* The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

In the 1984 U. S. science fiction film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Holland Township is the location of the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension !, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 parody science fiction film.

It was directed and produced by W. D. Richter, and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock musician, to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10.

With help from the Black Lectroid messenger John Parker, Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers, a collection of civilian volunteers named " The Blue Blaze Irregulars ", and a young woman named Penny Priddy, ( a long-lost twin sister of Buckaroo's late wife ), Buckaroo succeeds in his mission, destroying the Red Lectroids and saving Earth.

The end credits announce an unproduced sequel Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.

* Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai, a modern-day renaissance man, top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero.

Mac Rauch's original 30-page treatment was entitled, Find the Jetcar, Said the President-A Buckaroo Banzai Thriller.

Out of this meeting, Canton and Richter formed their own production company and decided that Buckaroo Banzai would be the first film.

This put all of his future projects, Buckaroo Banzai included, in jeopardy.

To cast the role of Buckaroo Banzai, Richter wanted an actor that " could both look heroic with grease all over his face, and project the kind of intelligence you would associate with a neurosurgeon and inventor ".

Studio publicist Rosemary LaSalmandra said, " Nobody knew what to do with Buckaroo Banzai.

Buckaroo Banzai was originally scheduled to be released on June 8, 1984 but was pushed back to August 15.

In his review for the New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote that Buckaroo Banzai " may well turn out to be a pilot film for other theatrical features, though this one would be hard to top for pure, nutty fun ".

Film critic Pauline Kael wrote, " I didn't find it hard to accept the uninflected, deadpan tone, and to enjoy Buckaroo Banzai for its inventiveness and the gags that bounce off other adventure movies, other comedies.

Buckaroo Banzai was released on DVD on January 4, 2002.

Buckaroo Banzai has since attracted a loyal cult following and has been quite popular on home video.

Entertainment Weekly ranked Buckaroo Banzai as # 43 in their Top 50 Cult Movies.

The Guardian has also cited Buckaroo Banzai as one of their " 1, 000 films to see before you die ".

Jamie Lee Curtis plays Buckaroo Banzai's mother, Sandra Banzai.

The packaging and literature with the DVD maintain a mythos that Buckaroo Banzai is a real person, that the Banzai Institute exists, and that the movie is in fact a docu-drama of the real adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

Breckenridge High School's mascot is a Buckaroo ( a cowboy riding a bucking horse ).

The video is great, the sound is great, there are tons of extras ... Bottom line, if you're a Buckaroo fan, this is the home video version you have been waiting for ".

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is a interactive fiction video game based on the franchise.

" Cowboy " is a term common throughout the west and particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, " Buckaroo " is used primarily in the Great Basin and California, and " cowpuncher " mostly in Texas and surrounding states.

An almost exactly parallel use of the idea is presented in the campy cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, where the " 8th dimension " is essentially a " phantom zone " used to imprison the villainous Red Lectroids.

The Plain Awful's square egg is also featured in Don Rosa's The Buckaroo of the Badlands, part three of his famous The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

The biker bar that Patrick is shown going into is the Buckaroo Tavern in Fremont, Seattle.

* The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the number 11-1-38 is mentioned by the Hong Kong Cavaliers in a conversation in the middle of the movie, while they discuss the identity of the Yoyodyne company.

He is best known for his roles as the title character in the first two RoboCop films, the title character in the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension as well as Naked Lunch.

He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and co-writing Big Trouble in Little China.

* The spectral-analyzer in the geology-lab is the oscillation-over-thruster prop from the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Fairbanks was fascinated with the true-life adventures of " Wild Bill " and promised to recommend him for a job in the movie business ; he was responsible for Wellman being cast in the juvenile lead of The Knickerbocker Buckaroo ( 1919 ).

Mackenzie appears as a character in the fictional Scrooge McDuck comic book, The Buckaroo of the Badlands ( 1992 ), set in 1882, in which the poor, newly-hired Scrooge, helped by Theodore Roosevelt, rescues a championship bull belonging to Mackenzie.

Over several dinners, Mac Rauch told Richter and his wife about a character named Buckaroo Bandy that he was thinking of writing a screenplay about.

* John Parker, fictional character in Buckaroo Banzai

Since 2006, Moonstone have been publishing comics with Buckaroo Banzai, the main character from the 1984 cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, which continues plotlines left unexplored in the movie.

** Buckaroo Banzai ( character ), the title character of the film

Maynard played several instruments and was featured playing the fiddle in The Fiddlin ' Buckaroo ( 1933 ) and the banjo in The Trail Drive ( 1933 ).

The first story, Return of the Screw, was written by Buckaroo Banzai's creator, Earl Mac Rauch.

The black-and-white preview edition of the comic was released in February 2006, featuring a behind-the-scenes article by Dan Berger regarding the transformation of the rejected Buckaroo Banzai television pilot script Supersize those Fries into the present comic book miniseries.

* Wherever You Go, There You Are: A Look Back at Buckaroo Banzai by Danny Bowes ( July 27, 2011 )

But the experiment ended tragically: Buckaroo Banzai's parents were killed in an explosion ( caused by sabotage planned by criminal mastermind Hanoi Xan ) as the five-year-old child looked on.

Richter have begun new adventures for Buckaroo Banzai, in the form of a comic book produced by Moonstone Books.

Popular covers by Trini Lopez, Chuck Jackson, Don McLean, Guns N ' Roses, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Ronnie Milsap and Buckaroo Banzai have helped keep the song in the public consciousness.

Other Mizzy compositions included " There's a Faraway Look in Your Eye " and " Three Little Sisters ", both co-written with lyricist Irving Taylor, the latter sung by The Andrews Sisters on Decca Records and in Universal's " Private Buckaroo ," in which the sisters appeared with Harry James ' big band ( Dinah Shore also recorded " Three Little Sisters "); " Take It Easy " ( also with lyricist Taylor ), " Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes ", " The Whole World Is Singing My Song ", " Choo ' n Gum " ( recorded by The Andrews Sisters, as well as Teresa Brewer ), " The Jones Boy " ( a 1953 hit for The Mills Brothers ), and " With a Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho ".

* " Buckaroo " ( song ), a song by country singer Buck Owens and the Buckaroos

* " Buckaroo ", a song by country singer Lee Ann Womack from her self titled debut album

* " Buckaroo ", an instrumental piece by Leo Kottke from Leo Kottke ( album )

* Buckaroo ( game ), a children's game made by Hasbro

Spend A Buck was sired by Buckaroo out of the dam Belle de Jour.