This is Spinal Tap

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This Is Spinal Tap will be broadcast this evening on TVO (Ch.32) this evening at 2200. Enjoy.Roc

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Rock ON.

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Timmy.

[nonliberal]

But these go to eleven.

[sully777]

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It says in my kindergarten record: "shares well with others."

Gobbles? Timmay!

[skeeter]

But its not your job to be as confused as Nigel.

[sully777]

One of the best scenes

[raygun]

Now, class, I do wish to draw your attention to the fact that some of you are still in detention for what seems to be a very long time, m'Kay?

Now, class, here are some issues, like the ones we've already discussed in class - now Stan, m'Kay, that's bad (you should stop flicking guitar picks into the back of Shiela's head, m'Kay?, and Rupert, Rupert, Rupert(?), m'kay, would you please stop doing that with Shannon's breast, m'kay?, anyways class, it is hoped that the following suggestions/I>, m'kay, may help you to decide which scenes, conversations, and events offer the best support for the main points of the movie in your essay. Now class, m'kay?, I'm going to only say this once, an essay that is entirely composed of "Bite me" will be result in a failing grade, m'kay?

• Movies (and bands) such as Spinal Tap are often about social issues. So, does some social issue or current event seem to be the main topic of the movie?
• If so, how did creators of the movie bring it to your attention?
• Did something unexpected or unusual happen to one of the characters of the movie?
• What is the result of that unexpected or unusual occurance?
• Did any problems arise in the show?
• How were the problems resolved?
• Did any unusual terms, words, or labels get used?
• Is someone or some aspect of society or the media being criticized?
• If so, how?
• Conversely, do some characters defend certain things, people, or processes?
• Do any stereotypes appear? How and why?
• Were any actions repeated? What and how? By whom?

1. When Timmy's band plays at the Battle of the Bands, some people react negatively. They think that the people who are enjoying the band are "laughing" at Timmy. They seem unable to realize that handicapped people could make people feel other things besides pity or sarcasm.
2. In Stan's speech at the end of the episode he says that some people want to keep handicapped people safe at home, because then they don't have to deal with them. He says that that is what he liked about Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld, that Timmy was in your face and you had to deal with him.
3. Phil Collins ends up being the leader of the belief that Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld should not play. He says that people are laughing at them and that people with disabilities shouldn't be laughed at. However, Phil Collins is shown always carrying around the Oscar he won for a song, kissing it, etc... and as trying to break up Timmy's band. The creators of Southpark show the viewers that Phil Collins really loves attention and recognition and so, is saying that Timmy shouldn't play not because he cares about Timmy's feelings, but because he is jealous of the attention Timmy is receiving.

M'kay, now class, I wish to stress that you have exactly five minutes, and not ONE second longer, to submit your essays upon the end of the TV broadcast. NO, Kyle, you can NOT add total amount of commercial time onto the deadline. Now class, should any one of you fail this exam, well, then we shall ALL have the pleasure of meeting again.

[nonliberal]

Aw, man. Now I have to dig out my Spinal Tap albums.

[frankiep]

Marty DiBergi: David St. Hubbins... I must admit I've never heard anybody with that name.
David St. Hubbins: It's an unusual name, well, he was an unusual saint, he's not a very well known saint.
Marty DiBergi: Oh, there actually is, uh... there was a Saint Hubbins?
David St. Hubbins: That's right, yes.
Marty DiBergi: What was he the saint of?
David St. Hubbins: He was the patron saint of quality footwear.


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Marty DiBergi: It's very pretty.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, I've been fooling around with it for a few months.
Marty DiBergi: It's a bit of a departure from what you normally play.
Nigel Tufnel: It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why.
Marty DiBergi: It's very nice.
Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...
Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".

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Derek Smalls: We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.

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This post goes to 11.

[wimpycat]

Perfect timing!

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MARTY: If you were to have something written as your epitaph...
DAVID: “Here lies David St. Hubbins...and why not?”
MARTY: You feel that sums up your...your life?
DAVID: No, ‘s the first thing I could think of.
MARTY: Oh, I see...
DAVID: It doesn’t sum up anything, really.
MARTY: Yeah.

[alwaysconservative]

My hubby bought the DVD for my birthday, and I had a terrible cold when we watched it (me for the first time). When the movie came to the part about "Lick My Love Pump", I laughed so hard, I went into a coughing fit to end all coughing fits. My hubby thought he might have to do CPR on me.

[frankiep]

I still have to say that my favorite part is the part with the pods. Where each member is supposed to come out of these ridiculous individual pods at the beginning of a song, only one of the pods doesn't open. So the one guy stuck in his pod is forced to play the entire song in there. By the time the crew gets him out of the pod the song is over and the other members have gone back into their pods. When I watch that part it still makes me laugh so hard that it brings tears to my eyes.

[alwaysconservative]

That part IS funny! And I love the whole "exploding drummers" thing, too. And the mini Stonehenge part is hilarious!

[frankiep]

ROFL!

"The police said that it's one of those things best left unsolved"

[raygun]

Yeah, that is pretty funny. I forgot who it was, but I heard some live albumn where throughout the album you can hear a lone voice contstantly screaming: "DO STONEHENDGE!" Constantly throughout the concert.

So they did. They announced that it really wasn't their song but they'll do it as a tribute to the band Spinal Tap. Of course they do it exellantly.

After the song is over the crowd goes nuts, and then settles down to almost silence.

Next thing you can hear is the sam voice go: "Do a polka!"

[BJClinton]

mud flaps

[sully777]

Patron Saint of quality footwear...I swear I was thinking of your post today on my way to a customer and I burst out laughing.