50 Fun Facts About Wayne's World

Who plays Wayne Campbell in Wayne's World (1992)?

It was his feature-film debut; he also co-wrote the script with Bonnie and Terry Turner.

What is the name of Wayne's nervous, drumstick-wielding best friend and co-host?

Dana Carvey based the character on his own brother.

In which Illinois city do Wayne and Garth broadcast their public-access show?

They go out live from the basement of Wayne's parents' house.

Which Queen song do Wayne, Garth and friends headbang to in the car?

The studio wanted Guns N' Roses; Myers threatened to quit unless Queen was used, and the song climbed back to number 2 in the US.

What make and model of car is the Mirthmobile?

The baby-blue, flame-sided original was sold in 2016 for $37,400 after turning up on Pawn Stars.

Who plays Cassandra Wong, the singer and bassist Wayne falls for?

She sang her own vocals, including a cover of Sweet's 'The Ballroom Blitz' that made the soundtrack.

What is the name of Cassandra's band?

They play a heavy-metal bar called The Gasworks, where Meat Loaf's Tiny works the door.

Which actor plays Benjamin Kane, the slick TV producer who buys the show?

His character's official title is Regional Programming Director for Oliver Communications.

Which rock star lectures Wayne and Garth backstage on the history of Milwaukee?

Wayne and Garth respond with 'We're not worthy!'; his manager Shep Gordon talked Myers into using 'Feed My Frankenstein'.

What guitar does Wayne covet in a shop window and buy with his $5,000?

The same shop is where he is told 'No Stairway'; home releases swapped the notes to dodge a $100,000 licence until the 2022 4K disc.

On which date did Wayne's World open in US cinemas?

A Valentine's Day release; it debuted at number one and finished as 1992's tenth-highest grosser.

Which of these catchphrases did the sketches and film help popularise?

'Schwing!', 'Party on!' and 'We're not worthy!' came from the same well.

Which Terminator 2 villain pulls Wayne over in a cameo, asking about a boy?

Robert Patrick is credited simply as 'Bad Cop'; Wayne screams and speeds off.

Who directed Wayne's World?

She had made music documentaries and was 45 when Lorne Michaels hired her; the job, she said, 'flipped my life around'.

Which song plays whenever Wayne gazes at Cassandra?

Gary Wright re-recorded it for the film; the SNL sketch had used it to cue dream sequences.

Wayne's World is the highest-grossing film ever adapted from what?

It took $121.7 million domestically, ahead of The Blues Brothers and every SNL film since.

What is the name of the donut shop where Garth's dream woman works?

Ed O'Neill's darkly disturbed manager Glen works there '24 hours a day'.

What kind of business does the show's sponsor Noah Vanderhoff own?

Wayne mocks him on air with cue cards, and Benjamin fires him for it.

Why does record boss Frankie 'Mr. Big' Sharp drive everywhere in a limousine?

Frank DiLeo, Michael Jackson's real-life manager, plays him.

Which cartoon does the film's first fake ending parody, unmasking Benjamin as 'Old Man Withers'?

Wayne and Garth reject that one too, before settling on the 'mega happy ending'.

Which SNL cast member cameos as the well-informed security guard at the Milwaukee concert?

He returned in the sequel as Milton, an aimless friend of Wayne and Garth.

What language does Wayne learn to impress Cassandra?

Cassandra says she learned English at college and from the Police Academy films.

Which breakfast-condiment shortage reportedly sent the film's star storming off the set?

Director Penelope Spheeris later said it was the only time she thought he was being unreasonable.

Where did the Wayne's World soundtrack album peak on the Billboard 200?

It went double platinum in 1997.

Wayne's World was only the second film based on an SNL sketch. What was the first?

Blues Brothers came out in 1980, twelve years earlier.

Who did the studio originally want to supply the headbanging song instead of Queen?

Brian May says Freddie Mercury saw the scene and loved it before he died; the director doubts that timeline.

Which 2014 documentary did Wayne's portrayer direct about the manager he met on Wayne's World?

