#21

5-4-5-5-3, though I’ve not watched Big Train that much. Basically what @sadpunk said, though I was probably still at school when Spaced first came out.

This thread has made me want to listen to Roxy Music.

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#22

It’s great when how there can be a show or film that you don’t love, yet a minute long clip can still totally embed itself in your brain. This scene plays basically whenever I hear a phone ring, car indicators click etc etc

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#23

Also 3/5, some very funny bits but some boring bits too, felt like I’d seen similar things that I enjoyed more. But that was to do with when I watched it as much as the show itself.

Never really got Shaun properly, 3/5, Hot Fuzz is overrated but still vv funny, 4/5.

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#24

Never heard of Big Train in my life. don’t think it exists.

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#25

It appears that we are the same person, even down to the scores.

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#26

Agreed. Probably my favourite sketch show of all-time buried underneath Spaced

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#27

I was like you once, blond hair, scraggly little beard, child like ears


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#28

“You’ve gotta have some sympathy for the man!”

Love that Barry Davies did this.

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#29

The worlds end is unfairly maligned, really hit home for me

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#30

Pop culture references are not, in and of themselves, funny or clever.

Big Train is comfortably the best thing Simon Pegg has been involved in.

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#31

Fully agree! However, I think spaced used them very well alongside clever wordplay, dialogue callbacks, etc. and that’s why it worked so well.

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#32

The World’s End got a bonus point for the soundtrack - so that’s 2 out of 5. That was such a can’t be arsed film.

#33

The thing I liked about Spaced was that it wasn’t just pop culture references for the sake of it. Many shows afterwards have just done that and they’ve been lazy and failed to understand what the team behind Spaced grasped: they got that the way that pop culture references were embedded into a whole generation’s vocabulary and outlook on life, and how, for better or worse, it often stood in for regular conversation, which gave the show an emotional truth.

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#35

If that were true simpsons references wouldn’t be funny, you are not saying that are you?

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#36

I dunno, always just came across as “look at these things that I like” to me

#37

Spaced is one of the greatest shows ever, perfect ending, gives Simon Pegg a free pass for all the terrible films he does for life - 5

Shaun of the Dead - very good but the tonal shifts always felt a bit weird - 4
Hot Fuzz - great, tonal shifts work better here - 5
The World’s End - everyone here hates it, I quite enjoy it though - 3 or 4

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#38

I’m usually rubbish at remembering funny lines from stuff but “Don’t forget to wash your sheets
and your penis” always stuck with me.

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#39

Was 16 when I watched Spaced S1.

Decided all I wanted to do after uni was spend moody evenings in a flatshare in North London with some weirdos who would eventually become my best friends.

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#40

Simon Pegg

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