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Stop Making Sense (1984)

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Stop Making Sense

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Edited into

    • Talking Heads: Girlfriend Is Better (Music Video 1984)

      Clip from the movie

Featured in

    • "At the Movies" Stop Making Sense/Falling in Love/Paris Texas (TV Episode 1984)

      Reviewed; clips are shown.
    • Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime (Live) (Music Video 1984)

      The music video was edited from the concert film.
    • Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love - Live (Music Video 1984)

      The music video was edited from the concert film.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Cult Video (TV Episode 1987)

      Clips are shown.
    • Keskiyön auringon kuvat (TV Movie 1987)

      Seen on screen

Referenced in

    • Re-Animator (1985)

      Poster in Dan's room.
    • Weird Science (1985)

      There is a film poster on Wyatt's bedroom wall.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Something Wild/The Mission/Hoosiers/Sky Bandits (TV Episode 1986)

      Referenced during the "Something Wild" review.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Blind Date/Dolls/The Hanoi Hilton/Swimming to Cambodia (TV Episode 1987)

      Referenced during the "Swimming to Cambodia" review.
    • Shy People (1987)

References

    • Royal Wedding (1951)

      David Byrne's staggering dance inspired by the 'I Left My Hat in Haiti' sequence.
    • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

      On the front cover, if you see the text from "Stop Making Sense" and below, it is written in the same style that the credits for Dr. Strangelove were. The reason this is so is that Pablo Ferro did the opening credits for both films
    • Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

      The words "Star Wars" are briefly displayed in the background.

Spoofed in

    • True Stories (1986)

    • 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (Video 1998)

    • "Documentary Now!" Final Transmission (TV Episode 2016)

      The episode is a loose deadpan take on the famous Talking Heads concert movie.
    • John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (TV Movie 2019)

      During Lexi and David Byrne's song, the two are wearing matching suits, but Lexi's is a few sizes too big.

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