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This is Spın̈al Tap

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This is Spın̈al Tap	comment	Marty DiBergi's This is SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap (1984) is one of the greatest rockumentaries of all time. It may not be about one of the legendary bands, but it's a more intimate portrait than would have been allowed if it were about a more well-known band. It really gets inside the head of these rockers, and has more heart than any of those other rock films which consist mostly of filler between the concert scenes.Not even Tennessee Williams could have written a better character study.For those of you who don't know SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap, they're a Hard Rock band that's been making some of the loudest heavy metal music around for years. Charismatic frontman David St. Hubbins, mesmerizing guitarist Nigel Tufnel, and rock-solid bassist Derek Smalls, not to mention a long line of drummers and keyboardists, are musical geniuses. You may not know the band, but you've certainly heard their big hits, like "Big Bottom" and "Stonehenge".The movie chronicles what may have been their darkest time — their infamous U.S. tour in the early 1980s. They nearly broke up, but they proved that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and they came back strong, despite all the mishaps and mismanagement.For those of you who truly believe in The Power of Rock, this will affirm it like nothing else.note Alright, so it's actually a Mockumentary spoofing the egos and mishaps of other rock stars, starring Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Rob Reiner, who also directed. It's become a cult classic, with the actors making appearances elsewhere in character, and three real-world in-character albums by the band. Billy Crystal has a very very brief cameo as a mime. Anjelica Huston, right at the beginning of her film career, appears in one scene as the woman who built the Stonehenge set in accordance with some careless directions drawn on a napkin. Fran Drescher, almost a full decade before The Nanny, appears as Bobbi Fleckman, a record company exec who criticizes the original cover of one of their albums.SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap's back catalogue includes (but is certainly not limited to): SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap Sings '(Listen To The) Flower People' and Other Favorites (1967) We Are All Flower People (1968) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody (1969) note A budget re-issue of We Are All Flower People without its title track. Silent But Deadly (live - 1969) Brainhammer (1970) Nerve Damage (1971) Blood To Let (1972) Intravenus de Milo (1974) The Sun Never Sweats (1975) Jap Habit (live - 1975) Bent For The Rent (1976) Tap Dancing (1976) Rock 'n' Roll Creation (1977) note Also known as The Gospel According to SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap. Shark Sandwich (1980) Smell The Glove (1982) Heavy Metal Memories (compilation - 1983) This Is SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap (soundtrack - 1984) Break Like The Wind (1992) Back From The Dead (2008)All but the final three are cough "out of print".Also see A Mighty Wind, another music documentary which features performances from various folk acts, including the Folksmen, who were frequently an opening act for SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap in the Eighties.note Ok, so the Folksmen are another Fake Band played by Guest, McKean and Shearer, and the joke was that they would simply change costumes.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The name "Marty DiBergi" is a Portmanteau of Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg and Federico Fellini. Reiner's portrayal of him is mainly a goof on Scorsese, who was a rather clueless interviewer in his 1978 Rockumentary about The Band, The Last Waltz. But the USS OORAL SEA cap is a specific Take That! to Spielberg, who had a conspicuous habit of wearing military or law enforcement ball caps on his movie sets. Nigel Tufnel is a loose parody of Eric Clapton, right down to his name. The writers arrived at the name "Nigel Tufnel" by combining a generic British first name ("Nigel" instead of "Eric") with the name of a posh London neighborhood ("Tufnell Park" instead of "Clapton Pond"), thus keeping the parallels relatively subtle. Lookswise, Nigel Tufnel is almost a dead ringer for Jeff Beck. David St. Hubbins sings lead vocal and plays rhythm guitar. Derek St. Holmes sang lead vocals and played rhythm guitar for Ted Nugent. Guest and McKean note in the Criterion DVD commentary that much of the inspiration for SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap came from the archetype of the long-lived British band whose star power has faded, but yet continued to ride their fame and grind out tours year after year, calling out Status Quo in particular. Spinal Tap is rather similar to The Bee Gees. Both Spinal Tap and The Bee Gees started out with a sort of folk-rock sound (compare "Listen to the Flower People" to early Bee Gees tracks like "I Started a Joke"). Both Spinal Tap and The Bee Gees radically remade their sound in the 1970s, the difference being that Spinal Tap went into metal while The Bee Gees went into disco. None other than Barry Gibb himself made this connection when The Bee Gees were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. The real life band Spinal Tap most closely resemble is Status Quo. Like Spinal Tap, Status Quo started out as something of a beat group, forming as The Scorpions in 1962. After a couple of name changes and a stint as a poppy psychedelia band they retooled to a hard rock direction with the album Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon in 1970. Faces also had some Real Life parallels to SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap. They likewise started out under a different name (The Small Faces) doing British Invasion pop, then had a huge hit with a Flower Power anthem ("Itchycoo Park"), with a major personnel change leading to a new name and a shift into Hard Rock. Faces fit all the British Rockstar stereotypes, and a headscratching management decision had