YMMV / Coneheads

• Applicability: Neurodivergent people, like autistic people, can relate to several oddities of the Coneheads, like the expospeak and inferring social customs through observation and deduction. This makes things like their friends and neighbours barely reacting to their behavior, and the fact that their love for each other and their daughter is very obvious and never in doubt, very sweet to see. Even seen how the humor is handled is nice, since it revolves around their behavior but without making them the butt of the joke.
• Awesome Music: Morten Harket's cover of "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," heard in the final scene and closing credits.
• Cult Classic: While it doesn't have the same reputation as The Blues Brothers or Wayne's World, Coneheads has a very dedicated fanbase who enjoy its quirky humor, onslaught of cameos and '90s nostalgia.
• Fridge Brilliance: Americans are often considered people with issues of mass consumption (of media, food, you have it.) No wonder the Remulakians fit in so well.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In one scene that usually appears in broadcast versions for padding, Beldar is finishing repairing his neighbor's lawn mower, and when the neighbor is leaving with the mower, he sings "Like a good neighbor, Beldar is there...". 22 years later and the characters were reprised in ads for State Farm, the very insurance company whose jingle they were spoofing.
  • Two of the movie's screenwriters Bonnie & Terry Turner and star Jane Curtin in a movie involving aliens? Say it ain't so."
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The dentist scene with Beldar's teeth is a little creepy.
  • The Garthok can be either this or Nightmare Retardant depending on whether or not you find it rather humorous-looking.
• Not So Crazy Anymore: Seedling's suggestion to build an electrical fence along the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country was utterly ludicrous at the time the movie was made (as shown by his superiors' reactions). Enter the '00s, when that exact same plan (minus the exploding collars) was seriously proposed several times, and in the '10s, one of Donald Trump's greatest campaign promises was building a wall along the Mexican border.^note Not that either is any less ludicrous, really...
• Retroactive Recognition: While Beldar's working as a taxi driver, Drew Carey is one of his passengers. Comedian Eddie Griffin briefly appears early in the beginning.
• Vindicated by Cable: Didn't do much in theaters, but became a pleasant little gem among channel surfers in the coming decades and is now considered one of the "better" SNL-based movies (though at least some of this is because it has so little decent competition).