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"Shall We Shag Now Or Shag Later?" - Mike Myers' 90s Comedies

·2 hr 13 min

The episode was recorded about three weeks ago in Los Angeles, and it opens with a joke that the show has been frozen for 30 years. The hosts frame it as the first entry in their Saturday Night Leavers series, built around major Saturday Night Live breakout stars who all left the show. Mike Myers is the subject here. The conversation centers on Wayne's World and the way Wayne and Garth read on screen. One host argues that Wayne can feel inconsistent from scene to scene, while another pushes back and says that kind of guy is very specific. Garth is treated as easier to read because his nerdiness is more fixed. The panel keeps returning to the same core question: are these characters the joke, or are they actually cool inside their world? That tension drives most of the discussion. The hosts also talk through how executives in the movie react to them, how the public response differs, and how Rob Lowe helps move the whole thing toward the people who can exploit a hit even if they do not really like it. The episode broadens into a look at Myers' breakout run and his departure from Saturday Night Live for films. Chris Farley is the next subject in the series, and the close lands on the usual mix of joke, tease, and pop-culture bookkeeping.

As heard by us

A loose, sharp look at Wayne's World that asks why the characters still split opinion.

Wayne's World is the center of this episode, but the better question is not whether Wayne and Garth are cool. It is why that question keeps splitting people.

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Why you'd press play

When Wayne's World turns into a live, slightly chaotic argument about whether Wayne and Garth are cool, clueless, or both.

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