them play an Air Force base for their first gig under their new name. Also, compare SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap's "Big Bottom" to the Faces' "Silicone Grown". Derek Smalls' accent and penchant for nonsensical statements is similar to Ringo Starr. Some of his look and stage mannerisms are similar to Mike Levine, bass player for Canadian power trio, Triumph. The record company, Polymer Records, is an obvious reference to Polydor. It has had a reputation of short-changing artists, but the word polymer itself is the chemical name for plastics, implying "a cheap plastic imitation". Ian Faith has some parallels with Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant, which can be seen in comparison with The Song Remains the Same, certainly in terms of his penchant for occasional violence and his berating of a hotel desk clerk, but in his generally upper-class, can-do manner he more resembles both Brian Epstein, the longest-serving manager of The Beatles, and Kit Lambert, one-time co-manager of The Who.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Mick Shrimpton says he literally lives for the three things and that if he gets kicked out of the band, sex and drugs will be enough for him to scrape by on. Viv Savage (on his epitaph): Have a good time all the time.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual / Worldbuilding: The creators put together an extensive backstory for the band before filming, which is a big reason why they were so easy to Defictionalize. For example, one of the stage hands is named Moke, but you wouldn't know that without knowledge of expanded materials (such as the DVD Commentary).
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: Quite a few of them. For one, DiBergi was impressed with the band's punctuality.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One/The Stoic: Compared to Nigel and David's egotistical flouncing, Derek is incredibly humble, quiet and unflappable.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: "Big Bottom" seems at first to be just another Stuffy Old Song About the Buttocks, but notice that the song features three bass players. In other words, it has a huge low end. To take this further, it also has the drummer pounding away on the low toms and the keys playing in the lower octaves.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_20952a1	type	Product Displacement
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_20952a1	comment	Product Displacement: Marty's cap in the film says "USS OORAL SEA". This is because the Navy would not allow the film to feature the USS Coral Sea's name. A quick adjustment to the cap and it was fixed. The MGM commentary makes fun of it, pondering where the USS Ooral Sea was located.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: The most hurtful thing ever addressed to the band is radio DJ Johnny Q playing one of their early songs ("Cups and Cakes") as The Thamesmen, then saying they became SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap — and are in the "Where Are They Now?" file. note This happens in the same city they are playing a concert in that night.In the MGM DVD commentary, David sighs that that statement still hurts, while Derek dismissively notes Johnny Q is now doing weather reports.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Ian Faith, the manager/surrogate guardian who picks up the pieces and consistently puts up with the band's stupidity and egocentricity, he's pretty much the only reason SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap is able to function on their tour, even with his Never My Fault personality. When he finally quits, the band quickly falls apart. Indeed, the only reason the band gets back together is due to him taking notice of the band's success in Japan. He does have some bizarre affectations (such as his cricket bat) but given they are more idiosyncrasies associated with the rock scene, it's hard to blame him. Bobbi Flekman to a degree. Every second when dealing with the band, she's barely repressing the urge to roll her eyes. Marty DiBergi as well. He manages to stay detached and professional while dealing with people whom he clearly knows are almost completely detached from reality. David is the only band member who has any brief flickers of self-awareness. Derek comes off as this to a lesser degree, in part due to being quiet, stoic and humble compared to David and Nigel.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_243c8078	type	Spontaneous Human Combustion
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_243c8078	comment	Spontaneous Human Combustion: The fate of three of the band's drummers—one of whom is said to have gone up in "a flash of green light," leaving "a little green globule" on his drum seat, and two more who explode on the band's tour of Japan. In the DVD commentary, the band is happy DiBergi caught it on film, for insurance money's sake.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Nigel obviously has a bit of an obsession with David - whether it's just a case of serious bromance or an actual romantic crush - and is rather devastated when David's girlfriend comes to join the tour. However, David simply doesn't see it, and is mystified as to why Nigel is constantly giving her hate-filled glares and trying to make fun of her at every opportunity (although Jeanine does seem to have an inkling). Then again, considering how much chaos and trouble she causes on her own, Nigel's completely justified in not liking her regardless of how he feels about David.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_29c480a3	type	Good News, Bad News
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_29c480a3	comment	Good News, Bad News: Invoked in the DVD Commentary. Nigel complains that Ian never had any good news for the band. David states that Ian told him that they already had good news: they're rock 'n' roll stars. The bad news is everything else.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Polymer Records = Polydor Records.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_2e22f7d4	type	Minimalistic Cover Art
