What's your favorite scene from Spinal Tap?

[red dog 1]

I guess mine is when they get lost backstage.

[Inkfreak]

1. When they're at the party and they've got "the herpes"

[LiberalElite]

2. When the Stonehenge

prop is lowered to the stage and it's the size of a footstool.

[surrealAmerican]

9. This is my favorite too ...

... and the ensuing argument about how the drawing said inches, not feet.

[Arthur_Frain]

3. "But these go to eleven!"

Pointing out that his stack is louder than other amplifiers.

Yeah either that or the whole "D minor is the saddest key ever" conversation.

[hifiguy]

14. Marshall actually built a limited edition

Nigel Tufnel Custom amp head that goes to 11:



Nigel also endorsed a new Marshall in the early '90s



I knew a music store owner who turned down FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS for that Tufnel poster. He wanted to send it to Chris Guest and have him sign it.

[Arthur_Frain]

20. awesome

Thanks.

[NewJeffCT]

4. It's been so long since I saw the movie

that I only remember the highlights - the amps that go to 11, some of the songs, or the conversation about how their album cover was degrading to women,or how their show being canceled in Boston is no big deal because it's not a college town.

[red dog 1]

17. Some of the songs,

"Living in a Hellhole" is one

& my favorite.."Big Bottoms"

Big Bottoms, big bottoms,
Love handles, my girl's got 'em
Big bottoms drive me out of my mind
How can I leave this behind?"

[cyberswede]

5. "Shit sandwich"

[Initech]

11. "What? They can't print that!"

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Not just backstage, but in the basement!

They keep going around in circles as their "YAAAAH! ROCK AND ROLL!!" shouts get softer and softer!

[red dog 1]

15. And they keep ending up back at the same place, where the carpenter guy is,

the one who originally gave them the directions to the back door of the stage

"YAAAAH! ROCK AND ROLL!"

[Aristus]

7. "Lick my love pump."

That, and when Nigel and David are singing the first skiffle song they ever wrote together. It shows they actually do have some talent. Talent that tends to get lost in self-absorption and a need to play to the cheap seats.

[lame54]

8. the pods

[Arthur_Frain]

10. Oh, wait....

I remember my absolute fave now, it was...

"It's a fine line between stupid and clever"

Art imitating life!

[Initech]

12. "This collection of religious rock songs begs to answer the question:"

"On what day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day?"

[hifiguy]

13. "Don't even look at that guitar"

and "Don't worry about the Boston gigs - it's not much of a college town."

[red dog 1]

16. GUEST: "Don't touch that one"...REINER: "I wasn't going to touch it"

GUEST:"Don't even look at that one!"

[Pendrench]

18. "If I told them once, I told them a hundred times - put Spinal Tap first, and puppet show last"

[cemaphonic]

19. The DVD commentary is one of the best ones ever.

It's the three of them in character watching the movie 20 years later, and just starting to catch on that the whole point of the movie is to make fun of them.

[ailsagirl]

21. I have to agree with red dog1

When they were lost on their way to the stage, it was truly hilarious!

[Skittles]

22. at the end of the argument about the Stonehenge disaster

Derek asks the question, "Are we going to do Stonehenge tonight" and David erupts in frustration: *NO* we're not gonna fucking do Stonehenge tonight

[PassingFair]

23. Smell the glove!

Reminds me of some of the arguments here in DU on what is or is not "appropriate".



http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/237538/This-Is-Spinal-Tap-Movie-Clip-Smell-The-Glove.html

[mackerel]

24. Dozen of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not widely reported.