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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Jeannie, almost constantly.
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]
* [[You Can See Me?]]: When Marty runs into someone besides Jeff who can see him for whatever reason he may use this sentence.
 
=== In addition to many of the above, the remake provides examples of: ===
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* [[Fright Deathtrap]]
* [[Haunted Technology]]: One of Marty's first post-death appearances to Jeff was in a [[First-Person Shooter]] video game.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Pretty much everyone; aside from the main cast, regulars from ''[[The Fast Show]]'' would show up almost constantly in guest roles (as they always have done in Reeves and Mortimer productions).
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]: More "sultry sixtiesish" and James Bond-y than the original series' theme.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Shows up in the original, but pushed more in the remake: In the new series, Jeannie is Marty's fiancée and her surname is Hurst.
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** [[Mind Rape]] gets subverted however -- Marty is the one whose head (temporarily) gets messed up as a result of the sleepwalking, while Jeff just thinks he had a ''really'' strange dream, which he blames on the booze he was drinking the night before.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The last episode. While the series in general was darker and more serious than most of what Vic and Bob have done, the final episode still stood out.
* [[The Not -Secret]]: One episode sees Jeff hired to protect a former civil servant who is in danger from various political groups [[My Friends and Zoidberg|(and a jilted former lover)]] due to a speech he's about to give which will potentially blow the lid on a number of political scandals. When he actually gives the speech, it turns out that the "scandals" are such common knowledge -- like the existence of the Mafia, and the fact that a few government ministers are homosexual -- that everyone involved is left feeling like an idiot for ever being worried.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Felia was played by Jessica Hynes in the first season, and replaced by Pauline Quirke for her sole appearance in the second season. Considering that her characterisation seemed to totally change between the two seasons (Hynes's version was confident and self-assertive, but Quirke's version was a neurotic crybaby with OCD), it seems kind of strange that they bothered to keep her as the same character.
* [[R Emake]]
* [[Shout -Out]]: The finale episode has what at first glance appears to be a reference to ''[[Psycho]]'', with a mysterious figure in a chair watching Jeff and Jeannie's progress through the store, only for it to turn out that {{spoiler|the figure is actually a mostly-decomposed skeleton}}. In actual fact it's a reference to the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story "Death to the Daleks", which has a near-identical scene (the finale episode was co-written by [[Mark Gatiss]], a famous ''Doctor Who'' fan who would subsequently become a writer on that show's revival in 2005).
* [[Spiritual Successor|Spiritual Predecessor]]: Many consider the 2000-01 series to be a prototype of sorts for the 2005 ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' relaunch. In addition to the obvious link of having [[Tom Baker]] as Wyvern, as well as [[David Tennant]] as the man who {{spoiler|kills Hopkirk}} in the first episode, many of the production team on the ''Randall & Hopkirk'' remake would later pop up on ''Doctor Who'', including writers [[Mark Gatiss]] and Gareth Roberts, as well as composer Murray Gold.
* [[Wedding Day]]: Poor Jeannie finds out at the altar about her fiancé's demise.
 
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