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* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Once Reagan starts calling Neil Kinnock "Kencock" Sir Robin Day starts doing it as well.
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* SpecialEditionTitle: Rather than the usual title sequence, this episode shows a wobbly pink Palace of Westminster being held up by strings which is then splattered onto the ground.
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: One shot scene in the rent boy YTS scheme advert features some reversed footage of cooling tower being destroyed so that it appears to be rising.


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* TotallyRadical: Sir Alastair Burnet asks some of the younger royals about their taste in "pop and roll" when he finds them "twisting away like we did last summer."
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* GlassShatteringSound: Thatcher's voice in one sketch. Then she got voice coaching... and ended up sounding like Hitler.
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**''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory The Neverending Tory]] advert has a rap based on Pepsi's "lipsmacking, thirst-quenching" ad campaign.
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** One sketch parodies the ads for the government's YTS scheme by showing a recruitment ad to trying to get an unemployed QuincyPunk interested in training as a [[TheOldestProfession rent boy]].

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** One sketch parodies the ads for the government's YTS scheme by showing a recruitment ad to trying to get an unemployed QuincyPunk [[TheQuincyPunk Quincy Punk]] interested in training as a [[TheOldestProfession rent boy]].
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!!Provides examples of:
* BourgeoisBohemian: The Queen goes out canvassing for the Socialist Workers' Party because she knows that this will annoy Thatcher.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Once Reagan starts calling Neil Kinnock "Kencock" Sir Robin Day starts doing it as well.
* ParodyCommercial:
** One sketch parodies the ads for the government's YTS scheme by showing a recruitment ad to trying to get an unemployed QuincyPunk interested in training as a [[TheOldestProfession rent boy]].
* PoliticiansKissBabies: When Cecil Parkinson is offered a baby to kiss, he immediately starts denying that it's his.
* SpittySpeaker: Roy Hattersley's usual saliva gets sprayed onto passers-by through a megaphone.
* TruthSerums: Sir Robin Day jags two off the studio guests with truth serum in order to relieve the boredom of hosting the election night coverage.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Labour's new image includes plenty of mentions of Glenys' looks.

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