Trivia / Spicks and Specks

• Adored by the Network: The ABC loves showing off Spicks and Specks repeats on their second channel (aka ABC TV Plus, formerly ABC Comedy and ABC2), as it's almost always the first program shown after ABC Kids goes off the air for the night. Lampshaded by Adam when the show was revived.
  Adam: I can’t believe it’s been seven years since our last show. And fifteen minutes since it was last shown on ABC Comedy.
• Follow the Leader: Comparisons to Never Mind the Buzzcocks are often made; however, the tone of the shows are quite different — Buzzcocks spends lots of time making fun of everyone, while Spicks and Specks focuses more on the music. Bill Bailey was startled by how much nicer everyone was on Spicks and Specks.
• Long Runner: The show has been running on and off close to two decades. In fact, it's been running long enough that some of the guests on recent episodes actually grew up watching the show and emulating games like Substitute.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: ABC has not made the classic run permanently available to stream, so unless they decide to put some old episodes on their iView platform for a while, the best way to watch pre-2018 episodes is via YouTube and Dailymotion. Fortunately ABC has not attempted to block these uploads and, being a publicly funded broadcaster, are not likely to start doing so. Even so, some episodes have not been uploaded on either site. One example is the Doc Neeson episode, of which only a heavily edited compilation survives on YouTube.
• Shout-Out: The following songs have rounds named after them:
  • Know Your Product by The Saints
  • Substitute by The Who
  • Turning Japanese by The Vapors
  • Common People by Pulp
  • Look What They've Done To My Song Ma by Melanie Safka
  • Something's Missing, made famous in Australia by Marcia Hines
  • Two out of Three Ain't Bad, by Meatloaf (becoming "One out of Three Ain't Bad")
  • Word Up by Cameo
  • You're the Voice by John Farnham (becoming "You're the Voices")
  • All Shook Up by Elvis Presley
  • Counting the Beat by The Swingers
  • I'll Tumble 4 Ya by Culture Club (becoming "I'll Jumble for Ya")
  • Step Back in Time by Kylie Minogue
  • The Final Countdown by Europe
  • Please Please Tell Me Now, actually a line from "Is There Something I Should Know" by Duran Duran (close enough?)
  • and Malvern Stars on 45, which features the bicycle-powered record player, is a mix of novelty song Stars on 45 with the Melbourne bike brand Malvern Star
  • The sign for routes for “S&S Airways” in episode 3 of the 2021 reboot includes Funky Town, New York New York and The Way to San Jose.

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