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_2e22f7d4	comment	Minimalistic Cover Art: The released cover of "Smell The Glove", a completely black record sleeve; the joke was later repeated for the film's soundtrack album.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_2e6b9e45	type	Concert Film
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_2e6b9e45	comment	Concert Film: Parts of the film are live concerts.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3202a9b0	type	Money Song
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3202a9b0	comment	Money Song: "Gimme Some Money" is a gold-digging little number, with lyrics like "Your face is OK / But your purse is too tight." It's an Affectionate Parody of "Money (That's What I Want)", best known to modern audiences in its cover version by The Beatles, although it was originally a Motown number. The 90s 'Break Like The Wind' album has a number called 'Cash On Delivery'.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_34f6774c	type	Concept Album
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_34f6774c	comment	Concept Album: Parodied multiple times, once with an album of "religious rock psalms" inspired by the Book of Genesis, and again with the band's ongoing work on a "rock opera inspired by the life of Jack the Ripper", Saucy Jack.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap has genuine talent, but their work is incredibly generic, and their music style is whatever is popular at the moment. Moreover, they waste their talent on petty squabbles, chase for popularity and other low-minded minutia.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: To a British ear, Harry Shearer's most of the time. McKean's strays into Australian on occasion (listen to how he says "purpose") and slips into his own American accent when he pronounces "Wisconsin". Chris Guest's accent is pretty flawless — he's British-American of course, and is actually a hereditary peer (The 5th Baron Haden-Guest) on his father's side. Actually invoked with Shearer, as he based the character of Derek Smalls on English rockers who travelled so frequently between the UK and US that they ended up with a mid-atlantic accent, such as Jon Anderson and David Coverdale.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: Parodied with one of the band's previous hits, "(Listen to the) Flower People", which is done in the style of psychedelic pop bands of the time like Jefferson Airplane, though their style is closer to The Moody Blues. Also, "Gimme Some Money", is a drop dead parody of Beatlesque pop and of The Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance, right down to their bow at the end. (As mentioned above, the specific song most closely being parodied is "Money (That's What I Want)".) It's mentioned that David and Nigel started out in a skiffle group, before leaving to form Spinal Tap. This is a reference to The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Stuart Sutcliffe started out in a skiffle band before they changed styles and band names, becoming what we know as the Beatles. Then there's "Cups and Cakes" in the style of Peter and Gordonâ€™s "Sunday for Tea."
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_39297f53	type	Bigger Is Better
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_39297f53	comment	Bigger Is Better: In a Deleted Scene, Nigel and David privately tell Derek he doesn't have enough "presence" in his tights on stage, leading to the Gag Penis incident below.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: One former drummer is said to have perished in "a bizarre gardening accident". Another former drummer appears to have somehow choked on someone else's vomit. Nigel and David are shown with matching cold sores early in the movie, without any explanation. A deleted scene reveals that SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap's opening band for the tour has a female singer with a cold sore.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3e2a5fe3	type	The Rock Star
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3e2a5fe3	comment	The Rock Star: Three of them, in fact, though more in their own heads than in reality.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3e7df515	type	British Rockstar
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3e7df515	comment	British Rock Star: The band is made up of lads from England, with Jagger/Richards-esque Kentish/South East London accents, questionable fashion sense, and a love of fun. Nigel Tufnel, in addition to bearing a physical resemblance to Jeff Beck, also sounds a lot like him.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The revelation that the band is still popular in Japan.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_40bb59d0	comment	Ian. He never takes any blame for the band's steady decline and losing gigs and hotel rooms (such as Boston, which he quips "is not a big college town"note There are over twenty colleges and universities in Boston alone. More if, like most people, you include Cambridge, which, among others, brings such famous institutions as Harvard and MIT into the mix. It's over thirty if you include the first couple of towns outside the city, within the "128 corridor". This is the "not a big college town"). He also refuses to admit he should have noticed that the napkin said 18" (inches) and not 18' (feet).
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Tap is still popular in Japan! But once again they have to put all their plans for the future on hold.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The song lyrics are deliberately silly, though the songs themselves can be quite catchy. Enforced hard with "Jazz Odyssey", which even to fans of 70s jazz-fusion is absolutely terrible, and only goes to shows why David isn't the lead guitarist. Or why Derek Smalls doesn't write songs.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: After Ian leaves after the disastrous Stonehenge set.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_44bd31e2	comment	Trope Codifier: This film was shot in 1982, one year before Quiet Riot released Metal Health, the first best-selling album to be universally referred to as "metal." As a result, This Is SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap can be credited with popularizing a number of metal tropes, particularly Heavy Mithril and Rock Me, Asmodeus!
