# What's so great about Spinal Tap?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 28, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-spinal-tap/78605 "2001-08-28T21:12:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-spinal-tap/78605/61 "2001-08-31T19:21:29Z")

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The first time I saw Spinal Tap I found it to be laugh aloud funny.

The second time, I thought it was funny, but not laugh aloud funny.

I think it was the company. Watching movies in a group can be like that: If your company finds it LOL funny, so will you. If not, well, you’re out of luck. I call this “The Hudson Hawk Syndrome.” (Long story).

Spinal Tap remains one of my all time favorite movies even if I don’t always laugh aloud. The DVD is on my purchase list.

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