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-->'''Barman:''' Heavy night, Mr. Death?\\

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-->'''Barman:''' Heavy night, Mr. Death?\\Death? You look awful.\\
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* AudienceMurmurs: The police at the briefing for the LSE meeting do "rhubarb" murmurs while they wait for Newman to get started.
* DominanceThroughFurniture: PW Botha brags about using a Black man as doormat.
* FartsOnFire: Rupert Murdoch uses his flaming farts to make toast during a working breakfast.


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* ParodyCommercial: One sketch appears to be a {{Parody}} of a Crimestoppers advert warning people about their homes being trashed by burglars which says that all this horrible destruction can be stopped by not issuing search warrants to the Metropolitan Police.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Goodbye, Prime Minister'' is a {{Parody}} of ''Series/YesMinister''
** The Cabinet sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" when describing Liverpool as [[TakeThat the lavatory of Britain]] before [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus getting stamped on by a giant foot]].
** [[AssholeVictim PW Botha]] gets stabbed during an interview, after which his assailants chant "you can't put a better bit of Botha on your [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrqzne2WxY knife]]".
** Death walks into a bar:
-->'''Barman:''' Heavy night, Mr. Death?\\
'''Death:''' Yeah, I feel like Music/KeithRichards [[TakeThat warmed up.]]
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: PW Botha calls Brian Waldon "Mr Well-Done."
* LetsMeetTheMeat: Sir David Attenborough meets a [[SweetSeal cute seal cub]] who's horribly disappointed when it realises that Attenborough isn't "that nice clubbing man."
* TakeMeToYourLeader: Said verbatim by the alien that has the bad luck to land next to The Two Davids.
-->'''Alien''': TakeMeToYourLeader.
-->'''David Owen''': Well, now, that's a bit tricky. If you could wait until after the next election...

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