Provides examples of:
- Follow the Leader (In-Universe): After the success of Amadeus, Hollywood has more Mononymous Biopic Titles about composers lined up about Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
- Football Hooligans: Greavesy argues that people who just want to watch a football match shouldn't show up at a Millwall game and spoil the fighting for everyone else by not doing anything.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: 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.
- I Can Explain: 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.
- Nap-Inducing Speak: Donald Sinden is on The South Bank Show telling a dull anecdote where he confuses Laurence Olivier with Larry Grayson.
- Parody Commercial: 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".
- Norman Fowler has a "tense, nervous headache" like the ones that people have in adverts for Neurofen.
- KGB-Tel advertise a compilation of all the sombre music played when Soviet premiers have died.
- Reagan keeps running after all the other Soviet premiers have burned out because he's powered by EverCell batteries, much like the Duracell bunny.
- "Third Reich Frozen Vegetables" points out the weird undertones behind the Birdseye Country Club adverts.
- Shout-Out:
- Reagan mentions Frank Sinatra when Don tries to talk to him about supporting Sterling.
- The Two Ronnies' "You're Nuts, Milord" sketch gets a brief nod in a scene with Charles and Diana at the dinner table.
- "Goechookooloo Gosleppitch Zoogopond" seems to be at least partly inspired by "Convoy" by C. W. McCall, especially in the last chorus.
- The Jewel in the Crown was apparently turned down by the The BBC's Department of Silly Ideas. It's also still running Are You Being Served?
- Leon Brittan's card song is inspired by "The Deck of Cards" by T. Texas Tyler.
- The upcoming biopic about Karlheinz Stockhausen is set to be a trilogy of films: Stocky, Stocky II and Stocky III'
- Barry Norman interviews the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, who's also been in All the President's Men, Manhattan and Quincy, M.E..
- Take That!: 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.
- Talking to Plants: Charles' vegetables protest at the prospect of being eaten.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Michael Heseltine calls in RAF Bomber Command to deal with owl in his back garden
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lester Piggott's horse insists that he's broken all his legs so he'll have no choice but to retire to the stud farm.
