* AccidentalInnuendo: Sometimes seen in Colemanballs / Commentatorballs, and they also occasionally publish examples of this from newspaper articles (this used to be a much more prevalent feature, back when manual typesetting meant that amusing typos were more common in newspapers).
* BrokenBase: Their treatment of Julian Assange is unrelentingly negative - as far as the ''Eye'' is concerned, he is a shifty, anti-Semitic, irresponsible, vain sex offender. This has fractured the base into people who agree with this treatment and people who think that the ''Eye'' and Assange are natural allies.
* LifeImitatesArt: Following [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sarah_Payne the abduction and murder of Sarah Payne in 2000]], the ''News of the World'' ran a name and shame campaign against alleged paedophiles. An ''Eye'' cartoon showed a hate mob chasing a paediatrician, mistaking him for a paedophile. Whilst the issue was ''on sale'', a paediatrician in South Wales had her house vandalised by people who had taken her job title to mean she was a paedophile.
* MemeticMutation: The Eye's nicknames for newspapers are regularly used by people who have never read and have barely heard of ''Magazine/PrivateEye''. For a more narrow, political audience, their euphemisms such as "tired and emotional" (meaning, drunk) and "discussing Ugandan affairs" (anything sex-related) are well known.