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* InterspeciesAdoption: It turns out that Ed Miliband was adopted into a human family. He becomes reunited with his true family, [[WesternAnimation/BillAndBenTheFlowerpotMen Bill and Ben]], even remembering how to speak their same [[TheUnintelligible gibberish language]].
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** Also Ed Miliband declaring that he wants to be the first Prime Minister who can pull his bottom lip over his head.
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* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Michael Portillo being unable to escape from DIANE ABBOTT and Andrew Neil of The Daily Politics no matter how hard he tries, whether it be by escaping on his train travel programme (where Andrew Neil is the one driving the train with disastrous consequences), the wilderness of the North Pole, or the planet Mars.
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* BugBuzz: Vince Cable phones the Natural History Museum to offer his services as doing impressions of different types of fly, proceeding to mimic their buzzing. The poor woman from the museum ends up laughing helplessly.
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** Hannah Gordon of Watercolour Challenge apparently suffers from a curse where at midnight she turns into a tin of tartan shortbread.
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* WomanScorned: While Kirsty Wark is interviewing Jerry Springer, he reveals to her that Michael Portillo has cheated on her by being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman first. This shocks and outrages her.
--> '''Kirsty Wark''': No, no, no! You were going to insinuate your leadership ambitions with ''me''!
** She becomes driven to violence and has to be restrained by stage security when Springer reveals Portillo has been cheating on the both of them with an exclusive interview with Andrew Neil.
--> '''Kirsty Wark''': No, no, no! You were going to insinuate your leadership ambitions with ''me''!
** She becomes driven to violence and has to be restrained by stage security when Springer reveals Portillo has been cheating on the both of them with an exclusive interview with Andrew Neil.
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* ImMelting: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott melts during a heatwave. He survives though, appearing as a disembodied head surrounded by scattered clothes and skin-coloured goo. He declares that he's still capable of fulfilling his duties despite being able to nothing except lay about and talk, since that's what he does anyway.
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* ImMelting: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott melts during a heatwave. He survives though, appearing as a disembodied head surrounded by scattered clothes and skin-coloured goo. He declares that he's still capable of fulfilling his duties despite being able to do nothing except lay about and talk, since that's what he does anyway.
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* ImMelting: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott melts during a heatwave. He survives though, appearing as a disembodied head surrounded by scattered clothes and skin-coloured goo. He declares that he's still capable of fulfilling his duties despite being able to nothing except lay about and talk, since that's what he does anyway.
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* IAmVeryBritish: Art Critic Brian Sewell is so proud of his refined accent that at one point he phones Guinness World Records to ask if he qualifies as having "The Poshest Voice in the World".
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** Also played on in the TV series where Ozzy Osbourne is fed up with the same "bleep" every time he swears, so he advertises a device known as the "Expletatron" which provides a different noise each time it censors a swearword. Unfortunately Ozzy swears so much that it breaks down.
---> '''Ozzy''': I think I've broken the fucker.
---> '''Ozzy''': I think I've broken the fucker.
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*CensoredForComedy: Following a controversy in Radio/TheArchers where uncensored colourful language was used in an episode, this was of course lampooned later on this show.
-->'''Clarrie''': I don't care, Eddie! A day's bushbeating is better than nothing. You give that David Archer a ring first thing. And where's Joe? His tea's nearly ready, he's not down at The Bull is he?\\
'''Eddie''': I don't care where the *bleep* he is. I mean, after what he blasted well did to my *bleep*in' birds, I've a right mind to kick his *bleep* for him.\\
'''Clarrie''': Eddie! Stop *bleep*in' swearing! It's bad enough you saying *bleep*ing "shag" last week! I've put up with a lot from you, now you've landed us on *bleep*ing Feedback! That *bleep*ing Roger Bolton is a bigger *bleep*in' *bleep* than Brian Aldridge!\\
'''Eddie''': I can tell you he don't frighten me, I just tell him to shove it up his *bleep* himself! Don't matter does it? I've already said "shag" so I might as well say *bleep* *bleep* and *bleep* to him as well!\\
'''Continuity Announcer''': I'm sorry, that seems to be an un-edited version of tonight's episode. Looks like some *bleep* technician *bleep*ed up again.
