Very few people are aware that Chuck Berry wanted to release "My Ding A Ling" under it's original title "My Big Black Monster Cock"

Big Bottom
I just have to point out the wonderful factoid that Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom" was a song played entirely with bass.

Yeah the Rutles songs are great. I enjoy them at least as much as the real thing, but in the context of the film they're supposed to be horrible. As Mick Jagger says in one scene "They were horrible".

Oh, I never meant to knock on Spinal Tap. I love the movie, and I have worshiped at the altar of The Rutles since I was 11 (1978).

I really liked this movie
It solved what I've always seen as the problematic paradox of The Rutles and Spinal Tap: they're supposed to be enormously popular but at the same time terrible.

i recall
At the time of this film's public roasting Coppolla went on television in a kind of press conference, and expressed his frustration.

wallace beery wrestling picture
Nice Barton Fink reference there.

wallace beery wrestling picture
Nice Barton Fink reference there.

Are you suggesting that someone here said "Please Mr Coppola grant us an interview! We'll totally have Nathan write an appreciation of One From The Heart for you, even though he doesn't really like it that much. That's how much we'll compromise our integrity to get an exclusive with you!"

Special effects secrets revealed
Howard The Duck was actually played by a small actor in a duck costume!

thanks Admiral, the "go-motion" was what made it so cool.

He can stand on his hind legs Smithers!
Just like Rory Calhoun!

i haven't read this yet
I just want to say how happy I am to see it here. Thank you Nathan.

For me the perfect example of this is Scooby Doo.

"Short Attention Span Theater"! Wow! I haven't thought of that one in ages!

if you mention this show
and someone in your company says

this show is remembered well
by people with terrible memories.

or possibly Emmett the recluse

A (somewhat) similar thing happened with Orson Welles.

Wait, I'm an idiot because I've somehow managed to keep track of everything that gets onto my iPod?