I find these quite well done and an enriching feature. My favourite is the Terminator take off in the 'Help' episode.

Can anyone point to similar stuff in other sitcoms?
 

I absolutely hate them. They are one of the many reasons I detest Spaced.
 

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Coupling - Reservoir Dogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOyK_h4CII ?
 

But is that a homage or a spoof? What's the difference?

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Just a joke about blokes doing blokey stuff.
 

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My favourite Spaced homage was the Pulp Fiction Pop Tart one.

I liked the homages in Spaced, they were fun. There were majorly obvious ones like the Matrix sequence, but even they were weaved into the storyline and added to with original ideas. And then there were loads of subtle ones, some of which I probably haven't even noticed yet because I haven't seen the film in question.

I could have lived without them too though, as they didn't form a major part of the show. It would be just as good without them.
 

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The Scooby Doo one always makes me smile.
 

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I endorse Winterlight's posts too.
 

Oh yeah! That one's so funny.
 

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A spoof is taking the piss - the object being taken off is the butt of the joke.

Homage is a nice tribute. Most of Spaced is a homage.


A spoof is taking the piss - the object being taken off is the butt of the joke.

Homage is a nice tribute. Most of Spaced is a homage.

And Spaced is ace - if not a touch dated.
 

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What I dislike about the HOMAGES in Spaced is that they are so laboured, "Look, look at us, we're spoofing a movie right, yeah, crazy, do you know which one it is, OK, we'll do a bit more, just so there's no doubt what we're doing, that's right, it's Pulp Fiction, yeah, you spotted it, well done, you're as movie-mad as we are, you movie-mad thing!!!"

I'd much rather they wrote some decent jokes instead.

I'm much happier with the blink-and-you'll-miss it movie references in things like The Simpsons which are usually brief, actually funny in the context of the plot, and credit the viewers with some intelligence.
 

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They did do more subtle ones!
Maybe you only noticed the obvious ones...


 

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All I know is that I was forced to watch the whole bloody two series over a weekend once and the only line that made me laugh in all twelve episodes was when the alcoholic landlady announced that she was "off to Threshers to do the weekly shop."
 

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See your avatar.
 

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I loved all the references in Spaced. There are so many who do without class.

Family Guy comes to mind. Sometimes it makes me laugh, but a lot of the time, they don't do anything with it. Like the VonTrapp children going to bed... it just kept going and going and they weren't doing anything with it. Then you had that awful 'Epic Movie' with Borat in it? WTF was that? If you satire satire you're a genius, but that was nothing short of retarded. They just had him in there, for no reason, and relied on the mankini. So they didn't even interject with their own comment. God, it just makes me so angry when...

well... anyway.

I think Spaced was positively endearing in its approach to homage/reference/satire of cultural hallmarks.




Gosh, I'm opinionated.
 

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