It saddens me that you are too young to recognize the one and only Al Bundy, who scored 4 touchdowns in a single game for the Polk High School Panthers in 1966 versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game winning touchdown in the final seconds.
That is Ed O'Neal the actor who played Jay on Modern Family. Ed O'Neal was actually at the time of the filming of this movie a huge tv star as he was staring in the sitcom Married with Children as Al Bundy. Married with Children and the Simpsons where the two show that made Fox a competitor to the older more established networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC.
its ironic that Modern Family isn't really his most well-known character. But i do suppose that says something for his career crossing generational lines
Mike Myers showed the Bohemian Rhapsody clip to Freddie Mercury before he died and Freddie loved it, like Freddie said "Do what you want with my music but don't make it boring, darling"
I think it was Brian May Myers approached and gave him the blessing, though May did show it to Freddie at the hospital, and Freddie thought it was hilarious.
That's probably true. The first documented case of that line being used on television was By Chevy Chase on Saturday night live weekend up date in 1975. It was kept alive by Wayne and Garth in the Wayne's World sketches and then in the movie.
In the UK we say "said the actress to the Bishop". Wikipedia explains: "The term, or its variant "as the actress said to the bishop", is British in origin. It supposedly originated from a conversation between the actress Lillie Langtry and the Bishop of Worcester. They were at a country house weekend party and on Sunday morning before church, they went for a stroll in the garden. On their walk, the bishop cut his finger on a rose thorn. Over lunch, Lillie enquired about his injury, asking: "How is your prick?" To which, the Bishop replied: "Throbbing", causing the butler to drop the potatoes."
The traffic stop by the police officer joke is that the police officer is the evil terminator from Terminator 2. The actor's name is Robert Patrick. As for Mission Impossible, this movie came out before the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies, however there was a MI tv series in the 60s, and then a separate MI series in the 1980s.
It was about 1990, I was a kid, and I used to stay up late at night and watch Saturday Night Live. Wayne's World was a skit that was on sometimes. We used to say "party time, excellent," and sometimes quote other SNL skits when we were at school or hanging out. Back then, Dana Carvey was my favorite guy on SNL. This might be the best adaptation of a single SNL skit. In addition to that, The Blues Brothers was an adaptation of a SNL band segment, and I love that movie too. After this movie came out, the popular radio stations played Bohemian Rhapsody quite a lot. (It's a song from 1975.) according to Wikipedia, Bohemian Rhapsody peaked at number nine in the USA in 1976, but reached a new peak of number two after appearing in the 1992 film Wayne's World.
Much like the Blues Brothers, Wayne's World began as a skit on Saturday Night Live. Mike Myers (Wayne) and Dana Carvey (Garth) were both then-current members of the cast. The skit wasn't quite as Fourth Wall-breaking as the movie. This movie actually contributed a LOT to the popularity of Bohemian Rhapsody in the United States. Freddie Mercury himself personally approved of and loved the scene in the Mirthmobile when he was shown the clip after Brian May took it to him at the hospital. Mercury sadly passed away from AIDS complications three months before the film was released, so never got the opportunity to see the completed film. The film's success helped give Queen a resurgence in popularity in the US, and was one of the factors that allowed the band to continue on after Mercury's death. One of the best recurring wind machine gags is on the spy comedy TV series Chuck, where every time an attractive woman walked into the store where the main character worked she'd get this treatment. You ought to add that show to your watchlist, I think you'd get a kick out of it. Ah, Tia Carrere. She was a hot up-and-comer in the 90s...and seemed to have kind of fallen off the face of the planet somewhere in the mid-2000s. Probably her three best-known roles are as Cassandra in Wayne's World, Juno Skinner in True Lies, and as the voice of Nani in Lilo & Stitch. She's still gorgeous. There IS a pretty big difference between pulling a good crowd at a local club, and translating that into mainstream success. The world is sadly full of great bands that were successful at home, but didn't have the "it" factor to otherwise (for instance, there were a number of bands that were actually musically superior to the Beatles, but the Fab Four had just the right blend of talent