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The Series:

  • The UK DVD release of Series 1 has a question before the main menu comes up that asks you if you're local. If you answer "no", there's a white flash as if your TV was just turned off, and the screen remains black.
  • When we first see Harvey's toad collection, the camera cuts to a further view, revealing that it's pretty large. Benjamin's going to be here for a while...
  • WE DIDN'T BURN HIM!
  • The first time we visit the joke shop. One prank involves sprinkling mite eggs into someone's undergarments, so they'll spend the whole wedding wanting to scratch their crotch, and another involves sweets filled with potassium.
  • The woman asking someone to help carry her baby stroller for her, and that someone carries it with her all the way to her house. Her appearance at the end of the episode she appears in implies that she was expecting that.
  • A man gives money to a person with a charity collection box. She puts a sticker on him. Just as he walks off, he realises that the sticker says, "Bring back the slave trade".
  • The Reveal that Ross was working for social services all along. Doubles as a moment of awesome, as well, after seeing how he was treated by Pauline in the previous episodes.
  • The graffiti on a sign outside the church, which originally said, "Salvation: Jesus is Shit!"
  • When Harvey and Val have Benjamin in bed after he returns, they are looking at a thermometer, noticing how unusually high the temperature. The suggestion that follows? "Try it in his mouth".
    • The musical number that immediately follows about where germs can be and how they both like things kept clean.
  • Much as everything else about Papa Lazarou belongs on a different page, there is something darkly funny about seeing him sitting at a vanity, daubing on foundation and cheerfully talking to his struggling captives about the best way to apply makeup.
  • "It's a wife mine now!"
  • "Scuse me, would this kill a fat woman tonight?"
  • "PISS OFF, ROSS! YOU SMUG SPECK OF DOLE SCUM!
  • Pam Doove's superhuman ability to turn simple sentences into incoherent yells. All together now: ESKEWED BEEF-

The Movie:

  • The entire Bavarian Fire Drill where they steal guns from a military base while in disguise as a general and his staff. Particularly when they "inspect" the mess hall and ask one soldier his opinion on the food, and he keeps describing it as tasting like the cooks "messed it about" and can't seem to think of any better way to describe it. After they leave, the other soldiers around him pat him on the back and cheer as if his wishy-washy criticism was some great example of speaking truth to power.
    "Bleeding asked me, didn't he?"
  • After the heist goes off, the gang is celebrating back at Hyde's mansion...when one of his army buddies who wasn't in on the plan shows up, having apparently just moved in nearby. They have to get him drunk while the others grab their share and leave one by one—and then, when the police are revealed to have already surrounded the mansion, he has to come along completely drunk and gets shoved in the back of the full police truck.
    Going somewhere, are we?

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