History Series / WhoopsApocalypse

* Kevin Pork - The left-wing Prime Minister

--> '''Abdab''': Take one of your travel sickness pills, oh Moon of the Desert."
--> '''Shah''': "Where are they?"
--> '''Abdab''': "In the big suitcase, oh Last of the Mohicans."
--> '''Shah''': "Well, what am I supposed to... 'Last of the Mohicans'? That was an old 1940s western!"

* IncrediblyObviousBug: The tea lady brings in a trolley with two tray of buns, which start rotating, revealing that they're hiding reel-to-reel tape.

** '''Jay Garrick''': "But what's this? I'm being thrust a piece of emergency paper now containing an up-to-the-minute newsflash."
** '''Jay Garrick''': "But hold your horses, I am being thrust another piece of emergency paper that threatens to rock the world on its axis."
** '''Jay Garrick''': "But what's this? Another piece of emergency paper still hot with horror is being thrust into my hands.

** One of the newspapers in the opening sequence:

* BilingualBonus: The French and some of the Soviet scenes are in unsubtitled French and Russian, respectively. With the Politburo arguing over who gets to play Andrei Sakharov in a game of "Dissident", for example.

* MilitariesAreUseless: The US Air Force pilots panic at anything that might sound like an alarm bell, such as the words "swing wing", and are threatened with having their boots physically screwed to the floor by their commanding officer - who himself turns out to be screwed to the floor.

** '''Jay Garrick''': "But hold your horses, I am being thrust another piece of emergency paper that threatens to
rock the world on its axis."

* BilingualBonus: The French and some of the Soviet scenes are in French and Russian, respectively. With the Politburo arguing over who gets to play Andrei Sakharov in a game of "Dissident", for example.

--> '''Jay Garrick''': "We just heard of yet false nuclear alert among NATO forces in the Middle East. For a full three and a half seconds yesterday morning it was belived the world was at war. Releasing details of the incident, the Pentagon spokesman said the alarm was triggered by a numerical overload of a ''Space Invaders'' machine in the pilots' mess room. However, there was no danger. Repeat: however, there was no danger of any escalation and the alert never got beyond computer stage. And certainly no nuclear bombers whatsoever got halfway to Russia and then had to turn back again."

--> '''Jay Garrick''': "We just heard of yet false nuclear alert among NATO forces in the Middle East. For a full three and a half seconds yesterday morning it was belived the world was at war. Releasing details of the incident, the Pentagon spokesman said the alarm was triggered by a numerical overload of a ''Space Invaders'' machine in the pilots' mess room. However, there was no danger. Repeat: however, there was no danger of any escalation and the alert never got beyond computer stage. And certainly no nuclear bombers whatsoever got halfway to Russia and then had to turn back again."

* RunningGag: The Soviet premier having a heart attack and being surreptitiously replaced with an identical clone.

* MilitariesAreUseless: The US Air Force pilots panic at anything that might sound like an alarm bell, such as "swing wing", and are threatened with having their boots physically screwed to the floor by their commanding officer - who himself turns out to be screwed to the floor.

* PoliceAreUseless: No matter the crime or situation, the British police's reaction is to raid a café in Brixton.

** For the movie, President Barbara Adams is a President Minority and President Focus Group. British PM Sir Mortimer Chris is a Prime Minister Lunatic (his policies include creating new jobs by pushing employed people off cliffs).