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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Palin's film crew passes through parts of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the voiceover added in 1992, the collapse of the Soviet Union is alluded to and while 1991 Palin orders a train ticket to Leningrad, the 1992 credits tease passing into the newly-renamed St. Petersburg.

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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: FailedFutureForecast: Palin's film crew passes through parts of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the voiceover added in 1992, the collapse of the Soviet Union is alluded to and while 1991 Palin orders a train ticket to Leningrad, the 1992 credits tease passing into the newly-renamed St. Petersburg.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Palin's film crew passes through parts of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the voiceover added in 1992, the collapse of the Soviet Union is alluded to and while 1991 Palin orders a train ticket to Leningrad, the 1992 credits tease passing into the newly-renamed St. Petersburg.
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* DamnYouMuscleMemory: In northern Norway, Palin briefly drives on the wrong side of a town street before remembering that Norwegians drive on the right side of the road, the opposite of Palin's native Britain.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Though they never encounter one, the Svalbard guides carry guns to protect themselves and their charges from the very real threat of polar bears.
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''Pole to Pole'' is a 1992 documentary series hosted by Michael Palin during which, in the course of eight episodes, he travels from the North Pole to the South Pole.

!!''Pole to Pole'' contains examples of:

*ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: In "Pole to Pole," Palin and company travel from pole to pole.
*TheHermit: Early in the first episode, Palin meets a trapper who has been living alone in an isolated hut in the already isolated archipelago of Svalbard for the previous 15 years.
*MaleFrontalNudity: A brief glimpse in the second episode.

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