What's the deal with Stonehenge? A giant Granite birthday cake Or a prison far too easy to escape? -- "Stonehenge" by Ylvis The greatest music parody video of all-time meets the greatest rock tour documentary parody of all time!
My favorite line is"don't worry about being cancelled, Detroit isn't really a rock and roll kinda town"😂🤣 Or"He was so bad people were still booing him a half hour into our set!"😆😆 Or........
I was on a date when this came out. She never laughed, and I never stopped laughing. And that was the highlight of the night, but I learned a valuable lesson
@@papalevies Stonehenge may be a place were there are cats that "meow", but it is also the "cat's meow": old-fashioned + informal. -used to say that someone or something is very appealing I really like that car; it's the cat's meow.
Great movie saw it at the drive-in . There were questions on where the idea for the Stonehenge scene came from. Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath had this to say . We had Sharon Osbourne’s dad, Don Arden, managing us. He came up with the idea of having the stage set be Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions down and gave it to our tour manager. He wrote it down in meters but he meant to write it down in feet. The people who made it saw fifteen meters instead of fifteen feet. It was 45 feet high and it wouldn’t fit on any stage anywhere so we just had to leave it the storage area. It cost a fortune to make but there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into.
The three main a tors in this movie tried writing a script and couldn't capture the spirit of the movie so instead they made demoscenes to show to potential financial backers. The scene about the small Stonehenge was one of them. That scene dates from 1982, the Sabbath Stonehenge was from '83. Purely a coincidence no doubt but makes everything all the more hilarious.
* Years later on a MFTV sequel they got the large-size Stonehenge replica but it wouldn't fit through the door so it couldn't be brought to the stage! ♣
I attended a film class in highschool and I didn't really find the film funny - but then this bit came on and yes, some people were laughing a little during the scene but I totally lost it and kept laughing long after the scene had ended which only made it funnier. I kept seeing the dancers and hearing the folky music in my head. Oh boy, great scene!
@@itistime467 Haha. We only saw older films, and the class was actually quite nice...but that was about 15 years ago. When people still had some standards. Not like that generic and/or PC shit that's out there today. And people are watching it and enjoying it?! Crazy.
@@Signevad I also saw this film for the first time when I was in high school and while it was OK, it didn't knock me over. I watched it again in adulthood, though, and it slew me. Every joke landed. Once I myself had a little more seasoning, so to speak, I understood this movie so much more. But just like you, this scene killed me the first time I saw it. It's already funny, with the stupid robes and the pretentious song with its idiotic lyrics...tiny Stonehenge just kicks it over the top.
I have never laughed harder in a movie theater than I did at this scene. Perfect moment when the little Stonehenge starts coming down from the rafters.
@@delilasloan8914 It was epic. Not only was it funny, but not long after this the song shifts into its folksie mandolin break before the big power chords come in. I was thinking, this is not just a comedy, this song is epic and wouldn't be out of place on a Zeppelin album! (Zeppelin III or IV, take your pick). It sounded awesome coming through the theater sound system.
Just classic. The ridiculous way they play their instruments, the facial expressions, the self-serious absurd lyrics, that scream (with tongue!), the pronunciation of STONEenge, the prop…it’s just brilliant on every level.
@NickHarman well I'm English and that's how I hear southerners sound. Along with firty free and fings and finking about it. They're very well spoken down south, so they say.
When I first watched this I genuinely thought I was going to die from laughter. I couldn't breathe and everything. I've never laughed so much. Spinal Tap is the funniest film ever made.
Spinal Tap is a comedic masterpiece! We can't thank the team enough for having the courage and creative drive to produce this wonderful, whimsical and hysterical mockumentary. 😄 👏👏👏👏👍
David's mouth hanging open at 3:07 as the Stonehenge model descends onto the stage .... omg I just about burst a blood vessel every single time laughing
No, the metric system would have not saved Spinal Tap - their fate was written in, um... stone. Nigel would have insisted that the Stonehenge model be constructed to a height of 10 mm ("mystic meters" to Nigel). Then they would have had to have trained ants to dance around it.
Yes - it would have. There's a HUGE difference between a stonehenge that's only 9 cm tall - the desired 9m tall stonehenge - and 9km tall, which would be something like 6 miles tall!
Guy James UK uses a mix of imperial and metric (road signs still use miles and yards, for example). Back in the days this was made imperial would have been much more common in general use than metric.
