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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While David Owen complains about the Alliance being left out of the episode, some unseen sketches from the show play out. One shows Michael Heseltine apparently in a session with a [[FreudianCouch psychiatrist]].



* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While David Owen complains about the Alliance being left out of the episode, some unseen sketches from the show play out. One shows Michael Heseltine apparently in a session with a [[FreudianCouch psychiatrist]].
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* MaltShop: Part of Reagan's re-election ad is set in one of these.

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* MaltShop: Part of Reagan's re-election ad is set in The video for ''Da Doo Run Ron'' has one of these.these populated with world leaders. Lord Lucan is a soda jerk, and Thatcher and Tebbit [[SweetheartSipping make out over a milkshake]].
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Implied between the announcer from ''The President's Brain is Missing'' and an unseen studio techie, who asks what the studio announcer is doing after the show.

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* RomanceOnTheSet: Implied InUniverse between the announcer from ''The President's Brain is Missing'' and an unseen studio techie, who asks what the studio announcer is doing after the show.
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* NationalStereotypes: The ''Ming Series/{{Dynasty}}'' sketch isn't much more than a string of Japanese [[JapaneseRanguage stereotypes]].


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* RomanceOnTheSet: Implied between the announcer from ''The President's Brain is Missing'' and an unseen studio techie, who asks what the studio announcer is doing after the show.
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* DiplomaticImmunity: An unsuspecting old lady gets attacked by a man wielding an axe who then claims diplomatic immunity when Newman attempts to intervene.
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* SapientHouse: The [[GenreBlindness poor, unsuspecting]] hospital that Norman Fowler preys upon is capable of speech.
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* StealthPun: When Arthur Scargill goes to the barber's, his cloth-like hair appears to be growing out of his ears, "cloth ears" being an expression for someone who can't or won't listen.

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* StealthPun: When Arthur Scargill goes to the barber's, [[VisualPun his cloth-like hair appears to be growing out of his ears, "cloth ears" being an expression for someone who can't or won't listen.listen]].
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* StealthPun: When Arthur Scargill goes to the barber's, his cloth-like hair appears to be growing out of his ears, "cloth ears" being an expression for someone who can't or won't listen.

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%%* FreudianCouch

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%%* FreudianCouch* BreakingTheFourthWall: Much of the episode consists of David Owen complaining about being excluded from the show and insisting that the Alliance is ripe with comedic characters.



* ParodyCommercial: President Francois Mitterand goes on about the virtues of UHT milk in a nod to a famous Cointreau advert that was doing the rounds at the time.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While David Owen complains about the Alliance being left out of the episode, some unseen sketches from the show play out. One shows Michael Heseltine apparently in a session with a [[FreudianCouch psychiatrist]].
* ParodyCommercial: President Francois Mitterand François Mitterrand goes on about the virtues of UHT milk in a nod to a famous Cointreau advert that was doing the rounds at the time.

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%%* FreudianCouch
* MaltShop: Part of Reagan's re-election ad is set in one of these.



* MaltShop: Part of Reagan's re-election ad is set in one of these.
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* StylisticSuck: The ''Video Nicies'' segment consists of an adaptation of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' as a low-budget puppet show in the style of ''Tales of the Riverbank''.
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* ParodyCommercial: President Francois Mitterand goes on about the virtues of UHT milk in a nod to a famous Cointreau advert that was doing the rounds at the time.
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* MaltShop: Part of Reagan's re-election ad is set in one of these.
* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: In ''Lie on Earth'', we see David Attenborough being interrogated by an OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness about the fact that he's been lying about the wonders of nature on all of his programmes.

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