Is there an SNL cinematic universe?

[williamtheday]

'The Ladie's Man', 'Pat', 'The Coneheads'...Are they all in one universe?

[AndrewCrossett]

No, and don't give them any ideas. There have been exactly two good SNL-spinoff movies: The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World.

[Kirby101]

No, and don't give them any ideas. There have been exactly two good SNL-spinoff movies: The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World.

Both in Chicago. Same Universe?

[thwhtGuardian]

No, and don't give them any ideas. There have been exactly two good SNL-spinoff movies: The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World.

Hey now, Coneheads was pretty decent.

[BeastieRunner]

Skit-wise, yes. Movies, no.

[williamtheday]

No, and don't give them any ideas. There have been exactly two good SNL-spinoff movies: The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World.

Kind of sad The Killer Bees never had their shot at a bad movie...

[numberthirty]

Both in Chicago. Same Universe?

Wayne's World is actually set in Aurora.

[numberthirty]

As for "Universe..."?

I think that they were always leaving it up to the viewer. Don't rule it out. Don't confirm it.

[Ramsay Snow]

No, and don't give them any ideas. There have been exactly two good SNL-spinoff movies: The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World.

Completely disagree......The only two good SNL-spinoff movies are Coneheads & A Night at the Roxbury, both of which are classics!

[Riv86672]

I’m a Blues Brothers, Wayne’s World, Coneheads guy. But I also put The Ladies Man in there.

[Kirby101]

Wayne's World is actually set in Aurora.

Isn't that a suburb of Chicago?

[numberthirty]

Isn't that a suburb of Chicago?

That's North of forty miles Southwest.

I've seen each film quite a few times, and I don't think that there is anything that cements the existence of Chicago/Aurora that is from one film in the other.

[numberthirty]

Credit where it's due...

My childhood White Castle is the only thing from Aurora that is actually real in Wayne's World.

[AndrewCrossett]

Wayne definitely lives in Aurora. When they get to the Alice Cooper concert in Milwaukee, they tell the two nerds that they came from Aurora. And of course, the sketches on SNL always started with an announcement that it was on "Aurora Public Access."

I don't know how many Chicagoland landmarks appear in the film since I'm not from there. I remember the Spindle of junked cars during the Bohemian Rhapsody scene (which has since been demolished.)

A LOT of American comedy films are set in the Chicago area because so many comedy writers came from there, mainly through Second City. Most of John Hughes's movies were set there too.

[Powerboy]

I thought this was going to be about their various spoofs of superheroes. Somewhere out there, there's an alternate universe where Super @$$kiss Man exists.