Cultural references of Aston Villa

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Villa reference and Villa badge on rucksack of an actor in Martin Sheen's film The Way.

[cdbearsfan]

Nessa in "Gavin and Stacey" wears a Villa shirt.

Jim Hacker MP expresses annoyance at the amount of reading his Civil Servants have given him to do over the weekend in "Yes Minister", as "Villa's at home to Liverpool". Though, in a later episode, he attempts to use his influence to save the fictional club "Aston Wanderers".

Lennie Godber from "Porridge" and its sequel, "Going Straight", is Villa...

"When I was up in court and Villa looked like doing well in the cup, I prayed
But I don't know, it didn't seem to work out
I got probation and Villa lost to Rotherham one nothing."

There's a Villa-supporting terrorist in an early episode of "Spooks". Another character tries to talk him out of detonating a bomb by saying "suicide's a bit extreme even for an Aston Villa fan, don't you think?".

Villa are mentioned in an episode of "Peaky Blinders" where someone is asked to name the Villa and Blose goalkeepers to show local knowledge and prevent outside infiltration of the gang. The Villa answer was Tommy Jackson who was understudy, and later successor, to the legendary Sam Hardy.

Lenny Henry did a pastiche of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, where he sang that a bunch of zombies "look like they're the fans of Aston Villa".

Jack Grealish, then at Villa, is namechecked in Stormzy remix "Sore".

[darren woolley]

There's a song Nigel Kennedy and Stephen Duffy sang called Holte End Hotel brilliant song it's on Youtube I've got the album.

[Rory]

Lenny Henry did a pastiche of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, where he sang that a bunch of zombies "look like they're the fans of Aston Villa".

Sounds like one of his funniest bits of material...

[cdbearsfan]

I remember I liked it at the time, but I was about five. My toes are still curling from his Commonwealth Games routine.

Anyway, here's the Thriller video...

[Deano's Mullet]

Julian Joachim is shown on tv playing for Villa around 1998 in the film Hannibal.

Arsenal Villa 1991 is playing on multiple TV in a shop window at the end of Mr Bean goes to Town.

[boozey182]

You're all missing the most obvious one - the actor that plays the dad in CBeebies classic series 'Waffle The Wonder Dog' is a Villa fan and in most episodes he is wearing some combination of claret and blue.

[eamonn]

Ha, deadly!

[Villan For Life]

More comedy characters

Pike in Dad’s Army wears a claret and blue scarf

Mrs Doyle in Father Ted wears claret and blue woolly socks/tights

Both actors are Villa fans in real life.

[eamonn]

Most random/hilarious mention of Villa out of context I've heard was Blindboy Boatclub from The Rubberbandits discussing mental health on his podcast a few weeks back.

[PeterWithesShin]

There was a music video by Wolfsbane back in the day where the drummer had used black tape to have AV on the drum set. No idea which song as it was late 80s or early 90s, and Wolfsbane were shit.

[Jon Crofts]

Villa reference and Villa badge on rucksack of an actor in Martin Sheen's film The Way.

The actor was James Nesbit who plays the character Jack.

[TopDeck113]

BBC Radio comedy from the 1970s, "The Men From The Ministry" - think "Yes, Minister" but without the insight and written primarily for cheap laughs. 

There is an episode called Birmingham Is Revolting, in which there is an environmental issue in the city.  However, due to a typing error in a Whitehall memo, rather than depollution the remedy that is enacted is devolution.

Birmingham's newly installed Foreign Secretary, Ivor Smallhouse (oh, my aching sides) is interviewed on that well known current affairs programme Scatterama (oh, stop it!) and says, "We wish to remain friends with Britain. For any viewers fancying a holiday abroad this year, there's always a welcome in the sun-kissed streets of Birmingham.  Linger a while in the pleasant bistros of the Costa-del-Aston or rent your own Aston villa..."

[Deano's Mullet]

I remember the Brummie band Fuzzbox playing on telly and the presenter said they were the best thing to come out of Brum since Aston Villa.

[Meanwood Villa]

Line of Duty - Holte End Holdings being one of the shell companies used by "H"