I was up until almost 2 a.m. watching "Spaced." I haven't been up that late in ages. I found so many more reasons to love it since my initial avowal.

1.) Tim Bisley, Simon Pegg's character, is an avid "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fan. He's got an SMG poster in his room and during one episode, wakes up suddenly from sleep crying out, "BUFFY?"

2.) The team who created this show (Edgar Wright directed, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson wrote every episode) are fanatical film geeks, and in the last episode pull off a fabulously choreographed reference to Say Anything.... I still believe that it could happen to me.

3.) Tim Bisley grows so attached to the adopted mini Schnauzer that he is seen (at least twice) carrying it on his back in a little doggie backpack.

4.) Simon Pegg and Nick Frost always give good outtake.

5.) This is an unrelated point, but Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are real-life SSLPs! Read this!

6.) Shaun of the Dead was conceptualized during an episode when Tim gets all jacked up on cheap speed and plays Resident Evil for 24 hours, then hallucinates at a bar that all the other patrons are zombies attacking him and his friends.

7.) Simon Pegg in his navy blue and white tee-shirt that says "tenderloin" SLAYS ME. Why, why couldn't he have married me? Why didn't he love me? He could have been my little pork chop, and I would be his lemon pie. Ahh, to all the things that might have been.

I must have this for my own. It is a MORAL IMPERATIVE. And if you get that reference, you will get a prize. Something like my eternal film geek respect.