Provides examples of:
- Asian Buck Teeth: When the Cabinet are trying to come up with a caveat they can tack on to an official statement about self-determination for British dependents that somehow won't include Hong Kong, there's the following exchange:Leon Brittan: How about, "We guarantee the rights of British dependants, unless they're nasty little yellow men with big teeth and slanty eyes"?Margaret Thatcher: Oh no, Leon, that would knock out Norman Fowler.
- Blackface: The the man who Thatcher introduces as the first Black cabinet minister, Cyril Perkinson, is Cecil Parkinson in blackface and a minstrel outfit.
- Good Girls Avoid Abortion: When Reagan reveals to a pro-life rally that if abortion had been legal when his mother was pregnant with him, he might not be here today, the protesters immediately convert to being pro-choice.
- Hypocritical Humor: After a minister causes a scandal by using racially insensitive language, Thatcher and Brittan have a discussion completely littered with slurs about how to deal with him.Thatcher: We've got no room for racists in my party. I mean, we're chock-a-block already.
- Precious Puppy: The pedigree wolverines are kind of cute.
- Stop and Go: Reagan does this in the middle of a speech. Don has to poke him with a stick to get him going again.
- Totally Radical: One sketch shows Gorbachev as a radical progressive, ready to bring Russia into the Swingin' Sixties. Someone interrupts his groovy house party to share some terrible news about John Lennon - he's married Cynthia.
- Visual Pun: Leon Brittan pulls a screw loose from Thatcher's neck in the opening sketch.
