Editing This Is Spinal Tap (section)

==Appearances in other media==
{{see also|Up to eleven}}
[[Harry Shearer]], who played [[Derek Smalls]], went on to become one of the main voice artists on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', providing voices for [[Principal Skinner]], [[Mr. Burns]], [[Waylon Smithers]], [[Ned Flanders]] and many others. The members of Spinal Tap reprised their roles in "[[The Otto Show]]", first playing on a concert attended by Bart and Milhouse which escalates into a riot after the band's early exit, then having their tour bus run off the road by Otto in the school bus.<ref name="book">{{cite book |last=Groening |first=Matt |author-link=Matt Groening |editor1-first=Ray |editor1-last=Richmond |editor1-link=Ray Richmond |editor2-first=Antonia |editor2-last=Coffman |title=[[The Simpsons episode guides#The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family|The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family]] |edition=1st |year=1997 |location=New York |publisher=[[HarperPerennial]] |lccn=98141857 |ol=433519M |oclc=37796735 |isbn=978-0-06-095252-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/simpsonscomplete00groe/page/87 87] |ref={{harvid|Richmond & Coffman|1997}}}}.</ref>

The [[Internet Movie Database]] normally allows users to rate films only up to ten stars, but specifically for ''Spinal Tap'', the site allows users to rate the film eleven stars, referring to the "[[Up to eleven]]" scene.<ref name="slashfilm">{{cite web |url=http://www.slashfilm.com/trivia-this-spinal-tap-imdb-rating-eleven/ |title=Trivia: 'This Is Spinal Tap' IMDB Rating Goes to Eleven – /Film |date=December 2, 2010|access-date=August 10, 2018|archive-date=August 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811032253/https://www.slashfilm.com/trivia-this-spinal-tap-imdb-rating-eleven/|url-status=live}}</ref> On [[IGN]], ''This Is Spinal Tap'' was the only DVD—and seemingly the only thing reviewed on IGN—to get 11 out of 10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/09/08/this-is-spinal-tap |title=This is Spinal Tap DVD |date=September 8, 2000 |publisher=IGN |access-date=December 5, 2021 |archive-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503015532/https://www.ign.com/movies/this-is-spinal-tap |url-status=live}}</ref> This scene was also used in some news reports on the death of [[Jim Marshall (businessman)|James Charles "Jim" Marshall]], founder of the famous amplifier company whose equipment is featured in the scene.{{Citation needed|date = November 2015}} Richard D. Titus, UX&D Controller for the BBC, adopted a ''Spinal Tap''-inspired suggestion from a colleague that the BBC iPlayer should have a volume control that goes to eleven.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rxdxt.tumblr.com/post/560540392/why-the-bbcs-iplayer-volume-control-go-to-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425045511/http://rxdxt.tumblr.com/post/560540392/why-the-bbcs-iplayer-volume-control-go-to-11|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 25, 2012 |title=Why the BBC's iPlayer volume control go to 11 – rxdxt |date=April 25, 2012|access-date=August 10, 2018}}</ref> The term has entered the vernacular, as with an [[Autism|autistic]]'s description of sensory overload ''vis-à-vis'' a [[neurotypical]]'s routine filtering.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 3, 2020 |author=Christine M. Condo |title='You don't look autistic': The reality of high-functioning autism |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 15, 2021 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/03/03/you-dont-look-autistic-reality-high-functioning-autism/ |archive-date=May 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503015544/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/03/03/you-dont-look-autistic-reality-high-functioning-autism/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Fran Drescher reprised the role of Bobbi Flekman during the [[The Nanny (season 5)|fifth season]] of her hit television sitcom ''[[The Nanny]]''; it was the season's third episode, titled "The Bobbi Flekman Story". In the episode, Flekman is now a record label producer for [[The Brian Setzer Orchestra]], and an ex-business partner of character Maxwell Sheffield ([[Charles Shaughnessy]]). Drescher's regular character Fran Fine believes Flekman is attempting to seduce Sheffield, and impersonates her to stop it.<ref name="The Bobbi Flekman Story">{{cite episode |title=The Bobbi Flekman Story |series=The Nanny |date=October 15, 1997 |network=CBS |season=5 |number=3 (104 total)}}</ref>

Outside the world of music, [[J. K. Rowling]] cited ''Spinal Tap''{{'}}s series of drummers as an inspiration for the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, in which something bad happens to every teacher of Defence against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, causing them to leave the job without completing a full school year.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/jk-rowling-confirms-why-her-defence-against-the-dark-arts-teachers-are-all-cursed/ |title= JK Rowling confirms why her Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers are all cursed |publisher= Radiotimes.com |first=Eleanor Bley |last= Griffiths |date= March 15, 2018 |access-date= February 8, 2022}}</ref>

A biographical comic book was released in 2018, ''That Was Spinal Tap'', telling both the fictional story of the band and the real-life tale of the actors and others who created the characters and music. It was scripted by ''[[Rock 'N' Roll Comics]]'' co-creator [[Jay Allen Sanford]].