The Hangout Music Festival makes Weekend at Bernie's look like a weekend at a regular beach, with no music. The film Weekend at Bernie's was released in 1983, and some of the people reading this article were probably not old enough to watch the film to get that first joke, but for those that had cable in the '80s, it was one of the only films on television. It was the Justin Bieber of entertainment. Hangout Fest 2016 crowd. Photo by: Matthew McGuire In 2016 at Hangout Fest, I made several jokes referring to that old film, and didn't get it