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** Janet Breen as well. She just wants to organise a jam festival where celebrities donate homemade jam to raise money for the poor but Chris Morris reduces her to a teary-eyed wreck for not aiming to raise enough money in his opinion.
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** Janet Breen as well. She just wants to organise a jam festival where celebrities donate homemade jam to raise money for the poor but Chris Morris reduces her to a teary-eyed wreck for not aiming to raise enough money in his opinion.opinion.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: in the pilot, later reworked into episode 5, Morris single-handedly tricks Australia and Hong Kong into going to war simply so he could cover it, then offers a series of gritty reports on the horrors of war ('As I was eating my cornflakes this morning, a soldier's head flew past the window, shouting "Victory!"')
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: in In the pilot, later reworked into episode 5, Morris single-handedly tricks Australia and Hong Kong into going to war simply so he could cover it, then offers a series of gritty reports on the horrors of war war. ('As I was eating my cornflakes this morning, a soldier's head flew past the window, shouting "Victory!"')
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** The notion of a ruthless news station deliberately instigating a war is reminiscent of Film/TomorrowNeverDies.
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** The notion of a ruthless news station deliberately instigating a war is reminiscent of Film/TomorrowNeverDies.''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
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** A subtle one is the programme's graphics using the Gil Sans font, three years before the BBC adopted it as its corporate typeface.
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** The notion of a ruthless news station deliberately instigating a war is reminiscent of Film/TomorrowNeverDies.
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* MagnificentBastard: Chris Morris can get into this sometimes. In one episode, he starts a war for news ratings, long before [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies Elliot Carver]] did!
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** "It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large."
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** "Peter, you've lost the news!"
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* MagnificentBastard: Chris Morris can get into this sometimes. In one episode, he starts a war for news ratings, long before [[Film/TomorrowNeverDies Elliot Carver]] did!
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** Also, the Queen finally delivering her long-awaited punch to John Major.
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** Also, the Queen finally delivering her long-awaited punch to John Major.Major.
* TheWoobie: As incompetent as he is, you have to feel sorry for Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan because he comes across as such a NiceGuy and seems so forlorn whenever he fucks up.
** Janet Breen as well. She just wants to organise a jam festival where celebrities donate homemade jam to raise money for the poor but Chris Morris reduces her to a teary-eyed wreck for not aiming to raise enough money in his opinion.
* TheWoobie: As incompetent as he is, you have to feel sorry for Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan because he comes across as such a NiceGuy and seems so forlorn whenever he fucks up.
** Janet Breen as well. She just wants to organise a jam festival where celebrities donate homemade jam to raise money for the poor but Chris Morris reduces her to a teary-eyed wreck for not aiming to raise enough money in his opinion.
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Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena are completely different
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** There was A sketch about ''Series/QuestionTime'' coming live from Wembley Arena. That ''actually happened'' in 2016 as part of the BBC's coverage of the EU referendum.
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** There was A sketch about ''Series/QuestionTime'' coming live from Wembley Arena. That ''actually happened'' in 2016 as part of the BBC's coverage of the EU referendum.
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Recorded after 9/11 for a DVD-extra segment.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One 'report' was about a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, involving hijacked planes, no less!
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* HarsherInHindsight: One 'report' was about a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, involving hijacked planes, no less!
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* HilariousInHindsight: As mentioned on the main page, the series appears to have somehow inspired the television news program openings of today, complete with computer-designed graphics and overly pretentious music. Compare and contrast, if you will, The Day Today's opening with that of the current BBC News, or Channel 4's.
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** On other occasions, however, he seems to take sadistic pleasure in bullying and psychologically tormenting him, thus making it unclear whether this is just him playing mind-games.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: in the pilot, later reworked into episode 5, Morris single-handedly tricks Australia and Hong Kong into going to war simply so he could cover it, then offers a series of gritty reports on the horrors of war ('As I was eating my cornflakes this morning, a soldier's head flew past the window, shouting "Victory!"')
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Many, but Sukie [[InherentlyFunnyWords Bapswent]] introducing ''Nirvana'' and their rendition of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DP_MyPddo Panty Smile]]'' has to be a high point.
* HoYay: For the most part, Chris has a great deal of unwarranted respect for Alan and is perfectly happy to gloss over his mistakes and incompetence, so much so that he plants a big, wet kiss on Alan's lips in the final episode.
* MemeticMutation: Some of the names of the racehorses at the delayed 6:30 from Marple: ''Two Headed Sex Beast'', ''Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels''. ''The Bobby Davro Snooker Experience'' from ''On The Hour'' is the name of at least one band.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: in the pilot, later reworked into episode 5, Morris single-handedly tricks Australia and Hong Kong into going to war simply so he could cover it, then offers a series of gritty reports on the horrors of war ('As I was eating my cornflakes this morning, a soldier's head flew past the window, shouting "Victory!"')
* HoYay: For the most part, Chris has a great deal of unwarranted respect for Alan and is perfectly happy to gloss over his mistakes and incompetence, so much so that he plants a big, wet kiss on Alan's lips in the final episode.
* MemeticMutation: Some of the names of the racehorses at the delayed 6:30 from Marple: ''Two Headed Sex Beast'', ''Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels''. ''The Bobby Davro Snooker Experience'' from ''On The Hour'' is the name of at least one band.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: in the pilot, later reworked into episode 5, Morris single-handedly tricks Australia and Hong Kong into going to war simply so he could cover it, then offers a series of gritty reports on the horrors of war ('As I was eating my cornflakes this morning, a soldier's head flew past the window, shouting "Victory!"')
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Many, but Sukie [[InherentlyFunnyWords Bapswent]] introducing ''Nirvana'' and their rendition of ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DP_MyPddo Panty Smile]]'' has to be a high point.
* MemeticMutation: some of the names of the racehorses at the delayed 6:30 from Marple: ''Two Headed Sex Beast'', ''Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels''. ''The Bobby Davro Snooker Experience'' from ''On The Hour'' is the name of at least one band.
* MemeticMutation: some of the names of the racehorses at the delayed 6:30 from Marple: ''Two Headed Sex Beast'', ''Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels''. ''The Bobby Davro Snooker Experience'' from ''On The Hour'' is the name of at least one band.
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* AttractiveBentGender: Morris as Suki Bapswent
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* AttractiveBentGender: Morris as Suki Bapswent
