MOVIES
“Wayne’s World”
Born of the “Saturday Night Live” sketch, Aurora, Illinois local television celebrities Wayne Campbell (Toronto Maple Leafs fan Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) don’t do much with their lives, but they love some hockey, specifically the Chicago Blackhawks.
They play street hockey (pausing the game constantly for cars) and they frequent Stan Mikita’s Donuts, a fictionalized version of Tim Horton’s run by the absolutely off-the-wall Glen, played by Ed O’Neill.
And then there was that one time that Stan Mikita’s Donuts was real, though it was sadly a temporary pop-up shop for the 2017 NHL All-Star Game.
What else do Mikita and Horton have in common besides having famous donut shops named for them? They are both in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
“White Men Can’t Jump”
The 1992 Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson screwball comedy about a pair of basketball hustlers trying to make money on various southern California blacktops has more than a few (thousand) sarcastic quips in it.
Perhaps the most sarcastic is when the two team up to try and hustle Raymond (played hysterically by former five-time NBA All-Star Marques Johnson).
The nerdy-looking Billy Hoyle (Harrelson) is asked to join the game by Raymond, who says “Hey chump, you wanna run?” Hoyle, trying to be as nerdy as possible to set up his hustle with Sidney Deane (Snipes) responds “You mean play basketball?”
That’s when Raymond’s teammate (David Roberson), who is clearly standing in the middle of an outdoor basketball court as everyone waits to play basketball says: “No, we mean ice hockey. Get your tired butt up here, Gretzky.”