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* CastingGag: Jay Jay the DJ is played by Jimmie Walker, alias JJ from ''Series/GoodTimes'' (a reference that most British viewers wouldn't have gotten, as the series was never shown in Britain).
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* DescendedCreator: Co-writer Bill Persky plays the TV director in the "Concert for Cascara" sequence, which is also a case of CastTheExpert, since he was a prolific {{Sitcom}} director.
* VindicatedByCable: It was an Creator/{{HBO}} staple in the latter part of TheEighties.
* VindicatedByCable: It was an Creator/{{HBO}} staple in the latter part of TheEighties.
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* CreatorBacklash: Dick Clement later reflected:
-->I think ''Water'' just misses. I feel it's not quite connecting in the right way. I look back on it and I'm fairly uncomfortable. For me I always did have a problem with fictional countries or places, I always like things rooted a little bit more in reality. I have a feeling that kind of thing works perhaps in fiction, but I always find that film is a very literal medium, you've got to sell stuff on the screen and I think it was larger than life in a way that isn't quite comfortable on screen and I don't think I pulled it off...And again in hindsight as much as I love Creator/BillyConnolly I think a black guy in that part would have been better. I think that would've helped the credibility of making it a Caribbean island.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JohnCleese was originally offered the role of Sir Malcolm Leveridge, but he turned it down after reading the script.
-->I think ''Water'' just misses. I feel it's not quite connecting in the right way. I look back on it and I'm fairly uncomfortable. For me I always did have a problem with fictional countries or places, I always like things rooted a little bit more in reality. I have a feeling that kind of thing works perhaps in fiction, but I always find that film is a very literal medium, you've got to sell stuff on the screen and I think it was larger than life in a way that isn't quite comfortable on screen and I don't think I pulled it off...And again in hindsight as much as I love Creator/BillyConnolly I think a black guy in that part would have been better. I think that would've helped the credibility of making it a Caribbean island.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JohnCleese was originally offered the role of Sir Malcolm Leveridge, but he turned it down after reading the script.
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* ContestWinnerCameo: [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] television presenter Paul Heiney played the mercenary commander, as part of the "In at the Deep End" series.
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