wake of the vinyl record's ongoing resurgence in popularity.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Wayne puts a CD in his dashboard CD player and Cassandra asks him when he got a CD player. He responds "With the money!" (that he had gotten from selling the rights to his cable access show). Even though the CD format had already overtaken vinyl records as the dominant format for music listening on a home stereo, ''portable'' CD players were still pricey at the time and were appropriately considered status symbols-- cassette tapes were still big in 1991, with CD sales only overtaking prerecorded cassettes two years later, with cassettes remaining popular for years afterward for home recording until CD burners and MP3 players became affordable in the late '90s. Nowadays, while people will still be amazed at the thought of owning a CD player, now it's less because it's "cool" and more because it's "outdated," with physical media largely overtaken by digital downloads and streaming even in the wake of the vinyl record's ongoing resurgence in popularity.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Wayne puts a CD in his dashboard CD player and Cassandra asks him when he got a CD player. He responds "With the money!" (that he had gotten from selling the rights to his cable access show). Even though the CD format had already overtaken vinyl records as the dominant format for music listening on a home stereo, ''portable'' CD players were still pricey at the time and were appropriately considered status symbols-- cassette tapes were still big in 1991, with CD sales only overtaking prerecorded cassettes two years later, with cassettes remaining popular for years afterward for home recording until CD burners became affordable in the late '90s. Nowadays, while people will still be amazed at the thought of owning a CD player, now it's less because it's "cool" and more because it's "outdated," with physical media largely overtaken by digital downloads and streaming even in the wake of the vinyl record's ongoing resurgence in popularity.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Wayne puts a CD in his dashboard CD player and Cassandra asks him when he got a CD player. He responds "With the money!" (that he had gotten from selling the rights to his cable access show). Even though the CD format had already overtaken vinyl records as the dominant format for music listening on a home stereo, ''portable'' CD players were still pricey at the time and were appropriately considered status symbols-- cassette tapes were still big in 1991, with CD sales only overtaking prerecorded cassettes two years later, with cassettes remaining popular for years afterward until CD burners became affordable in the late '90s. Nowadays, while people will still be amazed at the thought of owning a CD player, now it's less because it's "cool" and more because it's "outdated," with physical media largely overtaken by digital downloads and streaming even in the wake of the vinyl record's ongoing resurgence in popularity.