The outtakes and the deleted scenes of this movie really show the musical talent of Michael McKean and Christopher Guest. as well as Harry Shearer. Amazing
How many here already knew that the blonde, long haired Brit in the band is actually Michael McKean? Lenny (of Lenny and Squiggy) and Chuck McGill from "Better Call Saul"?
Brit. He's obviously American as we all know. But ithere seems little point in mentioning that he's meant to be a Brit when they all are, that's kinda part of the joke, and I'm British. But these guys do the best working-class London accents I've ever heard Americans do. American acting has nosedived big time since the 80s. Probably not one American actor today could do a half-convincing British - of any region or any of the hundreds of different 'British' accents. But these guys nail it. I'm in the north so more Jon Snow sounding, but I know a working-class london/essex accent when I hear one. I've seen Eastenders enough times! and my time living in Hounslow in the early 90s gave me a good ear for it. If I had never found out otherwise I would still to this day think these guys were British. I think it would have made things easier to identify which member you meant by specifying what instrument he played, rather the nationality he's pretending to be. Kinda pointless when they're all doing that.
I just showed my 18 yr. old daughter this clip because she ordered something off of Amazon that turned out to be MUCH smaller than she expected it to be. She loved the clip! Thanks for posting it.
“Why don’t we just fix the choreography?” (“What do you mean”) “So the Dwarves won’t trod upon it.” -Derek. Best line. Best character. (Cut out of this)
I introduced a friend of mine to this film in the early '90s and we were watching it on this crappy little miniature TV in our student accommodation. He didn't see the dwarves on stage, so when St Hubbins said 'a stonehenge monument in danger of being crushed...by a dwarf!" , my friend thought he was being metaphorical and his sides split when Derek's suggested solution to the problem was to fix the choreography "so the dwarves won't trod upon it." LOL.
The lyrics are actually quite clever... In ancient times hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived this strange race of people, the druids No one knows who they were what they were doing But the legacy remains here into the living rock of Stonehenge Stonehenge, where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well Stonehenge where a man is a man And the children dance to the pipes of pan Stonehenge, 'tis a magic place Where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face Stonehenge where the virgins lie And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky And you my love, won't you take my hand? We'll go back in time to that mystic land Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow I will take you there, I will show you how And oh, how they danced The little children of Stonehenge Beneath the haunted moon for fear That day break might come too soon
I saw this when I was in Jr high in the 80s and took it seriously finding it very deep like a true documentary. Now at 50 I'm rolling in laughter from beginning to end. Musicians I heard walked out of the theater because they have been through alot of these situations. The film is absolute gold.
Same! I watched it with a straight face as a teenager in the mid-aughts and although I loved it, I think I may have missed the mark a bit. Just like that prop designer did with the model Stonehenge!
I had the honour to be present at that great gig, and we we were all very glad that the "members" of Spinal Flap managed to make it to the stage, anyway! 🤘😎🌞🌟
"It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel, is it?" That line always gets me because it's a damn good point when you consider the character of Nigel.
I played in a band years ago and we created a replica of Stonehenge 18 inches high. When we played shows our bass player would dance around it like the dwarfs did. Some people loved it and others had a confused look on their face.
"It was a monument in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. That tends to undercut the hugeness we were striving for". If this film isn't in the Smithsonian, the Smithsonian is fraudulent.
What I love about the musical tracks in this film is that they're both funny but also representative of genuinely great music! I can both laugh and tap my knees listening to Spinal Tap tracks. That takes skill to pull off (the artists, not me tapping my knees).
"No one knows what they were doing...but their legacy remains." That cracked me up, but I guess it does make sense if they built Stonehenge. So apparently THAT is what they were doing.
“No one knows who they were… or what they were doing” is one of my favorite lines
I love the dramatic pause and then he says “or” at like 1:27. Like he was going to say something epic.
Same here. Brilliant.
That's what's brilliant about this movie. So many lines come across as throw away lines but are gems!
"Wot they wuh doin'..."
What's the deal with Stonehenge?
A giant Granite birthday cake
Or a prison far too easy to escape?
-- "Stonehenge" by Ylvis
The greatest music parody video of all-time meets the greatest rock tour documentary parody of all time!
"Making a big thing out of it would've been a good idea."
E JP my favorite line in the movie hahaha
''so it became a comedy number'' lol
So classic!
It's amazing they can be so clever in conversation and write such stupid lyrics
something told me this would be the first comment, spot on.
"100's of years... before the dawn of history..."
