Reminds me:
What has ten legs, nine arms, and no balls?
The joke is on you because the band allowed them to say that about them in the movie. And look how well their new album is doing.
David Spade Explains Joe Dirt Def Leppard Reference:
http://www.deflepparduk.com/2014newsmay4.htmlComedian/actor David Spade recently talked to Rolling Stone about the Def Leppard reference in the 2001 movie Joe Dirt.
In the film Kid Rock yells out "Def Leppard Sucks!" to Spade's character. David explained how the reference was handled with Lep's then management Q Prime.
David is known to be a fan of the band and was spotted attending the June 2005 show in San Bernardino on the Rock Of Ages tour.
Rolling Stone - David Spade Interview Quote
"When you do a movie, and you use a song, or a band, or an image on a T-shirt of a band, there's a quiet clause stating that you can't say anything negative about them," he wrote. "And it's sort of just understood if they're selling you a song, or letting you use a T-shirt, you're going to be respectful. So that line was not in the script, but I asked Kid Rock to yell it to me when I ran off, so I could make an extra whimper, like that was a real dagger. And so when we did it, we couldn't put it in the movie yet until I talked to Def Leppard's manager to make sure that was OK. So I called someone, 'cause we originally couldn't put it in, and said, 'Hey, is there any way we can do this?" And I had to explain that Kid Rock is the bad guy, he doesn't like Def Leppard, but the good guy does. And they were very cool because they got that and let us use it."
