The "Spaced" appreciation thread

[coogy]

My all time favorite tv series!!

Tim: Where are you?
Mike: Err, Sheffield.
Tim: What are you doing in Sheffield?
Mike: Fell asleep on the tube.
Tim: The tube doesn't go to Sheffield, Mike.
Mike: Yeah, I know. I um must have changed at King's Cross.

[Talksteer]

Zod said:

I watched the whole second series on a flight back from Buenos Aires on my laptop. The Argentinian bloke next to me must have thought I was a lunatic as I spent most of the flight in stitches.

The robot wars episode was particularly good. "War bd"

Roboteer: The first rule of Robot Club is do not talk about Robot Club.
The Second rule of Robot Club is do not talk about Ro... sorry I made a mistake,

• pulls out a list of the rules*

the second rule of Robot Club is no smoking.
Simon: Why can't we smoke?
Mike: Shh, we're not aloud to talk about it.

[pedantlewis]

Definitely one of my favourite programmes ever, love it!

Tim getting dole money because the woman at the DSS agrees with him about The Phantom Menace is brilliant!

[A1GOY]

Vulva: Oh Brian... You came...
Brian: Uhmm, no. I just spilt my drink.

Heh.

[Mactac]

Roboteer: The first rule of Robot Club is do not talk about Robot Club.
The Second rule of Robot Club is do not talk about Ro... sorry I made a mistake,

• pulls out a list of the rules*

the second rule of Robot Club is no smoking.
Simon: Why can't we smoke?
Mike: Shh, we're not aloud to talk about it.
[/quote]

thats brilliant I've entirely missed that bit, sod it.

[Fidgits]

I had never seen it - but a friend gave me the box set for xmas and I loved it!

[Pesty]

The robot fight club episode was excellent especially the guy from league of gentlemen

[Gretchen]

JohnnyPanic said:

MrTom said:

It was entertaining but not that funny as people make it out to be, well IMHO anyway.

I think appreciation of Spaced is quite age specific and relies heavily on 'getting' all the references / homages.

I watched it when it was originally on C4 years ago, full of film/game/80s cartoon references. Laughed so hard. I bought the discs on release. Watched again and cried with laughter, seem to discover more gems every time I watch it too. Clever stuff.

I believe SOTD was originally an idea for an episode of Spaced, but they had so much material they made the film.

Wish there'd been a third series.

So many great characters and quotes.

"The fruit of my loins has fked off to Top Shop with my Housekeeping".

[Geoff82]

Pesty said:

The robot fight club episode was excellent especially the guy from league of gentlemen

Oh yeah! I didn't think of that! (In a spaccy voice)

Genius...

[Gretchen]

Sciroccology said:

My highlight? Mike getting shot at paintball and coughing up yellow paint.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=shHh4Ju7kXA

I'm sure there are out-takes on one of the discs of 'Duane Benzie' (Peter Serafinowicz) choking when he's putting that voice on.

Love the Terminator reference in this one 'There's a storm coming'.

[tomtom]

jamesgrrr said:

pure genius.

the chav episode where the chavs get simon's weed (which is actually oregano) and corner 'tim' in the alley is classic.

"Clever boys"

That or the 'clubbing' episode are my favourites.

[Negative Creep]

• gets out the twin paintball guns*

'It's not a bedsit..........it's a flat!'

[Pesty]

Gretchen said:

Sciroccology said:

My highlight? Mike getting shot at paintball and coughing up yellow paint.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=shHh4Ju7kXA

I'm sure there are out-takes on one of the discs of 'Duane Benzie' (Peter Serafinowicz) choking when he's putting that voice on.

Love the Terminator reference in this one 'There's a storm coming'.

lol just cracking up at that fantastic

[A1GOY]

Gretchen said:

I believe SOTD was originally an idea for an episode of Spaced, but they had so much material they made the film.

SOTD was inspired by the Zombie episode, they like the idea so much they pitched it as a film and it got made! HUZZAH!

[Pesty]

Geoff82 said:

Pesty said:

The robot fight club episode was excellent especially the guy from league of gentlemen

Oh yeah! I didn't think of that! (In a spaccy voice)

Genius...

yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwjpZuqiihw

[Demonic Angel]

Spaced is awesome! That along with Green Wing for me is some of the best comedy to come out of recent years....The gunfight scenes are just pure comedy genius!

Its one of few TV shows I have on DVD I can watch again and again - that and the special features! The clubbing & oregano episodes are my favourites

It was also one of those shows that finished on a high and I'm glad in a way they never brought it back for a third series - it wouldn't have been the same.

[Tim.s]

"I'm Andy McNab, I'm Andy McNab, I'm Andy McDowell"

Brilliant, one of the best British series ever.

+1 for Green Wing too.

[Sciroccology]

Brian: "Chaos theory."

Tim: "Eh?"

Brian: "The predictability of random events. The notion that reality as we know it - past, present, future - is in fact a mathematically predictable, pre-ordained system."

Daisy: "So somewhere out there, in the vastness of the unknown, there's an equation for predicting the future?"

Brian: "An equation so complex as to utterly defy any possibility of comprehension by even the most brilliant human mind, but an equation nonetheless."

Tim: "Oh my god..."

Brian: "What?"

Daisy: "What?"

Tim: "I've got some fking Jaffa Cakes in my coat pocket!"

[Police State]

anyone for 'Black Books'?... another classic of similar vintage

[JohnnyPanic]

Police State said:

anyone for 'Black Books'?... another classic of similar vintage

Absolutely. Bought the boxed set of all 3 series from Amazon last week (reduced to a tenner, so well recommended for those who don't have it or haven't seen it). I haven't seen it for ages so really looking forward to watching it, just as soon as I stop working 12 hour days and Sundays too. Grrrr.