Trivia / Harry Enfield and Chums

• The Cast Showoff: A lot of Paul Whitehouse's roles were built around his talents, such as:
  • Lance from Lee and Lance singing Italian opera.
  • Julio Geordio speaking a bizarre mix of Spanish and Geordie.
  • De Dutch Coppersh, from the fact that Whitehouse did a good Dutch accent (whereas Enfield's character never speaks).
• California Doubling: Invoked and Played for Laughs in the Cholmondley-Warner sketch about Hitler. Greyson makes a documentary about Der Fuhrer with establishing shots of Vienna and Berlin, both using shots from London to represent both cities.
• Channel Hop: Within The BBC, and a reflection of the show's popularity. Both series of Television Programme were originally broadcast on BBC2, and when the show was recommissioned as Chums it was broadcast on BBC1.
• The Danza: Enfield's toddler character who bullies his baby sister is called Harry.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: No DVD version has been released - although there was going to be a box set for release in 2007, that's since been delayed, leaving everyone with only the few VHS releases until the show finally appeared on Netflix (in the UK) in 2018.
• The Other Darrin: Three actors played Kevin's father.
• Real Song Theme Tune: The theme tune for Harry Enfield and Chums is a slowed down version of the Perigordino from Act I of Rigoletto.
• Write Who You Know:
  • The Self-Righteous Brothers were based on a neighbour of Enfield's who also referred to celebrities by their surnames and spoke about them authoritatively as though his opinion was of immense importance, for example telling him "I'd mend your fence, Enfield, but not your mate Elton's, he's a prick."
  • Modern Dad was based on Enfield's own father.
  • Tim Nice-But-Dim was also based on several people from Enfield's own life; public schoolboys he knew who were ... well, nice but dim.
  • Enfield claims that Harry and Lulu (the two toddlers) were based on a young Lily Allen and her brother Alfie, whose mother he was dating at the time when they were toddlers.
  • Stavros was based on a kebab shop owner Enfield knew.
  • Although very much a parody of William Hague, Tory Boy was also partially based on a snobbish, unpopular boy that Enfield went to school with.
  • Wayne and Waynetta were based on a real life argument Enfield witnessed between a couple over the colour of their new car.

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