The Internet needs more Buckaroo Banzai references. Because wherever you go, there you are.

Yup. I nearly had this movie memorized when I was a child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWXuDNmO7j8

Peter Weller, playing Buckaroo Banzai, is late for his military-particle-physics-interdimensional-jet-car test because he's helping Jeff Goldblum's character with neurosurgery. Later that day he will go play lead guitar in an ensemble.

Scriptwriting gurus advise that your protagonist should have flaws and character progression. The writers of this movie disagree.