and charisma to make it on the international stage). Not sure if you recognized they were whistling the Star Trek theme. "CAR!" brings up SO many memories. I'm not sure if you're aware of the meaning behind the "No Stairway" joke, (it's very much a Generation X thing) but Stairway to Heaven has one of THE most iconic guitar openings in rock music...to the point that EVERYONE learning to play guitar has tried to play it at some point. And countless irritated music store employees subjected to a barrage of poor recitals as newbie guitarists tried to pluck it out. The "No Stairway" signs were an ACTUAL THING hung up in music stores even before the movie to prevent people from playing it (I'm a saxophonist, so that's not something I ever had to worry about. Still trying to figure out the head for Confirmation by Charlie Parker, tho...) I do love how the Stairway joke accidentally turned meta: In the original theatrical release of the film, Wayne actually DID play the opening notes to Stairway. However, Led Zepplin (notoriously stingy about the rights to their music) demanded some $100,000 to even use the small bit that was in the film, so every home release since has inserted some random guitar squealing that's as far from Stairway as you can get. So not only was Wayne denied playing, it WE were denied HEARING it. Carrere does all her own singing in this movie, and has in fact won two Grammy awards. The musical interlude of Wayne and Garth at the brewery in Milwaukee is a reference to the opening credits of the 1976 sitcom Laverne & Shirley, one of several spinoffs of Happy Days. Haha, Farley as the security guard. Alice Cooper's "Milwaukee" routine isn't entirely accurate. The fact you wouldn't expect a musician with his image to say these things was all part of the joke. Brian May of Queen IS a literal genius, however (he has a PhD in astrophysics, has authored several papers, and even worked with NASA during the OSIRIS-REx mission). Cooper himself has been with his wife Sheryl since the early 80s (impressive for ANYONE, these days, much less a rocker who has been touring since the 60s). He also runs support groups to help other musicians get, and stay, clean from drug and alcohol abuse. Yes, that IS Jay from Modern Family. Ed O'Neill is probably most famous for playing Al Bundy on Married With Children. The cop who pulled Wayne over was played by Robert Patrick, spoofing his own role as the T-1000 from Terminator 2. You watched that one a couple years ago. I love how Garth's dog has the same hairstyle as he does. In the classic Scooby Doo cartoons, the main characters investigate some paranormal happening or haunting, only for it to turn out to be a scam being pulled by another character - frequently (at least parodied as) a crotchety old man trying to drive other people away - and who is dramatically unmasked as the "monster" or "ghost" at the end of the episode. Thus the "Scooby Doo Ending." Some more recent versions have had the paranormal activity to be real (including a short-lived series with Horror legend Vincent Price tapping Shaggy, Scooby, and Daphne to capture 13 VERY REAL evil spirits in the mid-80s, and another where Shaggy and Scooby act as headmasters at a boarding school for the daughters of the classic Universal Studios monsters). The two movies in the 2000s were sort-of-sequels to the original cartoons.
I don't know if you mentioned this already but Wayne is Auston Powers. Also, Gasworks rock venue was a real place in downtown Toronto for Battle of the Bands competitions.
@@damienhenning541 He went for a very funny ground breaking not politicly correct our of the box tv show like Married With Children into the most boring blend and really politically correct and cooperative tv show like Modern Family
Holy shih!!! She didn't get the T2 reference!!!!!!!! 😳🤯 you guys know what to do!!! Also, Mission Impossible was first a series from the 1960's; before he was Jay on Modern Family, Ed O'Neil was AL Bundy on the hit 90's show Married With Children ( you'd probably recognize the mom and daughter from that show today too!) this reaction was highly informative hey! 👊🏻 Oh and Dasha, my love, your are totally first class schaaaaa'winnng badda boom boom baby yeah!! 🥹😘
It’s an old reference but you will appreciate it… The donut shop is called Stan Makita’s. He was a famous NHL hockey player in the 60’s and played for the Chicago Black Hawks. This is a reference to the real donut shop you may have visited, Tim Hortons. Mikes Gilbert ‘Tim’ Horton played for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1952 until 1970. He started the donut shop in 1964 which grew into the huge chain it is today.
Easily one of my all-time favourite movies, simply for the fact that it reminds me of when I was young. So many jokes hold up so well, it still makes me laugh! Even the sequel is hilarious!