Shep Gordon talked him out of 'I'm Eighteen' and 'School's Out' and into 'Feed My Frankenstein', and a friendship began.

The character first appeared on Canadian television in 1987 in a segment called what?

It ran on the CBC series It's Only Rock & Roll, after Wayne had been an off-camera voice on MuchMusic.

Which rock band jammed with Wayne and Garth in the SNL sketch voted the show's most unforgettable moment?

Tom Hanks played Garth's cousin Barry, a roadie who set up the mics.

Who played Garth's father 'Beev' in the early SNL sketches?

He was named for his teeth; Candice Bergen played Garth's mother Hillary, whom Wayne rated a 'babe'.

What does Wayne tell Garth to take whenever Garth gets overexcited on the show?

The show also featured the 'Extreme Close-Up', with the camera zooming in on the pair screaming.

Which hockey legend loses a one-on-one game in an SNL dream sequence, after which Janet Jones kisses the winner?

Another dream had Wayne and Garth meeting Madonna in a spoof of Truth or Dare.

Which toy company released a Wayne's World VCR board game in 1992?

The tape had about 30 minutes of new Myers and Carvey footage.

Which publisher put out the 1993 Wayne's World platform video game?

On the NES, Garth carries a 4,000-volt laser gun and Wayne uses karate kicks Cassandra taught him.

Which 1992 film spoofed the sketch as 'Duane's Underworld'?

Myers and Carvey were offered cameos as their characters but were busy shooting Wayne's World.

Who directed Wayne's World 2 after the first film's director was not asked back?

Spheeris went off to direct The Beverly Hillbillies instead.

What is the name of the music festival Wayne and Garth stage in the sequel?

A dead rock star tells Wayne it is his destiny; the pun on Woodstock is intentional.

Which late rock singer appears in Wayne's dreams to tell him to hold a concert?

He is accompanied by a 'weird naked Indian' in a desert.

Who plays Cassandra's new producer Bobby Cahn in Wayne's World 2?

Kevin Pollak plays Jerry Segel and James Hong plays Cassandra's martial-artist father.

Which star plays Honey Hornée, the femme fatale who gives Garth his first screen kiss?

She worked three days; her husband Alec Baldwin read the script and told her she had to do it.

Ralph Brown's roadie Del Preston in the sequel is a spiritual reprise of his character from which cult film?

Dana Carvey saw a repertory screening of Withnail and I in Los Angeles and the character was written in late.

The original Wayne's World 2 script was scrapped for lifting its plot from which 1949 British film?

Wayne and Garth were going to secede from the US; sets were already up when Paramount realised it had no rights, and Sherry Lansing hit the roof.

Which Hollywood legend plays the 'good actor' gas station attendant in Wayne's World 2?

Jay Leno and Heather Locklear also cameo as themselves.

Which classic film's finale do Wayne and Cassandra recreate when he disrupts her wedding in the sequel?

They also stage a Thelma & Louise cliff drive as a rejected ending.

Which song do Wayne and friends perform in a gay club while escaping Bobby Cahn?

The chase starts after Cassandra catches Wayne spying on her.

Roughly how much did Wayne's World 2 gross worldwide, well below the original's $180m-plus?

It opened against Mrs. Doubtfire, Schindler's List and The Pelican Brief in December 1993.

Which actress plays Bjergen Kjergen in Wayne's World 2?

Olivia d'Abo plays Betty Jo, and Tim Meadows turns up as Sammy Davis Jr.

How was the original film's Mirthmobile presented after its 2015 Pawn Stars appearance?

It sold in 2016 for $37,400.

The Wayne's World theme song was co-written by Wayne's creator and which SNL music director?

The extended hard-rock version recorded with Aerosmith later appeared on the film soundtrack.

Which rock singer plays Tiny, the Gasworks bouncer who lets Wayne and Garth skip the line?

Ed O'Neill plays the darkly disturbed donut-shop manager Glen, who hints he once murdered someone.