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  • Opening the film with Sandler singing "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" isn't just an awesome performance, but it perfectly establishes all the characters and the '80s setting by the end of the opening credits.
  • Billy Idol's Crowning Cameo Of Awesome. One particular moment is when he slams the service cart into Glenn.
    Billy Idol: [with a smug grin] How're you doing, sir? Chicken or fish?
    Glenn: Get out of my way, Billy, or you're gonna get hurt!
    Billy: Oh yeah?
    [a giant biker, wearing a Billy Idol shirt no less, stands between them]
    Biker: DON'T YOU TALK TO BILLY IDOL THAT WAY!
    [Billy gleefully sticks his tongue out and gives Glenn a jerking off motion as the latter gets shoved into the bathroom by a flight attendant he tried to seduce earlier]
    • And the best part? Even with a whopping thirteen years of rock'n'roll lifestyle between 1985 and 1998,note  Billy still looked enough like his 1985 self to pull it off convincingly.
  • This line is as awesome a line as you can get out of a bitter ramble:
    Robbie: I have the microphone. And you don't. So you will listen to every damn word I have to say!!
  • Doubles as a Tear Jerker, but "Somebody Kill Me Please" qualifies.
    • Especially since it managed to include a rhyme with "melancholy".
  • What Robbie's nephew says to Linda:
    Petey: Hey, Linda.
    [Linda smiles and waves]
    Petey: You're a bitch.
    Robbie: Thanks, Petey. Go back in the house.
    Robbie: He, he, he might have Tourette's Syndrome. We're looking into it.
  • Julia's not taking shit from a singer who mocked Robbie.
    Robbie: Thank you.
    Jimmie Moore: No, thank you!
    Robbie: For what?
    Jimmie Moore: For quitting. [nudges him] Thanks to you my business has tripled... or, should I thank Linda?
    Julia: Well, you've just inspired me to hire a DJ. So thank you.
    Jimmie Moore: Oh. Well, good luck trying to find a DJ who can move and shake like [wriggles back and forth like a snake slithering] THIS!
  • Robbie finally standing up to Linda when she tries to reconcile with him. Doubles as a moment of Character Development, as it demonstrates how much more assertive Robbie has become due to his experiences throughout the film.
    Linda: I can learn to deal with the fact that you're just a wedding singer, not a rock star. I could even learn to deal with...
    Robbie: You can "learn to deal" with that? I don't want you to learn to deal with that. That's not how it works. Jeez!
    Linda: Well, Robbie, maybe we should talk about this when you're feeling better?
    Robbie: Hey, psycho. I'm not gonna feel better about this. It's over. So please get outta my Van Halen T-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up.
    Linda: Oh, okay. So you're still pissed about that wedding thing?
    [Smash Cut to her outside with Robbie slamming the door in her face]
  • Everything that happens after Robbie gets on the plane. First, we see Robbie explaining his plight to a kind older lady in the first-class cabin, then, one scene later, cut to all the first-class passengers, including Billy Idol, huddled around Robbie and hanging on every word of his story. Then, the crew allows Robbie to perform a song he had written for Julia (in a very short amount of time, mind you, he began writing while in the car on the way to the airport, and had it completed and memorized by mid-flight). When Glenn tries to stop Robbie, the passengers, including Billy Idol as mentioned above, don't hesitate to stand up to him and come to Robbie's aid. Finally, Robbie finishes his song, gets glowing praise from Billy (and the potential of a recording contract in the near future) and officially gets together with Julia, with the final scene being their wedding day. All in all, it's one of the most wholesome, satisfying, and awesome endings of any film, period.

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