Shout Out / Spitting Image S 1 E 3

• A snippet of "We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" can be heard at the start of the scene in the garden of 10 Downing Street. The scene closes out with "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?"
• The Talking Bank advert strapline is "[A]t the sign of the horse's mouth", a take-off the name of the instrumental track and former theme song to Pick of the Pops, "At the Sign of the Swingin' Symbol."
• One of the passengers on the plane spots one of the Flying Pickets outside, which may be a reference to "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", the episode of The Twilight Zone where one of the passengers spots a monster on the wing outside.
• While the President's brain is relaxing on the beach, the theme from Desert Island Discs plays in the background.
• The background music that plays while Sir Kenneth Newman stands outside number ten is the prelude from The Belles of St. Trinian's. This would be deployed as a Leitmotif a few subsequent Cabinet sketches.
• The cadence that Margaret uses when saying "Nigel, don't do that" is based on comedian Joyce Grenfell's "Nursery School" sketch.
• When budget day rolls round for Nigel Lawson, the scene opens with "Once a Year Day" from The Pajama Game.
• Janet Street Germ sings a bit of "Roll Out the Barrel" while she's reporting from Denis Thatcher's liver.