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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: At the time ISIHAC was introduced, it was an innovative subversion of the far more serious panel shows of its time. Nowadays, it's still funny but it's no longer unique, having been imitated by the likes of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At the time ISIHAC was introduced, it was an innovative subversion of the far more serious panel shows of its time. Nowadays, it's still funny but it's no longer unique, having been imitated by the likes of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''
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** The intros to Sound Charades that involved InnocentInnuendo aimed at Lionel Blair can be seen as this, given the revelation that his children were brutally bullied at school over it.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: It's been called "the antidote to panel games"[[note]]in other words, a parody on more serious shows of that type[[/note]] for so long, yet many people have long-since forgotten what original panel games it was supposed to be an antidote ''to''. (Indeed, it's been so influential, it's difficult to think of many serious, non-comedy panel game shows that are still left on Radio 4... or anywhere else in British media for that matter.)
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* AdaptationDisplacement: It's been called "the antidote to panel games"[[note]]in other words, a parody on more serious shows of that type[[/note]] games" for so long, yet many people have long-since forgotten what original that it's managed to long outlive the serious, non-comedy panel games it was supposed to be originally an antidote ''to''. (Indeed, it's been so influential, it's difficult to think of many serious, non-comedy The only surviving panel game shows that are still left on Radio 4... or anywhere else in British media for that matter.)from its days is ''Radio/JustAMinute'', and even that's often subject to RuleOfFunny nowadays.
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*** In episode 1 of season 55, broadcast a mere few months before Savile's death and the subsequent revelations about him, Barry was asked to sing the words of the Jim'll Fix It theme during One Song to the Tune of Another. Jack Dee's comment at the end is uncomfortably accurate:
----> '''Jack:''' Really rather lovely, wasn't it? Until we all remember Jimmy Savile.
----> '''Jack:''' Really rather lovely, wasn't it? Until we all remember Jimmy Savile.
