| 1 | !!Provides examples of: |
| 2 | * BourgeoisBohemian: The Queen goes out canvassing for the Socialist Workers' Party because she knows that this will annoy Thatcher. |
| 3 | * GlassShatteringSound: Thatcher's voice in one sketch. Then she got voice coaching... and ended up sounding like Hitler. |
| 4 | * ParodyCommercial: |
| 5 | ** ''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory The Neverending Tory]] advert has a rap based on Pepsi's "lipsmacking, thirst-quenching" ad campaign. |
| 6 | ** One sketch parodies the ads for the government's YTS scheme by showing a recruitment ad to trying to get an unemployed [[TheQuincyPunk Quincy Punk]] interested in training as a [[TheOldestProfession rent boy]]. |
| 7 | * PoliticiansKissBabies: When Cecil Parkinson is offered a baby to kiss, he immediately starts denying that it's his. |
| 8 | * 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. |
| 9 | * 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. |
| 10 | * SpittySpeaker: Roy Hattersley's usual saliva gets sprayed onto passers-by through a megaphone. |
| 11 | * 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." |
| 12 | * 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. |
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