-->'''Clarrie''': I don't care, Eddie! A day's bushbeating is better than nothing. You give that David Archer a ring first thing. And where's Joe? His tea's nearly ready, he's not down at The Bull is he?\\
'''Eddie''': I don't care where the *bleep* he is. I mean, after what he blasted well did to my *bleep*in' birds, I've a right mind to kick his *bleep* for him.\\
'''Clarrie''': Eddie! Stop *bleep*in' swearing! It's bad enough you saying *bleep*ing "shag" last week! I've put up with a lot from you, now you've landed us on *bleep*ing Feedback! That *bleep*ing Roger Bolton is a bigger *bleep*in' *bleep* than Brian Aldridge!\\
'''Eddie''': I can tell you he don't frighten me, I just tell him to shove it up his *bleep* himself! Don't matter does it? I've already said "shag" so I might as well say *bleep* *bleep* and *bleep* to him as well!\\
'''Continuity Announcer''': I'm sorry, that seems to be an un-edited version of tonight's episode. Looks like some *bleep* technician *bleep*ed up again.
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* OnrushingArmy: This happens when rival historians Simon Schama and David Starkey hold a pitched battle on Bosworth Field to determine who is the true King of History Programmes by first using their film crews, then it devolves into a WimpFight between the two.
--> '''David Starkey''': Schama had at his disposal the most advanced and feared outside broadcast crews known to television.\\
'''Simon Schama''': While Starkey's forces were a ragtag mob of short-term contract mercenaries who had seen carnage and atrocity aplenty on Celebrity Big Brother.
--> '''David Starkey''': Schama had at his disposal the most advanced and feared outside broadcast crews known to television.\\
'''Simon Schama''': While Starkey's forces were a ragtag mob of short-term contract mercenaries who had seen carnage and atrocity aplenty on Celebrity Big Brother.
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* RubberMan: Andrew Marr is portrayed as this, appearing with fake arms that are twice as long as normal.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The National Treasures, a crack team of treasured British actors, includes Sir Ian [=McKellan=], Sir Patrick Stewart, Dame Judi Dench, and... Alan Bennett.
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* Fiona Bruce -- Sex-obsessed. For a clean quote: "I'm Fiona Bruce. Breaking news, breaking hearts." On the radio this role was taken by the popular Radio 4 newsreader and continuity announcer Charlotte Green.
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* ContinuityAnnouncement:
** A regular feature is parodying of continuity announcements from all UK TV channels; as much a send-up of the ethos of each channel (e.g., ITV with trashy reality shows, Channel 4's obsession with property programmes) than its presentation style.
** The radio version also sent up Radio 4's continuity announcers, in particular, how they come up with hilariously tenuous links between the programmes preceding and following them, often based on a {{pun}}.
** A regular feature is parodying of continuity announcements from all UK TV channels; as much a send-up of the ethos of each channel (e.g., ITV with trashy reality shows, Channel 4's obsession with property programmes) than its presentation style.
** The radio version also sent up Radio 4's continuity announcers, in particular, how they come up with hilariously tenuous links between the programmes preceding and following them, often based on a {{pun}}.
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** Andrew Neil always starts his show by introducing three guests, the first two of which are increasingly ridiculous, outrageous or even completely fictional things, but the third and most unbelievable guest of all is always... DIANE ABBOT!!
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** The BBC's desperate attempts to find a replacement for Angus Deayton fail when it turns out that their last hope, Pudsey the Bear, is ''also'' a coke-snorting fiend.
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* IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual: Sir Keir Starmer is so confrontation-averse and yet desperate to curry favour with Tory voters he is unimaginably bland even when he tries to be interesting, much to Angela Rayner's frustration.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: The Fifteenth Doctor is pulled over by the Time Police on suspicion of having stolen his TARDIS and possession of cannabis. His protestations of innocence aren't helped by the Fourth Doctor showing up to ''recover'' the cannabis.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first Good Boris / Bad Boris sketch portrays Good and Bad as physically separate individuals, rather than the form of split personality as it is later.
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* VocalEvolution: The earliest sketches with Theresa May have her voice be less quivery, making her sound like less of a NervousWreck.
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** Rylan Clark (whose VerbalTic is repeatedly greeting people with "babes") trying to do an interview with a like-mannered celebrity (like Stacey Solomon or Adele) but ending up with both of them greeting each other in said manner over and over until they're out of time (they never get any actual questions answered).over.
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