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* ShoutOut:
** The ParodyCommercial for Flertz is a reference to the car hire company, Hertz.
** A 100 year-old woman pulls a gun on a burglar:
-->"[[Film/DirtyHarry Go on. Make my day.]]"
** ''[[Series/{{Dallas}} Pallas]]''.
** [[Magazine/PrivateEye Colemanballs]] gets a mention in the sketch where the Cabinet are all readying ''Magazine/PrivateEye''.
** "Born to Be a Woodwork Teacher" is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong based on]] "Born to Run".
** The Queen Mother hums "Strangers in the Night" to herself after she catches Music/FrankSinatra trying to cheat at cards.
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** The Queen Mother hums "Strangers in the Night" to herself after she catches Music/FrankSinatra trying to cheat at cards.

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** The Queen Mother hums "Strangers in the Night" to herself after she catches Music/FrankSinatra trying to cheat at cards.cards.
* VaudevilleHook: Gets used in ''The Reselection Game''.

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* {{Death}}: Death tries to get a pint in his [[MyLocal local boozer]] only to keep getting paged to get back to the Kremlin.


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* TheGrimReaper: Death tries to get a pint in his [[MyLocal local boozer]] only to keep getting paged to get back to the Kremlin.
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* {{Death}}: Death tries to get a pint in his [[MyLocal local boozer]] only to keep getting paged to get back to the Kremlin.
* {{God}}: Howard Hughes reveals that God dresses casual and plays a lot of golf.
* ImAHumanitarian: The body at the hospital laundry is apparently going to be part of a massive serving of sweet and sour pork.
* HumanChess: Creator/VincentPrice assembles a group of celebrities at his haunted house to create a human chess board.
* HumbleGoal: Bruce Springsteen sings about his dream of being a woodwork teacher.
* {{Luvvies}}: The episode opens with David Coleman commentating on who's the first to burst into tears at the Oscars.
* PutOnABus: When Diana explains that the royal family's life is a SoapOpera, she explains that Andrew isn't actually in [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar The Falklands]] but is actually having a break from the series.
* ShoutOut:
** The ParodyCommercial for Flertz is a reference to the car hire company, Hertz.
** A 100 year-old woman pulls a gun on a burglar:
-->"[[Film/DirtyHarry Go on. Make my day.]]"
** ''[[Series/{{Dallas}} Pallas]]''.
** [[Magazine/PrivateEye Colemanballs]] gets a mention in the sketch where the Cabinet are all readying ''Magazine/PrivateEye''.
** "Born to Be a Woodwork Teacher" is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong based on]] "Born to Run".
** The Queen Mother hums "Strangers in the Night" to herself after she catches Music/FrankSinatra trying to cheat at cards.

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