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Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, R.J. Parnell, Harry Shearer, Spinal Tap, and David Kaff in This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

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This Is Spinal Tap

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Edited into

    • "The Greatest" 100 Most Metal Moments (TV Episode 2004)

    • Spinal Tap Goes to 20 (TV Movie 2004)

Featured in

    • "At the Movies" Police Academy/Children of the Corn/This Is Spinal Tap/Love Letters (TV Episode 1984)

      Reviewed.
    • "VH1 Presents the 70's" Taking Care of Business (TV Episode 1996)

      Clips shown
    • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (TV Special 2000)

      This Is Spinal Tap is #29.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Nurse Betty/Turn it Up/The Way of the Gun/The Watcher/Dark Days (TV Episode 2000)

      The Video Pick of the Week.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" DVD Bells & Whistles (TV Episode 2000)

      A clip is shown.

Followed by

    • Spinal Tap II (2025)

Referenced in

    • "Saturday Night Live" Barry Bostwick/Spinal Tap (TV Episode 1984)

      Barry Bostwick interviews Spinal Tap in a filmed segement.
    • "Saturday Night Live" Michael McKean/Chaka Khan/The Folksmen (TV Episode 1984)

      Title mentioned by Michael McKean during his monologue.
    • The Sure Thing (1985)

      Poster on Gib's closet door. Also from director Rob Reiner.
    • "At the Movies" The Aviator/Mask/Sylvester (TV Episode 1985)

      Referenced during the X-Ray segment about Albert Brooks.
    • Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started - The Billy Crystal Special (TV Special 1986)

      rob reiner mentions spinal tap in the opening of this show

References

    • Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

    • I Love Lucy (TV Series 1951–1957)

    • This Is Cinerama (1952)

    • The Gumby Show (TV Series 1956–1969)

    • Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

Spin-off

    • Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead (Video 2009)

Spin-off from

    • The T.V. Show (TV Special 1979)

Spoofed in

    • The Compleat Al (Video 1985)

      The mockumentary format of this movie.
    • "Good Eats" The Remains of the Bird (TV Episode 2000)

      Paul, the toaster enthusiast, borrows an idea from the movie when he creates a toaster "that goes to eleven!"
    • Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game 2001)

      The radio commercial for Dormatron mentions turning it up to 11.
    • "Home Movies" Pizza Club (TV Episode 2002)

      Mockumentary is parodied, including the "turn it up to 11" bit.
    • The Country Bears (2002)

      In the opening credits concert footage, one of the bears turns up an amplifier to "12."

Spoofs

    • Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

      The title of this picture was referenced humorously in rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, when Fred Willard asks the members of Spinal Tap if they had ever run into a musical group out of Kansas City called Four Jacks and a Jill, that had been playing the Ramada Inn in that area for 18 months.
    • Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967)

    • Let It Be (1970)

    • The Last Waltz (1978)

    • The Kids Are Alright (1979)

      Some of the interview segments.

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