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" It&amp;#039;s kind of hard to believe that two decades have passed since Paramount Pictures released Wayne&amp;#039;s World. On one hand, in the year 2012, the idea that Saturday Night Live could still create such a huge movie phenomenon seems unlikely, and maybe a little absurd. But Wayne&amp;#039;s World was the highest-grossing SNL movie for a reason that makes it as relevant as it stays today: It was two pretty normal guys sitting around in a basement, doing things we all do. Which is what all the new comedies do these days anyway. Sure, Wayne and Garth were icons, but they weren&amp;#039;t the icons we were used to. They were the ones who never fully got over high school and were content enough to stay at their mom&amp;#039;s place. Everyone wanted to be Ferris Bueller, but no one really wanted to be the host of a cable-access show. And yet we all still sang along to Queen and stared at Claudia Schiffer \u2014 we still do \u2014 and then came Beavis &amp;amp;amp; Butt-Head and Harold &amp;amp;amp; Kumar, and suddenly that seemed sophomoric again. Wayne&amp;#039;s World made a virtue of the drama-free comedy. What&amp;#039;s seen as Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd&amp;#039;s failure to &amp;quot;grow up&amp;quot; in Knocked Up was originally just Wayne and Garth&amp;#039;s lifestyle, part of their effortless charm. (The least believable part of the movie is the same as in Judd Apatow&amp;#039;s: The girlfriend is way too hot for that guy.) There&amp;#039;s a plot about being bought up by a big-time producer, played by Rob Lowe in the same kind of parody he plays on TV now, that resonates with the mood of the 99 percent. But Wayne&amp;#039;s World wasn&amp;#039;t about politics. The message was to leave the little guys alone, because the little guy is all of us. Of course, SNL is suddenly all about politics and the big-thing topics of the day. But at the movies, the guilt-free fantasy has more or less won out. If Lorne Michaels ever wants to create new movie icons, he may have to find his way back to the characters who are just sitting around and, despite all the wrong that&amp;#039;s going on in the world, trying to have a good time. The closest he&amp;#039;s come, strangely, is Portlandia, a show about people unlike everyone else, except in one way: They&amp;#039;ve created their own, slightly regressive world, where they can do whatever they want. Wayne&amp;#039;s World was all about doing what you wanted, even if it took the rest of comedy twenty years to catch up.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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