The dawn of history goes to 11
... nobody knows wha they were doin'...
Don't question the Artistic Vision of the band
@@harkmay "... but their legacy remains" - hilarious!
It's true, EVERY DAMN scene/line of this film is hilarious, there is no funniest moment.
Melodically and arrangement-wise, this is actually a seriously good song. The lyrics then turn it into a masterpiece.
Sounds like it could have been written by Ian Anderson.
Agreed. The song itself is quite good especially the full album version.
The ending has a Genesis influence
It’s actually not good but you don’t have good music taste so how could you know? Not your fault
@@williamroberts5716 Dio, lol.
"It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel" is one of my favorite lines in the entire movie.
jackal59 same here! 😂👌
Gold
My favorite line is"don't worry about being cancelled, Detroit isn't really a rock and roll kinda town"😂🤣
Or"He was so bad people were still booing him a half hour into our set!"😆😆
Or........
Ha! Ya know I never really caught that!
@@ASMRBass Spinal Tap, The gift that keeps on giving, even after 35+ years
"No one knows who they were or...what they were doing". Brilliant!
Before the dawn of history 😂
It was the "months before the dawn of time" for me😂
This Reality TV Spinal Tap 💯
I love how the Stonehenge dances along with the dwarfs
laughed my fucking ass at this comment lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ha ha! I never noticed that before.
Genius
Nigel's mandolin is what made them dance.
I love the dwarves bumping into eachother on stage as if it isn't a big enough calamity already
Thank you brother, your comment made my evening 😄
For a parody band they make some damn good music
So did The Rutles and The Travelling Wilburys.
@@MediaArchive2-z9f And Tenacious D.
When you consider, a comedic parody of a rock band produces better songs than many real bands. The music is very good.
You have very poor music taste
They outwrote Paul Stanley's entire career by "sex farm"
@@randomdude189 I think he’s saying they’re better musicians. Which is largely true. And kinda funny
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about mud flaps
My gal's got em
This is what KISS was trying to accomplish with the Elder.
I was on a date when this came out. She never laughed, and I never stopped laughing. And that was the highlight of the night, but I learned a valuable lesson
very wise John...fuck the napkin. if you havent seen it try the bad news tour.
HUGE red flag.
She be GONE!!!
Not that hard to understand!! A parody of a classic rock band, it's AMAZING
This scene was the only time in my life that I actually physically rolled off the couch laughing. I couldn't breathe. Top tier humor.
Which part specifically
Trent Dirks I realized the model was tiny exactly at the moment the dwarves came out and started dancing
I thought it was real for years. Afterwards I as well fell down laughing.
Where the banshees live and they do live well....unreal funny and brilliant.
Right there with ya 😛
No one knows who they were....or....what they were doing........but their legacy remains
hehehe
*Hewn, into the living rock*
These lyrics have changed the way I view life and the Universe.
*of Stonehenge*
lmaooo
"Being crushed by a dwarf" and "It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel" are easily two of the best lines in the entire mockumentary
I think the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge Monument on the stage that was in danger of being CRUSHED... by a DWARF!"
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Soooo goooood!!!!
That is my favorite line of the whole film!
"Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow"
Thank you for finding this. My favorite but a lot of competition.
😂 That's a hilarious lyric but actually a pretty good play on words!
@@ezryder111 what play on words?
@@papalevies Stonehenge may be a place were there are cats that "meow", but it is also the "cat's meow": old-fashioned + informal. -used to say that someone or something is very appealing I really like that car; it's the cat's meow.
@@ezryder111 what
"Being crushed...by a dwarf!"
Kills me every time! 🤣
These guys had a comedy nemesis troupe called the Firesign Theater who released an album with the title "Don't Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers".
"So it became a comedy number" cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣
“Making a big deal out of it would have been a good idea.” THAT hands down is the funniest line of this entire clip.
literally and figuratively.
Fuck the napkin
The funniest bit for me is what he says after this.
"Can I raise a practical question at this point?
Are we gonna do Stone 'Enge tomorrow?"
The look on their faces when they first see the Stonehenge lowered is the funniest
Derek's gesture toward the Stonehenge monument, all like "What the FUCK, Ian?!" 🤣
"No one knows who they were, or what they were doing."
Yep that sums up this band nicely.
...but their legacy remains.
Surely you meant to say doin' or doowin
I can’t help but hear: “no one knows, what they were doing” as some kind of subliminal foreshadowing. Or post-shadowing.
