Line #18 Recap/SpittingImageS2E10


1	!!Provides examples of:
2	* FollowTheLeader (InUniverse): After the success of ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'', Hollywood has more [[MononymousBiopicTitle Mononymous Biopic Titles]] about composers lined up about Music/JohannSebastianBach, Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Creator/AndrewLloydWebber.
3	* FootballHooligans: Greavesy argues that people who just want to watch a football match [[BaitAndSwitch shouldn't show up at a Millwall game and spoil the fighting for everyone else by not doing anything.]]
4	* GoodAngelBadAngel: When Thatcher wonders if she should try and create more jobs, she's surrounded by a whole slew of devils encouraging her to stick it to the poor in every way possible.
5	* ICanExplain: Thatcher catching her ministers playing poker in the cabinet room prompts an entire musical number about what all the different cards remind Leon Brittan of.
6	* NapInducingSpeak: Donald Sinden is on ''The South Bank Show'' telling a dull anecdote where he confuses Creator/LaurenceOlivier with Larry Grayson.
7	* ParodyCommercial: There's a parody of the FT's usual {{Tagline}} in response to Nigel Lawson's non-reaction the pound crashing: "Know Sweet FA? No Comment".
8	** Norman Fowler has a "tense, nervous headache" like the ones that people have in adverts for Neurofen.
9	** KGB-Tel advertise a compilation of all the sombre music played when Soviet premiers have died.
10	** Reagan keeps running after all the other Soviet premiers have burned out because he's powered by [=EverCell=] batteries, much like the Duracell bunny.
11	** "[[ThoseWackyNazis Third Reich Frozen Vegetables]]" points out the weird undertones behind the Birdseye Country Club adverts.
12	* ShoutOut:
13	** Reagan mentions Music/FrankSinatra when Don tries to talk to him about supporting Sterling.
14	** Series/TheTwoRonnies' "You're Nuts, Milord" sketch gets a brief nod in a scene with Charles and Diana at the dinner table.
15	** "[[WordSaladLyrics Goechookooloo Gosleppitch Zoogopond]]" seems to be at least partly inspired by "Convoy" by C. W. [=McCall=], especially in the last chorus.
16	** ''Series/TheJewelInTheCrown'' was apparently turned down by the The BBC's Department of Silly Ideas. It's also still running ''Series/AreYouBeingServed''
17	** Leon Brittan's card song is inspired by "The Deck of Cards" by T. Texas Tyler.
18	** The upcoming biopic about Karlheinz Stockhausen is set to be a trilogy of films: ''[[Film/{{Rocky}} Stocky]]'', ''[[Film/RockyII Stocky II]]'' and ''[[Film/RockyIII Stocky III]]'''
19	** Barry Norman interviews the monolith from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', who's also been in ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'', ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'' and ''Series/QuincyME''.
20	* TakeThat: Barry Norman is sceptical when The Black Slab says he wants to do comedy. Black says that he's at least a lot funnier than Derek Nimmo.
21	* TalkingToPlants: Charles' vegetables protest at the prospect of being eaten.
22	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Michael Heseltine calls in RAF Bomber Command to deal with owl in his back garden

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