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2* CreditsGag: Everyone named in the credits is listed as a "Sir."
3* FoodSlap: Maggie wakes up Denis in the morning by scalding him with a pot of tea.
4* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Brian Walden interviews Ian [=McGregor=] and Arthur Scargill while they're each locked in a pillory, jabbing them with a poker whenever they answer a question incorrectly.
5* {{Mooning}}: During the credits, Sir Anthony Childish leads the rest of the House in pressuring Maggie to show them her arse. She eventually relents.
6* MrFanservice: Music/{{Wham}} sing a song all about how they credit their success to having great teeth, lips, hair and butts.
7* NotInMyBackyard: Stansted Airport is shown being vehemently opposed by protesting locals.
8* ParodyCommercial: We see an advert for the magazine, "[=WhatCar=] Stereo Do You Wanna Have Stolen?" This week's issue features a special report on why thieves always leave your Nolan Sisters tapes on display for passers-by so that "[[UnmanlySecret they know you're a bit soppy]]."
9* ProductPlacement: Victoria Principal appears on the Russell Harty show to sell a used car.
10* {{Revenge}}: In ''Roy Jenkins Remembers'', Roy suddenly remembers that he's the one who founded the SDP and not David Owen, which prompts him to hit David over the head with a mallet.
11* SubliminalSeduction: PlayedForLaughs when the show opens by pointing out that, in order for the IBA to accuse them of inserting illegal flash frames into the show, they would have had to have videotaped the programme, which itself would infringe the show's copyright.
12* UglyGuyHotWife: Chernenko explains that this is the reason why Gorbachev must never be made Premier. Unless he has a wife with a face like "a British boxing champion", he'll be no use in a [[AtomicHate crisis]] because he'd sooner play one last game of [[UnusualEuphemism Comrade Wobble Hides his Helmet]] than take charge of the situation.

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