🤣
In one of their many interviews one of them (Nigel I think) said, "We put Stonehenge on the map." Great stuff. Iconic movie.
"where the cats meow", that is so freakin profound......I tear up every time he sings that.
It's the banshees living well that gets me. Posh banshees
@@jeanpaulsinatra And they do live well! 😉 Probably my favorite track besides Big Bottom! That drives me out of my mind!
@@jeanpaulsinatra Living Dead. #MindBlown
Why?
I lost my shh when he sang that😂😂😂
The look on St. Hubbins's face when the pissant little Stonehenge was lowered was absolutely hilarious.
Lookup one of their more recent performances, they reinacted this scene and it's funny too
You can’t see it at all once it hits the stage lol 😂
this is the part that makes me laugh the hardest lol the complete shock on his face hahah
“Nobody knows who they were...or, what they were doing. But their legacy remains, hewn, into the living rock of Stonehenge.”
What they were Doin'.......Stone'enge!!!!!
*wHeRe ThE dEw DrOpS cRy AnD tHe CaTs MeOw*
@@anirose6807 meow
The first sentence is one of my favorite lines in this movie.
"Hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people, called the Druids........."
LOL.
Jeanine Pettibone:
"The audience were laughing."
Manager Ian Faith:
"So, it became a comedy number."
Gold.
Yes it did, *YES IT FUCKING WELL DID!!!*
Great movie saw it at the drive-in . There were questions on where the idea for the Stonehenge scene came from. Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath had this to say . We had Sharon Osbourne’s dad, Don Arden, managing us. He came up with the idea of having the stage set be Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions down and gave it to our tour manager. He wrote it down in meters but he meant to write it down in feet. The people who made it saw fifteen meters instead of fifteen feet. It was 45 feet high and it wouldn’t fit on any stage anywhere so we just had to leave it the storage area. It cost a fortune to make but there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into.
The three main a tors in this movie tried writing a script and couldn't capture the spirit of the movie so instead they made demoscenes to show to potential financial backers.
The scene about the small Stonehenge was one of them.
That scene dates from 1982, the Sabbath Stonehenge was from '83.
Purely a coincidence no doubt but makes everything all the more hilarious.
There's a bit about a demon head in the 'sequel' like that
"It tended to understate the hugeness of the object". This is the best scene in the entire movie.
when the tiny Stonehenge comes down and the dancers come out, I die every time hahahaha
* Years later on a MFTV sequel they got the large-size Stonehenge replica but it wouldn't fit through the door so it couldn't be brought to the stage! ♣
I attended a film class in highschool and I didn't really find the film funny - but then this bit came on and yes, some people were laughing a little during the scene but I totally lost it and kept laughing long after the scene had ended which only made it funnier. I kept seeing the dancers and hearing the folky music in my head. Oh boy, great scene!
@@Signevad Your film class sounds awful. Bet they laughed their tits off at the Ghostbusters remake 👀
@@itistime467 Haha. We only saw older films, and the class was actually quite nice...but that was about 15 years ago. When people still had some standards. Not like that generic and/or PC shit that's out there today. And people are watching it and enjoying it?! Crazy.
@@Signevad I also saw this film for the first time when I was in high school and while it was OK, it didn't knock me over. I watched it again in adulthood, though, and it slew me. Every joke landed. Once I myself had a little more seasoning, so to speak, I understood this movie so much more.
But just like you, this scene killed me the first time I saw it. It's already funny, with the stupid robes and the pretentious song with its idiotic lyrics...tiny Stonehenge just kicks it over the top.
" ...but you're not as confused as Nigel"
camera pans to Nigels totally guilty
By far the most elegant way of calling someone an idiot.
One of the greatest movies ever. “Such a fine line between clever and stupid”. 😆😆😆
They were still booing him when we were on stage
That one kills me every time "just a little twist on it" hahaha
I have never laughed harder in a movie theater than I did at this scene. Perfect moment when the little Stonehenge starts coming down from the rafters.
Very funny scene!
@JeanClaude Clemenceau Brilliant camera angle. Like a horror movie where the ghost or killer enters the shot behind the victim. So fin funny.
You got to watch this in theaters! Lucky. How was that?
@@delilasloan8914 It was epic. Not only was it funny, but not long after this the song shifts into its folksie mandolin break before the big power chords come in. I was thinking, this is not just a comedy, this song is epic and wouldn't be out of place on a Zeppelin album! (Zeppelin III or IV, take your pick). It sounded awesome coming through the theater sound system.