The Waiter is Ed O'Neil. He has been in lots of shows but is most famous for his role as Al Bundy in Married with Children. The cop was a reference to the Cop in Terminator 2 Mission Impossible was a TV show that ran from 1966 to 1973. The theme song became a meme of trying to accomplish something daring and hard to do all the way back to when it was still on the air. Wayne's World, and frankly a dozen or so other movies have used the theme song. The Mission Impossible movies with Tom Cruise are based on the original TV show.
As a musician I can testify the "NO STAIRWAY" sign was an actual thing in guitar shops. This movie is a quote fest interrupted by Wayne and Garth breaking the fourth wall...I highly recommend the second. "Does Dasha know how to party or what??" Game On!
I love how the Stairway gag turned meta. In the theatrical cut they actually DID use the opening to Stairway, but Zepplin wanted too much money for the rights afterwards, so it was replaced with random guitar squealing on all subsequent releases. Not only was Wayne denied PLAYING Stairway, but WE were denied HEARING it.
Flight of the Conchords by the way s very funny - and as a New Zealander I can say that yes, we do talk like that. 🤣 The Mission Impossible music is from the TV series, which was on many years before the movies (originally in the 60s). Which is how you find it in movies made before the Mission Impossible movies. "Have you seen this boy?" is a reference to "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", from the year before.
"I don't think it's him. It can't be." You better tell him that, since that is, in fact, Jay from Modern Family. And Al Bundy from Married with Children. Great actor. The live action Scooby-Doo movies with Freddie Prinz, Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar are fun.
9:59 "I was just thinking, you know, how they playing on a driveway?" I think this part pokes fun at this commercial there once was about the versatility of a street hockey system that had a couple kids playing hockey in the street up until there's a random interruption, and the interruptions get progressively more and more improbable. The kids came out, in their gear, played hockey until one of them called out, "Car!" Then they picked up the net and the puck, moved out of the street, the car drove through, they moved the net and puck back into the street and continued the game. Then one of them called out, "Motorcycle gang!" so again, they moved the net and puck out of the street, the motorcycle gang drove through, they moved the net and puck back into the street and continued the game. Then one of them called out, "Parade!" so again, they moved the net and puck out of the street, the parade marched through, then they moved the net and puck back into the street and continued the game. Then they cut to screen print to provide commercial information about the product just as we hear one of them call out, _"Stampede!"_
The actress playing Cassandra (the singer/guitarist) was the female villain in True Lies (with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis) which you watched two years ago!
It's kind of sad how for all her talent, Carrere largely flamed out by the early 2000s (though she WAS involved in a lot of REALLY bad projects in the late-90s). Not that she's stopped working, but man she fell off the radar fast.
Hello Dasha, I like your top, it is very cute!😊🖤🤍 Wayne's World was a very popular skit on SNL (Saturday Night Live). Oh, the owner of the diner is Ed O'Neill. He played the father, Al Bundy on the TV sitcom "Married with Children". Christina Applegate played his daughter Kelly Bundy. The motorcycle cop pulling over Wayne is the same actor from "Terminator 2" that played the liquid metal Terminator looking for John Connor. You saw the film about 2 years ago, so it has been a while. The theme song for "Mission Impossible" actually started in 1966 with the original TV series by the same name. It was a very successful TV show and ran for 7 seasons. I see your little boy Hugo was sleeping on the coach in the background. Great reactions to this very fun SNL spinoff, Dasha!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Have a great weekend!😊 As I was reminded by a commentor, Ed O'Neill was also the dad/grandfather on "Modern Family" too.
@@mikewilder6390 When Dasha said "Modern Family" for some reason I forgot about him on that, and thought she was thinking of Phil. Probably because he wasn't always on screen that much.😉
If you havent done the car scene with your friends in a car you havent lived...this is the most fun thing to do since ice cream. Also..that Alice Cooper scene backstage had to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen...
Hi Dasha, I always enjoy watching movies withyou, and this one i really loved how much fun and enjoyment you were having. Looking through the comments it looks like most of your questions and references have already been addressed. However, i did not see if anyone spoke about the scene where Wayne and Garth were at the brewery in Milwaukee, when they were on their way to Chicago for the concert. that was a reference and some of the same shots to a 70s sitcom called Laverne & Shirley., which I believe was technically spinoff show from happy Days. Also, Bohemian Rhapsody, was given new life after this movie re-introduced it to a whole lot of younger people at the time. When the song breaks into the faster part with more guitars, drums, etc... many people who grew up in the 80s and 90s, will bang their heads, which i attribute to the movie. just my opinion... Anyway, just a couple of hopefully fun facts for ya. can't wait until you watch the sequel. Thanks for a really fun time!
