- Crosses the Line Twice - One episode did this with a joke where Ben puts David's goldfish into a food mixer (since they don't have a tank for it yet) and then accidentally switches on the mixer. At the end of the episode, the show broke the fourth wall with actor Gary Olsen explaining how they used a prop fish - and then went into this trope, with another scene where Olsen accidentally microwaves the real fish.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- "The Man Who Knew Too Much", first shown in 1996, starts with Ben falling into a depression over his upcoming 38th birthday, at one point claiming "I'm going to die soon!" His actor, Gary Olsen, would die only four years later, aged just 42.
- Ben's illness in Series 2's Bedtime for Bonzo, in light of Gary Olsen's death from cancer in 2000 and the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Even worse foreshadowing, the earliest pitch for the series had Ben as a widower.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: "The Millenium Experience" deals with a shortage of loo rolls, to the point that Ben has created a large stock of them. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic would genuinely see a shortage of loo rolls, to the point of people keeping large stashes of them in their homes.
- Retroactive Recognition: Bette is played by Liz Smith, who would later be best known for playing Mrs. Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley and Nana in The Royle Family.
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