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Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick.
— Wayne's World · 1992
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Garth is a nervous, shy sidekick who rarely gets the big laugh, and here he gets the cruellest one in the film by describing Benjamin's character as an ice-cream flavour. The joke works because it is a flat, offensive punchline from a mild character, and it became one of the most quoted Wayne's World lines for describing a thoroughly unpleasant person in the same format.
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In context
Spoilers for Wayne's WorldShow the scene
Late in Wayne's World, Wayne and Garth have reconciled and are racing to get Cassandra's band heard by the record boss Frankie Sharp, while the slick producer Benjamin Kane, who has been courting Cassandra, schemes against them. In a spoof of Mission: Impossible, with that theme playing, the gang creep up on a limousine, only to be caught by a guard named Russell, who says he is supposed to stop them and that Benjamin is his friend. Garth, normally the shy one, asks if he wants to be Benjamin's monkey boy for the rest of his life, then delivers the line. Russell backs off, and the film cuts to the band performing for the broadcast.
Sources (2)
- Wayne's World, fan-transcribed scriptlimousine scene shortly before the basement broadcastReference checked
- Wikipedia: Wayne's World (film), PlotPlot sectionReference checked
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