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten / Comically Missing the Point: Derek Small's main hat.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_49b3ebe5	type	Special Effect Failure
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_49b3ebe5	comment	Special Effect Failure: Happens a few times In-Universe. The Stonehenge monolith is 1/12 its intended size and in serious danger of being knocked over by a dwarf.invoked The embryonic pod that freezes shut, trapping Derek Smalls during the band's performance of "Rock and Roll Creation". Then it finally opens, just as the song ends, and he rushes out, only to have to get back in the pod for the ending - whereupon it (predictably) closes on his arm just as he tries to get back inside.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: Since the invention of DNA profiling in the 90s, you in fact, can "dust for vomit" now.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Played for Laughs (obviously) in the "Stonehenge" musical number. In his introduction to the song, Nigel refers to the Druids as "a very strange race of people", describing them as if they were early inhabitants of the British Isles. The Celts were early inhabitants of the British Isles; the Druids were just the educated priest class in Celtic society (they were a social and professional caste, not a culture). The monument predates their presence in England by millennia. He is right, however, that "no one knows who they were, or what they were doin'": we know very little about the Ancient Celts or the druids (the only written records are Roman, and many of them are unreliable propaganda), and we know even less about the actual builders of Stonehenge. Nigel also refers to Stonehenge as "hewn into the living rock", which isn't accurate either, even if it sounds cool. Stonehenge is made from discrete pieces of rock that were quarried elsewhere and assembled where they currently sit, whereas architecture "hewn into the living rock" is carved directly into existing rock formations.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_57a937f1	type	HeÃ¤vy MÃ«tal Ãœmlaut
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_57a937f1	comment	HeÃ¤vy MÃ«tal Ãœmlaut: Parodied: the umlaut goes over the N, producing a letter that is only used in Jacaltec (a Mayan dialect), Malagasy, and Cape Verdean Creole. Inverted with the dotless "i", which occurs in Turkish. For context, the letter N with an umlaut above it is pronounced as 'ng', indicating one should be grunting the band's name.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: Just watch the way Nigel handles the neck of his guitar, particularly around David.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: All of the band are capable of playing their instruments well and it's clear they possess musical talent. All of the band are also morons.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_5c26386e	type	City Shout Outs
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_5c26386e	comment	City Shout Outs: Parodied - as the band gets lost behind the stage in Chicago, one of the band members yells "Hello, Cleveland!"
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_5f70322e	type	Public Domain Soundtrack
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_5f70322e	comment	Public Domain Soundtrack: SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap has the habit of interjecting classical music in their songs, such as Pachelbel's Canon and Eine Kleine Nacht Musik. On the MGM commentary, Nigel claims he was always worried they'd get sued for using Pachelbel's Canon, but had to be reminded that Pachelbel died a long, long time ago.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_5fddf001	type	Germans Love David Hasselhoff
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_5fddf001	comment	Germans Love David Hasselhoff: An In-Universe example, as SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap's latest album unexpectedly proves to be very successful in Japan, leading to a much more successful tour in that country (where metal is very popular in real life). This trope is actually sometimes called "Big in Japan" in the music industry, chiefly thanks to Cheap Trick.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6112a91d	type	Unit Confusion
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6112a91d	comment	Unit Confusion: Nigel draws a sketch of Stonehenge with measurements he wants for the model. Unfortunately, he writes it in inches instead of feet, leaving the band with a Stonehenge prop that is dwarfed by a pair of dwarfs.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_634a768	type	Dead Man Walking
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_634a768	comment	Dead Man Walking: Given the band's unfortunate history with drummers, Mick Shrimpton realizes he's likely one of these. Late in the movie he explodes on stage during a performance. For Break Like the Wind, the band auditioned a few Real Life rock drummers. One was dismissed for wearing protective gear, saying he had too much "fear".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Subverted with Derek Smalls. In the MGM commentary, David is amused at the fact that Derek wrapped the zucchini in aluminum foil.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_67267414	type	Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_67267414	comment	Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: "Big Bottom" is a parody of such songs.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_687c8839	type	Mean Character, Nice Actor
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_687c8839	comment	Mean Character, Nice Actor: Of a sort, at least. On stage, Derek Smalls very heavily plays up the bestial, savage metal rock star image, but off stage he's very quiet, calm and meek. His bandmates invert this, being less 'extreme' on stage than Derek but much more egotistical and tantrum-prone off stage.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Nigel Tufnel vs. the too-small sandwich bread, which he proclaims a "complete catastrophe".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6bae97c8	type	The Roadie
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6bae97c8	comment	The Roadie: When there is a goof on stage (prop failure, or a fancy move has Gone Horribly Wrong), the stage crew tries valiantly to fix it.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A spinal tap is one of the most painful procedures any human can have. It's doubtful the band intended that to be a commentary on their own music.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: The released cover of "Smell The Glove" gets played up as this in a scene. David doesn't buy it.invoked By the time of the 2000 DVD commentary, David had brought himself to agree that Ian's argument for the black cover 'looking like death' ("Death sells") was accurate. According to the DVD Commentary, Joe "Mama" Besser (the drummer who replaces Mick after he explodes on stage in Japan) left the band because he couldn't stand "this 4/4 shit".invoked
