- Common Knowledge: Enfield's "Loadsamoney" character did not actually appear in this show. Loadsamoney (an obnoxious plasterer who constantly boasted about how much money he earned) was created in 1988 for Channel Four's Saturday Live and spawned a sellout tour and a novelty hit record note . He was killed off (partly due to concerns by Enfield that he was being seen in a positive light, which hadn't been the intention) before Harry Enfield's Television Programme was first broadcast in 1990.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Some of the behaviour exhibited (and remarks made) by Smashie and Nicey counts as this, especially considering the revelations that came out about former Radio One DJ Jimmy Savile after his death and the subsequent criminal investigations into the activities of surviving ex-DJs and other TV personalities from that era. In particular, there's the 1994 special Smashie & Nicey: End of an Era which has a scene in which Smashie asks a member of the Top of the Pops audience how old she is. When the programme was repeated on BBC2 in 2015 (four years after Savile's death), this scene was understandably edited out. An early Christmas special has them even compare Savile to Jesus in a positive manner. In a similar vein, Nicey — who often used to allude to a male "young friend" and at one point drunkenly confessed to having "abused" people — briefly appeared in the one-off special An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse (also broadcast in 2015) in which he said that he had been cleared of "all but one of the charges" brought against him as a result of Operation Yewtree
, echoing what happened to Dave Lee Travers, another former Radio One DJ. - Jerkass Woobie: Smashie becomes this in the 1994 special Smashie & Nicey: End of an Era. While he doesn't exactly come across as the most likeable of people thanks to his egocentricity, it's revealed that he was physically and emotionally abused by his father as a child, he's never got over his wife leaving him and he basically has never had any friends (his "great mate" Nicey can barely stand to be in the same room as him at times) ... and, thanks to his being let go by Radio Fab, he now has no job either.
- Memetic Mutation:
- The Scousers. "Eh. Dey do dough don't dey dough. Alright, alright, calm down!" Even real Scousers found them funny.
- Kevin the Teenager, to the point where he got his own movie.
- Loadsamoney, thanks to Killing Floor.
- Once Original, Now Common: Wayne and Waynetta Slob were supposed to be over-the-top caricatures of every negative stereotype of poor council-estate dwellers but since the word 'chav' entered the national consciousness and everyone started doing it, they seem unoriginal and not particularly funny.
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Kevin in his original "Little Brother" incarnation was hyperactive, obnoxious, and annoying. Once he was retooled into a stroppy teenager, he became the show's Breakout Character.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Several members of the cast of The Fast Show aside from Paul Whitehouse, such as Charlie Higson and Mark Williams, play minor parts in several sketches.
- Mummy Bunny from two 1992 episodes is played by Sara Crowe, who would later be best known for playing Fatima in Carry On Columbus.
- Lady Fotherington Carstairs from a 1994 episode is played by Rosalind Knight, who would later be best known for playing Beryl Merit in Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Horrible Grandma in Friday Night Dinner.
- Sequel Displacement: In a sense. Kevin The Teenager is really a sequel to the "Little Brother" series of sketches but, while anybody in the UK who watched comedy shows in The '90s will be able to quote Kevin and even imitate his mannerisms, very few of them will know that he evolved from the Little Brother character. Unless, of course, they saw the sketch where the transformation occurred ... at the exact moment he turned 13.
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