Johnny’s dinosaur act may be intentional; but the show’s references and
rockumentary clichés are just fossilized. Besides Sting, there are jabs
at David Bowie and Radiohead, making this the edgiest rock satire of
1993. There is a set piece about rock bands’ over-the-top greenroom
requests (“Twelve filet mignons in a box, like meat donuts”), not to