@@Secretarian I was thinking Jethro Tull......................
I've seen this clip 100s of times, and I still laugh when it comes down.
One of the best sight gags in cinema. Seriously.
totally
It looks like Sesame Street featuring the letter pi.
"But you're not as confused as he is, are you?" Totally sums up the sheer greatness of Spinal Tap in one sentence. Tap will always matter. Always.
"Fuck the napkin" is somehow one of my fav parts of the movie
It’s one of my favorites too. I laugh every time.
Me three!
Agreed.
yessss 😂😂😂 and then it quickly cuts away. The timing of the editing throughout is brilliant
Throwing the napkin makes it even better.
Just classic. The ridiculous way they play their instruments, the facial expressions, the self-serious absurd lyrics, that scream (with tongue!), the pronunciation of STONEenge, the prop…it’s just brilliant on every level.
The STONEenge is a bit Dick Van Dyke
@NickHarman well I'm English and that's how I hear southerners sound. Along with firty free and fings and finking about it. They're very well spoken down south, so they say.
This movie is perfect and it never gets old.
When I first watched this I genuinely thought I was going to die from laughter. I couldn't breathe and everything. I've never laughed so much. Spinal Tap is the funniest film ever made.
it still makes me cry laugh every time
Top ten for sure a classic 😁
It absolutely is! It never gets old. There isn't a duff scene in it.
Spinal Tap is a comedic masterpiece! We can't thank the team enough for having the courage and creative drive to produce this wonderful, whimsical and hysterical mockumentary. 😄 👏👏👏👏👍
Me too. I was scared because I couldn't breathe from laughing
David's mouth hanging open at 3:07 as the Stonehenge model descends onto the stage .... omg I just about burst a blood vessel every single time laughing
Same here! It is probably my favorite shot in the entire movie!!
Absolutely me too
The look on his face as "Stonehenge" is coming down. Priceless!
And the dwarf dancers who bump into each other!
Bro was absolutely speaking truth 😂
All I can say is - this never would've happened with metric
he could have just wrote "ft" too
No, the metric system would have not saved Spinal Tap - their fate was written in, um... stone. Nigel would have insisted that the Stonehenge model be constructed to a height of 10 mm ("mystic meters" to Nigel). Then they would have had to have trained ants to dance around it.
Yes - it would have.
There's a HUGE difference between a stonehenge that's only 9 cm tall - the desired 9m tall stonehenge - and 9km tall, which would be something like 6 miles tall!
Agreed ua-cam.com/video/cEsr5Mm3JfE/v-deo.html
Guy James UK uses a mix of imperial and metric (road signs still use miles and yards, for example). Back in the days this was made imperial would have been much more common in general use than metric.
The outtakes and the deleted scenes of this movie really show the musical talent of Michael McKean and Christopher Guest. as well as Harry Shearer. Amazing
How many here already knew that the blonde, long haired Brit in the band is actually Michael McKean? Lenny (of Lenny and Squiggy) and Chuck McGill from "Better Call Saul"?
😃Lenny🤪🤣😁🕺✌😎
Everyone
@@mthomas1973dont speak for me.
probably most of us, but for those who didn't, your post will be welcome
Brit. He's obviously American as we all know. But ithere seems little point in mentioning that he's meant to be a Brit when they all are, that's kinda part of the joke, and I'm British. But these guys do the best working-class London accents I've ever heard Americans do. American acting has nosedived big time since the 80s. Probably not one American actor today could do a half-convincing British - of any region or any of the hundreds of different 'British' accents. But these guys nail it. I'm in the north so more Jon Snow sounding, but I know a working-class london/essex accent when I hear one. I've seen Eastenders enough times! and my time living in Hounslow in the early 90s gave me a good ear for it. If I had never found out otherwise I would still to this day think these guys were British. I think it would have made things easier to identify which member you meant by specifying what instrument he played, rather the nationality he's pretending to be. Kinda pointless when they're all doing that.
Parody music still better than 99% of commercial music made today. 😂
Quite right.
1984 had Twisted Sister and Motley Crüe 🤣
@@VoyageOne1 Is that an argument for or against?
He'll yeah!
I just showed my 18 yr. old daughter this clip because she ordered something off of Amazon that turned out to be MUCH smaller than she expected it to be. She loved the clip! Thanks for posting it.
