In this episode we review the great Tom Hanks comedy from 1988 and revel at its writing and acting.

In 1984, Rob Reiner gave the world a gift wrapped in leather pants, eyeliner, and ego: This Is Spinal Tap. It wasn’t just a movie—it was a seismic shift in comedy, a mockumentary so pitch-perfect that real musicians mistook it for truth. Forty years later, it still hits harder than a double-neck guitar solo in a fog machine.