In 5.02 Real Me, Buffy warns Giles that magic shop owners have the life expectancy of a Spinal Tap drummer. This is Spinal Tap is a ‘rockumentary’ directed by Rob Reiner and starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. It follows a fake heavy metal band on their tour of America. The band’s drummers regularly die in mysterious ways: such as gardening accidents, or choking on (someone else’s) vomit.
In 3.13 Waiting In The Wings, Cordelia says:
“You want to wander around backstage like Spinal Tap for the next…ever?”
She’s referring to a scene in This is Spinal Tap, in which the band get lost backstage before a gig.
Related episodes: 3.13 Waiting In The Wings, 5.02 Real Me
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Culf on September 14th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Rob Reiner also worked with Christopher Guest in the unforgetable Princess Bride. I love Westly, and as we know, one character being fictional, living in a non-existing country sometime in the past, the other being an obsessed fangirl living in Norway in the present cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. ;)