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* [[Aluminium Christmas Trees]]: Foreign viewers may not realise that the "Get a TV licence--it's cheaper than a funeral" parody (in which the TV Licensing Authority hunts down and murders people who don't pay their TV licence fee) is only a ''slight'' exaggeration of the real PSAs it was based on, and indeed ones that came later on were even more extreme, almost indistinguishable from the parodies.

It was love at first sight, Romeo and Juliet

'''Kate:''' He looked pretty rich and I was down on m' luck

'''Rowan:''' [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion|...for crying out loud!]] }}

* [[Missing Episode]]: Only two [[Greatest Hits]] DVDs have been released, which included the most famous sketches ("Gerald the Gorilla", "Kinda Lingers", "the deaf telephone" etc.) and those which don't rely too heavily on the current affairs of the early 1980s. Much like ''[[Spitting Image]]'', some of the references and sketches would probably be somewhat impenetrable for viewers without much knowledge of that period. The full episodes probably ''are'' somewhere in the BBC archives, but if they are it remains to be seen if they'll ever see the light of day.