When Nicholas goes to check on Danny who he locked up as inebriate after he drunk-drove his car into him during his first evening in Sandford and asks Bill Baileys desk sergeant hows our guest? This might seem like a regular line but, theres a sly reference in there. The line is a homage to Wright and Peggs first collaboration, the 1996 TV series Asylum. Set in an insane asylum, it was a surreal black comedy which also featured Nick Frost and can very much be viewed as the forerunner to Spaced.