The blonde woman that Garth is in love with, is Donna Dixon, and she was quite a popular actress in the 80’s and 90’s. She was also married to Dan Akroyd (whose IMDB list is quite extensive) for almost 40 years, until they separated in early 2022.
I've always enjoyed this movie (and Part 2 as well!) I feel no shame in saying it. This was a great reaction! Dasha is relaxed and is just being herself. Nothing seems forced, as she comes across very real. She's also unintentionally very funny, and had me laughing a few times. 👍
Yet again, another amazing reaction. You are soooo cute. Loving your musical pout, and your general enjoyment of it all. The dread on your face for the first ending too. I knew it wasn't the final, so you wouldn't be upset for too long. I see all your questions have been answered already too.
5:36 - "OK, I might be wrong, is it from Mission Impossible? Oh I guess Mission Impossible took it from here, the same soundtrack." - Before it was a series of Tom Cruise movies, Mission Impossible was a TV show from 1966 to 1973. That is the classic theme music to the TV series. 11:30 - "You know who he, his face reminds me of? Jay from Modern Family." - Yup, that's him. 12:53 - "These guys feel like they're always having fun." - They're recreating the opening from the TV show Laverne and Shirley. 18:18 - "Was it a reference to some kind of movie I haven't watched? I didn't get this joke, can you explain it to me?" - That's Robert Patrick, reprising his role as the T-1000 from Terminator 2. He was looking for John Conner.
The police officer was the police officer in Terminator 2, and the joke is he's got a picture of John Connor(humanity's savior in the terminator universe/multiverse.)
Mike Myers was horrified when clips from Wayne's World were mixed with Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video. "they've just whizzed on a Picasso.". The band responded simply saying, "Thank you for using our song." This shocked Myers, "Thank you for even letting me touch the hem of your garments!"
Queen later returned the favor by letting Mike Myers play the A-hole record exec in the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" who tried to shut down Queen from releasing the very song that whole movie, and this iconic scene, are about!
18:12 "Was it a reference to some kind of movie that I haven't watched?" Ah, but you _did_ watch the movie -- two years ago. That's the same actor dressed up in the same policeman's outfit as when he was in Terminator 2. He's looking for John Connor!
1. Tia Carrera/Cassandra sang all of her songs, and she also has a Grammy for singing and voice over work.🤩 2. It's good to see Rob Lowe as a heavy. 3. Brian Doyle Murry is Bill Murry's brother and has been in a ton of movie/tv including two of the Vacation movies. 4. Vincent Fournier/Alice Cooper is a historian, so he loved playing in this thing. 5. He is also a surprisingly good golfer and I've had the privilege of seeing him in concert twice 6. Who doesn't love Al Bundy/Ed O'Neil and Chris Farley? 7. You need to review Cheech & Chong's, "Up in Smoke".
Brian Doyle-Murray might be best known for his roles in Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, both starring his brother Bill. Also, coincidentally to this movie in particular, he was in an episode of Married, With Children as a character named (of all things) Wayne.
Dasha, Wayne's World was a sketch on Saturday Night Live for about two years before this movie came out. You can see those SNL sketches on RU-vid and it will make you appreciate the characters even more.
11:45 that is Ed O'Neill from Modern Family, BUT I know him from the sitcom of Married With Children that started in the 80s. He plays the father in that sitcom. Very funny with a small cast. 18:21 Refernce to Terminator 2. 19:28 Mission Impossible was a TV series BEFORE this movie, but the movie came out after. So they are referencing the very popular series. MI was a popular series thatbwas referenced in many movies and even a movie called "My Science Project" the music was being hummed to. Back then TV series led to Movies being made after. 22:08 just like the Scooby-Doo cartoons which I watched on Saturday mornings in the 80s Not sure if you referenced in the full length the Grey Poupon bit was making fun of a commercial for that. Do a youtube search for Grey Poupon commerical and you will see the reference. A lot of the jokes are appreciated by GenX because we grew up with the commercials, TV shows, and movies they are referencing.
