| 1 | * DuelingStarsMovie: Creator/PeterCapaldi vs. Creator/JamesGandolfini, both known for playing [[Series/TheThickOfIt morally-questionable]] [[Series/TheSopranos characters]] on TV, with on being from the UK, and the other from the USA. |
| 2 | * FakeAmerican: Linton's aide Bob Adriano is played by British actor Enzo Cilenti. |
| 3 | * LifeImitatesArt: The [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8105227.stm [=MPs=] expenses scandal]] revealed two beautiful examples: |
| 4 | ** Simon Foster avoids watching a hotel's porn channel for fear that it will "show up in the register of interests". [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7970731.stm Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's husband wasn't quite so careful]]. |
| 5 | ** [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/may/08/mandelson-expenses-in-the-loop Lord Mandelson's claims]] for gardening expenses revealed he had been through a "diplomatic crisis" with a neighbour over neglect of his garden. His predicament was eerily similar to Simon Foster's as he struggled with Paul Michaelson and his collapsing garden wall. |
| 6 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JamesGandolfini as Pentagon Dove General Miller. |
| 7 | * SerendipityWritesThePlot: The reason the UN vote is so abrupt is that they didn't have enough money to recreate the Security Council of the UN. |
| 8 | * YouLookFamiliar: Creator/AnnaChlumsky, who plays Liza Weld, would go on to play Amy Brookheimer, another political aide character in SpiritualSuccessor series ''Series/{{Veep}}'' (which was also created by Creator/ArmandoIannucci). |
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