9 Movie Endings That Oddly Reference Other Things
8. Scooby-Doo - Wayne's World
Though both Wayne's World movies freely break the fourth wall as the duo speak directly to the audience, the first film's ending took this to hilariously daft extremes by having Wayne and Garth (Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) literally re-do the ending twice.
Unsatisfied with the original ending where Wayne's girlfriend Cassandra (Tia Carrere) leaves him for slick TV producer Benjamin (Rob Lowe) and Garth dies in a fire, they opt for a "Scooby-Doo ending" instead.
In this ending, it's revealed that Benjamin was actually Old Man Withers (Carmen Filpi) all along, the elderly owner of the haunted amusement park introduced at the start of the film.
We're never told what crime he's guilty of, but he's held in police custody as he quips in customary Scooby-Doo fashion, "And I would have got away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you snooping kids!"
Even for the film's meta-happy style, it comes totally out of left-field. Wayne and Garth aren't content to stop there, though, as they then follow up with the canon "mega-happy ending," where Cassandra gets her record deal and stays with Wayne, while Benjamin learns to be a better person.