| 1 | * BeamMeUpScotty: "Suits you, sir!" was never ever said; the line was always "'''Suit''' you, sir!" |
| 2 | * CaliforniaDoubling: The "Shore Leave" song, supposedly in New York, is clearly filmed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
| 3 | * PromotedFanboy: Creator/JohnnyDepp appeared in one of the "Suit you, sir!" sketches. (If you want to do this, it helps to be Johnny Depp.) |
| 4 | * HeAlsoDid: Creator/MarkWilliams was previously known for playing Lister's best friend Olaf Petersen in Series/RedDwarf , and did not return to play him in Series 8 due to being busy with The Fast Show. |
| 5 | * WriteWhoYouKnow: |
| 6 | ** Simon Day admits to basing "Competitive Dad" on a man he saw at a public swimming pool, who challenged his children to a race and then swam away at top speed leaving them to struggle behind him. |
| 7 | *** This inspiration formed part of the very last Competitive Dad sketch, where we see a video recording of Competitive Dad's own father doing it to him as a child. |
| 8 | ** Rowley Birkin QC was based on a similarly incomprehensible (English) person Paul Whitehouse met in Iceland - although his style also owes something to ventriloquist Ray Alan's puppet Lord Charles. |
| 9 | ** One of Arabella Weir's characters is a woman who suggests something to a group of arguing men, only for them to totally ignore her and hear the suggestion [[GladIThoughtOfIt as though one of them had made it]]. This, as Whitehouse and Higson wryly realised on reading the first sketch, was her commentary on how they tended to treat her in script meetings. |
| 10 | ** Insecure Woman was suggested to Weir by the others, based on herself. |
| 11 | ** Swiss Toni was apparently based on several different real car salesmen. |
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