History Film / WaynesWorld

* ReadTheFinePrint: Wayne and Garth fall victim to this. Wayne acts like he is reading the contract, but it's pretty obvious later on in the movie he did not. It's a bit of RealityEnsues because as creepy as Benjamin is he is staying entirely within the laws and averts MovingTheGoalposts. The things Wayne gets in trouble for are quite reasonable things to put in the kind of contract he signed.

* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Variant: when Garth leads the break-in to get the equipment for their plan at the climax of the first film, he gets everyone to drop their stomach and do an army crawl, despite nobody being around. RealityEnsues when he falls on his keys.

* CantYouReadTheSign: "No Stairway? Denied!" [[note]]He was not allowed to play "[[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway to Heaven]]".[[/note]]

** One of three endings to the first film. [[spoiler:In the downer ending, Cassandra is denied a record contract, Wayne's house burns down, it's revealed that Stacy is pregnant, and Benjamin and Cassandra become lovers and travel to a beautiful tropical island together.]]

-->'''CASSANDRA''': "College, and the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movies."

Also featured in the cast are Creator/RobLowe, Creator/TiaCarrere, Creator/LaraFlynnBoyle, Creator/BrianDoyleMurray, Creator/RobertPatrick ([[AdamWesting spoofing his role in]] ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay)'', Creator/EdONeill, Creator/IoneSkye, Music/MeatLoaf and Music/AliceCooper.

The movie [[BuddyPicture follows the adventures of Wayne and Garth]] in their quest for fame and fortune, battling a crooked network executive who [[ExecutiveMeddling tries to undermine both their control over their show]] and Wayne's attempts to woo Cassandra Wong (Creator/TiaCarrere), a rock singer and bassist who also seeks to make her fortune in show business.

Followed a year later by ''Wayne's World 2'', which features Creator/ChristopherWalken as record producer Bobby Cahn. This time around, Wayne feels the need to do something with his life, but he doesn't know what until the ghost of [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] visits him in a dream and tells Wayne that his destiny is to put on an epic rock concert in Aurora. To put on the concert Wayne enlists the help of Garth as well as the world's greatest roadie, Del Preston. Meanwhile, Garth becomes involved with blonde bombshell Honey Hornee ([[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's pronounced "hor-NAY"]]) while Bobby Cahn plots to break up Wayne and Cassandra so that he can take her with him to Los Angeles.

** Then again, in the first film Wayne mentions Stan Makita's Donuts as a great "munchies" place (munchies being stoner slang for increased appetite while high). This may be an example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* AlmightyJanitor: Chris Farley plays a security guard with an uncanny ability to supply exposition.

* {{Scotireland}}: When invoking a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Leprechaun'', Mike Myers uses his FatBastard accent.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Weird Naked Indian is called as such by everybody who can see him. He's even billed in the closing credits as "naked indian."
** In the first film, the "Shitty Beatles"

* {{Expy}}: Garth is an impression of Dana Carvey's brother, which he also uses in his stand-up.
** Del Preston from the second film is intentionally one of the actor Ralph Brown's character Danny the drug dealer from Film/Withnail&I and was added late in the scripting after Dana Carvey saw said film and took a liking to the character of Danny.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the second movie, after Wayne & Garth crowd-surf to the front of an Music/{{Aerosmith}} concert, they are shortly followed by a pizza-delivery boy, a refrigerator, and a goat.

* ManChild: Wayne and Garth to a greater extent.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: In-universe. On the show, Wayne mocks his guests and trolls Garth [[ItAmusedMe For The Lulz]]. However off the show, he's one of the nicest guys, albeit a bit of a moron which nearly ruins his relationship with his Cassandra twice, but he means well.

* TradeYourPassionForGlory

Also featured in the cast are Creator/RobLowe, Creator/TiaCarrere, Lara Flynn Boyle, Creator/BrianDoyleMurray, Robert Patrick ([[AdamWesting spoofing his role in]] ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay)'', Creator/EdONeill, Ione Skye, Music/MeatLoaf and Music/AliceCooper.

* CoitusEnsues: Parodied in the first movie. After a plot-important scene of Cassandra on the phone arranging her music video shoot, Wayne and Cassandra get in bed together, with no plot importance. They aren't shown actually having sex, but the words "Gratuitous Sex Scene" flash on the screen as they unconvincingly simulate sex while clothed, Wayne still in his dorky tighty-whiteys.

* {{Adorkable}}: Garth is barely without an adorably dorky reaction to something. Especially when it comes to Dreamgirl.

* LimitedWardrobe: Wayne is almost always seen wearing his black t-shirt, ripped jeans and Wayne's World cap; Garth wears a blue button-on shirt and a t-shirt for a random rock group underneath most of the time.

** Del Preston from the second film is intentionally one of the actor Ralph Brown's character Danny the drug dealer from Film/WithnailandI and was added late in the scripting after Dana Carvey saw said film.