Trivia / Sex Lives of the Potato Men

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $1.8 million. Box office, $1.25 million. Often cited as one of the worst British films in years, this Awful British Sex Comedy was slammed by virtually every critic and has a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Compounding the issue was the fact that one-third of the budget was provided by the National Lottery's "good causes" funding via the UK Film Council and this "absolutely, indescribably horrible, vulgar, stupid, tawdry, depressing, embarrassing, filthy, vile, stinky, repugnant, slimy, unclean, nasty, degenerative and mind-numbing" film (as Mark Kermode put it) is not what people expected their money to go towards.
• Creator Backlash: The film has ultimately become a source of embarrassment for the company behind it, as they have refused to have it reprinted or distributed on online movie sites, even going as far as to have the tagline "the lowest form of life" printed on all dvd copies of the film as a way of denouncing it. Averted with the film's director, however, who still defends the movie to this day, even accusing people who dislike the film of not understanding it.
• Creator Killer: After directing this movie, the film's writer and director, Andy Humphries, has been limited to directing only TV movies and shows, most of which have fallen into obscurity, including even his most recent ones.
• Genre-Killer: The film was intended to be a resurrection of the Awful British Sex Comedy genre, but it ultimately ended up killing it instead. It wasn't until a few years later that The Inbetweeners, which is universally agreed to be far superior in every way possible, would do a much better job (albeit, very briefly) at resurrecting the genre than this movie ever could.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: DVDs of the film are long out of print, and to this day, the movie is unavailable to watch on any movie streaming services.

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