"It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel". Hard to pick, but this is definitely ONE of the funniest scenes in one of the funniest films ever😂
“There was a Stonehenge moment on stage in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.” Brilliant line.
Black Sabbath had a Stonehenge that was too big to fit in most of the arenas they played. Tony Iommi said he thinks they left it on a dock somewhere.😆
Jon Late they had a midget too. A guy who played an Ewok in return of the Jedi
yep, Born Again tour 83 when Ian Gillian of Deep Purple was the singer
Yeah theres a follow up spinal tap film mostly a live concert where the Stonehenge is too big to get into the theatre
I saw Sabbath on that tour . They had only only 2 pieces that could only fit on the stage. They were enormous
Didn't one of the pieces fall on Bev Bevan, the drummer?? Or was that just a story??
"Making a big thing out of it, would have been a good idea" hahahaha my favorite reply in this entire scene.
“Why don’t we just fix the choreography?” (“What do you mean”)
“So the Dwarves won’t trod upon it.”
-Derek. Best line. Best character. (Cut out of this)
So damn funny n now I'll see myself out
I introduced a friend of mine to this film in the early '90s and we were watching it on this crappy little miniature TV in our student accommodation. He didn't see the dwarves on stage, so when St Hubbins said 'a stonehenge monument in danger of being crushed...by a dwarf!" , my friend thought he was being metaphorical and his sides split when Derek's suggested solution to the problem was to fix the choreography "so the dwarves won't trod upon it." LOL.
“I don’t think that’s the issue.”
The lyrics are actually quite clever...
In ancient times hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived this strange race of people, the druids
No one knows who they were what they were doing
But the legacy remains here into the living rock of Stonehenge
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge where a man is a man
And the children dance to the pipes of pan
Stonehenge, 'tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face
Stonehenge where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won't you take my hand?
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there, I will show you how
And oh, how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon for fear
That day break might come too soon
The last line is : For fear at daybreak, I come too soon. 😉
Excellent.
The most versatile band ever. To go from this to Sex farm, or Cups and cakes. Like a heavier Beatles.
*takes out mandolin, proceeds to play Celtic jig as little people dance*
"hewn into the living rock"
If you’ve been in rock bands and rock band production for long you realize that this is more truthful than one might imagine....
I saw this when I was in Jr high in the 80s and took it seriously finding it very deep like a true documentary. Now at 50 I'm rolling in laughter from beginning to end. Musicians I heard walked out of the theater because they have been through alot of these situations. The film is absolute gold.
If I remember right Ozzy Osbourne and other musicians got lost behind stage before since many venues are a maze of tunnels
Same! I watched it with a straight face as a teenager in the mid-aughts and although I loved it, I think I may have missed the mark a bit. Just like that prop designer did with the model Stonehenge!
"Hundreds of years before the dawn of history.."😂
😅🤣😆😂
I love this film. First time watching it, my friends and I got a little baked and were practically hyperventilating from laughing so hard.
Aww I remember those moments as well from my youth lol
Even Morticia?
Wow you must be really pathetic
I have to go with David on this: when there’s a Stonehenge monument in danger of being crushed by a dwarf, huge problem!
"We need to write a song that sounds every 1970s rock song."
Spinal tap: "stone henge....."
I remember the first time I watched this movie. This scene had me in tears, fell out me bed. Cracks me up every single time
I arrived when I heard the news about Stonehenge. Environmentalists sprayed the landmark, and a drummer died in a freak paint spray accident.
I love the way he says Stone 'enge - cracks me up every time.
I had the honour to be present at that great gig, and we we were all very glad that the "members" of Spinal Flap managed to make it to the stage, anyway!
🤘😎🌞🌟
An absolute masterpiece.
"It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel, is it?"
That line always gets me because it's a damn good point when you consider the character of Nigel.
One of the most under-rated hilarious comedies ever filmed. Never ever gets old.
Yeah, I don't think Spinal Tap is anywhere near underrated.
It's #29 out of the top 100 of AFI's list of all time comedies
@@burglekuntthegreat684 I'm constantly surprised how many people have never even heard of it, let alone seen it
Underrated? By whom?
I don't have any tattoos but if I was to get one I'd never regret one that says Spinal Tap!
40's later since my first viewing and this still cracks me up every time!
I have seen this thousands of times and I laugh my ass like it's the first time .lmao
My favorite subtle gag in this is the eye blink/sparkly makeup reveal
"...but you're not as confused as him, are you?"