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Joe "Mama" Besser, as in "Yo' mama".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6d7bc0f	type	Fake Band
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_6d7bc0f	comment	Fake Band: SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap was not an actual band at the time of the film's creation, though it has been Defictionalized.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_72e0023f	comment	Actually invoked with Shearer, as he based the character of Derek Smalls on English rockers who travelled so frequently between the UK and US that they ended up with a mid-atlantic accent, such as Jon Anderson and David Coverdale.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_740ff9d0	type	Metal Detector Checkpoint
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_740ff9d0	comment	Metal Detector Checkpoint: A hilarious example when Derek Smalls sets off an airport metal detector because he has a foil-wrapped zucchini tucked in his pants.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_741e8e7	type	The Cast Showoff
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_741e8e7	comment	The Cast Show Off: All of the music was written and performed by the cast members, all of whom are highly-competent musicians.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs (obviously) in the "Stonehenge" musical number. In his introduction to the song, Nigel refers to the Druids as "a very strange race of people", describing them as if they were early inhabitants of the British Isles. The Celts were early inhabitants of the British Isles; the Druids were just the educated priest class in Celtic society (they were a social and professional caste, not a culture). The monument predates their presence in England by millennia. He is right, however, that "no one knows who they were, or what they were doin'": we know very little about the Ancient Celts or the druids (the only written records are Roman, and many of them are unreliable propaganda), and we know even less about the actual builders of Stonehenge.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_763ac306	type	Mandatory Unretirement
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_763ac306	comment	Mandatory Unretirement: A real-world example, as Guest, McKean and Shearer have to periodically bring out the SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap characters - either through a one-off concert appearance (such as their appearance at the 2009 Glastonbury festival), a full concert tour, a TV appearance (such as Nigel's interview on Stonehenge for the National Geographic Channel), a new video/DVD release, etc. - or the rights to the characters revert from them back to the film's holding company.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_764ba6ce	type	Hostility on the Set
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_764ba6ce	comment	Hostility on the Set: In-Universe: The worse things get, the more the band quarrels with Ian, until Nigel leaves.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: The entire cast does this. The humor is derived from everyone playing the most ridiculous situations completely straight.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: Ian keeps a cricket bat around for use during "management disputes". In a deleted scene, Ian uses the cricket bat to strangle a geeky, irritating concert promoter - which is shown briefly in the final film's "cricket bat" montage. At the end of the film, Ian is palming his cricket bat, staring menacingly down at Jeanine.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: A variation. David states Jeanine is not his wife. According to David, they did get married, but divorced sometime in 2000 ("When the millenium changed, so did she.")
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_7d561d58	type	Too Awesome to Use
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_7d561d58	comment	Too Awesome to Use: Nigel tells DiBergi that the most treasured guitar in his collection "can never be played" (or touched, or pointed to, or looked at), yet he brings it on tour. Truth in Television: That particular instrument is a Fender VI, a six-string bass guitar, which was originally produced only between 1961 and 1975, original mint-condition models of which would indeed be Too Awesome to Use in real life. Moreover, Tufnel's bass guitar is one of only two instruments which exist in the Sea Foam Green colour. Fender and Squier have since reissued the VI, partly because of the sheer mystique of the original instrument. Also Tufnel's '59 Gibson Les Paul, which costs slightly more today than an Amati violin.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_7efe2c19	comment	The name "Marty DiBergi" is a Portmanteau of Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg and Federico Fellini. Reiner's portrayal of him is mainly a goof on Scorsese, who was a rather clueless interviewer in his 1978 Rockumentary about The Band, The Last Waltz. But the USS OORAL SEA cap is a specific Take That! to Spielberg, who had a conspicuous habit of wearing military or law enforcement ball caps on his movie sets.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: The band's limo driver Tommy is a Frank Sinatra fan. The band don't share his enthusiasm.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: The entire band is fading into this, until they tour in Japan.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: A depressing undertone of the movie is that Hubbins and Tufnel are genuinely talented composers and musicians, but squander their talents due to their immaturity and infatuation with the "rock star" life. One scene in particular has Nigel showing the director his latest piece, a beautiful piano instrumental, citing influence from a range of classical composers. He calls it "Lick My Love Pump."
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: David and Nigel. Derek describes their complementary but conflicting personalities and musical instincts as "fire and ice", with him being somewhere in the middle, "sort of like lukewarm water".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The film has a lot of this, but one of the more mind-spinning examples has to do with Nigel's piano piece, "Lick My Love Pump". Although Nigel's claims to be influenced by "Mozart and Bach" aren't really borne out by the piece itself (which doesn't sound much like either of them), Mozart did write a three-part canon called Leck mich im Arsch (Ger., "Lick me in the arse".)note Actually, Mozart might not have written the music, but he definitely wrote the text.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: "We'd love to chat, but we gotta sit in the lobby and wait for the limo."
