Provides examples of
- The Alleged Car: The brand new car in the studio in Block Your Odd Bob Mr Name That Family Pricelines -2-1 is revealed to be a Sinclar C5.
- Catchphrase: The catchphrase on Block Your Odd Bob Mr Name That Family Pricelines -2-1 is "Up Your Norris Horris."
- Corporal Punishment: The teachers' union has Keith Joseph caned while the tell him their demands.
- Death as Comedy: Chernenko's been close to death for so long that a rotating sign has been installed in a public square to update its name in line with the likelihood of his death.
- Disaster Dominoes: Don and the general mention the Cold War idea of the domino effect of the rise of Communism when they’re trying to get Reagan to sign off on a defence budget increase.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Cabinet bring in board games the day before Parliament closes like kids bringing them in on the last day of school before the summer holidays.
- Due to the Dead: Played for Laughs. It’s announced on the news that someone famous has died. Cue some shallow tributes from has-been celebrities and an opportunistic repeat of a programme showing the famous person. Since he doesn’t know exactly who’s died, Donald Sinden starts ringing up some of his colleagues to try and work out if this means that he’s now the greatest living Shakespearian actor. He gets a call from Little and Large who apparently doing something similar.
- Eye-Obscuring Hat: The general who comes to see Reagan wears a hat that complete covers his eyes.
- Fat Idiot: Nigel Lawson isn't actually able to explain what the FT Index is despite being Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Foreign Queasine: The Taj Everest is an Indian restaurant that advertises its food as a remedy for constipation.
- Gag Nose: The general who shows up with Don to get Reagan to sign off on a defence budget increase has a nose that looks like a pair of testicles.
- Kneel Before Zod: Ian McGregor is shown down on his knees while Thatcher tells him her thoughts on his idea to dump nuclear waste in disused coal mines.
- Lampshaded Double Entendre: A hooter on Block Your Odd Bob Mr Name That Family Pricelines -2-1 signals when it's time for one of the celebrity guests to make a suggestive comment.
- Laughing Mad: Thatcher starts cackling madly when Norman Fowler tells her he's closed down another mental hospital, since that means that soon there won't be any left for anyone to try and put her into one.
- No Indoor Voice: The man who tapped Ian Paisley’s phone received the Queen’s Commendation Medal and two perforated eardrums by the time the job was over.
- Page Three Stunna: Played for Laughs in "Big Busters", a song all about how you can use pictures of topless women to sell just about anything.
- Parody Commercial:
- One sketch alluding to a phone-tapping scandal is a parody of a BT ad campaign with a heavily Pantomime-influenced setup based around the Catchphrase, "It's for You." It also parodies that same campaign’s usual sign-off.
"British Telecom helps you keep in touch. And no one can prove it afterwards."- Ian McGregor announces an NCB sale with all the negotiating equipment that’s never been used. The Signing Off Catchphrase - "NCB. The Yank that likes to say…no" - is based on "TSB. The bank that likes to say yes."
- Felicity Kendal appears in an advert for One-Can, an all-purpose cat food, baby food and toilet cleaner.
- There's a series of ads parodying ones typically shown in cinemas, including the really naff ones for local businesses. One of the ads even suggests business owners buy a spot for their competitors in order to discredit them.
- Playing Against Type: In-Universe, Leonard Nimoy fails horribly at this in spite of himself.
- Pressure Point: Leonard Nimoy offs John Gielgud with a Vulcan death grip when he mentions "ears" during a performance of Julius Caesar.
- Recognition Failure: One of the washed-up celebrity guests on the quiz show has a name plate that just says "God Knows".
- Self-Made Man: Played for Laughs when Prince Philip insists that the unemployed should pull themselves up by the bootstraps like he did when he decided to become a member of the royal family before being given the hook.
- Sex Is Good: At a meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the committee members are trying to come up with a new sport. Cecil Parkinson hits on the idea of Olympic Bonking. It’s a sport all the member nations play and enjoy, and it embodies the Olympic ideals of strength and fitness. When asked about how they will measure the athletes' performance, Cecil Parkinson says that the one who comes first is the loser.
- Signing Off Catchphrase: Paul Daniels has one on Block Your Odd Bob Mr Name That Family Pricelines -2-1:"I tickle your plumpies and may the force be with you."
- The Stinger: After a statement claiming that the creators of the show never made a puppet of the Queen Mother, she appears.
- Subculture of the Week: The members of the public on Block Your Odd Bob Mr Name That Family Pricelines -2-1 are trampolining goat-baiters.
- Sunday is Boring: the main news headline from Sir Alastair Burnet is that considerably less news happens on a Sunday compared to any other day of the week.
- Tagline: Hot Dong's tagline is "An Hour from Now, You'll Wish You Hadn't Had One".
- Visual Innuendo: Lampshaded in the Hot Dong advert."The hot dog shaped like a trouser a snake and tastes about the same."
