The morning after scene for Ellie and Morgan contains Morgan sleepily uttering the line "Damn momma, I've got my headgear on." Anthony Michael Hall's Farmer Ted (The Geek) character uttered the same line towards the end of Sixteen Candles.
His best-known role was spastic exchange student Long Duk Dong in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.
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"Sixteen Candles", "Beat Street", "The Freshest Kids", and are some of the noteworthy feature films they appeared in as well a cameo in "Body Rock".
Totally Awesome directly parodies a number of 1980s movies, including Dirty Dancing, Soul Man, Footloose, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Teen Wolf, Better Off Dead, Lucas, Pretty in Pink, and The Karate Kid.