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The band's songs from The '60s. On the soundtrack album, the drums on "Gimme Some Money" are panned all the way to the left, similar to the extreme stereo separation of many recordings in the 1960s.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_943b920b	type	Electrified Bathtub
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_943b920b	comment	Electrified Bathtub: Invoked in a scene in which Mick Shrimpton is interviewed while taking a bath with a plugged in toaster sitting on the lip of the tub.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_973d220f	comment	Ian Faith, the manager/surrogate guardian who picks up the pieces and consistently puts up with the band's stupidity and egocentricity, he's pretty much the only reason SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap is able to function on their tour, even with his Never My Fault personality. When he finally quits, the band quickly falls apart. Indeed, the only reason the band gets back together is due to him taking notice of the band's success in Japan. He does have some bizarre affectations (such as his cricket bat) but given they are more idiosyncrasies associated with the rock scene, it's hard to blame him.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: In the restaurant scene, seeing Nigel write 18" on the napkin now that you know to look for it.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_99f2522e	type	Hit Me, Dammit!
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_99f2522e	comment	Hit Me, Dammit!: After a poor showing at a record signing, Artie Fufkin demands this of the band. ("I'm not asking you, I'm telling you! Kick my ass!")
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: In-Universe. The original cover of "Smell The Glove".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Bobbi argues that what's on an album cover has nothing to do with sales, namedropping The Beatles The White Album as an example. Then comes Tap's all-black album.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: Perhaps partially due to the fact that the Mockumentary was a little-known genre at the time, many people assumed that the film is a real documentary, apparently missing all the talk about Spontaneous Human Combustion.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: After studio executives expressed concern about the story's episodic structure, Jeanine was added as a character specifically to give the film some sort of loose narrative arc.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Nigel's guitar solo. Not only is it horrible, but he even strums his guitar with a violin. The gag is extended when he pauses to retune the violin.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a1b83879	type	Yoko Oh No
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a1b83879	comment	Yoko Oh No: Jeanine Pettibone has shades of both Yoko Ono herself and Linda McCartney. She's inseparable with David to the point that she basically becomes his spokesperson in the band's affairs, which frustrates everyone else. Then after Ian Faith quits she takes over as manager and does such a piss-poor job that Nigel quits and the band is basically on life support as the tour hits its final leg. And she actually starts joining them onstage as well, playing tambourine and singing.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a33b90b2	type	Improv
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a33b90b2	comment	Improv: The vast majority of the dialogue in the movie was improvised. Basically, the cast were given extensive back-stories and character sketches, and turned loose in front of the camera. Reiner shot several hours of footage, and distilled the best parts down into the movie. A couple hours of additional footage were included on the DVD releases, while quite a bit more circulates on a bootleg three-VHS set. This basic set-up was used by Christopher Guest to make his own improvised mockumentaries, including Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration and used many of the original cast members. As examples, the sequence when the band comments on reviews of previous albums (including the rather terse review of Shark Sandwich) and the scene where David & Nigel are asked about the first song they ever wrote, "All The Way Home", are improvised by Guest and McKean, prompted by the questions coming from Reiner.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Why would a British band be confused by the 24 hour clock? Well, this is SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap we're talking about.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a70f9aba	type	Accentuate the Negative
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: The band's complaint of the film itself in the MGM Commentary, claiming Marty DiBergi edited the film to make them seem worse, saying, "Show the plane landing". They do have a point; for instance, the signing was depicted as no one showing up, but a Deleted Scene did have one fan showing up, though that only made it worse when the band's autographs can't be seen on the all black cover. David snarks that Marty could have cut the radio interruption of the climax right out of the film, but didn't. invoked
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a8559a9f	comment	For Break Like the Wind, the band auditioned a few Real Life rock drummers. One was dismissed for wearing protective gear, saying he had too much "fear".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a8702292	type	Barbershop Quartets Are Funny
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a8702292	comment	Barbershop Quartets Are Funny: Defied when David said that he didn't like how their singing at Elvis Presley's grave sounds like "fucking barbershop, barbershop raga." They just can't sing "Heartbreak Hotel" that well.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a9f392fd	type	Pilot Movie
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_a9f392fd	comment	Pilot Movie: When they were given seed money to pitch the film, the cast (being unsure how to put the style of the movie across) instead of filming scenes or developing production concepts, shot a complete twenty-minute film, SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap: The Last Tour, as their 'pitch' instead. Some sequences, such as the performance of "Gimme Some Money" are lifted from the original short film. It appears only on Criterion's long out-of-print pressing of the DVD, not on MGM's more recent pressing.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ab17e948	type	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ab17e948	comment	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Nigel's guitars. Don't even look too long at them.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ab2f3f27	type	Heavy Meta
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ab2f3f27	comment	Heavy Meta: Parodied with the song "Heavy Duty (Rock And Roll)".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap's music is supposed to be terrible, as evidenced by their reviews ("Shit sandwich"), but while they are incredibly generic and the lyrics are repressed and juvenile, the music itself is quite catchy. Of course, part of the problem is the misapplied skills, such as Nigel writing a classical piece and calling it "Lick My Love Pump".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b333f02e	type	Achilles in His Tent
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b333f02e	comment	Achilles in His Tent: Due to worsening circumstances on the tour, and increasing personality conflict with David's girlfriend Jeanine, Nigel leaves the band in the middle of the show; only to return during the band's final performance to reunite them for a tour of Japan.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Granted, Tap's drummers tend to die at an incredible pace, but Mick is shown in one scene in a filled bathtub with a plugged in toaster on the side of the tub.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: A montage example, at the beginning when teenaged fans at a SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap concert are being interviewed. An Ambiguously Brown male fan tells the interviewer that "Heavy metal's deep; you get stuff out of it." He is followed a few seconds later by a blonde girl who remarks that she likes "the way they dress, the leather."
