YMMV / Spaced

• Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack. That remix of The A-Team theme tune that Mike dances to on stage when the gang go clubbing is absolutely classic.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Tim's caricature as a caustic critic of the Star Wars Prequels and Jar Jar Binks and a Fan Hater becomes this after Jake Lloyd, who played Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, admitted to being bullied for his performance in the years afterward, but even more so after 2018, where not only has toxicity in nerd culture become a hot topic in the wake of the online harassment of Kelly Marie Tran over her role as Rose in The Last Jedi, it was revealed that Jar Jar's actor, Ahmed Best, contemplated suicide over similar harassment. It got to the point that Simon Pegg not only chewed out the people responsible for the harassment, but even though he admits to only criticizing Jar Jar the character, he also felt shame for possibly having a hand in influencing Best's harassment.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The solid nerd wisdom of "...as sure as eggs is eggs and every odd number Star Trek movie is shite." Pegg later joked about fate putting him in the eleventh, Star Trek (2009), then going on to co-write the thirteenth, Star Trek Beyond. (Though ironically, those are considered the better ones, with Star Trek Into Darkness generally considered the "shit" one.)
  • Simon Pegg wears a Dawn of the Dead (1978) T-shirt in season 2, episode 2. Shaun Of The Dead aside, Pegg and Edgar Wright would later have a cameo in Land of the Dead as zombies.
  • Not to mention, the hallucination scene at the beginning of Episode 3. Though, this was the inspiration for Shaun of the Dead to begin with.
  • The flat has several Judge Dredd posters on the walls. Simon Pegg would later co-star with Karl Urban (who would later go on to play Dredd in Dredd) in Star Trek (2009). Not only that, but Pegg and Wright would script a Shaun of the Dead origin story for one of the zombies that featured in 2000 AD with Pegg as Shaun being on the cover of the prog in question making this an odd case of a retroactive Celebrity Paradox.
  • A real-life example, but with regards to the use of Star Wars during 'Chaos', the team actually wanted to use the series' proper soundtrack for the background, and had petitioned Lucasfilm to use it in the show. Lucasfilm, being protective of the license, told them 'no', only to begin to change their minds once they understood that the characters were not using the series as a source of mockery. They then agreed to allow the team to use elements from the series - there was just one problem; By the time Lucasfilm had agreed, the much contested prequel Episode I had been released. Rather than use the material Lucasfilm would now allow, the team instead stuck a three good Star Wars films later jab into "Chaos" at the last minute, and proceeded to make the dissatisfaction with The Phantom Menace an element of Tim's character in Series 2.
    • And then Pegg was actually cast in Star Wars: The Clone Wars as the voice of Dengar, a villainous but cool Bounty Hunter that first appeared in the Original Trilogy. And years later, in The Force Awakens as Unkar Plutt, a quite unsympathetic character.
  • Tim works for a man named Bilbo. Martin Freeman was one of the actors to have a role in all three of the Cornetto movies, and is a close friend of Simon and Nick.
  • In one of the episodes, there was a brief scene where Brain Topp accidentally gets covered in paint when he moves a ladder. This scene becomes funnier when you realise that his actor (Mark Heap) played a character in Friday Night Dinner who goes through a similar issue.
  • The scene where Bilbo [Bill Bailey] and Tim [Simon Pegg] to a celebratory dance was a well circulated GIF when Bill Bailey won Strictly Come Dancing in 2020
• Hollywood Pudgy: In the first episode of series 2, Marsha tells Daisy that she looks well stating that a lot of people lose weight when travelling. In spite of this, Daisy looks visibly trimmer than she did in series 1 due to the fact that Jessica Hynes had been pregnant while filming.
• Retroactive Recognition: The stoic paper boy who attends the housewarming party in episode two is a young Tony Way, who would later become a character actor in shows like Game of Thrones and After Life (2019).
• Signature Scene: The scene where Tim angrily reams out a kid for wanting to buy a Jar-Jar Binks toy and shooing him out of the store he works at.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The series is very definitely set in in late Nineties/Turn of the Millennium Britain:
  • The use of VCRs and VHS (especially noticeable for their use for porn), the knowledge of the existence of the internet but the lack of it in Tim and Daisy's flat (not yet easily affordable or worth paying for) - also, the old trope of kids getting their first porn from magazines abandoned by others.
    • One instance where the absence of the internet is particularly noticeable: the entire plot of Series 2, Episode 4 revolves around Tim sending his art portfolio to a comics editor ASAP by bike courier.
  • 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 PlayStation with games like Tomb Raider III and Resident Evil 2, the Gameboy Color belonging to the paperboy.
  • The Phantom Menace came out between seasons, specifically "eighteen months ago": early on Duane, played by the same actor that voiced Darth Maul, 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 playing smaller venues than they would today.
    • Sometimes the old-fashioned-ness is intentional, for instance when Daisy hefts a massive, outdated camcorder and smugly says, 'Welcome to the 21st Century'. Daisy and (less so) Tim are skint and out of touch with ACTUAL youth enough to be using technologies and listening to music that Amber and her friends would disdain.
  • Daisy uses a typewriter and not a laptop, and an antique one by the standards of the day. It's meant to show that she's really not putting much effort into being a writer. If she was she'd have a more modern electric typewriter or a word processor
    • And also that she's a proto-hipster. She wears glassless glasses when using the typewriter after all.
  • Characters seen smoking in indoor locations (smoking in pretty much anywhere but private residences and the street was banned in the UK in 2007, certainly in pubs).
  • All the references, parodies, shout-outs and homages are from no later than 1999 (even the trailers, such as one that says "You cannot know what Spaced is...you must see it for yourself".)
  • Daisy and Tim pay £90 per week to rent a flat in North London; even by the time they were they pre-screening it for test audiences, that had become a pipe dream. In the DVD Commentary, Pegg says it got the first laugh of the series.
• Values Dissonance: Tim casually calls the gender-fluid Vulva a "tranny", which is now considered a highly offensive slur against trans people. Though, to the show's credit, Vulva is more a target of comedy for her bizarre, incomprehensible performance art and the fact that she's mean to Brian than the fact she's genderfluid and nobody questions or mocks Brian's past romantic relationship with her.

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