Party On, Wayne -- From TV to Movies

Wayne Campbell, star of Wayne's World, is a mush-minded dweeb whose success prefigures the collapse of civilization . . . Not! (There, we've done our mandatory aping of Wayneglish, that newly epidemic subspecies of English that certifies Wayne as this month's pop-cultural phenom.) Actually, he is a fairly learned dude; his I.Q. could match those of Bill and Ted and still have points % left over for Homer Simpson. Wayne's vocabulary is abundant with synonyms for the verb vomit: hurl, spew, honk. With his Chinese girlfriend he can chat in Cantonese. And only Wayne noticed that two actors played Darrin on...

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