Why the ‘Wayne’s World’ Super Bowl Ad Makes Me Sad
Like so many Gen X artifacts, Wayne and Garth haven’t partied on
This Super Bowl Sunday, you will see the usual expensive advertising campaigns, all meant to remind you that your job during a pandemic is not to care for and protect your fellow man, but instead to consume mass quantities. There’s a Frito-Lay ad with Peyton Manning, a Tide ad with Jason Alexander, and something involving Matthew McConaughey. It is not known yet whether or not Mr. Peanut will be ritualistically sacrificed like he was last year, but we can only hope.
But I suspect the main thing fellow Gen Xers like myself will be talking about during the game’s commercials—other than the fact that there’s a global pandemic and that there’s a real chance this all ends in fire and death — will be the reunion of Wayne and Garth. Yep, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, back together to hawk Uber Eats.
I know there was much made of this tweet this weekend:
