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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