Some things to inform you: The cop is from Terminator 2, that is Jay from Modern Family, though at the time, he was better known as Al bundy from Married With children, and Garth's "Dream woman" is in real life Dan aykroyd's wife.
Mission Impossible was originally, a TV Show in the 60's or 70's. It was incredibly popular and it didn't occur to anyone to make it into a movie until the 90's. The use of the song in this movie is referencing the TV show.
Ed O'Neill played Al Bundy in, "Married With Children", in the 80's & 90's. Then he did, "Modern Family", and he did this film. The beer factory scene was a parody of the opening of the television show, "Laverne And Shirley ", form the 70's. The motorcycle cop was the actor recreating his role from, "Terminator 2". ✌️❤️🌹
The Scooby Doo Ending was in reference to the cartoon from the late 1960's. At the end of the episode, they'd catch the "ghost" and pull its mask off to find it was the janitor or the dude who ran the water slide. Earlier in the movie, when they first go into the diner, they ask that guy how the amusement park is going, and you just sort of forget it happened.
I'm calling it now: al bundy finally finally snapped one day at the shoe store, went home and beat peg and marcy to death with a shoe then fled to aurora to open a donut shop under a false identity, while griff ended up taking the fall for everything and getting the chair
Chris Farley was in this movie. He played the security guard. He is also in Wayne's World 2. The Mission Impossible movies were based on a 1966 TV show.
Dasha, I suspect you, in particular, ought to appreciate _this_ story. Ages ago, I came across an anecdote about the ways that movie titles are not just translated, but rewritten, when that movie is translated into another language. This movie's title was rewritten to translate as "Fused in the head."
I hear the Mission Impossible theme and I am transported back to the original series that I love so much. Way before this movie came out. No way for Dasha to know that though. I never watched any of the Tom Cruise MI movies, but I guess they used the original theme. Great reaction as always Dasha!!
There are soooo many references in this movie that you wouldn't understand for both your age and that you're not originally from North America. I'm glad you still had fun with it, but I promise you at the time this came out, it was one of the funniest movies ever. It's still really good, obviously you enjoyed it, but at the time, it was a masterpiece. A sort of "you had to be there" movie of it's era.
The original animated Scooby Doo series very often had the villain as an old man in a rubber mask who was inevitably captured and unmasked at the end, and it has become a trope, along with the phrase "...and I would have gotten away with it too, it it weren't for those pesky/meddling kids!"
Dasha, the Mission Impossible theme music comes from the original TV series in the 1960s. The music is so well known that it's often parodied in movies such as Wayne's World.
The Scooby Doo parody was from the old cartoons. The bad guy or monster was always someone in a mask and they always unmasked him in the end to solve the mystery
You were correct to recognize the Mission: Impossible theme. It's actually originally from a Mission: Impossible TV show that aired from 1966 to 1973, so, as in this case, you'll sometimes find it referenced even before the first Tom Cruise M:I film came out in 1996.
Yes, that is Jay from Modern Family. The policeman is a reference to the movie "Terminator 2". Tia Carrere (Cassandra) did the voice of Nani in "Lilo and Stitch" Mission Impossible began as a television series in the 1960s. The theme dates from 1966.
Mission Impossible had it's well known theme song origins from the mid-1960s thru the early 1970s TV show. The MI movies came after this WW movie long w/ the revamped theme song. Police officer who pulled Wayne over is the Terminator (T-1000) actor from the 2nd Terminator movie.
Policeman Joke: from Terminator 2. Terminator 1 was a low budget film made by unknown Canadian director James Cameron. It's success gave him more money for Terminator 2. He later made The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar.
18:17 NO; it was a reference to a movie you HAVE watched (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)! Damn, I was really hoping you'd catch the T-1000! Same actor! Best movie cameo ever.
About "Mission: Impossible", before the films came along, there was a TV series of the same name that aired from 1966 to 1973. I think the first film with Tom Cruise was released in 1996 if I remember correctly.
This is awesome and i just saw Alice Cooper live 2 days ago. I even got to meet him backstage. Such a nice , down to earth guy. His cameo in this movie is my favorite