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The limo driver had a lot of scenes cut, such as sharing a hot tub with the band.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ba26aa0d	type	Teeny Weenie
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Derek's problem, according to Derek and Nigel in a Deleted Scene, not having enough "presence" on stage, which leads to the security point incident.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_bab8a625	type	Heavy Metal
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_bab8a625	comment	Heavy Metal: The band's current phase in the movie is a parody of then popular "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" bands like Iron Maiden.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Nigel clearly enjoys the attention he gets from fangirls and has been shown with women in the movie, but there are numerous hints he may also harbor feelings for David.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: During the introductory performance of "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You", both David and Nigel are credited as playing "lead guitar", but aside from the brief period in which Nigel quits the band, David is only ever seen playing rhythm guitar. Oddly enough, the intro sequence itself underscores this: during David's credit, he's shown hacking away at power chords, whereas Nigel immediately begins soloing when the camera cuts to him for his moment in the spotlight.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The band going through many drummers was possibly inspired by The Grateful Dead's "curse" on keyboard players. The band experiencing a revival of its fortunes in Japan is a Shout Out to Cheap Trick, whose 1979 live album Cheap Trick at Budokan was originally intended to be released only in Japan but which became their best-selling album by far. The argument in the studio was also inspired by The Troggs Tapes, a bootleg of Studio Chatter by The Troggs arguing over a song, with plenty of profanity. Nigel's use of a violin in his over-the-top guitar solo is a reference to Jimmy Page's use of a violin bow on the Led Zeppelin classic "Dazed and Confused". Nigel takes it to another level when he pauses to retune the violin. The all-black cover of Smell the Glove is an obvious reference to The White Album by The Beatles, although the latter did actually have the band's name embossed on the cover, as well as a unique serial number for every copy in the original print run.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: All of the band, but specifically in the order of David, Derek and finally Nigel, who is off with the fairies pretty much every waking moment. There's also Jeanine, who is an astrology freak.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_cb44433f	type	The Band Minus the Face
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_cb44433f	comment	The Band Minus the Face: In-Universe: "Spinal Tap Mark II", performing mostly long jazz-blues jams, after Nigel leaves.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: As much as the band might try to convince themselves otherwise, these days have clearly passed for SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap at least outside of Japan. The venues are getting smaller and are selling fewer tickets, only one person comes to get their new album autographed (with the clear implication that it's also not selling well), and overall the general vibe is that SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap are well past their prime. Later works involving the band show they've made at least something of a comeback.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Marty DiBergi, at the introduction of the movie: "I remember being knocked out by their, their exuberance, their raw power... and their punctuality."
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The group's main hat, usually out of desperation for attention. One of the songs on the film's soundtrack album is "Christmas With the Devil", and it is as sacrilegious as it can possibly be.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After being pushed too far by David and Janine following the disastrous Stonehenge performance, Ian tells her and the rest of the band to go fuck themselves and promptly quits. Nigel follows suit during the gig at the air force base after being frustrated by the sound interference and by extension the lousy gigs. Janine also seemed to have a hand in his irritation
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_da76ae0b	type	Dead End Job
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_da76ae0b	comment	Dead End Job: Drumming for the band, of course! It's a running gag that the band's drummers keep dying in improbable ways, to the point that when their keyboard player dies, they find out that he used to be a drummer. Although was not a scene from the actual movie.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dabc7a46	comment	Sixth Ranger: In the DVD Commentary, Tap claim Marty wanted to be "the sixth Tap". (It's actually a reference to a Deleted Scene in which Marty did join Tap on stage.)
