Friday Five – Pop Culture Weddings

Welcome to the Friday Five! Each week I help you get to know me a bit better through the magical art of a top five list! This week: Pop Culture Weddings.

You may have noticed I’ve been a little light on content this week. That’s because I was at a wedding yesterday. I’m still pretty hung over, so here’s an automated double sized post as a present to the bride and groom. One list for each of them of the best weddings in pop culture!

1. Jim and Pam on The Office – “Niagara” – A more perfect TV wedding I can’t imagine. Perfectly crafted for their characters. When she puts her head on his shoulder just like she did in the pilot episode, still makes me misty.

 

2. Marshall and Lily on How I Met Your Mother – “Something Blue” – A close second. Also perfectly attuned to the characters.

 

3. Jean Grey and Scott Summers in X-Men #30 – A long time coming, and one of the few comic book weddings that didn’t end up getting trashed by every villain ever showing up. And Nicole Miller designed her dress. I shit you not, that really happened. Apparently Jean and Nicole Miller went to high school together, hence, by induction, Nicole Miller is a mutant.

 

4. Macho Man Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth at Summerslam 91 – Weddings in WWF/E almost never go over well, and while AJ may have looked better in her wedding dress a few weeks ago (with white converse sneakers no less!), this was the exception to the rule. “Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?” “Ohhhhh yeahhhhhh!”

 

5. Miss Piggy and Kermit in The Muppets Take Manhattan

1. Cassandra and Bobby Cahn (Tia Carrere & Christopher Walken), that Wayne breaks up in an homage to The Graduate – Waynes World 2

 

2. Princess Vespa and Lone Starr – Spaceballs

 

3. Ginny and Rudy Ryszczyk – 16 Candles – One of the most dysfunctional weddings ever, but without it, where else would that giant douchebag Jake Ryan (future article about his asshattery pending) meet Sam?

 

4. Test/Stephanie McMahan morphing into HHH/Stephanie McMahon – At the time, it was all kayfabe and incredibly shocking, but it turned out the storyline lead to the real thing happening as well.

 

5. TS Quint and Brandi Svening – Mallrats – Is there anything more romantic than when Jaws pops out of the water? I submit that there is not. It’s a real shame people can’t do that anymore, now that the ride is closed. I wonder how many proposals actually occurred on the ride? I bet it was a bunch.

JohnScott is the proud owner of a life size replica Captain Kirk Chair. He is a hoarder of Comic Books, Transformers, and Star Trek action figures. He attended Space Camp as an adult. He has taken vacations to the closing of the Star Trek Experience and the final night Shuttle launch. He has been known to yell at his television when the kids can't put together the damn statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. When not writing for InsufficientScotty, he is a Software Engineer for a major healthcare communications company. You can Email or follow on Twitter @NotEnoughScotty or Facebook