There are countless iconic movie scenes but one that stands above the rest is one of the opening scenes to the 1992 SNL-based movie “Wayne’s World”. Starring Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey, who play their iconic Saturday Night Live character Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, the scene in question are when Wayne, Garth, and their buddies set off toward Stan Mikita’s Donuts, Wayne raises up a cassette and says the line “I think we’ll go with a little Bohemian Rhapsody gentlemen.”
To think of nothing less than listening and rocking out with Wayne, Garth, and co. to the Queen classic is mind-blowing, but apparently, that scene was going to be completely different. At the time of production Executive Producer Lorne Michaels, creator and EP of SNL, wanted to use Guns N’ Roses because they were hot and climbing the Billboard charts at the time. During the Netflix is a Joke festival, Mike Meyers was a guest at a live taping of co-star Dana Carvey’s podcast “A Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade”, Mike went on to tell the story and when he responded to Lorne’s idea for GNR he replied “I love Guns N’ Roses. I don’t have a joke for Guns N’ Roses.”
It’s probably for the best because Mike Meyers had already gotten Freddie Mercury’s blessing to use the song when he saw a first cut of the scene before he died in 1991. And to be honest I don’t think anyone could picture any other song as perfect for that scene than “Bohemian Rhapsody”
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Joe Hawk