The sidekick: Sam Elliot’s Wade Garrett is hand’s down the best individual performance and the best sidekick of the 80s for my money (with aplogies to Goose and Short-Round). We all know Sam Elliot is a bad-arse but I think most of us just believe that Wade Garrett is exactly how Sam Elliot really is in real life. Probably isn’t true, but it just feels like it must be.