"The Pilot" features an extended sequence where Annie (a full bodied woman) is showering and showing off her six pack, which is almost flawlessly done with the use of a muscular body double switching in for her incredibly quickly. Especially impressive when you note that Annie has taken over the role at the last minute (and unlike in The Play That Goes Wrong is not having to read off a script.)
Jonathan has trouble opening the glass doors in "Harper's Locket" so eventually just charges through the first one and later manages to produce a Glass-Shattering Sound to open the second one.
The flipped perspective shots in "90 Degrees" were actually filmed at said angles, with the actors doing a surprisingly good job at not falling off.
Also, in one of the few twists Cornley manages to pull off (mostly) competently, Barbara managing to blackmail Larry into giving her the company, and then the reveal that Reneé was in on the scheme and is actually Barbara's lover. So she managed to play both Larry and Buddy.
Max's genuinely shocking disappearing and reappearing act in "The Lodge," which gets well-deserved applause.
Robert's Laughing Mad scene in "The Lodge" goes on for nearly a full two minutes. If you've done theatre or singing, you know breath control is not easy. Both Robert and his actor, Henry Lewis, deserve props for pulling it off without running out of air or hyperventilating for real.
In "A Trial to Watch," the living room set is mixed up with half of two others which takes away the staircase Max is supposed to make his entrance on. He still manages to balance on several bits of both set halves to get the same effect.
Robert pulls off some impressive manoeuvres with just his face in the "judge's quarters" scene (the set being too small to get anything else through the door), including getting a file out of a cabinet and switching on a tiny angle-poise lamp with his chin.
Series 2
Though "Summer, Once Again" is a colossal cockup, the portion of the show where the whole play is performed in about five minutes deserves plaudits for the actors in and out of universe, particularly Max and Robert's high speed chess game.
In "The Most Lamentable..." Dennis, of all people, manages to improvise a replacement rhyme about Bonnie Peggy Ramsey on the spot, after the original lyrics are burnt.
Thanks to the play going so far off the rails that none of the actual characters are available to be crowned, Robert gets the last laugh over Chris when he realises that his self-insert Relevant Trumpeter character is actually relevant because of it.
By virtue of its simplicity, Dennis's segment of the Cornley Drama Festival, Toothpaste £1.69, is the group's first successful performance (if only because it's about ten seconds long).
Annie’s own turn is notable as being maybe the closest thing to a successful play the group has put on - while the performance was still Giftedly Bad as usual, her selection of a farce and wisdom to cast everyone in roles that actually fit them means it’s a decent tribute to the old Awful British Sex Comedies it’s an homage to… and that several of the laughs are intentional and most of the real problems are caused by the others’ plays interfering with hers.
