Your Favourite Spinal Tap moments

[Pink Gregory]

"We're very popular in Bulgaria, and...what's that other garia?"

"Hungaria?"

"Hungaria, yeah"

Derek Smalls mouthing "I love you" during Listen (to what the Flower People say)

[benjitz]

"I'm not co-managing this band with anyone. Especially not someone who dresses like an Australian's nightmare."

Not that I had any idea about what an Australia's nightmare might entail, it somehow seems such an exact description.

We saw a thing where there were euphemisms for vomiting, for throwing up. Throwing a map was one. The Technicolor yawn, an Australian something or other, and we turned that into an Australian's nightmare.

From: https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/rob-reiner-how-we-made-this-spinal-tap

[gilbertharding]

From: https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/rob-reiner-how-we-made-this-spinal-tap

Oooh!

I'm sorry I asked - it's ruined it a bit. Thanks though.

[The Late Mike Morris]

"'The Gospel According to Spinal Tap' which prompts the question, on what day did God create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?"

[The Late Mike Morris]

Oooh!

I'm sorry I asked - it's ruined it a bit. Thanks though.

Was it just me that assumed it was meant as a slightly xenophobic joke about Australians supposedly lacking class?  As in, even an Australian would find her sleazy/tacky(?) 

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

That's what I took it to mean.

[gilbertharding]

That's what I took it to mean.

Me too. Of course there's nothing wrong with xenophobic jokes*, especially ones about Australians.

[neveragain]

Stone cold classic. The mockumentaries that followed in its wake never hit the same heights, did they? Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, etc. are all really good, but they felt too tightly scripted to me. The genius of Tap is that they filmed it like a documentary, and it really feels like one.

I agree they don't beat Tap, but they weren't scripted per se. Guest's films were made up of lots of filmed improv.

[QDRPHNC]

Fair enough. Too tightly structured, I would amend that to.

[Blumf]

How about The Comic Strip Presents... Bad News films?

[Jumblegraws]

Was it just me that assumed it was meant as a slightly xenophobic joke about Australians supposedly lacking class?  As in, even an Australian would find her sleazy/tacky(?) 

I always assumed there must have been some stereotype about Australians disliking garish clothes or something, even though this didn't match my experiences of Australian culture (Round the Twist and Pugwall)

[famethrowa]

Was it just me that assumed it was meant as a slightly xenophobic joke about Australians supposedly lacking class?  As in, even an Australian would find her sleazy/tacky(?) 

That's exactly it. Reminds me of the guitarist (Martin Taylor?) whose rider specified that "Australian women with sunglasses on top of their head and phrasing everything as a question" were barred from the backstage. It's just another form of racism!

[famethrowa]

How about The Comic Strip Presents... Bad News films?

Love the Bad News. Didn't they precede Tap by just a few months? But a different beast altogether, more obvious punchlines, and it's about a bunch of yobby no-talents who never get anywhere beyond The Flying Horse (of all places), rather than a once-successful and talented group who can still pull a crowd.

[LordMorgan]

Hello? Sir Denis!
Hi. How are you?
Oh...
Fuckin' old poofter!
But it's really not that offensive,
Sir Denis! Come on!

That phone conversation fucking slays me.
Also, in the same scene when Bobbi is explaining exactly just why the cover is offensive, Ian repeating what she is saying back to her in the tone of , yeah so what's your point here. Brilliant.

[badaids]

Love the Bad News. Didn't they precede Tap by just a few months? But a different beast altogether, more obvious punchlines, and it's about a bunch of yobby no-talents who never get anywhere beyond The Flying Horse (of all places), rather than a once-successful and talented group who can still pull a crowd.

It's got some amazing lines in it that would slot right into Tap.

« I could play the whole of stairway to heaven by the age of 16. Jimmy Page didn't even write it until he was 21 ».

[Pink Gregory]

Imogen all the people,
Imogen if you can

[famethrowa]

So many gooduns.

"says sausaGES!!"

"Ohh you didn't let the dog in for free did you??"

"Quo, Saxon.... just loads of great bands actually"

"Extra saucy lady"

[QDRPHNC]

Burning looting raping shooting
Burning looting raping shooting
Burning looting raping and a-shooting

[famethrowa]

Burning looting raping shooting
Burning looting raping shooting
Burning looting raping and a-shooting

you haaave GOT to look MEAN!

[badaids]

On the album:


« Flap flap flap flap flap flap flap »

[MrMrs]

I do and will always respond to even the slightest criticism with "I'm just as God made me, sir". 

Me too. The delivery is... Superb.

I also regularly use Australian's nightmare.

[kalowski]

It's got some amazing lines in it that would slot right into Tap.

« I could play the whole of stairway to heaven by the age of 16. Jimmy Page didn't even write it until he was 21 ».

The bit where Mayall is being followed by the camera and steps in the dog shit, takes his shoe off and put his stockinged foot back in the shit had me absolutely howling when I saw it. Perfect comic timing from Rik.
I think this was More Bad News.

[Catalogue Trousers]

The bit where Mayall is being followed by the camera and steps in the dog shit, takes his shoe off and put his stockinged foot back in the shit had me absolutely howling when I saw it. Perfect comic timing from Rik.
I think this was More Bad News.

'...Mum-mee!!!'

[famethrowa]

'...Mum-mee!!!'

"I nearly had a drugs overdose..." *flicks hair, adjusts wig*

[PowerButchi]

Boston not being a big college town anyway.

[Pink Gregory]

Spider enthusiastically drumming along with his massive kit to his hippie girlfriend strumming Skip to My Lou

[SweetPomPom]

Ian's expression when Bobbi drops her "Money talks, bullshit walks"

"Do you have any idea how much it will cost to dress up the entire band as animals?"

"Too much fucking perspective"

[McChesney Duntz]

"People should be envying us."

"I envy us."

[Catalogue Trousers]

'It's on Frilly Pink, y'want to make something of it?...' *notices cardboard standee of Barry Manilow, punches it* '...I hate Barry Manilow.'

'Well, that is a surprise!'

[neveragain]

We've slipped into a tandem quoting situation here, I don't know whether I'm quoting Harry Shearer or Nigel Planer.