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** [[The Chick]]: Daisy (Leia)
** [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Twist (Jabba)
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* [[He's Just Hiding]]: Mike thought his childhood pet rabbit was still living next-door.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: "...as sure as eggs is eggs and every odd number ''[[Star Trek]]'' movie is shit." Pegg later joked about fate putting him in (the eleventh) ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' to show he was talking out of his arse.
** [[Shaun of the Dead|Simon Pegg]] wears a ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' T-shirt in season 2, episode 2.
** Not to mention, the hallucination scene at the beginning of Episode 3.
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: Widely praised and practically worshiped by comedy nerds, a decade later the series can feel light and underwhelming to newcomers finding it via ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' and ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' (especially if they're not huge fans of film able to catch many of the references). However, as one of the first shows to create a ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]''-like cartoon reality within a live-action show, it was groundbreaking at the time, and it influenced a number of creators of American comedy to follow its example to new extremes (thus making ''Spaced'' seem shallow by comparison).
* [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|When Daisy confesses to Marsha that she and Tim aren't really a couple - and that ''everyone else knows - the look on Marsha's face is heartbreaking.}}
** Particularly when {{spoiler|she reveals that the 'couple' requirement on the ad was the result of a miscommunication between her and the man writing the advert, and she'd have been perfectly happy to have them both there anyway.}}
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: ''Spaced'' is very definitely set in in late [[The Nineties|Nineties]]/TurnOfTheMillennium Britain:
** The use of [[VCR
** The presence of mobile phones, but only as a symbol of wealth/importance/success (Duane and Damian Knox have mobiles, Tim and Daisy only use the landline in their flat or payphones, Brian only uses one whilst pretending to be a lawyer).
** The original [[
** ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' came out between seasons, specifically "eighteen months ago": early on Duane, played by the same actor that voiced Darth Maul, [[Actor Allusion|echoes one of his few lines]] from the trailer; later, mention of the film is a [[Berserk Button]] for Tim.
** The use of Polaroid cameras; little background things like ''[[Pokémon]]'' merchandise in the comic book store, with an "Ancient Mew" card clearly visible under the counter and advertisements for bands such as [[Coldplay]] and [[Muse (band)|Muse]] playing smaller venues than they would today.
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