Warning: The American Spaced May Induce Vomiting
Although I’m a big fan of the original U.K. series Spaced, which of course starred Simon Pegg and was directed by Edgar Wright, I had only ever heard of the disastrous American version, which was famously made by Fox, produced by McG and without the knowledge or consent of any of the show’s original creators. I had also heard it was fucking terrible, which I didn’t particularly doubt. Unfortunately, a clearly malevolent Simon Pegg tweeted a link to the above video, featuring scenes from the American version of Spaced, and, well, long story short, how do you get vomit out of a computer keyboard?
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.