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: All over the place, but the most prominent example is a delicate piano piece Nigel writes called "Lick My Love Pump."
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dbfe8427	type	Intercourse with You
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dbfe8427	comment	Intercourse with You: "Sex Farm", "Big Bottom"... actually a lot of their songs count as this. But that's metal for you.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dc26326	type	Two Decades Behind
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_dc26326	comment	Two Decades Behind: In-universe, Tap's style is best defined as "whatever was popular when we were writing this", usually a trend or two behind. They've managed to stay at least somewhat popular pretty much since Rock and Roll became a thing.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid:
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: DiBergi and Ian call out the band members for living in an adolescent fantasy world despite pushing 40. David remarks, "Can't take him anywhere," to Nigel's insistence on keeping his gum on his finger in a restaurant.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: The whole band, but Nigel in particular, which even gets Lampshaded.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: The hotel manager that Ian calls "a twisted old fruit". Sir Denis Eton-Hogg. During the end credits, Ian reveals Sir Denis was knighted for Hoggwood, a summer camp for pale young boys. The band described it as "a pervert's paradise" in The Spinal Tap Reunion. In the DVD Commentary, Derek insisted Sir Denis was dead:
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e545d293	type	Narm
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_e545d293	comment	Narm: Invoked in-universe with the Stonehenge scene. Jeanine even says that the audience broke down in laughter over it.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ef255df8	type	High Turnover Rate
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ef255df8	comment	High Turnover Rate: The band has gone through quite a number of drummers.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Fred Willard, from a meta-standpoint, as he'd have larger roles in Guest's subsequent mockumentaries.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Some of the most memorable scenes have SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap performing songs that aren't strictly heavy metal but that owe their existence to subgenres of rock music that strongly influenced metal, including rockabilly ("Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight") and rhythm-and-blues ("Big Bottom").
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f37c192	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f37c192	comment	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Nigel's inability to remember how to write measurements in the imperial system results in a stage prop of Stonehenge smaller than the dwarfs they've hired to dance around it. (Specifically, he confuses the abbreviations for feet — an apostrophe — and inches — two apostrophes.)
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f5fe65a3	type	Heavy Mithril
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f5fe65a3	comment	Heavy Mithril: Parodied with "Stonehenge".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The band playing before ever smaller crowds in ever lamer venues as the tour goes along. By the time they reach California, they're performing before only a couple dozen people at an amusement parknote Supposedly in Stockton, but actually filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain. They're billed after a touring company of The Wiz and a puppet show. In the MGM commentary, David still has no idea what The Wiz is. On the DVD commentary, every other scene is "the turning point". Also, them claiming every third person is now dead.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fb3ac5b7	type	Astrologer
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fb3ac5b7	comment	Astrologer: Played for laughs on Jeanine. She knits a garish Saturn shirt for David, then suggests a Zodiac-themed concert with each band member wearing animal masks based on their sign.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Jeanine believes herself to be this. In reality she isn't terribly good at it, and tends to create as many (if not more) problems as she solves.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: After the Stonehenge debacle: And of course:
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight". On the "Back From The Dead" DVD, David explains that another band had done a song titled "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You," hence the necessity of an extra "Tonight".
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fc451ba4	type	Follow the Leader
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fc451ba4	comment	Follow the Leader: invokedThroughout their history, SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap seem to be in the habit of jumping on the bandwagon for whatever the latest musical trends are, such as The British Invasion, psychedelic folk-rock and, most recently, glam metal. The film itself follows Meet the Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a Mockumentary about an Expy of The Beatles.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Early in the film, it's revealed that SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap's drummers die in mysterious ways, including once by Spontaneous Human Combustion. In the epilogue, the drummer explodes.note In the MGM commentary, the band admits they're glad Marty captured it on film for the insurance people. Also early on, Nigel shows off a wireless guitar of his to DiBergi. It makes another appearance later on when Nigel plays it during a crappy gig on an Airforce base and it suddenly starts picking up military radio chatter mid-concert. Needless to say the already pissed-off Nigel doesn't take it well. It happens during the climax; on the MGM Commentary, a defeated David says they should have gone hard-wire. The infamous Stonehenge episode receives a call back nearly eight years later; In The Return of SpÄ±nÌˆal Tap, a DVD covering their touring of new album Break Like The Wind, they get a properly sized Stonehenge prop... which is naturally too big for them to get inside the venue.
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This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ff9e9596	type	DVD Commentary
This is Spın̈al Tap / int_ff9e9596	comment	According to the DVD Commentary, Joe "Mama" Besser (the drummer who replaces Mick after he explodes on stage in Japan) left the band because he couldn't stand "this 4/4 shit".invoked
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