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Why does @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com look like a renegade detective in a beloved low-budget Italian film from the 80s while Terry Pratchett looks like his friend who owns a boat they use to stop sea crime

Feb 06, 2024 at 04:09 UTC

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 14:37 UTC

"Terry Pratchett gets up early in the mornings, Neil Gaiman early in the afternoons. This book was created in the four or five hours every day when both of them were awake" a small snippet from the [very funny] biopic inside my original copy of Good Omens ...

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Vi La Bianca @vilabianca.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:46 UTC

They look like Crowley and Aziraphael

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@boggo2300.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:38 UTC

I would watch that!

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Cj @cjiswingingit.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:10 UTC

Bastard! Involved With the Gangsters--Enzo G. Castellari, 1981

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Cosmos (They / He) @dreaming-cosmos.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 07:07 UTC

Ngl, when I saw this initially, I was thinking: What did Andy Samberg do with Ian Holm? Were they in some movie or SNL thing together?! And now I'm disappointed they weren't in a project together...

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JAM @heeroyuy2.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 11:32 UTC

This is the real Aziraphale/Crowley

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Strepsirrhini @strepsirrhini.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 05:05 UTC

🤣🤣🤣 🤌🏻🤌🏻

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furnace @furnace.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 05:01 UTC

Miami NICE

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President, LeeAnne Baker Fan Club @theinternetslee.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:11 UTC

Michael Mann's Beachcombers

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 05:29 UTC

Same energy

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James Carrier @studiousbadger.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 10:41 UTC

Strong Bergerac energy. Jersey's never been safer.

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it’s M the Autumn Owl 🍁🍂 @owlinautumn.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 05:12 UTC

They were secretly trying to remake Prisencolinensinainciusol but it was too powerful and never got released.

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Tomb Svalborg @tombs.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:42 UTC

All I see is the bikes someone removed with photoshop

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Joes’s O’s @joes0s.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 07:12 UTC

It’s giving Donald Fagen

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Tamara Winters @tamaraneo.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

Oh, I see; Good Omens was an autobiography!

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SpookyTeapot @spookyteapot.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 05:37 UTC

This looks like a UK version of Miami Vice.

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@jhgoforth.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:04 UTC

*presses play on Miami Vice opening with this picture on screen*

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Charles Duncan @charlie2snakes.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:49 UTC

Geezer and the Twat, the new cop drama from Sky TV.

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Kontermutter @kontermutter.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 05:33 UTC

Headcanon accepted.

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:17 UTC

I know why.

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 05:20 UTC

Call it “Good Romans”

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Eccentric_Radiant07 @eccentricradiant07.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 08:04 UTC

They look like they came out of a lost 80s Buddy Cop flick

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Pabst Blue Ronin @forestservicehater.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:10 UTC

Patchett was among our most powerful hat guys

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Cerisella @cerisella.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:19 UTC

Love this picture Missing Terry Pratchett

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Pangur Bán @pangurban.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:04 UTC

I want the fanfic based on this and I want it NOW

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Spoonbill Reducks @spoonbill.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:57 UTC

If Good Omens had been made into a TV series within a year of its publication, Aziraphale would have been played by Stephen Fry and Crowley by Hugh Laurie.

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John Worrall @johnworrall.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 08:22 UTC

It’s an 80’s remake of Randall & Hopkirk ( Deceased)

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:14 UTC

I don't know but where's the gofundme link to get this project greenlit?

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@nostikvvvibes.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:52 UTC

Surely this is the duo from The Mighty Boosh?

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VoteBlue4ever @voteblue4vr.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:14 UTC

So this pic was pretty clearly the model for Aziraphale and Crowley?

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NK JJB @neiljrm.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 07:08 UTC

80's Rock band look. Hint of Jeff beck there

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Dr. Wombat @aspyre.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:33 UTC

Or this is an episode of the Highlander television show from the season where Duncan lived in houseboat in Paris. They are meeting him on holy ground.

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

I think pterry looks like a 70s tv villain. With, yes, a boat.

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ɹoᴉɹd qoɹ @b4.ca
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 06:05 UTC

All I see is Aziraphale and Crowley... 🤔

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三足烏四十四 @yatagarasu44.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 13:54 UTC

I think this will become my go-to celebrity photo.

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Sabermane @homelessrobot.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:46 UTC

Look, they had a short lived TV drama on CBS/BBC 9 in the 80s and the writing was good but the stations kept bouncing around thier time slot. I have it on DVD.

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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 11:40 UTC

I’m thinking Terry is an angel come down to earth to guide a wayward man down on his luck, unaware he is about to cause more and hilarious problems for him but ultimately help him find love and redemption. Orion Pictures, 1979.

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

I am HOWLING

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@tom2293.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 07:00 UTC

This is a fan-made prequel True Detective

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DD aka Miko Kiko @ddmiko.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 10:45 UTC

I can hear the cheesy soundtrack now :)

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Gaël @vousk.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

Neil looks like a french singer from the 80s. ^^

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Wil Deny @wildeny.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:23 UTC

Neil's a good cop... but he plays by his own rules

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Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

Just going to throw this photo of Steranko and Kirby out there.

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Will Pierce @willpierce.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 04:40 UTC

It looks like a still from a lost Withnail & I deleted scene

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Tasha Mcintosh.bsky.social @opalescentbubbles.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 10:30 UTC

I need a fan-comic of this yesterday!

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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 08:24 UTC

Introduction to both these gents via the Good Omens first edition hardcover in my highschool library in 1991. Good times, and the best thing I got out of that shitty school.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

"Yeah, we kept getting punctures driving too fast on bad roads, but the food was amazing."

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Dee MG @crepuscularkitten.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

The Magnum to his Higgins to be sure.

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Jamspangle @jamspangle.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

I like the final line of the cover notes of Good Omens:- 'This book was created in the four or five hours every day when both of them were awake'.

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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

Because it was a series on a small back water Italian TV station. It lasted five episodes but all folded because there wasn't any money for anything but clothes & sunglasses. Terry's boat was a dingy with motoscafo painted on the side. The dubbing into Italian was terrible which was adlibbed

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