Yes, Kurt was a fan. Bought the T-shirt, etc. Watched the movie. Used the mottos.
Buckaroo Banzai and Yoyodyne- Propulsion Systems for a defense contractor whose corporate offices feature the sign, “The future begins tomorrow”. Yoyodyne is a front for a group of red Lectroid aliens, all with the first name John, that landed in New Jersey in 1938, using the panic created by Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio play as cover.