Title: How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
Original Airdate: 24/11/1970
Guest starring: Carol Cleveland, Vincent Wong, Roy Gunson, Alexander Curry, Ralph Wood, The Fred Tomlinson Singers
And now for something completely different, it's: multiple examples of different parts of the body, a new professor to the University of Woolloomooloo ("Bruces"), a talk show with a man who contradicts the host, a patient who goes to get rhinoplasty as part of a larger plan to get the doctor to ask him to go camping, a cartoon about killer cars and giant cats, a questionable airline, a recreation of the world's first heart transplant with old ladies, the first underwater performances of Measure for Measure and Hello, Dolly!, two ladies listening to the death of Mary Queen of Scots on the radio, the same two ladies discussing the penguin on top of their television set, a detective who can't explain what crime has been committed, and an officer performing "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong".
Tropes:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A giant cat appears to get all the killer cars.
- Attack of the Killer Whatever: Killer cars.
- Call-Back: The Batley Townswomen's Guild from Series 1, Episode 11 returns to reenact the first artificial heart transplant.
- Department of Redundancy Department: "Rule one: no pooftahs. Rule two: no member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abbos in any way whatsoever—if there's anybody watching. Rule three: no pooftahs. Rule four: I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out. Rule five: no pooftahs. Rule six: There Is No Rule Six. Rule seven: no pooftahs."
- The End: The episode ends with the policeman from Monaco performing "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong". He bends over, an arrow points at his butt, and we get our last lesson on how to recognise parts of the body: "Number #31. The end."
- Godzilla Threshold: When London is beset by killer cars, science creates a giant cat to get rid of them. Of course, now London has to deal with a giant cat.
- Goofy Print Underwear: The "naughty bits" are always covered by red polka dot boxers.
- Homoerotic Subtext: The "camping holiday" scene.
- Logic Bomb: The Bruces' Rule 6 is "There is no Rule 6".
- No Fourth Wall: When the doctor asks Raymond Luxury-Yacht note to go on a camping holiday with him (after being pressed to do nasal surgery), Luxury-Yacht looks at the camera and exclaims, "He asked me! He asked me!"
- Nuclear Mutant: The giant cat is hailed as a "miracle of atomic mutation". It turns nasty once the killer cars are all gone and it goes after people instead.
- Overly Long Gag: "The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots" has a minute of Queen Mary getting beaten up and screaming before she falls silent. One of her attackers thinks she's dead, only to resume the beating and screaming once she says she's still alive.
- Planet of Steves: The "Bruces" sketch implies that Australia is one of these. When a Brit named Michael appears, they decide to call him Bruce to avoid confusion.
- Running Gag: Most of the entries in the "How to Identify Different Parts of the Body" sketch are "naughty bits".
- Shout-Out: The "Europolice Song Contest" is very clearly a parody of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Stuff Blowing Up:
- And now, Radio 4 will explode.
- The penguin on top of the Pepperpots' TV explodes for no reason, other than it was apparently scheduled to explode.
- That Reminds Me of a Song: When the police inspector played by Michael Palin asks Sgt. Duckie (Terry Jones) how he's doing, that's Sgt. Duckie's cue to sing "Sgt. Duckie's Song" ("I'm a little bit sad and lonely...").
- The Television Talks Back: The Exploding Penguin sketch.Presenter: (on television) It's, er, just gone eight o'clock, and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode. (and so it does, very noisily)
Pepperpot: How did he know that was going to happen!?
Presenter: It was an inspired guess. - Take That!: One of the body parts is "Margaret Thatcher's brain", as an arrow points to her knee. This gets raucous laughter and huge applause from the studio audience.
- There Is No Rule Six: Trope Namer by way of the Bruces sketch.
