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theredbaron
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What is your favourite reference to Star Wars films in other shows (TV and Film)?
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Date created
23-Sep-2005, 8:37 PM
I don't know if you guys have seen the show known as 'Coupling', but it is an extremely hilarious BBC production. It's a British sitcom about relationships, basically, but it always ties things up in a hilarious fashion. And before I go on, I must warn you to STEER WELL CLEAR of the American version of this show - it has been re-shot verbatim with an all-American cast to make it more palette-able to the American populace. Well, I don't know why they do this all the time (is UK humour that hard to understand), but the humour has been decidedly lost in the translation.

Anyway, the episode I refer to is about 'The Melty Man', which is a codename for the anxieties, fears, and negative thoughts that cause men to have erection problems. Anyway, when one of the characters recalls the legend of the Melty Man, he is asked to describe him. He describes him as 'Darth Vader, without the helmet'.

In a later scene, another character, who was warned about the Melty Man, but didn't believe in him, has an encounter with the Melty Man in the bathroom, just before he is about to 'perform'. It went something like this:

"You don't know what happened to your erection."

"I know enough. Jeff told me you killed my erection."

"No! I am your erection!"

"Noooooooooo! That's not true, that's impossible!"

"Search your feelings, you know it be true!"


You guys have to see it. It's bloody funny.