Shout Out / Spitting Image S 1 E 9

• The meeting of the Labour shadow cabinet has "The Red Flag" playing in the background on a tuba.
• A Question of Sport becomes a A Question of Short where all the contestants are barely visible jockeys with chipmunk voices.
• Over There plays as the president's brain crosses a field and ends up inside a sheep. When the sheep then heads off to Moscow Airport, we hear a Standard Snippet of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union.
• The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady Mud-Wrestler is a reference to The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, a diary first published in 1906 by Edwardian naturalist Edith Holden.