Anger, Pain, Fear, Aggression….Watercolours and laughs! As we know from our special on Britain’s Best Sitcom, Spaced is in both Guy and Rob’s top 5, so neither could contain their excitement when it came to talking about Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright’s seminal turn of the century pop-culture-reference-a-thon.
Skip to the end….but there’s more. Joining our very own Tim and Daisy was filmmaker Ross Birks, fresh from stealing a tank and trying to invade Paris, to lend his two penn’orth. We could have done a whole two hours on that, but of course, this is a movie podcast so what better than the film inspired by a short segment in an episode of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead?
The movie that spawned the genre Zom Rom Com was 20 years old at the time of recording and all three of our panelists made no secret of their love, quotability, and rewatchabilty of one of the most influential films of the 00s… despite itself making so many references to all three of the genres it drew from.
After a truly terrible showing in last week’s quiz, who would break the deadlock this week with Ross’ fiendishly difficult questions?
So let’s take the car. Go to Mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, listen to Britcom Goes To the Movies, and wait for all of this to blow over.
Simon Pegg and Jessica Stephenson in Six Pairs of Pants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZkItmbFiQ
Edgar Wright directed Asylum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhzHQfSkg0w
Mash & Peas – John Littlerichard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGF5z4hyzY
Spaced – One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoU_GG38Tc
Spaced – Clubbing Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_wVOA_95QU
Spaced – The Matrix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kLk9gfK_w
Comic Relief Blankety Blank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUC4un_G5AA
Big Train – Billie Piper fanclub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_3oU-Z4Vxo
Shaun of the Dead trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfcaZ4pC-4
Shaun of the Dead record throwing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHAOY7C1go
Shaun of the Dead – Prink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJvDtF1ios
Edgar Wright’s Don’t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czR4qJbkSuc
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