YMMV / The Wedding Singer

• Genius Bonus:
  • At one point Robby tells Linda "Take off my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up". The film is set in 1985, the year that singer David Lee Roth left Van Halen.
  • When the wedding photographer rattles off several celebrity couples, younger viewers may not realize all of them ended in rather public and acrimonious divorces after the time the movie was set in.
    "Well, you know, you can just look at a couple and, uh, you can tell right away that they're gonna stay together forever. Like, uh, Donald and Ivana; and Woody and Mia; and Burt and Loni..."
• He Really Can Act: This was one of the first films where Sandler played a decent guy with only a few angry, immature outbursts rather than the other way around, indicating he had some range. Sandler himself said he knew it was a different kind of movie and tried to dial it back.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Alexis Arquette as a Boy George impersonator, considering that she would come out as a trans woman less than a decade after the film's release.
• Memetic Mutation: Woe to any poor girls names Julia who were alive when this film came out and had to endure the hundreds of times they'd be called "Julia Gulia."
• Moral Event Horizon: When Glenn reveals that he plans to cheat on Julia when they're married.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Steve Buscemi as a drunken best man giving a very bitter speech.
  • Jon Lovitz as another wedding singer, who revels in his new business after Robbie quits.
    "He's losing his mind ... and I'm reaping all the benefits." [Creepy grin]
  • Billy Idol as, well... Billy Idol.
    Billy Idol: Ah, Glenn doesn't deserve her. All he cares about are possessions. Fancy cars, CD players. Even women are possessions to him.
    Robbie: See? Billy Idol gets it. I don't know why she doesn't get it.
  • The Old Guy at the bar. Gets some of the best lines in his scenes.
• The Woobie: Robbie, especially during the "Love Stinks" scene. Julia also qualifies, as she is with someone who blatantly doesn't appreciate her.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: Nicely averted for the most part with very Eighties-appropriate looks...save for Julia's hair. How exactly does a late-'90s Dido Flip translate into 1985 fashion?

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