“And the cats meow” 😂
I will show you how😅
This is hands down my favorite part of the movie im still dying of laughter
The Black Sabbath undertones are just too much!!!!!
Years later Spinal Tap would be playing a festival with a Stonehenge set piece that was so big it couldn’t fit through the door
The bass player, Harry Shearer, is NOT the voice of Homer Simpson. He is Mr. Burns, Smithers, and a host of others.
Principal Skinner, which is in his natural deep sounding voice.
He's a dick, too.
@@hugolafhugolaf Tell us how you really feel.
Duh!
That's right, Homer's voice is provided by Dan Castellaneta.
“The audience were laughing!”
“So it became a comedy number.”
😂
I like particularly, how the lyrics focus οn the welfare of the banshees
Tears in my eyes watching this again. American actors playing British rockers. Nigel is played by Jamie lee Curtis’ husband Christopher Guest.
Christopher Guest is English with a title he is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest. Lord Haden-Guest.
you done fucked up, boy.
Simultaneously a great rock song and comedy genius. Gold.
It's great how he speaks fluent Druid: 'Stawn 'enge'. 🤣🤣🤣
That always killed me.
No one knows who they were...or what they were doing......
I don't know why this makes me laugh, but it does.
It's like all mystical, except they didn't really do the research, so it comes off like an eighth-grade essay. Absolutely hysterical.
I probably quote this line more than any other line in the movie.
I played in a band years ago and we created a replica of Stonehenge 18 inches high. When we played shows our bass player would dance around it like the dwarfs did. Some people loved it and others had a confused look on their face.
"It was a monument in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. That tends to undercut the hugeness we were striving for".
If this film isn't in the Smithsonian, the Smithsonian is fraudulent.
These guys had real talent. This is a masterpiece.
I just want to raise a practical question. Will we be playing Stonehenge tomorrow?
So speaks a true pro. The show must go on.
No we aren't going to play fucking Stonehenge!
"Perhaps if we change the choreography to keep the dwarfs clear."
@@polcommwatcher "I don't think that's the issue."
Nah, we're not gonna fakkin' do Stone 'Enge!
I love the scene where they are playing an Air Force base and radio traffic from the tower comes over the wireless microphones.
While they're playing Sex Farm!😂
To me the mystery is how they planned for an 18' Stonehenge prop to fit that stage
You're clearly as confused as Nigel.
its supposed to be a satire of a real event involving a stage prop to large to fit
I love when the dancers bump into each other.
Thank you, thats the best part hands down!
Which goes to show, maybe fixing the choreography would have solved the problem.
And the Stonehenge falls over...
"And the cats meow... I will show you how" just so funny!! Many thanks.😊
This is actually gawdam top notch music! Like OMG now that I’m older I’m blown away
Always loved the line... "No one knows who they were...or...what they were doin'".
McKean’s British smile is perfect
Angelica Houston is the designer who copied what was on the napkin.
"The Nanny", Fran Drescher was the "hostess with the mostess" in this movie.
Holy shit! I've seen this movie a hundred times and I never once made that connection!
Wow good call 😂😂👍🏻
Mai Nem Bobbie Fleckman
Brilliant!
Those druids...so mysterious...hundreds of years before the dawn of time. Wow just like the history channel
What really gets me is that this is a legit great song.
It’s the icing to this utter shite show. Don’t get me started with the monologue...
I'm not going to co-manage the band with someone who dresses like an Australian's nightmare.
What I love about the musical tracks in this film is that they're both funny but also representative of genuinely great music! I can both laugh and tap my knees listening to Spinal Tap tracks. That takes skill to pull off (the artists, not me tapping my knees).
"No one knows what they were doing...but their legacy remains." That cracked me up, but I guess it does make sense if they built Stonehenge. So apparently THAT is what they were doing.
The Celts didn't build Stonehenge though.
Chuck never told Jimmy of his secret life as a failed British rocker.
FAILED? Maaaaate.
I love replaying the scene where they write the measurements down on the napkin😂 that fatal error.
This song is gorgeous. I especially love how he plays the mandolin.
I was always relieved to hear that the Banshees lived well in Stonehenge. That's not always the case...from what I've heard.
"Forget this, FUCK THE NAPKIN!"
(smash cut to live performance)
Still one of the most magnificent cutaways in movie history.
I can imagine Iron Maiden trying to include a ship as a set piece with their song “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”.
And this blooper.