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By Felix Vasquez Jr.

In a month or so, fan boys all across America will finally be able to set their hands down on a bonafide box set of “Spaced” on DVD without having to take a second mortgage.

They met in a coffee shop. She an aspiring journalist looking for a flat. He, a costumed mascot/comic artist… looking for a flat. After finding friendship in one another, and engaging in a long saccharine montage of laughs, giggles, and hardships, Daisy finally breaks down, and they find themselves in the middle of the funniest bit of episode one: synchronized crying, melodramatic screeching, and a run down of the series psychotic yet charming array of characters including Mike, Brian, Twist, and Marsha. It All Starts here… hopefully it doesn’t end with evil Mice-Spiders.

Daisy comes home from Asia to discover Mike is now renting her room, and she has a chance to show off her exploits in the country with three two hour VHS tapes! This is thanks to her snazzy new painfully outdated camcorder she copped off a dealer in Singapore. Sadly, it doesn’t garner the attention of the boys very long, and you can’t help but laugh at Daisy’s difficulty lifting the gigantic ten pound camcorder with a goofy grin.

Sometimes the dialogue and relevance to the episode didn’t really matter so long as the pun was funny. Take Tim’s reaction to Daisy’s dog. Take Tim’s reaction to Daisy’s dog chewing… bamboo. And take the opening scenes of the pilot where Tim and Daisy decide on their flat, and following along a certain Hanna Barbera show, reconsider their creepy new flat they suspect is haunted. While Tim and Daisy stand around like Freddy and Velma, investigating the strange noises emanating in their new flat with the “Scooby-Doo” theme wailing overhead. Such subtle sight gags are only the surface of the genius constantly practiced by “Spaced.”

Okay, if you’re going to watch “Spaced,” you can’t just watch it. You have to absorb it with undivided attention, because the pop culture puns are so quick, you won’t be able to spot them without watching the series two or three times. Watch it four times if you have to. Take Tim’s run in with long time hopeful Darkstar Comics in the finale where, in a desperate attempt to yank the embarrassing sketches of Damien Knox and confronts him in the midst of a quick escape from security falling back on Mike just like Sarah Connor in “Terminator 2.” Watch it, it’s… it’s magnificent. Take notes, Tarantino.

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