40. Dan Aykroyd, Wayne's World, Saturday Night Live

We add Dan Aykroyd, the media franchise Wayne's World, and Saturday Night Live to the List of Every Damn Thing.

Show Notes

Phil and Jake are joined by friend (and contributor to the pod) Donovan to insert some gags and guffaws into the the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking Dan Aykroyd, all things Wayne’s World, and Saturday Night Live.

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SHOW NOTES:

• We don’t get the name quite right for The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour.
• We talk about a lot of Aykroyd movies, including The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit, Ghostbusters (and its original script), Trading Places, Dragnet (which, we failed to mention, contains an oh-so-brief reference to Mendocino County), Nothing But Trouble, Driving Miss Daisy and The Great Outdoors.
• We mention Digital Underground. In the time between recording and releasing the episode, their frontman Shock G passed away. He was a talented guy who went too soon.
• Aykroyd’s vodka really is crystal skull themed.
• Here’s an article about Aykroyd’s spiritualist father and grandfather.
• Jake claims that the closest House of Blues to the San Francisco Bay Area is in LA, but it’s actually a little further south in Anaheim (the Hollywood HoB closed in 2015).
• Here's an early appearance of a non-Americanized Wayne on It's Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (a Canadian TV show).
• Here's one of the ads where Wayne’s World shills for UberEats.
• Penelope Spheeris directed the first Wayne’s World movie after proving her mettle with films like Suburbia and The Decline of Western Civilization (here’s a great interview of her on WTF with Marc Maron). She was too real to be invited back for Wayne’s World 2.
• Here’s the scene from The Graduate (SPOILER ALERT: it’s the final scene of the movie) that gets spoofed in Wayne’s World 2. Here’s the Grey Poupon commercial they spoof.  Here’s the Laverne & Shirley intro.
• Donovan mentions the “Jessica Simpson lip-synching thing” but he meant to say Ashlee Simpson.
• “Live from New York” is the Tom Shales oral-history book that we mention.
• We found some of the Muppet clips from early seasons of SNL but they're a tough watch. Just know they exist.
• Here’s a pic of Conan O'Brien and Bob Odenkirk when they were writers on the show in the 90s.
• Here’s footage of FEAR getting themselves banned from SNL. Here’s Jenny Slate dropping the F-bomb that got her fired from SNL.
• We name a lot of people who passed through the doors of SNL as cast, crew, hosts or musical guests. The ones not already mentioned above include John Belushi, Lorne Michaels, Phil Hartman, John Candy, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Leslie Nielson, Christopher Walken, Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, Chris Rock, Julia Luis-Dreyfus, Robert Downey, Jr., Eddie Murphy, Adam McKay, Robert Smigel, Will Farrell, Norm McDonald, Kyle Mooney, Michael Che, Bonnie Raitt and AFI (though we only mention their guitarist by name).

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
kids * birthday beat-downs * comedy straight-men * Asperger’s * comedy duos * Monty Python * Snowbird from Alpha Flight * Wired (movie) * Cheech & Chong * Jessica Rabbit * Popeye * Beavis and Butt-Head * Dolly Parton * Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure * nostalgia * Aerosmith * Alice Cooper * Charlton Heston * Kim Basinger * objectification of women * Tia Carrere * Buster Keaton’s The General * Star Wars * Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey * the Chicago Cubs * baseball * stunt casting

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):


TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
4. Prince - person
5. It’s-It - food
6. Cher - person
7. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
8. Donald Duck - fictional character
9. Hank Williams - person
10. air - substance


BOTTOM TEN:

128. Double Stuf Oreos - food
129. Lincoln Logs - toy
130. Jenny McCarthy - person
131. Jon Voight - person
132. Hank Williams, Jr - person
133. McRib - food
134. war - idea
135. cigarettes - drug
136. QAnon - idea
137. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.

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