In This Is Spinal Tap, each member of the band develops a cold sore on their mouth as the film wears on, which is never explained.
It's probably quite funny left that way, because it invites you to fill in the gaps yourself. However, I went to a talk by Harry Shearer the other week in which he exclusively (or maybe non-exclusively) revealed that they filmed a whole subplot in which there was a support act on the tour called The Dose, who had a groupie played by Angie Bowie, who shagged the Tap one by one, spreading the infection.
According to Shearer, this has never been explained before, and he doesn't think it even made the outtakes and deleted scenes on the DVD extras. I've got the DVD, and I can't be bothered to find out. In fact I can't even be bothered looking on Wikipedia to see if it gets mentioned there.
Anyway, there you go, a great answer to a cinematic question none of you asked for.
It's probably quite funny left that way, because it invites you to fill in the gaps yourself. However, I went to a talk by Harry Shearer the other week in which he exclusively (or maybe non-exclusively) revealed that they filmed a whole subplot in which there was a support act on the tour called The Dose, who had a groupie played by Angie Bowie, who shagged the Tap one by one, spreading the infection.
According to Shearer, this has never been explained before, and he doesn't think it even made the outtakes and deleted scenes on the DVD extras. I've got the DVD, and I can't be bothered to find out. In fact I can't even be bothered looking on Wikipedia to see if it gets mentioned there.
Anyway, there you go, a great answer to a cinematic question none of you asked for.
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